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Uppsala9496

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I was talking with my wife about cartoons from our childhood and how different things are now compared to then.
I had a hell of a time remembering the name of Klondike Kat from the underdog show.
Off the top of my head, what I remember:

GI Joe
Tom and Jerry
Great Space Coaster (not always a cartoon)
Scooby Do
Smurfs (her call on that one)
Yogi Bear
Jetsons
Under Dog
Transformers
He-Man
Thundar the Barbarian
Jonny Quest
Sea Lab
Flintstones
Speed Racer
- Hanna Barbara cartoon with the race that had an evil guy with a black mustache and a white dog....some miss peabody or shit was in it (she always wore pink which I blame on girls being infatuated with that shitty color).

Any more from the children of the 70's?


 
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lxskllr

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Scooby Doo
Fat Albert
Schoolhouse Rock
Catch the Pidgin? the same as your race cartoon, but with biplanes
Rocky and Bullwinkle

Edit:
Great Grape Ape
Miscellaneous Looney Tunes bundled into the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour
 
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You didn't have to be from the 70's to see those. I'm only 20 and I remember watching almost all of them, especially Johnny Quest.
 
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Crono

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I'm a child of the 80s/90s, but still saw:

GI Joe
Tom and Jerry
Scooby-Doo
Smurfs
Yogi Bear
Jetsons
Underdog
Transformers
He-Man
Johnny Quest
Flintstones
Speed Racer

and

Wacky Races (what you're thinking of)

plus a bunch of stuff not on your list
 
Uppsala9496

Uppsala9496

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Nice call on Rocky and Bullwinkle. That was the one with miss peabody or whatever her name was.
Fat albert...how could I forget.

Damn, I can't remember the name of the cartoons about learning how a bill becomes a law....????
 
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lxskllr

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Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Sorry, but 80's cartoons > 70's cartoons.
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Your ass is out. Cartoons were already declining in the 70s. The 30s-50s were the glory days of cartoons.
 
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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Sorry, but 80's cartoons > 70's cartoons.
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Your ass is out. Cartoons were already declining in the 70s. The 30s-50s were the glory days of cartoons.
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For the funny cartoons, yeah. I think 80s and early 90s brought the best action cartoons in the United States ever.
 
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What was the futuristic one with the guys on unicycles? I think it was Japanese. Maybe 1985?
 
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lxskllr

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Originally posted by: Crono


For the funny cartoons, yeah. I think 80s and early 90s brought the best action cartoons in the United States ever.
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I wasn't ever into "serious" cartoons, and I dislike anime. I've never been a fan of the Japanese style.
 
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Mighty Mouse
Speedy Gonzalez
Top Cat
Woody Woodpecker
The racist crows whose names I can't remember...
 
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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: Crono


For the funny cartoons, yeah. I think 80s and early 90s brought the best action cartoons in the United States ever.
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I wasn't ever into "serious" cartoons, and I dislike anime. I've never been a fan of the Japanese style.
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Well, serious cartoons and anime were more about using the animated form to achieve artistic expression and tell stories that weren't always possible to do well with live action. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Some people, though, tend to think that cartoons are only for kids when that is clearly not the case, and that the only good cartoons are those done in the "classic" style (they probably view animated cartoons as only an extension of newspaper style comic strips). I think animation is just a medium, and that the content matters more than the visual style.

Some of my favorite shows of all time are anime and cartoons (cartoons can be considered anime, but that's another issue).
 
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lxskllr

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Originally posted by: Crono


Well, serious cartoons and anime were more about using the animated form to achieve artistic expression and tell stories that weren't always possible to do well with live action. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Some people, though, tend to think that cartoons are only for kids when that is clearly not the case, and that the only good cartoons are those done in the "classic" style. I think animation is just a medium, and that the content matters more than the visual style.

Some of my favorite shows of all time are anime and cartoons (cartoons can be considered anime, but that's another issue).
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My problem with anime is the specific Japanese art style. They're very "edgy", with hard lines. I liked Speed Racer when I was little, but the art style bothered me as I got older. I'm trying to think of a serious cartoon I like, but I'm drawing a blank. I'm not into the visual medium so much, so I don't see too much in the way of movies or anything.
 
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VOLTRON!

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Possibly 80's, but still must be posted in every cartoon thread.
 
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Felix the Cat
Woody Woodpecker
Caspar the Friendly Ghost(never liked him)
 
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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Felix the Cat
Woody Woodpecker
Caspar the Friendly Ghost(never liked him)
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Forgot about Casper, I loved him.
I still remember a Casper Halloween costume I had.
 
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Going really old school, the WWII propaganda cartoons were some of my favorites. I also liked the generic type from the early 40s that just featured general silliness.
 
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By the 70's I had outgrown cartoons, but youse guys are forgetting the most 70's cartoons there were:

http://www.bouska.com/fritzthecat/indexus.htm


But youse also forgot some of the best of those from the late 50's and 60's including: Huckleberry Hound, QuckDraw McGraw, (You alright Babalooey? S'aright!) Snagglepuss, (exit...stage left!) and many, many more that totally pwn anything made in later years.
 
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