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Old Cartoons

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:09:55 PM

What's your favorite old cartoon? "Old" means anything...that's not still being made...preferably, you know, from like the 60's or before, but whatever.

I grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, and Porky Pig (as well as Barney, My Little Pony, and Gummi Bears...I WAS a late 80's kid.. LOL), and I was thinking about how my niece and nephew had never even SEEN them. I have extremely vivid memories of getting up every single Saturday morning, waking my dad up, and we both squashed into his comfy chair and sat there watching these cartoons. Well he only lived in that house with us til I was 4, so I was pretty young...

And yeah, okay, maybe Dora and the Wiggles and WordGirl have a little more to offer than Bugs and Daffy, but dangit they're just not as much FUN.

So off in search of vidoes or DVDs of old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, I came across one of my absolute FAVORITE shorts ever. We had this on video, and I can't tell you how many millions of times I made my dad rewind so we could watch it again. I'd feel bad, but I know he enjoyed just as much. Stick out tongue Tweety's debut, before he even had a name...

http://cinemaniacal.com/video/merrie-melodies-a-tale-of-two-kitties

Who else grew up with Merrie Melodies? Or what was your favorite cartoon growing up?

rwbeagles

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:19:08 PM

As a child of the 70's/80's/90's I had access to some of the best made...ever. Old for the time including the Disney Silly Symphonies....The Looney Tunes, Popeye, Felix, and Merrie Melodies you mention as well as other favorites like the following, all at different times in my childhood/adolescence to now:

The New Schmoo
He-Man
She-Ra
Transformers
Fluppy Dogs
Paw-Paw Bears
Gummi Bears
Ewoks/Droids
Superfriends
Dungeons & Dragons
Pac-Man
BraveStar
Pirates of Dark Water
Johnny Quest
Voltron (only the lion series)
SOME Robotech
Shirttails
Get-A-Long Gang

Some of the more popular ones I never really liked,

Smurfs/Snorks

Scooby-Doo

Rainbow Brite

Care Bears

Yogi Bear/Hanna Barbera in general

Flinstones

Many of the above currently air on Boomerang which is nice so my kids can also grow up with them.

rwbeagles

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:20:05 PM

BTW the best cartoon ever is the wee little owl who's Dad won't let him jive...only sing Church hymns!

I LUV TA SINGAH...ABOUT THE MOON-AH AND THE JUNE-AH AND THE SPRING-AH

chelsea_b

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:46:47 PM

rwbeagles
Yogi Bear/Hanna Barbera in general

BLASHPEMY!! Yogi's fabuloso...

And OOOH the Owl.. I'm off to find him now..

I found this one, which was also one of my favorrrrrites... The bunny's a "Bugs prototype".

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3stf3_merrie-melodies-presto-changeo-1939_fun

rwbeagles

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:48:14 PM

Oh was Quick Draw McGraw H-B? If so I loved him...but really only because of El Kabong.

chelsea_b

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:48:40 PM

Hehehe..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hk97-vZdQ

rwbeagles

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:50:05 PM

Here's the owlet...

VIDEO

rwbeagles

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:50:48 PM

lol jinx!

NO JAZZ!!

Chuffy

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:51:56 PM

Wow, NO ONE has mentioned Trapdoor or Stop it and Tidy Up! And don't forget Darkwing Duck and Duckula. And DANGERMOUSE!!!!! Gotta love Dangermouse!

chelsea_b

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:54:31 PM

Quick Draw's HB...as well as Huckleberry Hound, Scooby, Magilla Gorilla, Jonny Quest, Superfriends, Flintstones, Jetsons, Atom Ant, Top Cat, and on and on and on...

chelsea_b

Posted : 6/5/2008 12:55:23 PM

Chuffy
And DANGERMOUSE!!!!! Gotta love Dangermouse!

Ooh, Dangermouse..and that reminds me of Mighty Mouse, and Woody Woodpecker (dunno why).

Oh, and Droopy! I just watched Droopy last night.. was in an MGM block on Boomerang.

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 6/5/2008 1:03:25 PM

i second a lot of the ones gina listed... he-man, voltron (i even liked the cars ones, but the lions were def. better), johnny quest, superfriends, transformers... plus

g-force (aka battle of the planets)

speed racer

g.i.joe

inspector gadget

flintstones

wacky races

scooby-doo

space ghost (and space ghost coast to coast)

thundercats

hong kong phooey

the godzilla power hour

captain caveman

fat albert

plastic man

thundarr the barbarian

richie rich was good filler

short lived... mighty orbots

mr. t

not necessarily cartoons but... land of the lost

school house rocks

pretty much if it was on saturday mornings or after school in the late 70's to about 86 or 87.... i watched it! i am sad that the current sat. morning cartoons suck. it used to be something worth getting up early for.

chelsea_b

Posted : 6/5/2008 1:09:15 PM

Ooh, you guys weren't kids for this one (old people! ha!), but Captain Planet was fun.. 4 of my cousins and I used to "play" Captain Planet.. we had rings and did the fists in the air thing.. ohh..good times.

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 6/5/2008 1:23:53 PM

if you want to see something ultra cheesy... look for the hulk hogan cartoon or the great space coaster (gary gnu was my fav character on that one) or possibly a cartoon based on meatloaf (meatballs and spaghetti).

sharismom

Posted : 6/5/2008 1:45:03 PM

Someone said the Jetsons - yay!

How about Underdog?

And does anyone remember Kimba? It was about the jungle and a young lion (sort of a precursor many years before The Lion King).