What's your favorite cartoon?

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My favorites are "Looney Tunes" with Buggs and Daffy and "Tom & Jerry."
Man, are those shows funny! :-D

My favorite recent cartoon is "Diary of a Teenage Robot." Neat show. Can relate to her outcast status.

My all time favorite cartoon is Ren and Stimpy. Though I also like Looney Tunes, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy and Futurama ro name a few.

Favorite animated film--Spirited Away. Already wrote about the film elsewhere, so I'll just say I agree with Rhubix. Grave of the Fireflies and Fantastic Planet are close seconds.

Favorite anime series--.hack/SIGN. A polarizing show for some anime fans because of its almost total lack of action and its slow place, but this tale of a youth, maybe a boy, maybe a girl, lost inside a MMOPRG because of the abuse he/she has suffered in parental hands is still the best thing I've ever seen (moreso than even the great Ghost in the Shell franchise) on the emotional connection between technology and the lost souls who sometimes come to depend on it when life fails them.

Favorite non-anime series--except for the classic Peanuts Holiday specials (adult woes as lived out by children) no one outside of anime has bettered Merrie Melodies, Silly Symphonies, and Looney Tunes, with their joyous, life-affirming chaos. Though the Fleischer Popeye cartoons come pretty close.

Isn't this already a thread? I know I've crowed about Danger Mouse somewhere on here before.

Cyia said:

Isn't this already a thread? I know I've crowed about Danger Mouse somewhere on here before.

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Yes. It was called "Best Cartoon Ever."

I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons and after school cartoons as well. T.V. was a big deal in some ways. There were so many great cartoons... the old Bugs Bunny and friends, the original Scooby Doo, Tarzan - Lord of the Jungle, the original Robotech... so hard to make a choice... I'll have to go with, Bugs Bunny and all those characters.

Foghorn Leghorn. "You're a little thick, son ... thick, that is. I keep throwin' 'em and you keep sidesteppin' em. Ah say, is any of this gettin' through to ya, boy?"

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All. Time. Favorite.

Guess.

I would toss a vote out for The Tick. The big blue super hero who was bounding from roof top to roof top in his never ending quest to bring a large heaping spoonful of justice to his mistress, The City.

SPOOOOOOON

Favorite animated movie -- hard to say. Miyasaki's stuff is great, but my favorite might still be Fantasia.

Anybody else old enough to remember George of the Jungle and Super Chicken?

But, to add my choices from the obvious (Avatar), I'd also like to bring to light my favorite old time saturday morning cartoon show.

CAPTAIN SIMIAN AND THE SPAAAAAAAAACE MONKIES.

This show was amazing. Seriously, amazing. Firstly, it starred Jerry Doyle (Michal Garibaldi from Babylon 5), Maurice LaMarsh (Brain from Pinky and the Brain), Michael Dorn (Warf from Star Trek TNG) and Malcolm McDowell (From Time after Time, Fallout 3, A Clockwork Orange, and a billion other awesome things).

And more, it was STUFFED with awesomely obscure and clever sci-fi references. Like, I have no idea how the hell they pitched it for kids, but the damn thing is filled with throwaway jokes referring to planet of the apes, star trek, Alien (heck, there's a whole episode that riffs on Alien), I have no mouth and I must scream, I robot, 2001, and Aliens.

I cannot overstate how awesome it was.

AND IT ONLY LASTED FOR ONE SEASON.

AND YOU CAN'T GET THAT ON DVD!


ARRRRRRRRGH

Zoombie said:

But, to add my choices from the obvious (Avatar), I'd also like to bring to light my favorite old time saturday morning cartoon show.

CAPTAIN SIMIAN AND THE SPAAAAAAAAACE MONKIES.

This show was amazing. Seriously, amazing. Firstly, it starred Jerry Doyle (Michal Garibaldi from Babylon 5), Maurice LaMarsh (Brain from Pinky and the Brain), Michael Dorn (Warf from Star Trek TNG) and Malcolm McDowell (From Time after Time, Fallout 3, A Clockwork Orange, and a billion other awesome things).

And more, it was STUFFED with awesomely obscure and clever sci-fi references. Like, I have no idea how the hell they pitched it for kids, but the damn thing is filled with throwaway jokes referring to planet of the apes, star trek, Alien (heck, there's a whole episode that riffs on Alien), I have no mouth and I must scream, I robot, 2001, and Aliens.

I cannot overstate how awesome it was.

AND IT ONLY LASTED FOR ONE SEASON.

AND YOU CAN'T GET THAT ON DVD!


ARRRRRRRRGH

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Pirates of the Dark Water all over again. Seriously, that thing was going to be like early 90's Avatar: The Last Airbender and it only had like 15 episodes.

The Venture Bros., Avatar: The Last Airbender, Pinky & The Brain, Batman: The Animated Series, more than half from the good years of the 90's from Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network with special mention to Invader Zim, Rocko's Modern Life, Dexter Labs before Gendy left and Courage The Cowardly Dog, The Simpsons before the rape of the Panda, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiment Lain, Paprika, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Cowboy Bebop and Daria.

Oh, and almost all what Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery produced with some sides of Tom & Jerry.

Thundercats.
For the win.

maxmordon said:

Oh, and almost all what Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery produced with some sides of Tom & Jerry.

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... "Tex."

Manuel Royal said:

Anybody else old enough to remember George of the Jungle and Super Chicken?

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(Raised hand)

The original George of the Jungle, not the cheesy remake.
Roger Ramjet
and for the win:

Beanie and Cecil

Jeez I'm starting to feel old!

For old school, I have to say Jonny Quest. Loved that jazzy soundtrack.
For modern choice, Batman: The Animated Series. Mark Hamill - Best. Joker. Ever.

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For old school, I have to say Jonny Quest. Loved that jazzy soundtrack.

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It was good, but the best theme song by far was Underdog's.

Strip: Pearls Before Swine (Calvin and Hobbes brilliant, Far Side...was on another level).

T.V.: was Simpsons but now Family Guy

Cartoon classic: Fog Horn Leg Horn and the rest of the Bugs Bunny Crew

Other favorites: Aeon Flux (original MTV), Heavy Metal movie, Ren and Stimpy, Spongebob, Power Puff Girls

PercyBlok said:

T.V.: was Simpsons but now Family Guy

Cartoon classic: Fog Horn Leg Horn and the rest of the Bugs Bunny Crew

Other favorites: Aeon Flux (original MTV), Heavy Metal movie, Ren and Stimpy, Spongebob, Power Puff Girls

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Definitely Family Guy now (altho hubby & I still watch The Simpsons on a regular basis).

All of the old Looney Tunes, yes! I esp. love the interplay in the 2 episodes where Chuck Jones lets Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer duke it out, with Daffy getting things going in his underhanded way. (At one point, after being blasted by Elmer's gun, he remarks to Bugs, "Hmm...pronoun trouble." Of course, you have to remember that epi to understand. )

Still watch Spongebob on occasion, and the funny thing about that is that I found out about that cartoon from my bro-in-law who usually didn't go on about cartoons. (Still doesn't.) But he did about Spongebob, so I had to investigate...

Favorite strip? Hmm. Probably Peanuts. I still have a bunch of little cartoon books I begged my mom to buy for me when I was 6 or 7. Lots of classics, including Linus' looking for his security blanket (which Lucy conveniently buried), Linus' love for Miss Othmar, & Snoopy pretending to be a vulture - among other things.

Movie? The Invincibles. Premise was hilarious, and was carried out very well, I thought.