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Thanks to the magic of youtube, we have access to things that just invoke WOW! Case in point, these videos of cartoon openings from the 80s and 90s. Wow, memories. Take a look.

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So the vast majority of us on this site grew up in the 80s or 90s, so, some of those cartoons may bring back memories. What did you watch? What really kicked ass? Let the world know.

I love cartoons. I still watch them. I was watching Transformers Armada last night and am looking forward to the debut of Transformers Animated the day after Christmas.

In my nearly 40 years of cartoon watching I've had several favorites. I'll start in the 70's since some prime cartoon viewing years (age 5-11) took place for me in that decade. A lot of these cartoons were from the 60's but were re-run constantly in the 70's. Some like Scooby-Doo still are.

70's

Scooby-Doo: come on... who hasn't watched and loved this show?

The Funky Phantom: I honestly don't remember much about this show but it was one of my first favorites.

Speed Buggy: I had a Speed Buggy lunch box back in grade school.

Speed Racer: Fast cars, lots of crashes. Every young boys dream.

Kimba The White Lion

Wacky Racers

80's

Battle of the Planets: Gatchaman for you anime afficionados

Transformers

G.I. Joe

Thundercats: I watched this one every morning in the student center before going to class my first couple years of college.

90's

Loony Tunes: Yeah I watched these growing up but I got obsessed with Warner Bros. cartoons in the 90's. I still have the piles of VHS tapes to prove it.

Tiny Tune Adventures: My wife and I used to watch this one together.

Batman The Animated Series: I thought the animation style of this one was amazing. Very stylized. How many super hero cartoons have aped it look since?

Gargoyles

I'm sure there's a ton of others but these all stand out.

Some of my favorites:

Scooby-Doo <~My kids are fanatics too about this cartoon

Woody Woodpecker & Chilly Willy <~Awesome cartoon

GI-Joe

Captain Planet <~The power is yours

TMNT <~One of the greatest toons of all time.

Duck Tales

Talespin

Darkwing Duck

Denver The Last Dinosaur

Rude Dog And The Dweebs

Eek The Cat


Et Al

My daughter loves Scooby as well. We watch the classics as well as the new stuff. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is her favorite. There's a new Scooby show called "What's New Scooby-Doo?", this thing features music by real bands. I was watching it the other day with her and there was a chase scene backed by "Rockaway Beach" by the Ramones. Scooby AND the Ramomes.... how can you beat that?

My daughter loves zombie island as well.  She also likes Witch's Ghost and The Loch Ness Monster.  The new doo's have some good music in them.

I loved Scooby Doo and of course because I was a kid in the early 90s I also loved A pup Named Scooby Doo

The Simpsons

TMNT

GI Joe

Tiny Toons

Spider-Man The Animated Series

X-men

Reboot

Animaniacs

Pinky and The Brain (<-the best spin off show)

Earthworm Jim

Freakazoid

Gargoyles (<-quite possably my favorite show ever)

Reminiscing has made me realize that cable has destroyed a lot of the charm of cartoons. As a kid, Saturday Morning Cartoons and weekday cartoons were where it's at. Now, cartoons are on whenever, where ever. Saturday Morning Cartoons? What is that? It's sort of sad. That said, I like current cartoons, and yeah, these are the cartoons that stand out in my mind. Good cartoons, of course, I've seen a lot of cartoons, especially the 90s cartoons... I think I've seen at least once every cartoon in that real.

Italics means that I really enjoyed the show

1980s

Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Ducktales <-Awesome NES game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles <-Uh, every kid my age watched that show... because it kicked ass.
The Real Ghostbusters
Inspector Gadget, watched in the 90s on Nick
Danger Mouse, watched in the 90s on Nick
Beetlejuice, watched in the 90s on Nick

1990s

Tiny Toon Adventures <-Best Cartoon IMO of the 90s
Animaniacs
Pinky and the Brain
Tale Spin
Goof Troop
Darkwing Duck
Batman
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Nickelodeon Nicktoons, especially Rocko's Modern Life... Ren and Stimpy watching it now is really dumb

00 God, my existence transcends three decades...

Powerpuff Girls... shut up
Dexter's Laboratory
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Courage, the Cowardly Dog
Ed, Edd, and Eddy
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Older Aimed Cartoons

Futurama
The Simpsons, before it sucked
Family Guy
American Dad
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sealab 2021
Venture Bros.

Cartoons that transcend time and space
Looney Toons, any
HB Cartoons, any... god bless Hanna Barbera Land
Scooby Doo... but that falls under HB Cartoons
Tom and Jerry

Wow, what a sweet clip.  I love it!  So many good cartoons.  Saturday morning cartoons nowadays are shit.  I loved:

Scooby-Doo
Smurfs
Fraggle Rock
He-man
TMNT
She-ra
Silver Hawks
Thundercats
The Littles (I think this was the title)
Darkwing Duck
Ducktales
You Can't Do That On Television
D&D
Tale Spin
Goof Troop

There are soooo many!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Hong Kong Phooey
Grape Ape
Talespin
Ducktales
Simpsons
Family Guy
Futurama
The Brak Show
Sealab 2021

So many great memories:

Ducktales
Talespin
He-Man
Simpsons
Looney Tunes
TMNT
Muppet Babies
Smurfs
Scooby Doo
Garfield
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
Tiny Toons Adventures
Thunder Cats

And last but not least VOLTRON Defender of the Universe.

and some currents:
Simpsons
Spongebob Squarepants
Fairly Odd Parents

I watched so many of those. My favorite of all time is GI Joe.

the cartoons i watched when i was younger were gi joe, he-man, scooby doo and duck tales.

Anything Disney, we had this "Disney Festival" thing everyday, showing one cartoon and a small one. I think it still exists in some form.
What I remember watching of the Disney festival:

Darkwing Duck
Duck Tales
Goof Troop
The Little Mermaid
Rescue Rangers
101 Dalmatians
Aladdin
Hercules
TaleSpin

Non-Disney:

Looney Tunes
TMNT
Scooby Doo
Pingu
The Simpsons (still see it weekly :))
Futurama
Adventures of Tintin
X-men
Transformers
Beast Wars
Doug
The Incredible Hulk
Marsipulami
Noah's Island
The Pink Panther
South Park
Spider-Man
Taz-Mania


Anime, but still cartoons in my opinion:

Dragon Ball Z
Digimon (watched it briefly, Pokémon was better)
Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh
Beyblade
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Sailor Moon
The New Adventures of He-Man
Jackie Chan Adventures


Lol, what a big list...seems like I had too much time on my hands as a kid :P

There's still one cartoon I loved but I don't know the name. It's this little boy who lives in Japan with his mom, and he's kind of perverted. And he always gets into situations and stuff with his mom being mad....anyone knows the title of this?

Oh 80s & 90s, how I feel so lucky to of grown up over these two awesome decades. I watched a lot of cartoons, and my favourites have always been.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teknoman
Samurai Pizza Cats
DuckTales
Botsmaster
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Chip 'N' Dale Rescue Rangers
The Simpsons
Inspector Gadget
The Transformers
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
The Smurfs
The Real Ghostbusters
Count Duckula
Voltron, Defender of the Universe
X-Men
Danger Mouse
Mighty Machine Men (Challenge of the Gobots)
The Jetsons
Astroboy
Robotech
Dino-Riders
The Flintstones
Tom and Jerry
Spider-Man: The Animated Series
Sailor Moon
Rocko's Modern Life
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Tiny Toon Adventures
Darkwing Duck
Sonic Underground
TaleSpin
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Reboot
Earthworm Jim
Daria
Gumby
Eek! the Cat & The Terrible Thunder Lizards
Goof Troop
Biker Mice From Mars
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
Conan: The Adventurer
Sam and Max: Freelance Police
Widget, the World Watcher
Mummies Alive
Disney's Aladdin
Speed Racer
The Snorks
(Filmation's) Ghostbusters

Looney Toons took up much of my Saturday morning viewing as a kid. I remember when it was an hour long. Some time towards the end of its run, some dumbass decided to edit them down. I mean...when Daffy says "shoot me now!", you want to see the end result after Elmur blasts his beak backwards, right? They'd edit stuff like that out. Now you can only see the originals on their DVD collections. :-\

Others were:
The Jetsons
Hong Kong Phooey ("#1 Super Guy")
Pink Panther
Tom & Jerry
Grape Ape
Speed Racer
Mr Magoo
Flintstones
Woody Woodpecker/Chilly Willy
Popeye (the best were the old B&W ones)
Laff-a-Lympics
Yogi Bear
Scooby Doo
Superfriends ("WONDER TWIN POWERS...ACTIVATE!")
Fat Albert! ("Heybuh Fatbuh Albuh!")
Futurama

Nowadays, I'll occasionally catch an episode of the Simpsons and/or Family Guy.

I love Mr. Magoo.  :)

Hong Kong Phooey, Number one super guy.
Hong Kong Phoeey, Faster than the naked eye!

I love HKP!!!  It rocks!

^Now it can be yours!

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Gargoyles
Batman:The Animated Series
Justice League Unlimited
Chip and Dale
Scooby-Doo
Spongebob Squarepants
Danny Phantom
Looney Toons
Dragon Ball Z
Wacky Races
Speed Buggy
Thundercats
Johnny Quest
Pink Panther

All of these I love.

I watched A LOT Hanna-Barbera cartoons when i was a kid...

Ya know, I gotta be honest:

A few years back took another look at a lot of the 1980s 'toons I used to watch as a kid...

...and for the most part I found myself embarrassed that I could have been so easily entertained by such silly nonsense.

Same goes for much of the live-action fare I liked, too, like The A-Team, Knight Rider, and You Can't Do That on Television!

But, for better or worse, they are a part of my childhood.

There's the obvious shows, like TransFormers and G.I. Joe. Although I was way more into the TransFormers toys, I hafta admit that the G.I. Joe show was better-written. Though that's not saying much...

Then there's Voltron, which was notable for me 'cuz I was the only grade-schooler who liked the 15-piece vehicle robot more than the 5-piece lion one. Years later, I found out that the original Japanese versions of the show had lots more violence and death in 'em, complete with stabbings, shootings, and other vivid scenes of appalling brutality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7nxQNZ_rEM&feature=fvsr

Man, where was this Voltron when I was a kid? It's infinity times more awesome than what we eventually got in the states.

Still, as far as reworked and edited-down anime goes, I still think Star Blazers and Robotech hold up fairly well. I just wish they'd release the unedited Japanese version of Space Battleship Yamato in the states.

And how could I forget Mighty Orbots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qiFRD0NLzY

I also enjoyed Danger Mouse, although I rarely watched it 'cuz it usually played in the early afternoon when I was at school.

Robotech/Macross/Yamato. !!!!!
...don't make me rewatch the whole series again, please.

Do it. DO IT!!!

You'll be gone so long, we can really do some funky things around here in your absence...

...like making this place the next 4Chan.


MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!


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...aww, poor broken image. Too bad you can't hotlink from that site.  :laugh:

In hindsight, it was more appropriate for the now-drifty moniker thread.

In the meantime...

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D'ya think he's bluffing? Hmmm?

One of my favorite hobbies outside of video games is trying to get a hold of cartoons from the first golden age of animation. Lonney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are some of my all time favorites.

Also, The early season of the Simpsons and Freakazoid!.

I can go on and on about cartoons and anime

Thundercats
Extreme Ghostbusters
New Scooby Doo Movies
Scooby and Scrappy
Sonic Underground
Sonic SatAM
Swat Kats
Rouroni Kenshin
Yu Yu Hakusho
Rude Dog
GI Joe
Rambo Forces of Freedom
Skunk Fu
Duck Tales
Rescue Rangers
Tale Spin
Street Sharks
Heath-cliff
Space Pirate
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pirates of Dark Water
Two Angry Beavers
Rocko's Modern Life
Freakazoid
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Kimba the White Lion
Lion King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3aArNUADk

I watched i lot of cartoons when a was a kid, but nowadays it's pretty rare, but i still find fun the classic ones, especially  Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo. I like Dexter's Laboratory too, just because of Dee Dee. However, i can't stand recent stuff like Spongebob, i don't know if has to do with the nostalgic factor, but i found the script and characters dumb, only appealing to kids from 3 to 7 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUyLwXhqlWU

I loved Charlie Brown teacher speaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2LVOYQNrxc

One of the most awesome things to ever come out of the 80s

I Loved and still love to this day Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic SatAM) series. Loved to watch them in the early '90's. Used to wakeup early before school to watch these shows. Sonic SatAm is always my favorite, bought a DVD box set of it because I love the show that much. Still watch it to this day. I just love Sonic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2NbK8IOpQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4jd0UWGPgY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUgU9Cljrdo

Sonic is cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaTkPYzK00