What Cartoons did you Grow up Watching on TV?

[bluestar1079]

So Many lol

The Flinstones
The Jetsons
Scooby Doo
The Smurfs
Alvin & the Chipmunks
Bullwinkle
Looney Tunes
Tiny Tune Adventures
Animaniacs!
Care Bears
My Little Pony & Friends
Rainbow Brite
Pound Puppies
DuckTales
Tale Spin
Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers
Jem
Winnie The Pooh
Inspector Gadget
Muppet Babies
Garfield
Heathcliff

I Can't remember the names of the rest of them but that gives you a good idea lol.

 

[purina]

I seem to remember having a Quickdraw McGraw lunchbox, and that reminds me of Huckleberry Hound.
I have a friend who sometimes calls out "Deputy Dawg!" when we're watching cop shows.

 

[bluestar1079]

Charlie Brown & Snoopy

 

[TickTockMan]

Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers

I knew there was one I was forgetting.

 

[bluestar1079]

I knew there was one I was forgetting.

Yeah i used to watch "Disney Afternoon" it was called lol yeah it was a bunch of shows 3-5pm something like that and then i used to watch "Punky Brewster" and "Small Wonder" and of course Saturday morning cartoons and Disney channel and Nickelodeon.

 

[smokeshadow]

you're forgetting. . .

Jonny Quest
Speed Racer
Wacky Races
Space Ghost
Perils of Penelopy Pitstop
8th Man

 

[ShadowCat]

Damn I thought I chimed in guess i didnt send!
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Scooby Doo
Looney Tunes
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs
Pinky & The Brain
Sailor Moon
Powerpuff Girls
Dexters Laboratory
Recess
Pepper Ann
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Batman the Animated Series
Xmen The Animated Series
Xmen Evolution
Xiaolin Showdown
Spiderman The Animated Series
The Magic School Bus
Yugioh
Pokemon
Arthur

 

[ShadowCat]

Shit forgot Bonkers Goof Troop Gummi Bears Duck Tales and Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers

 

[Philandros999]

Popeye is the earliest I can think of. I don't remember a lot about it except the song and the way he gobbled tinned spinach. And Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea. Was that meant to be their baby? They weren't married.

I'm old enough to remember Topcat, the Flintstones, Yogi Bear and Booboo, Deputy Dawg, Snagglepuss, Quickdraw McGraw and Wacky Races. There was a boy at our school who used to laugh like Muttley. He wasn't doing an impersonation, it just came out like that by itself. Also the Warner Bros Looney Tunes. The Flintstones had canned laughter, which I thought spoiled it. Topcat and Looney Tunes are ones that still appeal to me as an adult. There's a line in the title song from Topcat that I could never catch, it goes something like Close friends get to call him TC, Close right in get dripping for tea.

The only British-made cartoon that comes to mind is Noggin the Nog. It says 1959 on the video, so they must have carried on repeating them for years and years. It's a classic, but I can't imagine kids today sitting still for over seven minutes to watch this.

I had all of this too in Australia (except 'Noggin the Nog') and I liked 'Topcat' very much. I thought the line sounded like "provided it's whipping the t". It turns out the original lyrics were :
"Close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity."
Other misheard variants here: http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/topcat.shtml

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Found an old episode from the Lone Ranger cartoon series from 1966. Very unusual for the 1960's this series was "limited animation", it created a comic book visual style notable for its strict adherence to 2-dimensional drawings without a hint of a 3rd dimension! Note the use of heavy black shadowing and the limited color pallet, similar to watercolor art.

Pay close attention to the music. This series has an outstanding musical score that is matched by excellent voice actors. In this episode, the villain, Vulcan, is voiced by Paul Winchell. Paul's delivery of his lines is very deliberate in classic voiceover fashion, similar to old radio broadcasts from the 1940's. Simply outstanding!

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is interesting, but I don't think it is fair to say there is not a hint of the 3rd dimension.

It is indeed a flattened treatment, but there are numerous devices used to imply depth.

The characters have shadows under their cheekbones. The knot on the Ranger's kerchief has a rounded indentation, etc.

There is a 3rd dimension, else it would look like a child's coloring book. But, you're right. They kept faitfully to comic book style.

 

[Essex Boy]

I thought the line sounded like "provided it's whipping the t". It turns out the original lyrics were :
"Close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity."
Other misheard variants here: http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/topcat.shtml

So that's it. Now I can sleep at night. By the way, I always thought Top Cat and his gang were based on Sergeant Bilko and the cast from the Phil Silvers Show.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

As a child, it wasn't the Top Cat intro that got my attention.
Nothing fascinated me more than the Top Cat closing credits. TC was doing things I had never seen anyone do.

After all these years I realize now just what a charming and likeable character Top Cat is - my dad was right all along!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

That is interesting, but I don't think it is fair to say there is not a hint of the 3rd dimension.

It is indeed a flattened treatment, but there are numerous devices used to imply depth.

The characters have shadows under their cheekbones. The knot on the Ranger's kerchief has a rounded indentation, etc.

There is a 3rd dimension, else it would look like a child's coloring book. But, you're right. They kept faitfully to comic book style.

I read somewhere that the Lone Ranger cartoon series from 1966 was produced by Format Films, owned by two friends who loved the live action Lone Ranger series from the 1950's, but wanted the incidental music to be as dramatic as the William Tell overture that formed the Lone Ranger's signature musical ID.

The result was an unexpected cartoon hit for CBS on Saturday mornings, followed by "The Wild, Wild West" every Saturday evening. Together, these two shows seem to bookend a rather unique lineup of entertainment not in keeping with the "Go-Go" 1960's.

There's an episode of the Lone Ranger cartoon where the "Black Widow", voiced by Agnes Moorehead, almost seems to channel the Batman TV series on ABC. Any animated series that can attract that level of voice talent knows how to entertain an audience!

 

[Vannie]

I loved Magoo.

Bugs
Porky

Flintstones

Tweety and Sylvester

Roadrunner

Porky

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Anyone remember "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon from 1965?

 

[nycguydowntown]

Ren & Stimpy was the best

 

[Essex Boy]

I've been down the rabbit hole and I've found treasure!

I always thought Top Cat and his gang were based on Sergeant Bilko and the cast from the Phil Silvers Show.

It was deliberate. Benny the Ball was voiced by Maurice Gosfield (1913-1964), who played Private Doberman. Phil Silvers found him rather pompous and said he "thought of himself as Cary Grant playing a short, plump man".

Brain and Spook were both voiced by Leo De Lyon (died 2021 aged 96) whose party piece was singing one tune while whistling another. There is a clip of him playing piano with Phil Silvers but not doing funny voices. Here he is with Dean Martin, giving it everything.

As well as De Lyon, Arnold Stang (Top Cat) and John Stephenson (Fancy-Fancy) also lived into their nineties. Marvin Kaplan (Choo-Choo) was 89.

 

[rareboy]

Ah yes Top Cat. Another of my favourites.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Hanna-Barbera had a major hit on their hands with The Flintstones in 1960.

But the proof that Hanna-Barbera knew how to entertain on television happened in 1959 with Quick Draw McGraw, one of the funniest cartoon series HB ever created.
With the sponsorship of Kellogg's, animation became associated with breakfast cereals, sugar and kids. Quick Draw McGraw became a cereal mascot for the Big K.
Even the intro and the closing credits were advertisements for sugar-sweet cereals.