Favorite All Time TV Toons

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:39 pm

I thought the "Kill the Wabbit" song is at the end of "Wabbit of Seville".... then again, killing the wabbit was hardly a rare goal of Elmers.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:42 pm

Hmmmm - I thought there were 2 distinct episodes, the Seville and then the one that I'm referring to, with a Norse operatic theme.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:54 pm

The Bugs Bunny short "What's Opera Doc?" features the Kill the Wabbit.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:57 pm

Ahh, cool.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:33 pm

Thanks, Tom!

Post by **drew** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:51 pm

Loremaster wrote:Robotech:

Good lord, what an epic story. Great characters and superb action!

My goodness, was there ever a beter cartoon? Based on a RPG was it not? One of the earliest Animee's too eh?

Dungeons and Dragons I liked a lot too.

and there was this one in the Mid Eighties where these regular Teenaged kids got transported into a cartoon world where all the eighties pop singers were trapped, and they had to free them.

Tranformers too...I loved the show and the movie.

GoBots...not as good as Transformers, but still good

GI Joe I also watched quite a bit.

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:14 am

My favorites, just from memory, in no particular order...

Looney Toons - I recall a poll somewhere, some time ago in some publication that ranked "What's Opera Doc?" as the best Bugs Bunny cartoon ever, or something like that. It's impossible for me to pick one favorite Bugs episode...Elmer Fudd...Yosemite Sam...Tazz...Marvin...such worthy adversaries Bugs had...

The Mighty Orbots! - You can keep your Transformers, I'll take the Orbots any day.

Ren & Stimpy - Takes your basic fetish with organic functions and raises it to brilliant, demented comic art. It was just too good to last.

The Real Ghostbusters - possibly the best spinoff TV series to a feature film since MASH? Another show that was too good to last.

Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends - not sure if I would still enjoy it today if I were to accidentally tune into it, but at the time, I loved it. And, hey, Iceman and Firestar will always be cool (and hot!) superheroes in my book.

If we were to consider computer animated TV toons, one stands out for me:

REBOOT - this show deeply impressed me, not just with its cutting edge visuals at the time, but with its memorable characters and very well-written dialogue and story arcs. It was like seeing the future of animated television starting right here.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:28 am

drew wrote:My goodness, was there ever a beter cartoon? Based on a RPG was it not? One of the earliest Animee's too eh?

No, it was a single Japanese animated series to begin with that had two (less successful) disconnected (story-wise) series. It took a clever American to tie the three series together to make Robotech. Then came the RPG (which I had).

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:44 pm

"Oh, Bwunhilde, you're so wovewy."

"Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

Post by **danlo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:04 pm

8th Man! (don't try this at home kids!

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circa 1963

But more than this, the Japanese totally revolutionized that industry with stories and scripting that went beyond children's ideas and introduced passion, pathos, and personality into the world arena of TV animation, filling the void left by the cat-&-mouse slapstick humor prevelant in American TV animation at that time.
Yes, 8th Man, Prince Planet, Astroboy and others were the dawn of a new age of TV animation where the players could laugh, cry, hurt, and even die...were these concepts too strong for young children? Perhaps. Many people who testify of their childhood experiences with these early anime-works will state they were deeply moved and thus, well remember these works as they have seemed to make more than a lasting impression...

After the astounding success in 1963 of Astroboy, Japan witnessed many new animation studios appear which rushed rather hurriedly into production eager to share the spotlight. As a result, some of the early artwork was crudely executed. Overall though the series as a whole managed well to capture and reflect the style of Jiro Kuwata.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:46 am

didn't 8th Man get his powers from smoking a cig?

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:53 am

Fist and Faith wrote:"Oh, Bwunhilde, you're so wovewy."

"Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

"Oh Bwunhilde, be my wove!"

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:42 pm

The original Superman cartoons from the 40's are quite awesome. I also liked the Pink Panther, Flintstones, Popeye, and Scooby-Doo, though not for the animation.

Post by **matrixman** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:02 pm

dANdeLION wrote:The original Superman cartoons from the 40's are quite awesome.

The recent "Story of Superman" special on A&E showed some clips of those cartoons, and they looked fabulous! It would be nice to see all of them.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:23 pm

Matrixman wrote:
dANdeLION wrote:The original Superman cartoons from the 40's are quite awesome.
The recent "Story of Superman" special on A&E showed some clips of those cartoons, and they looked fabulous! It would be nice to see all of them.

Thanks to dAN turning me on to them I have three dvds of original superman cartoons. They are awesome.

I would be remiss to not mention my all time favorite saturday morning cartoon.....THE TICK! SPOON!

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:39 pm

Matrixman wrote:
dANdeLION wrote:The original Superman cartoons from the 40's are quite awesome.
The recent "Story of Superman" special on A&E showed some clips of those cartoons, and they looked fabulous! It would be nice to see all of them.

I saw those too, would love to see more. Tom, where did you get your DVDs?

Post by **TIC TAC** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:00 pm

The Simpsons! Well, season 3 through season 11 for the most part.

Post by **___** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:14 pm

Stupid Watch errors seem to have deleted dAN's response to DLB....anyway, Tom and dAN got their Superman dvds at Wal-Mart; there were 17 total episodes from '41-'43, and they originally aired as movie openers, back when movies didn't show a half hour of previews first.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:25 pm

HAHAHAHA,HAHAHA!

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:36 pm

Mr Fixit wrote:Stupid Watch errors seem to have deleted dAN's response to DLB....anyway, Tom and dAN got their Superman dvds at Wal-Mart; there were 17 total episodes from '41-'43, and they originally aired as movie openers, back when movies didn't show a half hour of previews first.

Thanks!

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Favorite All Time TV Toons