What was your favorite cartoon as a child?

Ren And Stimpy
Samurai Pizza Cats
Dragon Ball/ Dragon Ball Z
TMNT
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Rockos Modern Life
Dexter’s Lab
Ed Edd And Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Cow and Chicken
Rugrats

the 90’s were good for cartoons

Speed Racer!

Mickey and Donald to start with,the whole set of cartoons from Hanna Barbera studios and Looney Tunes.
Speed Racer, Heidi (I think Miyazaki worked on the backgrounds on this one, I lurved it), Dexter’s lab, Duck Tales, Jungle Book to name a few others

How could I forget Woody Woodpecker, which brings to mind Heckle and Jeckle, oh yeah!

M.A.S.K., Bravestar, Inhumanoids, The Real Ghostbusters, Thundarr the Barbarian, The Herculoids, Smurfs, Ewoks, Droids, Space Ace, Dragon’s Lair, TMNT, He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, etc., etc…

Best cartoon decade ever.

tom and jerry is still the ish

WAY too many to mention. it seems that i watched everything. but if forced to the wall, i guess these are the ones that stand out the most in my fond memories:

gi joe
transformers
woody woodpecker
robotech

these are my immediate gut reactions. i have to stop there or i’ll end up naming a hundred more!

I say – I say – Foghorn Leghorn was the one for me in my youth.

GI JOE

When I was 4 or 5 I was really into Hercules.

The Pink Panther – can you imagine another cartoon character smoking cigarettes? The ’60s were pretty cool. :)

Astroboy

Looney Tunes
Spider Man
Superfriends
Scooby Doo
Flintstones
King Kong
cartoon portions of The Banana Splits
cartoon versions of Star Trek, Happy Days and The Brady Bunch
Laff Olympics
Schoolhouse Rock

Silver Hawks
Doraemon
Donald

This guy – cantankerous, bad tempered, and rude – what’s not to like?

“Masters of the Universe”

This fantasy world actually started as an action figure set, THEN was turned into a cartoon (the reverse is more common). Of course, it produced a spin-off..

“She-Ra: Princess of Power”

Also from Filmation…home of cartoons with lessons for the child audience…

“Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids”

Groundbreaking stuff: harsh language (by cartoon standards) in the unforgettable “jail visit” episode, progressive themes, tough social issues…exciting cartoon adventures all brought together by the narrator, Bill Cosby. This is an unsurpassed cartoon classic.

From Hanna–Barbera…one that originally screened many years before my lifetime, but that doesn’t matter…an obscure one from 1966 called…

“Frankenstein Jnr and The Impossibles” (I really enjoyed it for the latter)

“The Impossibles” had a really catchy 1960s pop tune: they were a trio of musicians who became Multi Man, Coil Man and Fluid Man (superpowers pretty self-explanatory) to fight crime. Not exactly one of the most famous H-B toons, yet I still eagerly await the day when they shall return to television!

“Centurions”

Power Extreme! They made for great action figures, too.

“Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Connection”

The show actually featured Wendi Richter (above, left, with Cyndi Lauper) which gave you an idea how popular she was at the time. However, with wrestlers changing sides (Roddy Piper became a babyface—good guy—in 1986) so quickly, this show dated quickly.

“Rainbow Brite”

Not the most memorable cartoon of all time, but I did watch it sometimes. Not one of my favourites, but I’m mentioning it because real men can admit these things. Nevermind the fact my wardrobe mirrors that of R.B.

Many others I could mention…the 1980s were a Golden Age of cartoons.

The first page of this thread just gave me serious nostalghia.

My auteurs birthday is coming up soon.

And I dressed as Mark one Halloween. And I had friends. And I just dated myself real bad.

ALL the obvious 80’s hots already mentioned ( and being referenced and remade every second since they aired!) but my all-time favorite had to be the 1-2 punch combo of Rocket Robin Hood/Hercules…To this day the characters and some sequences are still very memorable.

@ Mark Vanselo​w, thanks for taking me back and reminding me of the nights i was up till 5am with the original and GOOD cartoon network.

Remember the days when the new season of Saturday morning cartoons was such an eagerly anticipated event? I remember waking up on the first day of the new Saturday season around 5 in the morning with an issue of TV guide by my side almost like a baseball fan keeps a scorecard. I watched everything checked off on my list nonstop until about 12.

Looney Tunes.

Anybody like Tom Terrific or The Sunshine Makers?

Top Cat

sailor moon

Space Ghost
HR Pufnstuf (Okay, not really a cartoon)

Mike Spence:

I remember “G-Force”…the way I saw it, they were the inspiration for “Voltron”, which in turn was ripped off badly by “Power Rangers”.

Oh, one more I meant to mention…these guys were the cousins of “Transformers”…

MACHINE MEN!

Sing it…"Migh-ty Machine Men, Migh-ty Go-bots!

These guys were a lot smaller and much cheaper to purchase than Transformers. Oh yeah, the COMIC BOOK you could purchase was actually BANNED where I live, for being (wait for it) TOO VIOLENT!

This was Melbourne 1980s…I might have a copy around somewhere, and it was so juvenile, so benign, you’d wonder how it could have offended ANYBODY.

Also, let’s give a mention to “SUPERFRIENDS”!

I always thought Casey Kasem sounded like Robin from this cartoon…years later I found out it WAS Casey Kasem providing the voice for Robin, which made it even funnier!

There was also a really cool “Flash Gordon” cartoon that appeared in the 1980s.

And I know it’s not a cartoon, but others have mentioned puppets elsewhere in this thread, so I’m going to have at it too, dammit!

(Wow, I never knew this show was still running up until 1992…)

Since I’ve already snuck puppets into this thread…and because things have been way to American-Japanese-centric thus far…“Sooty and Sweep”! Where are my crisps?

Also flying the flag for Great Britain…and yes, Claymation DOES count as a cartoon…

“MORPH”!

Finally, also from the U.K., I can’t go past “Dr. Snuggles”. There was even a Dr. Snuggles dental van that was in my area once. Sadly, no confirmation that the good doctor himself was inside. Like me, a product of the late ’70s, that provided much joy in the ’80s.

Ren & Stimpy
Tom & Jerry. The original Tom & Jerry and not the new crap they have out.
Popeye

mark did u see I added the Gobot movie on here?

mine was and always will be The Flintstones

even the Flintstone Kids