I'd've had Noggin the Nog above Ivor tbh
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
sorry i didnt vote but i couldnt lean on what i thought was good in 1972
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
yeah me neither, this whole "I liked it when I was 8" criteria seems deeply stupid to me
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
in a poll of cartoons, i know
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
To be clear the whole concept of polling a tiny population of forum posters who are mostly the exact same age about their media preferences is pretty stupid! It’s diverting though.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
borad description if ever i heard one
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
this whole "I liked it when I was 8" criteria seems deeply stupid to me
I voted for some on this basis, and others on what I like as an adult. A lot of cartoons are for kids, and voting for them based on loving them as a kid means that they achieved their goal perfectly. Having said that, I didn't vote for anything that I don't still harbour affection for now - I didn't even think about voting for TMNT b/c I just do not care about it at all, even though I'm sure I was into it back in the day.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
yeah, I watched TMNT, Thundercats, He Man, Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, did not even consider voting for any of them.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
look, i watched and loved silverhawks and heathcliff and superfriends and all manner of trash but a few things got in my MIND man and became archetypes that I'm still stuck with. so hell yeah i'm gonna vote for voltron. You pick what you consider to be cream and ladle that on. The bulk of my ballot was stuff I still do (or would) watch today.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
I only voted for NYRB: The Animated Series, as anything less would be...uncivilized.
(j/k, didn't even vote because I was busy last week, but it probably would've been replete with cartoons used to advertise toys because some of them are still fun and, really, WGAF)
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
reason I didn't vote for Thundercats isn't because it was a toy advert, it's that I checked it out again and it was awful
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
I've been periodically watching and enjoying G.I. Joe over the past month, probably nearly as much as I did as a kid. It holds up!
I will concede, though, that some (possibly a lot) of those shows are absolute unwatchable trash.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT THUNDERCATS
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
tbf most of the things i might've voted for would be things i got into when my kids watched them or kids I was working for watched them, in the golden age of Chocobots i was too much of a moody teen to watch that shit mostly
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
i spent many hours detailing complex and (thankfully?) unwritten fanfic episodes of thundercats while walking around a tree outside my house.it was before the internet!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
to be fair about 60% of my reaction to rewatching thundercats was "I have no fucking idea what is going on here"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
that is at least 60% of why i have affection for it
that and the Mandora the Evil Chaser episodes
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5GfORvH8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
thread delivers
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
THAT BLASTED SAMOFLANGE
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
I had a Thundercats sword when I was a kid but it was another one I was always unlikely to throw a vote at. 25 ended up being fairly difficult to whittle down so ultimately it didn't stand a chance.
Anyway... MOAR TOONS NOW PLZ
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
You got it emil.y.
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/goXtR1Z.jpg
49. Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law56 points, 6 votes, 0 firsts
unless they're all gen x american wisecrackcore ;) XPOSTS
― imago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
too low imho! this show was brilliant. xpost
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
the early episodes of this are very clever use of their access to the HB catalog. i think they brought it back at some point but i didn't watch that
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
lotsa colbert in this iirc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
oh right i forgot that he's the boss
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Never saw this one, and even though I heard about it a lot I somehow I missed that the entire premise was based on Hanna-Barbera characters.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HdzZXmy.jpg
48. Bee and Puppycat58 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
This has been on my radar back when I was still on Tumblr because of CUET character design, but I've never gotten around to it. It's on something called VRV?
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
My wife adores Bee and Puppycat, and she's shown me and episode or two, which seemed quite lovely... I really should watch it all one of these days.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/E5qkfEo.jpg
47. Downtown59 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
highly recommend bee and puppycat - all available on youtube and not very long (eps are like 3 min each you can knock out the whole show in an hour)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3X57kQa.jpg
46. Wacky Races (1968-1969)59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
these imgs are beautiful btw great job on them
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
my earliest tv memory, other kids at the commune used to come round to my flat to watch it when i was about 4
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
I had kind of forgotten about Downtown. was a fun enough show i might have been a little too young to fully appreciate. was surprised to see it turn up in the top 50.will def be one of the shows i circle back on.
xpost (thank you)
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
Downtown was in my top 10, I have such good memories of it and the time it was on MTV. I was 20, was living my own for the first time, and me and my flatmate watched the show obsessively. We totally identified with the two geeky protagonists, me with the dude and her with the girl. The episode where they consider hooking up with each other, cos their romantic lives is such a failure, so why not, but then realise it just feels too absurd to go through it, was particularly memorable. Too bad MTV cancelled it after just one season, I don't think there was anything quite like it; this was way before it became cool to have geeky protagonists in youth-oriented shows.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
I threw loads of points to Downtown - it's smartly written and the animation still feels incredibly creative
― imago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
Wacky Races was the best. Really lived up to its name.
― normal fucking rockman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
shit i definitely watched downtown when it was on. completely forgot about it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pptaEOZ.jpg
45. Trap Door, The59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
Oh globbits.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
I probably should have voted for this
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
Glad to see Downtown and The Maxx make the list. MTV's animation department was pretty short-lived, but they made shows which still feel unique today. I love those scenes in Downtown where the animation followed the characters' imaginations.
Hey Arnold really captured the frequent melancholy of childhood. A lot of that was down to the soundtrack, of course.
Sailor Moon is one of those things I see a lot about on the internet, but have never actually seen on TV. I'm not sure any UK or Irish channel ever even showed it, and I can't remember seeing any merchandise etc. Of course the only time mainstream channels ever really showed anime was Pokemon and Digimon (and Cardcaptors, to a lesser extent) in the late 90s/early 00s.
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
You really should have, it rules.
xp
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
also loved the next-door neighbor who was always bragging that every single thing he owned was "very expensive!"
just wanted to enter in the record that in the doug movie this guy let doug try on his very expensive VR headset through which everything appeared exactly as it did in the real world, only more expensive
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5N0Nyij.jpg
44. Justice League Unlimited60 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
And now I'm going the scold the lot of you for not voting for JLU (save the other two voters)! It's the culmination of BTAS (exquisitely paying off a lot of moments from the history of the DCAU), with amazing comic episodes ("This Little Piggy" wherein Wonder Woman is transformed into a pig and "Kid Stuff," the requisite "heroes get transformed into children" episode), and amazing multi-episode arcs with all the thrill-power you could want.
Granted, the last season is sort of throwaway, but the stuff in between is IMO on the same level as BTAS.
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link