Whats your favorite nostalgic cartoon?

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The old Tom & Jerry Cartoons. Even my kids are disappointed when they start watching Tom & Jerry and then notice that it's the new stuff. Same with Looney Tunes.

Invader Zim. Haven't watched it in years but I still quote it.

Where in the world is Carman Sandiego

Courage the cowardly dog

The flintstones

Courage still haunts my nightmares to this day. Excellent show.

Swat Kats

That show definitely deserved to go on for longer than it did. Absolutely amazing show with an amazing theme song.

Absolutely love the episode where they introduce the metallikats and throughout the episode they occasionally fight like the married couple I think they were.

Old Warner cartoons, notably road runner.

World Premiere toons on cartoon network.

Just end nineties cartoon network, that was the best.

Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, Wacky Races... I'll still watch them if I stumble upon them.

Meep meep beats Acme Inc every time.

Lately I've been rewatching the old Alf animated series from the late 80s. It was a lot weirder than the live action show and it took place on Alf's home planet! There was almost no trace of it anywhere until recently it popped up on one of those free streaming channels! I was starting to think I'd just dreamed it lol

I still get the theme song from it stuck in my head from time to time, and I haven't seen it since it originally aired.

As a kid, Ghostbusters and inspector gadget were my jam. I had the toys, they were so cool.

As a teen, I loved Freakazoid and Animaniacs.

As a young adult, Dexter's lab and Johnny Bravo.

Ghostbusters was great. I think it was done by the guy who went on to do Babylon 5.

Yours isn't far off from mine, just swap the turtles with felines if you know what I mean.

I'm not sure how I've managed to have never heard of this before but now I feel like I have to watch every episode lol

All 52 episodes are definitely worth it, you might say it's an anime hybrid between Spongebob, TMNT, and MMPR that predates them all.

Found it streaming on Peacock! I'm enjoying it on my retro entertainment center now lol

Batman, the animated series. Sometimes I'd get home in time to watch it and I was always really excited when I realized that it was on. From my younger years then it's definitely Thundercats. Thundercats. Thundercats! HOOOO!!!

Sad this has been up for hours with no mention of the best kids cartoon ever, Scooby Doo

If anime counts, Slayers(English dub)

If not, Reboot

Reboot was such a good show, and ahead of its time imo. I rewatched it a few years back, and there were so many tech jokes and references that went over my head as a kid.

Definitely teenage mutant ninja turtles. But also biker mice from mars and the mighty ducks animated series. Also does anyone remeber the bionic six cartoon? I don't remember if it was good or bad, i just remember seeing it one morning and i had to write down the name to tell my friend because i was so blown away by it.

Does Ivor the Engine count as a cartoon? Animation, certainly, but I'm not sure about 'cartoon' as such.

Anyway, it is the 1975 version for me.

Franklin

I don't know how obsessed I was as a kid, but I had a Franklin domino set and one of the PC edutainment games that I absolutely loved a lot. Don't recall much else about how much I watched it, though. It's a series I got re-obsessed with a couple years ago.

I recently got the "Hey, It's Franklin!" CD I didn't know existed back then and I absolutely LOVE it despite the majority of the songs being pretty childish. Absolutely love track 2 "What I Do In The Morning", alongside track 5 and 6 "Hello" and "Friends". Only song on the CD I don't like is track 15 "Rainforest Song".

Some day I am going to look up the domino set and buy it for nostalgia and for my love of the show.

I still regularly think about the old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. The more anime one with an overarching storyline, not the episodic Looney Tunes kinda one (though I did also like that one for the comedy). I haven't watched it in years. I'm not sure how to find it, either. Did it have a subtitle or something? It was the one with Sally Acorn, Bunny Rabbot, and Boomer. I only remember those characters in that specific show so hopefully that narrows it down.

I was also obsessed with ninja turtles (who wasn't) but for pure nostalgia Astro Boy is probably the first cartoon I can remember watching and Voltron the first I was proper obsessed with.

GI Joe

Reagan-era propaganda for children.

After showing my ex (when we were like 20yo) the Transformers movie (which holds up and is awesome), we decided to rent the GI Joe movie. All the badies had foreign accents. The plot revolved around some type of energy crisis. I even remember a corporate slogan for Amex worked its way into the TV show: never leave home without it.

The people who made that show should be held accountable for propagandizing children.

What? It was pure marketing for the toys. So was transformers. It was this whole thing in the 80s, but GI Joe was pretty much the classic example of it. But there was strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, even he-man, and others.

Unless you're using propaganda in place of advertising/marketing?

But the history of the GI Joe show and toys is well documented, and it wasn't tied to political shit except indirectly, in that it was essentially all US military at first.

Mind you, it eventually jumped the shark with the snake king and such as that. But it was never done as military propaganda as the goal.

The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.

I loved it myself, but Golobulus? Kinda jumping the shark lol. Jumping the snake for sure.

Yeah a lot of older cartoons are problematic.

Tom and Jerry and pretty much any of the very old cartoons: racism

Transformers and He-man: basically made to sell toys. i.e consumerism

Samurai Jack

Who dares to summon the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow, Aku?

I have nostalgia for my late-teens early 20s cartoon consumption. I was still watching Batman:TAS and the 90s Spider-Man series. There were flashes of high-intensity (if not well told) brilliance from the 90s Real Adventures of Jonny Quest series. I have to admit, the CGI they used was not as well executed as Reboot. Darkwing Duck, Peter Pan and the Pirates, and Gargoyles were shows what I looked back on fondly.

Daria, Clone High, and Ren and Stimpy all made an impact on me as a young adult. Daria, for its sardonic, anti-establishment stance. Clone High for its mockery of sitcoms and rom-coms and teen angst. Ren and Stimpy for pushing everything past its limit.

In the end, though, it was Samurai Jack and 90s X-Men that stood head and shoulders above them all. X-Men because it was what I collected and knew the best. Samurai Jack because it was cinematic, well- paced, and offered me something that no other TV show, movie, cartoon series, or comic book did or could: "... [a] fool [who] seeks to return to the past to undo the future that is Aku!"

If you aren't watching the new X-Men 97 show you should give it a shot. It picks up at the end of the original run and has been pretty entertaining so far.

Biker Mice from Mars, I loved that show as a kid, gave me a lifelong appreciation for Root Beer

Starblazers episodes used to air randomly on one of the local UHF channels when I was around 11 years old. For some reason I remembered it recently, and some quick online searching found that it was an edited and English dubbed version of Space Battleship Yamato. Binge watched the original subtitled episodes. It was nostalgic seeing the characters that I remembered from decades ago, but good to see the entire uncut story all the way to its end.

Not sure if theyre technically cartoons, but Thunderbirds and Stingray.

Lately, I’ve watched Scooby-Doo with my sister.

Specifically, The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

We both like all sorts of classic stuff even now.

There may be dozens of us who still remember Captain Future. I used to get in trouble in school for doodling his space ship in my workbooks.

There are many, Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ben 10 classic, Camp Lazlo and lots of other city era cartoons from Cartoon Network. But the number one that hits me with nostalgia, so much so that I don't re-watch much to not tint it, is Foster's Mansion for Imaginary Friends

Being a part of the internet in 2011, I vividly remember everyone talking about My Little Pony, even though I wasn't that hardcore of a fan at the time. I'm pretty sure my feed of Cartoon Network aired a couple episodes, but that's all I can remember watching.

And then some spinoff happened where all the ponies are... not ponies. This is when I completely lost interest in the franchise. Thanks, 2013.