Conference back40::soapbox

Roadrunner/Coyote are classic.
I also like Sylvester (especially with the aussie mice).

Of the current cartoons in production, Eek the Cat is probably my favorite
(though Darkwing Duck can be very funny as can be Aladdin).  The Tick is
strange but very funny if only if you pay attention.

For serious cartoons, the old Johnny Quest (though now matter how politically
incorrect they may be now) were great.  (The one with the energy monster gave
me nightmares which I first it way back when.)

For today, Phantom 2040 is pretty good as is the current Batman incarnation.
Phantom 2040 has pretty well developed characters who have imperfections. 
Plus none of the characters are of the "stupid" variety.

Mighty Max is also one of the better ones (I like it because it showcases a
kid that uses his brain to save himself, his sidekicks, and the world).

    i've alos like bullwinkle j. moose and rocky the squirrel. i used to
    watch the jetsons religously. back in it's early days all that spacey
    stuff seemed really cool.

  Foghorn Leghorn
  rocky and bullwinkle
  Roadrunner




 Jim

    	Tom Terriffic and Mighty Manfred his Wonder Dog.
    
    	Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.
    
    	Speed Racer.
    
    	Gigantor.
    
    	Anybody ever see Col. Bleep?

    
    tom & jerry

    sylvester
    coyote and road runner
    under dog
    yosemite sam
    
    

    "Thufferin' Thuckatash".
    
    "I'll get that wabbit."
    
    "Ah say, ah say, B O Y !"
    
    "Where'th that tweety-bird ?"

    Dont forget  Kimba, Speedracer.
    

    
    Bugs is king.
    
    Believe it or not, I roll on the ground on watching Mr. Magoo.
    
    bb
    

    Duckman?

    flintstones, 
    jetsons,
    yogi & booboo (and ranger smith),
    coyote & roadrunner              
    bugs, fudd, tazmanian devil, daffy duck, & co.
    rocky & bullwinkle
    foghorn & the chicken hawk
    
    and for current productions, simpsons, ren & stimpy, and 	
    rocko's modern world.  though they mey never be real classics like the 
    ones above.

    WhoEVER up & fired John Kricfalusi is an idiot & should be burned at
    the stake.
    

    rr
    bugs
    t&j
    daffy

    
    
    looney toons (bugs and company)
    tom & jerry 
    rocky and bullwinkle
    josie and the pussycats
    winnie the pooh
    jetsons
    flintstones
    the littles (i hate to admit it, but i loved to watch them while i was
     in college...)
    
    

    I concur wit ha few back -- Bugs is King!!! (and don't get me started,
    I can recite many complete Bugs episodes verbatim!)
    
    other toons worthy of my time and interest:
    
    (general lonney toons)
    flintsones
    rocky & bullwinkle
    speed racer
    jetsons
    kimba (TLK is such a suck ripoff of this original concept!!!)
    *original* beavis & butthead (must emphasize pre-MTV episodes!)

    - Klyde Krashcup

    - George of the Jungle

Note 215.8 by MKOTS3::LABORE_M 
    
    >>Dont forget  Kimba, Speedracer.
    
    what the hell are these? never heard of them. sounds like a combination
    ex-playboy bunny and a character in one of crash test dummies songs.

    Natasha and Boris Badenov
    Dudley Dooright
    
    

    Foghorn Leghorn is King!!!!
    Also, The Simpsons before they got a conscience.
    
    -M-

    Ooops
    	

    Kimba the white Lion and Speed Racer are two japanese cartoons from the
    late 60's early 70s; at least, that's when they were imported here. 
    Speed drove the Mach 5, an amazing race car built and maintained by his
    father, with great gadgets.  Kimba is considered by many, many japanese
    artists to have been an obvious source of inspiration for Walt Disney's
    The Lion King, though Disney denies it; the published comparisons I've
    seen do call out some amazing similarities and I think Disney should
    dig itself out of a hole bigger than Intel's and credit the creator of
    Kimba quickly; there's a backlash already underway in Japan from their 
    graceless current reaction against the comparison, which is in the form
    of a letter signed by thousands of Japanese artists.
    
    I'm enjoying some of the new Nickelodeon features; Rug Rats is
    particularly great.  and a few years ago the Stunt Dogs were a
    sly bit of fun, too.
    
    DougO

Astro-Boy, Kimba, and Speed Racer - all favorites when I was wee young ladd ...

    yeah, the earler R & S wer ethe best, just like the earlier Simpsons...
    
    The "Royal Kilted Canadian Yaksmen" and "Cousin Sven" (with the don't 
    whizz on the electric fence) are classics.
    
    Classic Homer line: (after swearing off beer for too long) "I'd kill 
    everyone in this room for just one sweet beer..."
    
    I guess I'm just the wrong age to have really enjoyed Speed Racer, 
    Kimba, etc... My "speed racer" was Autocat and Motor Mouse". The
    scriptwriter for that one must have had a relative in Mayfield, KY, 
    because the expression "boy howdy" was a *very* local expression.
    

 I'm the cat, I'M THE CAT

Egads!  Nobody's mentioned Roger Ramjet?!

    Clutch Cargo (and his dog paddlefoot)
    Johnny Quest (Hajee, Bandit, Race Bannon, and Dr. Quest)
    Cecil and Beanie (R-a-g-g-m-o-p-p RAGGMOPP!)
    Thunderbirds (Had all of their neat planes/subs/rockets etc.) 
    Scooby Doo
    
    Sigh, to be a kid again...

    	Baby Huey is making a comeback.
    
    	I don't know what channel my kids watch it on, but the show
    	now has classic ones interspersed with new ones.
    
    	The new ones aren't worthy to be shown on the same screen, in
    	my opinion.

    Anybody mention Mr. Peabody & Poindexter?
    
    Anyone remember Tom Terrific and Might Manfred the Wonderdog?
    
    Chip

    	Yes.

    RE: Mr Peabody and Poindexter.  
    
    Wasn't that Sherman?  Didn't they always ste into the Wayback machine?  
    
    

    -.1 Yup, sorry... Didju do the voice?  :-)

    re .21
    
    thanks dougo. we didn't get tee vee in the house till '68 and then only
    picked up one station from dickinson ND. i remember coming home from
    the hospital (snowmobile accident) and seeing our very first tee vee.
    black and white of course. on the tube was LBJ saying he wouldn't run
    again. i remember thinking of him as an arrogant crooked bastard even
    then. my dad and uncle were there cheering his announcement. they also
    cheered when tricky dick resigned.

Sherman was Mr. Peabody's pet boy.  I suppose these days there'd be suspicion
of sexual abuse.

  Poindexter was from Felix the Cat.

kb

    "Jungle Tatei" is the approximate name in English for the Japanese
    production which was referred to earlier by the name it was marketed
    under in the US decades ago as "Kimba the White Lion".  This article
    was written for an online news service in Japan.  The following note
    will contain the text of the latter sent to Disney.
    
    DougO
    -----
    Do you know about copyrights?

    Machiko Satonaka (cartoonist)


    Watching the ad scenes from "The Lion King" on TV while the film was
    under production, I felt that it resembled "Jungle Taitei" somewhat.
    However, I  believed that there was no way that a production no less
    than Disney would do such a thing.  The reason is that I have learned
    much from Disney Productions concerning protection  of copyrights.

    So I was quite shocked to see the finished "Lion King"

    The animated version of "Jungle Taitei" was aired in America in the
    late '60s.  The Title at that time was, "Kimba the white lion".
    Japanese are familiar with the name of  the hero as "Leo", but in
    America it is "Kimba" The name of the hero in "The Lion King" is 
    "Simba"

    The coloring scheme for the lion who plays the enemy role is the same,
    as well.  Working under that lion is a hyena. a bird is the speaker.
    Not only that, the setting is  not in the savanna where lions generally
    live, but in a rocky area, and the carnivorous  characters get their
    animal protein from eating bugs..... Can all of this be coincidence?

    Tedzuka Productions released a comment concerning this issue, saying
    that "The  story is different, so we cannot say that it is plagiarism".
    This is typical Japanese  modesty and a virtue. However, on the other
    hand, Disney's comments that "We have never seen 'Jungle Taitei' nor
    have we been influenced by it", or "There are always people  who get
    upset over these sort of things," caused me to doubt their integrity.

    I am only one fan, and one Japanese who is proud of Japanese cartoons.
    I do not  want to go beyond what Tedzuka Production is doing and
    register an official complaint. I  wanted to send a message to Disney,
    that at the least a comment stating "With respect  to Osamu Tedzuka's
    'Jungle Taitei'" would have been appreciated.When I sent a letter and
    signatures to Buena Vista International's Vice President Hillary Clark
    on August  20, I had 489 signatures. The number of signatures has since
    increased, and on September  22nd was at 1126 signatures. This is a
    small movement, but the appeal is from the  heart.

(9/22/94)

      Machiko Satonaka, Cartoonist, born in Osaka, 1948

    An open letter from Machiko Satonaka



    Dear Sirs,

    The attached list of signees are only a fraction of the people you have
    offended  with your recent production that mirrors Osamu Tezuka's 40
    year old "Jungle Emperor" comic book and the 1966 "Kimba the White
    Lion" American TV animated stories. In fact ,  the doubts about the
    close similarities between the works began within the American cartoon
    community.

    To Japanese Mr.Tezuka's works are a national legacy. Therefore, the
    respect and admiration we Japanese felt for Disney Co. is severely
    diminished. It is not  possible to explain the damage inflicted upon
    our love of this aspect of Japanese culture. 

    All Japanese admired Walt Disney. I personally thank him for teaching
    me how  writers should keep and protect their own rights and
    copyrights. Therefore, it is very disappointing to feel doubt about
    your "Lion King" movie as it is presented  today.

    As I said in my interview with Asahi News, Tokyo News, Tokyo News,
    Nikkan Gendai and Mainichi Japanese newspapers, I think the works are
    so similar, it cannot be co-incidental. The International Herald
    Tribune reported this fact along with  the San Francisco Chronicle,
    Nikkan Sports, Weekly Asahi and the Sankei News.

    The basic story of a Prince cast out to return as the hero King after
    his father  is killed, is only the beginning of a long list parallels.
    There is the eye-scarred, black  maned villainous Uncle backed by
    hyenas, the chattering bird friend, the wise baboon,  the promotional
    shot of the jutting rock, the father lion in the clouds talking to  his
    son, the stony wilderness habitat, insect eating carnivores,even the
    names Kimba and  Simba are strikingly similar. I don't need to go on.

    No one is claiming the stories are identical.

    However,when my observations first reached Disney I was told abruptly,
    "Disney  has never heard of 'Jungle Emperor' or 'Kimba, the White Lion'".

    As I said on my interview with CNN, it is with sadness and regret that
    we are  forced to write this letter. I feel that Mr.Tezuka's works
    should live as property of the  Japanese people. It is not fair to
    dishonour the value, repsect and importance that the  "Jungle Emperor"
    has for them.

    I also believe that Tezuka Productions' conciliatory stance is a
    typical  Japanese response:avoid an embarrassing confrontation at any
    cost.

    At least a sub-title to pay homage to Osamu Tezuka or a few lines
    paying respect  to the origin of the story should be included. If these
    lines were to appear at the  beginning of the movie then surely both
    Walt Disney and Osamu Tezuka would feel satisfaction. 

    Yours Truly,

    Machiko Satonaka.



      Machiko Satonaka, Cartoonist, born in Osaka, 1948

    Tudor the Turtle - Help me Mr. Wizard!  
    
    
    Drizzle drazzle dreezle drone, time for this one to come home!

    	Who was that amoeba-like guy that Captain Cangaroo had on?  I
    	think he lived in a blackboard...

    
    
    then there was tenessee tuxedo and the walrus (i believe they were on
    the r&b show....)
    deputy dawg
    chilly willy
    

    Tom TeeeeeeeeRIFIC! :-)

    	I miss the Mr. MaGoo Christmas special.  haven't seen it in years.

    when i first saw the movie i thought the opening of "who framed rager
    rabbit" was the best cartoon ever made. great knee slapping stuff.

    
    Does `ReBoot' count (being computer-animated)?
    
    If so, it's my new 2nd fave (after `The Simpsons').
    
    I know the show is kinda goofy, but I have this weird 
    attraction to Dot Matrix.  :^)
    
    jc
    

    I'm a bugs nut. I hate watching the butchered episodes they show on
    T.V. now. It drives me crazy!

    I love Ren and Stimpy. It got banned in Canada though. 8-(
    The producers are Canadian don't you know.  8^)

    Glenn

    Shood be banned here...
    

    Nancy, loosen your corset will ya?
    
    ;-)

    Sorry I like my corset nice and tight!

               so tight, you should check out her SHOULDERS!! :-)

    
    
    
    Raq,
    
    
    I think the walrus you are referring to is the one and only Chumley.
    
    
    
    
    Mike

    
    
    yep!!!  that's him... mercy buqets, dear.. :>
    
    

    Tom Slick
    
    

    
    Now.
       Simpsons.

    In years gone by.

        Battle of the planets.
        Tom n Jerry
        The loony tunes
        Wacky races(who ever did win that thing)
        Catch the pigeon
     
    
    
     SCott
    
    

    Print 'toon faves - 
    
    Cheech Wizard
    Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ("---- will get you throuh times of no
    money better than money will get you through times of no ----".)
    Fritz the Cat (mentioned earlier)
    Far Side
    Outland
    
    Dan 

    .48
    
    Yup my shoulders are so soft I wear my bra straight up! :-)

    This troubles me.

    The Simpsons and Ren and Stimpy. 
    
    
    
    Dave

Note 215.44 by POLAR::RICHARDSON
    
    >I love Ren and Stimpy. It got banned in Canada though. 8-(
    >The producers are Canadian don't you know.  8^)

    you cannucks are big on telling us how you support government control
    over your lives and also support banning of many things "for the
    betterment of society". so why did this get banned?

    
    .54
    
    Bra talk!!  Definite prancing & teasing material.
              

    They made fun of the RCMP and got on someone's bad list.

Did the Canadians ban Dudley Doright?

    yup, councilor Snydley Whiplash excommunicated him from the great
    white north - The Hoser!

    I tol' ya already Deb... Dr. Dan pranced...and I nevah, I say nevah 
    
    
    tease!

    
    .57, Gene:
    
    `Ren and Stimpy' did not get banned.  At least, not by the gov't.
    Most TV stations elected not to broadcast the show, though it *was* 
    available on MuchMusic (our equivalent of MTV).
    
    Of course, if you want to get into a debate on the issue of 
    *corporate* censorship (a la `Lou Grant'... :^)
    
    jc
    

 They could ban MTV and it wouldn't bother me a bit..

    You're wrong. The CRTC banned it and MuchMusic had to stop showing
    episodes. They had a marathon on the very last day.
    
    Glenn

    Most definitely the Warner Bros cartoons, particularly Bugs. Anything
    with Marvin Martian it it. Many classic Daffy cartoons too...
    
    The new Animaniacs are quite funny. Definitely a lot of adult humor.
    
    And... I rented "Maverick" last night, and there was a promo for a
    *brand new* Chuck Jones cartoon that will be shown with Richie Rich.
    I'll rent that for sure, but pop it out of the VCR before I have
    to watch that sickening little slimebag McDonalds Caulking Compound
    or whatever the %$**! his name is...
    
    -b

    Oh, and I must never forget...
    
    Rocky and Bullwinkle
    and Mr. Magoo... (who used to mumble some extremely rude and
                      suggestive remarks... this was revealed using
                      a science known as "forensic audiology"...
                      I kid you not...)
    
    -b

    <----- Ditto Popeye.  
    
    

    
    .65, Glenn:
    
    They did?  I musta been sleeping off a hangover that day. 
    Okay, Glenn, then *you* get to answer Gene's question. And 
    don't forget to mention `Lou Grant'!  :^)
    
    jc
    

    Well, what the CRTC said is that the show wasn't fit for kids to watch,
    so they banned it from broadcast. You can get the videos if you want
    though.
    
    Glenn

    It's not fit for kids to watch!  I agree.
    
    

    The corset is back isn't it?
    
    8-)

    Uh huh uh huh
    
    :-)

    One more... I like Beevis and Butthead, even the Mtv version. The fact
    that such political incorrectness can thrive on a Network dominated by
    pinko banality only makes it sweeter.
    
    -b

                                    Didn't.

    vile calumny, vile calumny = sorta rolls off yer tongue, eh?
    
    
    Now to check the dictionary!

Note 215.70 by POLAR::RICHARDSON 
    
    >Well, what the CRTC said is that the show wasn't fit for kids to watch,
    >so they banned it from broadcast. You can get the videos if you want
    >though.
    
    that's just an excuse hiding their real intentions. but then you folks
    up their don't care about real intentions. just ban everything. a very
    valid argument could be made the MOST of the garbage on tee vee these
    days is not fit for kids to watch.

    Well, if it means anything to you, I disagreed with this decision, but
    all of the parental groups consulted applauded the move. No Gene, I'd
    rather be an ignorant Cossack type buzzard than really be an informed
    citizen. 8-)

    Guess I'm a sick parent.

    Glenn

Scooby Doo
Speed Racer
2 Stupid Dogs
Bugs

    Warner Brothers 'toons rule.  Classic stuff.
    
    In the current generation, I get a kick out of most of Nickelodeon's
    stuff, especially "Rocko's Modern Life."  (In the live-action area,
    "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" is a hoot.)  "Animaniacs" and
    "Darkwing Duck" are also good.
    
    joanne
    

    
    I used to like Scooby Doo until they added that stupid little talking
    fleabag Scrappy Doo.
    
    I won't watch it now, out of principle and all.

    
    Asterix
    
    Tim & Struppi   (Rintintin or something in the OV)
    
    Peanuts
    
    

    	Is Darkwing Duck a Disney production?  I've really only seen
    	pieces of it in passing, so I'm really not familiar with it...

DW is a Disney production.

According to the back of a recent box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Darkwing Duck
is "part of the Disney Afternoon."

    
    The only duck I'm interesting in spending quality time with is the
    Peking Duck at the Yangtze River in Littleton.

    
    Johnny Quest
    Warner Bros "tunes
    Huckleberry Hound
    Quick Draw McGraw
    Space Ghost

    
    The Itchy & Scratchy Show!
    

    Space Ghost
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh man oh man...I loved that show... didn't Space Ghost also just recently
have a talk show???

I also liked some other cartoon, about a family (kinda prehistoric, but they
were very powerfull) who had some various monster friends... I think one was
a bird who'd fly the family members about... the cartoon was done by the same
people as space ghost, and it was called.... Dang! "The H????????" I think
it starts with a H...

Ah! I got it!  

			The Herculoids

/Scott

    I liked the Fantastic Four.

I thought you *were* the Fantastic Four.

    No I'm not, but we'll take that as a compliment.  8^)
   
    Glenn/Deirdre/Pamela/Franny/Ned/Dierdre/Anton/Sean/Alice/Jimi/Pauline/Rex/
    Nathan/Melanie/Ursula
    
    
    
    

My mistake.  You're the Fantastic Fifteen.

>    I liked the Fantastic Four.

Please tell me you mean the one with Tourch... please please please...

I HATED the one with that stupid robot! I want Tourch!!!

Another goot cartoon was the Star Trek one...

Or how about Clutch Cargo???  ;-) that's a good one for laughs...
remember the human lips with very red lipstick superimposed onto a still
animated head!!! great stuff!

/scott

    Yes, the one with torch.

    
    Not tourch?

    No. It was an american cartoon.

    OH

    OH

    YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssss
    
    4 of 'em today!!

        Watch it Nance, ze Doctah taketh a dim view of snarfitude... :-)

    
    Sorry, Nancy, but two nonsense notes to set up the snarf is cheating.
    
    Snarf doesn't count.  :^)
    
    
    jc (a recovering snarfaholic)
    

    pppffffffffffffT
    

    He's right -- you been caught redhanded.  Turn in yer SnarfLicense! :-)

	My favorite one was when Beavis went to Heaven and saw St. Peter. That
was a classic!


Glen

    
    
    	I like Beevis and Butthead's version of "The people court" where
    they sentence the praying mantice to death by chainsaw....:)
    
    

    mantiS
    
    
    Brian

    
    
    	tanx....:)
    
    

    The X-men rule!
    
    ME

Top Cat

(and all the wonderful Japanese ones, Kimba, Astroboy, Marine Boy, Gigantor etc)

Chele

    
    
    Gigantor.......is that the one where the kid has the power (remote
    control) of a large robot that resides in an airplane hanger?
    
    
    

    
    
    oh yes...top cat...that can be added to my list, too...
    
    

 Quickdraw Mcgraw

    The Tick.
    

    Ren & Stimpy

	Betty Boop...............America's favorite girl.....

	The Tick is one of the best cartoon spoofs out there! But the X-Men do
rule!

    Yes, but the X-Men are all reruns...at least in these parts.

	They are all re-runs now. In a couple of weeks they will start with new
stories again.

    
    Droopy.
    
    Mark.

    Speed, Pops, Chim chim, Spritle, Trixie, Sparky, Racer X (Rex Racer),
    
    The Molage, The Mach 5, etc.
    
    -Jack

    
    >    Droopy.
    
    >    Mark.
    
    
    sorry to hear that.... :>:> :>:> :>:>
    
    
    

    Droopy, the cartoon character, you dolt.  Used to be shown between
    episodes of "Tom and Jerry".  Hilarious sound affects.
    
    Mark.
    
    

    I just thought I'd repost this for posterity in case Meaty realizes he 
    forgot to change his pname at 00:00:01 1/1/95 and does some quick
    backpedaling 8^).
    
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    Speed, Pops, Chim chim, Spritle, Trixie, Sparky, Racer X (Rex Racer),
    
    The Molage, The Mach 5, etc.
    
    -Jack
                

Flip the Frog.

    
    
    oh...so now i am a dolt...
    
    
    thank you

	yeah, he's a real charmer, raq.

    
    
    Isn't that supposed to be "doltski"????
    
    
    :) :) :) :)
    

    
    
    heyheyhey!!!
    
    

    
    You bellowed???
    

    
    uh-hem...i don't bellow...
    
    thankyouverymuch
    
    
    

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| Speed, Pops, Chim chim, Spritle, Trixie, Sparky, Racer X (Rex Racer),
| The Molage, The Mach 5, etc.


	Jack, when I fist read these, I thought you were dropping hits of acid!

	Tippy the Turtle

    Maybe Jack has had a change of heart regarding Barney?  That would
    explain why he didn't change his p_name Jan 1.

    Nawww.... I was out on January 1,2, and 3!!!  As you can see, I still
    have a hardened heart!!!!!
    
    -Jack

    FYI, Barney is not a cartoon.
    
    ME

    Ren & Stimpy is coming back on over here. Gawd, I love this town.

    The Tex Avery MGM's:
    
    	Screwball Squirrel
    	Droopy Dog
    
    Willoughy Wren
    
    These days, the best has to be Animaniacs!
    
    

Just recently bought the "Best of Harry Nilsson" CD (Everybody's Talkin, 
Sleep Late my Lady Friend, Coconut... lots of great stuff) and one of the 
songs he wrote was "Me and My Arrow" which reminded me of one of my all time 
favourite animated shows - "The Point".  Remember Ooblie (?) and his dog, 
Arrow..... "me and my Arrow, straighter than narrow..."  It was about a town 
where everybody had a pointed head, all the buildings had a point, his dog 
had pointy ears and a pointy nose but this poor little boy was an outcast 
because his head was round.  He tried to hide it with a big pointy hat, but 
it was no good, and so he took off.  I think he travelled to someplace 
called the "Pointless Forest".  Anyhow, he goes through a series of 
adventures and the story ends with victory - I won't give it away in case 
anybody missed it :*)

    And give me Harry's original "I can't live if living is without you"
    over that horrible bleeting whine that passes for singing out of the
    mouth of a certain "singer" about whom the only nice thing her fans
    can ever think to say is "but she's good looking". WTF cares. And
    whoever did the instrumental arrangement should be shot. Absolutely
    NO sense of drama around that wonderful chorus. I miss Harry. Harry
    was a genius.
    
    -b

Oblio was the boy in "The Point"
"Think about your Troubles" was another great song.

I miss Harry too, and I'm another who fails to see why the no-talent did a 
cover of what was a perfectly wonderful song that didn't NEED to get a cover.
(IMNSHO)


Chele

     List some old cartoons or Sat. morning shows that were your favorites,
     or least favorites:
    
    	Underdog
    	Top Cat
    	Banana Splits
        Speed Racer
        Magilla Gorilla
    	Ricochet Rabbit
    	Huckleberry Hound
    	Jetsons
    	Deputy Dawg
    	Snagglepuss
    	Bullwinkle
    	Felix The Cat
    	Mighty Mouse
    	Casper
    	Popeye
    	Yogi Bear (& Boo Boo)
    	Gumbie
    	Tom and Jerry
    	Tweetie Bird
    	Daffy Duck
    	Yosemidie (SP?) Sam
    	Elmer Fudd
    	Chipmunks
    
    	

>     List some old cartoons or Sat. morning shows that were your favorites,

When I was a kid, they didn't show cartoons on Saturday mornings.

     When you were a kid, they had nothing to show cartoons on. ;-)

    There was always the radio if nothing else. A lot of the first T.V.
    shows we born from the radio, i.e. The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The
    Green Hornet just for starters.

>                                  -< geezer >-

Au contraire, Doctah - I used to stare at this thing with a 10 inch diameter
(yes, round) screen.

    Captain Caveman

    
    
    <--- and the teen angels...

    
    Davey and Goliath.

    is Davey & Goliath really a cartoon?
    
    Chip

    	D&G are more like claymation than animation.

  Hey, anyone seen Dilbert this week?

  They are talking about us.

  Seems that the SOAPBOX plague has occurred on the Information Highway.

  George

    Ban a cartoon? Has any-one tuned into the Canadian Air Farce Lately?
    How do they get away with it?

    I always liked the coyote and the the sheepdog, the dog always seems to
    be taking no notice of what the coyote was doing but was there at the
    right time, and of course it was usually a very violent ending.
    
    But I still like it.

    Hey I've just been reminded by seeing sumfing...
    
    
    Wannoo oops sorry I mean Wattoo Wattoo Superbird. Man, what a great
    cartoon that was.

    Two words:  "The Tick"
    
    Lotsa laffs.
    

	Yes, the Tick is a great one. Talk about a parody on super heros!!!

    
    
    Animaniacs has some great moments.

    One of my favorites is from "Pinky and the Brain"
    (Story of two mice [one a genius] trying to take over the world)
    
    (This has a lot of application to engineering.)
    
    Pinky make a suggestion on how to take over the world
    
    Brain:  "Good idea Pinky.  No wait!  What if we wanted to
    	    use a plan that would Work!"
    

    I've only seen a few Animaniacs cartoons, but I've been very
    impressed.  It's exactly what you'd have expected the old Warner
    Brothers cartoons to have become by the 1990's, if the previous
    thirty or so years of precious little and/or cheap output hadn't
    happened.
    
    Great writing (works for kids and adults), art (nice old-style
    backgrounds), music (it's got that old WB sound), and so on.
    I wish I had time to catch more of these.  A few of them are
    available on videocassette.
    
    I think this is one of those shows that goes mostly unnoticed
    while it's contemporary, and then twenty years later everyone
    "discovers" it, and it becomes a cult classic.
    
    Chris

    
     >   I think this is one of those shows that goes mostly unnoticed
     >   while it's contemporary, and then twenty years later everyone
     >   "discovers" it, and it becomes a cult classic.
     
    I don't know.  It has that prime slot just before Power Rangers.
    I would predict a lot of kids watch it.  It should be on after the
    rangers, so adults could catch it too.
    
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