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Silly thought

Favorite Cartoon


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Ah, Cartoons. Just my thing!

My favorites, in no particular order:

30s:
Willie Whopper

90s:
Ren and Stimpy (in the poll even! yay)
Kablam (anyone remember that one?)
Rocko's Modern Life
Angry Beavers
Daria
Cow and Chicken
Duckman
Powerpuff Girls
Dexter's Laboratory

2000s:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Invader Zim

2010s:
Gravity Falls
Regular Show

Currently airing:
Adventure Time
The Loud House
Star VS the Forces of Evil
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Steven Universe
Rick and Morty
 
Rather than pay for (another) "digital-plus-platinum-whiz-bang" service-upgrade, I cut off the cable TV in 2007, and devoted my free time to learning bass guitar.

I used to love the Pink Panther cartoons though... not even sure if you can find then anymore.
 
I haven't watched cartoons since I was about 14 years old. I've tried watching Ren & Stimpy, King Of The Hill, The Simpsons and Family Guy and can't stand them. Basically dumb, junior high school type of humor. I can see why a teenage would like them but I honestly don't know anyone over the age of 25 who watches them.
 
I haven't watched cartoons since I was about 14 years old. I've tried watching Ren & Stimpy, King Of The Hill, The Simpsons and Family Guy and can't stand them. Basically dumb, junior high school type of humor. I can see why a teenage would like them but I honestly don't know anyone over the age of 25 who watches them.
I don't really enjoy most of those you listed (with the big exception of Ren and Stimpy - I think Family guy and modern Simpsons suck though), but the crass humor of 90s cartoons is what I consider excellent political commentary that you don't really see in modern shows anymore. They're a reflection of our own insanity.

Note how the role of money, social participation and the struggles of everyday life dictate the entire core of shows like the mentioned Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life and even Cow and Chicken. A recent example of that would be Regular Show with its decidedly postmodern (Operaist?) stance on wage labor.

To just see it all as 'junior high type humor' is doing these shows a great injustice.
 
Oh Man! You missed my two favorites, The Tick, and Geeker. "The Tick" had Mickey Dolenz as Arthur, a great sidekick, and Geeker was a Billy West production. Both had the sense to stop before they ran out of good material. Of the two, I'd say Geeker was the best.


Edit: the correct title was " Project GeeKeR"
 
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Voted Family Guy out of the OP's choices. Used to love Pinky & the Brain back in the '90s. These days my child keeps me up to date and in later years Regular Show has became one of my all time faves.



Also a lot into Clarence, Steven Universe and The Loud House. Particularly caught my attention how they naturally approach themes as homosexuality, new family schemes, unthinkable 30-40 years ago when I was the designated audience. It was about time really. Only "conflicting" subject back then for us was the flagrant lack of female Smurfs, which with age raised all kinds of questions about their reproduction means.
 
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