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urgeok2

10-01-2008, 07:42 AM

i know .. i'm 'older' ... but between having a kid and always keeping in touch with pop culture - i've kept myself aware of the cartoons through the decades.

i know they have hit a new level of sophistication - the Simpsons being the vanguard ...

but i still have to say after all these years ...there's no better cartoons than the old origional Bugs Bunny cartoons. (some of the old disney Goofy and Donald Duck cartoons come close)
I love the old 40's and 50's lingo, the suits and hats of the time everyone wears ... i love the amount of art that went into the backgrounds...
and i get a huge kick out of how they have that innocence on one hand, and that evil spirit on the other. Over 50 years later and despite the look and feel of the time when they were made - they are still somehow as fresh and funny and clever as if they were made yesterday.

anyone else out there (old enough) feel this way ?

Vodstok

10-01-2008, 07:49 AM

I miss the Looney Toons they used to play on saturday mornings, the old Mel Blanc stuff. Back when Daffy wasnt always the asshole and no matter how many times they redid the same joke, it was always funny.

Later incarnations have always felt like half-assed knock-offs. especially since most of the voice actors for kids cartoons operate in a closed circle, so you have a small body of pretty sad, talentless hacks providing the same generic voices for a multitude of cartoons. there are some exceptions, Billy West is always good, but if you paid attention during the 90s, the same guy did the voice of Brain from pinky and the brain, also used the EXACT SAME VOICE for Orson Wells on several cartoons (and for the record, he sounded nothing like him...)same with whatever retard they had doing Foghorn leghorn on tiny toons. Not only did he not sound like the original, but he used the same voice for the "hip" animated colonel sanders in KFC commercials...

I hate it when they replace actors and expect everyone to be dumb enough to not notice a change.

Devil-Hunter

10-01-2008, 07:50 AM

I miss the real Ghostbusters cartoon.

The Flayed One

10-01-2008, 07:51 AM

Love the Looney Tunes! I own the first collection, and I quote them all the time!

It really amazes me how much they've seem to fallen away from the younger crowd. When I was I tyke, you could catch some every day after school and an hour on Saturdays. Of course, as far as I know the local network stations don't do the mid-afternoon kids variety shows anymore (like Bozo the Clown or Mr. Cartoon)

I used to work with a guy with the last name Easter. I started saying "I WANT AN EASTER EGG! I WANT AN EASTER EGG!" to him, and he just didn't get it. I told him to go home and look up Easter Yeggs on YouTube. Don't know if he ever did or not.

novakru

10-01-2008, 07:52 AM

Bugs Bunny and the gangsters.

"No, no, hide in HERE!"

urgeok2

10-01-2008, 07:53 AM

I miss the real Ghostbusters cartoon.

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urgeok2

10-01-2008, 07:54 AM

Love the Looney Tunes! I own the first collection, and I quote them all the time!

It really amazes me how much they've seem to fallen away from the younger crowd. .

big problem is they're shown edited now .. some so much so - you cant even figure out whats going on.

(you cant get shot by a gun - it's completely cut out)

Ferox13

10-01-2008, 07:55 AM

I'm a huge Looney Tunes fan - i was lucky to see Chuck Jones lecture before he died. He was amazing he was like a big kid and still got a thrill from all the characters..

new stuff I like:

Ren and Stimpy

Invader Zim

La Chat Noire

10-01-2008, 08:00 AM

I miss the old Pink Panther cartoons. Those were my favorite.

urgeok2

10-01-2008, 08:04 AM

I miss the old Pink Panther cartoons. Those were my favorite.

oh lord - i bought the boxset for my kid ... i think they're unwatcheable...

on par with the roadrunner (the same thing over and over again - with terrible animation art ....

but - to each his/her own !

Vodstok

10-01-2008, 08:05 AM

In Devil-Hunter's defense, the Real Ghostbusters got into soem pretty interesting stuff for a while, including an island where there was a war between werewolves and vampires, way before underworld cheapened the idea to death, and even an episode where they went against Cthulhu.

As far as "lets milk this idea for money" cartoons go, it is the one shining gem.

Invader Zim was awesome. It would have done much better if they hadnt tried to gear it towards kids.

bloody_ribcut

10-01-2008, 08:05 AM

older

ren and stimpy,transformers, g.i. joes,tales spin, chip and dales rescue rangers, duck tales......

newer

family guy

urgeok2

10-01-2008, 08:06 AM

i was hoping for a discussion of bugs bunny - loony tunes ... but what the hell .. i probably one of the few that actually does know them these days

newb

10-01-2008, 08:08 AM

anyone else out there (old enough) feel this way ?

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Love the old loony toons....Bugs and the gang. Droopy Dog being one of my favorites. And some of the animation back "in the day" rivaled that of Disney. Look at some old Tom & Jerry....the detail was amazing.

bloody_ribcut

10-01-2008, 08:11 AM

i was hoping for a discussion of bugs bunny - loony tunes ... but what the hell .. i probably one of the few that actually does know them these days

have you seen the looney tunes today? there babies....wtf?

another favorite cartoon is old school scoobie doo, for the groovy tunes....

and the ninja turtles....

_____V_____

10-01-2008, 08:11 AM

I am all for the older cartoons.

Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry (my fav!), Disney's assortments (including Talespin & Duck Tales), The Flintstones, old school Spider-Man cartoons...heck, I miss em all now. Used to rush out of beds on Saturday mornings, and rush back from school to catch re-runs...ahh those were the days!

Come to think of it, I gave up on new-age cartoons for quite awhile now. Nothing on modern TV networks interests me much. The last one I watched and really enjoyed was a Tom & Jerry episode.

newb

10-01-2008, 08:15 AM

urgeok2

10-01-2008, 08:17 AM

have you seen the looney tunes today? there babies....wtf?

....

yeah - like i specified in the 1st post - the origional cartoons ..

_____V_____

10-01-2008, 08:19 AM

And of course the best one - Road Runner.

*Beep Beep* :D

Vodstok

10-01-2008, 08:22 AM

For the record.....a lot of the stuff I'm talking about is even before MY time [ if ya can believe that ] The animation was getting pretty lazy when I was a kid. Flinstones with the same backround in any running scenes. Another fav of mine was Johnny Quest.
dont get me starte don hannah Barbera.... I cant stand people who build empires on half-assed lazy ripoffs....

This would also be why I HATE sean puff diddy pdaddy Combs. talentless asshole never wrote an original thing in his life, he just "samples" everything.

_____V_____

10-01-2008, 08:23 AM

big problem is they're shown edited now .. some so much so - you cant even figure out whats going on.

(you cant get shot by a gun - it's completely cut out)

Are they?

I have stopped watching cartoons completely for awhile now.

Back in their day, the family of Looney Tunes was a blast in itself - Bugs, Daffy, Marvin, Elmer, Sylvester, Tweety, Porky, Yosemite Sam, Road Runner & Wile Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn...am sure I am missing a few others...

Rocking show!

urgeok2

10-01-2008, 08:25 AM

hanna barbara had some cool ideas ... some weird futuristic superhero teams - stuff like that - but the animation was lazy crap.

the only cartoons where i found bad animation acceptable - were Spiderman, Hercules, and Rocket Robin Hood.

definately acid trip inspired animation .... worked for me .

newb

10-01-2008, 08:29 AM

The thing about Bugs Bunny cartoons , and as a child we never noticed, is the humor was geared towards adults. Even today, though I haven't watched cartoons in quite some time.

The Flayed One

10-01-2008, 08:29 AM

For the record.....a lot of the stuff I'm talking about is even before MY time [ if ya can believe that ]

Only if you're talking about
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newb

10-01-2008, 08:32 AM

Only if you're talking about
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very clever Mr Flayed....very clever:p

The Flayed One

10-01-2008, 08:36 AM

The thing about Bugs Bunny cartoons , and as a child we never noticed, is the humor was geared towards adults. Even today, though I haven't watched cartoons in quite some time.

Seriously. I remember not watching Looney Tunes for several years. Then I started watching them again in my early 20's, and I was amazed at how fresh the humor was to me. They're so multi-generational it's borderline genius. The kids love them for their slapstick comedy (which I also still find hilarious) and adults can enjoy them in a whole new light for their cleverly scripted barbs and aside jokes.

Vodstok

10-01-2008, 08:38 AM

We can also marvel at the fact that bugs bunny and pepe lepew are freaking perverts.

_____V_____

10-01-2008, 08:40 AM

Seriously. I remember not watching Looney Tunes for several years. Then I started watching them again in my early 20's, and I was amazed at how fresh the humor was to me. They're so multi-generational it's borderline genius. The kids love them for their slapstick comedy (which I also still find hilarious) and adults can enjoy them in a whole new light for their cleverly scripted barbs and aside jokes.

You know, the most wonderful thing about Looney Tunes is, you can still watch em today and have a good laugh.

Timeless, I d say.

jenna26

10-01-2008, 09:26 AM

big problem is they're shown edited now .. some so much so - you cant even figure out whats going on.

(you cant get shot by a gun - it's completely cut out)

I have noticed, and I HATE that.....I love the Looney Tunes cartoons, still my favorites. Used to watch 'em with my dad, they are his favorites as well, and we would both laugh like crazy. Very smart, and lots of fun.

Kemal

10-01-2008, 05:45 PM

Johnny Quest was the shit. They would never make a cartoon like that today.

There was some kind of superman cartoon movie on TV a few months ago ... I don't remember its name but it was good.

Phalanx

10-01-2008, 06:18 PM

Sometimes I look at kids channels today and pity the children...if it's not little (really poorly animated) toys scooting around, it's yet another pokemon clone, it's a poorly done remake of an earlier cartoon - or hey, if you watch nickelodeon, every damn cartoon seems just about the same.

Back in the day, I remember getting into a few of the following:
Mysterious cities of Gold
Silverhawks
Astro-Boy
The Robin Hood with the fox, I liked that.
Dr Katz
Rugrats
Felix the Cat
The Black Cauldron
Looney Toons was good until they decided to turn Daffy into Bugs' bitch.
Invader Zim was great while it lasted.
Robin.

...it's not all bad for the modern day, but you've got to get out of mainstream to really see anything good.

The_Return

10-01-2008, 06:58 PM

It's all about Bugs Bunny...Looney Tunes was alway my favourite cartoon growing up, and I still LOVE 'em today.

I really need to grab more of the DVDs - I only have the first Golden Collection and I've got the whole set just about memorized.

Leprucky Cougar

10-02-2008, 08:52 AM

In my opinion......ANY GREAT, LEGEND-STATUS CARTOON WAS ONCE THAT WAS CREATED IN THE 1990s. Any one who grew up or raised a child between 1990 and 1999 you all know what I'm talking about.

Recess, Doug, Pinky & the Brain, Animaniacs, POKEMON!!!, PeperAnn, and the list goes on. :)

As far as shows that weren't really cartoons : RL Stine's Goosebumps and the ORIGINAL, (not the crappy rip-offs) of the MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS!!:D

I miss the '90s. :(

MisterSadistro

10-02-2008, 09:02 AM

I actually have my Top 10 list around on my comp somewhere for me to hunt them down and collect them (number one of course being the wolf with the baby billy goat- you know "Billy boy boy boy boy boy boy").
Any Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry is great. You can tell just by the artwork when they start if they were one of his productions or not. Other than that, any pre 1970s Woody Woodpecker. The 1967 Spiderman cartoons were fun, too, even if they weren't terrific.
Of course the king of all cartoons in my eyes is still Tex Avery. Sadly Ted Turner owns most of these old cartoons now and either edits them for political correctness or has just shelved them completely for content.
One of my happiest moments was when my oldest was about 2 and started cracking up when we were watching old Tom and Jerry since I knew she was blessed with a sense of humor (unlike her mother :D ). I wonder if there will even be any "funny" cartoons by the time she has kids of her own.