Old cartoons thread

[Desert Man]

I'm a fan of animation ever since my childhood (1980s/90's) and I came up with a topic thread on AA Roads to discuss our favorite cartoons we remember.

My first is the Wuzzles, animated by Disney in the mid-1980s, was on ABC-TV along with Gummi Bears and New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Speaking of bears, Butterbear (female yellow bear with wings) was my fave Wuzzles character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1qbbki6z4

Then the Raccoons also from the 1980's with a catchy rock hit "Run with Us" (second version) was their ending song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C01n4U_EXek

[Max Rockatansky]

Still catchy....

[kurumi]

Jonny Quest, "The Invisible Monster" (highlights, not full episode) - obviously based on the Dunwich Horror (starts at 3:50)

https://youtu.be/G5JSKeUaC28?t=3m50s

But a lot of JQ has not aged well at all ("Asian people are mysterious and scary" etc etc)

[bandit957]

I liked the older cartoons from before the 1980s ruined everything.

[SSOWorld]

Give me Looney Tunes any day.  That's the only real cartoon out there.

[Roadster]

Oh yea! 

You got that right. (though I really did/do enjoy the Johnny Quest cartoons too!  )

Give me Looney Tunes any day.  That's the only real cartoon out there.

[Max Rockatansky]

Give me Looney Tunes any day.  That's the only real cartoon out there.

The 80s were the last real time they were on mainstream TV channels with regularity.  I remember getting up early to watch the Coyote and Runner commit attrocities to each other with great glee at a very young age.  Tom and Jerry was always one of my favorites too...I wanted so bad for Tom to win even just once. 

[bandit957]

I remember once when I was 10 years old I tried to get steam to shoot out my ears because I saw Fred Flintstone doing this.

[Stephane Dumas]

I remember the time when we got reruns of the 1967 Spider-man weekdays and a time where CFCF-12 Montreal aired reruns of Rocket Robin Hood early on Satuday and Sunday well into the early 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsx3JCw62WQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfisiGqtEM

[roadman]

As others have pointed out, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are still the gold standard for old cartoons.  However, one of my favorite non-WB old cartoons, which also happens to be road related, is Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races.

[LM117]

Still catchy....

/thread

[Max Rockatansky]

Crappy Michael Bay movies not withstanding...

[PHLBOS]

As others have pointed out, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are still the gold standard for old cartoons.

It's worth noting that those cartoons (at least up through the 60s) were originally movie shorts (i.e what one used to see before the main attraction/picture).  Such explains why some of the humor went over the heads of its younger viewers.

[Rothman]

As others have pointed out, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are still the gold standard for old cartoons.

It's worth noting that those cartoons (at least up through the 60s) were originally movie shorts (i.e what one used to see before the main attraction/picture).  Such explains why some of the humor went over the heads of its younger viewers.

I pierce you with the ack-ack of love, flowerpot. -- Pepe Le Pew

[roadman]

As others have pointed out, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are still the gold standard for old cartoons.

It's worth noting that those cartoons (at least up through the 60s) were originally movie shorts (i.e what one used to see before the main attraction/picture).  Such explains why some of the humor went over the heads of its younger viewers.

I pierce you with the ack-ack of love, flowerpot. -- Pepe Le Pew

And let us not forget the road sign when Bugs Bunny tunneled his way to ancient Rome:  Another Appian Freeway For Your Safety

[vtk]

Gargoyles ftw

There were conventions for fans of this show from 1997—2009. I went to three of them.

[english si]

Forget your American mice that just whistle and drive steamboats - here's 35 seconds that destroys all your mouse-based cartoons dead, and there's not even any of the low budget awesomeness that is the actual episodes in there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXYJwjL51w
<mike drop>

<pick the mike back up>
They started making episodes again (with a higher budget), and while nominally for kids, adults are watching it in relatively large numbers as (unlike almost every other kids cartoon) the memory of how good it was lasted the 25 or so years.

[english si]

When I was 16-19 months old, Stoppit and Tidyup aired just over an hour's worth of content (13 5minute episodes). I'm not sure it was repeated. It lurked in my subconscious for 20 years, until a friend at uni was so happy to find the DVD on Amazon and it all flooded back. I watched the DVD once, and handed it back. And then, what's this, 9 years after watching that, it was the second cartoon to come to my head.

It was part funded by "The Tidy Britain Group" and the characters all have commands like "eat your greens", "comb your hair", etc as names, but the sadly late, and very great Sir Terry Wogan undermines all that potential awfulness and makes it something that is TV aimed at preschoolers that adults can actually watch without wanting to do something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbIriBC60U

[roadman]

As others have pointed out, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are still the gold standard for old cartoons.

It's worth noting that those cartoons (at least up through the 60s) were originally movie shorts (i.e what one used to see before the main attraction/picture).  Such explains why some of the humor went over the heads of its younger viewers.

Correct.  Until The Simpsons, the only other cartoon that successfully employed the "multiple levels of humor" was Rocky and Bullwinkle.  However, unlike The Simpsons, the subtle humor in those cartoons - and the Warner Brothers ones as well - was far less topical, which partially explains their continued popularity after all these years.

IMO, Rocky and Bullwinkle is also noteworthy for one other reason.  It's one of the few cartoons ever made where you can follow and understand the story equally well by either watching the picture with the sound off, or listening to the sound without seeing the picture.  Tapes of the audio tracks of Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes (I'd string several of the 'adventure' segments together, spattered with some Mr Know It All and Bullwinkle's Corner segments, and an occasional Dudley DoRight episode for good measure) have served me in good stead on past road trips over the years.

[jp the roadgeek]

Bugs the NIMBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1f68OubH7E

[roadman]

Snuffy Smith the NIMBY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzABA_1Kcw&index=26&list=FLOMSk3sVECYEHJyHUPwslOw

And Popeye the bridge builder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE45kpSf5ws

[Stephane Dumas]

Speaking of Popeye shorts, here one Popeye teach Olive's driving lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGvQ8Jte78
who was remake in 1955 as "Car azy drivers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOhEj-gk_BI

And Goofy's "Motor Mania" was one of the videos where we see it for driving lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAZ_xu0DCg

Edit: Fixed the link to Motor Mania

[1995hoo]

The original Space Battleship Yamato, and the English "Star Blazers" version, was my favorite. Still good stuff even if the animation seems crude by today's standards. I hear the live-action movie is finally available in English, so if it keeps raining this weekend I guess I know what I'll be looking for to watch.

https://youtu.be/ZCZeem-Y2og


But nobody can match the original Japanese singer, Isao Sasaki:

https://youtu.be/7gHORDBZuOA

[bandit957]

I vaguely remember when my mom forbade us from watching 'Popeye' because 'General Hospital' was expanded to a full hour and she wanted to watch that instead.

[bandit957]

Also, I remember when I was about 9 or 10, a local station used to have a big block of cartoons in the afternoon. But they kept preempting it for toy infomercials and the like. So I kept saying, "I'll go back to 'Sesame Street'", even though I was too old for 'Sesame Street'.