Old cartoons thread

[Desert Man]

Crappy Michael Bay movies not withstanding...

I remember Transformers (there were 2 season intros), I owed the toys: combine like 15 of them to form one real big "Megatron".

Transformers were a global phenomena in the 80s which still goes on today with their recent CGI/Live-action movies. Here's the French-Canadian intro, but the translation may not be the same as the one in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPTNzcOIS44

[kphoger]

For road trips, we like to put on DVDs of Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry.

Lately, the kids have really been getting into Animaniacs (I love Pinky and the Brain!).

Other favorites of mine from years past:
Two Stupid Dogs
Wallace and Gromit
Yogi Bear

[noelbotevera]

I used to watch TV a lot and saw a lot of old cartoons, but here are some I remember well:

-Spongebob Squarepants, prior to Season 5
-Looney Tunes, not the crappy remake
-Tom and Jerry, not the crappy remake
-Teen Titans, not the dreaded remake
-TMNT, 1987 and 2003

[roadman]

Lately, the kids have really been getting into Animaniacs (I love Pinky and the Brain!).

Pinky And the Brain was spun off into its own series.  It's still one of my favorite cartoons.  (The episode where Pinky runs for president is a scream).

[Max Rockatansky]

Not exactly cartoon per se but this little nugget wouldn't have existed without the 80s cartoon:

[hm insulators]

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

Exactly! However many times you see Wile E. Coyote blow himself up with a stick of dynamite, it's still funny!

[roadman]

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

Exactly! However many times you see Wile E. Coyote blow himself up with a stick of dynamite, it's still funny!

Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.  Still one of my favorite cartoons, no matter how many times I watch it  .  One thing that makes it so enduring is that you know Wile E. Coyote is going to injure himself no matter what he does, yet you are never quite sure HOW he will be injured.

Chuck Jones (creator and director of the Road Runner/Coyote series) was truly a genius.

[bandit957]

Anyone remember 'The Getalong Gang'? Our local TV station that ran cartoons in afternoons frequently preempted them with 'The Getalong Gang'.

[bandit957]

I also remember our local station interspersing the commercial breaks with editorials about "the evils of communism", as Fidel Castro's face flashed on the screen. This was circa 1983.

[roadman65]

I used to like growing up in the 70's with all three networks each and every Saturday Morning show all cartoons.

ABC would have short learning clips during commercials such as the famous "Junction, junction, whats your function?"

NBC would show the Star Trek cartoon, and The Jetsons, while CBS had the Bugs Bunny- Roadrunner Show along with Fat Albert.  ABC used to have Tom and Jerry as well as Hung Kung Phooey along with Great Ape and even The Oddball Couple, a spoof on the TV show and Broadway play The Odd Couple with Frank Nelson and Paul Winchell doing the voice overs for the two main characters based on Felix and Oscar although Felix was Spiffy the Cat characterized by Nelson and Oscar was Fleebag the Dog voiced by Winchell.

I miss those days as all them classic cartoons could never be beat.

[Big John]

ABC would have short learning clips during commercials such as the famous "Junction, junction, whats your function?"

Schoolhouse Rock.  And it was Conjunction Junction.

[wanderer2575]

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

Absolutely!  But only the ones made during the "golden age."  The early Leon Schlesinger ones are unwatchable to me, and the ones after about 1964 (when cartoon production started being outsourced) just don't sound or look right.

*clears throat*

Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights.
No more rehearsing and nursing a part --
We know every part by heart.
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights.
And oh what heights we'll hit --
On with the show, this is it!

(And is it pathetic that I can't find my car keys in the morning but I know the complete lyrics to "The Rabbit of Seville"?)

[roadman65]

ABC would have short learning clips during commercials such as the famous "Junction, junction, whats your function?"

Schoolhouse Rock.  And it was Conjunction Junction.

Oh yes, now I remember.  Damned, its been so long, but you know what I meant.  They were indeed the good ole days.

[kphoger]

We own the complete series of The Magic School Bus on DVD.

[Jardine]

"Bridge Ahoy" (posted above) is my favorite Popeye cartoon, thanx for posting that.

We are mostly too young to remember now, but many, many ferries operated around the country carrying vehicles across rivers that weren't bridged.  And when the bridges were built, it put the ferries out of business.  Some would move, but they always run the risk of being superseded.  And then motorists who complained about the high cost of the ferries then started complaining about the toll bridges that were built to replace the ferries.

Here's the ferry at Blair Nebraska prior to 1923 when Hiway 30 (Lincoln Highway) was built.  That bridge was a toll bridge into at least the 60s.  Always hated the toll booth as it was situated mid span on the Iowa/Nebraska border, high above the waters of the Missouri River.  (and yes, the deck of that bridge was a steel grid, not a reassuring concrete slab)

[roadman]

ABC would have short learning clips during commercials such as the famous "Junction, junction, whats your function?"

As Big John noted, the shorts were titled Schoolhouse Rock, and the phrase was actually "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc

The other one I remember was "I'm just a bill, I'm only a bill.  And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill!"

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

They also had a similar series of shorts regarding nutrition called "Time for Timer", who was a cowboy.  Perhaps the best known of the Timer shorts was when he encouraged kids to make what he called "wagon wheels", which were cheese slices on round Ritz-like crackers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jgo5ea_zc

and my apologies for responding before reading earlier replies.

[Rothman]

Pfft.  This one was my favorite:

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

[PHLBOS]

As Big John noted, the shorts were titled Schoolhouse Rock, and the phrase was actually "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

Actually, those Schoolhouse Rock shorts were originally launched independently.

The first ones, dealing with multiplication tables was originally titled Multiplication Rock; IIRC, those originally debuted circa 1973.

A year later, the shorts dealing with grammar (including the fore-mentioned Conjunction-Junction) were originally packaged as Grammar Rock.

With the Bicentennial in mind, the American history-themed ones were part of America Rock that first rolled out circa 1975 (in the fall).

After that, it was decided to consolidate the three (at the time) into one overall Schoolhouse Rock heading.

[SidS1045]

Kinda surprised no one has yet mentioned what is possibly the most famous one-off from the WB stable, "One Froggy Evening."

[roadman]

*clears throat*

Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights.
No more rehearsing and nursing a part --
We know every part by heart.
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights.
And oh what heights we'll hit --
On with the show, this is it!

And then all the Warner Brother's characters would parade across the stage.  Watching this as a kid, I always pictured some stage manager behind the curtain pushing them along, goading "Go on, go on, you've got to get out there!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY

[PHLBOS]

*clears throat*

Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights.
No more rehearsing and nursing a part --
We know every part by heart.
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights.
And oh what heights we'll hit --
On with the show, this is it!

And then all the Warner Brother's characters would parade across the stage. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY

The above was the main reason (copyright infringement) why the original intro (background music was too similar) to The Fintstones show (for the first couple of seasons) was changed later on (to the more familiar Meet the Flintstones) and never shown when the show went into syndication (reruns) circa 1966.

Compare the below to the above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYeT8om5E

[Desert Man]

In the early 1990s, Steven Spielberg teamed up with warner Bros. to produce two animated series: Tiny Toon Adventures (younger versions of Looney Tunes characters, but have their own names and personalities) and the more popular or successful Animaniacs (original characters).

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnWwN1z_UM

[BamaZeus]

Kinda surprised no one has yet mentioned what is possibly the most famous one-off from the WB stable, "One Froggy Evening."

I have always wanted to learn more about the great McCloskey fight mentioned in one of his other songs.  It sounded like a real donnybrook.

***I just did some research on the lyrics to that song, and it is a song from 1890.  The lyrics are incredibly racist, but acceptable for that era.  Still, it makes one wonder how in 1955, a reference to that song was still appropriate.

http://froggyeve.tripod.com/mccloskeyfight.html

[kphoger]

I'm currently watching episode after episode of Yogi Bear with my family.

[roadman]

Ironic that the DVDs of Hanna Barbera's Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear are being produced by Warner Home Video.