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
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)
I liked the older cartoons from before the 1980s ruined everything.
Give me Looney Tunes any day. That's the only real cartoon out there. ;)
Oh yea!
You got that right. (though I really did/do enjoy the Johnny Quest cartoons too! :) )
Quote from: SSOWorld on May 17, 2016, 02:10:37 PM
Give me Looney Tunes any day. That's the only real cartoon out there. ;)
Quote from: SSOWorld on May 17, 2016, 02:10:37 PM
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.
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.
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
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.
Crappy Michael Bay movies not withstanding...
Quote from: roadman on May 18, 2016, 11:16:54 AM
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.
Quote from: PHLBOS on May 19, 2016, 09:20:50 AM
Quote from: roadman on May 18, 2016, 11:16:54 AM
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
Quote from: Rothman on May 19, 2016, 01:07:01 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on May 19, 2016, 09:20:50 AM
Quote from: roadman on May 18, 2016, 11:16:54 AM
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
Gargoyles ftw
There were conventions for fans of this show from 1997—2009. I went to three of them.
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.
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
Quote from: PHLBOS on May 19, 2016, 09:20:50 AM
Quote from: roadman on May 18, 2016, 11:16:54 AM
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.
Bugs the NIMBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1f68OubH7E
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
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
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
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.
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'.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 18, 2016, 09:59:23 PM
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
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
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
Quote from: kphoger on May 27, 2016, 10:46:27 PM
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).
Not exactly cartoon per se but this little nugget wouldn't have existed without the 80s cartoon:
Quote from: SSOWorld on May 17, 2016, 02:10:37 PM
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! :clap:
Quote from: hm insulators on June 03, 2016, 04:35:03 PM
Quote from: SSOWorld on May 17, 2016, 02:10:37 PM
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! :clap:
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. Still one of my favorite cartoons, no matter how many times I watch it :-D :-D :-D. 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.
Anyone remember 'The Getalong Gang'? Our local TV station that ran cartoons in afternoons frequently preempted them with 'The Getalong Gang'.
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.
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.
Quote from: roadman65 on June 09, 2016, 09:19:19 PM
ABC would have short learning clips during commercials such as the famous "Junction, junction, whats your function?"
Schoolhouse Rock. And it was Conjunction Junction. :)
Quote from: SSOWorld on May 17, 2016, 02:10:37 PM
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"?)
Quote from: Big John on June 09, 2016, 09:44:23 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 09, 2016, 09:19:19 PM
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.
We own the complete series of The Magic School Bus on DVD.
"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)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blairhistory.com%2Flandmarks%2Fblair_bridge%2FBRG0060_crop.jpg&hash=74970d75af39e864fdbf8a3f8ca8d6a3babfe800)
Quote from: roadman65 on June 09, 2016, 09:19:19 PM
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.
Pfft. This one was my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwLlrQKVcg
Quote from: roadman on June 13, 2016, 08:20:33 PM
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.
Kinda surprised no one has yet mentioned what is possibly the most famous one-off from the WB stable, "One Froggy Evening."
https://vimeo.com/50941741
Quote from: wanderer2575 on June 09, 2016, 10:00:59 PM
*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
Quote from: roadman on June 17, 2016, 06:19:18 PM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on June 09, 2016, 10:00:59 PM
*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
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
Quote from: SidS1045 on June 17, 2016, 02:50:26 PM
Kinda surprised no one has yet mentioned what is possibly the most famous one-off from the WB stable, "One Froggy Evening."
https://vimeo.com/50941741
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
I'm currently watching episode after episode of Yogi Bear with my family.
Ironic that the DVDs of Hanna Barbera's Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear are being produced by Warner Home Video.