I was talking with my brother last night about some of our favorite cartoons when we were kids. I figured it would be a cool thread to start. I'm talking about Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry and other stuff like that. Here's a couple of my favorites

I LOVE classic cartoons! Always have, always will. I am continually trying to expose my kids to "the good stuff" to counteract all the damn Spongebog and Fairly Oddparents stuff they watch on Nickelodeon.

I'm a bit of a cartoon snob. I grew up watching the old Looney Tunes/Tom & Jerry/etc., and I still believe that to this very day, nothing in the field of animation has ever equaled the cartoons of the 40s and 50s...

One Froggy Evening:


Duck Amuck:


Though i was mainly a Looney Tunes fan, MGM (makers of Tom & Jerry) did some pretty great stuff too; in particular, anything by former Warner Bros. animator Tex Avery (who was lured away to MGM in the early 40s) is pretty much pure gold.

"Red Hot Riding Hood"


"The Cat that Hated People"


I also love Max & Dave Fleischer's series of "Superman" shorts from the early 40s. The animation on these still holds up pretty damn well today I'd say.

"The Mechanical Monsters"


"Bilion Dollar Limited"


"The Arctic Giant"


(Hey Toho... ever seen this one? I swear that the scenes of the dinosaur rampaging thru the city were a likely influence on the Godzilla films.)

The "Superman" series consisted of 17 total cartoons released between 1941-43. Since then they've fallen into the Public Domain and can be found on a variety of budget-price DVDs. I picked up the entire series on 3 DVDs at a dollar store a couple of years ago, and the print quality was fantastic.

I could go on all day but you get the idea.

I love Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, and Pink Panther!!!

I am big Taz fan. I also like looney tunes, pink panther, scooby doo (up until sCrappy came along).

My fav animation shows are Robotech, Macross, GI Joe, Transformers, Starblazers, Battle of the Planets.

Here's some more!

Looney Tunes is still funny and love it, these guys were true artists.

I use to love watching Bugs Bunny.He's still my all time favorite.Also liked Tom and Jerry,Woody Woodpecker,and Popeye.

Out of the newer cartoons I like Family Guy,South Park,and Spongebob.

I don't mind "SpongeBob" in small doses. However, between Nickelodeon and its sister channel NickToons, I swear that he seems to be on 16 hours a day and I can only handle it for so long before it becomes irritating. My kids will watch the same ones over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER if we let'em!!!

Lately my older boy has thankfully discovered "Boomerang" and he seems to be getting a kick out of the oldies on that channel like Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, etc., etc. -- man, that station is a trip. Cartoon Network basically started it as a place to air all the old Hanna-Barbera stuff in their vaults when the regular Cartoon Network's schedule started turning more towards their own original programming. Now when you put on Boomerang you're likely to catch stuff that hasn't seen daylight in 20+ years. My wife and I call it "Cartoons that Time Forgot."

Some examples of the "Cartoons that Time Forgot" ... many of which prove that cocaine must've been rampant in the writer's rooms at Hanna-Barbera Studios in the 70s.

The Robonic Stooges

Imagine the pitch meeting for this series. "Everyone loves the classic comedy stylings of the Three Stooges, but how can we update them and make them relevant for the kids of today's swingin' 70s?? I KNOW! We'll turn them into a trio of bionic superheroes! BRILLIANT!"

"The Super Globetrotters"

Thankfully, whenever basketball-themed evil threatens Planet Earth, we have the Harlem Globetrotters to protect us! Thrill to the action as the Globetrotters race to their magic lockers and emerge as heavily Afro'd superheroes!

"DynoMutt, Dog Wonder"

Bumbling superpowered pooch who played sidekick to the long-suffering superhero Blue Falcon. "He's a Go-Go Dog Person!"

"The Funky Phantom"

Variation on the Scooby-Doo formula, with a trio of mystery-solving teens and a Colonial era ghost in Scooby's place.

"The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan"

Ahhhhh so! Famed Chinese movie detective Charlie Chan solves mysteries aided by his ten (!) kids. The kids also played in a band so they performed an awful song in nearly every episode.

Again, I could go on and on but you get the idea. Hanna-Barbera was a factory by this time. They made'em quick, they made'em cheap, and they seemingly threw any ridiculous idea against the wall just to see which ones would stick.

"Kill Da Wabbbiiiittttt!!!!"

Time to show some Popeye love. I love when he talks under his breath, funny stuff!:

I love those old Popeye cartoons classics, I think the peps at Max Fleschier also created those original Popeye shorts for the 30's and 40's.

Speed Racer!!!!!!!

Yes!! Speed Racer was a great one, too!!

I was so dissappointed when the Matrix brothers made that a live action movie.

Max Flesicher's studios are great, as FF mentioned those Superman cartoons fell into public domain and like him I got a cheap copy for like a dollar, an excellent print.

Also warner bros/ DC Comics included these cartoons on 'Superman The Movie (4 disc special edition) DVD set.

My daughter who is now 9 went thru a super hero phase (thanks to her daddy ) when she was 5 and 6, and we bought the Challenge of the Super Friends boxset, and the less said about them the better, best lines came from Lex Luthor:

" Too late to stop us you super fools'

Everyweek they (The Legion of Doom) would try to conquere the world and of course the Super Friends would stop their evil plans. Used to love these cartoons when I was her age and it was funny watching them but man are they dated and the storylines where most definitley aimed at very small children.

I'll share in the love of Popeye. I love all things Popeye not just the cartoons.

I was also a big Flintstones guy.