What did you grow up watching?

[Star Market]

I was busy posting a reply to the Favorite Theme thread when someone mentioned that a lot of people participating in the forum were probably too young to remember a little 80's classic called A-Team. I was just curious to know what did you grow up watching?

My childhood canon consisted of the following shows:

A-Team (of course)
MacGuyver
60 Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman (a spin off of 60 Million Dollar Man)
Knight Rider
M.A.S.H
Get Smart

My Saturday mornings were ruled by the following (these obviously emerged in different years as one would fade from the air and another would replace it):

M.A.S.K
C.O.P.S
Robotech
The Smurfs
Muppet Babies
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Thundercats
Starcom
Jace and the Wheeled Warriors
Robotics
Inspector Gadget
Voltron

[Daishikaze]

I used to watch all of those that you listed and more. I grew up watching alot of old TV shows in syndication, like All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, The Munsters, I Dream Of Jeannie, & Bewitched just to name a few.

I also grew up with the following shows:

Space Battleship Yamato (re-titled as Star Blazers)
Daiku Maryu Gaiking (re-titled simply as "Gaiking")
Mazinger Z ( re-titled as "Tranzor Z")
Danguard A (re-titled as "Danguard Ace")
SF Saiyuki Starzinger (re-titled as "Spaceketeers")
Getter Robo G (re-titled as "Starvengers")
UFO Robot Grendizer (re-titled simply as "Grandizer")

[Osucka]

I think Star Market and I are in the same age block.

[harper]

When I got home from school I would watch Kimba the White Lion and the live action Giant Robot tv show followed by reruns of Brady Bunch. I'd also watch MASH, Starsky and Hutch, Three's Company, Battlestar Galactica and others

Kinght Rider, ATeam and the others all came later aong with Family Ties, Who's the Boss, Moonlighting, and many more.

[pencil_eater_masa]

pretty much cartoons

voltron
robotech
tenchi muyo
looney toons
Inspector Gadget
The Smurfs
Muppet Babies
Alvin and the Chipmunks
the mortal kombat cartoon
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
Doug
Rocko's Modern Life
2 Stupid Dogs
Freakazoid!
Gumby

trust me, there is a ton more

[Pretentious]

Batman: The Animated Series
X-Men
Most every other DC and Marvel cartoon
Rocko's Modern Life
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Salute Your Shorts
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Doug
Freakazoid!
Power Rangers
Pro Wrestling

What a completely awesome time to grow up.

[gyoza]

Mostly cartoons too...

Sonic (there were two separate shows, one was lame and the other was serious and cooler)
Spider-Men
X-Men
Batman
Animaniacs
the Mask

I didn't get into anime until much later.

[rameek]

There is no show called the 60 million dollar man it was the 6 million dollar man....

[harper]

inflation :D

[Star Market]

Whoops! That's right. The 6 Million Dollar Man. Not sure where 60 came from...

[Boomer]

$$60 billion dollar man. That is the bounty on the head of Vash the Stampede. The Humanoid Typhoon. The galaxy's first and only localized human disaster area, as he is officialy designated by the Bernadeli Insurance Agency.

Yes, they even sell Humanoid Typhoon insurance now.

[Bobbybirdtree]

Ninja Turtles, Rescue Rangers, Power Rangers, Ducktales, Lots of others.

[Dorcas Po]

My childhood is mostly a blur nowadays; occasionally, I get a flash of something, but trying to look back like this, it's mostly opaque.
Also, when and where I grew up, there were three channels. And one was in French, on the far side of the dial, and mostly ignored. Mostly. They had this one show, with a talking pineapple or something, that looked awesome.

Let's see, though, what do I remember?

Mr. Dressup.
Fred Penner something...
Romper Room, by association to the above...
Inspector Gadget!
The Racoons, Yeah! I stumbled upon a picture of Cyril Snear on Google a few months back; otherwise, that'd be lost in the fog of time...
Ghostbusters. The Real Ghostbusters. Teletoon had this on in October and January sometime, though I only actually saw a few episodes...

Ghostbusters was badass.

[Dr. Hobo is my hero]

Perfect Strangers, Sidekicks starring Ernie Reyes Jr., Sledgehammer, Small Wonder, Dukes of Hazzard in syndication, Pro Wrestling, You Can't Do That On Television, Double Dare, Charles In Charge, California Dreams, Saved By the Bell, and many more but those were some of my favorite live action tv shows.

As for animated well thats too many to name but where's the love for Darkwing Duck? He was awesome! Real Ghostbusters was also one of my favorites too.

[TLab3000]

First thing I've seen on TV and still remember: Star Trek
First thing I've seen on _COLOR_ TV (that shit was amazing!): Star Trek. An episode where colors were important for some reason. I was too scared to watch till the end.

[TLab3000]

Oh, and of course: dumdududumdududumdududumbonaaanzaaa (secretly, my mom dind't allow me to watch it because of the violence)

[Yachiru]

The samurai Pizza cats !!!!!
Casper the friendly ghost
Inspector Gadget
Maple town
Tom and Jerry
Sailour moon
Gundam wing
Pokemon
Ducktales

[Idlethought]

pretty much cartoons

voltron
tenchi muyo
looney toons
Inspector Gadget
The Smurfs
Muppet Babies
Alvin and the Chipmunks
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
Doug
Rocko's Modern Life
2 Stupid Dogs
Freakazoid!
Gumby


Transformers
Dexter's Lab (before the newer episodes came out)
Johnny Bravo
Sifl & Olly
The Snorks
Tiny Toon Adventures
Animaniacs
Ninja Turtles
Power Rangers
Duck Tales
Sonic
Spider-Man
X-Men (the series where Morph dies in like the first episode lol)
Batman
Animaniacs
Toonheads
WWF and WCW
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Salute Your Shorts
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Ronin Warriors
Dragonball Z
Thundercats
American Gladiators after all the saturday morning cartoons were over
Are You Afraid of the Dark
GUTS
Charles In Charge
Saved By the Bell
Digimon
Pokemon
Tom and Jerry
SWAT Cats
Sailor Moon
Gundam Wing
Double Dare
C-C-C-Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers
Ghostbusters
Yogi Bear
Top Cat
Huckleberry Hound
Auggie Doggie and Auggie Daddy
Flintstones
Jetsons
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo

and I'm sure theres others I just forgot lol

[Slylizard]

Aaahhh, the cartoons of the 80s:

Transformers
Astroboy
Prince Valiant
TMNT
Voltron
Monkey Magic
He-man

Weird thing is, I have all (except Prince Valiant) on DVD, so still watch them now....

[Decade]

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinfield
Home Improvement
Cheers
Full House (Step's a meth head! hahaha!)
Beverly Hills 90210 (I use to watch it...yes, point and laugh)
Ren and Stimpy
The Simpsons (everyone should grow up with the simpsons)
Rocko's Modern Life
Doug
Voltron
Transformers
GI Joe
The Smurfs

And a lot more probably that I just cant remember. Man sitcoms were so much better overall back then.

[Slylizard]

Simpsons *facepalms* they are so obvious and I somehow forgot... add Futurama in for good measure.

...and the Fresh Prince, man my iPod rocks along to that theme daily!

[MoosecatcherPrime]

My favorites as a kid:

Inspector Gadget (all hail)
Transformers (ditto)
Simpsons
Ren and Stimpy
AAAAH!!! Real Monsters
Animaniacs (watched it recently on some channel I forgot, and I laughed at it more than I did when I watched it regularily as a kid)

Can't remember anything else

[FOBulous]

Robotech, Three's Company, and porn. But not in that order...

[pencil_eater_masa]

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinfield
Ren and Stimpy
The Simpsons (everyone should grow up with the simpsons)
Rocko's Modern Life
Doug
Voltron
Transformers
GI Joe
The Smurfs


those right there made youth good

[Dorcas Po]

You grew up watching Futurama?

...are you grown up now?

I sound mean.

...

Astro Boy. I loved Astro Boy when I was little; I vividly remember (now) watching Astro Boy before school, before the sun came up.

The show itself, though, is a complete blank. I remember at one point, they examine a dead (dead?) robot's severed (severed?) head to see the last image it's eye-sensor-things received... maybe a mass of football player-like robots that combined into a centipede-like thing... his brother, I think, was an evil alien robot, or something? Atlas?

I got that GBA game Treasure did a couple years ago, and it did absolutely nothing to jog the memories... I doubt it had anything much to do with the show I remember anyhow... was there a plot to that game?

Awesome game, but made, I believe, negative sense. As if they put in the great combat, then set forth to add a narrative that would scramble your mind if you paid too much attention. Been my experience with all Treasure's games.

...what was the topic?

[Star Market]

I felt compelled to add a list of some of the more obscure/old school things I used to watch either after school or on Saturday mornings just to see if anyone else had seen these. These were more peripheral shows, as the canon I listed earlier were the mainstay of my childhood:

Small Wonder
Kids Incorporated
Degrassi Junior High
21 Jump Street (useless trivia: Johnny Depp used to be on this show)
The Wonder Years (Fred Savage's brother, Ben Savage, had an early-mid-90's version of this show called Boy Meets World)
Alf (live action show and cartoon)
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? (the kids' trivia show on PBS)
Punky Brewster (live action show and cartoon. btw, the girl who played Punky Brewster grew up to be incredibly hot. google "Soleil Moon Frye" and see what I mean)
You Can't Do That on Television (useless trivia: Alanis Morrisette used to be on this show)

Centurions
Silverhawks (NOT as cool as Thundercats, but close)
Thundarr the Barbarian
Bernstein Bears
Duck Tales
Talespin
Darkwing Duck (I feel you, Dr. Hobo)
The Wuzzles
Captain N
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (Saber Rider > Trigun)
Danger Mouse (a British cartoon)
Underdog
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Laugh Olympics
Captain Bucky O'Hare
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Dinosaucers

My family didn't get cable until I was 10, and that's when I discovered Nickelodeon. I see a number of you have seen these classics:

The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Salute Your Shorts
GUTS
Double Dare
Wild and Crazy Kids
Hey Dude!
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Round House (a kids' version of SNL; it was live, and used to come on during SNICK)

There was one toon I never liked as a kid, and to this day, people think I'm crazy for not liking it - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I hated the cartoon and I hated the movies.

I wasn't introduced to anime until I lived in Japan in my teens; therefore, none of that counts.

[Bagpuss]

Does anyone else remember 'Cites of Gold'?

[Daishikaze]

I remember Cities of Gold, classic anime before America really knew what anime was

[Star Market]

Would this better be known as The Mysterious Cities of Gold? If so, yes, I remember watching it. And that show is VERY old school. I didn't know it was anime...but I'm not surprised. Japan had a hand in a few of my old faves (Saber Rider, Voltron, Robotech).

[Decade]

I forgot to throw in the wonder years

[Crowley]

Girls.





what?

[pencil_eater_masa]

I forgot to throw in the wonder years

BEST SHOW EVER!!!!

[Decade]

How far can we go with this?

Cause I can remember a whole lotta TGIF...well, not really all of it, just specifically boy meets world. Big Brother Erics actually from my hometown and went to my middle and highschool, but he was always out the year I came into the next school. He comes by town a few times, but I never catch him.

[Idlethought]

Oh man I forgot about the Wonder Years!! And TGIF!
Full House
Boy Meets World
Step By Step
Family Matters

[Daishikaze]

Growing Pains
Just the Ten Of Us
Perfect Strangers

[Darkblade]

the andy griffith show
i love lucy
hee-haw
the honeymooners
the jeffersons


and heres the mysterious cities of gold website
http://www.mysteriouscitiesofgold.com/frames.htm

it was once called JUST "cities of gold" and it even had another name before that. Thats the one I used to watch.

[Decade]

Fraggle Rock

I swear to God, that show must have been made by pot heads. Think about it, one of their common day events was going over to those midget construction zones and eating their work cause they had the munchies.


...richest pot heads alive back then.

Also, Married with Children.

Al Bundy is an American Legend. Dont you all dare forget that.


By the way, someone mentioned Punky Brewster grew up to be hot. I just googled her image.

Could this REALLY be Punky Brewster??

http://www.galawallpapers.com/pictures/9/960/Soleil_Moon_Frye_002.jpg

[CrazyAce86]

Well, my case is strange. I watched a lot of "old" cartoons as well as "new" cartoons and whatnot. So anyhow, here's my list...

Cartoons / Kid Shows

The Magic School Bus
Speed Racer
Godzilla (& Godzuki :D )
Beast Wars
Beast Machines
Cro
Bump in the Night
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Sonic the Hedgehog
Freakazoid
Animaniacs
Care Bears
The Popples
Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Pirates of Darkwater
Muppet Babies
Reading Rainbow
Shining Time Station
Bonkers
Inspector Gadget
Saved by the Bell
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original cartoon)
The Smurfs
The Snorkles
Josie & the Pussycats
Top Cat
The Flintstones
Scooby-Doo (various incarnations)

...And basically any cartoon that was on (new or old) from the late eighties to the late nineties. Especially PBS and FOX Kids (which I really, really miss).

Dramas & Other TV

MacGuyver
SeaQuest DSV
Stargate: SG1
Highlander the Series
Promise Land
Andy Griffith
The Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Knight Rider
Stairway to Heaven
The Dukes of Hazzard
Quantum Leap
M*A*S*H

...and, of course, the show that I've been watching since I was born, WWF/E. I'm so happy, the Saturday Night Main Event is, after thirteen years, coming back! Halleluiah! Whoo-hoo! YES! *happy dance* *throws confetti* *plays "Real American"* WOOOOOOOO!!!!

[dvallej]

MacGuyver, captain tsubasa, saint seiya, a team, manimal,(i dont kwon if it is the actual name), el chavo del 8 (only in latin america) and much more, any other have seen el chavo del 8?????

[Bagpuss]

What about Dr Who? I think I watched most of that from behind a cushion. Now, of course, not scary at all, but in the early 80's moving tin cans that wanted to exterminate you were terrifying

[harper]

Fraggle Rock

I swear to God, that show must have been made by pot heads. Think about it, one of their common day events was going over to those midget construction zones and eating their work cause they had the munchies.

By the way, someone mentioned Punky Brewster grew up to be hot. I just googled her image.

Could this REALLY be Punky Brewster??

[/img]

I watched Fraggle Rock when it first aired and enjoyed it, but I grew tired of it after the first season.

And yes, Soleil Moon Frye is indeed hot. I was never into Punky Brewster, but I did like the show her brother (Meeno Peluce) was on - Voyagers. That was a cool show that ended way too soon. Unfortunately, one of the stars of the show (Jon-Erik Hexum) died way too young when he jokingly fired a prop gun at his head and it went off, mortally wounding him.

[badgaijingirl]

for those in the usa, remember the 'letter people' on the pbs stations? it was the trailer trash/ghetto version of sesame street. :joytear: their puppets looked real raggety and super floppy but they had attitude and were always extra genki! also, remember 'storytime' that came on pbs stations too? this older blonde lady with glasses drew these awesome pictures with chalk while a white dude with a brown afro told fairy tails in such a relaxing voice. it was completely addictive. i think it was called 'storytime.' my fave was 'chicken little.'

on the flip side, i ABSOLUTELY DESPISED the 'great spacecoaster' UGGH! :mad:

[Sbabbari]

Magic School Bus
Reading Rainbow
Thomas the Tank Engine (was that the name of the show?)
Sesame Street
Ninja Turtles
Power Rangers (the original, none o that time-travelling bs)
Loony Tunes
Inspector Gadget
Scooby Doo
Animaniacs

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Magic Schoolbus (Take chances! Make mistakes! Geeet messyyyyyyyyy!!)
Pok'emon
Digimon
Samurai Pizza Cats (I'm pretty sure everyone forgot about this one)
Captain Planet (I SO regret watching that show)
90's Spiderman

Others I may have forgotten. I was a slave child to the television back in 1990-2000.

I still am.

[Kusoyaro]

-Captain Planet (ECO-TERRORISM!!! Booyah!!!)
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mikey is the inspiration for my whole existence)
-Transformers (No human beinh born in the early-mid 80's can NOT say they wouldn't suck Optimus Prime off, if he so desired, that guy was like GOD)
-MASK
-ThunderCats (Thunder, Thunder, Thuinder, ThunderCats!! THUNDER, THUNDER THUNDER THUNDERCATS!!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!)
-He-Man (The OLD one, not last thousand remakes)
-BraveStar (That guy was like, the first ethnic superhero ever. Strength of a Bear!)
-Speedracer
-Battle of the Planets
-SuperTed ("Come on, Spotty, we have to save the planet!" "I don't want to, let them all die")
-Mighty Mouse
-Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Lord Zed was the baddest badass in the universe for me...it was his outfit, or more like the lack thereof)
-Ulyses
-Mastermind (this anime about evil plants or something),AKA Jace and the Wheeled Warriors
-The A-Team
-MacGyver (Which later led me to watch Stargate, one of the best scifi shows on tv)
-Knightrider (My uncle had this thing at the front of car, liek that strobelight, i thought it was so pimp)
-Batman: the Animated Series (the newer Batman sucks so much ass, Beyond totally disgraces what Batman is supposed to be)
-X-Men (again, the old one was WAAAAAAAAY better, thery simplify things so much these days)
-Perfect Strangers (Larry and Balky, right? FUcking guys)
-Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
-Where's Wally (UK import of Where's Waldo)
-DragonBall (only when i was 17 did i realize that it was the prequel to dbz)
-Journey to the West (I'm guessing this was the title, it was a chinese import, fucking awesome)
-The Simpsons (no shit)
-AstroBoy/Dodo: The kid from outer space (or are they two totally different shows?)
- All 7 Police Academy movies
a bunch of other crap i can't remember

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

The Gods and/or Badasses of Television:
Optimus Prime
Megatron
Big Bird
Zordon
Jason, the Original Red Ranger
Tommy, the Original Green/White Ranger
Lord Zedd
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (including Splinter)
Professor Xavier
Wolverine
Magneto
Phoenix
Ms. Frizzle (Take chances! Make mistakes! GEEEEEET MESSSSYYYYYYYY!!)
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck
Son Goku (Dragonball was the shit, 'til everything went out of proportion with DBZ and GT)

If there are others I'm missing, you add 'em up to this list.

[Kusoyaro]

I completely agree, though you've GOT to add Batman, Lion-O, and Starscream.
But shit, if there was ONE god for television during my generation, without a fuckign doubt it would be Optimus Prime. That guy just...when machines get AI, it should be the perogative of every company on Earth to work towards the construction of Optimus Prime.
Imagine how (no words to describe the feeling) it would be.
I'm actually crying right now.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

He is THE Transformer.

Fucking Hasbro had to fucking kill him off just like that.

Not even Rodimus/Vaginus Prime could carry the weight as a hero.

[gyoza]

I do you magic schoolbus!

[Decade]

...seriously, you two have to stop that Power rangers shit.

In 2nd grade when it came out, that's when me and other kids learned what "homosexual" meant.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Me?

Plus children

[Dorcas Po]

I was grown out of cartoons when the Batman cartoon started. That didn't last long.
I gotta get those DVD sets sometime... What's stopping me?

I initially took Batman Beyond as a bastardization (which there's been many of), mostly 'cause the first I saw of it was a toy commercial.
But then I did watch it, and I did get really into it.

See, that punk kid isn't Batman, he's not supposed to be Batman. He's a glorified "Robin" (I never did understand Batman's tactic of getting a kid to fight alongside him).
Batman's still in there, just now he's a cranky old bastard and he still kicks ass. I'd love the show if they didn't have the kid and it was just Batman: Cranky Old Bastard.

And the show itself was, yeah, different. More action-oriented. Rock soundtrack. Damned teenagers.
It probably was a cheap-assed stab at a different, and profitable, audience. But the show was good. And I would suggest a second look, if they didn't cancel it.

...well, if they didn't cancel it, odds are good it'd be ass now...
Terry McGinnis: How did you know you weren't hearing voices?
Bruce Wayne: Well, for one, I'm not psychotic.
Terry McGinnis: Well, I hope your other answer's more convincing.
Bruce Wayne: Second, The voice kept calling me Bruce. That's not what I call myself.

[ruaidhri]

Ok, for a laugh here’s my list.

Before we had a TV, I listened to the following radio shows.

Fanny Brise
Gangbusters
The Shadow
The Great Gildersleeve
The Lone Ranger

When my parents finally purchased that huge TV with the 10 inch screen, I watched the following shows

Howdy Doody (I was a little old but, hell, there wasn’t much else to watch)
Boston Blackie (This was an old detective show)
The Lone Ranger (Western - Big in the 1950's)
Roy Rogers (Western - Big in the 1950's)
Gene Autry (Western - Big in the 1950's)
Father Knows Best (Family sitcom)
Ozzie and Harriet (Family sitcom)
American Bandstand (Rock and Roll)
The Mickey Mouse Club (We all loved Annette)

I told you I was old!

[Frankey-eh]

anpanman
okaasan to issho
NHK kyouiku
kikirara
Sailor Moon
nintama
chibi maruko-chan
NHK kyouiku
sazaesan
tennsai terebi
Middle School Diary (translated title, cuz I forgot the jpnese one. sooo good. :D )
nihonjin no shitsumon
doraemon
kureyon shinchan
urutoraman
etc....

[Star Market]

I missed most of Batman the Animated Series because I moved to Japan right after it first started playing. However, they did port over the movie Mask of the Phantasm, and I have to say that it was the BEST Batman movie up until the recent Batman Begins. The story, the characters, the cinematography (and it was animated for crying out loud!), and the score put Tim Burton to shame (though I liked Keaton as Batman), and all the subsequent crap Batman movies they put out didn't hold a candle to it up until last year's feature with Christian Bale.

There was another Batman cartoon called Batman Beyond? I must have missed that somewhere.

[Kusoyaro]

Nah, Batman Beyond SUCKED. I mean, sure it was a good cartoon in its own right, but it wasn't worth shit in teh Batman universe. I agree, Cranky Old Bastard would have been better, I wanna see that, but that wouldn't happen. If you read the actual DC universe comics, esp the Batman and/or Superman ones, you'll sort of figre out that in all the other universes and timelines, Batman sort of becomes immortal. Literally.
Rory, my grandfather had all the studio tapings from The Shadow, adn I listened to them all. That show was really good. Also, there was something called Thatre of the Mind, the Black Mysteries (or something) and the old Superman shows. Shit, they're better than a lot of the stuff that comes on now, man.
I think you can still catch them up here in Toronto, late night on FM (not AM, surprisingly).

Edit: I heard that frankie Muniz is a fav for robin, im sure you guys know that. but shit, man...shit...
i'd actualy like it betanny was joker, that would be pretty good. I hated nicholas' joker, he was so dark (-er than The Joker is supposed to be. He is the juxtaposition to The Batman's dark side).

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

...seriously, you two have to stop that Power rangers shit.

In 2nd grade when it came out, that's when me and other kids learned what "homosexual" meant.

Well aren't you a smarty-pants.

Didn't you mother ever told you not to steal a Black man's Avatar?

[Dorcas Po]

Mask of the Phantasm
...I remember my brother spoiled that one for me... I hate him for it to this day...
Oh, ignorance is bliss... before I learned Roger Ebert's top-secret formula to figuring out the bad guy in every single movie...

...Batman sort of becomes immortal...
See, that's the "SUCK".
Batman's immortal?
That cartoon he's in now, with the aliens and robots and other freaks in tights, flying around in spaceships and saving the world. That's the SUCK.

Batman's cool 'cause he's just a guy, a little crazy, with a large disposable income and lots of free time. We could all be a Batman if we were pushed far enough. Just, without the gadgets and car and stuff...

Beating up mobsters and punks, along with the occasional nutjob in costume or genuine "talented" individual. Grounded hero, grounded villains, is what makes 'em truly great.

In related news, Kevin Conroy is the best Batman, and Mark Hamill is the Joker, not Luke Skywalker.

[Kusoyaro]

Oh yea, that indie version, that rocked hard The better one was the the Predators vs. The Batman. Hahah it was wicked.
And when I say "immortal" I mean either he leaves a series of succesors that follow his philosophies (unlike Beyond), he dies and uploads a copy of himself into various ai, or he just becomes immortal. In one elseworlds tale, he dunks himself in Ra's Al Ghul's fountain of immortality. But that's just an elseworlds tale.

[sedatedmonkey]

A long time ago, in a land far far away from here....

I was 12 years old. Winter break (us lazy americans) had just started. I woke up early to watch "The adventures of aquaman." No such thing was to be on channel 20. Instead, I got the first episode of... Robotech. (to be broadcast on that station at least.)

Well, that led to a 3 year following. (then further gundam when I got to college and found really horrid translated videos of abysmal quality. seriously, back then, people who did the translating even voiced the sound effects.) Where was Tokyo Pop back then?

[Decade]

Well aren't you a smarty-pants.

Didn't you mother ever told you not to steal a Black man's Avatar?

Read the sig.

And what you saying? You think George Bush actually gives a F about black rangers? For shame, for shame...

:D

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Read the sig.

And what you saying? You think George Bush actually gives a F about black rangers? For shame, for shame...

:D

I'm sure he's pretty tired about his complaints already.

Even if he's a bumbling baboon wearing a human mask that makes shitload of mistakes, it's best to lay off his case and do stuff for yourself instead of depending on him.

"Ask not what the country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country".

[Zaysho]

I grew up watching, primarily, classic MGM and WB cartoons on Cartoon Network. You know, back in the day when these cartoons were shown uncut (I remember seeing the shock of my life when I first saw "Magical Maestro" in a censored form, especially since I grew up always watching it uncut). I also saw Pink Panther and that sort, but it didn't seem to show as often as I would've wanted it to.

I miss the old Tex Avery blocks CN had. Now all they show are shitty cartoons aimed specifically at kids. What the hell ever happened to QUALITY?

[Slylizard]

THE GOODIES!!! Goody goody yum yum!

[All-American Alfonse]

Thundercats and transformers, just goes without saying, two of the greatest cartoons ever made.....but does anybody remember something called (I think) Jase and the Wheeled Warriors, or something like that, dudes hairing round in pimped up sci-fi cars chasing organic transforming plant-cars? Main badguy was a guy called Sawboss (which has to be one of the greatest bad guy names ever made)....

Also, I only scanned the thread so may have missed it, but nobody mentioned an old puppet show from Japan called Star Fleet (that was the name of the show in england), I can't for the life of me remember the name of the japanese version, but it had the X-Bomber in it, and a badass robot called Dai-X made up of 3 bits controlled by seperate pilots, and it always used to come in and save the day. Awesome. Any body know what I'm bumbling on about? I used to love that programme....

[DragoonPlatoon]

Not sure about that particular puppet show, but I remember specifically watching the Thunder Birds as a kid. Thats STILL one of my favorite shows.

Other than that:
Bucky 'O Hare (ever since my childhood I have NEVER seen an episode of this show... what happened to it?)
Ultra Man (ditto)
Thundercats
Swamp Thing
Voltron
Ronin Warriors
Dragon Ball, and later Dragon Ball Z
Sailor Moon (it was on before Dragon Ball Z)
He-Man
Batman the animated series

And a bunch that other people had already mentioned.

Batman Beyond is beginning to become acknowledged by the overall DC universe, or dont you watch Justice League? There was a recent episode where they explained the origions of Terry McGuiness.

[Decade]

I always wanted to make my own sequel to the wonder years.


Then I just said screw it, all I want is Winnie Cooper.

[Dorcas Po]

Bucky 'O Hare (ever since my childhood I have NEVER seen an episode of this show... what happened to it?)

Actually, they discovered the animators had hidden secret messages within the episodes that involved molesting children. So, no, it doesn't get much play these days, besides at NAMBLA meetings.

Ha-ha, I have no idea what show you're talking about, nor if what I said was true (I did make it up, but you never know).

I don't watch "Justice League". I seen that they do have Batman in there, and it's Kevin Conroy and everything...
I watched a couple episodes and lumped it into the "bastardization" category.

It seems they've put an awful lot of effort in trying to imitate Batman: The Animated Series (bummer name), considering I've not even seen it on TV for several years.

...that's why I did initially give benefit of the doubt to "The Batman" (much better name); they were at least trying something new...

[Star Market]

The series finale to the Wonder Years kinda pissed me off. He sits up there for just about the entire show, pining away over Winnie, going out with her and off and on, and basically they were head over heels in love....only for him to marry some other woman and have a kid after Winnie leaves to go study art in Paris.

"Winnie Cooper" was played by Danica McKellar.

Then:

http://i1.tinypic.com/nwj701.jpg

Now:

http://i1.tinypic.com/nwj9kj.jpg

As I understand it, she went to college and became a mathematician, graduating summa cum laude. That's pretty impressive for a former child star; I'm surprised she didn't get strung out on drugs or is a complete slut to try to erase her childhood image.

[pencil_eater_masa]

damn. winnie..... uhhh............... grew up.......uhhhhhh.................. ill shut up now
>.>

[Masa the Masta]

Now:

http://i1.tinypic.com/nwj9kj.jpg
is a complete slut to try to erase her childhood image.


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Sorry I wasn't paying attention, what did you say? :eyepop:

[ZaichikArky]

holy.... man winnie is a hottie nowdays.

For me:

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers was the first cartoon I watched after I immigrated here and it has always been my favorite cartoon : )
Rugrats(not the later episodes)
Wonder Years
Gummi Bears
Gargoyles
Pokemon
Sailor Moon
Captain Planet
Bit of My Little Ponies
Many various Nicktoons after we got cable when I was 10 years old(Wild Thornberries, Hey Arnold, Doug, etc)
Various Nick shows such as Pete and Pete and Salute Your Shorts to name just a few

I was more into playing outdoors at that age. Heh. I actually wasn't glued to the tube such as many children

[Decade]

Yea Winnie. She was hot back then, she's hot now. And she's SMART. :eyepop:

I'll name her on my top 10 of ideal girlfriends

[Hatsumomo]

Let's see...I watched:

Small Wonder
Mr. Belvedere
Sesame Street
Rugrats
Looney Tunes
He-Man
Smurfs
Snorks
The Wonder Years
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Patti Duke Show
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren & Stimpy
Doug
Aaah! Real Monsters
Power Rangers (original, not this Ninja Storm or other crap)
Transformers
The Simpsons
The Tracy Ulmann Show
Growing Pains
Full House
Family Matters
Roc
Living Single
Reading Rainbow
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Garfield and Friends
Animorphs
The Babysitters' Club
GI Joe
Captain Planet
Degrassi
Pink Panther

[Star Market]

Yeah...so this thread inspired me to see if any of this old stuff happened to be on DVD and how much it would cost if I wanted to get any of it. I ran into Batman: Mask of the Phantasm on DVD for $6.99, and said "Hey...that's not a bad deal." I just watched it again for the first time in about 10 years and WOW. I remembered it being good back when I saw it in '95...but I don't remember it being as awesome as it is. It easily trumps any live action version of the movies, Batman Begins included.