TV: What decade had the best cartoons?

[Jack Straw]

60's: Looney Tunes, Jonny Quest, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Speed Racer, Dudley Do-Right, Super Chicken, George of the Jungle...

 

[kingsholygrail]

Does Looney Tunes really count since they go all the way back to the 40s?

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Except Thundercats, which I never cared for, I watched all those too...Jetsons were actually from the 60s I believe and was intended to be a space age Flintstones, which was derived from Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners so you KNOW that's old

I also watched a lot of the shorter-lived series. Robotech, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Pirates of Dark Water, Kidd Video, Captain N, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines, Robotix, Gem, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, Mister T, Inhumanoids, Galaxy Rangers, Centurions, and God knows what else. Really can't remember them all.

Then there were the little kid shows like The Get-A-Long Gang, Kwiky Koala Show, Shirt Tales, Gummi Bears, Smurfs, Monchichis, etc. Also far too many to remember them all

One of my favorites was a 60s cartoon that was still shown in 1979, The Marvel Superheroes. Had shorter cartoons featuring Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Namor the Submariner, and The Incredible Hulk - could swear one episode may have had the X-Men too. I couldn't watch it often as my dad didn't want me to, so I could only do it when he wasn't home (yeah, sometimes as a 4 year old I'd be home alone for short times, much different era back then).

EDIT: yep:


Damn, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch are much older characters than I thought

Bolding mine:

Smurfs -- I was a teenager and my brother and sister still in elementary school when the originals of this were on, and I watched it with them. I thought they were pretty funny.

Marvel - But there was a F4 cartoon, right?

 

[tony d]

90s for me.

 

[syz]

The one that had this.

 

[chupanibre]

90's. Although I was a kid in the 90's, so I am massively biased

 

[Acadmus]

Bolding mine:

Smurfs -- I was a teenager and my brother and sister still in elementary school when the originals of this were on, and I watched it with them. I thought they were pretty funny.

Marvel - But there was a F4 cartoon, right?

Hanna-Barbera had one, yes...a really bad one They didn't do this The Marvel Superheroes one. And a lot of the theme songs still kicking around, especially the "Captain America and his mighty shield..." one came from that cartoon. Apparently Stan Lee liked them so much he wished Marvel had composed them.

Here was the show's main intro:


EDIT: I think there was a pre-Hanna-Barbera F4 cartoon done in a similar animation style to The Marvel Superheroes as well, saw some familiar looking YouTube videos. I think I've seen that one a couple times before, too.

 

[Acadmus]

Can't help but notice no one's mentioning Tom & Jerry and all those classic MGM cartoons

I was introduced to most of the classical music I know through Tom & Jerry (sad, ain't it? ) and even my 5 year old daughter loves them. Then there's also Droopy and Barney Bear. Probably some others I'm not able to remember at the moment.

 

[The Head Crusher]

1980's

One shall stand.....one shall fall

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Hanna-Barbera had one, yes...a really bad one They didn't do this The Marvel Superheroes one. And a lot of the theme songs still kicking around, especially the "Captain America and his mighty shield..." one came from that cartoon. Apparently Stan Lee liked them so much he wished Marvel had composed them.

Here was the show's main intro:


EDIT: I think there was a pre-Hanna-Barbera F4 cartoon done in a similar animation style to The Marvel Superheroes as well, saw some familiar looking YouTube videos. I think I've seen that one a couple times before, too.

Yeah I think the 1967 HB one is what I was remembering.

And yeah those Marvel theme songs... "ain't he unglamorous" "he fights and fights with repulsor rays"

 

[Ozz]

Can't help but notice no one's mentioning Tom & Jerry and all those classic MGM cartoons

I was introduced to most of the classical music I know through Tom & Jerry (sad, ain't it? ) and even my 5 year old daughter loves them. Then there's also Droopy and Barney Bear. Probably some others I'm not able to remember at the moment.

Osprey mentioned it on Page 1 and I agreed. I should have expanded on that more I suppose. Them (or at least Tom) & Scooby-Doo have always been my favorites.

 

[SirPaste]

Voted 90s but on second thought I'm gonna go with 80s, Voltron, He Man, Transformers, Thundercats, TMNT, Inspector Gadget, GI Joe. Loved all of those

 

[The Man in White]

Thats a tough one, definitely not the 80s, thats essentially one big toy commercial. I'm gonna have to go against the grain and say late 90s early 2000s

Beast Wars/Beast Machines
Reboot
Justice League

Then theres the cartoon network nickelodeon stuff. A great time.

I'm a big fan of looney tunes though and I would give my respect to that, if I even knew which decade it was. Unfortunately its the definition of timeless, so I can't.

edit:

well, not against the grain

Ding ding ding.

Best cartoon ever.

 

[Stylizer1]

What made 80's cartoon the best was the fact you could buy the toys too. The way companies marketed their shows to kids was crazy.