80s and 90s Cartoons of Awsomness

Postby **Linksquest** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:26 pm

OMGosh! Today I was totally having the best time of my life!!! i was thinking about all those awsome Shows we had in the day: Fraggle Rock, Smurfs, David the Gnome, just to name a few. But one of the shows, i dont know if any of you remember it, was called Grimm's Fairy Tales and it aired in like 1989 on Nick Jr. It was amazing, as it was based on an originally JAPANESE ANIME!!! this is a link to the theme song, which i am obsessed with!!! LIsten to the awsomness and remember a time when you could sit down and become totally immerced in another place... on Nick Jr no less!!!

http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/toontracker/grimm.html

Postby **holysoldier5000** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:10 am

Hey, you forgot the best one of them all...
GI-JOE!!!

Postby **Linksquest** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:56 am

BWAHAHAH! YES!!! Let the OLD SCHOOL AWSOMNESS OF REMEMBRANCE BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Postby **Sakura15** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:06 am

Rofl, I loved fantastic four when I was a kid. That might not be so old for some of you lol, but I was still like 5 or 6.

Postby **IZ&Trigun4life** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:11 am

David the Gnome...what channel did that play on....I was just thinking about a show like that

Postby **Linksquest** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:39 am

http://www.retrojunk.com/media/208/

OMGOSH DAVID THE GNOME INTRO!!! I love this song!!!

It played on Nick Jr. In the day. XDD

http://www.retrojunk.com also has ALOT of other awsome OLD SCHOOL stuffs! Chek it out!!!

BEWARE OF EVIL COMMENTS though... do not read them... some people have posted very BAD comments throughout RETROJUNK... you have been warned!

Postby **Nate** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:45 am

Ah, old cartoons. Good stuff.

What thread about old cartoons on an anime site would be complete without references to two of the greatest 80s cartoons ever, Robotech and Voltron? It wouldn't be, which is why I have remedied it.

For the record, I speak of Lion Voltron, not Vehicle Voltron.

As far as American cartoons, I was a fan of GI Joe and Transformers as well, and I liked Darkwing Duck. Thundercats was okay at times, but Snarf was irritating.

For video game cartoons, I watched the Super Mario Bros. Super Show (which showed Zelda on Fridays).

*starts singing* DO THE MARIO!

Super Mario Bros. 3 was decent, but not quite as good. Super Mario World fell flat, because the music was bad, there was too much of an attempt to make it like Flintstones, and they never DID say what happened to Toad.

I'm sure there's many, many more, that I have somehow forgotten, and am ashamed of that. So I shall depart now.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Sun May 08, 2005 10:56 am

Felix th

Postby **mizuhara_fan** » Sun May 08, 2005 11:11 am

Inspector Gadget was an awesome show along with James Bond Jr., Exo Squad, X-Men and the Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoons.

I also seemed to enjoy the old comedy cartoons like the Steven Spielberg Toons (Tiny Toons, Animaniacs), Bobby's World, and even Ren and Stimpy. A lot of these that I love I wished kept running on air.

Postby **mitsuki lover** » Sun May 08, 2005 11:50 am

The 60s were much better for American 'toons.I mean we had Space Ghost,Scooby
Doo,Archie,Gumby,The Flintstones,The Jetsons,Davy & Goliath(ok technically NOT
a cartoon),Josie & The Pussycats,Josie & The Pussycats In Outer Space,reruns of
the original Mickey Mouse Club with the one and only Annette Funicello!
Deputy Dawg,Huckelberry Hound,Quick Draw Macgraw,Heckyll & Jeckyll,etc.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:55 pm

HAHAH James Bond Jr..

WHILE HE SAVES THE GIRL!!!

others that come to mind are GI-Joe... freakazoid... roadrovers... fantastic 4... the superfriends!

Postby **Felix** » Sun May 08, 2005 4:03 pm

lol....Felix the cat was always my thing. *nudges screenname*

Fraggle rock was the bomb too! @_@ Man I loved those shows. May they never die... u.u

Postby **VioletEyedCat** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:33 pm

Animaniacs- the awesomeness never stops. I know a girl who can sing the entire "countries of the world" song by heart- that's like over 250 countries! A few of my favorite episodes were the ones with Pip- the excrutiatingly boring person, and the one with Wakko driving by in a golf cart singing "This is the beginning, the beginning of our story." Hee Hee

My Live Journal · Postby **Saint Kevin** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:49 pm

Dang...I want the lyrics to that song. That was hilarious. Their writers were awesome, I have to say...especially where song writing was concerned. In the same vein, I liked Pinky and the Brain. Narf! Memorizing stuff through song is so darn effective. I need to do that more (tangent)...

Gotta love the Nicktoons though. I'm a sucker for the weirdness of Ren and Stimpy and Rocko.

X-men cartoons weren't bad, but I have to say I liked the 90's Spider-man cartoons the best (hey...without them, there may never have been a successful Spider-man movie, with all of the other Marvel character movies as well).

*Does "the Mario" as he continues reminiscing*

Postby **VioletEyedCat** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:52 pm

My brothers own three Mario Brothers TV show videos- I gotta go watch them again.

Postby **Warrior 4 Jesus** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:58 pm

Gumby
Captain Planet
Widget the World Watcher

Postby **mitsuki lover** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:51 pm

I'm working on a proposed Gundam Seed website(so far it's all just on
paper)and discovered an interesting fact:Teela from the most recent
version of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe was voiced by
Lisa Ann Beley who also did Captain Ramius in the GS dub and Kiddy
in the Silent Mobius dub.

btw and off topic:the younger version of Mulder's sister Samantha on
The X-Files was played by Vanessa Morely who did Cagali in the GS dub.

Postby **Kkun** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:52 pm

I liked Gumby, Denver the Last Dinosaur, G.I. Joe, Bucky O' Hare and the Toad Wars... Bucky was my favorite as a young lad.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:40 pm

Earth!

Fire!

Wind!

Water!

And Fart! <<(Inside Joke)

With your powers combined... I am captian planet

captain planet! he's a hero

gonna take pollution down to zero

yadda yadda

he really scared me... he looked like some glass statue

Postby **Yojimbo** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:26 pm

GI-Joe - And knowing is half the battle!
Captain Planet - Go Planet!
Transformers - Robots in Disguise!
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Gumby
Thomas the Tank Engine
Voltron
Robotech
G-Force
Thundercats
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Mario Brothers

And I'm a sucker for the old Hanna Barbara cartoons. Space Ghost, Super Friends, The Herculoids, Fantastic Four, Godzilla, Casper, you name it.

Postby **Jeikobu** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:22 pm

For anime, it's an endless list that would take two long to list.
For non-anime, most or all of the super hero TAS (The Animated Series) shows, primarily Batman and Spider-Man. Those are still the gems of American animated tv shows IMO. Most of the rest is junk or near it IMO. About the only American cartoons I consider worth watching are super hero-related, and even that has some bad eggs here and there.

Postby **Gypsy** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:25 pm

I loved Grimm's Fairy Tales! I'm so glad that they're still remembered! I've been looking for a dvd or even vhs set of them, but to no avail.

Postby **plutogrl03** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:50 pm

You know what's funny? I know at least part of the theme song for most of the shows mentioned here. I'm such a nerd. :lol:

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:10 am

Godzilla!

And Godzuki!

that show was so funny.... cause Godsuki couldnt breathe any fire whatsoever

Postby **AngelSakura** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:21 am

*has a seizure* Gumby! Gumby was so awesome! Rocko was good too, and INSPECTOR GADGET!! Wow, I loved that show! (Strongly reminds me of Lupin III. XDD) Alvin and the Chipmunks! Tiny Toons, Animaniacs!

Postby **Yumie** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:50 am

Oh my gosh, I had completely forgotten about Grimm's Fairy Tales! I had all these different images from the show that I could still remember, but I always just thought that they must have been from a movie or something I saw as a little kid, and I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Then when I read "Grimm's Fairy Tales," it triggered something in the back of my mind, so I listened to the theme song, and all those images came crashing back, so I finally know what it's from! As I was listening to the song, I was like, "Hey! Osaka! Remember this?" And I told her that I thought we used to watch it, and she was like, "No. . . Wait, YEAH!" Ha ha, I wish they still showed this kind of stuff. I'd still watch it.

Postby **Warrior 4 Jesus** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:10 am

Inspector Gadget? How could I forget him?
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Talespin
The Animated Batman series

Postby **Linksquest** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:05 pm

GRIMM's FAiry Tales!!! This is a very bad quality version of the intro... but it still Jogg's memories!!!

http://webpages.charter.net/toasterking/nick/grimmvid.rm

Postby **mitsuki lover** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:09 pm

AngelSakura wrote:*has a seizure* Gumby! Gumby was so awesome! Rocko was good too, and INSPECTOR GADGET!! Wow, I loved that show! (Strongly reminds me of Lupin III. XDD) Alvin and the Chipmunks! Tiny Toons, Animaniacs!

Ah,yes,how could I forget about Alvin And The Chipmunks? :lol:

They were also around in the '60s.

Postby **Madeline** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:38 pm

I didn't have cable when I was little. On saturdays I watched whatever was on ABC.
We had three channels, and ABC was the only one that ever had cartoons.

Other than that I watched Superbook, and "The Ten Commandments" video. I also liked to watch "The Magic School Bus". Most of my time, though, was spent out in the back yard (when I was allowed) and in the spare room, playing guitar and singing for my stuffed animals. I had a great time.

Even though I had never seen it, I also really liked Sailor Moon. My friends would tell me about it and show me pictures, they always kept me filled in on what was happening ^_^ One year I tried to be Usagi for Halloween, but we couldn't find red material for the skirt. *sigh* I had to be a "rainbow/sparkly superhero". It was humiliating...ah, childhood memories.

What I do remember, though, is Animaniacs as well as Pinky and the Brain. Those were awesome cartoons. They live on in my mind. :grin:

I don't think I saw those until I was eight though, when we moved to San Diego...then I became cartoon-obsessed.

Edit: Alvin and the Chipmunks! *huggles* How could I forget them?!

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