@Euniceandrich When the (former) Soviet Union bans you for being anti-Soviet propaganda, you know it’s got to be funny. (Though when I was a kid, a lot of the humor escaped me, or I found it corny.)
Some years ago I was invited to a friend’s birthday party with a lot of Eastern Europeans (including some former political activists, double agents and other fascinating people) who had had some very rough experiences under the prior regimes. A little into the party I was introduced to a Russian emigre couple, Boris and Natasha. When they saw my reaction, they busted out laughing, and assured me those were their real names. (It didn’t help that we were drinking a fair amount of vodka!) I’ll just say that they were in one of the aforementioned categories and I felt privileged to meet them.
@Euniceandrich a bit of useless trivia. I met Tex Henson at a comic book convention years ago. He was an animator for Rocky and Bullwinkle, creator of the Trix Rabbit among other things. Very few animation cells survived of Rocky the Flying Squirrel as the only color of grey they could find for the perfect color for Rocky was grey primer house paint. The paint was too much for the cells.
@f00l My daughter is a junior in high school and she started playing softball in first grade. She is 5’11" and her legs go all the way up to her armpits. She runs like the wind. They call her Road Runner.
Opposing coaches know the name, opposing players know the name, even the umpires know her. She was pitching 50MPH in middle school. Teams hear ‘Road Runner’ and they take notice. heh
@f00l@Lynnerizer I doubt it. She is really driven by academics. She will likely choose a school based on their science program over their softball program.
@f00l@Lynnerizer I couldn’t be prouder. She is one of the very few things in my life I got 100% correct. She is a rockstar and I have no doubt she will change the world.
@f00l@Lynnerizer I just stumbled across this video I did when she was in 7th grade. No one could hit her. She either hit them, walked them or struck them out. Most of the time it was the latter. She only gave up two hits in her last two seasons of 13u ball, and those were both dropped popups by the fielders. And this was before she started pitching lessons. Heh.
@catthegreat you think that’s low tech, Google finger mouse… It’s actually quite clever how they made some of these shows while being sooooo low budget.
@xobzoo According to my 10 year old grandson, old is anyone over 17 (modified to anyone over 18 when I asked him if he’d be old in 7 years, to which he looked horrified and said, “No way!!!”).
@blaineg@Kidsandliz@xobzoo We once met my mother’s 100+ years old aunt (101?) and she lamented to us that her friends had all died so she’s had to find younger friends. When asked how old they were she said “in their 80s.” I think she lived to be 106.
@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@xobzoo The little old lady down the street lived to be 103, and was still teaching piano lessons almost to the end.
A few years before she passed, another neighbor was talking with her, and she was lamenting the death of her brother. “Why did he have to die so young?”
@blaineg@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@xobzoo
WOW, 106, now THAT IS OLD! Two minutes ago we were just talking about how my mother will probably be one of those people that live well into their 90’s! And saying that it could be a very lonely existence to outlive your family and friends.
@heartny
Underdog!
Secret Squirrel
El Kabong
Speedy Gonzalez
Deputy Dawg
Johnny Quest
8 Mab [Tobor]
The Herculoids
Space Ghost
Magilla Gorilla
You can see my wasted childhood here…
Ironically, my mother and father were death on cartoons, but we snuck out of bed early Saturday mornings to watch “The Shhh” show which was all cartoons and Three Stooges…
That was the last time that I was motivated to get out of bed early on my days off…
Almost forgot:
/giphy Foghorn Leghorn
We didn’t have a TV until I was 12; my parents thought it would make me read more, and it did. So I missed out on most of the cartoon series that kids watch. I always really loved the Silly Symphonies cartoons when I got a chance to see them.
my parents wound up buying a TV because my brother and I were going next-door every afternoon to watch the next-door neighbors TVs because we were best friends with their kids and we all wanted to watch whatever was on after school
And my parents are so embarrassed that they finally had to buy a TV so it is not to have kids who just we’re living at the neighbor’s house
@f00l@Kyeh We didn’t have one until I was 6 or 7 (I don’t remember exactly when but based on where we lived it was at least then). My grandmother bought it for us because they were expensive back then.
@f00l@Kidsandliz@Kyeh
FWIW, we didn’t get a color TV until our old Zenith B-and-W one died when I was a junior in high school.
Talk about a shock… I never knew about the Red Shirts curse in Star Trek until then.
Scooby-Doo! The original one from the late 1960s, not one of the (seemingly innumerable) reboots and spinoffs, though some of those are very occasionally decent.
EDIT: And before you ask, yes, I have an inflatable Scooby-Doo!
We got a TV in about 1950 (more or less) and I don’t remember what cartoons I watched, except some Disney stuff. Non-cartoon stuff was Captain Video and cowboy movies. Rocky and Bullwinkle were terrific, but I was already a young adult when it came on.
@jitc@kittykat9180 Animaniacs does the best job of capturing the magic of old carttons! I still love them even though I was an adult when they came out.
these aren’t old cartoons. I won’t let them be old cartoons.
That’s why I had to ask up above what counts as “old”!
It doesn’t feel like it could be old if I didn’t see them as a kid. But (not living in range of regular broadcast television) I was not caught up on any of the popular things that were actually released when I was a kid.
Even though I could have watched Animaniacs when they were new (if I were in the right place), I didn’t. So they don’t feel old to me.
@jitc@xobzoo, old depends on the person. Someone 20 years older than me might not think those are old. But your typical 25 year old hasn’t heard of them, so I say they are old.
Growing up in the 70s & early 80s, we had it all. Must See TV every Saturday morning…I had my Dad’s TV Guide all marked up figuring out my schedule of programs to watch 6:30-12:00. Early days started with Rocky & Bullwinkle working through Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Jabberjaw. Anything super-hero related was in my wheelhouse for sure… Superfriends & Spider-man & Friends, and don’t forget Captain Caveman were never missed. The holiday-themed Charlie Brown offerings were always welcomed because we’d see them at night…PRIMETIME…and for someone who grew up in northwest Minnesota, that was a BIG DEAL.
@tohar1
I had a similar experience. We (sis & I) would get up, turn on the TV and sit in front of it with bowls of dry sugary cereals like Captain Crunch, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, etc and munch our way through a couple of hours of cartoons before Mom and Dad got up on Saturday morning.
Simpler times.
(BTW I lived in St Cloud, Moorhead, Detroit Lakes, Alexandria, Fergus Falls, Hibbing and Int’l Falls in the late 70s.)
@tohar1
I worked for AVA inc (local franchisee for Hardee’s) from 78-81. FF was the site of their home office! Moved all over the northern half of the state opening new stores. (See the ice breaker thread …)
Is this where I remind everyone that MeTV has an all-cartoon channel now called MeTV Toons and everyone should check and see if it’s available in your market? https://metvtoons.com/
@chienfou@Kyeh@ndimitru
I didn’t know that either and Felix was one of the only ones I watched/really liked. Somehow I ended up watching or seeing many cartoons (probably at friends and cousins houses) but I didn’t ever really like them. Except for Felix, that was a good one! Jetsons was good too, another favorite!
Always had a fixation for Voltron, Robotech, and the like. Eventually realized even Transformers and Thundercats all had animation studios out East.
Throw in some Thundarr, Smurfs, Mighty Mouse, Centurions, Starcom, Silverhawks, Jetsons, Peanuts, the Littles, MASK, Galaxy High, Bionic 6, He-Man, the Raccoons, Storytime… A real hodgepodge of scintillating TV (and sometimes insipid commercials)
Old? Yogi’s not old! If you want old, look no further than Popeye - the old episodes are fantastic. My favorite episode is Popeye The Sailor Man Meets Ali Baba’s 40 Thieves (originally aired in 1937). That cartoon would absolutely NOT get made in today’s world, but despite the occasional questionable content, there are some fantastic one-liners that will make you unexpectedly belly laugh.
When I was a kid, Groovie Ghoolies was my favorite show. Not too long ago, I found a dvd of the whole series at Half Price Books. I was so excited to get home and watch it. It was terrible! But 2nd grade me thought it was pretty cool.
Something else.
Rocky & Bullwinkle
/giphy Rocky Bullwinkle
@Euniceandrich When the (former) Soviet Union bans you for being anti-Soviet propaganda, you know it’s got to be funny. (Though when I was a kid, a lot of the humor escaped me, or I found it corny.)
Some years ago I was invited to a friend’s birthday party with a lot of Eastern Europeans (including some former political activists, double agents and other fascinating people) who had had some very rough experiences under the prior regimes. A little into the party I was introduced to a Russian emigre couple, Boris and Natasha. When they saw my reaction, they busted out laughing, and assured me those were their real names. (It didn’t help that we were drinking a fair amount of vodka!) I’ll just say that they were in one of the aforementioned categories and I felt privileged to meet them.
/showme Boris and Natasha in real life
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme Boris and Natasha as real people
@Euniceandrich a bit of useless trivia. I met Tex Henson at a comic book convention years ago. He was an animator for Rocky and Bullwinkle, creator of the Trix Rabbit among other things. Very few animation cells survived of Rocky the Flying Squirrel as the only color of grey they could find for the perfect color for Rocky was grey primer house paint. The paint was too much for the cells.
/youtube roadrunner
@f00l My daughter is a junior in high school and she started playing softball in first grade. She is 5’11" and her legs go all the way up to her armpits. She runs like the wind. They call her Road Runner.
Opposing coaches know the name, opposing players know the name, even the umpires know her. She was pitching 50MPH in middle school. Teams hear ‘Road Runner’ and they take notice. heh
@capnjb @f00l
Very cool! Think she’ll be scouted? Or is she interested…
@f00l @Lynnerizer I doubt it. She is really driven by academics. She will likely choose a school based on their science program over their softball program.
@capnjb @Lynnerizer
Good science schools scout for sports tho. So she might land both?
You know which school fields the most NCAA athletic teams?
That would be MIT
They field a team or field competitors in every recognized NCAA sport except one.
MIT doesn’t participate in NCAA football. (Tho they occasionally “win” the Harvard-Yale game using elaborate, harmless pranks).
@capnjb @f00l
That’s cool too, she sounds well rounded and a hard worker! You must be proud of her.
@f00l @Lynnerizer I couldn’t be prouder. She is one of the very few things in my life I got 100% correct.
She is a rockstar and I have no doubt she will change the world. 
@capnjb @f00l Aww… what a wonderful feeling!
Good luck to her whatever she chooses to do. 
@f00l @Lynnerizer I just stumbled across this video I did when she was in 7th grade. No one could hit her. She either hit them, walked them or struck them out. Most of the time it was the latter. She only gave up two hits in her last two seasons of 13u ball, and those were both dropped popups by the fielders. And this was before she started pitching lessons. Heh.
@capnjb @f00l
Impressive!
@capnjb @f00l @Lynnerizer Love it!
Tom & Jerry
Not a cartoon but… Let’s see if this will work…
/youtube Button Moon
There it is… There’s my childhood in a video. The super high budget TV. children’s show.
@OnionSoup shows like this are why the AAP recommends screen time limits.
@OnionSoup like what. the actual. phuck??
@catthegreat you think that’s low tech, Google finger mouse… It’s actually quite clever how they made some of these shows while being sooooo low budget.
/youtube Finger Mouse kids show
Pink Panther and Mr Magoo. My two favorites.
Tom and Jerry specifically from the Fred Quimby era.
Metalocalypse
How are you defining “old”?
@xobzoo According to my 10 year old grandson, old is anyone over 17 (modified to anyone over 18 when I asked him if he’d be old in 7 years, to which he looked horrified and said, “No way!!!”).
@Kidsandliz @xobzoo An older friend once told me that “old” is 20 years older than you are today.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @xobzoo We once met my mother’s 100+ years old aunt (101?) and she lamented to us that her friends had all died so she’s had to find younger friends. When asked how old they were she said “in their 80s.” I think she lived to be 106.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @xobzoo The little old lady down the street lived to be 103, and was still teaching piano lessons almost to the end.
A few years before she passed, another neighbor was talking with her, and she was lamenting the death of her brother. “Why did he have to die so young?”
He died at 94.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @xobzoo Awww. My mother has outlived her 5 siblings and is sad about it. (None of them died young but two were younger than her.)
@blaineg @Kyeh @xobzoo My mom is the last one in her generation too and she was one of the younger children. She finds that hard.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @xobzoo
WOW, 106, now THAT IS OLD! Two minutes ago we were just talking about how my mother will probably be one of those people that live well into their 90’s! And saying that it could be a very lonely existence to outlive your family and friends.
/youtube Roger Ramjet
@2many2no
Thank you,
I’d forgotten all about him.
“He’s our hero…”
Mighty Mouse
Jetsons
Top Cat
Beany and Cecil
@heartny
Underdog!
Secret Squirrel
El Kabong
Speedy Gonzalez
Deputy Dawg
Johnny Quest
8 Mab [Tobor]
The Herculoids
Space Ghost
Magilla Gorilla
You can see my wasted childhood here…
Ironically, my mother and father were death on cartoons, but we snuck out of bed early Saturday mornings to watch “The Shhh” show which was all cartoons and Three Stooges…
That was the last time that I was motivated to get out of bed early on my days off…
Almost forgot:
/giphy Foghorn Leghorn
@heartny
Hehehe, Boy, I say Boy!..
Chilly Willy and Droopy Dog.
Bugs Bunny
When I was just a cub, this was my favorite
Some people believe that Disney ripped off this show to create The Lion King
@lonocat What? Those look nothing alike! And “Simba” the lion is completely different than “Kimba” the lion!
(I should probably hold off the sarcasm until I’ve actually seen Kimba. But based on the rock they’re standing on, and the name, and …)
@lonocat @xobzoo
FYI:
Simba is a name of Swahili origin that means “lion.” It is also associated with strength and power in the Shona language.
We didn’t have a TV until I was 12; my parents thought it would make me read more, and it did. So I missed out on most of the cartoon series that kids watch. I always really loved the Silly Symphonies cartoons when I got a chance to see them.
@Kyeh
my parents wound up buying a TV because my brother and I were going next-door every afternoon to watch the next-door neighbors TVs because we were best friends with their kids and we all wanted to watch whatever was on after school
And my parents are so embarrassed that they finally had to buy a TV so it is not to have kids who just we’re living at the neighbor’s house
@f00l @Kyeh We didn’t have one until I was 6 or 7 (I don’t remember exactly when but based on where we lived it was at least then). My grandmother bought it for us because they were expensive back then.
@f00l @Kidsandliz @Kyeh
FWIW, we didn’t get a color TV until our old Zenith B-and-W one died when I was a junior in high school.
Talk about a shock… I never knew about the Red Shirts curse in Star Trek until then.
Disney cartoons (Mickey & friends, especially Chip/Dale and non-main character ones like Skeleton Dance), Scooby-doo, Silly Symphonies
Looney Tunes.
Top Cat
Aesop’s Fables
Johnny Quest
Scooby-Doo! The original one from the late 1960s, not one of the (seemingly innumerable) reboots and spinoffs, though some of those are very occasionally decent.
EDIT: And before you ask, yes, I have an inflatable Scooby-Doo!
/giphy Scooby-Doo
@PooltoyWolf do you recreate this scene with your inflatable? If so, selfie please.
@accelerator I would, but he’s got a permanent printed-on smile! Haha
Foghorn Leghorn. “That boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball.”
@accelerator A couple favorites of mine: “That boy is as useful as a screen door on a submarine!” or “That boy is as timid as a canary at a cat show!”
Bullwinkle and Rockie
Rocky & Bullwinkle
@Harbingerdc
I see what you did there- but you forgot to say FIFY
Tom and Jerry
We got a TV in about 1950 (more or less) and I don’t remember what cartoons I watched, except some Disney stuff. Non-cartoon stuff was Captain Video and cowboy movies. Rocky and Bullwinkle were terrific, but I was already a young adult when it came on.
@andyw
/image Norton Captain Video
Don’t forget Marvin the Martian!
@chienfou
I had, so thanks.
“You’re making me very angry”
Looney Tunes, duh. Ill always stop to watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon, anytime!
@jnicholson0619 I’m 72 and I still remember individual scenes from the Looney Tunes I watched as a child
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
@eddhernandez and the way back machine!!
@eddhernandez @rancho
And Turtle Turtle or Tennessee Tuxedo.
@eddhernandez @rancho
Sigh…
TUTORTOOTER TURTLE…@chienfou @eddhernandez @rancho
…and Touche Turtle…
Tiny toons and animaniacs.
@kittykat9180 these aren’t old cartoons. I won’t let them be old cartoons.
@jitc they came out more than 30 years ago.
@kittykat9180 I know when they came out. I’m denying their right to be old. I can’t let them be old.
@jitc @kittykat9180 Animaniacs does the best job of capturing the magic of old carttons! I still love them even though I was an adult when they came out.
@jitc @Kyeh pinky and the brain. Mindy and buttons. Gotta love em.
@jitc @kittykat9180 @Kyeh Animaniacs? I have never heard of that show.
@jitc @kittykat9180 @yakkoTDI
You really ought to check it out - you’ll love it!
@jitc @kittykat9180
That’s why I had to ask up above what counts as “old”!
It doesn’t feel like it could be old if I didn’t see them as a kid. But (not living in range of regular broadcast television) I was not caught up on any of the popular things that were actually released when I was a kid.
Even though I could have watched Animaniacs when they were new (if I were in the right place), I didn’t. So they don’t feel old to me.
@jitc @xobzoo, old depends on the person. Someone 20 years older than me might not think those are old. But your typical 25 year old hasn’t heard of them, so I say they are old.
@jitc @kittykat9180
Still not old…
Whippersnappers, upstarts, babies…
@kittykat9180
…and you’re still wrong, child…
@PhysAssist, I’m 44 years old. I’m a child?
@kittykat9180
Sure, in comparison to my being 21 years older than you.
I.e., I was legally an adult [if only chronologically] when you were being birthed.
J.K.*
*All meant in fun… no serious insult intended.
@PhysAssist, you do highlight what I said in my comment above though.
@kittykat9180 I’m disappointed they didn’t bring back Slappy Squirrel and the Goodfeathers in the reboot.
@ironcheftoni wait! There’s a reboot?
@kittykat9180 on hulu… two seasons so far
@ironcheftoni oh. I don’t have any streaming services.
But that’s cool they brought it back.
Does 35 years count as old?
@macromeh
Nopers!
Growing up in the 70s & early 80s, we had it all. Must See TV every Saturday morning…I had my Dad’s TV Guide all marked up figuring out my schedule of programs to watch 6:30-12:00. Early days started with Rocky & Bullwinkle working through Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Jabberjaw. Anything super-hero related was in my wheelhouse for sure… Superfriends & Spider-man & Friends, and don’t forget Captain Caveman were never missed. The holiday-themed Charlie Brown offerings were always welcomed because we’d see them at night…PRIMETIME…and for someone who grew up in northwest Minnesota, that was a BIG DEAL.
@tohar1
I had a similar experience. We (sis & I) would get up, turn on the TV and sit in front of it with bowls of dry sugary cereals like Captain Crunch, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, etc and munch our way through a couple of hours of cartoons before Mom and Dad got up on Saturday morning.
Simpler times.
(BTW I lived in St Cloud, Moorhead, Detroit Lakes, Alexandria, Fergus Falls, Hibbing and Int’l Falls in the late 70s.)
@chienfou I was a proud Fergus Falls resident from '73 until '86, so I’m glad you understand.
@tohar1
I worked for AVA inc (local franchisee for Hardee’s) from 78-81. FF was the site of their home office! Moved all over the northern half of the state opening new stores. (See the ice breaker thread …)
If I have to chose one, Roadrunner.
But I don’t, so most of the stuff mentioned above, plus Johnny Quest, Space Ghost, Astro Boy. Anything with spaceships, robots, or aliens.
Duck tails and not that shit they play today. The old school duck tails. Chip and dail, looney toons, snorkels, jetsons
/image Space Ghost
@ybmuG
/image Space Ghost Coast to Coast
@2many2no @ybmuG
Not that claptrap- the real show.
Looney Toons. And also Speed Racer and all the other poorly dubbed anime from the 60’s and 70’s that cable TV used to show all the time.
Jonny Quest. Even though it got wrecked later by too much re-use of scenes, and killed because it cost too much to make (but it was worth it).
Star Trek the animated series (and its associated Star Trek Log books by Alan Dean Foster)
The Herculoids
What… No love for
@chienfou
“Thanks shoeshine boy - you’re humble and lovable.”
“Bless you, sir.”
and of course for “medium old” (right at 30 years) there is always
Spoon!
@chienfou The original live action series is available (for free) on Youtube.
)
(Maybe the animated one, too?
@chienfou @macromeh the Amazon one was pretty good too
Is this where I remind everyone that MeTV has an all-cartoon channel now called MeTV Toons and everyone should check and see if it’s available in your market?
https://metvtoons.com/
Felix the cat, the wonderful wondeful cat, whenever he gets in a fix he reaches into his bag of tricks!!
@ndimitru
Ohhh… I’d forgotten about Felix!
@ndimitru
How about Tom Terrific and his wonder dog, the mighty Manfred?
@chienfou @ndimitru Felix is my favorite cartoon character but I didn’t get to watch him!
@Kyeh @ndimitru
Felix was the very first television star of broadcast TV
@chienfou @ndimitru
Oh, that’s cool - I didn’t know that!
@chienfou @Kyeh @ndimitru
Jetsons was good too, another favorite!
I didn’t know that either and Felix was one of the only ones I watched/really liked. Somehow I ended up watching or seeing many cartoons (probably at friends and cousins houses) but I didn’t ever really like them. Except for Felix, that was a good one!
Kimba the white lion! used to watch Felix then Kimba every day after school.
Always had a fixation for Voltron, Robotech, and the like. Eventually realized even Transformers and Thundercats all had animation studios out East.
Throw in some Thundarr, Smurfs, Mighty Mouse, Centurions, Starcom, Silverhawks, Jetsons, Peanuts, the Littles, MASK, Galaxy High, Bionic 6, He-Man, the Raccoons, Storytime… A real hodgepodge of scintillating TV (and sometimes insipid commercials)
Old? Yogi’s not old! If you want old, look no further than Popeye - the old episodes are fantastic. My favorite episode is Popeye The Sailor Man Meets Ali Baba’s 40 Thieves (originally aired in 1937). That cartoon would absolutely NOT get made in today’s world, but despite the occasional questionable content, there are some fantastic one-liners that will make you unexpectedly belly laugh.
When I was a kid, Groovie Ghoolies was my favorite show. Not too long ago, I found a dvd of the whole series at Half Price Books. I was so excited to get home and watch it. It was terrible! But 2nd grade me thought it was pretty cool.
/image Groovie Ghoolies
@ironcheftoni
/youtube Goolie Get-Together the Toadies
/giphy Betty Boop!
