Cartoons anyone?

So Okay I'll admit it I am kind of a geek about certain things. And one thing I love is cartoons. Mostly cartoons from The 80's and early 90's.


Some of buddies, even though they are geeks to don't get it. How I can like metal, drinking, snakes, and D&D. Yet still like something like cartoons that they consider kiddy.


So I thought I'd ask the good folks here. I know you like reptiles but how about cartoons. Am I alone in this?


Some of my favorites:
Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles (Classic)
Garfield and Friends
G.I Joe
Transformers
Thundercats
Looney Tunes
And some of the older japanese cartoons to, but some of that stuff weirds me out.

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Originally Posted by Seru1

So Okay I'll admit it I am kind of a geek about certain things. And one thing I love is cartoons. Mostly cartoons from The 80's and early 90's.


Some of buddies, even though they are geeks to don't get it. How I can like metal, drinking, snakes, and D&D. Yet still like something like cartoons that they consider kiddy.


So I thought I'd ask the good folks here. I know you like reptiles but how about cartoons. Am I alone in this?

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I like the tom & jerry,bugs bunny and those others :gj:.Now this stupid crap they have on now :weirdface.Your never to old to watch REAL cartoons :banana:

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GI Joe, Thundercats, SilverHawks, Teenaged Mutant Turtles, and Transformers. All great cartoons. I don't "get" the whole anime/Japanese animated shows at all. Most don't make a bit of sense at all, much less seem to have a plot I can follow. The animation sometimes is stills, that they zoom in and out of while having someone yell. Just doesn't do it for me.

The old 80s cartoons.. easy plot.. easy to watch animation. Sort of the same old tired plotlines.. predictable.. but entertaining too. Some of the stuff would occasionally make me go all "Physics.. basic physics guys!!" but hey.. it was fun. GI Joe remains one of my favorites to this day.. MAJOR GI Joe geek here. I think I'm closing in on owning all the comics.

The 70s and 80s were the epitome of animation as an artform.

Cheap 3D and digital rendering have essentially killed it as an art. I'm not saying that digital animation isn't a bad thing, I LOVE it as well, but long gone are the days of "old school" animation.

Don Bluth was one of the greatest of the greats. Supposedly there is a Dragon's Lair movie in the works, but Bluth hasn't made a movie in years, the last of which was Titan A.E. (a stunning piece of animation around a fairly bland plot, which lead to the movie's overall failure at the box office). I'm hoping he still has some spunk left and that a Dragon's Lair movie in the next few years will be a success.

I think I'm going to watch Heavy Metal tonight.

The advent of digital computer animation bums me out to. Everytime I see if I just groan. Especially when they jam it in a drawn cartoon. So most everything is animated the good way except for like one or two things which are digital.

okay i must say if you do not like looney toons please go see a doctor EVERYONE LOVES BUGS BUNNY!!

lol i love that show so much i named my pastel sylvester :rolleye2::banana:

My favorite cartoon from my childhood was Baby Loony Toons... Ducky go down da hoooooole... Lol. Of course I watched a ton of others, but that one always stuck out to me.

And he's not a cartoon, but Gumby was awesome!!! My mom was a fan of him and made me watch it.

I love cartoons! Always have. I love everything you mentioned. Especially Thunder Cats. I also like most Disney animated movies. Anything Tim Burton. Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Nine,. James and the Giant Peach. Animated scifi like Titan AE. I also have some cult classic favorites like The Last Unicorn, Watership Down and Plague Dogs.

Yup. Im a cartoon nut! Also an Inuyasha fan :P

I love cartoons! Mostly of the late night variety. :P I'm a HUGE nerd for The Venture Brothers, but I also like Frisky Dingo, Archer, and although weird, Ugly Americans is so far keeping my attention.

I was a total anime nerd in middle school, and I ended up hanging on to Slayers and Trigun. :rolleyes: They sit on the DVD shelf collecting dust, I'll probably never watch either, but I can't throw them away.

LOVE most animated Disney films, and the most of the movies that come out of studio Ghibli. :)