Stupid cartoon cliches

[tyella]

That pterodactyl thing goes back to (at least) one of the old Sinbad movies. I think my fav Jonny Quest even did that, but I don't remember that episode well enough to be sure.

As for the Scooby Doo...I agree. It's Hanna Barbara. They DID make Jonny Quest, but they had to get something right . I think it boils down to commercials and toys. They cranked out the cartoons because kids were buying the toys. Most of the classic Warner Bros stuff was for the theaters, when all they were selling was movie tickets and popcorn.

I've been watching the Futurama episodes on Adult Swim lately, and man oh man, they ARE funny!

 

[Larissa]

well, personally, I love Scooby Doo. But that's just me.

 

[odiechef]

Bugs bunny rocks!!!

couldn't agree more.....witness my desktop for the past year or more.....

sorry about :OT:

 

[Emg]

"DAH........Don't you worry, never fear....Robin Hood will soon be here....He robs from the rich, he gives to the poor....Yo Ho we go skipping trala through Sherwood forest...helping the needy and the oppressed......."


"Be it Ever soo Crumbled...there's nooo place like Rome.....Nero he was the emporor and the palace was his home....and he LIKED to play with matches and for a fire yerned...and he burned Rome to ashes....and fiddled while it burned....."


"HELLO my honey, hello my darling...hello my ragtime gal......send me a kiss by wire....baby my hearts on fire !"


Anyone remember the one with the miniature elephant ???? HAHAHAHA !!!



Classics.....plain and simple....lol....I feel sorry for the folks who are too young to have experienced Bugs in his prime....saddly I think most of those cartoons will be gone forever soon.....replaced by substandard humour and gags......it'll be a very sad day in America when that happens....

 

[greendeltatke]

My husband is an elementary school music teacher, and he uses Bugs Bunny cartoons when he talks about opera and classical music. The kids always love it.

Here's another cliche I really hate- any French references. The beret, the bread, the overly romantic kid. Pepe le Peau can be forgiven, I think that's more a spoof of the genuinely beloved actor Maurice Chevalier. But these dumb French gags still go on in modern cartoons

 

[Chill]

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Classics.....plain and simple....lol....I feel sorry for the folks who are too young to have experienced Bugs in his prime....saddly I think most of those cartoons will be gone forever soon.....replaced by substandard humour and gags......it'll be a very sad day in America when that happens....

I don't think Bugs will disappear. I think he's surpassed the tests of time. I'm glad my kids get to see him because there was a time when he was pulled off the air for being too violent. Anybody remember that little dismal period in the seventies.

My younger brother got to watch non-violent cartoons like Super-friends. They were the Justice League but toned down for the "delicate" children of the time. Never liked that show. Crimefighters who didn't actually fight - they just kind of surrounded the bad guys who imediately gave up. Very friendly crime fighting - can we have a group hug now. Give me an acme anvil dropped on the head anyday.

 

[happychem]

I agree that the current crop of anime like cartoons are junk, But Some of the subtitled japanese animes like ranma 1/2 and kenshin the swordsman are quite the stories.

They did a dubbed US version of the kenshin one and that stank. It totally messed up the inflection and respect that under lay all the disputes the characters had.

Funny you should mention those Snake. When I shared an apartment with my sis years and years ago, we started watching some anime. I had a friend who would recomend the occasional series and we'd watch a couple of episodes. We watched a ton of Ranma and just watched a few of Kenshin before the school year ended and we went our separate ways. Those two are easily my favourites among the ones we watched.

 

[judgemax]

I DON'T KNOW it sounds like grendle was watching NICK, those sound like jimmy nuetron, and the fairly odd parents! lol...but seriously on nick theres a show called avatar, i really dig that one and rug rats all grown up is cute from a kids stand point! i really like inuasha (sp), and Tripping the rift!,the simpsons still are a fav,,,i have watched them growing up from their start on the tracy ulman show,,i still love the holloween specials! ...and i must say my fav..cartoons growing up, had to be ..he-man, he was so hot! i loved rainbow bright! and for the record this wasn't a cartoon but i loved it any way, you can't do that on television!

 

[valleyvampiress]

couldn't agree more.....witness my desktop for the past year or more.....

sorry about :OT:

How could you keep the same desktop wallpaper for over a year?? I can barely stand a week.

 

[Watcher74]

"Oh WHHHHHHY, did I kill the wabbit?"

*sniff* the pure remorse of Elmer as he ran down and picked up Bugs limp body off the rocks and sang that teared me up as a child.

And the Robin Hood cartoon? With Daffy spinning the staff and his bill bending up every time he reached a certain point. With Porky laughing his A** off? I rolled in laughter everytime.

*sigh* Too bad most of those cartoons are now banned for being derogatory to ethnic or cultural groups now. Bugs didn't teach me to hate. Just to laugh at ourselves and life.