Some missed off, and Ive left off the TV show,s to animation like cartoon fonzie and the Partridge family etc.
Vote for your top three, check below to fire the memory, or go to wiki.

this is turning into one of those faux nostalgia pub conversations.
Spangles next...

That's not true, there's plenty of grade A cartoons around being made today - next is a "which powerpuff girls character is MES" poll.

The original, 1940s Tom and Jerry cartoons are the best short cartoons ever, btw, forget Warner Bros and Disney. Voted them, Scooby and Wacky races (even though i prefer "catch that pigeon")

I voted the first 3.
I watched most of these as a nipper.

No Smurfs?! :o I would've voted for them!

Agree, Tom and Jerry were brill. The one where they flood the kitchen and freeze it all was magical to 6 year old...

Also voted Flinstones and Scooby - both "solid".

The ones I liked best as a kid were Top Cat and Huckleberry Hoooooooooouuuuuuuuuund!

Smurfs were at the bottom of MY column 1, but were forgotten, oops.
The round headed chap at the top is sqiddly diddly who was in the atom ant/secret squirrel show.
Snaggle puss and Hucklebury Hound were two of my favourites even though they didnt have so many Toons made of them.
If you go to wiki there are quite a few b characters that are lumped into Shows, not all of them Familiar, like the hippo, the dinosaur and the father/son Dogs.

I pretty much recognise the whole gang in the picture, except for the chap whose on the third row from the bottem, far left. Who the heck is that?!

The problem with these was the actual cartoons were usually a bit of a disappointment after the ace theme tunes.
"Hong Kong Phooey - quicker than the human eye" etc etc.
And, but of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2se2I70CJ0
If you don't sing along to that one, you're dead.

Were they responsible for making Tom and Jerry shit?

No, they started Tom and Jerry in the forties, the damage was done by their successors in the fifties in sixties. Eventually they picked up the characters again for tv (look for the cartoons where Jerry wears a bowtie), which, even with its limited animation was better than where the cinema cartoons had ended up.

In my opinion, it was actually animation god Chuck Jones who did the most damage to Tom and Jerry. He removed Tom and Jerry's personalities, and turned the carefully constructed Hanna and Barbera stories into absurd chase goof offs. Just look and compare - there's no difference between one of Jones' roadrunner cartoons or one of Jones' Tom and Jerry cartoon. After him, no one else bothered anymore and they all followed Jones' example.

I think its an early batman without robin in the picture, if not it,s probably one of the Super Friends!

Top Cat, Flintstones, and Tom & Jerry for me with the Wacky Races bubbling under. Scooby Doo is Grease For Roads Junior's favourite although he was very taken withTop Cat when a few repeats were on recently. I was amazed to find that there were only a couple of dozen episodes of Top Cat made as I'd have said there were scores.

Is it the - in no way gay - Black Hood (hence the name etc)?
Don't think there was a cartoon, but maybe HB bought the franchise and left him to gather dust.
Hope so - this has been flummoxing me all day.
Anyone?

B) B) B)

You're a fucking genius!!!!
And clearly a bit younger than the rest of us. :D :D

vvv

Cheers. Having just researched it (wiki) i see it started in 1966. He made a comback in the ninties as a talk show host, where he interviewd (amongst others)

Beck
Bill Nye
Penn and Teller
Elvira
Jim Carrey

Nice to see that not all cartoon charecters are out of work smack heads.

I saw him on the cover of a book called 'Super TV Heroes', then found him on zis page - Super TV Heroes

I'm still a genius, though! B)

I've a feeling he dabbled, though...as it were:

In polite company, i believe thats called "being of your tits" :lol:

:lol:

I'm not a comics buff or nuffink, but I recognise the signature on that "off his tits" pic - Alex Toth (one of the all-time greats)...
I just checked his wiki page ( Alex Toth ) and he was one of Toth's most famous designs, apparently - a great artist. :beer:

veni vidi vici? :confused:

ya spelt Hong Kong Phooey wrong

Were the Hair Bear Bunch in anyway related to/inspired by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers?

90s Space Ghost theme came courtesy of Sonny Sharrock (peace be upon him)

This poll has got 49 votes in one day! ^_^
Clearly one everyone was waiting for... :rolleyes:

Thats 18 people voting for three and 1 person (perhaps yourself?) who didnt realise, and voted only once.
The hair bear bunch as the freak Brothers?
Its possible but looking through the article on wiki, it appeared that people were quite quick to sue H/B, for example Snagglepuss catch-phrase of "Heavens to Murgatroyed" was pinched from a TV show, and the guy sued.
So they had to be careful ripping ideas.

:lol:

Not me, I did the full quotient.
It could be any number of voters from 18 to 47...

As a kid, I loved Tom & Jerry, Top Cat and Wacky Races.


As a 43 year old, I still do! :D :applaud:

:thumbsup: All of the above except I'm 47.

In the UK, Top Cat was marketed as "Boss Cat", to avoid confusion with a (then) well known brand of cat food! :wacko:

That's funny, I remember it as 'Top Cat'. :unsure:
I know this is probs obvious, but it's based on Bilko in't it?

During the starting credits, they played the Top Cat theme tune, but showed "Boss Cat" as the title - think it was due to strict advertising rights in those days, what with the aforementioned cat food!

Not sure about the Bilko connection, but you could well be right!

:)

I just found this, ties up both points:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/sep/3...dcasting.uknews

:beer:

Did Maurice Gosfield die in vain!!!!!
Heathens!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gosfield

Good research, BK! :applaud:

I've just voted for the two standout ones, which are Scooby-Doo and Hong Kong Phooey.

Hong Kong Phooey seemed like a desperate attempt to jump on the Kung Fu bandwagon.

A lot of Hannah Barbera seemed like cheap, nasty and unfunny cak..even at the time.

Thankyou. I think HB were the cheapist shittiest weak as piss cartoons. Warner Brothers cartoons trump HB every time - better voices, writing, animation, music and characters.