The Fancy Bastard Forum

Sesame Street was THE show during my infancy, but then I moved on to Transformers, GI Joe, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters and the like. Later, I got into the X-men and Spider-Man shows, Gargoyles, Beast Wars, and a bunch more I can't think of.

Definitely Power Rangers, as well as Pokemon.
I didn't watch much TV as a kid, mostly read books, but I was introduced to Star Trek around age 3.

I was hooked on Pokemon when there were only 151 of the little buggers. The anime was good for the age group at the time. I tried going back and watching the un-4Kids'd version, but something just didn't feel right.

Also, Big Bad Beetle Borgs FTW.

Ninja Turtles was the biggest for me. My friends and I lived, ate, breathed that show. I was also very much into Thundercats, GI Joes, The Xmen Cartoon, and Batman the Animated Series.

I was a Sesame Street/Electric company kid (We only had 4 channels when I was a kid). I then progressed to Smurfs, He-Man/She-Ra, Thundercats, GI Joe, Spiderman and his Amazing friends, She-Hulk, and eventually the X-men animated series (although I was a bit too old for cartoons by then, so it was a secret love).

TMNT, Power Rangers, Thunder Cats, He-Man, Smurfs, Snorks (!).

H'oh man. TMNT reigned supreme. Before that there was M.A.S.K - anybody remember that one? Sesame Street was good, although I remember being offended when that new whippersnapper Elmo started taking over (I'm old!). Thundercats was great, and also The Monkees. Sometimes: Snorks, Smurfs, Ghostbusters, Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers, and some cartoon where all the characters were half of two different animals. Occasionally there was Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea - very bizarre, but I think it appealed to my inner sci-fi geek.

I also for some strange reason watched some grown-up shows as a little kid, like Kate & Allie and The Facts of Life. This was when I was like 4 so I can't figure out what my fascination was. I do remember there was a Facts of Life episode in which the human civilization was decimated by a comet. It turned out to be a dream of course but I remember thinking it was really cool.

Wow, where do I begin? Thundercats, He-Man, Transformers, M.A.S.K. (yes, I remember them, Mike), Fraggle Rock, and Square One TV were the biggest for me. The Monkees were a few years later, and ended up being the first concert I ever attended, where a still little-known guy by the name of Weird Al opened for them. The Smurfs, Snorks, and Littles were cartoons that I despised, but watched anyway. I still can't quite figure out why.

OMG!!! the snorks!!!! dududuDUDUDUUUUUU SNORK PATROL!

I used to love pokemon AND smurfs AND racoons AND the moomins (which were creepy!!!) AND all the spin-off disney shows like the little mermaid and timon and pumba. what else did i used 2 watch, grange hill haha and blue peter :D oh and of course, as you've all mentioned, those heroes in a half-shell, TURTLE POWER XD

kids tv is rubbish now. apart from raven. he is awesome.
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Posted By: SeanFraggle Rock

Oooh, good one.

Me, my wife, my brother-in-law, and his girlfriend spent no less than fifteen minutes last week trying to name all of the main characters, including the dog, the postcard-sending one, the giants and the only female construction worker. The only one we missed was the olive-green colored, poetry-reading Fraggle.

Spoilers (highlight to read)

Gobo, Wembly, Red, Boober, and Moki was the poetry-reading one. The dog? Sprocket. Junior Gorg was the only giant who saw the Fraggles. Uncle Traveling Matt sent postcards, and the only female "Doozer" was named Cotterpin. How'd you do?

i was such a tmnt kid that it's not even funny. i had the van, the sewer shredder, all of the action figures, oh it was great.

tmnt and the ghostbusters. oooooooh my god those shows were the best.

i did try to re watch the ghostbusters recently and there wasn't much replay value. but the memories, those are forever.

Transformers, i lived and died by this show. Sure i watched everything else that has been mentioned so far TMNT, both versions of the ghostbusters cartoon, Captain Planet, Silverhawks, MASK, basically if it was a cartoon i watched it. I still to this day though regularly re watch and enjoy the Transformers animated movie, the songs rock my world, i get pumped every time Optimus single handedly saves the day in the beginning at Autobot city and yes i get misty eyed every time Optimus dies. I bashed Ultra Magnus before it was an internet meme and every year on my birthday i buy myself a new iteration of Optimus Prime. Have at least a dozen versions of him boxed.
I was also a big fan of the warner bros. 90's cartoons like Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain. I'm cringe when i watch the videos on youtube of the nostalgic compilations of cartoon openings, i know virtually all of them. Honestly, i could go on for hours about cartoons from my childhood. It really did do most of the parenting when i was a youngster.
Just a side note for a funny story, i once got a free lapdance at a strip club because i was wearing an Optimus Prime tshirt. While the lady was dancing we ended up chatting transformers, best experience i've ever had in a strip club.

@Mike Brady the show with the creatures that were two animals combined was called the Wuzzles.

Square One? Are you kidding me? How could I forget that! Mathnet was the best! And I forgot about Mr. Wizard! And 3-2-1 Contact! Jeez...

Also, Sean, thank you for remembering M.A.S.K. Everyone to whom I've ever mentioned that show has just looked at me cross-eyed but it was great.

And Jacob I too was an outrageous TMNT kid. Between my brother and I we easily had over 100 figures, including all the different versions of the same characters and all the one-shot characters they started putting into the shows just so that we could buy more figures. We never had the Neutrinos, though - did they have action figures for them? And we had the van and the sewer lair - both great - but I always wanted the Technodrome. It looked so awesome! We never got it though. And then some time in my teen years my mom went and gave them away. She didn't even ask! I mean they weren't in original packaging of course, but I bet if I sat on them a couple decades they would have been worth something. They probably went to some snotty kid who didn't even know what they were and stuffed play-doh into Mutagen Man. Hmph.

The Wuzzles! Thanks! I don't think I watched that show very much, but I remember it because it was such a bizarre premise.

Glad to help, it's pretty damned hard to stump me on any 80's or early 90's cartoon. I don't need the internet, it's all stored in my head. Probably explains why to this day i still can't do freakin' long division.

I loved pretty much any show where there was a team with super powers or a regular kid that got to do something awesome like shoot lasers, hang out with robots, or go to space.

Dinosaucers, Tiger Sharks, Silver Hawks, JEM (yes I loved JEM yet I still have testicles), Fraggles (Trash Heap in the house), The Muppet Show (Though I didnt know who any of the 70's guest stars were), and basically everything on Nick at Night: Car 54, Green Acres, Patty Duke, Make Room for Daddy, Dobie Gillis, Gilligan, Munsters, My Three Sons, Donna Reid.

I also watched a lot of adult 80's TV like Knott's Landing and Falcon Crest. I watched basically every popular 80's sitcom and only later in life found out they were all about sex (3's company, Night Court, Cheers, Perfect Strangers).

@Arcys I'd just like to say get stuffed. I've spent the last couple of hours on youtube watching goddamn cartoon intro's cause of this thread and feeling terrible about myself because i really do remember damn near all of them.

As an addendum. Samurai Pizza Cats rocked balls!

Ninja Turtles was my all time favorite. I also like Ghostbusters, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Goof Troop, Gummy Bears, Gargoyles, Biker Mice from Mars, and Mighty Ducks (the cartoon with ducks that play hockey by day, but fight crime at night).

Posted By: Greg2point0Ninja Turtles was my all time favorite. I also like Ghostbusters, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Goof Troop, Gummy Bears, Gargoyles, Biker Mice from Mars, and Mighty Ducks (the cartoon with ducks that play hockey by day, but fight crime at night).NewGeekontheBlock.com

yes, thank you, i was going to throw a fit if no one mentioned the great disney shows. that was the golden era... add duck tales to that and we're ready to roll...

rainbow brite, my little pony... anyone? *sigh and yes, of course Jem. mr. rogers (i tried to watch old reruns and couldn't sit through it, it was soooo slow, but when i was a kid i was positively entranced by the fact that he changed sweaters and sneakers coming in and out of the house), sesame street, and all the good stuff already posted above like tmnt and ghostbusters. we also got bible-oriented cartoon shows (Flying house and Superbook)for some reason, and we watched the shit out of them. fat lot of good that did, haha.

oh and of course, my one true love, Winnie the Pooh, old school.

i also had an intense and unhealthy habit of watching captain planet just to hate it.

Posted By: denise

Posted By: Greg2point0Ninja Turtles was my all time favorite. I also like Ghostbusters, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Goof Troop, Gummy Bears, Gargoyles, Biker Mice from Mars, and Mighty Ducks (the cartoon with ducks that play hockey by day, but fight crime at night).NewGeekontheBlock.com

yes, thank you, i was going to throw a fit if no one mentioned the great disney shows. that was the golden era... add duck tales to that and we're ready to roll...

rainbow brite, my little pony... anyone?*sighresident girl

Sadly, I also used to watch My Little Pony... I still remember the theme song.

Oooo I used to watch Care Bears early on. Had quite a few of the "action" figures as well. I think I might have watched My Little Pony and Jem on occasion. I definitely remember the theme songs.

TMNT was may fave. i started Martial Arts b'c of them. today i'm a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, all b'c i wanted to be Michelangelo. for some ungodly reason i loved Captain Planet. other faves incl. x-men animated series. Batman TAS, al the channel 11 stuff (chip&dale, Tailspin, Darkwing Duck, etc.) the A-Team ST:TNG, and Kung-Fu (the one from the early 90's) i'm sure there r more i can't remember

I watched all of the above cartoons and Power Rangers when I was about 6 I got more into live action shows and drama-dys...

The Brady Bunch
The Facts of Life
The Wonder Years
Happy Days
Diff'rent Strokes
Good Times
What's Happening!!
Kenan and Kel

Posted By: Mike BradySean, thank you for remembering M.A.S.K. Everyone to whom I've ever mentioned that show has just looked at me cross-eyed but it was great.

Does this conversation seem familiar? "It was a cartoon about crime fighters with trnasforming vehicles." "Oh, you mean Transformers." "No, M.A.S.K. It was sort of a Transformers rip-off, but with some GI Joe thrown in." "Oh, you mean Go-Bots." "No, dammit! M.A.S.K. really did exist!!"

Posted By: joelSilver Hawks

YES!!! I dressed as Quicksilver one year for halloween. Although "dressed" might not be the correct way to say it. I pretty much was just wrapped in tin foil. Nobody had a clue what I was.

Posted By: Greg2point0Sadly, I also used to watch My Little Pony... I still remember the theme song.

We actually used the theme song as a prank as one of our guy's entrance music. "Something is starting...right now...Something is starting...Oh Wow!"

night court was about sex?

Posted By: denisei also had an intense and unhealthy habit of watching captain planet just to hate it.resident girl

But.... Captain Planet... he's our hero!

I must admit I watched Captain Planet when I was a kid. Whoopi Goldberg as Gaia FTW.

Posted By: Sean
Does this conversation seem familiar? "It was a cartoon about crime fighters with trnasforming vehicles." "Oh, you mean Transformers." "No, M.A.S.K. It was sort of a Transformers rip-off, but with some GI Joe thrown in." "Oh, you mean Go-Bots." "No, dammit! M.A.S.K. really did exist!!"

It's like you read my mind.

Oh, I just saw FBEddie mentioned Gargoyles. God DAMN that was a great show, I actually cried when Brooklyn was killed...

Posted By: RerunOh, I just saw FBEddie mentioned Gargoyles. God DAMN that was a great show, I actually cried when Brooklyn was killed...

YESSS, Gargoyles.

i have found my people. you are all fabulous fancy bastards.

TMNT, Ghostbusters, X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four. I loved anything with superheroes or tied into movies really.

The one that dominated my childhood above all else was Batman The Animated Series. I fell in love with that series from episode one. To this day I can thank it for making Batman my favorite comic book character and The Joker my favorite villain. I remember my Dad taking me to see Mask of the Phantasm and once it came out on VHS my Dad and I watched it hundereds of times. Even more than the first Tim Burton Batman and I watched the hell out of that.

I always had a problem with the Tim Burton Batman movies. I love the aesthetic of it, gothic and dark but the characterisation was terrible Bruce Wayne is not a wacky and quirky guy. I've always looked at the Batman/Bruce Wayne thing as a form of psychosis. You know how whenever someone is caught as a serial killer or rapist the neighbours say "He was such a nice normal quiet guy." That's Batman, Bruce is the mask he wears so he can interact with society. It's not Bruce putting on an outfit to be Batman, it's the other way around.

Posted By: jacob666night court was about sex?songs to sleep to

Dan Fielding? Hello?

Posted By: RerunOh, I just saw FBEddie mentioned Gargoyles. God DAMN that was a great show, I actually cried when Brooklyn was killed...

I loved Gargoyles too. That show began my appreciation of Keith David's voice acting plus it was full of star trek alums.

Posted By: FerrosI always had a problem with the Tim Burton Batman movies. I love the aesthetic of it, gothic and dark but the characterisation was terrible Bruce Wayne is not a wacky and quirky guy. I've always looked at the Batman/Bruce Wayne thing as a form of psychosis. You know how whenever someone is caught as a serial killer or rapist the neighbours say "He was such a nice normal quiet guy." That's Batman, Bruce is the mask he wears so he can interact with society. It's not Bruce putting on an outfit to be Batman, it's the other way around.Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Ive always loved this distinction about Batman. That Bruce was the mask. Superman was almost the opposite. He WAS Clark. He was the simple farm boy who just happened to have super powers and a fuck ton of responsibility to use them. Batman was a schizophrenic nut job.

Posted By: denisewe also got bible-oriented cartoon shows (Flying houseandSuperbook)for some reason, and we watched the shit out of them. fat lot of good that did, haha.resident girl

You just broke me. I was ALL of those shows and then some. My mom worked in a church for almost 20 years and I spent every summer just roaming the halls and playing GI Joe's there. I had access to the full library of jesus-approved VHS and a TV on a cart (plus a top loading VCR with manual tracking).

I'll see your "Flying House" and "Super Book" and raise you "McGee and Me" "Psalty the Psalm Book" and "Adventures in Odyssey."

I will further add to my shame in that I performed in a live action Psalty musical when I was 6 or 7 and I was in the "Puppet Ministry" (which is not an all puppet Ministry cover band, which would be awesome) for most of my adolescence.

Oh and check out this list of the The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons. I remember seeing most of these first and hand having serious WTF moments. When Shipwrecks face melted I had nightmares.

Thundercats was the cartoon that taught me it was alright to think animals were hot.

Posted By: FerrosI always had a problem with the Tim Burton Batman movies. I love the aesthetic of it, gothic and dark but the characterisation was terrible Bruce Wayne is not a wacky and quirky guy. I've always looked at the Batman/Bruce Wayne thing as a form of psychosis. You know how whenever someone is caught as a serial killer or rapist the neighbours say "He was such a nice normal quiet guy." That's Batman, Bruce is the mask he wears so he can interact with society. It's not Bruce putting on an outfit to be Batman, it's the other way around.Never go with a hippie to a second location.

I religiously watched the Tim Burton Batman because I didn't know any better. When I grew up and started reading the comics, I then realized just how wrong they got the characters. That's also why I fell so in love with the animated series because they nailed Bruce Wayne being cover so he could go around being Batman. Also they nailed the aspect of the Joker being the only person who is really laughing at what he does.

TMNT, Speed Racer, Smurfs, Power Rangers, Beetleborgs, Transformers, Thundercats, Pokemon, Digimon, Spiderman, Batman, Superman (the first animated superman ever, in black and white. I still have the tapes, and they're beautiful) just about anything japan could crank out when I was young and impressionable, GARGOYLES WAS BEAUTIFUL AND INTRODUCED MY MIND TO GOOD PLOT, Sesame Street, Barney (I think I had a crush on the ten year old blond boy from the first season), Hercules, X-men, He-Man, Fantastic Four, With your powers combined...HEART!, so many one-episode direct to VHS robot animes it's not even funny, JOHNNY QUEST, and.... I could really go on forever here. You get the idea.

Posted By: joel

Posted By: FerrosI always had a problem with the Tim Burton Batman movies. I love the aesthetic of it, gothic and dark but the characterisation was terrible Bruce Wayne is not a wacky and quirky guy. I've always looked at the Batman/Bruce Wayne thing as a form of psychosis. You know how whenever someone is caught as a serial killer or rapist the neighbours say "He was such a nice normal quiet guy." That's Batman, Bruce is the mask he wears so he can interact with society. It's not Bruce putting on an outfit to be Batman, it's the other way around.Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Ive always loved this distinction about Batman. That Bruce was the mask. Superman was almost the opposite. He WAS Clark. He was the simple farm boy who just happened to have super powers and a fuck ton of responsibility to use them. Batman was a schizophrenic nut job.Artist and Creator of HijiNKS Ensue

No, Superman was the same, see the last half-hour of Kill Bill 2 for that explanation...

why do i feel like i have to go buy the night court box set?

Posted By: FerrosThundercats was the cartoon that taught me it was alright to think animals were hot.

YES! I spent countless hours trying to figure out if Cheetara was naked or not.

LOL, my ex-bf is a furry and he's joked about the very same thing.

Posted By: TindomielLOL, my ex-bf is a furry and he's joked about the very same thing.Boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada...

Thank you for stopping me from making a "furry" crack.

Posted By: DramSpeed Racer, Smurfs

I read this as Speed Racer snuff. Now that's some kinky stuff there!

Posted By: Not MandatoryThank you for stopping me from making a "furry" crack.Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Now stop me from joking about my furry crack.

Posted By: Mike Brady

Posted By: Not MandatoryThank you for stopping me from making a "furry" crack.Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Now stop me from joking about my furry crack.In Soviet Russia, Hoop-Dee-Doo reviews you!

HAHAHAHA! You know, as soon as I posted that I knew someone was going to go there!

Posted By: Not Mandatory

Posted By: TindomielLOL, my ex-bf is a furry and he's joked about the very same thing.Boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada...

Thank you for stopping me from making a "furry" crack.Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Isnt the "furry crack" the hole they have sex through?

The "furry crack" is the sound their spine makes when the dog furry's try to lick themselves.