Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons) from childhood
(But became number 2 when Pinky and the Brain came out as an adult.)
Arthur and One Piece. Saturday Morning PBS.
No one has mentioned the Thunder Cats, or The SilverHawks. Also Doug.
Do do do do do do do do do do do.
Ren and Stimpy. I was the strange kid in school, so the show’s gross-out humor and absurdity appealed to my weirdo sensibilities. Finding out John K. is a bastard sexpest definitely tempered my nostalgia a bit.
The Angry Beavers and Avatar The Last Airbender; even saw it when it premiered in Germany.
It’s a shame Nickelodeon switched to only producing iCarly-style sitcoms shortly afterwards… always hated those.
Voltron
if it’s yours too do yourself a favour and NEVER revisit it
Batman The Animated Series, prolly
The GOAT.
Not 100% cartoon, but I really liked Mr Bogus. It may have been called different things in different countries.
Darkwing Duck is probably the one I remember most fondly. It even had a Twin Peaks inspired episode, Twin Beaks, which I didn’t appreciate until I was older.
Samurai Pizza Cats. I fondly remember it because my grandma would have tapes of it in her house so whenever I visited grandma’s, chances are this show would be playing at some point. I loved watching the launch sequence for some reason and the script is even more zany than I remember LMAO
I remember thinking this was top tier as a kid, and I recall nothing other than the theme song, which goes hard.
You’ve just unlocked a childhood memory. Thanks!
The theme song slaps so fucking hard. I immediately heard it when I read your post.
Holy anchovy, you too?
I expected myself to be the only answerer for that.
I was really fond of Gargoyles.
Xanatos was an incredibly well written villain now that I think about it again.
Thundaar, the Barbarian. Absolutely wild sci-fi fantasy. Conan meets Adventure Time.
Close contenders are BTAS, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, He-Man, and TMNT.
wow. hits a lot of things I was thinking about. Its so hard to say because there is a big thing at different periods. I think if the transformers had come out earlier it might be the one but I was watching it when I was a bit to old to watch cartoons (which is still the case).
Impossible to choose from the absolute bangers of the 80s and 90s.
Heathcliffe, Garfield and Friends, GI Joe, Transformers, Jem, Spider-Man, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tom n Jerry, etc.
Ok so been thinking about it and it is so dependent on the time period but I think im going to go with an old one that was just so cool relative to what else was on and what came before. It was the us version of a japanese cartoon and the us version was called. Battle of the planets.
It’s a tie between GI Joe and Spider-Man & his amazing friends.