| Author | Message | ||
     Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 30 Registered: 02-2008 |
Peanuts. Oh that Snoopy. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1054 Registered: 01-2005 |
I was a BC fan for years back in the day. I also read Bloom County and The Far Side. I don't read them anymore. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2187 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, Viz, Snoopy was great, so was Deputy Dog, Hong Kong Phooey and Top Cat. | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2007 |
"Cathy" is the best! oh, Cathy, when will you ever find happiness? Garfield's good too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1055 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'll agree with Spence regarding Top Cat, my favorite cartoon! I even sprang for the DVD set. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 177 Registered: 05-2005 |
Top cat whilst eating Chips, fish fingers and beans at 5.40pm, just before Nationwide ? Didn't get the Top Cat - Sgt Bilko connection for years ! Hat's off too to Bugs and Daffy, especially when he gets his bill blown off in every episode. Talking of Bilko, that is a DVD set worth getting. Billy the Fish, a very very sharp satire of all my 60's/70's strip cartons in footy annuals where the crowd have the dialogue "Excellent save by the fish - man keeper" "yes, he's kept our cup dream alive but anything can happen over 90 minutes"... | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Straying into kids tv I know but does anyone recall Astronut ? on at teatime I think.... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 33 Registered: 02-2008 |
Micheael, in fit of madness, I bought the complete Far Side. It consists of two humungus 50 pound books that won't fit on any shelves. I have to keep it under my bed. And it's way too big n bulky to read the cartoons without getting a hernia of the intestines. I think if I even looked at one cartoon I'd have to wear one a those truss getups! That was sure a good purchase. And Dr, I luv that crazy orange cat, too! He eats way too much lazazna, though. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 448 Registered: 01-2006 |
I was flicking around the music channels last night and came across a Shakin' Stevens video - Green Door - and instantly thought of Billy The Fish when they signed him as their star striker...feckin hilarious.. Also Inspector Clouseau/Pink Panther (with Henry Mancini's music) were great as were the Ant and the Aardvark... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 256 Registered: 01-2007 |
Mr McEwan are you a reincarnation? as your typo is very similar to an old poster LK | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2007 |
I don't know...I remember Mr. Keith as being very smart. Ewan does not seem like the brightest light on the Christmas tree. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 940 Registered: 09-2006 |
Peanuts, in the years from its inception in the early 50s up through the early 70s holds up as pure greatness, and it's my favorite comfort food reading. Though it doesn't seem to have as many admirers as it once did, Doonesbury remains just about as sharp and funny as ever. Can't believe no one mentioned Calvin and Hobbes. Agreed on all the Far Side mentions. BC had a few good years, but these days when I think of it the first thing that comes to mind is all the right-wing and religious propaganda he kept slipping in during the final years. Warner Bros. cartoons remain my favorites - anarchy at its very best. I have fond memories of a few of the early Hanna-Barberas like the Flintstones and the Jetsons, but after awhile the limited animation looked like nothing but contempt for the viewer, and when it got to stuff like Scooby Doo, which set in stone the idea of the same goddamn story every week, I tuned out. A limited animation series that I loved, because there was a lot more going on upstairs: Rocky & Bullwinkle. As far as longform animated films, Hayao Miyazaki is lord and master, period. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 131 Registered: 10-2006 |
Warner Brothers, all the way, from the earliest Merrie Melodies to Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania and Hysteria. I also liked 'George of the Jungle', 'Dudley Do-Right', and Archie cartoons... the last not too far removed from the Monkees. | ||
| Paul B. Member Username: Paul_b Post Number: 39 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh my, you cant go past first season Ren and Stimpy. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1056 Registered: 01-2005 |
Lippy The Lion and Hardy Har Har. Wally Gator. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2008 |
Foghorn Leghorn - "Fortunately ah keep mah feathuhs numbered for such a circumstance". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2073 Registered: 05-2005 |
Calvin And Hobbes. (Not just because Allen said it!). | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 160 Registered: 05-2005 |
I vote for Top Cat as well - the coolest (wasn't this re-titled 'Boss Cat' in the UK because of some weird BBC concern about it having the same name as a brand of UK catfood?!). Also have fond memories of Jonny Quest - a 60's boys-own cartoon from Hanna Barbara. Anyone else remember it? | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 150 Registered: 05-2005 |
While I'm here - I like these kind of funny anecdotes about weird shit like pet food and TV shows sharing the same name. Who doesn't? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1558 Registered: 03-2005 |
I remember "Johnny Quest" Mark! That show was coming on as I was starting to grow out of cartoon target age but I watched the first season or so. I haven't seen "Top Cat" in so many decades. That seemed like such an east coast cartoon to this Californian, very urban. It was a favorite. Elizabeth, I almost named the Archies' "Sugar Sugar" as one of those songs that gets stuck in my head and won't go away. There were several of the cartoon music shows. Do you remember "Josie & the Pussycats?" I was too young and stupid to get the charm of "Bullwinkle." Was that the show that had the "Mr. Wizard" skits in the middle? "Help, Mr. Wizard!" "Twinkle tinkle tizzle toe, time for this one to come home." (or something like that). Does anybody remember "Underdog?" That would be about the mid-60s. I don't remember it being a very good cartoon (with Sweet Polly Purebred and all) but I remember the theme song being great. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 952 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, until just now when I Googled around for a bit I'd always thought that both Bullwinkle and Underdog were done by the same people, because of the similar style of animation and humor. Turns out that was because both production companies farmed out the animation to a place in Mexico. Nowadays many people might be familiar with Underdog only because of a reportedly-lame movie version (using an actual dog) that passed quickly through movie theaters last summer. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 383 Registered: 07-2006 |
heckle & jeckle....mum tells me i refused to watch little else than these sarcastic, camp and generally troublesome magpies when i was a youngin'. and i'm with you allen on WB. that had it all and then some. one of my faves is the wagner piece with bugs and elmer. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 953 Registered: 09-2006 |
That was a fine one...and it had the added attraction of laying waste to all of "Fantasia"'s overseriousness in 7 minutes flat. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 48 Registered: 10-2006 |
May I ...'Rocky and Bullwinkle'..'nothin' up my sleeve..' Song that has returned to the shower room is 'As Tears Go By..' M.Faithfull.. Top cat.. how good was that..! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 384 Registered: 07-2006 |
.....don't forget that brilliantly fat horse! "spear and magic helmet?" | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 156 Registered: 04-2005 |
My favourate tv cartoons would be Mr Benn, Hair Bear Bunch, Catch the pidgeon and the clangers (not really a cartoon but sod it). Don't read any cartoon strips, but used to like garfield. Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2193 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jon How could I forget Mr benn! and hair bear and catch and clangers, i've been to unjust to too many uk counterparts haven't I!? Although technically is clangers a cartoon? if we allow other styles, mary mungo and midge and barnaby and rupert the bear wer cool too. maybe this link evolves into kids TV show, remember pipkins? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1060 Registered: 01-2005 |
Underdog was also part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for years from NYC, it still might be. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1561 Registered: 03-2005 |
I didn't realize "Underdog" had such a long-lasting impact. I thought it was short-lived as a TV series, a couple years at most. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 43 Registered: 02-2008 |
Forgot to say the pic-a-nic basket-totin', smarter than the average bear, Yogi Bear. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 955 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, I think, like many a show, syndicated reruns extended its life far beyond its moment. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1059 Registered: 10-2004 |
Hey, has anyone here seen these? I think they are pretty hilarious. This is Garfield with Garfield taken out: http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/ There's something almost kind of zen about it. And this has Garfield replaced by a more realistic cat: http://blog.org.es/realfield | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 180 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.thechestnut.com/cloppa/cloppa castle.mp3 Lest we forget.....The mighty Cloppa Castle theme tune ! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2005 |
...and now you can join in... "If you go down to Cloppa Castle Be prepared to stay a while The Byegones and the Hasbeenes Always doing battle for the oil What they found beneath the ground Has made the Byegones free And every day at three o'clock They all sit down to tea" | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 46 Registered: 10-2007 |
Jeff, "Jon" (aka Garfield without Garfield) would be a big hit in the free weekly in my town. you're right, very zen. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 182 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.thechestnut.com/mary/marymung oandmidge-intro.mp3 listening to the above is incredibly evocative...talk about more innocent times...jeez. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 962 Registered: 09-2006 |
The ice cream cone one just killed me...thanks for that, Jeff. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 964 Registered: 09-2006 |
Though, as a friend pointed out, does the fact that in the unaltered strips the cat is his best friend and he talks to it incessantly more or less sad and crazy than if he's talking to invisible people? |