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If you value your intelligence please ignore this drivel. Today marks one week without smoking (yeah me). And I need something to complain about.
I’m sitting here playing on the computer while my son is watching cartoons. Some weird one that is just annoying to overhear as is it to watch. So I took the remote and tried to find one I could tolerate listening
to. And what do I find? No Saturday Morning cartoons. What happened to the good ole toons I used to watch growing up. You know the ones that were on all the local stations for hours every Saturday before the games.
I’ll tell you what happened to them. It was the Power Rangers. They killed all the good cartoons. And what is the deal with Super Karate Monkey Death Car?
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Go online
Lots of good cartoons online
Witness the one below...
Skin Horse -- Always interesting. Amazingly inventive and often quite droll. Be nice in an animated feature film...
And if you'd found it, back in the olden days (now sadly gone):
e-sheep was very interesting. Sometimes over the top, but interesting.
A replacement site recently came online, so there's glory for you.
Delta Thrives is missing (huge bandwidth hog), but still...
...here's the Wayback Machine version:
Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything is missing as well, and a few others,, but still available on the Wayback Machine.
Cheers,
Liobhan
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Cheers,
Liobhan
No, that"s not what she's talking about!
Anya is talking about cartoons on Saturday morning television. Saturday mornings, television used to be filled with great cartoons that entertained both children and adults.
Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Underdog, Super Chicken, George of the Jungle, and that's just one production company!
Hanna Barbera had Space Ghost, Wacky Races, Magilla Gorilla and many others.
Then there were the old Warner Bros. cartoons, repackaged for television.
It was all real good stuff! Saturday morning cartoons are gone now, and the children's cartoons they show on television now are mostly a bunch of lame P.C. crap.
Of course there are exceptions, like Spongebob Squarepants, Dexter and Johnny Test.
But most of it is uninspired nonsense trying to be educational and failing miserably or it's trying to promote a toy.
I agree with Anya, Saturday morning television is a pale shadow of what it used to be.
Mr. Ram
Rocky and Bullwinkle
And don't forget Crusader Rabbit, the precursor to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
It was black and white, so I don't believe it ever made it into syndication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo
Notice that this is an intermediate stage between the comic strip and the fully-animated cartoon. To cut down on costs, children's animation often uses similar shortcuts to this day.
I do know about animated cartoons, but cartoons are originally:
The art comes from the cartoonist, not from the mere animation. Indeed, the very best cartoonists can imply a level of action and excitement that mere animation, and especially live action, can't approach. That's why many movies these days feature "computer simulations," cartoon exaggerated action layered upon a base of live action (or vice versa, in some cases)
Cheers,
Liobhan
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Cheers,
Liobhan
Ah...the refuge of my childhood...
...Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, Ruff & Ready, Yogi Bear, Leonardo the Lion, Go Go Gophers, but the one who really comes to mind, my all-time favorite occassional cross-dressing (YES) rabbit, Bugs Bunny. How a seven year old got his/her first exposure to the transgender aspect of my personality. Am I the only one whose destination to this time and place got its sendoff through that erstwhile trannie lagomorph? I rather like to think I've got company, yes?
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Dio benedica la mia bella amici, Andrea
Love, Andrea Lena