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INLOVE · Postby **INLOVE** » March 24th, 2008, 1:43 pm

good cartoons! I am so sick of Spongebob! Bring back Porky Pig!.....sorry, just needed to vent :roll:

dawgs10 · Postby **dawgs10** » March 24th, 2008, 2:03 pm

INLOVE wrote:good cartoons! I am so sick of Spongebob! Bring back Porky Pig!.....sorry, just needed to vent

you have no idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUGs where are you??????

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 24th, 2008, 2:32 pm

speed racer the movie is coming out. can't wait. also the transformers movie was great, the transformers cartoons were pretty new when I was young, but the original series was pretty good. My all time fav is astro boy and gigantor, though. now them's cartoons!!

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » March 24th, 2008, 2:46 pm

I'm a big Warner Bros cartoon fan. The older the better. I love trying to figure out the "in jokes" that refer to other media of the period...usually radio shows (since they were made in the 30s and 40s).
It enriches the viewing of the cartoons when you realize that when Bugs Bunny lisps "If I dood it I get a twippin'" he's actually quoting a pre-tv Red Skelton and his "mean little kid"
Or when the little old man from the draft board chases Daffy Duck and says "Well now I wouldn't say that..." and finding out he's using the catch phrase of a character in The Great Gildersleeve."

The problem with Spongebob is they don't make enough of them.
Sometimes I just like to watch them for the music: The steel guitar and the almost Bob Wills "Steel Guitar Rag" that is in most every episode.
Jeremy Wakefield is the Steel guitar player for the show and he has played with most extant western swing bands of any merit. You can see him HERE
What other cartoon would have Junior Brown as a guest?
Or the cast of the 1980s British comedy "The Young Ones" as guest voices?

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » March 24th, 2008, 3:13 pm

Yeah...I pulled up Tom & Jerry on "On Demand" and my kids LOVED it!!

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » March 24th, 2008, 4:05 pm

I love SpongeBob, but Gerald is right, not enough new ones.

I love to find the original Scooby-Doo, Hong Kong Phoey, Warner Brothers, Fat Albert and Speed Racer.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » March 24th, 2008, 6:26 pm

I remember every single Sat. morning watching Bugs Bunny & Friends for 90 minutes! 90! HA! 8:30-10, it came on CBS then. A couple of weeks ago, while at the store at night, I started singing, "Overture, curtains, lights, this is it, the night of nights. There's no rehearsing ...." and so on. The two employees looked at me like I was French. "What? Oh, y'all don't know that song do you?" They looked at each other and back at me like, "Uhhh, no." I just let it go. :lol:

I told my wife later about it. We started talking about all the great WB cartoons besides Bugs and the gang. Animaniacs (funnnnnnny). Pinky and the Brain (funny again).

You can't have grown up in the 70's or earlier and NOT be influenced in some measure by the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. I still shoot off a one-liner from an old WB cartoon from childhood if I get a chance to use one. My whole sense of humor is shaped by them, the Three Stooges, and to a lesser extent, Little Rascals.

Every afternoon at 3:30 after school the local then-NBC affiliate showed Looney Tunes cartoons. Every morning before 6:30 they were on as I dressed for school. Even the old "follow-the-bouncing-ball" cartoons (long before karaoke) were fun. I still sing "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle", "Yes, We Have No Bananas" and "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" when those recollections roll through my head.

Good times.

Jude 2