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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 27, 2018 12:45:01 GMT -5
We didn't really have much in the way of local cartoon shows, where I grew up. I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle and Underdog & Tennessee Tuxedo being shown weekday mornings, as well as Abbott & Costello (the cartoon), the New 3 Stooges (again, cartoon) and Space Angel (from Cambria, creators of Clutch Cargo). The rest was Saturday Morning. When I was young, there was both the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and Tom & Jerry, both showing the theatrical shorts. The Wonderful World of Disney would show Disney shorts, in themed shows (Like Kids is Kids, with Ludwig Von Drake linking Donald Duck Cartoons, or The Ranger of Brownstone). I only saw Terry Toons if I was visiting a relative and saw Woody Woodpecker cartoons in either special Holiday matinees of school Holiday assemblies (we would get some cartoons and a feature, like Snoopy Come Home). Popeye I saw on the networks, with the later shows, then some of the Fleischer material when visiting relatives and when we got cable. Heck, where I lived, we had trouble tuning in CBS; so, I mostly watched ABC and NBC-broadcast cartoons. I have never seen the Harvey Toons and very little Terry Toons. Before school age there was a show out of Salt Lake City called Hotel Balderdash that was shown throughout the intermountain west. It was the standard live action wacky hosts interspersed with old cartoons. I'm sure that's where I saw most theatrical shorts that weren't Warner, Disney or MGM. After I hit school age it was pretty much the same as what you describe. Weekday afternoons were a mix of old TV cartoons (Rocky & Bullwinkle, Tennessee Tuxedo, Underdog) and syndicated rerun live-action shows (Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeanie, etc.). The only hour-long drama I ever remember in the 4-6 pm slots was Star Trek...and maybe Wild, Wild West. For a good part of my childhood we could only get two channels, Channel 6 out of Pocatello was an ABC affiliate and Channel 11 from Twin Falls which was nominally a CBS affiliate but also carried some ABC and NBC shows (I have no idea how they got away with it, but Wiki confirms my memory of this). And Channel 6 was usually snowy. At some point, probably mid-grade school they put a translator station on the mountain and we could get channels 3 and 8 out of Idaho Falls on UHF and had the full panoply of networks (and Channel 6 was no longer snowy. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 27, 2018 23:10:34 GMT -5
Definitely Warner Brothers... I especially loved all the satire and pop culture references they threw in... I didn't 'get' most of them, but it was always awesome when I did. The inventiveness of the stories is always great fun, too.
I lot of it was the creators, though. Tom and Jerry was pretty medicore until Chuck Jones was drawing.. and Fritz Freiling's Pink Panther was amazing, too.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 27, 2018 23:52:20 GMT -5
We didn't really have much in the way of local cartoon shows, where I grew up. I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle and Underdog & Tennessee Tuxedo being shown weekday mornings, as well as Abbott & Costello (the cartoon), the New 3 Stooges (again, cartoon) and Space Angel (from Cambria, creators of Clutch Cargo). The rest was Saturday Morning. When I was young, there was both the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and Tom & Jerry, both showing the theatrical shorts. The Wonderful World of Disney would show Disney shorts, in themed shows (Like Kids is Kids, with Ludwig Von Drake linking Donald Duck Cartoons, or The Ranger of Brownstone). I only saw Terry Toons if I was visiting a relative and saw Woody Woodpecker cartoons in either special Holiday matinees of school Holiday assemblies (we would get some cartoons and a feature, like Snoopy Come Home). Popeye I saw on the networks, with the later shows, then some of the Fleischer material when visiting relatives and when we got cable. Heck, where I lived, we had trouble tuning in CBS; so, I mostly watched ABC and NBC-broadcast cartoons. I have never seen the Harvey Toons and very little Terry Toons. Before school age there was a show out of Salt Lake City called Hotel Balderdash that was shown throughout the intermountain west. It was the standard live action wacky hosts interspersed with old cartoons. I'm sure that's where I saw most theatrical shorts that weren't Warner, Disney or MGM. After I hit school age it was pretty much the same as what you describe. Weekday afternoons were a mix of old TV cartoons (Rocky & Bullwinkle, Tennessee Tuxedo, Underdog) and syndicated rerun live-action shows (Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeanie, etc.). The only hour-long drama I ever remember in the 4-6 pm slots was Star Trek...and maybe Wild, Wild West. For a good part of my childhood we could only get two channels, Channel 6 out of Pocatello was an ABC affiliate and Channel 11 from Twin Falls which was nominally a CBS affiliate but also carried some ABC and NBC shows (I have no idea how they got away with it, but Wiki confirms my memory of this). And Channel 6 was usually snowy. At some point, probably mid-grade school they put a translator station on the mountain and we could get channels 3 and 8 out of Idaho Falls on UHF and had the full panoply of networks (and Channel 6 was no longer snowy. After school programming was all sitcoms, with the odd action series; lots of Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island and things like Mission Impossible or Hogan's Heroes. For a brief time, we did get The Adv. of Superman and Batman. No cartoon stuff, until the 80s, when things like GI Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, etc hit the airwaves. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 0:12:15 GMT -5
Cartoons were mostly Saturday mornings in early childhood, with Disney on Sunday nights of course. When we moved to Maine that all changed, as we got cable for the first time and got WSBK (channel 38) and WLVI (channel 56) out of Boston that had lots of cartoon programming every day. Around that time, Matinee at the Bijou debuted on PBS as well, and my dad was an old movie buff so we would watch that on Sundays, complete with a cartoon short and serial chapter before the movie of the week (I think this is where I first saw a Fleischer Superman but I am not sure), so I got to experience a lot of different cartoons-Looney Toons and Pink Panther on Saturday morning fare, Terry Toons, Walter Lanz productions (mostly Woody Woodpecker but others as well), Tom & Jerry, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Popeye, Mighty Mouse, etc. on weekdays before school and after school. During summer (and school vacations and snow days) it was cartoons all morning on WLVI (which also had Creature Double Feature and Kung Fu Theatre on Saturdays as well).
Cartoons were a bit omnipresent those years. I was a little older (6th & 7th grade) during that period, but still watched them all. In fact, for a school project, a couple of my friends and I surveyed the entire 6th grade for their favorite cartoon or comic book character and them ranked the results and drew a huge posted with head shots of every character that was voted for in order by number of votes. (Tom & Jerry came in first place, Bugs Bunny was second, Popeye third, and Scooby Doo fourth. Batman was the highest ranking super-hero (fueled I think by WSBK playing the Adam West Batman in syndication every weekday morning). Spider-Man and Superman were the only other super-heroes to make the list (since we did the poll, we weren't allowed to vote or their would have been at least one other).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 28, 2018 2:45:34 GMT -5
Where I grew up, we mainly watched TV stations broadcast from Portland (OR), and one in particular (KPTV, Channel 12) regularly aired the Warner Bros. shorts in a half-hour format and the Flintstones in a late afternoon slot, perfect for watching after school. In the mornings, that same channel had a kid's variety show called Ramblin' Rod, during which Hanna Barbera, Looney Tunes and other cartoons were shown. Also, for the longest time the various Archies cartoons were also aired in the mornings - I only really watched those morning shows in the summer (or during Christmas and spring break), though, because on school days I - obviously - had to get ready for school and there's no way my parents would have let me turn on the TV anyway.
While writing this comment, I realized what's missing from the poll: the Hanna Barbera cartoons, with Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Dixie & Jinks, etc., etc. Personally, I'd put those in third place. Second place, of course, goes to Rocky & Bullwinkle (and the associated shorts, like Mr. Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, and so forth). But the latter were never aired by any stations where I grew up, so I first watched them when I was about college age, and they could be borrowed from video stores. I was blown away by how funny they are.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 28, 2018 8:37:01 GMT -5
Where I grew up, we mainly watched TV stations broadcast from Portland (OR), and one in particular (KPTV, Channel 12) regularly aired the Warner Bros. shorts in a half-hour format and the Flintstones in a late afternoon slot, perfect for watching after school. In the mornings, that same channel had a kid's variety show called Ramblin' Rod, during which Hanna Barbera, Looney Tunes and other cartoons were shown. Also, for the longest time the various Archies cartoons were also aired in the mornings - I only really watched those morning shows in the summer (or during Christmas and spring break), though, because on school days I - obviously - had to get ready for school and there's no way my parents would have let me turn on the TV anyway. While writing this comment, I realized what's missing from the poll: the Hanna Barbera cartoons, with Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Dixie & Jinks, etc., etc. Personally, I'd put those in third place. Second place, of course, goes to Rocky & Bullwinkle (and the associated shorts, like Mr. Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, and so forth). But the latter were never aired by any stations where I grew up, so I first watched them when I was about college age, and they could be borrowed from video stores. I was blown away by how funny they are. I made the assumption, based on the word short and the cartoons listed, that the post was about theatrical animated shorts. Since the Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Jay Ward productions were made for television I didn’t consider them. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 28, 2018 8:51:26 GMT -5
Where I grew up, we mainly watched TV stations broadcast from Portland (OR), and one in particular (KPTV, Channel 12) regularly aired the Warner Bros. shorts in a half-hour format and the Flintstones in a late afternoon slot, perfect for watching after school. In the mornings, that same channel had a kid's variety show called Ramblin' Rod, during which Hanna Barbera, Looney Tunes and other cartoons were shown. Also, for the longest time the various Archies cartoons were also aired in the mornings - I only really watched those morning shows in the summer (or during Christmas and spring break), though, because on school days I - obviously - had to get ready for school and there's no way my parents would have let me turn on the TV anyway. While writing this comment, I realized what's missing from the poll: the Hanna Barbera cartoons, with Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Dixie & Jinks, etc., etc. Personally, I'd put those in third place. Second place, of course, goes to Rocky & Bullwinkle (and the associated shorts, like Mr. Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, and so forth). But the latter were never aired by any stations where I grew up, so I first watched them when I was about college age, and they could be borrowed from video stores. I was blown away by how funny they are. I made the assumption, based on the word short and the cartoons listed, that the post was about theatrical animated shorts. Since the Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Jay Ward productions were made for television I didn’t consider them. Same here, or the Jay Ward stuff would've got my vote. Cei-U! I summon the distinction! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 28, 2018 9:49:39 GMT -5
I made the assumption, based on the word short and the cartoons listed, that the post was about theatrical animated shorts. Since the Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Jay Ward productions were made for television I didn’t consider them. Same here, or the Jay Ward stuff would've got my vote. Cei-U! I summon the distinction! Jay Ward's cartoons are incredible. The limited animation never limited the stories in any way. I might still have voted Warners but Jay Ward would be a close second. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 28, 2018 15:00:33 GMT -5
Either way, I still rank the Warner Bros. productions no. 1, because of the reasons noted by others above: the really good animation, the memorable and likeable characters and the great gags that you love as a kid and still appreciate and enjoy as an adult.
As for the Jay Ward/Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, like I said, I only first watched those as an adult and I agree that they're brilliant, but I think as a kid I probably wouldn't have liked them as much, because so much of the humor would have flown over my head. I remember that, initially, when I was really little, I thought the Pink Panther cartoons were a bit boring - it was only when I got a little older that I realized they're really good (however, I loved the Ant and the Aardvark immediately).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 16:33:55 GMT -5
I remember that, initially, when I was really little, I thought the Pink Panther cartoons were a bit boring - it was only when I got a little older that I realized they're really good (however, I loved the Ant and the Aardvark immediately). This is my favorite all-time Ant and Aardvark Cartoon "The Aardvark And The Ant - I've Got Ants In My Plans" ... thanks for mentioning them! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 28, 2018 16:47:49 GMT -5
The Pink Panther is interesting. It was the last of the theatrical shorts long after Warner, Disney, et. al. had stopped doing animated shorts. It was the only series that started out in limited animation. There can be a bit of sameness to them, but they are also an occasionally brilliant use of pantomime.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 1, 2018 8:40:48 GMT -5
Donald and Goofy are cool but I have to go with Bugs and Daffy, easily. I've never cared for Tom & Jerry either, by the way. Also not much of a Mickey man.
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Post by String on May 4, 2018 12:45:00 GMT -5
Bugs Bunny and company for the win. Just sheer classic brilliance and comedy. Although I kinda hate that PC has caught up to them because I can't recall the last time I saw a Speedy Gonzales short.
Tom & Jerry were okay, depending on the cartoon. Some classic episodes like the Mouseketeers or playing tennis were funny as were whenever Spike the dog shows up.
Mickey and crew were never shown in my area all that much (the same for the comics) so I've never been that much of a Disney fan. Though the few Goofy shorts that I've seen (such as his demonstration of playing baseball) were funny. Then again, I loved Ducktales and Tale Spin when they were airing.
Pink Panther cartoon was cool but I also loved the Inspector Clouseau shorts as well.
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