Childhood tv shows and films you loved.
 

Just finished watching drop dead fred.
There are so many films I used to love, neverending story, labyrinth.
I used to love dragon ball z aswell.

Galaxy High

Also does anyone remember that cartoon that was like set inside a persons body? Like the characters were viruses, blood vessels and all that shit.

Wasn't that a movie with Bill Murray and then they turned it into a weekly cartoon?

Pretty sure that was called Osmosis Jones, not sure what he was talking bout but did remind me of Magic School Bus show.

Ghostbusters 2.

I never really liked the first one until I hit my teens. Then I obviously figured out it was the better of the two.

Also: Pee-Wee's Playhouse and all the Pee-Wee movies. I was and still am a Pee Wee mark. Paul Rubens in general, Mystery Men = :y:...

Plus:

The Real Ghostbusters
Dennis the Menace
TMNT
Roundhouse
Ren and Stimpy
All That (original cast, after that either I grew out of it or it really went to shit)
Keenan and Kel
I'd say the entire Nickelodeon lineup from like 94-98, shit like Pete and Pete, Rocko, etc.

Too many more to name...

Galaxy Rangers.
Voltron.
Labyrinth.

Silverhawks
Thundercats
G.I. Joe (I still think some people see war like this.)
Smurfs
The Real Ghostbusters
Transformers and the shitty ripoff (aka Go-Bots)
Voltron. (the Tigers one. The Cars one was only good once, when they teamed up WITH the Tigers one.)

Transformers the Movie (not the new one coming out, the animated one that featured cursing and death.) was awesome. I remember crying when Optimus died. I saw it on my 6th or 7th birthday.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
VR Troopers
The Spiderman Animated series on fox.

Fox kids used to have the sickest kids lineup

Rude Dog
Ducktales
Tom & Jerry (all variations)
Power Rangers
old school Spiderman cartoon series
GI Joe
Inspector Gadget cartoon series (Dr. Claw was the illest)

Cool McCool
Tom & Jerry

Cool McCool shits all over everything else.

Come on, if I was going to make an honest attempt at this, I'd be here for ages. :$

Shitttttttttt, let's see...

Power Rangers
VR Troopers
Bobby's World
Batman: The Animated Series
Spider Man: The Animated Series
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs
TMNT
GI Joe

I am def forgetting a ton.

Freakazoid FFS

Okay, let's see:

X-Men Animated Series (can't believe nobody's said that yet)
Animaniacs
Pinky and the Brain
Transformers
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Toxic Crusaders
Astro Boy
Biker Mice From Mars
Battle Toads
The Simpsons
Inspector Gadget
Count Duckula
Gumby and Friends
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Super Friends
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Batman: The Animated Series
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Rocko's Modern Life (pretty much all the Nicktoons)
Kenan & Kel
Smurfs
Thundercats
Banana Man
Bangers and Mash
Super Ted
The Ferals
Round the Twist
Danger Mouse

Yeah. And that's just the TV shows. That I remember. Not much to do in PNG when you're 2-7 years old living in a gated community with an 8pm city-wide curfew and all that's on TV is old cartoons from the '80s because new stuff from abroad didn't come so easily back then (so I was well versed in all the Hanna Barbera favourites too). This may also explain why I lack any athletic ability whatsoever, and also my latent racist tendencies which I don't really deal with anymore.

*cough*

:love:


Also:

Rocko's Modern Life
Bucky O'Hare
TMNT
Transformers
Heman
Thundercats
Johnny Quest
Saved by the Bell
California Dreams
Pro Stars
Hang Time
Grange Hill

mitch mentioned a load more I forgot too

Yeah I had a pretty comprehensive viewing experience growing up. For the first few years of my childhood I could watch tonnes of cartoons from the 1960s to the 1980s from England and America pretty much and then when we moved back to Australia suddenly and got cable, then I had access to all the Nicktoons and Cartoon Network shows and stuff. Best of both worlds.

Pretty much what's been said, but also:

Tigersharks
Bionic 6
Captain N: The Gamemaster
Mario & Zelda cartoons
Camp Candy
C.O.P.S.
Filmation's Ghostbusters
Gummi Bears
Adventures In Wonderland
Dumbo's Circus
Care Bears
Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
Fraggle Rock
Fantasic Max

Forgot the Simpsons. I literally grew up on it.

Also...

I didn't even know there was a Battle Toads show...

Oh yeah, and a few more movies I loved:

Blank Check
Home Alone 1 & 2
Almost all the Ernest movies
Toy Story 1 & 2
The Back to the Future Trilogy
Ace Ventura 1 & 2
The Mask

I went tip of the iceburg, myself. Good lord, I forgot about a bunch of those.

Tigersharks, wasn't that part of a bunch of shows called "The Comic Strip?" It also featured a series entitled Street Frogs, IIRC.

Also remember a movie that I think was called "The Dark Crystal" or something like that, and Willow.

Darkwing Duck was cool, too. "I am the Terror that FLAP IN THE NIGHT!"

Captain N was cool, even though they confused Bayou Billy with Pitfall that one time.

Speaking of Nintendo, how about "the Wizard", which if I remember right, was about a kid that I think had Autism or something like that, but was the shit in Video Games. Featured the Debut of the Power Glove and Super Mario 3.

it seems like me and my friend are the only ones to remember Silverhawks.

C.O.P.S. was cool. Especially Longarm.

Apparently (read: Wikipedia says) only the pilot made it to air, but I could've sworn that I'd seen at least a few episodes. Apparently only one. Guess I can't really include it in my "favourite shows" ever, but the games were pretty cool albeit ridiculously hard.

Seriously now adays it sucks for kids they have shows like Dora, and gay shit like that. We had some quality shows when we were younger.

I loved Power Rangers, I was in love with the Pink Ranger. But yeah so many good shows.

All the new Kids stuff is shitty. They either are 1. Really, REALLY PC, 2. A spinoff/resurrection of a better show, or 3. Just plain shit.

It's all anime shit. Yugioh and crap. Pisses me off.

Legends of the Hidden Temple

Oh yeah, Bananaman, bitches.

But for real, Cool McCool.

Magnum P.I.

*clap clap*

I loved that show.

Also, Nick GUTS, Double Dare and of course Nick Arcade. :D

And the Super Mario Brothers Super Show of course.

Ahh, Tommy...Without the sex and violence.

Silverhawks was good.

I keep hearing they released it on DVD, but can't find it.

Anyone ever see Spiral Zone?

Blank Check was awesome. Until you get older and realize how 1 million dollars can only go so far

How did nobody say Mighty Max and Hey Dude and shit

I'd love to make a big list but I'm too lazy right now

I was a bit old for Mighty Max when it came out, if I recall.

But Hey Dude, hells yes. Danny was awesome. "Hey Ted, don't touch that, it's Native American." "Hey Melodie, don't eat that, it's Native American."

okay so much for my laziness I have to do it now that I started thinking about it...

Cartoons:
The Real Ghostbusters
Ninja Turtles
GI Joe
Xmen
Spider-Man Animated Series
Batman Animated Series
Extreme Ghostbusters
Men In Black the cartoon...for a short time I remember digging this
Animaniacs
Tiny Toon Adventures
Pinky and the Brain
Rocko's Modern Life
Rugrats
Doug
Ren n Stimpy
Ahh Real Monsters
Kabblam
Mighty Max
Bucky O'Hare
Cowboys of Moo Mesa
Smurfs
Scooby Doo (the young version was the shit too)
Gumby
Beetlejuice
Alvin and The Chipmunks
Marvel Comics Action Hour with Stan Lee (Iron Man and Fantastic 4)
Sonic the Hedgehog (the cartoony one where they loved chili dogs)
Super Mario Bros/Legend of Zelda
Garfield and Friends (the second half with the farm characters was the goods)
Heathcliff the cat
Captain Planet
Transformers/Beast Wars
Bobby's World
Earthworm Jim
Dennis the Menace (Phil Hartman voiced his dad)
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Magic School Bus
Back to the Future the animated series
Muppet Babies
Inspector Gadget
Eureeka's Castle
Biker Mice from Mars
James Bond Jr.


I'll tackle live action later.

Yea all that crap really pisses me off big time. I guess Pokemon is to blame for that whole craze. I fuckin hate how kids today have YuGiOh when cartoons used to be so good. I feel bad for them.
The only respectable shit they have for kids these days are the staples. Batman, Ninja Turtles, Tom and Jerry and all the basics are still around, and so is Scooby Doo. But they're all reworked versions with new animation and direction and they're inferior to the others.

YEs to both.

I actually used to watch Mad Max, because I'd exercise before school, and it was the only thing good on TV between 6:00 and 7:00 AM.

Dude, we have VOLTRON to blame. and ROBOTECH. And SPEED RACER. They opened the door to shitty japanese shows (I'm not calling them shitty, but COME ON, these were the major origins of Anime in the US). and honestly, unless you're 40 now, there was most certainly some popular and shitty Anime/Japanimation show on TV.

I mean fuck, 80% of the shows on TV when I was growing up (Most of the TV I watched in my youth was between 86 and 89 or so, then I started reading pretty heavily for a few years) were 30 minute advertisements that showed you how to play with an action figure. Which reminds me...Anyone watch MASK? They actually made laws about this shit.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is tyhat it's easy to mine the good stuff from the bad, but really, the 70s, 80s, and 90s were not really any better than the current stuff. I mean, there's still good kid's shows. Not many can I name, butthen, my interest level's a little lower. But come on...

Not all the kid's content is crap. I mean, I enjoy some of these shows. Fairly Oddparents is fucking twisted. :D And Comcast has it OnDemand....Hmmm

Anyone ever catch Esteban and the Seven Cities of Gold? I don't know the full title, because they changed it every like 2 episodes.

Howabout Bonkers? It wasn't really my youth, per se....

Just commenting, but Pokemon was huge when I was in 5th grade. I loved it. The games, the card game, and the show. I even went to see the first movie. But after the second season of the show and 10 movies and 12 spin-off shows and 150 games it's been watered down to absolute shit.