ok, i love scooby doo! (and i don't mean the one with scrappy doo or where all the characters are little kids, either)

felix the cat betty boop the rocky and bullwinkle show the new adventures of johnny quest rupert cow and chicken dexter's laboratory johny bravo scooby doo mighty mouse (old and new) animaniacs tiny toons oh, and the list goes on...

the tiny toons? the tiny toons?? my kids luv 'em too....

old warner bros. cartoons animaniacs rocko's modern life

rocko is good hey, ratthing, we didn't run you off from the philosophy conf did we?

RAY!!!!!! You're back?!?! For good?? Where have you been???? We missed you! Didn't we? Warner bros - all of them Cow and Chicken (all-time favourite) Dexter I.R. Johnny Bravo (all the cartoons by that guy - they're hilarious)

:) nope, i am still here just busy! i will be coming in as often as possible with my usual assortment of 2 to 3 line non-sequiturs, but will try to continue on with my hostly duties and interacting with you very terrific people.

Wow, Scoob, did ya here that?

No, but I did. And I'm sitting on a chair, beaming my arse off! Great to have you back, Ray!

The Powerpuff Girls

YEAH!!! I wish I had ice powers too!

I'm sure you have your own version...

Yeah right! Your nearest thing must be . . . BAKING POW(d)ER!! Stoopid joke, sit.

yeahyeahyeah...I like Reboot, as well...and Dragonball Z...

This new stuff you got going in the background and on the horizontals is awesome. Some pretty good minds at work, I think! Roger Ramjet

has anyone else seen the ads for SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon?

Nope, don't have cable anymore.

johnny bravo, or did i say that already? background and dividers are great!! never heard of those other cartoons, squarepants? i was having trouble with ed edd and eddy!!

ROAD RUNNER (have a tattoo on left arm with Wile E. Coyote choking the Road Runner and the inscription "Beep Beep your ---!") BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD (my impressions of both and Mr. Anderson crack up my students.} KING OF THE HILL (do impressions of Hank, Dale, and Boomhower) SOUTH PARK (do impression of Eric Cartman--and look a little like him grown up and bearded) FAMILY GUY (Stewie the baby slays me and I wish I could do impression of him) THE SIMPSONS (Have been working on Homer impression for years. Should get it about the time it goes off TV. Doh! Did a "celebrity wakeup call" on Harry Shearer in 1986 when I was doing mornings on KPOI-FM in Honolulu. He was totally cool...talked to our morning crew for a half hour on the air and kept us in stitches!) CLUTCH CARGO (So low budget it was camp. Only the mouths, which were human lips superimposed on still drawings, moved!) SPEED RACER (A classic Japanese import from the 1970s. Maybe the grandfather of the current Japan anime craze, which is huge in Hawaii. Go, Speed Racer, Go!) DUCK TALES (Does anyone realize the voice of Scrooge McDuck is none other than Alan Young, who played Wilbur on MR. ED?) REN & STIMPY (Totally psychotic. Sing along with me! "Happy, happy, joy joy!" BUGS BUNNY (His "Barber of Seville" episode and his encounters with Marvin the Martian will live forever in the annals of cartoon greatness!) FRITZ THE CAT (How could one not love the first x-rated feature length cartoon movie!)

Re: bugs bunny and friends ... how many of the GenX-ers heard classical music for the first time while watching these cartoons. I used to irritate my son by telling him what the music actually was. There are some he can still sing the cartoon words to... My favorite BB aside from TBoS is the Wagnurian one which ended with Tannheuser... and it was lovely and very touching. *sniff*

OK going to correct my spelling from Telnet...Tannh�user...before I offend someone...

still love dexter's laboratory, scooby doo, etc.!!

Scooby Doo (original one) Rocky and Bullwinkle old Warner Bro stuff Roadrunner Tom and Jerry (my sister used to do cells for these) (any of the old ones with "gratuitous violence" in them...)

Mel Blanc did wonderful comic opera. As for Scooby Doo, I love that big chicken. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy. I do an impression of Casey that would fool his mother.

Sherman and Mr. Peabody

Rocky and Bullwinkle are classics. I used to work with a burned out old disc jockey named Lan Roberts who was the voice of Bullwinkle after the original guy died. It was spooky hearing him doing the voice on the air. It was so good it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention. What I love about Rocky and Bullwinkle is the many levels of the humor, from silly kids stuff to groan out loud puns, to geopolitical satire spoofing the Cold War.

Sherman and Mr. Peabody are great painless fractured history lessons.

Great stuff, John! Can't wait to talk to you in person!!! David rediscovered Rocky and Bullwinkle when he was in college and finally understood why I never missed an episode while he was watching as a kid - and laughing with him but on a totally different level, as you say. Too good!

BTW, John, very interesting background you gave with your initial long post on Cartoons. I really appreciated that stuff...where else would one learn that than here?!

Too much useless stuff inside my noggin...

Join the crowd, Dear! I have heard that from some other brilliant minds around here, and (without putting myself in the same league, mind you) I have also voiced the same thought about myself! You are in good company... You've found a home!

old scooby doo definitely. and am i the only one who can't stand scrappy doo? i could strangle him!

Wer can't and neither can I. Who needs a yappy hyper dog. The kids are noisy enough! I'll hold him - you strangle...!

I'll third that one (as if my vote was needed!)

Always glad to add your discriminating vote for the good stuff.

Can you say "Speed Racer"?

I can sing it (if I could sing!) Is is tarnishing my image to admit to liking Hanna-Barbera Cartoons?!

No, it is enhancing it!

Autumn may not have noticed that I mentioned 'ol Speed in my first post here. "Go, Speed Racer, Go!" Definitely ground-breaking low budget Japanese animation! MTV may still show it (I know they did a couple of years ago, but it was on some ungodly hour, like 3:30 am Hawaii time).

Marcia, As for Hanna-Barbera...The Flintstones are still some of the greatest cartoons ever...and Yogi Bear was the first impression I did as a child (other than female singers...maybe I should've become a castrato...my love life would still be the same)!

Oh, My Dear John...perish the thought! The Castrati command very high prices indeed, but I think your sex life might have been altered beyond recognition... But, that is not an appropriate discussion for this topic.

What sex life? And where WOULD be an appropriate forum for that comment?

In the Sex Conference http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/sex/all Contrary to what it says at the top of the conference, it is not private and you may post any lament you wish and there will be others to join your side.

There it will be taken seriously and not with the humor it deserves.

Not if you are as skillful writer as I know you are and you utilize that talent in telling of your plight. A deadpan dire story can be hilarious to the point of making one ill...just by being so straight-ahead in your tale. Go for it!

Has anyone seen the new Mickey Mouse Cartoons yet? I haven't, but I read in the Sunday Telegraph last night that they have to keep it sort of politically correct and all this time round. None of that shooting and hitting each other over the head with frying pans anymore. Apparently the cartoonists thought it all went a bit too far when Donald went whitewater rafting, inevitable fell out in the water, and the board wanted them to put a life-jacket on him...

Now that's funny! A life jacket on a duck! That's like testing fertility drugs on rabbits!

HA! Good comparison!

back to hanna barbera, i love their cartoons!

Yup, but the subtlties of Bullwinkle gets to me every time. I find them irresistible.

My fav's:Johnny Bravo, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. And does anybody else remember the Samurai Pizza Cats?

Geez, Samurai Pizza cats made it to the mainland? I thought only Hawaii was so beset. Aloha, Tex!

i made need a refresher on the cats--they sound familiar--perhaps the teenage mutant ninja turtles was a spin off?

sponge bob, we've watched him since the kids discovered him a couple of years ago.

What's a sponge bob? I am definitly at an awkward age - my son is too old yet has not yet produced grandchildren to make excuses for me to watch cartoons.

he's exactly as he sounds--a square sponge (like kitchen sponge) and his pants are square because he is. he lives under the ocean (bikini bottom - as in the atoll) and is very naive. he works at the crusty crab (btw, we have a Krusty Krab right down the street) and loves his job, a grumpy squid is the cashier and a greedy crab is the boss. his two best friends in the whole world are patrick, a big pink starfish, and sandy, a squirrel, who lives in an air aquarium (complete with airlock doors) undersea. he has a pet snail named Gary who meows. anyway, we love it even for all it's silliness. it makes us laugh!

Top Cat G-Force/Battle Of The Planets Most versions of Scooby-Doo, including those with Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum and/or Dyno-Mutt. (Blue Falcon - and Dog Wonder - AWAY! He-he HEYYY!!!!) Fraggle Rock doesn't count; that was (originally) done with puppets, not animation. I wish Don Bluth would do an animated series.

I am too old for all those, except the original Scooby-Doo!

scooby is the best!

Don't have any right now. Don't really watch cartoons. Maybe anime.