I watched a fair share of cartoons growing up …. Saturday morning was a ritual involving a giant cushion, a blanket, and channel surfing. Others attempted excellence (Thundercats, Smurfs or Transformers anyone?), but it’s tough to beat the best.
I give you Bugs Bunny in The Rabbit of Seville.
Caaaaaant you see that I’m much sweeter? Iiiiiii’m your little senoriter! Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop …. Daiiiiiintily.
Shan - Don’t forget about a recent favourite…the Untalkative Bunny! (Go for a look-see at http://bunny.23skidoo.org/).
Hilarious, and very unfortunately, no longer on the air.
I miss that quiet little bunny.
dan - That bunny is so quiet. What’s his deal? Is he hiding something?
Others that deserve mention are Ren & Stimpy (the original gross-out cartoon), Pro-Stars (Wayne Gretzky was a cartoon, and there was also a breakfast cereal. Mustn’t have lasted long), and the WWF wrestlers cartoon Rock n’ Wrestling (in retrospect: terrible).
mark - Pro-Stars… nice. Yeah, that one didn’t last too long. The combined talents of Gretzky, Jordan and Bo Jackson, while impressive, surprisingly don’t translate all that well to crime fighting. there’s only so many puck shaped bombs that need to be slapshotted out of danger and football shaped diamonds that need to be recovered from evil football teams. They ran out of stories in like 5 episodes.
Another good one was Biker Mice from Mars. One of the mice was voiced by Ian Ziering (Steve Sanders).
Shan - This might lower my ‘cool quotient’ a little, but one of my old faves was the *little known Tiny Toon Adventures. You know, the young version of the Looney Tunes. Witty and fresh…for 1990.
*little known because no one in my age category still watched Saturday morning cartoons in the early 90’s.