Shorty and I one night just decided to go on YouTube to listen to the theme music of all our favourite cartoons growing up. Just listening to them tunes brought back lots and lots of memories. I thought it might make a cool blog post so here are my Top 10 favourite.
10) Cow & Chicken
Mama had a Chicken… Mama had a Cow… Dad was proud he didn’t care how.
Can’t say I absolutely loved this particular cartoon. I did watch it here and there but I found some parts where they played too much on Cow’s nipples to be a little disgusting. Still the theme song for its intro is one that you’ll remember forever.
They always seemed to play Cow & Chicken about the same time they played “Courage the Cowardly Dog” though. I liked Courage a lot more. When you look at him you just can’t help but feel he’s thinking “FML” all the time.
9) Powerpuff Girls
I guess by the time Powerpuff Girls came out I was young enough to still enjoy cartoons but old enough to not worry about publicly liking Powerpuff Girls. You know how boys are last time, you can’t like anything girly.
Powerpuff girls though was cool. My favourite character was Bubbles.
Always wanted to have a gf like her one day. Then again… current GF ain’t too far away from that….
Tiny… check
Big Eyes… check
8 ) Captain Planet
I watched this a lot growing up. Thought all their superpowers were really cool except for the one Ma-Ti had. I mean the others could cause earthquakes, tidal waves, fireballs or hurricanes but what can the native Indian Ma-Ti do?
He has this super power called “Heart”. When he does that… well nothing really happens. Ok not exactly NOTHING. According to Wikipedia this is what he can do
“Ma-Ti uses the power of heart to instill caring, passion, and sympathy into the people of the world to care for the planet. He can also use this power to communicate with animals telepathically”
So he can instill care, passion and sympathy except on those bad guys they always fight in the series… oh and he can talk to squirrels.
7) Johnny Bravo
All I can say is… WHAT AN EPIC IDEA FOR A CARTOON!
GOTTA LOVE JOHNNY BRAVO… WHO DOESN’T! A guy who takes good care of his hair, always wears sunglasses and calls himself “Pretty”.
6) Chip N Dale
Chip N Dale was this cartoon about this team of characters that went around.. well.. foiling the plans of bad guys to take over the world or do evil stuff and all that. I remember liking it a lot because you have two types of characters. Chip was the smart one and Dale was the … well stupid one who also happened to be my favourite one.
I don’t remember why I liked Dale so much. Maybe because I always thought he was funny or that he was always good with the ladies. The theme song for Chip N Dale is one of my favourites though.
5) Transformers
Back when I was a kid watching Transformers, I never imagined they would actually make a movie of it many many years later. And a really good movie at that too! For some reason as a kid I liked Bumble Bee eventhough he was really like Ma-Ti in Captain Planet… useless.
The Bumblebee in the Transformer movies though could do some decent fighting on his own. Back in the cartoon he was just… well.. like I said… a Ma-Ti.
4) Smurfs
Just listening to the opening music gives me happiness. Ahhh I remember the mushroom houses they used to stay in, the little bad man who always tried to catch them and of course… Smurfette.
Smurfette was hot man… in those kid years.. everyone had a crush on Smurfette. Eventhough she was this blue little cartoon character.
The good news is that they’re coming up with a Smurfs movie this year I think. I’ve also heard a lot about Smurfs lately from the hype of the game Smurf’s Village that has been going all around. The game’s so popular now that there are even sites like this that sell “Smurf Village Secrets”.
3) Dexter’s Lab
Dexter’s Lab to me back then was kinda like a little Stewie from Family Guy. Except that of course Stewie didn’t have a little annoying sister that pressed buttons that weren’t meant to be pressed.
That’s one thing I always noticed about Dexter’s Lab. HE ALWAYS HAD SOME BUTTON FOR DEE DEE TO PRESS.
2) Duck Tales
I LOVE DUCK TALES. I love everything about it. Every episode was more or less the same. The Beagle boys was always trying to steal money out of Scrooge McDuck’s money bin. That’s right… he has this big safe full of gold coins that he calls a money bin. And what does he do in the money bin whenever he’s not out earning even more money? He swims in it. Literally.
Love the theme song too.
1) Robotech
This is hands down, my favourite cartoon of all time. It’s actually my very first taste of anime.
The whole showthough really wasn’t just like any other cartoon. It had a deep plot and a really cool storyline set in the future. War, love, friendship… all those themes were covered in Robotech. It was also the first cartoon I ever saw that actually had people in it “Die”. That was always a strange thought to me. I mean back then… cartoons in my mind didn’t die. Look at how much Jerry manage to beat the shit out of Tom in Tom & Jerry. No matter what happens to Tom, he still lives.
In Robotech though, they build up characters throughout the show and one by one of them they die. I think it even made me cry once. The show was long though. It had 3 whole seasons to it. They referred to each Season as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Generations. The 1st Generation featured the first set of humans. The 2nd featured the children of the 1st Generation (once they grew older) and the 3rd generation featured children of the 2nd Generation.
Cool huh?
This is one of my favourite scenes from Robotech.
I love Robotech. I wish there was a way I could find all the episodes again just to keep. I hear that Tobey Maguire is a fan of Robotech and is going to be making a movie of it too. I really hope he does. It would be a dream come true.
So there you have it everyone. My Top 10 Cartoons growing up.
When I look at the cartoons I grew up watching and compare it with the ones the kids of today grow up watching I can’t help but feel that the cartoons of today really aren’t very good. I don’t know if it’s just that I’ve grown out of cartoons to appreciate what kids watch these days but even popular cartoons like Ben 10 and Spongebob Squarepants really make me wonder why they’re even popular in the first place. Sure their animation is a lot better than before but I always felt that the cartoons of today were really “hollow” if that makes any sense.
Anyway what are some of your other favourite cartoons of your time?
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Right after posting this entry I realized that I missed one very very important cartoon.
GARFIELD AND FRIENDS
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space