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Channel 4 (UK, named in the days before satellite tv when it quite literally was the 4th channel to exist, ah, happy days <sigh> is currently showing "The top 100 cartoons".
BOTP was in there at #63, Powerpuff girls at #58 and Thundercats at #54. Belleville Rendezvous was in the 70s somewhere, I suspect because very few people have heard of it, let alone seen it. Several Disney cartoons have been and gone, surprisingly early (I think Lady and the Tramp was #72 and Jungle Book, A Bugs Life and Snow White were in the 60s, just to give the hint that BOTP's placing really is no disgrace whatsoever).
I have had to leave the telly for tonight, since I have to get up for work in the morning. But I'd be interested to know what the rest of you, dispersed around the english speaking world as you are, would have voted for. And there might be reminders of shows you've completely forgotten in this list - I know "Noggin the Nog" and "Queer Duck" ring no bells in my (currently very drunken to the point where I can barely type) mind. Although I shall always remember "Rhubarb and Custard" and "Willo the Wisp" with great affection. My husband might have voted for "Ren and Stimpy", and my daughter is currently insane over "Scooby Doo" - the new series of which is amusing me as well
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27-02-2005 23:24
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BOTP did a lot better in the top 100 kids' shows programme that they did last year. I think it came in at #42 or something like that, and it had an interview with Casey Kasem about the way they recorded the voices. Wish I could remember what he'd said now.... He was on this show as well, but talking about Scooby Doo instead.
One thing that really surprised me though, was a little bit from the Flintstones' segment. A programming exec from Boomerang UK came on and said he'd got complaints from one episode that they'd shown, where people were saying that Wilma had called Fred and Barney "wankers" or something. It's an episode where Fred and Barney decide to join the army, and in the scene in question they're just headig out the door and promising Wilma and Betty that they'll write and stuff. And Wilma's next line, after they've left is, "How do they always manage to bollocks things up?" I'd never thought the word "bollocks" was used in the US - I can't think of any other time I've heard the word in a US show except for when there's some british language reference being made. So I had to watch the clip 3 times to believe it, and that is absolutely, definitely, clearly what Wilma says.
And then they went on to Fred and Barney doing a Winston cigarette advert. Was the Flintstones a family show? Is there any way that Fred and Barney having a Winston break and announcing that there you can get the same wonderful rich flavour 20 times in a pack, was not aimed directly at kiddies?
So, have any of you seen anything that you really wouldn't expect from a show that you thought you knew?
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03-03-2005 07:27
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I second that where the hell's "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors" statement, Cep!!!!!! I loved that show!!!!! No "Smurfs" either??? I mean come on!!!
Seeing "The Simpsons" as #1 doesn't surprise me at all. It has had some of the best writing in television during it's run. "Tom and Jerry" #2...I really don't care. I watched it when I was young be never really got into it. What got me about it though was watching the differences in the way it was drawn. I remember there being 3 different styles. Anyway, "South Park" at #3 rocks. The series is brilliant and the film is one of two, the other being "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", that no matter how many times I watch it I can't help but to laugh. It's good to see anime on the list, too. Others that I remember watching and loving growing up; "Danger Mouse", "Beavis and Butthead", "He-Man", "Transformers", "Thundercats", and "Top Cat".
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19-03-2005 05:41
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