Top 100 cartoons

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

Channel 4 top 100 cartoons

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Tom and Jerry! my all time fave cartoon!

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They must have re-done it at some point, coz when I looked, battle of the planets was 11th

Never mind, must be in alphabetical order. *sigh*

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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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

The Flintstones were earlier than that, surely? Didn't they start in the 60s?

Marriage guidance though? Fred and Wilma? The mind boggles.... Was it the Flintstones that was based on the Honeymooners?

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

I hope you get well soon.

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"If you think I am a Condor, you may keep that opinion;
Though I am no Condor, my Skylines rusty enough."

Flinstones are from the early 60's as a cartoon version of the honeymooners and where originally used in cigarette adverts.

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when your surrounded by turkeys.......

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Its hard to soar like an eagle........

when your surrounded by turkeys.......

Have you forgotten a certain cartoon with the words Battle, Of, The and Planets in the title and a certain annoying robot in as well?

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