A Frightening Thought...

[SD67]

Don't forget Kimba the White Lion.

Woot I thought I was the only one!
I can still remember the theme song Bet you can't post it all without google
Gawd I remember watching early anime on B&W TV when I was living in Singapore in the '70s!
That and Monkey

[avionix]

If you know where to look, there's plenty of them (just ask meatwad )

But so many of the cartoons today bring in a measure of politics and social change that I find disturbing for something that is supposed to take our minds off of the world for a short time.  Bring back Road Runner and Daffy Duck.  Now that some funny shtuff.  Anyone know if they even show those on cable anymore?

[Brooke]

Just saying that the cartoons of today have about as much substance as a dry sponge.  Cartoons are supposed to be funny IMHO.

I mostly agree with you there if you are talking about kid-oriented ones (although Pinky and the Brain comes to mind as being quite good as a somewhat modern example).  There have been some great modern cartoons that are more for adults (Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Venture Brothers, Frisky Dingo, etc.).

[MORAY37]

Didn't anyone else start out with "Starblazers" as a kid?????   Wave motion gun baby!

[Anodizer]

Didn't anyone else start out with "Starblazers" as a kid?????   Wave motion gun baby!

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Totally.......Star Blazers was the shiznat when I was a knee high to a grasshopper... 
Back then, Nova was hotter than any girl in 4th grade....And she's still hotter than most even now!! lol
I remember what a big deal it was when they fired the wave motion gun....The recoil shot....Everything....
"Our Star Blazers!!!"   Surprisingly, not many remember that particular show... 
OMG what was the name of that one ship that had the duel wave motion guns?  Andromeda I think??
 

Plus, the names of the characters were super cool (at least when I was that young)...
Derek Wildstar
Capt. Avatar
Mark Venture
Sandor (dude had bionic limbs...I remember the episode where they had to detach them  )
Dr. Sane
Conroy
Homer Glitchman
Dash Orion
Capt. Gideon (bad arse M-Fer!!)

Most of all....Desslok..By far the coolest name in an anime or cartoon ever conceived...

<<<S>>> to a fellow Star Blazers admirer.....

Show had so many resemblances to Star Trek...But is more like how the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is.. 
I'm not one of those guys still big on cartoons (or anime...actually I don't really like anime or what is considered anime today).
But this show had more substance than anything at the time...  Definitely has much more substance than anything kids watch
today...  I think it was made for a more intelligent audience as many terms and examples were used that the typical
10 year old with a Spongebob SquareNipple mentality just wouldn't understand...  People died in this show..  The ship and crew were
brought the brink of disaster many times throughout every season...  The stuff was believable (especially back then)...  The show made you feel every emotion the crew felt..  Music was great....  Man....Can't say enough great things about this show....lol

[Enker]

Heck, my dad grew up watching Astro Boy back in the Early-ish Cold War. And, he is turning 50-something this year.

[mg1942]

Now that's old!

[BoilerDown]

Show had so many resemblances to Star Trek...But is more like how the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is..  I'm not one of those guys still big on cartoons (or anime...actually I don't really like anime or what is considered anime today).  But this show had more substance than anything at the time...  Definitely has much more substance than anything kids watch today...  I think it was made for a more intelligent audience as many terms and examples were used that the typical 10 year old with a Spongebob SquareNipple mentality just wouldn't understand...  People died in this show..  The ship and crew were brought the brink of disaster many times throughout every season...  The stuff was believable (especially back then)...  The show made you feel every emotion the crew felt..  Music was great....  Man....Can't say enough great things about this show....lol

Sounds like something I would like, may have to add to my Netflix queue.  I never heard of it, but that's very similar to Robotech and BSG.

[Shuckins]

Used to watch Astro-Boy occasionally.   But Johnny Quest was THE ultimate adventure cartoon.  <sigh>

[Hangtime]

the rich guy next door had a servant named haji and a pug named bandit. as i recall the rich guy bought it in a boat accident and the dog got run over.

used to love the show, tho.

[Brooke]

Used to watch Astro-Boy occasionally.   But Johnny Quest was THE ultimate adventure cartoon.  <sigh>

I suggest The Venture Brothers.  If you liked Johnny Quest as a kid, you might love The Venture Brothers as an adult.

[Anodizer]

Used to watch Astro-Boy occasionally.   But Johnny Quest was THE ultimate adventure cartoon.  <sigh>

Johnny Quest

[MORAY37]

Sounds like something I would like, may have to add to my Netflix queue.  I never heard of it, but that's very similar to Robotech and BSG.

It is very fun to watch... check it out on youtube...you can pretty much get almost the entire first and second "season".  For a cartoon, it really had some big issues in it.  Sexism, Racism and many other up front issues were tackled often.  Characters died...and they had depth...Good guys had flaws, and the bad guys were sometimes actually good. 

One thing I always hated though... Just when it seemed the Yamato was about to get clobbered... they could always rely on the wave motion gun (the big hole in the bow) to get em out.  I always said... "well why the hell didn't you just use that in the beginning????"  All in all.... fun trip.

[mg1942]

My current favorite is Death Note. 
I was just channel surfing and this showed up on Adult Swim last year.  I got hooked the moment I finished the first episode.  After that I stopped watching and decided to just DVR it because I don't feel like staying up late.  Death Note just finished this year and I'm splurging on my saved DVR clips   All I can say is that its got a really twisted plot that should only be reserved to live action movies