I remember I'd go next door to watch the Banana Splits with their kids. I don't think any of us grew up quite right.


We weren't blessed with rabbit ears, most houses seemed to have a TV aerial bolted to the chimney which worked pretty well, though I remember the daft hoop aerial on the B&W portable that really didn't work very well at all. I don't remember the channel changer problem but I do recall my parents' first colour TV: they were so expensive and exotic that they were often rented, which is just as well as I think the TV repair man spent as much time in our house as we did. It was eventually replaced with a new set that had a remote control! It had all of two buttons, but it wasn't such a hardship since there were only five channels to cycle through... and only three of them had anything to tune in to.

I enjoyed Rugrats and Ren and Stimpy with my daughter, but from my youth, it was Warner brothers all the way. We used to get them at the movies too.

Aquan, Vometia...remember the signing frog?

Those two are amazing. I actually bought all the DVDs of the first four seasons of X-Men last year, in a burst of nostalgia. The fifth season was crap though. They completely changed the animation style and replaced the awesome voice actor that did Gambit. I like to pretend that the fifth season doesn't exist.

Also, this thread needs more Gargoyles.

The signing frog? Not really...a real frog or something else?

[edit] Oh the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsROL4Kf8QY....yes vaguely.

My All Time Favorite WB cartoon is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOngvHe2ok...especially the "ditty" the 'Hick' sings at the beginning.
I'll get that stuck in my head and sing it for days.

Five? There were only four when I was little...

Any cartoon (In America ) from around the mid 90's to around 2008 I have had a good chance of seeing.

Hmm, that's stirred some very distant memory: I can't really remember it, but there is something oddly familiar...


No, I meant five tuners! There were only three main channels, we got our newfangled electronic channel changer at least a couple of years before Channel 4 had launched. I'm also trying to remember what time the evening closedown was, I think the national anthem would start playing at a ludicrously early time by today's standards of 24-hour broadcasts, something like 10:30pm. In the early '80s they replaced the overnight fuzz with a selection of Ceefax pages, and the class nerd would stay up taking notes and bore us all to death in registration the next morning, though I guess it made a change from his lectures on communism.

I always liked Superfriends, myself. Also liked most anything from Looney Tunes.

Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Underdog, and even Hong Kong Phooey. Of course there's others, but ATM I'm drawing a blank.

Hated Speed Racer and Johnny Quest.