I have a question for yall what would be your favorite time era for your favorite cartoons....? I personally liked the cartoons in the 80's because they had like super friends, smurfs, care bears, strawberry shortcake and everything. But that's just my opinion.
What's your favorite era for cartoons.

I like anything personally from the 80's to the mid 90's Today nothing really grabs my attention.

Originally posted by GeorgiaboyJeff!
I like anything personally from the 80's to the mid 90's Today nothing really grabs my attention.

Ditto. I only like a few cartoons from the 90's though. I like Doug and Pepper Ann. I loved watching Beavis and Butthead. Those are the only really good cartoons that I like from the 90's. I can't remember too many cartoons that I watched from the 80's.

Well, my first TV obsession was with "Duck Tales" so there's some 80's. Now I'm obsessed with "The Powerpuff Girls" and that's now...

I don't really know.

Nothing beats Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes! They might have been from the '40's, but the comedy still holds up today.

'60s-'70s,also '50s.

Probably anything from the 50's on until the mid eighties. I think cartoons in the 90's with the exception of a few were too reality based. I love Tom and Jerry I grew up with them and of course Scooby Doo. Johnny Quest was a favorite also. I only watch Cartoon Network when these cartoons are on.

It's gotta be the 1980s. Home to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Valerie, Alf, Muppet Babbies,etc.jeremylicht#16.bmp

Definitely the 60's when Hanna Barbera studios was at its creative peak. They turned out tons of made for TV cartoons in the 60's and all of them way better than anything made today. My favorites include Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, and the Jetsons.:happyface

Originally posted by Marvo301
Definitely the 60's when Hanna Barbera studios was at its creative peak. They turned out tons of made for TV cartoons in the 60's and all of them way better than anything made today. My favorites include Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, and the Jetsons.:happyface

I agree, I still think Hanna Barbera made the all time best cartoons until the ones they started doing in the mid 90's.

The 90's Nickeldeon and Disney had such great cartoons back then.

The classics of the 30s & 40s were great for their time and place, but i'll take todays Anime from Japan ( not the censored kiddy stuff you see on TV here ) over any animation of anytime

Definitely the 60's when Hanna Barbera studios was at its creative peak. They turned out tons of made for TV cartoons in the 60's and all of them way better than anything made today. My favorites include Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, and the Jetsons.:happyface
I loved the early Hanna-Barbera shows, from 1957 to 1964 (RUFF & REDDY,
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND, QUICK DRAW McGRAW, THE FLINTSTONES, YOGI BEAR,
TOP CAT, TOUCHE TURTLE, THE JETSONS, JONNY QUEST). I think H & B "jumped the shark" with MAGILLA GORILLA (1964). Although the animation was better, it lacked the calibre of writing and voice acting of the earlier shows. Daws Butler was invaluable on those classic cartoons. Bill Hanna once said that without Daws there might have never even been a Hanna-Barbera!

For me, it's 80's to mid 90's cartoons....the recent stuff they have out today has gone down the crapper.

My favorite era for cartoons is the 1930's right up to the 1980's.

I Love the Cartoons from the 80's

I agree with such folks at TV collector

1957-1964 era,especially Hanna Barbera, ALVIN SHOW and BEANY and UNDCERDOG and GUMBY (YES, the pixiliation,wrongly title dclaymation was NOT real time!It qualifies).

The 80s with TINY TOONS, PINKY and BRAIN, SMURFS<etc.IMO didn't rock my world.



Daws Butler was ecellent in those and in the WB, Ward,LANTZ< shows,etc.

I liked the Total TV cartoons, with such folks as Jackson Beck, Don Adams, BRad Bolke,Larry Storch<Kenny Delmar, & Wally Cox.

And GUMBY..the 1956-68 version ONLY.

ALVIN, and BEANY.

AND the 30 minuite FLINSTONES and for ME that is the ONLY incartrnation, NOT the reivivals,only those 166 epsidodes from 0/30/60 to 4/1/66-April Fool's,NOT-that was the LAST original episode!

The various "one voice wonders" [which some of the following fellows and gals weren't EXACTLY], doing walk ons and guiests realy made the show,especially in the first four years IMHO


{Despite my avatar beign in the mediocre JOSIE AND THE PUSYCATS flick she is in continally popular films like 50 1st DATES, BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, CHARLIE AND CHOCLATE FACTORY, ALONG CAME POLLY and othera]

[All of these are old time radio "distinct gimmick" favroties of many of us fanaatics!with disctinit normal voice-s-like like my avatar, Missi]
**Howard Macnear (that "Yeah Yah..ooooh" Floyd the barbera from ANDY GRIFFITH and countless older radio shows--interestingly playing SERIOUS or comedy relif roles,as in GUNSMOKE, CISCO KID and other westerns if I recall correctly.Died in 1969, -was not in the best of health even during his ANDY GRIFFITH days, IIRC-a few yearsafter the 1966 cancelling of FLINSTONES]

**Frank "Yessss" Nelson reprising his "eager to please but with a nasty tongue for the customer" character from radio agian [JACK BENNY, most memorbaly] possibly in some Walt Disney films, also iN Walt Lantz's DIG THAT DOG as narrator and countless others, in THE SMURFS and THE SNURKS and som eother 1980s lesser shows)=-as EVERY salesman or clerk Fred encountered (SANDFORD AND SON and LUCY as well)

**Janet Waldo,likewise rom radio's Hilary Duff-That's so Raven, MEET CORLISS ARCHER-Waldo was actualy a grown, college domestic housewife impersonating a Hilary Duff or Amanda Bynes during World War II, and of course became Judy Jetson, Peneolple, Josie (beofre my avtar Shari Alberoni played Alexandra, like a better verison of Chuck Jones and Fritz Freleng's evilly characterised verison of the once great Daffy witha Cruelle DeVilla - Tallulah Bankhead (veterna actress who inpsired the DIsney villian) - Pepe Le Pew stripe down bakc of her neck! May have coined the "Mother and Daddy" forms of adress all of her characters sem to use form her radio show

Herbert Vigran and Herschel Bernadi authortiy figures, first gravelly and the other Brooklynese.The latter became also known in Braodway's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and as the cart-una Charlie (Only Good tuna get to be starkist.) Both men dead since 1986.

Then some jacks and jills o'all trades like the main cast (Jean Vanderpyl, Mel Blanc, Al Reed, Bea Benadaret, Don Messick, John Stephenson,Harvey Korman, Gerry Joihnson) like Paul Fres, Howie Morris and Al melvin, and June Foray would appear on the STONES>

On the bakcground muisc side, I lvoed Hoyt Curtin's HB stuf BUT there's much to be said for the "John Seely Assocviates "cues whihc had the most often ehard music ever in the 1950s.

They have been WIDELY mnisunderstood oin the net and stuff.

Originated from 1940s-50s Capitol cues with purchased cues from MUTEL, Laszo,EMI, Synchro, Chudnow,Farn Families, and the famed Langlois Library,then eases and leases till John Seely has Bil Loose (1909-1991) create NEW cues for several libraries.

All of them will ring a Pavlov bell if you hear them.


atch HUCKLEBRRY HOUND out west andsee if YOU don't get goosebumps, chickenbumps even! (Yeah, Snagglepuss's line. But..I'm on a roll!)

Such titles as RuRAL FOXTROT by Phil Green or Loose & Seely 2-TC-207 or FAST MOVEMENT 4-ZR-48 by George Hormel (that came out in a very well done and very well edited 1994 Saturn Autombile Corp., ad with various still "Saturn car shots")

(It's in the pioneering ealry PIXIE AND DIXIE schoolroom LITTLE BIRDMOUSE eppy at the end




I also liked the 6 minite Hanna Barbera shows RUFF AND REDDY thru the 1961 YOGI series.It's a shame that (whilst I certainly rspect others here) that Scooby and other IMO less capitivating mystery-inspiring characetrs Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi, etc. are not merchandised more (as they were, not those "Genddy Tarts-whoever/PowderPuff Girl" type rehashes or 1970s gang get togther shows I mean the original shorties,with the 1962 THIS IS YOUR LIFE type YOGI'S BIRTHDAY show..at least it was a specila and it was not PC like the later stuff like YOGI's gang :mad: ).

Sorry for rambling and i'm not trying to get pulled from here, :D , but I wanan retuirn to a happy state and let others enjoy their fave raves while mine will be mine..esp.the Yogi's scored by :"John Seely".

BTW Taking the oppurtunity here and making picnic baskets out of lemons..

"Langlois Film Music Library" head-musical director Mr.Jack Shaindlin [c.1906-1978] did a lot of the music in those late 1950s Yogi's, as DID Seely and his longtime partner Bill Loose, and possibly EMI Photoplay/England head Phillip L.Green (the latter;s muzik IS all over Quick Draw,Baba lLooey,Augie and Doggie, Blabber,Snoioper). If you listen enough to Yogi, you might nhear an eerie busy string/oboe tune used in (an example) the early-day PIXIE AND DIXIE/Jinksy THE GHOST W/THE MOST (1958-1959) when Dixie, as part of the fun, "starts to haunt Jinks" and he starts to talk to himself about nail biting, chains on the brians and finally pitiching a (cat like!!) fit!! (In 1958, such dialgoue in HB--compare with SMURFS, or PUNKY BREWSTER by thier offhsoot Ruby and Spears, and see how in my opinion much shark jumping..this short was about Pixie and Dixie scaring Jinsk as a practical joke to teach him not to ruin anyone's fun. Esepcially if it is two miserable meeces.)
That ghostly cue in the just described scene is LIGHT MOVEMNT (like other John Seeley cues, it'ts titls as such and has a stock LP # and "transmission/model #" type seciton listing, here "l4-4-ZR-46"!)


Those backgriund pieces in the 1957-1960 Hanna Barbera shorts were used on MY THREE SONS, many Screen Gems/Columbia (which also distributed the 1956-1966 Hanna Barbera shows) , Clokey (GUMBY and DAVEY & GOLIATH), 1959-60 FRACTURED FAIRY TALES (but no other ROCKY shows?), REAL McCOYS, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, and also POST-I LOVE LUCY Desilu (even though THE show of theirs, ILL had ORIGINAL live on film music!)

Despite popular BELIEF these shows did NOT use Capitol stock music!


DISNEY shows (various-1950s at least were scored originally)
ANDY GRIFITH (Surpash Surprahs Ruspash-not a type--Gomer Pyke here, guest hitting for Steve Carras, poiting that ORIGINAL socrs were use,d DESPITE the similiarly of the music heee to the John Seely stock music!

But ma ny OTHER shows WERE scored using "that" music.

Sometimes a theme would arise from the library..DONNA REED, for one and DENNIS THE MENACE as many know from Gumby's 1956 MAGIC SHOW & Road Runner's HOOK,LINE & STINKER but also that MST3KK rave fave ROBOT RUMPUS used the DENNIS theme..the earlier part the cue using it, the part NEVER used on DENNIS open, the one in HOOK LINE etc with Coyote and Roadrunner remsebling that old Rimnsky-Korasov(?) FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE, is the piece heard in A GUMBY CONCERTO with you know who (the bugle call part)..even MY LITTLE MARGIE"s them was derived from stock (Alexander Laszo, yet ANOTHER who sold his library of stock private cues to the Capitol Seely library, as "SM"-"Structrual Music:)

And of course, REN AND STIMPY used some of this -- at least aftert the first season (including the intensely debated ADULT PARTY SWIM-they used Jack Shaindlin's cues---used on a very EARLY Fractured Tale about the Ugly Duckling, titled WHO ME-thanks to a buddy named Joe Blow(not his real name,or internet name,onot his e-mail name either)--tunes like RELUCTANT ELEPHANT,aka THE GROTESQUE COMEDY TWO, are tunes yoiu would REMEMEBER form YOGI (like in the famous HOME SWEET JELLYSTONE,with the ranger moving away - that song comes out in two successive,back to back, excerpts in the "Ranger tlaks to his friend and replacement (Tom)" scene and Tom keeping Mr Ranger Sir up-to-date on that smarter than the average Ranger bear). Speaking of Mr.,Shaindlin, FUN ON ICE is what ya hear come the end (if happy) of YOGI cartoons.

May I plug a site..not mine and not selling

http://www.apmmusic.com
Go to on the left-bound margin, then click on COMEDY, click on again GENERAL/RECOMMENDED LISTENIGN, then CINEMUSIC, then click CINEMUSIC 1 and CINEMUSIC 6. ALternatively, y'all can also cgo to the site (same as at the start of this here paragraph) and scroll DOWN to the "LIBARIES & COVER ART" box, then click on it, then click CINEMUSIC, then same as before: click the album name (until you click a box that says :"View") then CINE6 and CINE1

The "John Seely" cues drawn from Jack Shaindlin's 1949-1956 library include:


PIXIE PRANKS -CLASSIC..wandered into THIS when my late dad was watching OZZIE AND HARRIET 25 years ago--I thought I was going to hear Don Messick as Pixie say "Where's JINKSY, PIXIE and Daws Butler repsonding either (as Pixie!) "Oh, I dunno Dixie" or (as Jinks)"I HATE MEECES..TO PIECES!" The [19th century scientist] PAVLOV reflex RE canned music strikes!
I PSCHYCOLOGICALLY pictured Yogi or Huck when David and Rick Nelson were oN!!! Hearing that tune made me think of Ruff and Reddy;s latest caper.
Likewise, when I heard BUSH BABY by Phil Green which I associate with AUGIE DOGGIE cartoons.

CRAZY GOOFS - This is on Quikc Draw whenever he accidentally blasts imself in front of Howard Stern's favorite burrito.,

CAPERS-Not to be confused with CUSTARD PIE CAPERS by Phil Green (see below!), this is another Quick Draw Mcgraw needledrop when the clumsy horse's nemesis are schmeing.

GOROTESQUE and FUN ON ICE (see paragraphs above this list!)

ASISNE - NO Not a nasty word. Fun tune in HUCK, and let's also mention GUMBY, LION AROUND most effective, using xylphones..very bouncy and VERRRRY catchy..:)

Also recognizable, but used as far as Hanna-Barbera in the QUICK DRAW series (my friend online is doing a prject, and sending me some sutff--I'm keeping him ANONYMOUSn andhis emial likewise as he doesnb't have many copies of each "Stock piece") also memorable are the Phil Green cues, which John Seely licensed.These also showed up in many 1950s productions.

BUSH BABY-not about Jenna or Barbara (!) but a Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy tune used in the Warner Bros. short, A BIRD IN A BONETT (see below) when "Granny"'s puttting the bonnett with Tweety therein, in two original Gumby's - the very early, TOO LOO (1955) when the two music notes of the title jump into, and out of, Gumby;s mouth, and a later one in the original package, OF CLAY AND CRITTERS when an alien inchworm (DON'T ASK! It's the world of Gumby.Used, IIRC,



Some of Phil Green's EMI PHOTOPLAY CUES

If you go to again http://www.apmmusic.com and then go to KPM< then archives, go to #1, the songs will remind you of REN AND STIMPY
FOLLI THE FOAL - used in many R&S happy scnes
MODERL GIRL-Closed the half hours
(AGAIN, Pavlov's coniditoned reflex striketh! Makes me think of REN AND STIMPY!)

The work inhouse of JohN Seely and William Loose included a lot of mainly string base cues (it is as if by now there is a disnct style here amongst these fellows!!:D)
Know of a song, ECCENTRIC COMEDY,. 2-TC-202? Well, if you've seen the open to Warner's PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE< chances are good you HAVE, it's the most memorbale piec ein YOGI HUCK JINKS and RUFF/REDDY shorts.
Guess what? It is aso heard in Gumby..too.

The aforementioned FAST MOVEMENT catalogued: 4-ZR-46 is a Capitol Stock music piece heard as I mentioned, in many Hanna barbera shorts, LITTLE BIRDMOUISE with Pixie, Dixie, professor, and Jinks, and the Yakky and Yogi SLUMBER PARTY SMARTY, in boith times as the end.

Some REAL obscure fellows-
Emil Cadkin and harry Bluestone are the geniuses behind many of the tunes heard in the old AUGIE DOGGIE shorts like HAPPY HOME used whenveer AUGIE tries to talk to his dad about Augie's latest playmate, whom you will count on the Jimmy Durante-sounding dad of his NOT to approve of.It's got a lot of strings there

That's PUZZLED PUP you hear in the 1958 Warner Bros. Looney Toon "scored" "THAT was" inasmuch a musicians strrike took place in Hollywodo in 1957 or 1958. It was in the "The coyote takes a bundle of TNT and shows how dynamite he ain't at blowing the 'Runner by putting it beneath a small bridge" scene, the one right beofre a piano., Again, I found all of THIS out at http://www.apmmusic.com, here in CARLIN, in COMEDY (I think you cna just search for anylibary). I think REN AND STIMPY used a few of thsoe "Carlin Production" cues by Bluestone-Cadkin,to.
Of course Warner Bros.,used these pieces for I tihnk, parts of SPEEDY GONZALES and ROAD RUNNER'S, and certainly 6 shots recorded during a 1958 musicians strike (BIRD IN A BONNETT, GOPHER BROKE, HIP HIP HURRY, HOOK LINE AND STINKER, PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE and WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK)

Sorry to ramble here..

1980-2000 cartoon. ;)

Attn: Steve Carras
Hey, thanks for "rambling." And I did read MOST of your message (skimmed the
rest). I remember all the shows and actors you mentioned. (Glad that I'm not
the only person whose head is full of "useless trivia." Ha! Ha!) I just wanted to
add this: Hanna-Barbera has been accused of "borrowing" (some would say
"swiping") several ideas for shows and characters. But sometimes they even
swiped from themselves. Case in point: the Tom & Jerry cartoon "Heavenly
Puss" (1949) was remade ten years later with Pixie & Dixie & Mr. Jinks as
"Heavens to Jinksy." I just thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.

Flinstones, Jetson, Looney Toons, bugs bunny, lots more from long time ago :)

Attn: Steve Carras
I noticed that you mentioned Total TV Productions ...

"I liked the Total TV cartoons, with such folks as Jackson Beck, Don Adams, BRad Bolke,Larry Storch<Kenny Delmar, & Wally Cox."

I just want to mention a new book, HOW UNDERDOG WAS BORN, by Buck
Biggers & Chet Stover (the creators). You can order a copy from BearManor
(the publisher), at their website: www.bearmanormedia.bizland.com. I
highly recommend it. It tells the whole story behind KING LEONARDO,
TENNESSEE TUXEDO, UNDERDOG and all the Total TV cartoons. For instance,
did you know: King Leonardo was based on actor Eugene Pallette (Little
John in Errol Flynn's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD)? Odie Colognie was
modeled after Ronald Colman and Commander McBragg was based on Sir
C. Aubrey Smith. You probably knew The Hunter was based on, and voiced by, Kenny Delmar (radio's Senator Claghorn), but did you know Sweet Polly Purebred was Marilyn Monroe "turned into a poodle"? Or Simon Bar Sinister and Riff Raff were, respectively, imitations of Lionel Barrymore and George Raft? BearManor also has biographies of Daws Butler, Paul Frees, and Walter Tetley.

I also recommend the magazine ANIMATO #38 (Summer-Fall 1997), which has a lengthy cover story about Underdog and other TTV characters. Lots of cool pix, too, by Joe Harris (who designed the model sheets for the characters). I found my copy on eBay two years ago. Great color cover by
Harris, too.

Well, being a child of the 1970s...the 1970s, of course! I grew up with afterschool repeats of Hanna-Barbera's 1975 Tom & Jerry cartoons. :cool:

the 1975 to 2000 era

the 90s

The 80s-early 90s was THE golden era to grow up with cartoons. Sure the Hanna Barbera and Depatie Freiling stuff from the 60s and 70s are cool, but nowhere near the epicness of the 80s! No other era can come close to the quality and variety of the 80s

the 1975 to 2000 era

Thats more than an "era" lol

Probably the 1990's and 2000's, overall. I mean, of there were classics like Looney Tunes and the Hanna-Barbera cartoons from many of the decades prior, but at the time, reruns of many of those shows were very common on television (unlike today), on both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Those are where most of my exposure from those shows come from. And of course, the originals from 1990's and 2000's as well.

To this day, Nickelodeon's run of Looney Tunes in the 90's were the best. It actually had a great variety of shorts it would show, unlike Boomerang today.

Probably the 1990's and 2000's, overall. I mean, of there were classics like Looney Tunes and the Hanna-Barbera cartoons from many of the decades prior, but at the time, reruns of many of those shows were very common on television (unlike today), on both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Those are where most of my exposure from those shows come from. And of course, the originals from 1990's and 2000's as well.

To this day, Nickelodeon's run of Looney Tunes in the 90's were the best. It actually had a great variety of shorts it would show, unlike Boomerang today.

Cartoon Network had a longer run of Looney Tunes in the early-mid 90s (like 1992-1999 I believe, then sporadically theoughout the early 2000s) and even went as far as airing the "banned" politically incorrect and World War II shorts. They also had a marathon where they aired every single short featuring Bugs Bunny "June Bugs" it was called. Nickelodeon never did anything like that and only aired Looney Tunes sporadically from 1987-91 before Turner partnered with Warner and gained the exclusive rights to air Looney Tunes on the newly created Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network had a longer run of Looney Tunes in the early-mid 90s (like 1992-1999 I believe, then sporadically theoughout the early 2000s) and even went as far as airing the "banned" politically incorrect and World War II shorts. They also had a marathon where they aired every single short featuring Bugs Bunny "June Bugs" it was called. Nickelodeon never did anything like that and only aired Looney Tunes sporadically from 1987-91 before Turner partnered with Warner and gained the exclusive rights to air Looney Tunes on the newly created Cartoon Network.

Actually, Looney Tunes was airing on Nickelodeon daily until 1999 (I would know. I watched them everyday on Nickelodeon for a period in the 90's). That's when Cartoon Network gained exclusive rights. Which is also why they were taken off of ABC's Saturday Morning Cartoons when their contract ran out in 2000. So, believe it or not, at one point, the shorts were airing on both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

I'm gonna say from the 1930's to the 1990's. There's some good cartoons today, but they're so far and in between.

This is how I see animation...

The Golden Era: 1930-1957
The Silver Era: 1957-1968
The Dark Era: 1969-1981
The Bronze Era: 1982-1996
The Corporate Era: 1997-2009
The Iron Era: 2010-Present

I'll might say the 90s and 2000s. Most of this had to deal with the fact that I'm a child of the 2000s (was born in 1999 though, but I was a kid throughout the 2000s).

Cartoons from the golden age ( 30's-60's) and some from the 70'S.

Era is the wrong term being used here. It should be what DECADE. By saying era basically one can say they like every cartoon ever made and those that dont exist yet because we live in the Cenozoic Era. LOL, just being a stickler.

Very simple.

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The 1970's of course.

1985-1994