My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
(I just looked this up, and apparently it only ran for one season of 13 episodes in the late 70s. It featured an elderly superhero called Tyrone who could "scale tall buildings, as long as his sneakers held"
I guess Batman/Superman and X-Men from the 90's, not really my childhood as I was a Teenager in the 90's. But I watched them and they were solid shows.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
As a young fella, Robotech. Motherfuckers died in Robotech -- and they didn't come back.
As a grown-ass man, I really dug Gargoyles for the same reason -- and it didn't hurt that the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation provided most of the voicework.
Speaking of voicework, imho, Mark Hamill's Joker in Batman: The Animated Series is the best thing he's ever done in his career -- also, an awesome series.
Finally, in undergrad, I planned my class schedule around Animaniacs.
I obsessed over Voltron and still kind of do. And all the Hanna Barbera cartoons. Now the cartoons my 3 year old watches is crap. Nothing like the non computer era most of us grew up in.
"Capp is at his allegorical best in the epics of the Shmoos, and later, the Kigmies", wrote comic strip historian Jerry Robinson (in The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art, 1974). "Shmoos are the world's most amiable creatures, supplying all man's needs. Like a fertility myth gone berserk, they reproduced so prodigiously they threatened to wreck the economy"—if not western civilization as we know it, and ultimately society itself.
Superficially, the Shmoo story concerns a cuddly creature that
desires nothing more than to be a boon to humans. Although initially
Capp denied or avoided discussion of any satirical intentions ("If the
Shmoo fits", he proclaimed, "wear it!"),[7] he was widely seen to be stalking bigger game subtextually. The story has social, ethical, and philosophical implications that continue to invite analysis to this day.[8][9][10][11][12] During the remainder of his life, Capp was seldom interviewed without reference to the nature of the Shmoo story.
The mythic tale ends on a deliberately ironic
note. Shmoos are officially declared a menace, and systematically
hunted down and slaughtered—because they were deemed "bad for business".
The much-copied story line was a parable that was interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War. Al Capp was even invited to go on a radio show to debate socialistNorman Thomas on the effect of the Shmoo on modern capitalism.
"After it came out both the left and the right attacked the Shmoo", according to publisher Denis Kitchen. "Communists thought he was making fun of socialism and Marxism. The right wing thought he was making fun of capitalism and the American way. Capp caught flak from both sides.[13] For him it was an apoliticalmorality tale about human nature... I think [the Shmoo] was one of those bursts of genius. He was a genius, there's no question about that."[14]
The worst of times..they don't phase me, even if I look and act really crazy.
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My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCL3JWkRyCI
Scooby Doo
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
(I just looked this up, and apparently it only ran for one season of 13 episodes in the late 70s. It featured an elderly superhero called Tyrone who could "scale tall buildings, as long as his sneakers held"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwWUtoLnUjo
Send my credentials to the house of detention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqrjkhAbqA
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
I'm not that old
I guess Batman/Superman and X-Men from the 90's, not really my childhood as I was a Teenager in the 90's. But I watched them and they were solid shows.
On with the show, T
OOP'S
and not really a 'cartoon' but I loved:
- Christopher McCandless
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
:fp:
Oh, dude, Spongebob is awesome
it is! but i feel fuckin ancient
As a grown-ass man, I really dug Gargoyles for the same reason -- and it didn't hurt that the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation provided most of the voicework.
Speaking of voicework, imho, Mark Hamill's Joker in Batman: The Animated Series is the best thing he's ever done in his career -- also, an awesome series.
Finally, in undergrad, I planned my class schedule around Animaniacs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFXTa2yeYWs
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(I've been going through a bunch of cartoons I once watched, I gotta say, 'ThunderCats' is not nearly as good as I remember it back in 1985)
Magilla Gorilla
Felix the Cat
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Yellow Submarine
The Flintstones
RoadRunner
I'm sure there's more.
want to be enlightened"
GI Joe
Transformers
Gummi Bears
Ducktales
Batman
http://www.maxtoons.com/grendizer.htm
inspector gadget and astro boy (prior to school)
He Man
transformers
GI Joe
Bugs Bunny show
Go Bots
Tin Tin
I was 6 when Spongebob aired
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly
"Capp is at his allegorical best in the epics of the Shmoos, and later, the Kigmies", wrote comic strip historian Jerry Robinson (in The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art, 1974). "Shmoos are the world's most amiable creatures, supplying all man's needs. Like a fertility myth gone berserk, they reproduced so prodigiously they threatened to wreck the economy"—if not western civilization as we know it, and ultimately society itself.
Superficially, the Shmoo story concerns a cuddly creature that desires nothing more than to be a boon to humans. Although initially Capp denied or avoided discussion of any satirical intentions ("If the Shmoo fits", he proclaimed, "wear it!"),[7] he was widely seen to be stalking bigger game subtextually. The story has social, ethical, and philosophical implications that continue to invite analysis to this day.[8][9][10][11][12] During the remainder of his life, Capp was seldom interviewed without reference to the nature of the Shmoo story.
The mythic tale ends on a deliberately ironic note. Shmoos are officially declared a menace, and systematically hunted down and slaughtered—because they were deemed "bad for business". The much-copied story line was a parable that was interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War. Al Capp was even invited to go on a radio show to debate socialist Norman Thomas on the effect of the Shmoo on modern capitalism.
"After it came out both the left and the right attacked the Shmoo", according to publisher Denis Kitchen. "Communists thought he was making fun of socialism and Marxism. The right wing thought he was making fun of capitalism and the American way. Capp caught flak from both sides.[13] For him it was an apolitical morality tale about human nature... I think [the Shmoo] was one of those bursts of genius. He was a genius, there's no question about that."[14]
even if I look and act really crazy.