eg. I was obsessed with Teenage mutant ninja turtles as a kid
Samurai Jack
Who dares to summon the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow, Aku?
As a kid, Ghostbusters and inspector gadget were my jam. I had the toys, they were so cool.
As a teen, I loved Freakazoid and Animaniacs.
As a young adult, Dexter’s lab and Johnny Bravo.
Ghostbusters was great. I think it was done by the guy who went on to do Babylon 5.
Harvey Birdman (and also, when he became an attorney at law).
I was also obsessed with ninja turtles (who wasn’t) but for pure nostalgia Astro Boy is probably the first cartoon I can remember watching and Voltron the first I was proper obsessed with.
Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck
Invader Zim. Haven’t watched it in years but I still quote it.
GI Joe
Reagan-era propaganda for children.
After showing my ex (when we were like 20yo) the Transformers movie (which holds up and is awesome), we decided to rent the GI Joe movie. All the badies had foreign accents. The plot revolved around some type of energy crisis. I even remember a corporate slogan for Amex worked its way into the TV show: never leave home without it.
The people who made that show should be held accountable for propagandizing children.
Yeah a lot of older cartoons are problematic.
Tom and Jerry and pretty much any of the very old cartoons: racism
Transformers and He-man: basically made to sell toys. i.e consumerism
What? It was pure marketing for the toys. So was transformers. It was this whole thing in the 80s, but GI Joe was pretty much the classic example of it. But there was strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, even he-man, and others.
Unless you’re using propaganda in place of advertising/marketing?
But the history of the GI Joe show and toys is well documented, and it wasn’t tied to political shit except indirectly, in that it was essentially all US military at first.
Mind you, it eventually jumped the shark with the snake king and such as that. But it was never done as military propaganda as the goal.
The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.
I loved it myself, but Golobulus? Kinda jumping the shark lol. Jumping the snake for sure.
I don’t think most of that’s propaganda. I think most of that is writers being lazy and inserting a few in-jokes for their own amusement.
Bugs bunny. Alternate, Gummi Bears, with points for best theme song.
Bouncing here and there and everywhere!
Best cartoon theme song ever!
Where in the world is Carman Sandiego
Courage the cowardly dog
The flintstones
Courage still haunts my nightmares to this day. Excellent show.
Transformers was pretty great
Thundercats
Ren & Stimpy Robotech
Whoa. I must’ve missed that crossover
Dungeons and Dragons
If anime counts, Slayers(English dub)
If not, Reboot
Reboot was such a good show, and ahead of its time imo. I rewatched it a few years back, and there were so many tech jokes and references that went over my head as a kid.
Being a part of the internet in 2011, I vividly remember everyone talking about My Little Pony, even though I wasn’t that hardcore of a fan at the time. I’m pretty sure my feed of Cartoon Network aired a couple episodes, but that’s all I can remember watching.
And then some spinoff happened where all the ponies are… not ponies. This is when I completely lost interest in the franchise. Thanks, 2013.
