And of course, there are the two relatively recent Disney cartoons that I love and only watched because my kids were the right ages. I liked Futurama when it first premiered, but then it went away for a while and I never got back into it. The first, what, ten seasons are comedy gold, though, and there’s just too many great episodes to mention. The Simpsons, of course, holds a special place in my heart, but like so many others, I stopped watching it long ago. Another T-shirt!!!!!Īs an adult, I watch fewer cartoons, but I still like them. I watched a lot of cartoons when I was a kid, of course, but those were my favorites. Who didn’t love Jonny Quest? And I always had a soft spot for The Mighty Heroes and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, especially the Juggernaut episode. Of course, I only ask for one favorite, but it’s hard to pin these down!!!! I love a lot of animated shows!!!! In the old-school category, there’s Battle of the Planets, which for a long time was even more obscure than Star Blazers. The show was a serial, which was a novelty for kids back then, and it dealt in “adult” themes, which now I know was a feature of Japanese animation but was bizarre back then for American kids. I never saw Season Three, which is a tragedy of epic proportions. The Comet Empire was, if possible, even more impressive than Desslok. The story of the Argo and its voyage to Iscandar to rescue the Earth from the depravations of Gamilon and its leader, Desslok, is excellent, and the dumb-ass love triangle between Wildstar, Venture, and Nova was just so dumb-ass it became fun. One very minor reason I clicked with my wife was that she was a fan of the show. So there’s a whole thing of childhood and friendship and even snobbishness, as after it stopped running here in the States, it was hard for years to find anyone who had even heard of the show. Part of it is nostalgia, I admit – I began watching Star Blazers around 1980, when I was not yet ten years old, and I would watch with my two best friends, and we would literally stop whatever we were doing at that time and run inside (we were usually outside) and watch the show (how did we ever survive without streaming services?!?!?!?). I love every danged minute of it, and when I watched some of it as an adult, I loved it still. My favorite cartoon of all time is the aforementioned Star Blazers.
I know that animated shows can fall into as many categories as non-animated shows, but I’m not going to do that, either! My only criterion for this Question is that the show must be animated!!!!! I’m not going to make any distinction between them, but I don’t care if you do. Obviously, there are “adult” cartoons and “kid” cartoons. Then, my Star Blazers T-shirt came up in my rotation, so that made me think of cartoons I love (why, yes, I have a T-shirt rotation – doesn’t everyone?). One, I noted that ten years ago, Gravity Falls debuted on Disney Channel, and Gravity Falls is awesome. A few factors led into this being the Question of the Week.
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