What was your favorite animated show growing up? And what was one that was your MOST HATED?

[ZAPPI]

I have severe PTSD from Jay Jay the Jet Plane...who the hell thought "lets put weird CGI human skin faces on jet planes!" was a good idea?!

[ThunderChicken]

Oh god, you’ve reawakened some long dormant PTSD in me. While I was a 70’s/80’s kid I was exposed to plenty of 2000’s cartoons thanks to watching TV with my niece. Jay Jay is pure nightmare fuel. Dora the Explorer was annoying as well (I still can’t hear the bass line in Supertramp’s Fool’s Overture without thinking “Swiper no swiping!). And there was one I can’t remember the name of with a bunch of cutsey-drawn anthropomorphic animals. The main protagonist was a young girl rabbit with a baby brother. I swear it gave me diabetes.

[krazycafetales262]

The rabbit one sounds like Max and Ruby.

[Aeneas1]

Favourite: Bagpuss, The Clangers, The Wombles, The Flumps, The Adventures of Larry the Lamb, Scooby Doo.

Most hated: Dora the Explorer, Jackie Chan Adventures, et cetera.

[Lensing]

I loved Tom & Jerry, The Smurfs, Captain Future etc.
I disliked everything about Heman

[andrew17]

Mine are from the early 70s. Faves were that first season of Scooby Doo, Astronut, Jamie and the Magic Torch (best sig tune EVAR!), Marine Boy, the Eric Thompson run of the magic Roundabout and HERRR-JAAY's ADVENTURES OF TINNNNN-TINNNNN! For some reason I found some early Hanna Barbera like Atom Ant or Secret Squirrel so excruciatingly bad that I couldn't bear to be in the same room as anyone else while it was on.

[thepenmonster]

As a child I would race home from school to catch Starblazers/ Yamato

If we're only talking about hated cartoons when I was a kid and not the endless drek that is seasonal anime and adult cartoons today? GI Joe

[ThunderChicken]

Yeah, GI Joe was another mess. American military self-aggrandizing aside, it was a cartoon that "cleaned up" warfare (nobody ever died and the good guys always won) for the sole purpose of selling plastic tanks and planes to young boys. I know most 80's cartoons were basically toy commercials, but GI Joe took it to the extreme. He-man was too, but at least it featured mostly naked hot dudes, an important feature for a young proto-gay such as I was.

[thepenmonster]

I mean, Starblazers was an insanely pro-military work as well. But even the Japanese original wasn't jingoistic like GI Joe was. Matsumoto always had a "love the soldiers, hate the war" take on the genre. (Similar to Garth Ennis, TBH)

GI Joe? Recruitment aimed at kids.

[Leyelle]

I don't want to diss any shows, so I'll just mention ones I really liked: Word Girl (I was a nerdy kid lol, but it's a very funny show), Phineas and Ferb, I think Young Justice was one, and I know there were some others but I really can't remember which ones I loved the most. Dan Povenmire (Phineas and Ferb) is actually one of my biggest writing inspirations so...

[nene]

Phineas and ferb
Tom and Jerry
Lolirock

[Lensing]

Tom & Jerry was great. I loved the humour, the music, the characters and
the drawings.

I didn´t like the Warner Bros cartoons much, I liked some of the characters
but 1) I dislike Bugs Bunny and 2) the cartoons were always a bit lame

[miuthecat]

At some point of your life american cartoons are simply not enough, just got in love with my first anime that aired on tv in the 90's: The Misterious Cities of Gold, ever since, I didnt watch american cartoons

[RED-VELVET-CUPCAKE]

I loved anything Scooby-Doo or Pokémon related. Also enjoyed Teen Titans, Justice League, Danny Phantom, Invader Zim, and Avatar: the last airbender! I still go back to watch these from time to time.

[KevinReijnders]

I know most 80's cartoons were basically toy commercials, but GI Joe took it to the extreme.

Thank you Ronald Reagan

[Beelovabea]

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[skidiggy]

This one might be a bit of a deep cut, but I was obsessed with the Wacky Races as a wee tot.

I wanted Professor Pat Pending's Convert-a-Car so badly... Other favorites were the Buzzwagon and the Army Surplus Special.

As for cartoons I hated... Ed, Edd, & Eddy. Their voices grated on me like a bare a** on gravel. I did like Plank though, mostly because he didn't talk.

[ThunderChicken]

I didn´t like the Warner Bros cartoons much, I liked some of the charactersbut 1) I dislike Bugs Bunny and 2) the cartoons were always a bit lame

The Chuck Jones directed Warner Brothers cartoons were the best. The animations were simpler (cheaper if you will) but the cartoons were much funnier. The facial expressions alone did it for me. Chuck Jones also directed the Grinch cartoon, and some of the funniest facial expressions in cartoon history appear in that. The Chuck Jones years also brought us the best of Gossamer the red haired monster (also known in some cartoons as "Rudolph"), the abominable snow man, Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2 century, Marvin the Martian, and more.

This one might be a bit of a deep cut, but I was obsessed with the Wacky Races as a wee tot.

I loved the Hanna Barbara cartoons, and as a young car nut you can bet that I was there for the Wacky Races! Captain Cave man was my perpetual favourite racer in the show. And while on the subject of crazy cartoon cars, how could I forget Tom Slick and his Thunderbolt Grease Slapper? Tom Slick was one of those cheap, poorly animated shows (along with George of the Jungle and Super Chicken) that was corny and terrible but I loved it just the same

[briyosan]

i LOVED this show a LOT!

i HATE this mothef-

[Crusoe]

Awh man, I miss watching cartoons!

I grew up on spongebob, adventure time, world of gumball, phineas and ferb, etc. My faves were Scooby Doo (mystery inc especially), Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Teen Titans and for a while also RWBY and Camp Camp (good old Rooster Teeth...).

I never got the hype of Recess though, nor did I care much about Regular Show or Fairly Odd Parents. They're great shows, just didn't appeal to me.