What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

[gempompadour]

I loved Beyblade, Biker Mice from Mars and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[AbelDraws]

Cardcaptor Sakura, pichy pichy peach, doremi, Pokemon... Any anime that was aired on tv at the time tbh x'D

[MoonlitHues]

HMMMM...
I can't pick favourites, but here are a few I remember well, for various reasons

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Nominated for... Most emotional impact!
And for potentially traumatising a few kids growing up...

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Flukta frå dyreskogen! ("The Animals of Farthing Wood")

For me it has to be in Norwegian, and Nynorsk specifically. I still feel a strong mix of emotions when I hear the intro. My heart...

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Nominated for... Most MAGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS.
And for appealing to my "ooo shiny" magpie soul.

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Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic!

I even used those tricks they taught in each episode, eternally COUNFOUNDING my friends with my MAGICAL power. I still know (and use) some of them.

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Nominated for... moral in every episode.
And for some of the most mood setting music ever.

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Pokémon!

Charmander being left on that rock still breaks my heart...
And Pikachu's farewell will still make me cry, not gonna lie...
Pikachu not evolving to beat Raichu...
Etc, etc, etc...

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Nominated forrr... inspiring too much fanfic reading?
And subsequently showing me how anything that doesn't exist in canon, most likely exists in fanon somewhere... Man. I dived way too deep.

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Digimon!

Not even going to go into detail.
People who have gone deep into fandoms before... they know, haha.
I need to rewatch the first season for nostalgia.
Listening to the intro theme was a blessed mistake.

[Freemints30]

As a kid the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy was my jam, along with code name kid's next door. Secret satudays was also my favorite thou that show stop airing on weekends(the only time I could watch tv) and aired during weekdays, so I had to really try really hard to atleast watch season 2 final.

[sartinjacqueline05]

@Iris-Grimoire I remember I went through a crazy Xiaolin Showdown obsession a few years ago. I ended up watching all of the episodes on youtube and eventually got the whole series on dvd.

[Ariaz]

Well, I loved most cartoons than were out early 2000s. The Secret Saturdays and Danny Phantom were my pride and joy. Then there's Princess Tutu and Fruits Basket that started my love for anime : D.

[phoenixrenaissance]

I have to agree with Ed, Edd and Eddy as well as Courage the Cowardly Dog.
It's funny though, cause I have a distinct memory of hating E,E&E the first time I watched it. XD And god forbid I have to watch the Corage pilot episode again.

[Rhonder]

Oof it's hard to lock down one or two, but several faves have already been mentioned:

Codename: Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Xiaolin Showdown, Digimon (season 2 is my fave but they're all great!)

Another that absolutely needs mention on my end though is Code Lyoko, that was absolutely my JAM in middle school! Even went back to rewatch a large chunk of it in college haha

[phoenixrenaissance]

Oh no, I totally forgot to add ReBoot. That was definitely one I had to catch every episode of and I've def binged it several times in my adult life.

[Kiweevil]

Without a doubt, Pokémon. Though I was never allowed to watch it because my dad was a stupid racist who would ground me over "that stupid chinese sh​t". I'm very glad to be moved out now.

As a kid, all the cartoons I really had access to were Angry Beavers, Garfield and Friends (both of which my dad had illegally downloaded the entire series on the computer for me to sit and watch when he was too busy to be a parent) Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, Drawn Together, and South Park. Because those were the only other cartoons ever on in the house

[Kann]

I always liked the ones who got cancelled quickly. </3

I watched a lot of cartoons as a kid but first that came to my mind wa The Life and Times of Juniper Lee. I also remember enjoying Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, Powerpuff girls and other CN classics.

Oh and Pokemon when it first started airing all over the world. I was so into Pokemon that I made up over 400 "new ones" not knowing a thing about how types and evolution works. xD

[Cavechan]

So many. Probably easier to say what I didn't like.

I think my number one favorite though was Angry Beavers! I loved that show and its quirkiness.

[Shanny8]

Definitely 80s Transformers...I bought the entire show on DVD and watched it some yrs back.

[Chita]

Hmm, mine would probably be Doraemon, Pichi Pichi Pitch (I recently rewatched the first season for nostalgia), One Piece, Pokémon and a Pokémon weird rip off that was called Legendz, I really loved that one.

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

Hard to say, but probably Batman: The Animated Series, which spun off from the Tim Burton movie and started the DC Animated Universe. Me made it a point to download all my favorite old cartoons and watch it with my kids. That was their school for the first few years.

[Iris-Grimoire]

I rewatched it so much I never went after the DVD, I think I'd be able to guess every episode just off the first few seconds. It's the main inspiration for my comic for a good reason

[LadyN]

Not technically a cartoon but I was a Pokémon addict.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Hands down, Danny Phantom! Nothing can compare to the amount of love I have for that show and it's still my favorite to this day.

I have a few close seconds but I didn't watch them as a kid, just recently in the past three years or so. And then there are the one that, while they aren't my favs, they hold a special place in my heart because of novelty and storytelling.

So here's the list:

1. Danny Phantom: Just a bundle of good character, good comedy, and well done cliches
2. Dentionaire: If haven't heard of it, you're missing out. It's an action mystery with intriguing plot lines and fun characters
3. Blazing Team: It's a little embarrassing to admit this, but I love the ham and the cliches of this show; from the poor animation to the abundance of on the nose tropes, this just sits well with me.

Other importants: Avatar the Last Airbender, The Fairly Odd Parents, Ben 10, Jimmy Neutron, Kim Possible, PowerPuff Girls, What's New Scooby-Doo, Total Drama, 6Teen, The Proud Family and many more.

[alliascompany]

There's so many haha.

A few of them would probably be Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Rugrats, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Xiaolin show down, W.I.T.C.H, Digimon tamers, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Teen Titans, Hey Arnold, and Batman the animated series.

[Mallory]

So fun to see Soviet films on here! Takes me down the memory lane, I definitely remember all of them. This one was my favourite:

The Mystery of the Third Planet

I also liked Disney films and I REALLY wanted to watch Sailor Moon, but this was right after the Pokemon epilepsy fiasco so my mother forbid me from watching "Japanese cartoons" because "they made kids sick." She didn't elaborate and I thought it was a made-up reason that felt very unfair. I managed to sneak a few episodes at grandma's and it was always some episode where she had to rescue Tuxedo Mask and I was like hold up, pretty lady rescuing handsome dudes? Sign me up!