Anyone have any major issues about the top 100 cartoons programme which recently aired in the U.K.? I’m not entirely sure that feature length cartoons should have featured as heavily as they did, and some that did feature were just utterly bizzare. And Pinky and the Brain not being included when “Bod” was was just unforgivable.
Here’s the full list:
The Simpsons
Tom and Jerry
South Park
Toy Story (1 and 2)
Family Guy
Shrek (1 and 2)
The Lion King
Spirited Away (anime)
The Incredibles
Bugs Bunny
The Flintstones
The Iron Giant
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Finding Nemo
Aardman Animations (including Wallace and Gromit & Creature comforts)
There’s a tone of others who should be there too including :
Dexter’s Lab
Saint Seiya [anime]
Batman
Conan (not the Barbarian; the future boy)[anime]
Trigun[anime]
Cow & Chicken ( i reckon it’s stupid but it rawks)
Oh and that one (I don’t remember it’s name) with those warrior that could transform themselves in animals and some even could call deities of sorts with their “banner long sticks” I ate that every Saturday
Visonaries, The knights of the magical light,Visonaries,With magical powers they fight.
Yeah that list was offwack and very suspect. Queerduck got in because of the people behind the show put it there. No one in the general public even heard of that. Plus the list was also funny when you put Legend Of the Overfiend next door to Alice In Wonderland.
Batman was one if not the best tv cartoon action show ever made yet it was no where to be seen. and legends like Dungeons and Dragons got slagged off. The show was rubbish.
"I come through systems, peoples, and cities, to this place - Mainframe. My format - Guardian. To mend, and defend. To protect my newfound friends, their hopes, and dreams. To defend them from - their enemies."
And followed by that gloriously exuberant, exultant and effusive orchestrated theme tune. ReBoot was an absolutely magnificent cartoon and in my days of undespoiled preadolescent innocence I simply couldn’t get enough of it!
I was also a great proponent of Dexter’s Laboratory, which I always considered to be (quite appositely!) gloriously inventive!
I’m glad to see that Danger Mouse was awarded a relatively high place in the chart, as well - with Japanese and American imports smothering the animation industry, I was concerned that quintissentially British pieces of our television heritage would be abandoned by the wayside - but where were Bananman and Superted, I say? Travesty!
The Incredibles’ high position may be due in part to its recent release, but I think it genuinely deserve a high position in the chart, also - it was a superb and stupendous film - when even the credit sequence is stylishly presented, you know you’ve watched a classic - and when I watched it on the school librarians’ Chirstams outing, the teachers were laughing twice as much as the pupils!
…Did I, of all people, honestly write so many exclamation marks in a single post? I need to get to bed…
Actually 2 movies, technically. It was really more like 2 story arcs of 4 episodes each which composed season 4 of the series. It wasn’t as good as the rest of the series anyway, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it unless you’re really burning to know how the whole Daemon thing shook out. Season 3 (and the latter half of season 2) were the best in my opinion, though it was all awesome.
Legend of the Overfiend, whoever they polled for such a list must have guts to include such a politically incorrect film such as that, i’m impressed actually. Where was Fist of the North Star (film or series) and Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Actually 2 movies, technically. It was really more like 2 story arcs of 4 episodes each which composed season 4 of the series. It wasn’t as good as the rest of the series anyway, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it unless you’re really burning to know how the whole Daemon thing shook out. Season 3 (and the latter half of season 2) were the best in my opinion, though it was all awesome.[/quote]
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I just heard a while ago that they wanted to make a movie for Cartoon Network, but I guess it was just a string of episodes.
Fist of the North Star was an extremely niche cartoon, only airing during the midnight hours on Channel 4 over here. From what I can remember, it’s the animated equivalent of a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie: blood and guts and not much else.
Reboot is a fair point too. But like many others, including my personal dissappoint “The Dreamstone” (early 90’s, based on the good dreams/bad dreams battle nightly and revolving around the jewel of the title), they were never really shown that much out of CITV (kid’s schedule on 1 channel) in the UK, whereas something like Rugrats was shown on Nickelodeon, BBC1, ITV, etc.
Well that poll was totally outdated man. Akira and Fist of the North Star and Overfiend got in because they were the first proper adult animes people saw in this country. And that’s why it was included. Either that or cartoons that got included because they are cool now. Battle Of the Planets suddenly gets cool again after all these years when people hardly knew what it was. it suddenly gets shown on Bravoand every tom dick and harry knows what it is.
Galaxy Rangers and Centurions were absent and had a more derserving on that list than some of the crap that somehow got in.
If I ws to do a poll i will talk to general normal people about their feelings of a cartoon show not some talentless Z celebrity whose trying to connect
a cartoon with some seedy sex porn and gay political agenada. What they said about He Man pissed me off!!!
I rather annoyed that Voltron didn’t make the list, but it’s cool that Iron Giant did. Some of those cartoons I’ve never even heard of. I guess they either never made it to the US or they were way before my time.
I liked Battle of the Planets back when I was a kid, though I don’t remember it very well since I was so young. I don’t think it was good enough to be in the top 100 though. The firebird ship and the bird costumes were great, but I’m not sure how well the rest of the show has aged.
Dude, if I was name one cartoon that was the definition of average, it would be Centurions. Decent amount of action, but the storylines were usually the same and there was little character development.
And people nowadays just look for sex in everything. See The Da Vinci Code.
Dude, if I was name one cartoon that was the definition of average, it would be Centurions. Decent amount of action, but the storylines were usually the same and there was little character development.
And people nowadays just look for sex in everything. See The Da Vinci Code.[/quote]
Yeah but compare to todays cartoons it beats the living daylights out of them. Cartoons that my generation considered shit had way much more better animation and voice acting then most of today’s cartoons.
You’d have to define today’s cartoons. If you’re trying to say Centurions is better than Samurai Jack, I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree, as Jack is one of the best all-round cartoons of all time in terms of both visuals and storylines. If, however, you are going to say that Centurions is better than Ed, Edd and Eddy, I will instantly agree.
Samurai Jack isn’t better animated than Centurions was. And Samurai Jack is the best that they can muster than the animation industry in america is in serious trouble.
TV animation at it’s best was stuff like Dungeons and Dragons and the original Bat Man show as well as Xmen because they were drama orientated and did n’t treat it’s audience like fools. All i see in Samura Jack is fight after fight after fight and no real narrative or character development. The other shows had that. Transformers at it’s best had bloody good characterization and good episodes before it degenerated into a parody of the Gobots.
Todays toons keep on this tired fixation of 50’s americana or trying to rip off anime and doing it badly like Teen Titans and Totally Spies. I want some good stories great characters and good animation.
I ate that every Saturday
