What cartoons did you watch as a kid?

[Andrew NDB]

Which ones?

(list any not listed, of course)

[ZariusTwo]

I didn't have a GI Joe phase until I was in my 20s in the 2000s, I watched the 80s movie and collected the toyline during it's big 2000s resurgence.

I caught a few episodes of Doug but never really faithfully followed it. Hey Arnold and Daria both did that show way better.

[Andrew NDB]

I watched a good portion of GI Joe and He-Man... just not enough to consider myself an avid watcher of either, back then. Like, if one of them was on I'd sit through half an episode or something. I didn't buy any toys or merch or anything.

[sdp]

You only listed 80s cartoons with a few early 90s ones. I never really watched tmnt as a kid since reruns were rare same with most of the shows you listed in the poll. Needs more Nicktoons, And original Cartoon Network cartoons of the 90s and 90s anime like Pokemon and DBZ.

I'd say a good 90% of the members here grew up in the 80s or 90s so you'll get a lot of similar responses.

[The Deadman]

TMNT, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, the Ace Ventura and Mask cartoons, Dexter's Lab etc.

[joe-eyeball]

Surprised The Transformers were not on the list

Voltron
Thundercats
Super Mario Bros. super Show
C.O.P.S.

[CyberCubed]

Main ones:

Ninja Turtles
Batman: TAS
Superman: TAS
Batman Beyond
Justice League (granted I was an adult by this time)
Simpsons
Pokemon

Flintstones
Animaniacs
Scooby Doo

Basically I just left Cartoon Network on all day so I just saw whatever they were airing at the time.

[Icebot]

I watched Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, Doug (Both Nick and Disney versions) and Inspector Gadget.

I liked learning how to be safe by watching the Knowing is Half The Battle GI Joe segments as well as the Inspector Gadget ones.

Cartoons I watched not on the list:

Hey Arnold
Rugrats
Toxic Crusaders
Mega Man
Super Mario Bros. Super Show / Mario 3 / Mario World
The Legend of Zelda
The Angry Beavers
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (and learning how to be safe in the Sonic Sez segments)
Sonic the Hedgehog

[joe-eyeball]

Dinosaucers


I loved that show!

[Galactus]

All of those...and more. Out of the ones listed I watched TMNT, He-Man and Batman: TAS the most. I remember watching a lot of Ducktales but lost interest after the first season.

I lived in Spain until the age of 8 so I only knew Heathcliff and Cadillac Cats by it's Spanish name (Isidoro) and it was one of the few American cartoons that had it's theme song fully translated into Spanish. When I moved to England and getting into conversations with other kids about shows we liked I mentioned Isidoro but people had no clue what I was talking about and kept saying "don't you mean Garfield". I'm guessing Heathcliff wasn't much of a thing in the UK.

[MikeandRaph87]

Something is wrong with the poll. I chose TMNT and Batman: TAS, but it says I chose GI Joe...

As a 90s kid it was TMNT/MMPR/Pokémon. GI Joe only stood out as an action figure made of doll molds.

[neatoman]

Well the only ones on that list I have never seen aired on TV is TMNT, The Real Ghostbusters, GI Joe and He-Man. In fact, for a very long time I assumed the Ghostbusters franchise amounted to the first movie. I have seen He-Man advertised on a Smurfs VHS but I never saw an episode until I could look one up online. I'm guessing I never saw any of those in reruns because my parents tended to not pay for extra channels quite often. If it's not that then maybe they didn't run at all, He-Man, TMNT and GI Joe are often unpresentable and might not have been worth it.

Of course if we count TMNT as being the 4Kids cartoon rather than the Fred Wolf cartoon, then I have seen TMNT air on TV. I didn't vote for it because I assume it meant the Fred Wolf cartoon, which again, I have never seen on TV. The same goes for He-Man as I have seen the 2002 show on TV but not the Filmation one.

As for listing ones not on there, here you go:

Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh DM
Spider-Man 1994
X-Men 1992
X-Men Evolution
Digimon
Dexter's Lab
SpongeBob
The Wild Thornberrys
Rocko's Modern Life
Catdog
Cow and Chicken
I am Weasel
Angry Beavers
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Hey Arnold!
KaBlam!
Jimmy Neutron
Powerpuff Girls
Scooby-Doo (the one from around 1980 that was basically the same as the original)
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Sheep in the Big City
Justice League
Superman TAS
Billy & Mandy


There is a lot more but I might as well cap it off by saying I probably watched way more Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park than what a kid should watch.

[MrPliggins]

I was a big cartoon watcher as a kid. Probably too much honestly..

Gumby
Flintstones
Smurfs
The Comic Strip featuring the Street Frogs and some other cartoons which escape me at the moment...
Tom and Jerry
The Power Team
TNT's Wild World of Shorts featuring Pink Panther and Bugs Bunny cartoons
USA Cartoon Express
13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
Ghostbusters (Filmation)
Bucky O'Hare
Mr. Bogus
Widget
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Captain N
ProStars
SwatKats
Bill and Ted
Back to the Future
Garfield

[Turo602]

My earliest memories with cartoons go back to Superman: The Animated Series and Mummies Alive which were the 2 biggest things for me before I started watching Ninja Turtles. I also have vague memories of watching stuff like Pokemon, Digimon, Batman Beyond, X-Men: Evolution, Doug, Recess, Hey Arnold!, and Pepper Ann with my siblings. I'd even watch Sabrina: The Animated Series with my sister since she was really into Sabrina the Teenage Witch at the time.

By this point, I think my brother and sister started to outgrow cartoons and I was finally old enough to grasp time and TV schedules and keep up with regular programming like TMNT (2003), Sonic X, The Batman, Legion of Superheroes, and The Spectacular Spider-Man. In between those shows, I'd watch random stuff like Xiaolin Showdown, Johnny Test, and Tom and Jerry Tales. I'd also catch Archie's Weird Mysteries and Sonic Underground before school, but unfortunately had to leave during the Mummies Alive reruns which I had completely forgotten about at the time.

But around the time The Spectacular Spider-Man came out, my childhood was pretty much over and cartoons just kinda went with it too. I had to catch season 2 of The Spectacular Spider-Man on YouTube as well as Wolverine and the X-Men. Shortly after that, we finally had cable for a few years and I'd try to watch Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and The Looney Tunes Show but kind of fell off.

However, around the summer of 2008 and during The Dark Knight hype, my oldest brother and I started buying the complete series DVDs of Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman as they were usually front and center at Best Buy. His nostalgia for Batman started getting me nostalgic for Superman: The Animated Series and we eventually just ended up binge watching the entire DCAU along with my sister. We also binged X-Men: The Animated Series and the original TMNT series as they started being released on DVD as well.

Though, those are really only the "cool" cartoons. Growing up with 3 siblings all within a decade apart of eachother, I grew up watching PBS Kids shows like Arthur, Dragon Tales, and Clifford the Big Red Dog before and after school to watching shows like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, and South Park at night. But even I kind of stopped watching those shows at some point too.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Besides the ones I voted for on the poll

Peanuts (both specials and the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show)
Gumby
Super Mario Bros cartoons
Sailor Moon
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Satam
Rugrats
Rocko
Aah! Real Monsters
Kablam!
Angry Beavers
Tiny Toons
Pinky and the Brain
Flintstones
Jetsons
Eek! the Cat
CatDog
The Wild Thornberrys
Spongebob (of course)
Rocket Power
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
Dexter's Lab
Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd, n' Eddy
Mike, Lu, and Og (really underrated cartoon)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Codename: Kids Next Door

I did watch cartoons as a teen as well like Mucha Lucha, Xiaolin Showdown (and Chronicles). Of course anime like Pokemon, Yugioh, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Sonic X, etc

[newfan]

Besides what I voted for in the poll (He-Man, Inspector G, Ghostbusters) I'll add just a couple I can think of.

Thundercats
Dungeons and Dragons
Ulysses 31, though I think I may have caught re-runs later on.
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Dogtanian and the three muskerhounds.

Then other long time toons like Tom and Jerry, Flintstones, Scooby-Do etc.

Oh, I'll add She-Ra, I didn't watch this as much as He-man more but I did watch some of this too.

[Stephen]

Of the ones I watched frequently:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Dungeons and Dragons
Transformers G1
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
BraveStarr
Pole Position
Thundercats
Phantom 2040
Toxic Crusaders
Pirates of Dark Water
Ninja Turtles
Spider-man (1994)
X-Men
Bionic Six
The Legend of Zelda
The Simpsons
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Defenders of the Earth
Super Mario Bros / Mario Bros 3 / Mario World
The Legend of Prince Valiant
Masters of the Universe
Bucky O'Hare
Captain Planet

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Alfons Åberg (also had some books)
Bamsy
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Duck Tales (1987)
Flintstones
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983). Not too many episodes.
James Bond Junior
Lucky Luke (1984)
Pat and Mat
Super Friends
Tale Spin
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
The Real Ghostbusters
Tom & Jerry

A very few episodes of some others, like Scooby-Doo, Simpsons, Taz-Mania, Yogi Bear and Widget

[Vicky82]

There lots of shows I watched as a kid aren't on the list.

Other shows that aired reruns
Jonny Quest
Various Scooby Doo shows
Thunderbirds

80s
My Little Pony
Care Bears
She Ra
Dungeons and Dragons
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Count Duckula
Gummi Bears
The Racoons
Super Ted
Thundercats
Danger Mouse

90s
Gargoyles
X-Men
The Animals of Farthing Wood
Fantastic Four
Iron Man
Incredible Hulk/She Hulk
Extreme Ghostbusters
Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Aladdin series
Rugrats
Mighty Ducks
Biker Mice from Mars
Mighty Max
Highlander Animated series

There are lot of other shows but didn't watch them that much.

[Stephen]

Droids
Ewoks
ReBoot (doesn't really count as a cartoon)
Potsworth and Co
Around the World in 80 days
Belle and Sebastian
Popeye and Son
Galaxy Rangers
Conan the Adventurer
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Teddy Ruxpin
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
Visionaires
The Smoggies
Peter Pan and the Pirates
Speed Racer
Gobots
Batfink
Snorks
Telebugs
Earthworm Jim

[Zulithe]

I don't think I can list everything even if I tried. If it was a cartoon that aired during the 80s or 90s, I watched it. Including older stuff from the 60s and 70s, which was getting healthy amounts of reruns.

Lots of Disney, lots of WB, lots of Fox Kids, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network. Action stuff rose to the top of the heap for me, so stuff like turtles, he-man, x-men, batman were what I looked forward to the most.

Funny enough, while I liked Spider-Man and watched a lot of the various shows featuring him, I was not a really big fan of him. I was more into Batman and X-Men. And of course, in those days, while I knew who Captain America, Iron Man, etc. were, most kids didn't care much about them at that time.

[drgon78]

Everything on the list but Doug.

[Hamato Yoshi]

As a kid :

HM (first time it aired too then later VHS)
Gadget (ditto)
DoE (only on VHS)
MASK
Blackstar (this aired on weekdays)
Bstarr (only VHS)
Dennis
Roger Ramjet 60s
Thundercats (only VHS)
Gummy Bears
Duck Tales (mostly VHS)
Chip n Dale RR (VHS)
Disney Mermaid (VHS)
Real GB (and Filmation GB too , both VHS)
Puppet shows : Muppets , Fraggle Rock , Charlie Chalk , Fireman Sam (the new Sam is also pretty good) , Postman Pat

As a teen :

BTAS
Animaniacs
Quest 60s
J Bravo

[DarkFell]

Most of the cartoons listed above got a watch from me. Reboot, Beast Wars, Rocko's Modern Life, M.M.P.R., Sonic SatAM, and Gargoyles were also my favorites. Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z showed up later on.

I do find it a bit amusing that even though we had cable and eventually satellite service, the local stations were the bigger powerhouses at the time.

[Prowler]

Too many to count. I was born in 1990 but grew up watching a lot of cartoons from before my time due to cable reruns in my country. I'll just list the ones I liked the most.

Johnny Bravo
TMNT 87
TMNT 2003
Wacky Races
Looney Tunes
The Simpsons
Stop the Pigeon
Captain Caveman
Tom and Jerry
Flinstones
Power Puff Girls
Ed Edd n eddy
2 stupid dogs
The Mask
Cow and chicken
I am weasel
Hair Bear Bunch
Johnny Quest
Scooby Doo
Garfield and Friends
Billy the Cat
Hong Kong Phooie
Freakazoid
Pinky and Brain
Animaniacs
Duck Tales
Dexter's Laboratory
Tiny Toon Adventures
Futurama
Family Guy
Adventures of Tintin
Tom and Jerry Kids
Count Duckula
Pink Panther

And more. These are just cartoons. I'm not including anime.

[Wesley]

I watched most cartoons already mentioned along with these:
Dogtanian
Sandokan
Around the World with Willy Fogg
Super Ted
Animals of Farthing Wood
Bouli (Irish dub)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Extreme Ghostbusters
Men in Black: The Series
Biker Mice from Mars
Cowboys of Moo Measa
The Bugs Bunny Show
The Road Runner Show
Noah’s Island
Rupert
Babar
Dastardly and Muttley
The Flintstones
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Isnogaud
Rugrats

And others too many count off the top of my head

The Den (Irish children’s tv strand) showed a lot of old and new cartoons from around the world so I grew up watching shows from before my time also. Was born in 1986.

[superstaff]

I selected everything on this list because on a very technical level, I watched these as a kid. Some of the shows like TMNT, BTAS, He-Man, and Ghostbusters I had to be stealthy about because I wasn't 'allowed' to see them by my parents. So I would only see parts of them, though I loved them very much. Stuff like Darkwing Duck and Rescue Rangers was deemed as 'safe' by my parents, so I watched those in their entirety as a kid with no issues.

When I got older, and had my own TV, I got to watch all of these, and then some. I've even re-watched a lot of these as an adult. For instance, I re-watched/watched all of GI Joe as an adult on The Hub when it was a channel.

[NeonTurtledude]

I watched a lot of TMNT as a kid, I grew up with the 2003 series and then watched the 2012 and fred wolf shows after that, I'd often catch the 2003 series on citv after school.

I did watch the Real Ghostbusters,Ducktales and Animaniacs, but I wasn't around in the 80s/90s, I watched these shows online because I was interested in old cartoons at the time, with Jem being one that I watched a lot.

as for shows not on that list, there's a lot

Jem and the holograms
She-ra Princess of Power
Looney Tunes
Tom and Jerry
Flinstones
House of Mouse
Lilo and Stitch the series
Rugrats
Spongebob
The Simpsons
My Little Pony (the 80s series/tales and friendship is magic)
Strawberry Shortcake
90s Sailor Moon
Pokemon
Postman Pat
Fireman Sam
Angelina Ballerina
Funny bones
Noddy
Scooby Doo
X-men (1992)
Jimmy Neutron
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Underground
Sonic X
Winx Club
Totally Spies
the Mario cartoons (from Saturday supercade to super show,adventures of Mario bros 3 and super Mario world)
The Legend of Zelda cartoon
Rupert
Recess
Little Bear
Arthur
Tweenies
Thomas the tank engine
The Magic Key
Kim Possible
Hilltop Hospital
Yu Gi Oh


I'm from the UK and didn't have cable so if I did catch any nick/Disney or cartoon network shows it would've been when visiting relatives who had the sky tv service, I didn't experience Toonami, but citv had a block called action stations that was similar, it was through that I found anime via pokemon, action stations was just part of the citv breakfast time slot but the shows aired at that time were usually action shows or anime.

[Cowabung-Gal]

I think the appropriate question is: What cartoons didn’t I watch as a kid?

I even watched the ones I wasn’t supposed to on Adult Swim late at night.