Each week I create a 2-2.5 hour block of programming for the family to watch together over a nice breakfast. We call it Sunday Brunch Cartoons, and we’re nearly two years into it without missing a day. I’m releasing a full list of our watch queue, with the hopes that you can think of something really good (or memorably bad) that we should include.
No 70s Hanna-Barbera.
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Plaintext: Title Batman: Caped Crusader Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years Cybersix Gargoyles Infinity Train Mythbusters Hey Arnold! Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amphibia Animaniacs Scooby Doo; Mystery Inc. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Gumby Gurren Lagann Mighty Max (Remastered) My Adventures With Superman Sailor Moon Original ReBoot Recess Crash Course Video Games She-Ra Space Patrol Luluco The Owl House Tron: Uprising Star vs the Forces of Evil Rocky & Bullwinkle Sym-Bionic Titan Freakazoid! Teen Titans Bump In The night Looney Tunes Golden Collection Nate Is Late / Oskar et Malika The Big O Unicorn Warriors Eternal Mega Man Megas XLR Motorcity Fraggle Rock Men in Black: The Animated Series Histeria! The Tick Swat Kats Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake Kim Possible Dexter’s Laboratory Star Trek Mobile Fighter G Gundam The Adventures of Salmon Max Captain N: The Game Master Darkwing Duck Danny Phantom Wakfu Kirby: Right Back At Ya Regular Show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspector Gadget The Legend of Zelda Underdog (1964) Kid Cosmic Looney Tunes Cartoons Samurai Jack Adventure Time The Loud House King Arthur and the Knights of Justice The California Raisin Show Visionaries Knights of the Magical Lights He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Transformers: Prime Yuu Yuu Hakusho Invader Zim Ducktales Avatar: The Legend of Korra Codename: Kids Next Door Pingu Bill Nye TSG Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Reading Rainbow Wishbone Red Wall Ramen Akaneko Space Ghost Powerpuff Girls Transformers War For Cybertron Dungeons and Dragons Ren & Stimpy Rugrats Super Mario World Fairly OddParents Hilda Moomin Batman: The Animated Series Earthworm Jim Amazing World of Gumball Beakman’s World Rocko’s Modern Life The Real Ghostbusters The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Bravest Warriors Beetlejuice Ruri Rocks Transformers: Beast Wars Courage the Cowardly Dog Rentaghost The Busy World of Richard Scarry Over the Garden Wall Button Moon Cow & Chicken Bocchi the Rock Adventure Time: Distant Lands The Angry Beavers The Trap Door Pinky and The Brain Clone Wars (2003) Avatar: The Last Airbender Gravity Falls A Series of Unfortunate Events Steven Universe Trigun Batman Beyond Bluey Ed, Edd, & Eddy
EDIT: Thanks, Lemmy!!! You’ve all delivered so many really exciting suggestions. There’s enough on my ‘shopping list’ now to keep us going, well, basically forever - but what’s another 10Tb of cartoons among friends?
Here’s the full list of suggestions I’ve collected. In alphabetic order, this time. Thanks again!
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Another I don’t think I saw mentioned - Pinky Malinky! If you’re looking for a slightly deranged but entirely sweet, over the top and extremely fast paced modern one, Pinky Malinky will not disappoint. This show was made with real love lol. And several other weird things I don’t think I have.
Just note, if you’re old, you’ll be laughing at jokes about 3-jokes-back, the entire time. It’s quick, and I usually hate that cuz it usually just hides poor craft. Not here.
Oh don’t think I saw Courage the Cowardly Dog on your list. Haven’t returned to it in a real long time but it was a classic of oddity in its era of course.
We’ve got Courage! Pinky Malinky sounds delightful, adding that. Thanks!
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack was a fun little CN show that didn’t really get a chance to shine. But it did up launching a lot of careers for some of the more popular creators of shows on the list you’ve already got.
And a fun syndicated cartoon from the 80s was The Adventures of the Galactic Rangers. Its about psychic space cowboys.
That’s not even the same list, Legend of Kora isn’t on the Alphabetical one anymore
The second (alphabetical) one is all the suggestions I’ve written down, the first one (shows we already watch) does contain Korra. Sorry it’s hard to find, that was a major misstep.
No worries! You don’t owe me anything :) Just wanted to make sure you saw it and knew there might be issues.
If you haven’t watched the original avatar the last airbender, I 110% recommend it as the next show you watch
Late to this party but I fear your list will never be complete without Wallace and Grommit and Spongebob Square Pants. You could add Shaun the Sheep too.
I think he might have already seen all of W&G, but it’s been a while. I’ve avoided Spongebob for a long time because it was popular with shitty kids when I was a shitty teenager, but maybe it’s time to let Tom Kenny into my heart.
First handful of seasons are really good, first movie is basically top tier for that kind of humor. Quotable line after quotable line after quotable line, and yet it flows really well. Like you, I had an uphill climb to see it for what it was, my knucklehead younger brother LOVED it. And I mean, for all the dumb stuff I’ve done, that guy ate his boogers, no chance I was taking his taste seriously at the time.
He was right 😌
Isn’t it annoying how hard it is to stay a hater and have good taste?
It seems like you have a massive list already. So here’s a few more!
A few ones I enjoyed (mostly as a kid) which aren’t listed or mentioned:
Conan the Barbarian the Animated Series - very 90’s. I used to record it on VHS
Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light. - Commissioned to help sell a toy line with holograms (all the rage in the 80s) Cartoon was pretty good quality for the time.
Pole Position- Ulysses 31 (currently seeding btw)- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - which are all French Japanese Cartoons scored by Shuky Levy who really encapsulates the sound of an 80’s after school cartoon for me. Even if the plot is a bit meh at times the intro music is absolutely cracking.
Around the World with Willy Fogg - Dogtanian and Three Muskahounds - Spanish Japanese production. Also great theme tunes!
ReBoot - (Ian Gibson who worked on 2000AD developed this. The CG might have aged a bit though! Kids cartoon but had some quite adult reference at the time)
Camp Lazlo - by creator of Rocko’s Modern Life
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? - Short lived Cartoon Network offereing circa 2002.
No 70s Hanna Barbera? Short formats but I enjoyed Roger Ramjet, Batfink (both not Hanna Barbera) and Topcat (which is but was made in the 60’s.)
Mine I think, is younger than yours but absolutely adores Hey Duggee and Squirrel Club and they are very good with great music. Check out the Space or Music Video episodes in particular.
I’ll throw in Topcat, that was good. I was mostly just being cheeky about that. Great list here, some I do already have. He thinks KOTML sucks, but he likes ReBoot pretty well. Once he got used to the fairly tired aesthetic. I think maybe he’s seen enough Minecraft youtuber crap that he doesn’t really mind basic visuals.
Awesome. Pretty cool he likes ReBoot. Sounds like such a fun breakfast morning. I’ve been trying to do something similar but they’re like little media limpets at toddler age; sticking to one thing and one thing only and of course atm it’s become Mr Tumble (an irritating clown whose schtick is that they dress up and do makaton). So while the weather has been nice I’ve been shucking mine off the rock, so to speak and getting them in the garden. Hope you have fun. :)
Toddlers are a lot harder, quite a bigger bridge to gap between us and where they’re at. You might have better luck with things like Lucas the Spider or Ms. Rachel until they’re old enough for, I dunno, Bluey. From there maybe Blue’s Clues and Sesame Street?
I strongly recommend finishing “She-Ra and the Princess of Power” and/or “Amphibia”.
I’m a sucker for a Strong, Female Protagonist, and really anything by Lee Ostertag (partner of ND Stevenson) or Brennan Lee Mulligan.
(EDIT: Updated name; didn’t know about the name change when I first posted. Added parenthetical connecting second paragraph to the first.)
I did not know Brennan wrote a comic book. Super on-brand for him, excited to give it a go!
We’re definitely going to finish those serie, it’s just that during the week he mainly chooses Mythbusters and so we tend to get through a series very slowly. Especially with juggling over 100 shows, I try to keep them all ‘in the air’!
Looking over the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with:
The Batman
Xiaolin Showdown (this I remember the most fondly)
Johnny Test (It’s the epitome of Saturday morning cartoons, most engraved in my brain, probably bad actually)
Spider Riders (just for the opening song)
Damn, you’ve got a huge list, still I need to recommend Gatchaman, Deadly and if you are into Powerpuff Girls, you need to watch Powerpuff Girls Z.
Most should be easy to find but Deadly I could only find on youtube with terrible quality. Still worth it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScRdFhd6m4&list=PL4jOVhCe6AUy1N4cY7Fv9pnzMv3SGrHc1&index=2
Bravestar, admittedly the series is kinda meh but the movie is a work of art.
The movie? Thanks for the tip!
Now that I think of it, you might wanna check it out on your own first because it does have some intense and scary scenes iirc.
The Mysterious Golden Cities ! At least the first season, I’m not too sure about the directions it took after that, when it became 3D animated… Then, Ewilan’s Quest ! I don’t think there’s an official translation or a legal way to watch it outside of France for now, but if you put it at the end of your list there might be one by the time you get to it.
French animation gets such short shrift, they have a really strong animation culture in France. I love to mix in shorts from the Gobelins YT channel. Nobody else mentioned Ewilan’s Quest, thanks!!
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80’s Masters of the Universe since there is a movie coming soon.
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The Powerpuff Girls is fantastic for both kids & adults.
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BraveStarr was one of my favorites as a kid, but haven’t seen it in decades, don’t know how well it holds up
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Dino-Riders
It’s on the list! Looks crazy lmao
Invader Zim has a lot of laughs for kids and adults!
“Over the Garden Wall” is missing from your image list.
Everyone here has triggered great memories of series for me.
I didn’t see any mentions of GRAVITY Falls I may have missed it. Also one of my old favorites was BRAVE STAR
Gravity Falls is one of the greatest of all time! We finished it last year, but he still likes to watch reruns now and again. It should be on the list, but it’s organised by late date watched, so hard to read.
I remember Bravestarr, was it actually good? I just vaguely remember cowboys in space.
I enjoyed braveatar, I guess that is different than being good!
