Childhood Television

shep the malevolent pixie

what were you brought up on? or, if you don't remember, what are your favourite kids' tv shows these days?
BEAR IN THE BIG BLUE HOUSE FOREVER!!
*ahem*
i'm also quite partial to the magic roundabout and the clangers.
wasn't captain planet a wonderful show? i grew up with that...and the den. zig and zag were f*ckin' deadly.

post here, there's no good threads left. :rolleyes:
sHep :cool:

wuv me...

lordsippa

D&D
Den (avec Zig And Zag)
Captain N
Super Mario Brothers
that virtual reality show thing... think it was called Nightmare. Was classic.

TheAlmightyArse

See Sven's list, add good ole Earthworm Jim, the Transformers, and oh, of course, the Tick. Mmmmmm Tick...
Although the Super Mario Bros Super Show was ****e. I knew that back then, too. But still, you had to watch it if you had a NES. It was the law.

It wasn't me!

Earthworm Jim
Captain Planet
Super Mario Bros.

And that thing about no good threads, so true.

qwidgybo

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and some of the others already mentioned,like the den-zig and zag were the coolest!

Aliminator

Super Mario Bros. 3!! best fkn ever.
Transformers series 1-3 afterwards they were ****.
Some anime thingy on the 'fun factory' with space commandos. frikn classic.
TCC was the best channel, til it ran outta money.

imp

Transformers
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
The Den
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
He-Man

}:>

shep the malevolent pixie

does anyone remember that australian show called "the girl from tomorrow"? that was deadly. and she was from the future (hence the title) and there was an evil guy called silverthorn and they had a really cool timemachine but the second series got really weird then because they were drones and stuff and they all had to exchange protein strand thingies and...it was weird anyway. freaked the fupp outta me, so it did.

also that thing...spellbinders! that was another one of those australian happy drama things. they were all really cool. i've said "thing" way too many times in this post...
sHep :cool:

qwidgybo

the girl from tomorrow...did she wear a silver thing that looked like a mad hairband around her forehead??if so,then yes!i remember that show!'twas rather entertaining if i remember correctly...

lordsippa

Aye. Remember that show.

Anyone remember this weird show that was on the BBC. Kinda horrorish... kinda drama. They'd have two possible endings every show and people would vote in what they wanted and that would be the start of the next.. or I think that's what happened. Very vague memory. All I remember was it involved some kinda cult, masks, magic, and was fecking freaky at times!

Mystic Fibrosis

Babar you fools.

Aliminator

All of the above + New year parties on TV. the ball dropping into Time Sqaure is cool!
HAPPY 2003!

nosmo

BOSCO!
Oh, god I loved Bosco.
I watched it until they took it off the air..like when I was 8.
And I can remember Captain Planet...Didn't like it..
BATTLETECH!!! TCC looped 3 episodes, but GOD it roX0r'd!

purplepolkadot

Earthworm Jim, he's such a groovy guy
Earthworm Jim he fell down from the sky
Jim was something something something something something...

Captain Planet, he's our hero, he's gonna something the bad guys down to zero, Captain Planet, doop de doop de...
Earth...Fire...Wind...Water...Heart
Why was there Heart? Heart was shiiiiiyte.

Was Babar an elephant?

SPOT THE DOG

the guy with the magic wellies, which i believe are green

the muppets, sesame street.
bosco's house was especially cool. i watched just for that. the woman (rosemary?) was a skank.

the morbegs from morbeg land need some help to understand, how to save a growing tree (?) cos that (???????) tree is you and me.
if that's not the words that what they should be.

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Heroes in a house shell.
Turtle Power!!!!!

Mystic Fibrosis

No, Babar was THE elephant. Respect.:cool:

'twasnt a cartoon, but Art Attack owned.

Reboot ROCKED. Cause it was all CGI.

I had a MAJOR disagreement with Bosco, as many of you know.

MORF!!!!!!!C'mon, that was ther GOD of cartoons.

Wallace & Gromit, even if it doesnt really apply......

Am I wrong to still watch these?


Babar says 600TH POST YOU FOOLS!!!!

shep the malevolent pixie

BABAR!! how could i have forgotten Babar?! i LOVE that show. why isn't that on anymore? grr.
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MONKEY IN CAPTAIN PLANET?! the heart boy had a monkey and i can't remember what it was called...if anyone knows, please tell me, it's been driving me mad for months!
sHep :cool:

qwidgybo

babar kicked so much ass...

Mystic Fibrosis

Yes. Join my army of talking elephants. My power grows by the second.

ll=llannah

in the states they still run it on some remote cable station at like half three in the morning or something.....ha.....not exactly prime viewing. but no one can resist Babar. he's just so......Babarish. i even had a deck of Babar playing cards-wait- i still have it somewhere in my house. It had its own set of rules and my brother and I became experts in it...but my family was the only one who had ever heard of the game. (*sniffsniff* scarred for life...:p) But, yes, BABAR ROCKS.
(and so did that little old lady on the show.....what was her name? i never figured out where she came from - she was just sort of there with all of these elephants.)

Mystic Fibrosis

The show made me hate rhinos. That's not nice....

Listen to Alice In Chains. Yeah, that's a cartoon......

Green Hand Guy

The Babar movie was on at like 5am on Christmas morning. Since my parents wouldn't let me go downstairs to my presents that early it really passed the time.

Anyway, on to the point:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
He-Man
Babar
The Girl from Tomorrow
Round the Twist
The Den
Batman
The Land of the Giants
Eek the Cat
Tiny Toons
Bosco
Pob

Crash

Em...lessee....i got all the really weird old cartoons when i was younger...like Ulysses 31, which only the older boards members will remember(IT WAS THE ODYSSEY IN SPACE!!!)......Bravestar.....that guy rocked......FRAGGLE ROCK! WHO THE FSCK FORGOT FRAGGLE ROCK?? IT SCARED THE ****E OUT OF ME!!

Lessee, what else.....the champions of the universe i think it was......the cartoon in the 80's which has the phantom in it......and his daughter who had a panther....and all that kinda cool stuff.

Thank god for german tv's english shows...

OH! and MASK!!

qwidgybo

does anyone remember the smogs or something like that?they were these evil polluter-people and they dumped toxic ****e off the coast of this island with all these little cute people on it....

ooh,and as for tv you grew up to,mork and mindy!!i loved that show so much!!

Mystic Fibrosis

yeah...

nosmo

Originally posted by foobar
OH! and MASK!!

Oh, the nostalgia. *wipes tear*

Originally posted by the artist formerly known as Dukman
Yeah...

A point worth taking up a whole post with..

Diver79

Anyone remember Jace and the Wheeled Warriors?

Mystic Fibrosis

A point worth taking up a whole post for.

Yes.

shep the malevolent pixie

MORK AND MINDY!!!!
how could i possibly have forgotten?! i loved that show so much...dear god the memories are flooding back...
and FRAGGLE ROCK!!!!
i loved that too. those little goober thingies were great.

neil, i think i vaguely remember that ulysses thing. only vaguely though.
sHep :cool:

Cait

does anyone remember a cartoon with a dog, and a group of kids. one of them had a flying skateboard. and there was a king who slept on about eighty mattresses (like that princess in that fairytale).....and they had to go into his dreams or something, to save him from the evil dude.....

i've been trying to remember what it's called for years.....

purplepolkadot

methinks you made that last one up :rolleyes:

Green Hand Guy

No. I remember it. You mean Potsworth and Company. I remember that. And I remember that Ulysseus thing. Two of his friends were yellow things with trunks, weren't they?

shep the malevolent pixie

Originally posted by Diver79
Anyone remember Jace and the Wheeled Warriors?

only the name. what was the point of it?
sHep :cool:

Aliminator

oh oh oh! was that jace thingy the one, with the cool van-tank-assault machine vehicle against the bio-tankish things. that was so cool. they had a professor/psychic something like that, a kid (Jace) and some guy like han solo.
that was soo cool.

shep the malevolent pixie

FREAKAZOID!!
that had to be one of the very bestest shows ever in the world. and whatchamacallit... ANIMANIACS!!
such wonderful shows. DISCUSS SOMETHING PEOPLE!! damnit...
sHep :cool:

Happy CTYI guy

I spent the best 7 years of my life watching Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and wasting money on the merchandise. Christ I lived for that show, and Freakazoid, and Batman, and whatever was on tcc. Was Jace and the wheeled warriors the one where the bad guys only had to fire a blob of goo at the ground and it would turn into a tank?

Cait

yay! thank you!!

qwidgybo

animaniacs was soooooo cool(and still is), which leads me to.....PINKY AND THE BRAIN!!!quality,quality programming...

does anyone remember the frutties??these fruits that all lived in this fruit land thing and there was thorny the cactus as well and the mayor was a strawberry and one time they had to rescue eskimo fruttie from something??

ooh,or this puppet dealie that i'm beginning to think i made up cos NO ONE ELSE REMEMBERS IT.the main character was this pink mousey,ratty thing and he lived with other puppets on this boat,and once they had to visit santy for something and another time they had to try and fix the hole in the o zone and the pink guy set it up so he got to go and be the hero and no one else got the credit and SOMEONE PLEASE REMEMBER THIS BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WAS A DREAM BUT IT CAN'T BE.

shep the malevolent pixie

that actually sounds familiar but i don't remember anyting specific about it. sorry :-/ em...does anyone remember the elephant show? that was fun. skinny marinky dinky dink, skinny marinky doo, i love you etc....it was the theme tune, shut up. :rolleyes:
ah, pinky and the brain...hours off mis-spent youth...:p
sHep :cool:

on a different note, have you ever tried figuring out which drugs the charachters in the magic roundabout are on? it's fun. zebedee's on acid anyway and i'm pretty sure dougal the dog's on speed. the others are a little more difficult.

TheAlmightyArse

Feck Round the Twist, who here remembers Round the Bend? Fantastic puppet-based toilet humour set in a sewer (accessed via the lav, natch), presented by a big green crocodile thing. And it had sining poo. Grrrreat.

Hmmm... I've vague memories of this cartoon with a little girl Viking who rubbed her nose a lot... any help, anyone?

I was wrecking my brain trying to think of the name of Potswprth and Co for ages t'other week, so thank you... *looks down thread review* Green Hand Guy. Oh, and qwidgybo, methinks it was called the Smoggies, but I could be wrong. Ugly bint in fantastic red harem troosers as the main evil-thing, yes?

It's about time there was an FPS based around Bravestar, too.

qwidgybo

em...i don't remember a chief evil guy....but it's so reassuring that other people remember it,even if only vaguely...

FUN HOUSE!!with pat shortt(i think) and the twins,melanie and ....lemonie......and that show was cool!!!and then there was another show that was in this big fake house and the contestants had to mess it all up to find keys or something and i can't remember the name of it...but yeah,it rocked.

Zillah

Has anyone ever heard of a show called 'the island of the bears'?
There's a good chance that it doesn't exist but if it even seems familiar let me know. Bosco sucked so much. Battle Tech was sooo good! I'm still waiting for the next series, I NEED to know what happens!! The bad guy kid-napped loads of people and the main hero fell in the dust with a big ol NOOOOOOOO! I had forgotten about that thank you everyone, now I remember the story never ended.

Mystic Fibrosis

Transformers is being shown on sky one. Excuse me while I build an altar.

Shoeless Ailbhe

What about Sesame Street???? Or was I the only sad gik who loved that! Seriously, still the biggest Muppet fan, I got 3 mppet vids for Xmas.... well, i was too embarassed to buy them for me, so i got them for my little sis instead! But I really bought them for me!

And bosco, of course, was inevitable really, and then Zig and Zag and all that gang, they kicked a lot of ass. I loved Babar too. There's a film of him now! And what was the one with the people... was it the smog people or somethin?.... and the happy people who thought they were better than the smoggies? Anyone remember??

Bazookatone

I have to agree with Sven. I also include Marshal Bravestar. He was the coolest, he had a horse that talked and could wak on it's hind legs when it wanted and had a big bazooka caled Sarah Jane.

Does anyone remember the Tick's battle cry, it was "SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!

Oh, and thundercats, thay were cool, thay had the coolest car. Actually, it was a tank, but it was sooooooo f*****g brilliant.

Actually, there was a period there in the ninties where there were NO good cartoons, thay were all turned into crappy, politically correct garbage, the main character never had a gun, everyone else had to have a laser weapon, and no one was ever shot, thay always shot at the barrels full of chemicals or something.

PS Remember the teenage mutant hero turtles. Did you know they were called hero turtles and not ninja turtles because Americans felt the word ninja would incite their children to be violent. They have violent TV, almost no gun control, an armed police force and one of the largest and best equipped armed forces in the whole world, but they feel that the real danger lies in the titles of cartoons. God Bless America!

ll=llannah

of course we are hypocrites....but we didn't call them hero turtles- we called them the teenage mutant ninja turtles. (and i'd know, i watched it EVERY afternoon after school.)

TheAlmightyArse

On the Island of the Bears,
There is a rabbit and a ghost;
There is a rabbit and a ghost,
On the Island of the Bears.

I remember absolutely loathing that, and having no actual reasons for absolutely loathing it. Must have been crap.

lordsippa

Shoe People.

Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors was the one where he was going from planet to planet looking for his dad.

Clangers!

GHOSTBUSTERS! <with the gorilla>

THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS! <with slimer>

Trapdoor!!!!!

Most importantly...

MR. BEN!

TheAlmightyArse

Mr Benn, you fool Sven, it's spelled Mr Benn.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 3.14 trapdoor...

shep the malevolent pixie

the island of the bears was excellent, you shut up.
the muppets are wonderful. they're showing reruns of the original muppet show on tg4 in english most days, it's great! except on the days they show it in irish...:eek: scary...
yes sven, the clangers rocked. ha, i have a clanger. and they're the message on my answering machine.
sHep :cool:

Green Hand Guy

Island of the Bears gave me nightmares. It had that eery theme song and that episode where the moon split into two moons and the whole thing had very little colour in it. It scarred me for life.

And if it was the island of the bears why the hell was there a rabbit and a ghost on it?

shep the malevolent pixie

shut up, that's why.
i do remember round the bend actually, there was a crocodile. it used to scare the crap out of me.
bananas in pyjamas....heeheehee.
sHep :cool: