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Kids television just aint what it used to be !

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Legend.

    No wonder the greens got into power if we were all watching captain planet as kids. Doesn't it seem a bit dated now? The chick with the water was from the Soviet Union. LOL.

    I have remembered a few more. Muppet Babies and David the Gnome. Do you remember the one with the racoons? And the pigs? And the older pig who smoked all the time and was loaded. Cyril Sneer? Was it called the racoons?

    There was a cartoon about a group of heros. One was called the black panther, and the fought in jungles?? Cant remember the name. But it was really good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    for me it was Care bears, captain planet, looney tunes and the old batman stuff adam west style!!! great stuff!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    I think Cyril Sneer and his son Cedric were Ardvarks(sp?) or Ant Eaters. May or may not be the same thing...
    The weird thing about the Racoons was that there were at least two episodes where there was no music or sound fx track, so all you had were voiceovers. Really weird.

    Now if only I could use my rediculously specific memory for anything that doesn't remotely benefit me in any way, for good.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    chamlis wrote: »
    I think Cyril Sneer and his son Cedric were Ardvarks(sp?) or Ant Eaters. May or may not be the same thing...
    The weird thing about the Racoons was that there were at least two episodes where there was no music or sound fx track, so all you had were voiceovers. Really weird.

    Now if only I could use my rediculously specific memory for anything that doesn't remotely benefit me in any way, for good.....

    Cyril Sneer and Cedric were deffinitely some other creature, but I cant remember what.

    Batman the Animated Series was terrific. It was really dark but really good. The toys were good too.

    Do you remember Biker Mice from Mars? I though that was great. It was on channel 4 really early on Sunday morning. And I used to get up for it, and after it was Football Italia which I hated, but there was nothing else on at that time in the morning other than David Frost, or some dodgy documentary. Then after football Italia it was either Little House on the prairie or the Henderson Kids.

    Wow its amazing what you remember.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    DANGER BAY!

    "duh duh de duh de! duuh dee doo dee doo de dooooo. nah nah neh noo nah!"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Acacia wrote: »

    And for nostalgia's sake- \o/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    chamlis wrote: »
    DANGER BAY!

    "duh duh de duh de! duuh dee doo dee doo de dooooo. nah nah neh noo nah!"

    I have no idea what that is meant to sound like.

    Wasnt there a helicopter that could land on water in that?

    Thought of a few others:

    Bananaman
    The raggy Dolls
    Family Ness

    Did anyone mention Postman Pat yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    mike65 wrote: »
    One of the great "joys" of RTE scheduling in the old days was that they would somehow end up with gaps to be filled with something and that usually meant a cartoon from either Warners Bros or Hanna/Barbera so stuff like Mr Magoo, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker and Tom & Jerry were on several times a week.

    Classic Coyote V Gravity moment


    Made me snicker. I used to love that show

    Meep Meep!

    I used to watch Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, Earthworm Jim, Catdog, Angry Beavers, Looney Tunes, Popeye, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Thomas the Tank Engine.

    Although I was watching Little Einsteins with my niece earlier, it rules!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Smoggies. :)


    Denver the last dinosaur


    Teddy Ruxpin


    We could be here a while if I went on, I have work today. Another one was Dungeons and Dragons, the final episode never was made (though an audio track and script is available) :/


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    ANd around the world in eighty days with Willy fogg. And I used to tell my mother it was on and she would say "I think you mean Phileas Fogg", and I would tell her she was being silly.

    How wrong I was. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Do you remember:

    The Fiddley Foodle Bird?

    And for nostalgia's sake.


    Im off to watch the Man U match. I will be back on later with whatever I think of while there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Just remembered Earthworm Jim which was funny. I remember seeing it on tv recently but can't remember which channel.

    The Tick is brilliant as well. I recently watch those episodes again and think they are even funnier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    That was truly a great series

    And then lest I forget this crud:



    There were very good reasons for its cancellation, but at least the robots looked cool.

    This one had an even shorter shelf life than that, and I just couldnt get past the talking dog



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,535 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    ariba ariba andele!!!


    speedy gonzales


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6g76wrF8A



    also really liked She-ra


    for the honour of Greyskull.............. :)


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR65P73X5GI


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    X-Men
    Spider-Man
    Ren and Stimpy
    Batman
    Earthworm Jim
    Hey Arnold


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Anybody mention Inspector Gadget?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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