Snowflake Challenge 2026-6

[waltzoid]

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge.

Top 10 Cartoons I Watched When I Was Younger (i.e. the 1980s and 1990s) that I Still Look Back Upon Fondly

1. Darkwing Duck
2. Tiny Toon Adventures
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 1987 series)
4. Animaniacs
5. Dragon Ball Z
6. Beavis and Butt-head
7. The Simpsons (after Season 4)
8. Batman: The Animated Series
9. Pinky and the Brain
10. Futurama

Honorable Mentions: Beetlejuice, Garfield and Friends, Ronin Warriors

Comments

[kingstoken]

Great list! I would probably put Batman: The Animated Series at the top my list, but you got some fun choices here.

[waltzoid]

Thanks!

Most of the shows on my list are either comedies or have some comedic elements to them (Darkwing Duck: action/comedy, Beetlejuice: horror/comedy, etc.)

[sarajayechan]

I think Batman is the only one on that list I didn't watch even once as a kid OR as an adult.

[waltzoid]

That show introduced me to more characters from Batman's rogues gallery than I ever thought existed.

I know of the Joker, the Penguin, and the Riddler, but without BTAS, I probably never would have learned about the likes of Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, Killer Croc, Ra's al Ghul, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, etc.

[brumeier]

Let's get dangerous! (I still use this catchphrase!)

[sixbeforelunch]

I try my best not to romanticize the things of my youth, but I really do think that the late 80s and 90s ushered in a golden age of animation. It upped the ante of what animation could be, and was supposed to be, and led not only to amazing shows then, but to all of the great stuff that came later.

I love your list. Tiny Toon Adventures was one of my favorites as a kid. I don't know how many times I watched the How I Spent My Summer Vacation movie, but it was a lot.

[waltzoid]

Tiny Toons resonated even more with me because I watched a lot of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts and recognized whom the TT characters were referencing/paying respect to. Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton = Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig (minus Porky's trademark stutter).

It was also my gateway into other related WB cartoons like Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Taz-Mania. The catchy theme songs helped.

[nightfalltwen]

I watched all of those. :D Especially the Simpsons. My friend and I quote lines from it all the time.

[fairyniamh]

I loved most of them, but I would add Gargoyles. Which (here) came on just before Batman, The Animated Series. 😁

[mekare]

Batman Animated was so good and I have fond memories of Darkwing Duck :-)

[waltzoid]

Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and Goof Troop were my favorite shows from the "Disney Afternoon" block. I'd never miss an episode when they came on.

Aladdin and Gargoyles were great, too.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it's time for aaaanimaaaaniacs! a++ choice! i went to indiana university for grad school and one of the top basketball players was a guy named calbert cheaney, so me and one of my friends would stick his name in at the end of the theme song. (we're animaney, totally insaney, calbert cheaney....) every so often for no apparent reason i hear pinky in my head saying "i think so, brain, but isn't regis philbin already married?" it was such a fun show.

[cye_of_the_torrent]

It's wild just how much influence Batman: the Animated Series had on television.

[lightbird]

I loved Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. And yes to the 1987 TMNT series - that was such a fun one.

[silveradept]

Watched all of those, might rank them differently, but all of them, yes, very much so, and they were all good examples of how animation really took off as a proper storytelling and comedy medium after the lull produced after the Merrie Melodies and the other Looney tunes weren't making any new ones any more.

(Looking through other comments, the fun thing that I have to keep remembering when thinking about Batman continuity is that Dr. Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn) is a character unique to the Animated Series, and everyone loved her and Arleen Sorkin's performance so much that she got backported into other continuities.)

Also, Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen are delightful in person and very fun to listen to when they tell stories. (Maurice kindly answered a question of mine and said that if he wasn't going to do Orson Welles for the Brain, he might have done Vincent Prince instead.)