When did you start caring about the credits?

[Simpler Simon]

I don't think I actually starting caring about the names in the credits until somewhere close to the end of Justice League season 1. I'd known a bit about the main creative forces behind the Batman shows, but only later did I start watching for VA credits and animation studios.

And only recently have I started noticing the storyboard artists and such.

How about you?

[Anniemaniac]

i first started noticing the credits when i was about 10 and i learned a few of the VAs and animation studios but thats about all, and they never seemed to stick in my mind. probably because back then i was more interested in the cartoons than the people behind them.

its only recently that ive really started caring about the credits. i always watch them now, even on shows i dont enjoy. i like to look out for the writers mostly so i can find out who entertains me an who bores me.

[Lyris]

For as long as I could read. I was always amazed when a familiar name popped up on another show.

[Wonderwall]

Watching the Simpsons credits to see who the guest stars were in that episode. Then when i got Batman Vol 1 on DVD is when I started reading the DCAU credits. But reading credits really isn't my thing..they always go so fast.:D

[tb4000]

When I started discovering some of my favorite characters sounded eerily similar to other ones, and that certain writers wrote more clever than others.

[Luna]

I usually only look at the credits to see what voice actors are in the series/movie....It's kinda fun to see if I recognize certain V.A.s in a role...

[Daffy Dork]

The first time I cared about credits was in first grade, I believe. Granted back then, the only names I knew and really cared about were some of the Looney Tunes directors and Hanna-Barbera, but it's still something.

[Lonestarr]

I would probably have to say "Tiny Toons". I noticed the VAs and gag credits. It wasn't until years later that I became a credits freak (writers, directors, composers, what-have-you).

[havokpryde]

I really only care when they have something funny or interesting, like on KnD. Really I see no point. I though credits were only for the people who might wanna hire these people. You know some directors thinks they did a good job, a thinks about hiring them. Kinda like a resume.

[Carolina Red]

When networks started to cramp them up in little boxes. These people spent so much making a show that I would figure they'd get some fair treatment.

[veemonjosh]

When networks started to cramp them up in little boxes. These people spent so much making a show that I would figure they'd get some fair treatment.

I hate those cramped-up boxes. You know how difficult it was to figure out even ONE person who worked on Viewtiful Joe when most of the names were only three pixels large because of that box?

[MGFanJay]

I never really noticed them unless something struck me as odd (like a weird job title). Now, I take more time to notice them, and appreciate it when they're either left unaltered or they're at least legible.

[straw_hat]

I don't like the idea of cramming the credits to fit some stupid advertisement for the next show or new episodes that they haven't already aired during the commerical breaks but I really don't care about who did what other then reading the voice actor credits on occasion.

[Crash]

Probably in late-high-school/early-college when I started feeling the Disney Afternoon nostalgia. Looking back at it, half my favorite characters were voiced by Jim Cummings. ...I think I noticed an abundance of Star Trek voices in Gargoyles when it was running, but I never paid much attention to it. (And maybe it was just Riker/Frakes/Xanatos that I noted back then.)

[Frank]

When I was around 8 years old watching the Rescuers Down Under credits.

[Elven Moon]

I really don't know, but I do know that I like "original" credits with "original" music and not crammed credits that the channel might design so they can plug other stuff (I'm looking at you, USA Network and Nickelodeon). I don't go out of my way to read the names, but it's the principle of the thing!

[sdp]

i never payed attention when i was little :yawn: and actually i still don't. i'm a poseur toon geek.

[j32885]

I've always like watching TV show credits, didn't start to read them til I was 12 years old and was interested in seeing who was voiceing for the characters in cartoon or anime.

[mg_winxclub]

When I wanted to know who did a particular character, and all they did was role a bunch of names instead! Sometimes I understand they do that because the actors are paid less than what the union would allow or something. This may also be the reason many voice actors go by various names in the credits, or have un-credited roles.

[90'sCartoonMan]

I noticed back when they used to slip something weird into Tiny Toons and Pinky and The Brain. Also Freakazoid would always have something about Emmit Nervend. And yeah, seeing who guest-starred on The Simpsons was fun.

Around the time I was 17, I started paying more attention to the voice actors and looking them up on IMDB and seeing whatever other roles they did. And when DVDs started coming out, then I could read the whole credits.

[Antiyonder]

For me it would be when Gargoyles came on, being that it was the few cartoons that listed who voiced who, of course back then, I wonder why Fox's voice actress was never listed.

[Classic Speedy]

Not until I entered college, for some reason. But yes, it was before I joined Toon Zone.

[sun]

Before l977, the credits were much different then they are now in all films,and in TV too...Lucas, "In a New Hope" changed that, if I recall correctly, it is vague, I think he was the first to give full credit to the many people who really make a film, not just a few of the top people like was the custom then...The little people ====, like construction people, support of all kinds, all kinds of special effects people, numerous people who worked on films no one even knew about...
..In Animation, the one who followed Lucas, was Don Bluth, in the Secret of NIMH..That was the first time the ink and painters and full support got credit for their work...extra voices, clean up people, etc...I started looking at the credits in depth with Star Wars "A New HOpe" in l977...I was amazed as to how many people it took to make a film....and later, after reading." Mice and Magic" , by Lenord Maltin,(1980). I began to realize how many it took to make a toon, even a 7 minute toon...Then Bluth finally gave full credit....Now this goes back a long way,,,,,and I may be wrong about these two..I do know that Disney never gave credit to the everyone, just the main directors, main background people and music,,,, and a few voices..I do think Bluth was the first in Animation, not completely sure about Lucas.....STuart.

[Happy]

I personnally don't read the credits unless something really catches my eye, but then I don't get into shows as much as some of you guys do.

[Dudley]

I started taking notice when I saw the inconsistencies of animation and character design in episodes of Dexter's Lab, and Cow and Chicken.

[Teknomancer]

About 4 months ago. That was the time I started my own cartoon site :)

[Alph]

I've never paid attention to the credits. They just tell me that its time to start flipping through the channels again.

[Anomaly]

I slowly took interest in them whenever I was waiting for the next show in line to air. For some reason I developed the urge to do this at movies, too, although there was nothing afterwards to watch.