Greatest TV Cartoon Series Of All Time

[Nelson]

In The last 50 years of televison cartoons, which of the following tv cartoon shows do you think is the greatest of all time...

[Nelson]

HANDS DOWN.... my vote went for the best televison cartoon series of all time...THE ROCKY & BULLWINKLE SHOW.Jay Ward created one of the funniest cartoon shows I have ever seen, with the political humor that made the show so famous and the cheesy animation made the show so good.When the program moved to NBC in 1962, the network thought it was a kids program, failing to realize that the humor was aimed at adults, during that year.

Simply a great, excellent cartoon series...

[J Lee]

In terms of "TV Cartoon Shows" are we talking about shows that featured characters who debuted on television, or all TV cartoon shows? Because if it's the latter there's a certain rabbit who got a TV show back in the fall of 1960 that they added some made-for-TV linking animation to that was fairly popular on two different networks for the next 40 years ...

If not, then "Rocky and Bullwinkle."

[Sveven Dvorking]

With many good parts, simply one of the all-time best TV shows.

[Matthew Hunter]

If Bugs Bunny isn't on the list, it's Bullwinkle for sure.
-Matthew

[Thad Komorowski]

Rocky and Bullwinke gets my vote, hands down. If it weren't on the list, I'd go with The Simpsons, which is simply one of the funniest shows on TV, not just animation, but in general.

-Thad:D

[BobChief]

...but Flintstones and Underdog make it a close finish! (Can't stand Simpsons)

[barnyarddawg]

The Simpsons by far and away! As much as I love Bullwinkle and The Flintstones, The Simpsons has the best dialogue and sight gags ever put in a TV show. Where else would you get great lines like:

Lisa: "Look Grandpa's old radio, wouldn't it be grand to sit around and have a listen?"
Homer: Quick turn something on! I'm starting to think!"

or

Homer:"People get paid money for grease! Than my arteries are clogged with liquid gold!"

or

Homer: "What can possibly go wrong with beer and fireworks?"

or

Homer: "These tickets (baseball game) give me the right! no the duty! to make a complete ass of myself!"

So many great lines and so little time.

[Thad Komorowski]

Some other great Simpsons lines:

Homer: "Now, Bart, I know how much you want to go to the movies, but you can't get everything you want. I once wanted a baseball mitt, and when my dad said no, I held my breath and slammed my face against the table. The doctor said I might have brain damage!"
Bart: "Dad, what's the point of this story?"
Homer: "I like stories."


Moe: "..but a recent poll showed that you five guys (Homer, Carl, Lenny, and two other guys) cause more accidents in Springfield than anybody else!" *Everyone does a high five*


Homer: "Quick, Maggie! Get Aquaman!"


Bart: "Yeah Mom, you have YOUR issues with Hagar the Horrible
Marge: "I just don't think it's funny!"


Homer: "Quick, Marge, get in with the kids! No time for the baby!"


Barney: "Hello, my name's Barney, and I'm an alcoholic. I used to be a fat disgusting slob!" *BELCHES LOUDLY*
Lisa: "Mr. Gumble, this is a Girls Scout meeting.
Barney: "Don't confuse me, I know that all of you girls have the same problem as me."


Barney: "45 dollars?! Well this better be the best tasting beer in the world!" *chugs beer down* "You got lucky."



-Thad:D

[Thad Komorowski]

Also, here are some of my favorite Rocky and Bullwinkle lines:

Rocky: "There's no such thing as a wailing whale!"
Bullwinkle: "Well if you can't believe what you read in the comics, what CAN you believe?"

General: "When I get the derby, do you know what will happen?"
Borris: "You'll be smart."
General: "WHAT?"
Borris: "I mean smartER!"

Rocky: "Hello, Rocky the flying squirrel speaking. Oh it's for you, Bullwinkle, someone ELSE wants a weather forecast!"
Bullwinke: "Oh phooey, just when I was catchin' up on my readin'!"
Rocky: (Reading title of book) "The Bobsey Twins at the Seashore?
Bullwinkle: "Yeah, ya can't beat the classics, I always say."

Customer: "Waiter, how's the Irish stew tonight?"
Bullwinkle: (to the tune of an Irsih song) "Oh, the 'taters are old, and the meat is a fright, everything is left over from Saturday night! We scoop it all out, and put it into a pot, and tell you it's real Irish stew that we got!"

-Thad:D

[Patrick McCart]

Rocky and Bullwinkle!

[Jon Cooke]

I voted for Scooby-Doooo.... just kidding :p

No, I also voted for moose and squrriel. Even though I also really like the Flintstones and Huckleberry. It would have been a *really* tough choice if Beany and Cecil, The Alvin Show, and Top Cat had also been among the choices...


-Jon

[Andrew Gilmore]

Originally posted by BobChief
...but Flintstones and Underdog make it a close finish! (Can't stand Simpsons)

Can't stand Simpsons????!!!!! It's arguably the greatest TV show of all time, animated or otherwise! Can't stand Simpsons, you say???? Then you, sir, HAVE NO sense of humor! You ARE kidding, aren't you??

[Joe Tully]

Bullwinkle, obviously:D

Some of my favorites

the Fairy Tale of Hansel & Gretel, with fun stuff like "Kooky? I wish I had a kooky!", roast leg of log, Gretel singing jazzy instructions on how to ride a broom while a witch scats along, and a French-talking duck.

the Aesop segment, Centipede and the Snail. Two incredibly dumb characters who get into trouble when they confuse karats with carrots, when the centipede forgets to tie his shoe before stealing a watermelon, and best of all, Aesop's line "The day after they got out of the hospital.."

"Sccoo-scoo ba doo, boo bop she bam, you are the Rumplestiltskin man!" Great line.

The abdominominable Snowman, who looks like a real Snowman.

Boris singing: "Down you go...you must die..down you go through the snow, through the sky...with the Mooseberry bush......MOOSEBERRY BUSH!"

And soooo much more, I need to stop here before I summarize the whole series.

[Sveven Dvorking]

I hate the Simpsons, and really like Rocky & Bullwinkle.

This makes me so mad.
Why, because the treasurer stole the treasury?
No, because I didn't think of it first.

[Andrew Gilmore]

Another Simpsons hater?? What in the holy name of Charles Martin Jones is there NOT to like about the Simpsons??

[Nelson]

I JUST LOVE IT... Rocky & Bullwinkle is just BLOWING AWAY the competiton.....

The Simpsons better than Bullwinkle:confused: :confused: :confused: there is no way...The Rocky & Bullwinkle is an American Classic tv show, where it will take "The Simpsons" about another twenty years to become a TRUE American classic.

Don't get me wrong guys I do like "The Simpsons", but it doesn't compare to the "Rocky & Bullwinkle Show"
:D :D :D

[hippety hopper]

Hooray!!!!
This my first post in 3 days!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, I voted for "The simpsons".
This is one of the best shows EVER made,but unfortunatly its started to follow the path that the "Looney tunes/Merrie melodies" went down in the late 60's(i.e getting very bad!)

I also like "The flitstones","Rugrats","South park" and "Ren and stimpy" but "Simpsons" is by far the best "For TV" cartoon show.

[Larry T]

I have to admit I voted for the Simpsons, although I REALLY do enjoy Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Flinstones (enough to buy the laser box collection of the first 15 episodes about ten years back).

There is a lot of good humor and great lines in R&B and Flintstones, and I especially like the warped sub-components of Fractured Fairy Tales and Sherman w/ Mr. Peabody. However, for razor-sharp timing and sheer sarcasm, the Simpsons wins hands down. It's really a lot like the same formula used for R&B, but honed-up and made topical for today's style of humour.

I also have to agree with how the Simpsons are dying a slow and painful-to-watch death. I hope the series ends soon, the shows remind me of a fish lying beside a river and gasping for air..... it's almost like the newer shows feature different directors playing with the characters as if they were finger puppets and then grappling at whatever they think might get a laugh, whether its within character or not ("Hey- hey, let's make Marge into a popularity-seeker".... "Naw, she's supposed to be a simple housewife"..... "yeah, but then we can make (whatever character) want to (do whatever) and make a show out of it"....). :p

I believe the series seemed to start going downhill as soon as the guest celebrity voices were featured playing themselves, as opposed to a different character, and when entire episodes revolved around other Springfieldians. But then it's kind of obvious I prefer the early episodes, I found them much more timeless and funny. Well, I'm entitled to my own opinion, aren't I???

BUUUUUUUTTTTT..... can close by saying that I also will be one of the first in line to pick up the DVD box set when it's released on October 1.....:)

[Matt]

No question the Simpsons is on the decline right now, but it has gone through such periods before. Everytime I think it has run its course, there is a sort of mini-Renaissance.

Although I love Rocky and Bullwinkle, and usually really enjoy the Flintstones (and even Scooby Doo on occasion), I think overall the Simpsons is the smartest written show of the last twenty years, maybe ever.

Matt

[Sogturtle]

For my entertainment dollar... I'd go with a tie between the classic Bugs Bunny Show and Bob Clampett's Beany And Cecil. For sheer rotten animation but endearing designs with great laughs there is Rocky and Bullwinkle and that great Armenian (sic) hero Roger Rumpot er Ramjet.

So in other woids I couldn't vote in the poll... Bummer

[BobChief]

...and others ripping me for my dislike of The Simpsons...

It's not something I can -- or want to -- easily describe. First-impression thing, really...

[Andrew Gilmore]

Then I say give it a SECOND try.

[J Lee]

I like The Simpsons as well, even though it is going down (unlike in the past, when the writing and the producing staff would change and get some needed new blood every couple of years, the current group seemed to be hanging on past their useful limits, the same way the writers, producers and directors hung on to the financial gravy train during the final three seasons of M*A*S*H). But in terms of actual subversiveness, what Jay Ward was doing on network television in 1959-60 with Rocky & Bullwinkle was far more daring than what James L. Brooks and his bunch were doing for Fox when The Simpsons debuted in 1987-90.

You just didn't put political commentary in a cartoon show during the late Eisenhower years -- heck, you didn't put political commentary in anything on network TV back then, that's why people like Rod Serling starting writing Sci Fi/Fantasy stuff, to sneak messages past the censors. Ward did, and the best thing about it was it was bi-partisan political commentary -- Ward, Bill Scott and the rest subtilely skewered icons on the left and right, not with the same force as The Simpsons has over the years, but just the fact they were able to get away with it for a while under the pre-All In the Family atmosphere of the early 1960s gets them my vote.