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[Cthulhu]

Does anyone else remember the episode of Batman (I'm guessing it was Batman Beyond, I have no idea) with the Riddler's maze?  I had that one on VHS, it was awesome.  My brother and I watched it so many times.

[Duke 2.0]

I wasted some large amount of my childhood watching The Magic Schoolbus and Pokemon. 

This was the greatness back when I watched it.

 Although Mrs. Frizzle seems a little too unconcerned towards the events around her, as if spouting education is more important than the children she is educating survives.

[Realmfighter]

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8807823767832072853&ei=Y8GiS8vzF5qoqwKbxdWwAg&q=The+Magic+School+Bus&hl=en#

OH MY GOD.

I LOVED THIS SHOW.

[Aqizzar]

Does anyone else remember the episode of Batman (I'm guessing it was Batman Beyond, I have no idea) with the Riddler's maze?  I had that one on VHS, it was awesome.  My brother and I watched it so many times.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about the ones on Batman proper, with Robin.  There were two that I remember, both a very 1990's "inside a videogame" theme.  One had them trapped in a labyrinth complete with minotaur robot based on a really crappy maze-game.  The other, they're trapped in the Riddler's version of the Matrix, and Batman duplicates himself to knock a rubix cube apart with hammers.  All cool shit, even if my jadedness is showing through.

[Cthulhu]

The first one sounds right, it had a riddle that was the "I have no eyes blah blah blah" brain riddle.  Also there were musical keys, and depending on how many sharps the key had, big blades would fly at them and there was a robo-hand.

[MrWiggles]

I love cartoons, and I still do.

When I was younger I watched in no real order:

Ranma 1/2
Robotec
Dragonball
Pokemon (Yes, anime are cartoons, and I've been watching it all my life.)
Warner Bros. stuff. (The whole gang, Bugs, Daffy.)
All of Bruce Tim DC stuff. (Static Shock, Batman The Animated Adventure, Superman: TAS, Batman & Superman New Adventures, Batman Beyond, Justice League (both series), uh... the one about the on the run assassin droid.)
Magic School Bus
Most of Steven Spielberg Presents cartoons. (Anamanics, Tiny Toons, Pink and The Brain, Freakaziod, Histeria)
Most of Fox Kids Marvel cartoons. (Mostly X-men, and Spiderman)
Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles
Rocko Modern Life
Angry Beavers
Rugrats
Doug

and I'm sure I am forgetting some. Some of these started to air when I was 12 and 13, and I cant quite remember without checking wikipedia.

[Fossaman]

Magic School Bus was awesome. I'm pretty sure it still is.

I remember when Cartoon Network first became available in my area. They showed all these really retro cartoons, it was kind of cool. I was really disappointed when they started in on their modern stuff; it seemed poorly drawn, poorly voice acted, and obnoxiously inane in comparison.

[Fooj]

Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles

Wait, what? I must see this.

[MrWiggles]

Magic School Bus was awesome. I'm pretty sure it still is.

I remember when Cartoon Network first became available in my area. They showed all these really retro cartoons, it was kind of cool. I was really disappointed when they started in on their modern stuff; it seemed poorly drawn, poorly voice acted, and obnoxiously inane in comparison.

That a bit unfair, yes some of their original stuff was SHIT!, like Cow & Chicken, however it had some rather good novel stuff.

Johnny Bravo was well voiced acted, had actual frames of animation (unlike the 1970 and 60s stuff). It had a variety of duel level humor.

Power Puff Girls is an excellent super hero carton. Fairly action packed and the cast felt fleshed out, (well the support characters werent). Samurai Jack is astounding for animation. Ed, Edd, and Eddy had an excellent art style. It was deconstructed normal rockwell images and had some great episodes. Probably the best is when they broke the forth wall and started to take a part of the set.

Ah... The New Adventure of Johnny Quest were very well done. I thought they did an excellent job of updating the show while remaining Johnny Quest.

I wasn't into Courage the Cowardly Dog, however I heard that its surrealist storylines were quite good, but its art style is a little flat.

Warner Bros. cartoons and Disney cartoon do have do have an excellent quality. They also had larger budgets, and shorter run times. Most of 1930 and 1940 serials were meant for movie theaters play through. They were able to place in more detail as they had to make a 8 minuet cartoon, instead a 23-25 minuet cartoon. I would need to check up on this, but the time frame to produce both are about the same.

[Fooj]

Johnny Bravo was well voiced acted, had actual frames of animation (unlike the 1970 and 60s stuff). It had a variety of duel level humor.

I remember missing it. I saw the first season when it first came out, and then had trouble catching episodes. After reading up on it, apparently they revamped it after the first season. I think I only saw the first dozen episodes of the first season. I can't find anything but the two better episodes and some random episodes/clips set to ironic music.

it had some rather good novel stuff... Warner Bros. cartoons and Disney cartoon do have do have an excellent quality. They also had larger budgets, and shorter run times.

My main gripe was the animation. The humor you can't exactly say was genius with the older quality art cartoons either, but I agree that the new generation did have some refreshingly novel stuff.

[Sensei]

My parents didn't let me watch Cartoon Network for ages. By the time I was on, Looney Toons was in its last years. I also remember when the shows Cartoon Network had started shifting over to Boomerang- I had watched Flintstones/Jetsons, Dexters Lab, Johhny Bravo (not that I got it), etc. I liked Edd, Ed n Eddy, but I'd say most of what came after that I despised. There were quite a few deservedly short-lived series while they reworked their image.

Anyway, for reasons I cannot imagine, before I was allowed to watch Cartoon Network, I could watch all the Speed Racer (which I remember for a while at least having a life in the channel-themed interludes on CN, though I don't think I was awake when they aired it) I wanted. Which is weird because it had, particularly taboo outside of Looney Toons, guns. I also watched Pokemon for a little while, but I missed Pokemon The Movie 2000 and immediately stopped caring.

And they weren't cartoons, but probably my two absolute favorite childhood shows were Bill Nye and Junkyard Wars. I loved seeing how stuff worked (I was one of those kids that asked "why" all the time). Oh, and plenty of Magic School Bus.

I was a little too young to enjoy Courage the Cowardly Dog, and I particularly disliked Samurai Jack (I'm of the opinion that I missed out, looking back) for its emphasis on unusual art style. Lesee... Power Puff Girls I didn't watch. Because it was girly. And I thought that Cow and Chicken was just plain stupid, even at a young age. I also didn't watch much of what was on the disney or nickelodeon channels, for little particular reason. I ended up watching Spongebob when I was 13 or so. Oh, and I had made up my mind not to watch superhero shows for some reason, I'm not sure. At some point I saw the Batman cartoon (which ever era you remember as the 'good one', that was probably it) at a friends house on DVD, and was convinced otherwise.

I also really, really hate the Batman/Iron man shows that are out now. They bear numerous traits that I lack a better word for than "Godawful". And I'm sure it's not just because I'm not younger either.

[Itnetlolor]

You gotta admit, some of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons had some rather epic parody episodes like Dexter's Laboratory's "Mock 5" which rips into Speed Racer; or the episode of Johnny Bravo that Johnny learns how to pick up chicks in an educational tune ala Schoolhouse Rock. Powerpuff Girls did a decent job tearing into anime mecha series of the time, and Ed, Edd, and Eddy deconstructed cartoon reality, literally one episode.

I think a few other shows did their share of destruction and had to be, by far, the best episodes of the series. Heck, even the Johnny bravo episode with Scooby Doo was rather epic. Actually, I think the Schoolhouse Rock episode is in the same episode of the show. Another all-time awesome parody done through many of the shows has to be Twilight Zone parodies. I think Johnny Bravo did the best job though. "The place where normal things don't happen... very often."

[Cthulhu]

My favorite Johnny Bravo was the one with Donny Osmond.

Speaking of Johnny Bravo, did you know the same guy also voiced Kyle Katarn and Dr. Steinman from Bioshock?

[Vicomt]

man you guys are young

go find some Bagpuss, The Flumps, The Wombles, Camberwick Green or other things of that era... other than that we had the early Looney Tunes / Hanna Barbera stuff.

I do like some modern cartoons, Spongebob is hilarious (son agrees), but most of it these days is reconstructed, regurgitated gunk.

[Pillow_Killer]

We had quita awesome cartoons here, much deeper than your average american thing but this topic isnt about that so...

"Nu pogodi!" was probably my favourite one.