Each week I create a 2-2.5 hour block of programming for the family to watch together over a nice breakfast. We call it Sunday Brunch Cartoons, and we’re nearly two years into it without missing a day. I’m releasing a full list of our watch queue, with the hopes that you can think of something really good (or memorably bad) that we should include.
No 70s Hanna-Barbera.
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Plaintext: Title Batman: Caped Crusader Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years Cybersix Gargoyles Infinity Train Mythbusters Hey Arnold! Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amphibia Animaniacs Scooby Doo; Mystery Inc. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Gumby Gurren Lagann Mighty Max (Remastered) My Adventures With Superman Sailor Moon Original ReBoot Recess Crash Course Video Games She-Ra Space Patrol Luluco The Owl House Tron: Uprising Star vs the Forces of Evil Rocky & Bullwinkle Sym-Bionic Titan Freakazoid! Teen Titans Bump In The night Looney Tunes Golden Collection Nate Is Late / Oskar et Malika The Big O Unicorn Warriors Eternal Mega Man Megas XLR Motorcity Fraggle Rock Men in Black: The Animated Series Histeria! The Tick Swat Kats Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake Kim Possible Dexter’s Laboratory Star Trek Mobile Fighter G Gundam The Adventures of Salmon Max Captain N: The Game Master Darkwing Duck Danny Phantom Wakfu Kirby: Right Back At Ya Regular Show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspector Gadget The Legend of Zelda Underdog (1964) Kid Cosmic Looney Tunes Cartoons Samurai Jack Adventure Time The Loud House King Arthur and the Knights of Justice The California Raisin Show Visionaries Knights of the Magical Lights He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Transformers: Prime Yuu Yuu Hakusho Invader Zim Ducktales Avatar: The Legend of Korra Codename: Kids Next Door Pingu Bill Nye TSG Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Reading Rainbow Wishbone Red Wall Ramen Akaneko Space Ghost Powerpuff Girls Transformers War For Cybertron Dungeons and Dragons Ren & Stimpy Rugrats Super Mario World Fairly OddParents Hilda Moomin Batman: The Animated Series Earthworm Jim Amazing World of Gumball Beakman’s World Rocko’s Modern Life The Real Ghostbusters The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Bravest Warriors Beetlejuice Ruri Rocks Transformers: Beast Wars Courage the Cowardly Dog Rentaghost The Busy World of Richard Scarry Over the Garden Wall Button Moon Cow & Chicken Bocchi the Rock Adventure Time: Distant Lands The Angry Beavers The Trap Door Pinky and The Brain Clone Wars (2003) Avatar: The Last Airbender Gravity Falls A Series of Unfortunate Events Steven Universe Trigun Batman Beyond Bluey Ed, Edd, & Eddy
EDIT: Thanks, Lemmy!!! You’ve all delivered so many really exciting suggestions. There’s enough on my ‘shopping list’ now to keep us going, well, basically forever - but what’s another 10Tb of cartoons among friends?
Here’s the full list of suggestions I’ve collected. In alphabetic order, this time. Thanks again!
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Another I don’t think I saw mentioned - Pinky Malinky! If you’re looking for a slightly deranged but entirely sweet, over the top and extremely fast paced modern one, Pinky Malinky will not disappoint. This show was made with real love lol. And several other weird things I don’t think I have.
Just note, if you’re old, you’ll be laughing at jokes about 3-jokes-back, the entire time. It’s quick, and I usually hate that cuz it usually just hides poor craft. Not here.
Oh don’t think I saw Courage the Cowardly Dog on your list. Haven’t returned to it in a real long time but it was a classic of oddity in its era of course.
We’ve got Courage! Pinky Malinky sounds delightful, adding that. Thanks!
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack was a fun little CN show that didn’t really get a chance to shine. But it did up launching a lot of careers for some of the more popular creators of shows on the list you’ve already got.
And a fun syndicated cartoon from the 80s was The Adventures of the Galactic Rangers. Its about psychic space cowboys.
I’ve got both on my shopping list, thanks!
Flapjack was my addition too :) great weird little show, hugely underrated.
Edit to add: even the theme song fuckin rips!! My head exploded after I’d watched all of Flapjack like twice, theme song over and over, and then I one day hear - the original. Way older and not even very different. My brain broke.
That’s not even the same list, Legend of Kora isn’t on the Alphabetical one anymore
The second (alphabetical) one is all the suggestions I’ve written down, the first one (shows we already watch) does contain Korra. Sorry it’s hard to find, that was a major misstep.
No worries! You don’t owe me anything :) Just wanted to make sure you saw it and knew there might be issues.
If you haven’t watched the original avatar the last airbender, I 110% recommend it as the next show you watch
I watched it with my then-wife a little over a decade ago, and then again all the way through with my kid, it’s one of our all-time faves. We watched the leaked film together last weekend, and if they show it in the local theatre, well hell, I’ll see it there too.
Late to this party but I fear your list will never be complete without Wallace and Grommit and Spongebob Square Pants. You could add Shaun the Sheep too.
I think he might have already seen all of W&G, but it’s been a while. I’ve avoided Spongebob for a long time because it was popular with shitty kids when I was a shitty teenager, but maybe it’s time to let Tom Kenny into my heart.
First handful of seasons are really good, first movie is basically top tier for that kind of humor. Quotable line after quotable line after quotable line, and yet it flows really well. Like you, I had an uphill climb to see it for what it was, my knucklehead younger brother LOVED it. And I mean, for all the dumb stuff I’ve done, that guy ate his boogers, no chance I was taking his taste seriously at the time.
He was right 😌
Isn’t it annoying how hard it is to stay a hater and have good taste?
It seems like you have a massive list already. So here’s a few more!
A few ones I enjoyed (mostly as a kid) which aren’t listed or mentioned:
Conan the Barbarian the Animated Series - very 90’s. I used to record it on VHS
Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light. - Commissioned to help sell a toy line with holograms (all the rage in the 80s) Cartoon was pretty good quality for the time.
Pole Position- Ulysses 31 (currently seeding btw)- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - which are all French Japanese Cartoons scored by Shuky Levy who really encapsulates the sound of an 80’s after school cartoon for me. Even if the plot is a bit meh at times the intro music is absolutely cracking.
Around the World with Willy Fogg - Dogtanian and Three Muskahounds - Spanish Japanese production. Also great theme tunes!
ReBoot - (Ian Gibson who worked on 2000AD developed this. The CG might have aged a bit though! Kids cartoon but had some quite adult reference at the time)
Camp Lazlo - by creator of Rocko’s Modern Life
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? - Short lived Cartoon Network offereing circa 2002.
No 70s Hanna Barbera? Short formats but I enjoyed Roger Ramjet, Batfink (both not Hanna Barbera) and Topcat (which is but was made in the 60’s.)
Mine I think, is younger than yours but absolutely adores Hey Duggee and Squirrel Club and they are very good with great music. Check out the Space or Music Video episodes in particular.
I’ll throw in Topcat, that was good. I was mostly just being cheeky about that. Great list here, some I do already have. He thinks KOTML sucks, but he likes ReBoot pretty well. Once he got used to the fairly tired aesthetic. I think maybe he’s seen enough Minecraft youtuber crap that he doesn’t really mind basic visuals.
Awesome. Pretty cool he likes ReBoot. Sounds like such a fun breakfast morning. I’ve been trying to do something similar but they’re like little media limpets at toddler age; sticking to one thing and one thing only and of course atm it’s become Mr Tumble (an irritating clown whose schtick is that they dress up and do makaton). So while the weather has been nice I’ve been shucking mine off the rock, so to speak and getting them in the garden. Hope you have fun. :)
Toddlers are a lot harder, quite a bigger bridge to gap between us and where they’re at. You might have better luck with things like Lucas the Spider or Ms. Rachel until they’re old enough for, I dunno, Bluey. From there maybe Blue’s Clues and Sesame Street?
Invader Zim has a lot of laughs for kids and adults!
Zim is great. I wish Jhonen’s art style was in more cartoons.
I strongly recommend finishing “She-Ra and the Princess of Power” and/or “Amphibia”.
I’m a sucker for a Strong, Female Protagonist, and really anything by Lee Ostertag (partner of ND Stevenson) or Brennan Lee Mulligan.
(EDIT: Updated name; didn’t know about the name change when I first posted. Added parenthetical connecting second paragraph to the first.)
I did not know Brennan wrote a comic book. Super on-brand for him, excited to give it a go!
We’re definitely going to finish those serie, it’s just that during the week he mainly chooses Mythbusters and so we tend to get through a series very slowly. Especially with juggling over 100 shows, I try to keep them all ‘in the air’!
Looking over the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with:
The Batman
Xiaolin Showdown (this I remember the most fondly)
Johnny Test (It’s the epitome of Saturday morning cartoons, most engraved in my brain, probably bad actually)
Spider Riders (just for the opening song)
All on my shopping list, thanks!!
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80’s Masters of the Universe since there is a movie coming soon.
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The Powerpuff Girls is fantastic for both kids & adults.
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BraveStarr was one of my favorites as a kid, but haven’t seen it in decades, don’t know how well it holds up
Lots of people are suggesting Bravestarr, I’m thinking it might be a bit tired/toyetic, but it seems like people saw something in it! We have PPG already, it’s great!
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Damn, you’ve got a huge list, still I need to recommend Gatchaman, Deadly and if you are into Powerpuff Girls, you need to watch Powerpuff Girls Z.
Most should be easy to find but Deadly I could only find on youtube with terrible quality. Still worth it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScRdFhd6m4&list=PL4jOVhCe6AUy1N4cY7Fv9pnzMv3SGrHc1&index=2
I hadn’t heard of Deadly or Gatchaman, thanks! I did sleep on PPG Z, glad to hear it’s good! I’ll add them all to my list.
Also, Dragon Hunters
Bravestar, admittedly the series is kinda meh but the movie is a work of art.
The movie? Thanks for the tip!
Dino-Riders
It’s on the list! Looks crazy lmao
My specialty! Cartoons! No guarantees my opinions may not be basic or good!
• Code Lyoko ( can get a little dark at times and also characters with not just foreheads, but fiveheads ) ( also has maybe 2 or so scenes of an underage girl in just her undies/bra, but in a European kid friendly manner ) ( every episode is available on a dedicated official Code Lyoko ENG dub channel, and original dub on its own official channel as well )
• If you can somehow find it, Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim ( Kerubs’s Bazaar is apparently the, IMO, horrible English name ) ( same universe as Wakfu, but in a distant past I guess )
• Summer Camp Island ( 6 seasons that start off more episodic and start to get more serialized before the very serialized and probably rushed close to death final season ) ( summer camp run by 3 witches, shenanigans with magic and magical creatures happen )
• Some episodes are technically lost media, either in the original ENG dub or in general, but Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown ( a rare example of Australian cartoon work, follows an anthro kangaroo who basically does everything he can to fight against a corrupt mayor ) ( huh, sounds topical with the state of the world, kinda ) ( episodes available can be found on the The Skippy Archive yt channel, if that makes any difference )
• Ahhhh! Real Monsters ( unless I completely missed this on the list, kinda shocked it’s not there while the classsic Klasky Csupo show Rugrats is )
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog ( the campy in a pretty dumb kinda way cartoon and not SatAM, though I personally recommend that one if you want something a little more serious and darker in tone )
• Rocket Power ( another Klasky Csupo I personally think is good enough to pass )
I wanted to list some others, but I scroll down to the list only to find them. I mean, Angry Beavers was already there. Same with like Batman Beyond and D.W. and Infinity Train. This post just makes me realize I don’t know as many cartoons as I should.
I don’t know as many cartoons as I should
I know! I fancied myself as something of a media maven after years of collecting and curating shows for my kid, but in this thread I’ve got now 145 new shows, some of which I know for certain I should have already had - and scores that I had never heard of. I’m going to need another server at this rate.
Code Lyoko looks cool, definitely an aesthetic there with the noggins. Kerubim looks cool, but it does seem hard to find. Dang! Writing everything down to try again later, high hopes. Thanks!!
“Over the Garden Wall” is missing from your image list.
The Mysterious Golden Cities ! At least the first season, I’m not too sure about the directions it took after that, when it became 3D animated… Then, Ewilan’s Quest ! I don’t think there’s an official translation or a legal way to watch it outside of France for now, but if you put it at the end of your list there might be one by the time you get to it.
French animation gets such short shrift, they have a really strong animation culture in France. I love to mix in shorts from the Gobelins YT channel. Nobody else mentioned Ewilan’s Quest, thanks!!
