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!
Most of my favorites are Hannah Barbara cartoons. And I see that others have already convinced you to check out a few, though I’m a little confused why you’ve singled out Hannah Barbara animation and not say Filmation animation from the same time.
Regardless I’d like to offer the following that I don’t think I see in your list:
Hannah Barbara ones I can’t not mention: (Most not from 70s)
I was mostly just signaling that I’m a bit of a hand-drawn animation snob, I didn’t mean to give much offense by it. Thanks for the big list, I might end up getting most of these. I had totally forgotten about KaBlam! and the Addams cartoon, those are definite keepers!
I didn’t take offense, nor did I think you meant any. Just having seen a lot of old animation I was genuinely curious why one would throw shade specifically at 70s Hannah Barbara when there are worse offenders in my opinion. But to each their own.
My wife and I had also forgotten about KaBlam! until a few years ago. It’s gotta be pretty high on the list of “Most 90s Things Ever”!
I saw MythBusters on your list, assuming I didn’t completely miss a MythBusters cartoon, you might want to check out some of the other live action stuff from the KaBlam! era like All That, Keenan & Kel, or The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
Yeah it’s not a strictly cartoons-only list, but it tries to be. Just for a laugh once I did a live action themed day with Wishbone, Fraggle Rock, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Mythbusters, and Reading Rainbow, but it didn’t feel right. All great shows, but it’s not Sunday Brunch Cartoons.
I recall those shows fondly, I should go back and see if they’ve held up. I’m willing to bet a lot of it has!
I don’t consider King of the Hill to be a kids’ show, although I did watch it as a kid when its original run started. The thing about it is that so much of its brilliance is lost on kids. I, for one, thought it was glamorizing Texan republicanism when I was a kid (growing up in the US, you hear patriotism everywhere so it made sense.) Re-watching it as an adult, I realize it’s a mix of slice-of-life realistic depictions and pointed satire. Kids (including teens) are more likely to take things at face value than adults are, so a lot of the themes and details of King of the Hill may go over their heads.
That isn’t to say kids can’t watch it, if you don’t mind them seeing marital infidelity, cannabis use, and a murder. The cannabis use and murder episodes can be skipped (if you avoid the episodes “Hanky Panky” and “High Anxiety”), but there’s no hiding John Redwood and Nancy.
So yeah, kids can watch it, but I wouldn’t classify it as a kids’ show. I do admit that although I didn’t understand it or enjoy it much as a kid, I am grateful to have watched it then so that I can notice and appreciate how much I’ve grown since. It makes it the kind of show you can rewatch in different life stages and notice something new, even if the only thing that changes is how a scene makes you feel. Either way, it’s a solid recommendation for the grown-ups.
Fair. Some of these are largely going to depend on the age of the viewers. I would put it in with Bobs Burgers or Futurama personally.