Mickey Turns 80
I don’t know if you realized it, but Mickey Mouse turned 80 on Tuesday.
Not sure what it is about cartoons that is so entertaining, but they seem timeless. I can remember waking up early on Saturday mornings just so I could watch my favorites. I enjoyed the Snorkles and the Smurfs, but always went back to the classics.
A few of my favorite classics were…Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Woody Woodpecker.
So here’s today’s “all skate” question….
Who is your all time favorite cartoon character?
105 Comments:
This is an easy one. The greatest cartoon character of all time is Sylvester.
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Tommy Sircy
7:53 am
For me it has to be Wile E. Coyote. I would watch every Saturday morning in hopes that I would get to see one of the Road runner\Coyote cartoons. His persistaence, faith in ACME products, inventions and unique ways of injuring himself would crack me up everytime. To this day, I STILL laugh when he puts a pair of rocket skates on or ends up getting squished like an accordian!
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Jeff Honnold
8:06 am
Fat Albert! Come on Cosby was so ahead of his time!
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Scott Williams
8:07 am
My husband tells me I am un-American. I’ve never liked cartoons.
Yes…weird. Just tryin’ to keep it real.
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Bonky's Mama
8:20 am
I loved and still love Scooby Doo!
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Yvonne
8:22 am
Johnny Quest was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. Of course, I would watch any cartoon you put in front of me, but that one was the coolest in my mind.
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Jan Connair
8:26 am
Bugs Bunny and Foghorn Leghorn were always my favorites.
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Kathy
8:28 am
Bugs Bunny – every Saturday morning when I was a kid!
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Heidi
8:28 am
@Jan, Johnny Quest? That’s a new one for me. I’m going to have to look it up. He sounds cool though.
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Pete Wilson
8:28 am
Yogi Bear.
Not even close. Plus, his sidekick was named Boo-boo. Bonus points.
Runner up – Bullwinkle.
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Travis Thompson
8:31 am
I prefer Warner Bros or Hanna Barberra (sp?) over anything Disney. My favorite character was Speedy Gonzalez (very un-PC I know). My favorite Looney Tune of all time though is Michigan J. Frog. You know, “Hello my baby, hello my honey …”
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Aaron
8:39 am
Rocky & Bullwinkle.
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Michelle
8:42 am
Road Runner and Wile E Coyote. Age doesn’t matter. they can still make me laugh till my sides hurt. O.K. So that may show a simple mind, but it is the little things in life that make you smile
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Beverly
8:45 am
Scooby Dooby Doo!!! I *was* Daphne…But I grew up and turned into Velma…..
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Angie
8:47 am
Charlie Brown and Eeyore…wait there’s a theme there…hummm.
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Robin
8:52 am
Casper the friendly ghost and the Archies.
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Gina
8:53 am
Tom and Jerry.
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Carrie
9:00 am
@Gina, I totally forgot about Casper. Love him. Or was he a her? I can’t remember.
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Pete Wilson
9:01 am
I’m one of the few that just dont get cartoons! But I will stop and watch for just a couple seconds the roadrunners and Wylie the coyote. Beep! Beep!
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Kath
9:04 am
The pink panther.
Totally COOL.
Never used words. (many lessons to be learned from him.)
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SHerri
9:06 am
Hmmmmmm….this is tough….love cartoons…Let me see:
1) Droopy dog (I am happy – hooray)
2) Bugs Bunny
3) Underdog
4) Pink Panther
I think that will do for now.
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j4man
9:11 am
I loved Pebbles and Bam-Bam from The Flintstone’s…it is funny, because I ended up giving birth to a little Bam-Bam myself
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Laura
9:26 am
Speedy Gonzalez and The Jetsons!
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Crystal
9:47 am
Scooby!!!
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Brandi P.
9:52 am
@Crystal, I totally forgot the Jetsons too. I love them. I was sure that we would be living that life by now. Bummer.
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Pete Wilson
9:52 am
Mr Magoo or was it McGoo? The guy who had the big glasses but couldn’t see a darn thing! Too funny!
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Gina
9:56 am
Duke from GI Joe. Loved that show & can’t wait to see what the new movie looks like.
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Jonathan Hopson
10:10 am
goofy or tigger
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danielle
10:16 am
Mickey and I share the same birthday (I am only 46, not 80) but I gotta go with Marvin the Martian. “Where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”
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Jim A
10:21 am
Seems all my favorites have been listed already; Scooby, Fat Albert, Pink Panther… Remember when Saturday morning was all about the cartoons? I miss that!
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murphy24p
10:22 am
Bugs Bunny and friends–especially when the rocket is zooming back to Earth and stops just before crashing because it ran out of fuel. And the frog–we still use that “hello my baby…” around here. Snoopy too. Although growing up, I watched just about every cartoon available to me.
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Joni
10:37 am
I’d love to see some old Road Runner and Cyote cartoons. Anyone know where you can see them now a days?
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Heather
10:38 am
LOVED the Jetsons. Piglet was also a favorite.
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Linnae Hoppe
10:41 am
I always enjoyed Penelope Pitstop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Pitstop) but nothing beat Bugs or Wiley Coyote.
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Sally
10:50 am
I loved Fragle Rock. I recently downloaded the them song. “Dance your cares away, worries for another day……..”
The Smurfs were pretty awesome too.
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Jennifer
10:54 am
I know you mean for us to give you a tv cartoon but I have to give props to Calvin & Hobbs from the comic strips.
Too bad the creator stopped writing new stuff for him.
I can’t pick a favorite from my Saturday morning childhood love affair. (Remember when cartoons were only on Saturday morning)? So I will mention a few:
Yosemite Sam
Bugs Bunny
Tom & Jerry
Heckle & Jeckle
El Kabong
Droopy
Daffy Duck
Foghorn Leghorn
Sylvester & Tweety
Fat Albert ( & the BROOOOWWWNNNN Hornet!)
Tarzan
Ali’s cartoon even though it was short lived
The Super Friends
He-Man
Transformers
Captain Caveman
Speed Buggy
Grape Ape
oh.. I could go on an on.
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tonyyork
10:56 am
Bugs Bunny
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Giant Idiot
11:01 am
@tonyyork, I loved me some He-Man. That dude was cool.
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Pete Wilson
11:03 am
Ok, all the looney tunes were great, but I must confess Tigger has to be my favorite, otherwise I wouldn’t have him tattooed not once, but twice on my body. What’s the most wonderful thing about Tiggers…. is that I’m the only one. Pete, don’t worry about Johnny Quest, he is definitely before your childhood, but he and Hadji were cool.
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Michael
11:13 am
I don’t think I can just name one….
1. Sylvester & Tweety Bird
2. Smurfs- except Brainy Smurf drove me crazy.
3. Scooby Doo, until they added Scrappy Doo.
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Christy
11:17 am
Hands down.. Donald Duck.
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My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving
11:21 am
I loved the Muppet Babies! I had them on my 4th birthday cake
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Whitney
11:21 am
Davey and Goliath! A little boy Davey, and his dog, Goliath. Always had a good message to it.
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Vicki
11:34 am
Charlie Brown! (Slowpoke Rodriguez deserves a place here somewhere; I have to give him a shout out)
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Anita
11:48 am
My absolute favorite has always been Tom & Jerry! Now my boys love it. They watch it every morning when they get out of bed. Thanks God for Boomerang and OnDemand!
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Michael Robison
11:49 am
What about Hong Kong Fuy? Anyone remember him?
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Holly
12:03 pm
Brak from Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet that was on the Cartoon Network mid to late 1990’s. Spent many Friday nights when I was single grilling out at my apartment and watching Space Ghost (my wife Linda says this is why it took so long for me to get married:) Scot
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Scot Justice
12:12 pm
Maybe not an all-time fav, but a newer one that I (still) enjoy is Doug. Although, I liked him better on Nickelodeon than Sat morning (Disney’s adaptation).
I can’t believe you don’t know who Johnn Quest is…
Looking forward to seeing you later today.
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Jeff
12:27 pm
I learned so much from Davie and Goliath but they aren’t my favorite…I think it was the Bugs Bunny show but I also liked Yogi and Boo boo
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bustersdaughter
12:46 pm
@Jeff, I loved Doug. I didn’t know they still ran that one.
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Pete Wilson
12:51 pm
All of us kids loved Tom and Jerry, but the Jetsons were a close second.
OH! And I just remembered… I loved the Tasmanian devil dude when Bugs Bunny would pretend to be the evil professor like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde… it was like a weird sci-fi episode or something.
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gitz
12:53 pm
Hey whats sup PETE!! Its been a while, but my favorite cartoon is TAZ!!!!
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hernseugene
12:56 pm
@hernseugene, what about EEK the cat, “it never hurts to help”, but often it does.
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Scot Justice
1:03 pm
Mr. Magoo
Second place is Casper the Friendly Ghost
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New York Mary
1:46 pm
@hernseugene, What’ up man? I’ve missed you. Good to see you back.
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Pete Wilson
1:55 pm
The Tick; SSPPOOOOOOOONNNNNN!
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Chris Carroll
2:02 pm
Chilly Willy … of course!
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chilly
2:02 pm
Wow…toss up between Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo
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Wendy Maldonado
2:03 pm
Dude, Hong Kong Phooey…
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jason
2:05 pm
Robin (super friends)
Plucky Duck (tiny toons)
He-Man
Lion-O
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Tommy
2:09 pm
Smurfs, Duck Tails & Jem-truly outrageous
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Nicki
2:14 pm
wow! So many to talk about. I really liked laugh olympics & super friends. Any show that brought other characters together. I lived the scooby episodes when they met people like the Harlem Globe Trotters. This is probably why I like reality shows like Survivor & real world / road rules challenges! Lol!
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ron roark
2:14 pm
Fraggle Rock anyone?
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Vince
2:24 pm
Inspector Gadget. Was totally addicted in the late ’70s.
Go, go, gadget arm!
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Steve
2:40 pm
I didn’t find my all time favorite until I was an adult. It’s Invader Zim, it cracks me up every time. We watch as a family.
Fraggle Rock isn’t a cartoon, they where puppets, puppets that rock, but still puppets.
As a kid I loved Smurfs, Snorkles, and Jem. When I got a little older I liked Pinky and The Brain.
I apparently have a thing for cartoons that are trying to take over the world, The Brain & Invader Zim.
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Ammi O
2:42 pm
@Steve, Inspector Gadget! Oh my gosh. I loved him. I so wanted to be that dude!
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Pete Wilson
2:47 pm
What, no love for SpongeBob SquarePants? I can’t believe no one mentioned SpongeBob.
And what about Bob and Larry? Can’t forget VeggieTales. Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape are a riot.
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Jim A
2:49 pm
1) Anything Looney Tunes
2) Tom and Jerry
3) Superfriends
4) Laff-A-Lympics (Jabberjaw, Grape Ape, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby Doobies, The Yogi Yahooeys and The Really Rottens)
5) Droopy
6) Jetsons
7) Flintstones
ad infinitum…
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BW
2:51 pm
Dude, Daffy Duck absolutely owns me. Especially OLD Daffy Duck before he got all grumpy and greedy. When he was actually, dare I say, “daffy.” GREAT stuff. The latter stuff is funny, too. Especially Duck Dogers, and his epic struggles with Marvin the Martian. C’mon – that stuff is timeless.
The entire Looney Tunes family is just great stuff for me.
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Tal Prince
2:58 pm
I am down with Capn Crunch, Quake, Quisp, all of the old school folks.
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Mike Ellis, Church For Men Florida
3:01 pm
Speed Racer! I loved me some Chim Chim.
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Laurie
3:03 pm
@tonyyork is the only one I see that remembers mine! Heckle & Jeckle! I loved them!!! (Sometimes now, I are them!)
As a kid:
Roadrunner
Bugs Bunny (Pepe Lepew)
Foghorn Leghorn (Prissy)
Johnny Quest
With my son:
Transformers
He-Man
(one that wasn’t animated, but cartoon-ish: Ultra Man)
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Faye
3:08 pm
Dude… I am totally walking around work now thinking to myself.. “By the power of GraySkull… I have the power!!”
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tonyyork
3:28 pm
Mine are the flintstones, goofy, daffy duck, bugs bunny, and tom and jerry. Oh yeah and taz. Lol.
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Amy
3:32 pm
Bugs Bunny and the whole Warner Bros. outfit (I even liked Stinky and the Brain). My actual favorite episodes were the ones based on opera (Oh, Brunhilda, you’re so wuvwy!)
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bookworm
3:34 pm
I’m so predictable…but I HEART Mickey!
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Sarah Valente
3:35 pm
Sorry – that was Pinky and the Brain (or something like that – I just loved the Brain’s egomaniacal personality, so over the top!)
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bookworm
3:37 pm
seriously. Mighty Mouse!
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Darryl
3:45 pm
Hey Pete here are some odies but goodies The Lone Ranger, and Speed Buggy that were great
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Andy Depuy
3:46 pm
felix the cat and the Flintstones
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Vick
3:46 pm
Mine is very obscure…it is Mindy from Animaniacs. She was the one that always called her father Mr Man. Loved it.
Of course Mickey is a classic!
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Joseph
3:51 pm
I loved the Wonder Twins.
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Marlen
4:05 pm
Ooo….and Jabber Jaws!
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Marlen
4:06 pm
MICKEY!!! I feel like you just turned fifty…when I was a young eight-year old….ahem!
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tracy
4:06 pm
My husband. LOL.
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Pam C
4:12 pm
Rocky & Bullwinkle, just cos my uncle had a moose head up on his wall with a plushy chimpunk on one of the horns. It was also an entertaining show.
And just to show how young I really am, I’ll throw in The Brave Little Toaster, because even if it is a movie, it’s still a cartoon. Used to watch it every time I went to my grandpa’s house.
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nigel
4:16 pm
Rainbow Brite and The Smurfs
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Alison
4:16 pm
Does anyone remember Ren and Stimpy? They were disgusting
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Linnae Hoppe
4:53 pm
tweetie
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Ruthie
5:04 pm
Shirt Tales, the Smurfs and the Flinstones
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amyc
8:03 pm
O yea, and Monchichi !!
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amyc
8:06 pm
O yea, and Monchichi!!
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acolon
8:07 pm
Felix the Cat
Casper the Ghost
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Brenda
8:51 pm
Was it Wylie Coyote?? The guy who wouldn’t learn?? And, I loved the Jetsons. Now, I’m all into Disney, nickelodean, and ESPN.
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Fran
10:07 pm
I liked Go Go Gophers! Does anyone remember them?
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Harold McKee
10:08 pm
I’ll go with Mighty Mouse, too. And Popeye!!
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kc
10:14 pm
A few of my favorites and their intros…
Superman & the Superfriends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECx1ZeNcdw
G.I. Joe – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ueHzMwxt0
Thunder Cats – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd_IsxgAf8
Transformers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0ZJgb-VX4
Gobots – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXB4wvqCPBU
Banana Man – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNknWT-agT0
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ncarnes
10:20 pm
@Harold McKee, Were the Go Go Gophers black and white pencil drawings?
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Pete Wilson
10:53 pm
i have two tied for first: RAINBOW BRITE and SCOOBY DOO
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krista
11:20 pm
Popeye! I have no clue why. I just remember loving to watch it.
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Rachel Rowell
1:33 am
Wow, I can’t believe nobody else has said it, but my fave cartoon character is Garfield the cat!
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Ariel
2:18 am
Showing my age Betty Boop and does anywho remember Mighty Mouse?
I tried to find some old Mighty Mouse DVDs for my grandsons but
couldn’t.
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Laurel
5:32 am
Wow…. NO ONE said SPEED RACER!!!! He was so cool…
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OCD-ism/Obsessive Christian Disorder
2:52 pm
gobots and captain caveman! RAWK! Can’t forget thundercats or voltron, though. Or he-man. Wow I miss those days.
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Gotnoblue
9:22 pm
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes… but for saturday morning fare, I’d have to say Rocky and Bullwinkle….
…here watch me while I pull a rabbit out of my hat….
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Ronni
12:50 am