The 80's cartoons were the best!

I was watching some clip this weekend about flashbacks from the 80's cartoons. It got me reminiscing about all the cartoons I watched as a kid. In my personal opinion, these were some of the best years for cartoons. No...really! I know people that are older than me that think so too. The older folks didn't watch them except with their kids and the parents really liked what they saw. One of the things that I loved most about my childhood cartoons, was that they always had good morals in all the shows that I watched. You could really get something constructive out of them.

I remember getting up early every saturday morning(at 6:00am) to watch some of my favorite shows. My mom would spend Saturday sleeping in after a long week of being an adult. Not me. Now I know this sounds like a bad way to be a kid, glued to the tv for several hours on a beautiful Saturday morning. I assure you that I did get my outside time, but only after my mom was up...at around 10:00am or so.

When we lived in Orlando, Florida and in Baltimore, Maryland I wasn't allowed to go outside at all without adult supervision because of the dangers of living in a rather large city. So parking my behind in front of the old "boob tube" was how I spent my weekend mornings. We didn't always live in a city but the rules were pretty much the similar. My mom had to know where I was and I couldn't leave without her permission. So being a obedient little lad, I managed to get my cartoon fix every Saturday.

So here are some of the cartoons I watched. I didn't watch all of these in one sitting of course. Different places played different shows and of course some shows went away after a while but you get the idea. Some I watched after I got home from school as well. The weekday afternoon cartoons rocked as well! For all of you youngsters, this is the kind of stuff us old people watched when we were kids. And for all you other old fogies like me, here is a trip down memory lane!

1)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
This one started out as a Saturday Morning cartoon but later I watched it when I got home from school in the afternoons. My favorite turtle was Raphael(he wore red) because he was a smart aleck like me. This did carry well into the 90's but I figured what the hell!

(Because of copyright issues I cannot play the original opening theme video only the song...sorry!)


2)Bravestarr
This was something of a western/futuristic cartoon that I would watch on Saturday mornings.



3)Voltron
I think this was where they got the idea of the Power Rangers robot.



4)Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Its was very short lived but I will always remember this cartoon. This is what early Japanese anime looked like. Hmmm! I still watch old episodes on youtube.



5)GI Joe
Oh my GOD! Yea this is what I can blame for me always wanting to join the US Marine Corps. I wanted to be GI JOE when I was a kid so what did I do? Oh I enlisted! Well this was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I never missed an episode. It came on every saturday morning and mom new she would not ever be able to pull me away from this show at any time! Snakeeyes was the best and my personal favorite. GI Joe PSA's were the best too!



And of course I loved the GI JOE intro for the cartoon movie they did back then also. The theme song was suped up and really catchy.



And by the way...where the hell was my super awesome JetPack when I joined? Grrr!

6)He-man
By the power of gray-skull...I have the POWER! Enough said!



7)She-ra
This was a spinoff of He-man. I liked both of them that is until I found out that He-man and She-ra kissed...and that was gross because they were brother and sister... dirty! There was kind of a theme with that back in the 80's. Luke and Leia(Star Wars...in case you didn't know) were also kissing siblings!



8)Silver Hawks
This was one of those cheesy cartoons that I would spend my Saturday mornings watching...gosh this was soooo 80's!



9)Transformers
I always wondered why Megatron would turn into a gun if he and everyone else was always carrying one. This was another of my Saturday morning cartoons.



10)Mask
Another cheesy 80's cartoons that I loved.



11)Bionic Six
Well I liked superheroes a lot and this was a family of them. They were kind of like the Fantastic Four but plus 2!



12)Jem
Yea...don't make fun of me! I know it was a girls cartoon but I watched it anyways!



13)Thundercats
Oh this one really brings back memories. When I was a little kid, I remember watching the pilot episode, and they were all naked! They really aired this for kids! I think later they covered up the nudity in the original episode but it was there...I swear!



14)The Real Ghostbusters
It was a fun cartoon that spawned from the movie. Gosh I miss being a kid sometimes!



15)The Smurfs
Saturday morning fun! And I still think smurfette was a tramp!



16)COPS(Central Organization of Police Specialists)
I used to watch this in the after school afternoons. It was a good show I don't know why it didn't last long.



17)Robotech
Some more early Japanese anime at it best!



There are a bunch of old cartoons that I watched as a little kid. Some were not my favorites but I would watch them anyways. Some I didn't list because this post is already taking so long. So here are some of the others: The Jetsons, Speed Racer, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Friends, Mighty Mouse, Popples, Heathcliff, The Muppet Babies, Richie Rich, Go Bots, The Ewoks Adventures, Inspector Gadget, Tom and Jerry, The Snorks and so on...Some of these did air in the 70's too!
I may not have got them all, so sorry if I didn't, these were just the ones I could remember. With the exception to the Ninja Turtles I didn't list the cartoons that ran into the 90's. There is a whole line up of those as well. Mostly from Disney like Duck Tales, Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers, Talespin, etc...
Well that is all for now. Until then have a great weekend!