Mr. Dress-up (with Casey and Finnigan) and The Friendly Giant (with Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe).
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Thundercats and Silver hawks. I loved those shows!
Scooby and Thundarr the Barbarian
I remember the little peanut creatures!
πΆReading-rain-bowπ΅
Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents. I still watch it to this day
PokΓ©mon (grew up with seasons one to four)
The Angry Beavers
Simpsons
Anything from golden age Cartoon Network (dexter, coward the dog etc)
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
3-2-1 Contact
David the Gnome
Contact! Let's make CONNN-tact!
Simpsons and In Living Color (I was a latchkey kid)
X-Men
A second is really hard to pick though. Thereβs so many great kids shows from that time, if I picked one it would just be at random. Maybe Rockoβs Modern Life, because the absurdity of it stands out more than many others.
Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
Andy Griffith Show
Bugs Bunny/ Looney Tunes cartoons
When I was sick I got to watch reruns of Andy, Dukes of Hazard, and I love Lucy.
Original power rangers, samurai pizza cats.
Out of Animaniacs, Scooby Doo, Power Rangers, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Angry Beavers, Road Rovers, Rugrats, CatDog, Hey Arnold, The Wild Thornberrys, SpongeBob (Seasons 1-3), Arthur, Little Bear, Cow and Chicken, Ren and Stimpy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed Edd n Eddy, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Reboot...
If I had to narrow those down, I'd say Animaniacs and Grim Adventures but damn it's really hard to choose just two.
While 6 yr old me and 16 year old me w of uld have wildly different opinions, the most significant 2 that I still love today as much as back then are:
The Simpsons, and Batman the Animated Series
Many things I've seen since then can't top those two.
Zaboomafoo, Dragon Ball
Loved Zabu!
The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton's Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.
That and Animaniacs.
Futurama and ATLA
Futurama isn't exactly what I would let my kids watch, but ok.
Sure, but it's way less raunchy or suggestive than Family Guy.
Usually.
Modern Family Guy especially.
I still say the first 5 seasons of Family Guy were when it was at its best. There are some funny/good episodes after that, like the Star Wars ones, and And Then There Were Fewer (the Clue 2-parter), and imo a lot of the ones where we follow Carter.
Though American Dad is still leagues better imo. It's a little more absurd, but it's a better fit for the stories they want to tell there.
The episodes after Brian got killed and resurrected have gone off the deep end in terms of being outright sadistic, though.
When I was an actual kid, I liked Marlin Perkins Rearranging the Animals
When my baby sister was a kid I liked Electric Company
When my babies were kids I liked Blues Clues
And I'll always have a hug for a muppet, Sesame Street or otherwise.
Ghostwriter and Sailor Moon!
Well, I was pretty big into Magic School Bus for a while when I was still of the age to be watching that sorta thing, as in I had some VHS tapes of that show, and tbh its animation still holds up really well 30+ years on (RIP Nelvana unless things change for the better for them; they're pretty much a licensing company now for the time being), and I remember liking Clifford and Arthur well enough too.
Rugrats was also one of my earliest memories in this regard and I liked it a lot too, and it's also really cute looking back onto it as well.
Hard to choose to be honest⦠but Avatar for sure. And maybe Powerpuff Girls? Kenan & Kel? Mythbusters (if it counts?)?
Candle Cove
I still can't believe my parents let me watch this.
He-Man on Saturday morning, and Alf during prime time!
No problem!
Buffy. Not exactly a kid show, but I was a kid when I watched it Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Star Trek: Voyager and Murder, She Wrote
WOW! Decades apart!
Reruns/syndication. I don't think I watched much of either as they originally aired, not old enough yet or not alive in the case of MSW. We just had free antennae channels, so weeknight evenings were lots of syndicated shows.
MASH was another common one but I didn't like it as much. I found Alan Alda annoying and the Klinger schtick weird.
Miraculous
Ritter hoch 3
The Racoons
MASH
I was a hardcore Thomas the tank engine nerd.
And Theodore Tugboat.
Whatever reruns were playing on the channel we had... Beggars can't be choosers (though I note, some beggars are quite choosey - odd).
Slayers and Reboot
What were yours?
I think it's gotta be Arthur and Rugrats
Solid choices
Arthur
Mr Rogers
(Barney, but don't tell anyone)
A-team and Star Treck TOS.
Both on BW actually.
That shows my age i guess.