ext_104979 ([identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] saturday_am_80s2011-08-24 10:46 am
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Poll #7: The Best of 1986

NOW we're talking! Not many new cartoons debuted in 1986, but of the ten that did debut there are some REAL power players!

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[identity profile] colonoscarpeay.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I had forgotten about Foofur!

[identity profile] khristle.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny, I picked the same ones that Molly would pick.

[identity profile] mishey22.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghostbusters was my favorite cartoon ever, but I really liked the Flintsone kids.
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[personal profile] piratequeen 2011-08-24 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I had completely forgotten about the existence of Foofur until that clip, but as soon as I saw it, I remembered watching it.

[identity profile] kaitydid33087.livejournal.com 2011-08-25 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude. I LOVED Pee-Wee's Playhouse growing up. It was one of my favorite shows! And Care Bears was awesome. And Ghostbusters was awesome too! :D

[identity profile] mspette.livejournal.com 2011-08-25 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Flintstone Kids and Ghostbusters, didn't watch any of the others as a kid. :)

[identity profile] venus2869.livejournal.com 2011-08-26 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Other people know of the wonderful Galaxy High School!! This was a great show, but due to my CBS affiate's local programming, I had to try to get the reception from a Ohio station(didn't always work out so well).

Much to most people's surprise, Chris Columbus(director of Home Alone & Harry Potter 1&2)was the creator & director of this series!!

[identity profile] nurseminako.livejournal.com 2011-08-27 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I loved Galaxy High School as a kid!
For some reason, I neglected to vote for the Ghostbusters, but it looks like it got enough votes, anyway.
Pee Wee was awesome, too.

[identity profile] allronix1.livejournal.com 2011-09-17 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ghostbusters. Dude, JMS (aka "the Great Maker") was writing! They flew an amazing amount of crap under the radar, kept a decent continuity, and even managed to translate the characters with relative fidelity while keeping it G-rated. Considering the movie was a cheerfully raunchy comedy with Ackroyd and Murray fresh off SNL, this was no small feat!

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2011-09-17 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always been amazed with Ghostbusters and impressed with how they gave these shallow, one-note characters an actual back-story and made them real. Ray was from a small town. Egon had a childhood encounter with a "Tooth Fairy" that left him emotionally distant for the rest of his life. That stuff went DEEP!

[identity profile] allronix1.livejournal.com 2011-09-17 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the things that keeps me coming back to cartoons, even when I'm well past drinking age, is how much storytelling you could cram into a 22 minute window, even with the restrictions and executive-mandated idiocy.
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