Poll #7: The Best of 1986

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

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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Comments

[allronix1.livejournal.com]

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!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

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!

[allronix1.livejournal.com]

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.