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I can see pretty much any cartoon/kid's show I used to watch as a child EXCEPT the following:

Hercules (the 'hey Herc, hey Herc' one, not the Disney atrocity)
The Smurphs (except in French)
Fraggle Rock

Any others missing I don't mind never seeing again, but these are three I'd love to see re-run.

And as for movies I'd like to see them make? Definately V. It could bear redoing...except I have a feeling that they would make the Visitors Muslim or something :(

So? Anything from your childhood not whored out to the next generations that you'd like them to redo or rerun? (it can be anything, not just tv and movies)

They need to bring Schoolhouse Rock to Europe.

They need to bring Schoolhouse Rock to Europe.

Blech. I can't stand Schoolhouse Rock. :headbang:

Blech. I can't stand Schoolhouse Rock. :headbang:

:p You just don't see the awesomeness.

:p You just don't see the awesomeness.

Sorry, is this show from your childhood?:confused:

Sorry, is this show from your childhood?:confused:

Technically, yes.

Sorry, is this show from your childhood?:confused:

It's from my dad's childhood....

...and he's 59.

EDIT: oops, I didn't remember correctly. Last year for "Flag Day" I saw a schoolhouse Rock video at school, and I thought I remembered my dad saying he was a kid when it first aired, now I know he actually said my half-sister was a kid when it aired. :headbang: Oops. Heh.

It's from my dad's childhood....

...and he's 59.

Could you dig up a link about the show? I wonder if I know it...

Could you dig up a link about the show? I wonder if I know it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock

Eureka! I HAVE seen this show! Oooh...there was this other one too, it was a filler in between shows...some mouse who would go back in history and describe events...

I want Burger King to bring back Hamburgers and replace "the King" with the old squad of kid cartoon characters they had.

I want the Cold War back. It (barely) kept the Islamic fundamentalists under control. Moscow supressed them while the US tried to turn them loose (Taliban, anyone?).

Plus we'd have an actual space program instead of that bloated POS agency known as Need Another Sacrificial Astronaut.

There was this show called "Beakman's World." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beakman's_World) In Sweden it was broadcast on TCC (The Children's Channel - a British satellite channel) and it taught you all these cool things about science and it was hilarious; I remember one time Beakman, Lester the Rat and Liza built a model of a nose filled with slime that emulated snot and Beakman had to "spelunk the nose."

I credit that show for my having learnt English; it taught me more than any English class in school ever did, partly because it wasn't subtitled and mostly because it was awesome.

One day, it just disappeared when the channel revamped itself and lost all good shows and instead started airing Barney the freaking purple dinosaur whose sole purpose seemed to be to spread US apathy around the globe.

Anyway, I'd love to see that show back on TV, or at least on DVD.

There was this show called "Beakman's World." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beakman's_World) In Sweden it was broadcast on TCC (The Children's Channel - a British satellite channel) and it taught you all these cool things about science and it was hilarious; I remember one time Beakman, Lester the Rat and Liza built a model of a nose filled with slime that emulated snot and Beakman had to "spelunk the nose."

I credit that show for my having learnt English; it taught me more than any English class in school ever did, partly because it wasn't subtitled and mostly because it was awesome.

One day, it just disappeared when the channel revamped itself and lost all good shows and instead started airing Barney the freaking purple dinosaur whose sole purpose seemed to be to spread US apathy around the globe.

Anyway, I'd love to see that show back on TV, or at least on DVD.

I freaking loved Beakman's World........ it was great.

I would have to pick that.

I do remember a game when I was younger that had cards with 4 numbers on them (one on each edge) and you had to use order of operations to figure out a number sentence so that it would equal 36.......it was so fun.

Beakman's world rocked! So did Bill Nyle The Science Guy. I also miss Shining Time Station sometimes.

God Barney sucks though.

Beakman's world rocked! So did Bill Nye The Science Guy. I also miss Shining Time Station sometimes.

God Barney sucks though.

Bil Nye! Wewt!

Bil Nye! Wewt!

Bill Nye is actually kinda cool.

Schoolhouse Rock and Barney can go do innapropriate things to sheep and n00bs.

It's from my dad's childhood....

...and he's 59.

If he's 59, then he was 26 when the first episode aired. Not exactly part of his child hood. :p It was, however, part of my child hood and one of my favorites. There was also an old British series from the 70s I'd like to see again. It was called Survivors. The premise was that 98% of the worlds population had been killed off by a rouge bio-weapon virus. It was good fun. ;)

My favorite breakfast cereal at the time was Crazy Cow. I think it was on the market for all of 18 months. And my favorite candy bar was Marathon. It too wasn't on the market very long. *sigh*

I freaking loved Beakman's World........ it was great.

I would have to pick that.

I do remember a game when I was younger that had cards with 4 numbers on them (one on each edge) and you had to use order of operations to figure out a number sentence so that it would equal 36.......it was so fun.

Beakman's World is back on TV on Saturday mornings in the US, 2 episodes.

Last I recall, PBS aired Schoolhouse Rock like once a year and I think they replaced Shining Time Station with the British Thomas the Tank Engine shit, too bad. Old cartoons air at different days at like 4 AM CST on Cartoon Network, like Mr T and shit.

Salute Your Shorts
Are You Afraid of The Dark?
Angry Beavers

They need to release the original X-Men cartoons in DVD box set form.

Blech. I can't stand Schoolhouse Rock. :headbang:

WHAT?!

*immolates self, launches corpse at Pancake from trebuchet*

It's from my dad's childhood....

...and he's 59.

BS. If your father is 59 then he was born in 1947. Schoolhouse rock originally aired in 1973.

He would have been 26.

Contrary to what your teenage self might believe, not everything produced before the 90s is "old".

Salute Your Shorts
Are You Afraid of The Dark?
Angry Beavers

Blech Angry Beavers. We need classic Nick, not "We have to become as crappy as Cartoon Network was" Nick which it is just now trying to get away from.
Need more Salute Your Shorts, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Hey Dude, and that stuff.

http://www.8ung.at/filminfo/pictures/colt/fglog.jpg

First show I was ever allowed to watch on a regular basis and I still love it to this day.
(Yes, I do own multiple copies of Lee Major's theme song on 45er vinyl.)

But those bastards have yet to release it on DVD over here...

Blech. I can't stand Schoolhouse Rock. :headbang:
WHAT!?!? That show taught me my multiplication tables! I didn't actually watch it when it was on but my Dad had some old tapes of it that I watched.

I wish Cartoon Network showed more Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest those are classics.

There was also an old British series from the 70s I'd like to see again. It was called Survivors. The premise was that 98% of the worlds population had been killed off by a rouge bio-weapon virus. It was good fun. ;)

Watching it recently, and the first two series were good, but it lost the way completely in the third. What was perticularly entertaining was how middle-class the whole thing was.

Mighty Max.

I'd also say Swat Kats, but that's being brought back, apparently.

Fuckin' Exo-Squad

BS. If your father is 59 then he was born in 1947. Schoolhouse rock originally aired in 1973.

He would have been 26.

Contrary to what your teenage self might believe, not everything produced before the 90s is "old".

Oh wait............ never mind. That was a memory slip.

My half-sister was a kid when the first episode aired, I remember now. :headbang:

Oops. :p

i was reminded yesterday of pingu by a thread on here. i would very much like to watch that again, perhaps while stoned, i think it could be fun.

Boomboxes/jamboxes
Phones that click with big buttons
No power steering, power steering sucks
Were Ushankas ever in style?
VHS cassettes. Fuck DVDs
Trans Ams
Good American presidents
Good music
Dueling
1930s attire

Fuckin' Exo-Squad


FUCK YEAH!

I can see pretty much any cartoon/kid's show I used to watch as a child EXCEPT the following:

Hercules (the 'hey Herc, hey Herc' one, not the Disney atrocity)
The Smurphs (except in French)
Fraggle Rock

Any others missing I don't mind never seeing again, but these are three I'd love to see re-run.

I wouldn't mind being able to catch re-runs of the old Looney Tunes that weren't censored. When I was a kid, when Wile E. Coyote ran off a cliff, you saw him fall, smash into the ground in a big hole, and climb out. Now when he runs off the cliff, you see him fall and hear a smack and then see him climb out of a hole.

The Censored 11 and Speedy Gonzales would be nice too see as well.

And as for movies I'd like to see them make? Definately V. It could bear redoing...except I have a feeling that they would make the Visitors Muslim or something :(

So? Anything from your childhood not whored out to the next generations that you'd like them to redo or rerun? (it can be anything, not just tv and movies)

What I'd love more than anything if for the remaking of various old cartoons to be stopped and those already made to cease to exist, ecpecially the horrible, horrible live action ones. :mad:

The Herb Garden

The Magic Roundabout

Andy Pandy

Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men

and from when I was just a wee bit older: Thundercats and Dangermouse

Beakman's world rocked! So did Bill Nyle The Science Guy. I also miss Shining Time Station sometimes.

God Barney sucks though.

Bill Nye!!!

DangerMouse
BananaMan
The DogFather

(showing my age, aren't I?)

DangerMouse

Simply brilliant.:D