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Yesterday we were walking through the toy aisles at Target when all of a sudden I exclaimed, “Smurfs!” The boys thought I was crazy, which is nothing new, until I pointed out the little blue plush Smurfs on the shelf. I then explained to them what Smurfs were and told them to pick one out. I couldn’t resist. They each chose a Smurf and I grabbed a Smurfette for Jules.* Then this morning I googled Smurf and guess what? There is a new Smurf movie in the works. The release date is December 2010. Apparently it takes a while to come up with all that smurfy dialogue. Then this morning I was flipping channels on tv and saw Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, and two versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was right. I guess the 80’s really did have the best cartoons/A Butterfly Moment. More here.
Question: Do you agree with A Butterfly Moment that the ‘80s had the best cartoons?
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JeanC on February 09 at 5:36 p.m.
EWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope, the 80s sucked when it came to cartoons.
Tom Smith wrote a wonderful song that expresses how I feel about smurfs:
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/smurfin_safari.htm
Arch_Druid on February 09 at 11:03 p.m.
Cartoons up through the 70s were very decent. Now to get a real decent cartoon, we get them from Japan. I didn’t much get into something that was “childish.” Not even when I was a kid. It had to be action adventure or just really funny.
thawtfulreader on February 09 at 11:33 p.m.
There was NO comparison to the Bugs etc Loony Toones of the 40s-50s, (replayed heavily in the 60s), until the Fractured Fairy Tales came along, AND Bullwinkle and Rocky Squirrel. Oh, and Poindexter and Tweedle-dum.
Huckleberry Hound was a good, but minor player.
Joker on February 10 at 7:47 a.m.
My friends and I would play TMNT all the time. It was great until one day my BFF did a dive bomb off the staircase and smashed a glass table. He wasn’t hurt, but I did when dad came home.
Jen on February 10 at 8:50 a.m.
Okay, I fully admit that Looney Tunes trumps all other cartoons. (We own five Looney Tunes dvd sets that we watch over and over with the kids.) But I was a kid in the 80’s and still love those cartoons, too.