Each week I create a 2-2.5 hour block of programming for the family to watch together over a nice breakfast. We call it Sunday Brunch Cartoons, and we’re nearly two years into it without missing a day. I’m releasing a full list of our watch queue, with the hopes that you can think of something really good (or memorably bad) that we should include.
No 70s Hanna-Barbera.
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Plaintext: Title Batman: Caped Crusader Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years Cybersix Gargoyles Infinity Train Mythbusters Hey Arnold! Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amphibia Animaniacs Scooby Doo; Mystery Inc. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Gumby Gurren Lagann Mighty Max (Remastered) My Adventures With Superman Sailor Moon Original ReBoot Recess Crash Course Video Games She-Ra Space Patrol Luluco The Owl House Tron: Uprising Star vs the Forces of Evil Rocky & Bullwinkle Sym-Bionic Titan Freakazoid! Teen Titans Bump In The night Looney Tunes Golden Collection Nate Is Late / Oskar et Malika The Big O Unicorn Warriors Eternal Mega Man Megas XLR Motorcity Fraggle Rock Men in Black: The Animated Series Histeria! The Tick Swat Kats Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake Kim Possible Dexter’s Laboratory Star Trek Mobile Fighter G Gundam The Adventures of Salmon Max Captain N: The Game Master Darkwing Duck Danny Phantom Wakfu Kirby: Right Back At Ya Regular Show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspector Gadget The Legend of Zelda Underdog (1964) Kid Cosmic Looney Tunes Cartoons Samurai Jack Adventure Time The Loud House King Arthur and the Knights of Justice The California Raisin Show Visionaries Knights of the Magical Lights He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Transformers: Prime Yuu Yuu Hakusho Invader Zim Ducktales Avatar: The Legend of Korra Codename: Kids Next Door Pingu Bill Nye TSG Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Reading Rainbow Wishbone Red Wall Ramen Akaneko Space Ghost Powerpuff Girls Transformers War For Cybertron Dungeons and Dragons Ren & Stimpy Rugrats Super Mario World Fairly OddParents Hilda Moomin Batman: The Animated Series Earthworm Jim Amazing World of Gumball Beakman’s World Rocko’s Modern Life The Real Ghostbusters The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Bravest Warriors Beetlejuice Ruri Rocks Transformers: Beast Wars Courage the Cowardly Dog Rentaghost The Busy World of Richard Scarry Over the Garden Wall Button Moon Cow & Chicken Bocchi the Rock Adventure Time: Distant Lands The Angry Beavers The Trap Door Pinky and The Brain Clone Wars (2003) Avatar: The Last Airbender Gravity Falls A Series of Unfortunate Events Steven Universe Trigun Batman Beyond Bluey Ed, Edd, & Eddy
EDIT: Thanks, Lemmy!!! You’ve all delivered so many really exciting suggestions. There’s enough on my ‘shopping list’ now to keep us going, well, basically forever - but what’s another 10Tb of cartoons among friends?
Here’s the full list of suggestions I’ve collected. In alphabetic order, this time. Thanks again!
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Not certain what age level you’re looking for, but here are some I don’t see on your list. A few of these have been mentioned by others, and I second their opinion.
*Chowder
*Kick Buttowski
*Over the Garden Wall (some spookiness)
*Thundercats
*Home Movies (occasional light swearing)
*The Amazing World of Gumball
*Regular Show (some light adult themes)
*Inspector Gadget
*G.I. Joe
*Super Friends (1970s-80s)
Star Blazers
That sounds lovely. I’m stealing that idea! Hilda and invader zim is so good.
I recently finished litre witch academy, that I could recommend. And the most bizarre thing I’ve seen is John Dillermand. Maybe first screen it before you show it for your kids :)
Life with Louie
I think this one must have been over my head when it came out, it didn’t make enough of an impression on me. It’s time I went back to that well!
I remember liking it quite a bit when I was a kid 🙂
Some shows I haven’t seen since I was a kid, but I remember being high quality, and haven’t seen mentioned yet:
- The Animals of Farthing Wood
- Noahs Island
- Watership down (1999, not the adult 1972 movie!)
PLEASE DON’T WATCH WATERSH8P DOWN 1972 AS SUNDAY MORNING CARTOONS
That is to say, don’t do it if you don’t have adult kids and aren’t particularly keen on some well-animated animal violence.
Crazy how different those two products are
Ulysses XXXI
Beetlejuice Ducktales The gummi bears David the Gnome
I think the original run of The Muppet Show deserves a spot on the list too
All on my list, and you’re absolutely right.
Aah! Really Monsters!
Angry Beavers
Rocko’s Modern Life
We’ve got Rocko and Beavers in the mix, but not A!RM. That’s going on the list!
Ah, I must have missed those. Yeah, Real Monsters was a fun one. I really liked that one as a kid. Tried to revisit recently with my kid, and it didn’t hit the same. Then again, neither does Rocko or Ren and Stimpy. Guess I have to chalk it up to getting old or maturing or something. I still classify them as “good” shows, rating them through the lens of youth. Still live Rugrats. My wife and I watched the whole series together before we even had a kid.
I actually like Rocko more than I did as a kid, but the trouble is that my kid doesn’t really care for it. A lot of the jokes are slyly adult. Rugrats is a classic though!
This clip lives rent free in my head.
So does Mr. Bighead’s song about hating recycling.
You can’t fight city hall. You can’t fight corporate America.
They always big and you are small, you can’t fight city hall!
Another I don’t think I saw mentioned - Pinky Malinky! If you’re looking for a slightly deranged but entirely sweet, over the top and extremely fast paced modern one, Pinky Malinky will not disappoint. This show was made with real love lol. And several other weird things I don’t think I have.
Just note, if you’re old, you’ll be laughing at jokes about 3-jokes-back, the entire time. It’s quick, and I usually hate that cuz it usually just hides poor craft. Not here.
Oh don’t think I saw Courage the Cowardly Dog on your list. Haven’t returned to it in a real long time but it was a classic of oddity in its era of course.
We’ve got Courage! Pinky Malinky sounds delightful, adding that. Thanks!
- Benjamin Blümchen
- Lars, der kleine Eisbär (Lars the little polar bear)
- Heidi
- Biene Maja (Bee Maja)
- Simsala Grimm
- Kleiner Dodo (Little Dodo)
- Wickie und die starken Männer
These were way off my radar, awesome! Simsala Grimm looks especially good!
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack was a fun little CN show that didn’t really get a chance to shine. But it did up launching a lot of careers for some of the more popular creators of shows on the list you’ve already got.
And a fun syndicated cartoon from the 80s was The Adventures of the Galactic Rangers. Its about psychic space cowboys.
Since I see you have some anime there:
- Gargantia on the Verduous Planet
- Samurai Flamenco
- Tiger & Bunny
- Cells at Work
Should all be wholesome and pretty kid friendly.
Also, some older cartoons you missed:
- Pirates of Dark Water
- Conan the Adventurer
- 2 Stupid Dogs
- Doug (Nickelodeon series)
David the Gnome!
This has been on my list of ancient lovely things to revisit. Have you given it a spin lately? How’s it hold up after all this time?
It’s format is different. The characters often speak directly to the audience. Sometimes it’s less story driven and more just explaining what gnomes are like in mythology. I watched a bunch a year or two ago but never finished it all. Loved every minute though, it definitely influenced the human I grew up to be. While I’ve got your attention I also loved whatever the animated borrower’s series was…maybe it was called The Borrower’s? Ghibli later made a movie called The Secret Life of Arriety which was also excellent. Also the Rankin/Bass movie The Flight of Dragons!
Nice! On a whim I took the time to find and watch a couple episodes some years back and it was fun to remember how David just talks to the audience about stuff sometimes.
I remember it being a very “warm”-feeling show, but of course it’s impossible to disentangle my earliest thoughts about it from that quick review. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug!
Sidenote, I feel like David the Gnome and Fern Gully are strong examples of something lovely we lost in storytelling for kids. A less polished but somehow both a warmer and a more honest look at things.
Thanks for the recs!
Watching Fern Gully tonight thanks for the reminder! I also loved Don Bluth movies as did many. Was recently reminded of Rock a Roodle and rewatched it during a flood in my area. Similarly strange format, solid place on my heart.
Was low-key halfway baiting to see if you’d go on a Don Bluth tear 😂 happy to have guessed correctly haha.
I can’t claim any deep knowledge, but one of my best homies ever helped me connect the dots that many many many of my favorite media as a youth came outta that studio / that approach to storytelling.
Looking back, yeeeeesh, dude made exclusively emotionally damaging movies lmao. I remember the heartbreak for each one. Still think they’re better.
[Edit: not familiar with Rock a Roodle, hoping I’ll remember to give it a whirl]
It’s on the list!
I’m a little worried that no one has mentioned Mystery Inc. yet. It’s probably the best version of Scooby-Doo ever done.
Also look in to Clone High both the 2002 version and the 2023 restart. It’s a really fun show more for teenagers and the blueprint that Total Drama Island ripped off. It’s also the very first time Miller and Lord, of Spider-verse and Hail Merry fame, got to run a show.Mystery Inc. is in regular rotation, was it left out somehow? I agree, it’s my fav SD series.
While the lad is showing signs of being an early bloomer (like both his parents), it hasn’t happened yet and stuff like Clone High is being purposefully omitted for now. We watched a minute of S01E01 with him and we all agreed to save it for later. Wife said TDI is a ‘not yet’ for the same reason, though I haven’t seen it myself yet. They’re on the list, but not in rotation yet!
Mystery Inc is on the list, there’s just not enough people talking about it in the comments :)
I don’t see Danger Mouse or Count Duckula on there. Classic British series by Cosgrove Hall. Danger Mouse has had a reboot relatively recently, though I haven’t seen any of the new ones.
Other than that, Mr Magoo and, separately, the Pink Panther show.
And back to the UK for Mr Benn if you can find all the episodes.
No idea where you can watch any of these, but I’m sure they’re out there somewhere.
