Any adult fans of watching cartoons?

[Locut0s]

There is the well known Brony phenomenon of mid 20, 30 yr old fans of My Little Pony.

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

I'm not personally a fan of the show but I still very much enjoy certain animated stuff. DC and Marvel animated movies come to mind. I got stuck on watching the first season of the Avengers TV cartoon, the second season really went down hill. I still love some of the cartoons from my childhood and can easily watch them, stuff like Batman the animated series, Ducktales, Tinny Toones, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing duck, Animaniacs, TMNT. I hear the new teenage mutant ninja turtles is worth watching too. Spongebob is surprisingly fun.

Of course old classics like Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, The Jetsons, Rocky and Bullwinkle etc are always fun to watch but they don't tickle my nostalgia bone like the ones above as they are a generation before me.

I don't watch like I did when I was a kid of course, the show now has to have that something extra, high quality writing, genuinely funny universally appealing humour, fun characters etc.. But given those are in place I can still easily enjoy them, and I'm 31.

What cartoons, if any, do you still enjoy as an adult.

[GoCubsGo]

1. I love the old classics.

Those are from my generation. Many of them, like the Looney Tunes and Bullwinkle, have a fair amount of adult-level humor in them that was over my head when I watched them as a kid. I also love Spongebob Squarepants. I would love to have some of what his creator was smoking when he came up with Spongebob. I really don't understand the attraction to most of the post-1970s cartoons, outside of Spongebob and the "Adult Swim" cartoons like "The Boondocks". The only "action" cartoon I ever got into was "Speed Racer", which I still enjoy. Some of the "cartoons" on PBS are great, too, such as "Arthur" and "Word Girl". "Word Girl" is a hoot, and I have at least one other friend who is of my same advanced age who loves her, as well.

[GoCubsGo]

44. How could I forget "The Simpsons"?

And "Daria"? I like "Family Guy" okay, too.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Absolutely! Old and new stuff though I have little use for anime like Pokeman.

[Locut0s]

3. There's some very good anime out where, Pokemon isn't it...

There are thousands of anime series out there and some of them are quite good. One piece comes to mind but that may be because I'm a fan of the manga.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I've given it a try but it all feels like the same show to me.

Seems like there's always a few young characters with ethnically generic features and candy colored hair following an older, wiser leader on some kind of mission.

[Locut0s]

7. Give One Piece a try...

Yeah your description fits a lot of crap out there. See if you can find some One Piece on YouTube. You have to watch it from episode one though as it's a continuous arc over 10 -15+ seasons.

[dawg]

4. A few of my favorites ...

[Locut0s]

5. Have you checked out Rocko's Modern Life?

An old cartoon now but a great one.

[Codeine]

22. My kids live and breathe Adventure Time.

I like Regular Show much better.

[Nevernose]

8. I'm a total comic book geek

So I'll watch most comic related cartoons, at least if they're good. On Disney XD I watch Ultimate Spider-Man when I get the chance -- it's hilarious -- and a Avengers Assemble.

I'm also the faculty advisor for my high school's anime & manga club, so I get a lot of exposure to stuff I otherwise wouldn't have watched or even heard of. My anime days were over with Starblazers and Robotech, but there's some really cool stuff out there right now (I'm a big fan of Black Butler -- totally not racist! -- and I just started watching Attack on Titan).

We'll find out on Tuesday whether or not I have another Nevernose Jr with whom to watch the latest cartoons!

[Locut0s]

10. Fantastic! Wishing you good luck with Nevernose Jr!...

So do you keep up at all with the modern comic book scene? I'm a comic book fan myself but have not managed to keep up with any of the actual comics. I just love the characters, animated movies and tv series, and the occasional arc here and there. I'm wondering if I should try to get into the comic book scene what with DC's new 52 reboot and Marvel doing something similar. Know anything about these?

[Codeine]

17. Chiming in;

the DC New52 was my excuse to jump headlong in comics-buying. I currently pick up about 25 DC titles, a few Marvel, and several books from the smaller publishers.

I heartily recommend Hawkeye and Daredevil from Marvel. They go to trade paperback very quickly, so you can get them more affordably and read them in one fell swoop.

[Incitatus]

9. South Park, Family Guy, and Futurama is pretty much it for me.

Occasionally, I will watch some of the old classics. I do remember watching Ren and Stimpy and Pinky and the Brain.

[Locut0s]

11. Pinky and the Brain...

[NuclearDem]

42. That pretty much sums up my cartoons as well.

[ailsagirl]

12. I was always a fan of Bugs Bunny

Such a smart-ass!!

And who was that big rooster who had the intellectual little "chick" (as in "young chicken&quot trailing him?
The rooster was big and blustery and full of hot air...

[Locut0s]

13. Foghorn leghorn

[ailsagirl]

16. LOL!!

Thank you!!

[Codeine]

14. I'll watch any of the DC animated material,

from the masterful feature-length stuff they put on disc/pay-per-view right through to the Teen Titans GO! stuff on Cartoon Network. And the old Batman: The Animated Series is just amazing.

I also like Family Guy, Archer (fucking hysterical), American Dad, and even South Park when I'm in the right mood.

[Locut0s]

18. Have you seen the new Flashpoint Paradox?

Fantastic film

Agree with you 100% on the rest of it.

Actually I haven't seen Archer yet, need to get on that. I was even a big fan of Smallville the TV series, as corny as it could be sometimes.

[Codeine]

19. I should sit down and see that one one.

The Flash is one of my favorite characters.

[Locut0s]

25. Indeed. Has a surprisingly poignant story...

Very we'll written.

Flash is a big fav of mine too.

Some of the animated batman movies are actually just amazing too. Batman year one and batman under the red hood come to mind.

[a la izquierda]

15. I still love Tom and Jerry and will watch it if I catch it on.

I was a Simpsons fan in the '90s and very early 2000s, but I find it unfunny now. However, when I'm in Mexico, I will watch it in Spanish.

I occasionally watch trashy cartoons like American Dad and Family Guy when I'm desperate to get out of a depression. But I don't generally find that stuff funny anymore.

[Locut0s]

21. American Dad is quite good IMHO...

And I love early Family Guy. They are dead to me since they decided to kill off Brian, the show had gone down hill a lot even before then though. To each his own of course!

[a la izquierda]

28. American Dad is very funny.

The first few seasons of Family Guy were hilarious (the Leafers episode kills me every time). But I'm over it as well.

[NuclearDem]

43. "since they decided to kill off Brian"

Haven't seen the most recent episodes yet?

[TheMightyFavog]

20. Black Lagoon

It's a great series, but absolutely NOT for kids. It's almost like a Tarantino movie.

[Locut0s]

26. Thanks added to the list. Nt.

[Codeine]

23. And Regular Show! I totally forgot that one.

Surreal as all hell. Definitely worth seeing.

[Locut0s]

30. Just saw the "Death Sandwich" episode lol...

Has a real Adult Swim vibe. Reminds me of other things too.

[nomorenomore08]

24. "Simpsons," "Family Guy," "South Park," though I've somewhat lost interest over time.

I'm just not real big on comedy in general these days. Wonder what that says about me?

[Locut0s]

27. Well I've been going through really rough times too. But...

But those shows you list have also really gone downhill a lot since their peak. So I wouldn't use that as proof of anything.

I wish they would just let The Simpsons die, and family guy is dead to me now that they have killed off Brian, not that it hadn't already sucked for a while.

[Codeine]

29. Brian's back.

Stewie used his time machine.

[Locut0s]

31. I had a feeling it might be just a short arc..

Still they have kind of sucked for a while. American Dad is now the better of the two shows IMHO.

[eShirl]

32. we kept it on an Adventure Time marathon because our cat liked it

and we laughed our asses off! we'll have to watch the entire thing from the beginning (after we're done watching the entire Star Trek franchise in Trek-chronological order (Enterprise, Original Series, Animated Series, TNG, DS9, Voyager))

[Locut0s]

34. Wow that Treknological order idea is neat...

Have you already seen most of the episodes?

I think I've seen every episode of every trek series now. But I could rematch much of it again.

[eShirl]

37. we thought so, but there were a handful

some of the Enterprise episodes we'd never seen

we're up to s1e8 TOS so far

[yewberry]

33. I liked The Tick.

I mean, characters named Die Fledermaus, Sewer Urchin, Suffrajet... that is some quality cartooning right there!

Spoooon!

[Locut0s]

35. Spooon! :D nt.

[LumosMaxima]

36. I still like "Beavis & Butt-Head".

Does that count?

[Locut0s]

39. Uh, huh huh huh huh huh, uh huh huh huh. Nt :D

[Brigid]

38. The Warner Bros. classics, of course.

And for a kid growing up during the Cold War, Rocky and Bullwinkle are absolutely hilarious to watch now!

[armed_and_liberal]

40. All I ever need to know about physics I learned from Wily E Coyote.

I can still watch hours of Roadrunner cartoons.

[Stuart G]

41. Animaniacs and Batman the Animated series..

Animaniacs has some satire that is incredible.. I got all the eps. and, Batman the Animated Series was outstanding.
I am a cartoon fan from way back...Very funny, Bugs and Daffy. fav is the Roadrunner with Wiley...so much more..
I once met Friz Freeling and decade or so later, I met Chuck Jones, got his autograph..for those who do not know Jones..
...Jones directed all the funny Roadrunner toons.

[OriginalGeek]

45. Looking forward to Space Dandy

anime from the director of Cowboy Bebop.

Also love most of the Adult Swim line-up ever since I first saw Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I got George Lowe (Space ghost voice) to do my voicemail greeting at a comic-con one time. I don't use it any more but I still have the recording. (Boss made me change it since my personal phone is used for company business lol)

Also: Archer, Bob's Burgers, Duckman, The Critic, King of the Hill, the first season of Ren and Stimpy, and probably dozens more in addition to the classics. (Bugs Bunny, Speed Racer, Bullwinkle, etc...)


Yeah, I love cartoons.

[Locut0s]

46. Ahh yes Duckman!...

Way ahead of its time IMHO.

[dipsydoodle]

47. Mainly early stuff

Max Fleischer era - Betty Boop etc much of which is now considered to be in bad taste particularly by sad people.

This is later from Disney's make Mine Music :

Track from the film was never released so if you're out dancing to The Cats Join In and the Sandpipers chirp in its been ripped from here wherever.

[NewJeffCT]

48. Clone Wars was pretty good, Phineas & Ferb can be brilliant

though, I haven't watched much of either the past year or two.

I can only take those old cartoons in small bits now, though I loved them as kids.