cartoons

Was lamenting the quality of today's cartoons (tsktsktsk..no standard at all!) with enilit yesterday
during tuition and we came up with a short run-through on our favs:

Smurfs(1981-1990)


The little blue guys..and girl.
Besides the unprobable mystery of how a whole village of smurfs came about
with only ONE female smurf..I later learnt that the smurfs were probably communists..

Captain Planet


Mystical blue (again!) superhero who always, ALWAYS came to the rescue in the nick of time..plus
a bunch of teens who had an amazingly huge interest in saving the world one pollutant at a time.
(I remember having a lollipop "captain Planet" ring once..:P)
While there isn't much to be said about their fashion sense..they had awesome arsenal of transport too...Eco-sub(the small underwater vehicle) and Solar cycles(motorcycle-like land vehicles)
which are actually possible inventions these days.

Transformers


Machine-gun-laser-pointing-crush-you-to-dust-robots..the part i loved best? The way they transformed into super slick sport cars. Who wouldn't want a hot rod like that..okay..so you'd have to sacrifice a little when it went off fighting baddies..but..TRANSFORMERS-leh..even a porsche or a lamborghini pales in comparison

Johnny Quest


I used to plan my little childhood life around watching Johnny in action..(ok..so i exaggerate-i just memorized the times JQ would be on..as well as the reruns..and advertisements..)
I also used to have a huge crush on Johnny Quest-smart,adventurous,blond,blue-eyed...plus he had the coolest life ever!Heh-I know I wasn't the only one-lah..you out there..yes,you! You also thought Johnny was the guy rite? And you also thought that red-haired chick with him was so irritating ..which is why the pic above doesn't have her in it...mwa-hahaha..:P

So,compare this with today's hottest on Nickelodeon:

*sighs* and they wonder why kids don't have that big an imagination these days..