So as a kid I grew up in a "Latch Key" family. That is to say both of my parents worked until late in the evening which meant I was basically home alone from the end of school until my bedtime.

My great companion during those times was the afterschool cartoon block, especially the Disney Block that featured great shows like Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Gargoyles, and Goof Troop. Later other greats like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Pinky & the Brain filled my days.

So I am just wondering did anyone else grow up to these staples? I remember having a huge crush on Goliath from Gargoyles and every time I hear Kieth David's voice in a video game or show I still get flashbacks to that cartoon...lol. I also loved Julie Bruin (and her real life counterpart Julie Brown to a lesser extent), Minerva Mink, and Launchpad McQuack (I know...he's big and dumb, but I adored that about him).

My father left me before I was born until I was 11, So I technically was raised with a single bastard mother as a child, and my mother had nothing but beating me and all the happiness I had in my sad childhood was a 24-Inch German Television Set which was installed to Iran's national television.

Apparently I forgot many of them, but this is what I remember currently.

• My Early Childhood (before 5):
• Blue's Clues > My Love & Define of all my childhood.
• Digimon
• Space Jam
• Rugrats
• Oggy (A french cartoon)
• Lucky Luke

• Childhood (5-9):
• Looney Tunes
• Tom and Jerry
• Batman (I forgot which remake.)
• Mega Man
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Before Teenages (10-12):

I saw tons of cartoons in this period. I even don't remember lots of them. For example Chip n' Dale. This time was my peak of cartoon-watching. I'll probably add to this list in future, it's waaaaay stub.

• Chip n' Dale

• Early Teenages (13-15):
• Looney tunes
• All dogs go to heaven (1,2&3)
• Fix and Foxi (A German Mickey Mouse Clone.)
• Shaun The Sheep

• Late Teenages (16-Now):
• The Looney Tunes Show
• The prince of tennis (anime)
• Camp Kidney
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Lots of others

alirezatm said:
My father left me before I was born until I was 11, So I technically was raised with a single mother as a child

my father was in jail before days before I born, but I don't like him I prefer my mother. I saw him when he got out of jail when I was 10

Pokémon is my favorite anime since I was 4-5 and still my favorite (Pokemon X&Y)

I grew up with a lot of the shows you've all mentioned. I also remember have fond memories of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series as well as Courage the Cowardly dog. Man I loved those shows.

I also watched some Swedish shows like Bamse and almost all of the films based on Astrid Lindgren's books like Pippi Longstocking. Those were good times.

I also revisited season 1 of Pokémon but it dragged more than I remembered.

Edit: I still love all those shows more or less. :)

I remember watching quite a few cartoon/anime shows like clockwork as a kid, some I still watch to this day. :)

Pokémon, Digimon, Dragonball, Sonic The Hedgehog, Bucky O'Hare, Yu-Gi-Oh! and TMNT spring straight to mind. I'm sure there were many others! lol

For me, the most influential series would be... Animals of Farthing Wood, Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Pinky & the Brain, and Doctor Snuggles ^{_{(especially the Douglas Adams episodes)[/sup]}.Come to think about it, all of those feature either feral or anthro animals. Hm.}

I watched stuff like PBS and Saturday morning cartoons. I never had cable or anything like that.
Arthur was my favorite.

To this day I still watch cartoons when I have the time.

I mean in my teens and college years I graduated the fine art of Japanese Animation (and the inevitable Hentai) but now I am finding some of Cartoon Network nonsense entertaining like The Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Adventure Time, and Teen Titans Go! Which is great because their Adult Swim block (which housed some classics of anime like Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha, Outlaw Star, and Bleach ) has become decidedly "live action" with a lot of its garbage.

in retrospect, msot of what i watched was absolute shit

the only thing of really excellent quality was cowboy bebop, most of what was originally on "toonami" was only of good quality ish at best, but that's to say nothing of when it became the absolute shit-smear feast of "adult swim"

honestly, if you want to watch good animation just get off television because the networks have no taste

I watched or tried watching nearly everything on our cartoon channels, so pretty much everything mentioned in this thread so far that got aired in North America in English. When I had reflected on that before, I realized I didn't particularly like most of those shows, but I was stubborn and refused to watch "grown up" television (i.e., literally anything that wasn't animated) for the longest time until Star Trek: Voyager. However, I do remember a smattering of cartoons I genuinely liked:

• Mummies Alive!
• The Magic School Bus
• pretty much all the Spidermans
• Ducktales
• older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I chose individual episodes to rent when my parents wanted to rent a movie
• Men In Black
• most of the mythology cartoons like Hercules
• The Head
• Duckman
• The Simpsons
• Digimon

Generally, the closer the cartoons were to fantasy or sci-fi while maintaining likeable characters with a sense of struggle, the better. I also watched pretty much every (American) animated movie released for a while. I can only remember a few that I liked, but I know we owned several more that I liked and would rewatch:

• Land Before Time movies
• Ducktales
• Aladdin movies
• The Brave Little Toaster
• some non-cartoon educational movies, like about construction vehicles and something with Bill Nye

Later on, I liked:

• The Boondocks
• Robot Chicken
• Moral Orel

The only proper anime that I really liked before my awakening was Bleach. I almost liked the first Full Metal Alchemist, but then I got turned off from it. I didn't understand Death Note. Black Lagoon was my gateway anime, and to a lesser extent BECK and Bleach (when I decided to catch up on my PC). Right now I have on my HDD around 102 anime series that I liked at least more than I didn't, around 29 others that I wouldn't mind deleting, and around six that I haven't finished watching with just one that I'm currently watching. I guess that's a lot?

I mean as of right now I am con-currently watching a half dozen or so Japanese Animes that I know will likely never make it to the states:

• Overlord - Think Sword Art Online or Log Horizon but instead of trying to get out or make the best of a bad situation the protagonist wants to conquer the world.

• Aquarion Logos - A Spiritual Successor to Aquarion and quite frankly the series premiere is likely one of the most confusing and dumbfounding things you will ever see with like 3 different realities crossing over with no explanation.

• Bikini Warriors - A mini series really of 10 minute episodes done in an RPG-esque realm where the main characters, all females, of various role playing classes are clad in skimpy bikinis (which have remarkably good protection despite their skimp) and face a variety of challenges that are common tropes in the RPG world (such as grinding for loot, stealing from NPC's homes, and getting money from quests).

• Gatchaman Crowds INSIGHT - The follow up to the first season of Gatchaman Crowds this little gem doesn't have all that much in common with the original Gatchaman but it does have transformations, power suits, aliens, and computer generated villains and heroes.

• GOD EATER - A video game turned anime (not always a good thing) so far it has shown some promise, though a lot of the first season is probably just going to be build up.

• Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan - A strange little gem that reminded me a bit of Strike Witches. Magical heroes and heroines using arcane powers and techno-weapons to defend humanity from an alien onslaught. Only in this case the focus is on a team of three girls whose sub-par skills have made them the worst in the academy designed to train them for battle. In steps a hero (?) whose background is a bit muddled by events that are not entirely made clear...one thing is for certain: he is highly skilled but not beloved by his peers or the public.

• Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou - This one hardly needs an introduction. One guy, a house full of fantasy monster girls and the promise of marriage to one (or more) of them. Add in the fact that every girl is lusting after him and quite beautiful and its a classic harem situation with a reluctant harem master.

• Prison School - Goofy fun at its best and filled with fan service and toilet humor. A group of boys are chosen to attend an all girls academy that just went co-ed recently. Boys being boys they are quickly caught peeping on the girls in the shower and promptly sentenced to 1 month imprisonment on campus by the Underground Student Council. The council's vice president, Meiko Shiraki makes the series bloom. Not only is she well endowed, she is not afraid to flaunt it, she seems to delight in leaving her shirt wide open, doing squats and sweating, and her sadistic side cannot be measured.

• Rokka no Yuusha - Set in a dystopian society threatened by the imminent demon attack, legend states that Six Braves will inherit the power of a Goddess to fight back the demon hordes. But when it is revealed that there are 7 braves who answer the call the Braves must look among themselves for the possible traitor.

• Shimoneta - Set in a future Japan where obscenity laws reached their highest level. People's very thoughts and words were monitored and strictly constrained. As it stands Japan has the highest ethical and moral standing in the world, but at what cost? A young girl blackmails her classmate into helping her sew the chaos of potty humor and obscenity in a world that no longer can even recognize it as obscene.