The Flintstones

The Flintstones is produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and first appeared on television in 1960. The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. The main characters include Fred, Wilma (Fred’s wife), and Pebbles (their infant daughter) Flintstone.  Also, there is their neighbors Barney, Betty (Barney’s wife), and Bamm-Bamm (their abnormally strong adopted infant son).  The classic cartoons series plays off in the prehistoric stone age, but what makes this classic cartoons animation different is that they have all the luxuries of the modern-age, only made out in stone, for example, a baby woolly mammoth being used as a vacuum clearer, an adult mammoth used as a shower by spraying water with its trunk, lifts being raised and lowered by ropes around a brontosaurs’ neck, birds used as car horns and activated by pulling on their tails, an electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a honey-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the face.

Being set in the Stone-Age one can also experience the witticism used and played with location and character names, for example, Hollyrock (Hollywood), Mexirock (Mexico), Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders (Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones), Alvin Brickrock (Alfred Hitchcock).

The Raccoons

The Raccoons classic cartoons animation was first seen on television in 1985 in Canada.  This classic cartoons was created by Kevin Gillis and produced first by Atkinson Film-Arts.  The story is about Bert Raccoon and his friends Ralph and Melissa who lives in the Evergreen Forest which is a quiet, peaceful and serene place.  This is until the industrialist pink aardvark, Cyril Sneer, tries everything in his power to turn the peaceful forest into an industrial area.

Cyril Sneer has as his henchmen, three pigs, which is not really on the intelligent side of the globe. To make things stickier, Cyril’s son, Cedric is Bert’s best friend, and this makes for an interesting story line. Mainly, the classic cartoons series is about the main characters learning major life lessons in teamwork, friendship, cooperation, and sometimes helping out their fellow friends that live near the forest, human and animal alike. Bert and his friends are always in a feud with Cyril Sneer who doesn’t let anything stand in his way of turning the forest into an industrial area just to make a profit.

Rugrats

Rugrats was created and produced by Klasky-Csupo as a television classic cartoons series. It first made its debut on television in 1991.  It was inspired by the creator’s own infant son, Brendon. Rugrats’ main characters are babies who easily communicate with each other, but rarely understand the strange language of the grownups in their lives. In return, the grownups sometimes marvel at how closely the apparently meaningless babble of their children sounds very much like adult conversation.

The usual characters on Rugrats are, Chuckie Finster, Angelica Pickles, Angelica's cousin Tommy, the twins - Phil and Lil DeVille, Susie Carmichael, and the youngest of the Pickles kids, Tommy's brother Dylan. Each episode holds new adventures for the babies (Chuckie, Tommy, Phil, Lil, Susie and Dylan) as they discover new things about their surroundings, environment and other people. The only problem is that every time they discover something new, Angelica gets in their way, somehow.  Angelica’s parents are very rich, and she’s an only child, so you can just think that she always gets her way.  As a typical only child, Angelica is always ruling the babies, but at the end of each episode she learns a lesson or two from the babies.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby & Ken Spears and character designer Iwao Takamoto in 1969. It’s about four teenagers, Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, and a large dog, named Scooby-Doo. They travel around the country in a van called the “Mystery Machine”, solving mysteries wherever they went. The mysteries they solved seemed like supernatural goings-on and turned out to have a rational explanation, typically criminal plots involving costumes and special effects intended to frighten or distract.  Although this unusual team solves mysteries, Scooby-Doo together with Shaggy, is the biggest scaredy-cat, but can be convinced to do anything for a Scooby-snack.

The Wild Thornberrys

The Wild Thornberrys was first seen on television in 1998. It was produced and created by Klasky-Csupo.  It’s about a little girl named Eliza who is part of a very interesting family. Her mother and father ,Marianne and Nigel Thornberry, are explorers of the wild, they document and travel the wildest parts of the world. Their documentaries, shot by Marianne and hosted by Nigel, are shown all over the world.  Her sister, Debbie is a typical teenager who would rather be happier not living in the wild. Her foster brother, Donnie, was picked up during their travels. His parents had been killed by poachers and he has been living with orangutans until the age of 5, when the Thornberrys discovered him and adopted him. Then there is Darwin, their pet chimpanzee, a close companion and bests friend of Eliza.

This seems like an average family, but the catch is that Eliza can speak to animals.  During one of their travels, she saved a warthog from death, as her reward, a shaman granted her the ability to talk to animals.  Through her travels, she uses her ability to save animals.  No one, except for Darwin, knows about her gift.

Ed, Edd 'n Eddy

Ed, Edd ‘n’ Eddy are about three adolescent children who lives in a cul-de-sac near a town called Peach Creek.  The classic cartoons revolves around the three Ed’s, the other cul-de-sac children, and the Kanker sisters. Most of the episodes begin with something completely unrelated to the storyline of the episode; this is to emphasize the spontaneity of childhood. The number of characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy is fixed at twelve. No other characters besides the main cast have ever been seen.

The personalities of Ed, Edd, and Eddy are based on personal traits of the creator himself, Danny Antonucci, and the activities of his two sons. The cul-de-sac kids were based on kids he grew up with. Antonucci believed it was important to add Plank to the show, stating that he "thought it would be really cool to do the show with Plank taking on a character of his own" and to cause Johnny to do things he would usually never do. Rolf is strongly based on the creator himself and his cousins, since he was part of an immigrant family, and grew up in a first generation foreign household with different customs and ways of living, compared to those born in Canada.

Courage, The Cowardly Dog

Courage, The Cowardly Dog is a TV animation created in 1995 by John R. Dilworth and produced by Hanna-Barbera. Courage is a pet dog of Muriel Bagge, who found Courage as a puppy on the street. He'd been an orphan since his mom and dad had failed to come home from a visit to the vet. Muriel lives on a farm near Nowhere, Kansas, with her grumpy old husband, Eustace. Eustace is unpleasant enough to his human acquaintances, let alone to a little pink dog that is afraid of everything he saw.

 Courage loves Muriel, but doesn’t like Eustace very much.  Scary stuff happens in his life on this farm in “Nowhere” including not just the frightening things usually found on farms, such as livestock and equipment, but also aliens, ghosts, sci-fi devices and monsters. Usually when all these scary stuff happens, they happen to his beloved Muriel, and only Courage has the actual courage to save Muriel from any danger.  Eustace is actually useless and never does a thing, the only thing he can say is “Muriel, where’s my food!”. Let’s leave it at that!

The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy was aired on American television by Cartoon Network in August 2001. The classic cartoons animation is about Billy and Mandy, two friends who live in Endsville.  Mandy tricked the Grim Reaper, Grim, into being her best friend for eternity, after Grim lost a bet over Billy’s sick hamster. Billy is not very intelligent, rather, he has no intelligence at all. Mandy has a very sinister personality, (hence her hair shaped like two devils' horns) she’s just plain not nice. She uses (and abuses) Grim always to her advantage.  Poor Grim wasn’t very happy being tricked to be Mandy’s best friend “forever and ever”, but he lost a bet and that’s how it is. His relationship with Billy and Mandy has grown through the episodes, to a love-hate-relationship. Grim comes from the underworld, his scythe is able to produce cosmic rifts through which they can visit different planes of existence. Every episode is another “adventure” of how Mandy uses Grim to her advantage, showing Billy’s stupidity, and Grims’ disgust for the two kids.

Mike, Lu And Og

Mike, Lu & Og is an American series made for television for Cartoon Network and created by Boot Swenson. This classic cartoons is about a small girl called Mike (short for Michelle) who is sent to a tropical island as an exchange student from Manhattan, a mischievous and arrogant princess of the island called Lu (or more appropriately Princess Lulu) with a tortoise, Lancelot, as her pet and a native boy called Og, who is a talented inventor. With a lot of crazy adventures Mike learns the customs of the island and the natives learns the customs of America.

Mike enjoys the sun, the beach, and the relaxed atmosphere of the island, but the she sometimes do miss the city, all the neon lights night and skateboards. Fortunately, Og seems capable to improvise something out of shells, coconut and coral. Once he achieved to build a television set, but it didn’t work well because it was out of range of any stations, but this didn’t prevent the islanders from staring at the screen the whole day neglecting their daily activities.

Sheep In The Big City

For those of you not familiar with Sheep In The Big City from Cartoon Network, when you watch it, don't try to figure it out -- just enjoy the ride. This hilarious, unpredictable classic cartoons series is about a sheep that doesn't speak and may disappear from sight for most of an episode. Sheep was fed up with farm living at Farmer John’s farm, and moved to the Big City. Unfortunately, the Secret Military Organization, lead by General Specific, wants to use Sheep in its new Sheep-Powered Ray Gun (which coincidentally has a sheep-shaped hole in it).

Now Sheep is on the run from General Specific, who is assisted by his henchmen, Private Public, the Angry Scientist (who in the show, the characters sometimes wrongly refer to him as "Mad Scientist"), and a bunch of other military types, and, last, but not least, by the Plot Device. In addition, Sheep has to come to grips with the Big City and trying to romance his love, Swanky the Poodle. All the while, he has to avoid the attentions of a host of unwelcome characters -- Farmer John, Lisa Rental, and Swanky's owner, the sheep-hating Lady Richington, wielding a stainless-steel wig.

Minor characters may commandeer the action in order to distort Russian playwrights, pitch ludicrous products, or simply demand attention. When the story continues, the intrusive narrator or the main cast may turn it upside-down for the sake of a wild pun.

Cow And Chicken

Cow and Chicken is an American classic cartoons animation, which was created by David Feiss and produced by Hanna-Barbera. Cow and Chicken first broadcasted on Cartoon Network in 1997.This classic cartoons is about the adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken, who has human parents (though their faces are never shown). How they got human parents are not known, but we have to assume that they are adopted since this is a classic cartoons. They are often plagued by the Red Guy, who looks like a red devil with no pants, who poses as different personalities to scam or hurt Cow and Chicken. Their extended family consists of different types of animals, such as Cousin Boneless, who is a boneless chicken (really, he is unable to walk or get up from the floor). Then there is Snail Boy (a snail), Cousin Black Sheep (a sheep), and Sow (an evil pig). They also have an uncle Longhorn Steer.

Cow is exceedingly infantile and stupid, although she occasionally displays uncanny talents. Her alter ego is Supercow, a powerful cow with the ability to fly, and her powers lies in a green blanket.  Cow even has a costume in purple to fit the part. Chicken is Cow’s older brother. He can be quite mean to his sister, and even to the rest of the family. In addition, he has a large ego, is sarcastic, but still helps Cow when she is in danger. The Red Guy serves as Cow and Chicken's rather incompetent arch-nemesis. He spends his time trying to either scam, torment or physically harm Cow and Chicken. He often disguises himself as an authority figure, for example, principals, kings, queens, lunch ladies, police officers, etc. and wears disguises such as small shirts, wigs and short skirts that never seem to cover his buttocks, giving him elements of being half-naked and a cross dresser.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family was created by Charles Addams and first appeared on television in 1964. The Addams family is a somewhat eccentric family in portraying morbid death as something everyday and not as something taboo.  They consist of Morticia and her husband Gomez, Wednesday and Pugsley (their two children) Lurch (the butler), Thing (a disembodied hand who is a childhood friend of Gomez), Uncle Fester and Grandma and Cousin It (A ball of hair). The Addams Family lives next to cemetery and swamp, in a Gothic and dark mansion full of decorations of exceptional peculiarities, for example, a mounted sword fish with a man’s foot in its mouth, a polar bear skin rug in the entrance that roars when one steps on it. Their riches come from a quite huge inheritance and large investments.

Gomez Addams is a lawyer who takes absurd pride in losing his cases. Morticia Addams is an elegant woman, dressed in a vampire fashioned dress, she knows her art, raises man-eating plants, trims her roses’ buds just to keep the stems in water. Wednesday and Pugsley is an odd brother-sister couple. Pugsley takes great fun in torturing himself, and Wednesday amuses him in helping him to achieve this. Lurch is a butler of few words (he actually doesn’t say anything, just the occasional uhh). Thing is mischievous, but still seems to be intelligent enough, even if he has no brain. Uncle Fester is a creepy one, you never know what is hidden under his coat. Grandma, Gomez’s mother, is capable of concocting different potions and flies around on a broom stick.

I Am Weasel

I am Weasel is an American TV classic cartoons series created by David Feiss and aired on Cartoon Network. This classic cartoons series is about two animal characters: I. M. Weasel and I. R. Baboon. I.M. Weasel is extremely intelligent, and is skilled in most professions, from electronics and engineering to medicine and philosophy. He is also incredibly charming and well-versed in the social graces, and will often have characters such as Loulabelle, his assistant usually dressed as a nurse, at his side. Weasel's only real flaw is a secret desire to suck the yolk from eggs. His usual image no clothing, though he will often wear outfits appropriate to his activities (such as a lab coat when working as a doctor or scientist). He is prone to declaring "I Am Weasel!" before leaping into a situation.

In contrast, I.R. Baboon is dim-witted and sloppy, uses incorrect grammar, as his name inclines, when he speaks, and is very envious of Weasel's success. He is often shown doing the opposite of what would be considered sensible, and sometimes displays obsessive-compulsive behavior. Baboon has few skills neither social nor practical, but was discovered to be an expert on the Theremin, a musical instrument of great difficulty. Baboon wears only a T-shirt with a handwritten, backwards “I.R.”. His protruding bright red buttocks are often highlighted and serve as a focus of others' ridicule. He attempts to outdo Weasel at everything, and when he believes he has succeeded, he performs a routine victory dance, placing his hands on his hips and jumping around in a circle while repeatedly chanting a declaration of his success.