The 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time!

[Alberto]

If you've gone to the supermarket this week and had to wait on line waiting to checkout perhaps in your idle moments you glanced and picked up this week's issue of TV Guide. The cover story was the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time. Topping the list was Bugs Bunny and second was Homer Simpson. If you could choose who would you have choosen as the 10 greatest. Not surprisingly, Disney's characters were much further down the list.

http://www.tvguide.com/50th/features/020729a.asp
Discuss.

My top 10
1. Bugs Bunny
2. Snoopy
3. Homer Simpson
4. Bender
5. Fred Flintstone
6. Calvin and Hobbes (though they were never on tv)
7. Beavis and Butthead
8. Daffy Duck
9. Ren and Stimpy
10. Sponge Bob Square Pants

[BlueMeanie]

Originally posted by Alberto
Not surprisingly, Disney's characters were much further down the list.
Well, there never really were a lot of Mickey Mouse cartoons on TV.

Some nice surprises in there. Space Ghost! Gerald McBoing-Boing (never saw but I remember my mom talking about it...I had a friend named Gerald and she always called him that...)! Cartman!

One show they never mention (and probably isn't a top-50 hit, but still...) when talking about good prime-time cartoons was the late-70s/early-80s Wait 'til Your Father Gets Home, which our family watched.

And where the *(&! are Jonny Quest, the Jackson 5, Kimba the White Lion, Elmer Fudd, the Jetsons, the Animaniacs and the Thundercats??????

Daria? :rolleyes:

[Dyvel]

Tom & Jerry

[Alberto]

Originally posted by BlueMeanie

Well, there never really were a lot of Mickey Mouse cartoons on TV.

Some nice surprises in there. Space Ghost! Gerald McBoing-Boing (never saw but I remember my mom talking about it...I had a friend named Gerald and she always called him that...)! Cartman!

One show they never mention (and probably isn't a top-50 hit, but still...) when talking about good prime-time cartoons was the late-70s/early-80s Wait 'til Your Father Gets Home, which our family watched.

And where the *(&! are Jonny Quest, the Jackson 5, Kimba the White Lion, Elmer Fudd, the Jetsons, the Animaniacs and the Thundercats??????

Daria? :rolleyes:

Agreed, Daria sucks.

Jonny Quest was good.

The Jetsons, bland and boring. Only Astro was interesting.

[BlueMeanie]

Originally posted by Alberto
The Jetsons, bland and boring. Only Astro was interesting.
Also, a Flintstones ripoff, just set in the future instead. Still, it was really popular and I'm surprised it didn't warrant mention.

[JMU Soccer!]

1) Bugs Bunny
2) Garfield
3) Homer Simpson
4) Danger Mouse
5) Count Duckula
6) The Road Runner
7) Grounds Keeper Willy
8) Henery Hawk (The Little chicken Hawk from Looney TUnes)
9) Rocky and Mugsy (Looney Tunes Gangsters)
10) Pinky or the Brain, pick one.

[Alberto]

Damn! I say! I say! I left off Foghorn Leghorn.
http://www.renegadechickens.com/chickens/Toons/foghorn.jpg

[DoctorJones24]

(3 way tie)
Homer Simpson
Batman
Uncle Duke (from "Doonesbury")

[Foosinho]

Originally posted by JMU Soccer!
4) Danger Mouse
5) Count Duckula

I always suspected you were smarter than the rest of the fools on this site. Now I know. :D

Good picks!

[Michael K.]

I hated that freaking Danger Mouse when I was a kid...and that ####ing Inspector Gadget too.

Isn't Voltron a cartoon character, technically?

Is this only for <i>drawn</i> characters, or should it include other forms of animation - claymation, etc. In that case, where are Davey & Goliath? And Penny, from Pee Wee's Playhouse?

Any list of this sort that does not have Tom and Jerry - the Ur-Itchy and Scratchy (and speaking of hip choices, where are they??) - in the top 5 is absolutely worthless, anyway.

[sanariot]

In no order:

Hong Kong Phooey
Grape Ape
Dick Dastardly and Muttley
Boomhauer from King of the Hill
Beavis and Butthead
Bart, Homer, Apu, Moe and the stoner bus driver from The Simpsons
Mushmouth from Fat Albert
Flat Face Frog (the one who spoke like Edward G. Robinson) from Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
Ren and Stimpy
Scooby and Shaggy

[Col Mustard]

Scooby and Shaggy
Tom and Jerry
Marine Boy
The Simpsons
Wylie E Coyote
Yosemite Sam
Seaman Stains & Master Bates
Rhubarb & Custard

[cosmosRIP]

Originally posted by Col Mustard
Seaman Stains & Master Bates

http://198.64.129.160/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

[Col Mustard]

Wow that's wierd, that show was a regular during my childhood and I'd have sworn blind to anyone that those characters were in the show. The Museum of The Moving Image in London even had a pugwash exhibition that referenced those two.

Ah well. thanks for the info !

[Alberto]

Two characters to add to the list that are truly exceptional Wallace and Gromit
http://www.tirnaog.com/Pages/DVDs/Cartoons/Wallace%20and%20Gromit%20the%20first%20adventures.jpg

How could I have forgotten them.

[JMU Soccer!]

Originally posted by Foosinho


I always suspected you were smarter than the rest of the fools on this site. Now I know. :D

Good picks!

Wow! Thanks!

Michael K....Shush!

The cartoon that was lame was "Bananaman"

[Kenobi]

1. Wile E. Coyote
2. Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel
3. Optimus Prime
4. G-Force
5. Brak (the re-invented version)
6. Johnny Bravo
7. Sherman and Mr. Peabody
8. Mojo Jojo
9. Schlep Rock
10. any Simpsons character voiced by Phil Hartman

[Doctor Stamen]

http://www.kapowgifts.com/acatalog/dangermouse.jpg

Tom and Jerry suck ass as well.

[GianPaolo]

I would add scooby doo to that list also.

[Rafael Hernandez]

My top 5
1. Master Shake
2. Homer Simpson
3. Garfield
4. Bugs Bunny/ Donald Duck
5. Calvin/Hobbes.