| Before I was this geeky goddess, I groomed myself by watching copious amounts of animation while growing up. My parents are still puzzled over this so-called affliction that I didn't wean out of. "You're STILL like a kid!"
He-Man, She-Ra, Gummi Bears, My Little Pony, Star Riders, Smurfs, Captain Planet, Tom and Jerry, Batman, Superman, X-Men, Robin Hood, Mighty Mouse, Mickey and Friends, Walt Disney (Dumbo, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White),Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Loony Tunes (Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, The Road Runner <beep beep!>, Pepe LePhew etc), Animaniacs (Pinky and the Brain, Elmira etc), I've pretty much seen them all (hence my bad eyes and early myopic history).
Besides all that, I haven't even started on my Japanese/Chinese cartoons. yet.
Well how do you think I got all that zany-ness, those weird philosophies, not to mention creativity and random general knowledge? That's a good thing don't you think?
Which points me back to a recommendation I would like to make. I'm reminded of my love for obscure cartoons like Oggy and the Cockroaches, Babar the Elephant and Madeline from the channel 12! I love them all but most of you don't know what Im refering to so i'd just thought I should clarify a bit.
   
Oggy and the Cockroaches From Wikipedia: The show centers on Oggy, a content and lazy, albeit very tender fat blue cat, who would usually spend his days watching TV and cooking - if it wasn't for the three pesky roaches in the household: Joey, Dee Dee and Marky Ramones). The trio seems to enjoy generally making Oggy's life miserable, which involves mischieves ranging from (in most cases) plundering his fridge to such awkward things like hijacking the train Oggy just boarded. (named after members of the punk group The cartoon itself relies on slapstick humour, much like its "ancestor", Tom and Jerry, only amplifying the level of extremities up a notch; while "traditional" slapstick cartoon characters prefer dropping anvils and pianos on each other, this show sometimes uses even buses or submarines. Despite these however, most gags are easily accessible and enjoyable for younger viewers. This show is a cross-between Tom and Jerry and Happy Tree Friends. There are no acceptable endings for the episodes — happy endings are never guaranteed.
The 30 minute show typically contains 3 episodes. In total, 52 shows were produced. The voices were all provided by Marc du Pontavice, but no spoken voice is heard. Howver, certain voices like laughter could be used on one of the cats and later on one of the cockroaches when speeded up. In Germany, witty poems relating to the screen action were dubbed over the original sound, written by German dialog editor legend Eberhard Storeck and spoken by actor Dirk Bach.
Babar the Elephant From Wikipedia: After Babar's mother is killed by a hunter, he finds his way to Paris where he is befriended by the Old Lady. Babar eventually returns to the Elephant Realm following the death of the previous King, who had eaten some poisonous mushrooms. Babar is crowned king, marries his cousin Celeste, and founds the city of Celesteville. Babar, who tends to wear a bright green suit, introduces a very French form of western civilization to the elephants, and causes them to dress in western attire. Among Babar's other associates are the monkey Zephir, the old elephant counsellors Cornelius and Pompadour, his cousin Arthur, and his children, Pom, Flora and Alexander. Recently, a second daughter, Isabelle, was introduced. The Old Lady comes to live in the Kingdom as an honoured guest. Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic. Besides his Westernizing policies, Babar engages in warfare with the warlike rhinoceroses, who are led by King Rataxes. The books are written in a charming and appealing style with an attention to detail which captivates both children and adults. Underneath they could be seen as a justification for colonialism, with the benefits of French civilisation being visited on the rustic African elephant kingdom. Some writers, notably Herbert R. Kohl and Vivian Paley have argued that, although superficially delightful, the stories are politically and morally offensive. Others argue that the French civilisation described in the early books had already been destroyed by the Great Warnostalgia for pre 1914 France. Ariel Dorfman’s The Empire’s Old Clothes is another highly critical view, in which he concludes, "In imagining the independence of the land of the elephants, Jean de Brunhoff anticipates, more than a decade before history forced Europe to put it into practice, the theory of neocolonialism."
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines,
lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
They left their house at half-past-nine...
The smallest one was Madeline.
From the official Madeline website:
Madeline has been described as charmingly impetuous, irrepressible, mischievous, and precocious. She may have been the smallest of the 12 little girls in two straight lines, but she certainly was the feistiest. Wearing their flat sailor hats and identical coats, Madeline's unnamed classmates all look alike except for their hair. But Madeline stands out, not because of the way she looks, but because unlike the other girls, she is utterly fearless. When she boldly tells the tiger in the zoo, "Pooh-pooh," you wonder if what she is really saying is, "I'm not afraid of you or anything else in this world!" No doubt about it. Madeline is a gutsy little girl, and that's what makes her such a unique role model in a time when storybook princesses defined femininity for girls. Madeline gave young girls a reason to explore who they were as individuals, even if that meant being a tad disobedient. She gave girls the courage to speak their mind and showed them that there was nothing unfeminine about being smart and strong.
Besides political and feminist suffragette connotations which I failed to pick up as a kid, those were such great entertainment.
Madeline made me want to wear little pinafore trapeze dresses/frou frou skirts/bow hats while getting ushered by French Nuns in a cathedral and say "Pooh Pooh !" to everyone.
Babar was beautiful for the lush/morose lunar night scenes and music scores that are eerily haunting. Some scenes remind me of drug-induced hallucinations with numerous stark black and white background changes. (no comment there)
and Oggy? I just love it for EVIL, child-like impish pranks the cockroaches play! Those roaches are vicious and perverted I tell you!
Tee Hee.
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