I felt oh-so-intellectual as a kid when I realized that Flintstones and Jetsons were essentially the same cartoon with different settings. Rocky and Bullwinkle.
For my kids, Rugrats, Arthur, Fairly Odd Parents.
Two cartoons that had no dialogue. Roadrunner and the Pink Panther.
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I watched all those cartoons plus Beanie and Cecil.
My kids liked Sponge Bob and The Powerpuff Girls.
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Did you happen to notice the similarities with The Honeymooners? The Flintstones is almost identical (save for the time period).
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I realize after reading all these (and starting the thread) that I probably wasnât a big cartoon watcher. Loved the Jetsons but some of the other mentioned I remember just really disliking them when they were on (Rocky, Pink Panther, Road Runner) - which makes me wonder if that is why/how I got my dislike for animated movies! My kids will always say that most of the Disney classics they watched they watched at the babysitters (who was a big Disney fan) because we never watched them at home. To this day, I really donât like animated movies. Toy Story/Pixar type movies, ok. Animated, Iâll pass.
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I loved the older Disney movies through The Little Mermaid - Lion King era. After that⊠and I blame Aladdin - which I liked - for bringing in that constant adult slapstick humor. For me, a little bit is ok. But after that, Disney just seemed to make everything like that all the time. It is very rare for me to watch Disney movies now.
Neither of my kids seemed to care much for Disney stuff - except younger S, who loved the end of Sleeping Beauty with the dragon. I think he watched that part of the movie every day. He then became a dragon fanatic up through middle school or so. And also sword battles⊠We had all the toy swords and shields in our house. Many a battle was fought here.
Iâm also weird that Toy Story just makes me sad. I still cry at the thought of an Island of Misfit Toys (Rudolph)
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My kids werenât allowed to watch PPG because when one did, every thing out of her mouth was âstupidâ or âshut upâ, which didnât go over well at school (or with me). They knew all about the PPGs because a new kid at school talked about nothing else, but mine didnât watch.
I didnât watch a lot of cartoons because we had one TV and it was for football, and we went to CCD on Saturday mornings and church on Sunday mornings, the time most cartoons were on. We did watch a cartoon show on Sunday mornings where there were cowboys and kids in the studio (we never got to go!) and I think the cartoons were old (B&W) and not very funny.
My kids didnât watch much commercial television because they were in daycare until 6 pm, and then it was easier to just pop a tape into the VCR and we could avoid commercials. One kid almost always picked something non-animated (Wizard of Oz, the ârealâ Peter Pan with Mary Martin, Cinderella with Whitney Houston) but she grew up to be my Disney devotee and knows everything Disney, animated and live-acted. The other one really doesnât like TV at all and never watched cartoons. She did like the Barney sing-alongs, but those were not animated (and painful for me to even listen to).
As a kid:
- Superfriends
- Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Looney Tunes
- The old Spiderman cartoons (they were hilariously badly made, repeating scenes all the time)
- The Simpsons (early years)
- Speed Racer
- Davy and Goliath
For my kids, hands down, it would be Dora the Explorer (I still remember them doing the âWe Did it Danceâ with Dora and Boots!)
So many of the early cartoons (Road Runner for example) seems so mean-spirited. No one stays squashed for long, but they are basically all violent.
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As opposed to the Speed Racer racing scenes? 
Ikr. So unbelievable. As opposed to a coyote having access to an ACME catalog, which is quite realistic.
Iâve been waiting for someone to mention them. True, itâs not a Saturday morning cartoon, but I loved them as a kid.
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Which is why I prefer the more realistic tale of the skunk Pepe Le Pue who has a love interest in a black cat who resembles a skunk having gotten a white strip across her back while walking beneath a freshly painted white gate.
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Interesting. I remember there was at least one parent who did not let his daughter watch PPG.
I liked them because they were girls and heroes and I recall a dearth of hero girls in my childhood. The Invisible Girl from Fantastic Four? Ugh. Wonder Woman in Super Friends? She was clearly a junior member. Batgirl? Okay, she was not a cartoon but a human in the Adam West Batman series. She was not in the show often. (ShhhâI preferred Catwoman!)
The funniest PPG memory I have is of my younger son adoring them, just loving them. He had a Target PPG t-shirt he wore often and when he played PPG with friends, he insisted on being âthe boy PPG, Buttercup.â I did not have the heart to correct him.
Yvonne Craig joined season 3 in the hope of reversing the falling ratings trend. AFAIK, she appeared in every episode that final season
Not compared to Wendy and Marvin. Or even Aquaman. And when they added the Wonder Twins, Jayna clearly had cooler powers than her brother.
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Poor Aquaman! Somewhat cooler when played by Jason Momoa.
So, so much cooler when played by Jason.
But even in the comics, he was kind of a joke (certainly compared to Marvelâs Sub-Mariner) until at least post-Crisis, and certainly didnât develop into a meaningful character in the DC Universe until Peter David started writing in the '90âs
And I thought I was the resident CC âSuperfriendsâ expert. I have clearly met my superior! 
Interesting - that Pepe Le Pue character bothered me even as a young child. Just stay away from that cat! She doesnât want you around - so stop hugging her! It certainly wouldnât fly today, nor would so many shows from that era!
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Please know I was being sarcastic in terms of the absurdity of the premise not endorsing the behavior. I similarly am bothered by the frivolous violence and stereotyping (among other things) that was pervasive through many of these shows.
Sorry for any confusion.
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Apparently, a couple of times, she (Penelope Pussycat) was the chase-or. Wikipedia is just amazing for stuff like this:
I am not a big fan of Pepe for a variety of reasons. Our dog getting skunked seven times in the last 12 months is probably not adding to my love of this creature. Invariably, I, and I alone, am the one who has to anti-skunk puppy.
And the very un-PC stereotyping of the entire Martian race via Marvin is one that nobody would tolerate today. 