Best Cartoon's Ever

With all the cartoons I have to watch as a father, and lately that includes a TON of Barney, it got me thinking as to what my favorite cartoons of all time were. So without further adieu..here's my top 3 (why 3? cause i could write a long time on this and need to set parameters)

3) HE-MAN: What young boy growing up in the 80's didn't like this show? Not only did he have the best catchphrase ever uttered in a show (By the Power of Grayskull!!!) but he had a pretty cool array of enemies to fight (Skeletor and the such). His cat, which turned into a Tiger was lame, but he was one bad dude. Great show.

2) G.I. JOE: You'll notice a pattern here...all these cartoons are from the 80's. This show was a very deep cartoon by today's standards. It had TONS of characters, each with their own little story line within whatever the main story would be. Of course they also battled C.O.B.R.A....a terroist organization, somehow I don't think that kind of cartoon would be on tv today. My favorites were the COBRA commander and Destro of course, the two main bad guys. Nothin' beat some good give and take between those two. However, the show began to go down hill when the New Emperor came out and turned COBRA commander into a real snake....despite Sgt. Slaughter's most valiant efforts, he couldn't be saved...They had tons of toys and games that followed up with this cartoon, that I had no need to buy, as my brother already had them all.

1) TRANSFORMERS: Could it really be anything else? Another pretty deep story line with tons of characters in the G.I. Joe model. Who would forget Optimus Prime actually dying?? Man, that was hard take as a 7 year old..or in the movie when the new leader Ultra Magnus uttered profanity?? There were audible shriekes when he dropped some GD's. Again th0, great story, great characters and mortality, which you don't see today.

Watching some of the other cartoons out there like Tom and Jerry, roadrunner, bugs bunny, etc..it's amazing how actually violent they were. Tom chases jerry with a freakin' shotgun ALL THE TIME!! The african american house maid on the show has been dubbed over to sound less like aunt jemima and more like oprah winfrey too..really makes me appreciate the 80's!!!

Until next time AUTOBOTS....ROLL OUT!!

OH..and today's link..ever wonder how you know you know when someone is staring at you ???? http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00022BBF-C300-1353-830083414B7FFE9F&colID=13