Toonzone's Top 50 Animated Show Countdown!

It's a great cartoon because it was funny, thought provoking, and was a pioneer that TONS of cartoons tried to imitate, but NONE were able to duplicate.

Lots of toons back then had a laugh track, that doesn't really bother me but it was hilarious IMO, far better than the toons of today by a large margin.

The only people I ever see dissin Scooby are kids who were brought up on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. The hate for it is pathetic. Even if you're not a Scooby fan, I cannot fathom why someone wouldn't see objectively why people feel it's one of the best toons of all time.

Personally, I agree with The Cartoon 100%. It's my personal favorite cartoon of all time and 14th is FAR TOO LOW for it to be ranked. But it's all good because I was thinking that based on the hate for the old school that seems to be rampart on this site (even in the retro forum at times) that it might not make the countdown at all, I'm glad it made it though because it proves that there are some people out there that still recognize that time Scooby-Doo is a TIMELESS CLASSIC. Scooby Dooby Doooooo!!!!
 
(Copying Urusei) "sigh"

This is really not going to go anywhere, is it? Oh well. I think you're both wrong, and that Scooby was an innocuous little show that was decently entertaining, if extremely over-rated by nostalgia-crazed children of the 60s.

"hums"
 
What was funny about it? How on earth was it "thought-provoking"? I hold no hate for the "old school" at all. The classic Looney Tunes are by far some of the greatest cartoons ever made. The quality difference between those and something like Scooby Doo is ridiculous.
 
Tom & Jerry should have been in the Top 10 at the very least. It's easily one of the most entertaining and well-written cartoons ever, and the formula has been copied many times over. It was truly a pioneering toon. It's my 2nd favorite of all time.
 
American Idol has lasted longer than than Futurama as well. Is it better?

Name me REAL ways Scooby trumps Futurama. Certainly you'll at least concede that Futurama is superior in terms of fluid animation and social satire, right?

Some pre-90s cartoons I respect much more than Scooby Doo:
-Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies (which would have been higher up on the list if not for the confusion over its eligibility)
-Popeye
-Betty Boop
-Superman
-Tom and Jerry
-most classic Disney
-The Flintstones (and to a lesser extent The Jetsons)
-Rocky and Bullwinkle
-Astro Boy
-The Yellow Submarine
-Lupin III
-Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequels
-early Miyazaki movies
-Grave of the Fireflies
-Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
-The Little Mermaid
-Akira

And I'm sure there's many more.
 
You're just showing your youth with that post there. LOL, I knew you'd mention Looney Tunes, because that's the only old school toon that seems to get any respect among kids raised in the 90's and this decade, and that disgusts me because NONE of the toons today can hold a candle to Scooby and only a select few toons have ever been as good.

Scooby and Shaggy's antics were and still are hilarious! It was thought-provoking because people always were trying to figure out who was causing all the mayhem responsible for the mysteries.

Whether you like it or not, Scooby is a timeless classic. If it weren't, then so many toons wouldn't have tried to copy it's formula for so many years. Not to mention that the reruns and even NEW Scooby series are still being aired 40 years after it's debut. Why? Because Scooby rules!
 
It is, but they can be (and have) put into 21 or 42 minute (excluding commercials here) blocks at a time. Maybe the max out be 49 minutes, but I'm not certain.

The same rule can be applied to shorts by MGM, Hannah Barbara and Disney.

Yes, I'm a geek.
 
Wait, let me just see if i get this straight, are you saying that we could choose the Tom and Jerry short-film series but not the Mickey Mouse film series, because there was never a programing block specifically dedicated to only showing Mickey Mouse films? Because if that is so, then does that mean we were allowed to choose "the Disney short films" as long as we didn't pick out just one specific Disney short film series (like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Silly Symphinies, ect)?
 
KG Styles has a good point actually. I agree that there isn't a very good representation of classic cartoons in the opinion of rabroadrs. I prefer classics to almost every modern show, but that's only my personal opinion. Spideyfan made a good point earlier that you will love Scooby for your life if you grew up with him but it would be extremely hard to love him if you started watching at an older age. I do hope that people who don't like classic cartoons can at least appreciate them though.

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I don't really like these kinds of shows as I've said before, this kind of humor just isn't my thing. But I can appreciate that Futurama has great writing and I can understand why so many people like it. It will be tough to convince me though that it is better than very many classics.
 
I really have to agree with Abrown.

I personally liked Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Pinky and the Brain and Tiny Toons a lot better then Looney Toons.

Save the Road Runner shorts and a hand full of other things the classic characters were in, I like the WB toons from the 90s better >.>
 
Not to sound condescending, but in all honestly, to me, arguing the point that Futurama is better than Scooby-Doo feels like arguing the point that a man is smarter than an ant, if you know what i mean. So yeah, im just gonna go do something else now...
 
I think that I kind of screwed up here. I've always just considered Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry to be shows without really thinking about it. As opposed to Disney shorts which I've always looked at as individual shorts. I think a lot of people had the same mindset as me because both Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes appeared on various lists. I guess I'll just have to add an asterisk to those two, that's the only real solution I can think of.
 
So the list is a downer because your favorite shows are ranked too low. Well it's all opinion anyway, so It's not like this list is right. Just some votes tallied together.
 
You know, saying "Scooby Doo Rules!", doesn't make it a fact, and neither does insulting users who don't see why it's apparently better then every other show ever made.

I don't dislike Scooby-Doo - it's fine, for what it is and what it tries to be, and I can be entertained by it - but I think it's ridiculously over-rated. The animation can make your eyes bleed, the mysteries were so simple that a five-year old could figure them out faster then the Mystery Inc. gang did, and the jokes tend to rely solely on the fact that they're so stupid, they're funny. I like Scooby the character - he's funny - and I liked the villains - but other then that and sheer cheese, the show had next-to-nothing going for it.

No disrespect meant, mind you - I'm actually interested in what you have to say in the shows defense. (I'd also like to here what you have to say, Cartoon - I'd always meant to ask you about that.)
 
I love Astro Boy and Tezuka in general. I enjoy some of the old Fleischer Bros. stuff (Popeye, Betty Boop, and Superman). I like most classic Disney, their features moreso than their shorts. Rocky and Bullwinkle are pretty brilliant. Tom and Jerry's OK, not a favorite of mine but by no means bad either, and I respect and kind of enjoy The Flintstones even though it's very dated. There's plenty of old cartoons I enjoy. All of those are actually older than Scooby Doo.

That's a very vague answer to what was funny about it (can't think of any funny lines from the series or even funny plot scenarios more detailed than "antics"?), and if Scooby Doo was thought-provoking for you DESPITE THE FACT THE ANSWER TO THE MYSTERY IS THE SAME IN EVERY EPISODE, you need to watch some episodes of Lost or Ghost in the Shell or The Twilight Zone or, hell, even some of the better episodes of Star Trek to get some real thoughts provoked.

You are aware most of the copycat series were made in the same timeframe by the same studio because they were stretched thin and hadn't the time nor freedom to think of many original ideas, right? And that the reason they keep making new Scooby Doo series is because, unlike other popular cartoons, it doesn't require any thought or effort to revive?
 
I like classic cartoons. The thing is there aren't many true classic TV cartoons. The Golden Age of American Animation was mostly theatrical shorts with a few features and three or four notable TV series. The likes of Scooby Doo I don't really consider classic. Its popularity mostly seems from being one of the least awful American cartoons during the Dark Age of the '70s.
 
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