TV Guide's 50 greatest cartoon characters

[WaxNWane]

I'll agree with #1...and even #2. Tom & Jerry being at 50 is an insult. Donald Duck at 43 isn't much better.

Pikachu over Betty Boop? Get out.

And there should be some righteous indignation toward Wonder Woman being so low.

Space Ghost is fine, but Brak is God. He should be in there.

1. Bugs Bunny
2. Homer Simpson
3. Rocky and Bullwinkle
4. Beavis and Butt-head
5. The Grinch
6. Fred and Barney
7. Angelica Pickles
8. Charlie Brown and Snoopy
9. SpongeBob SquarePants
10. Cartman
11. Bart and Lisa Simpson
12. Fat Albert
13. The Powerpuff Girls
14. Daffy Duck
15. Pikachu
16. Gumby
17. Betty Boop
18. Top Cat
19. Mickey Mouse
20. Popeye
21. Gerald McBoing-Boing
22. Scooby-Doo
23. Underdog
24. Josie and the Pussycats
25. Heckle and Jeckle
26. Arthur
27. Winnie the Pooh
28. Felix the Cat
29. Mr. Magoo
30. George of the Jungle
31. Ren and Stimpy
32. Tom Terrific
33. Tweety and Sylvester
34. Bill
35. Space Ghost
36. Yogi Bear and Boo Boo
37. Mighty Mouse
38. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
39. Superman
40. Batman
41. Daria
42. Wonder Woman
43. Donald Duck
44. Alvin
45. Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale
46. Woody Woodpecker
47. Porky Pig
48. Bobby Hill
49. Speed Racer
50. Tom and Jerry


http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/cartoon.characters.list/index.html

 

[grrrly]

i could argue with a lot of those posts but i'll just pick one: the freakin' power puff girls...i hate them!! stupid, crappily drawn, made only for selling shitty merchandise to bratty american kids...*deep breath* and their voices are so annoying! how can they be number 13?

 

[scrymettet]

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[WaxNWane]

Apparently the powerpuff balls are 'greater' than Winnie the Pooh. That's just ghey.

And what of Eeyore? The only truly depressive cartoon character. As if Disney could come up with something so cool today.

 

[grrrly]

maybe i'm a little under the hill but who the hell is Gerald McBoing-Boing ?

 

[WaxNWane]

maybe i'm a little under the hill but who the hell is Gerald McBoing-Boing ?

No clue. But it'd be a great porno cartoon character name.

 

[Ice Cold]

Bugs hasn't done anything good in years including Space Jam.
Homer should have been number one. He is a complete buffoon
week after entertaining week.

 

[lilminx]

Woman being so low.

Space Ghost is fine, but Brak is God. He should be in there.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/cartoon.characters.list/index.html

I agree with you about Brak- I love him! Space Ghost Coast to Coast is a great show.

I think Wakko, Yakko, and Dot from the Animaniacs should be somehwere on there as well.

 

[grrrly]

No clue. But it'd be a great porno cartoon character name.

LOL it sure would

 

[Phoenyx]

Where are the transformers?
what kind of crap list is this?

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Mickey Mouse is only #19??? Sure there hasn't been much new with him for awhile but come on, that character alone is what built Disney into the powerhouse it was and still is.

That and there are too many on that list that have no place on it such as; The Powerpuff Girls, Pikachu, Angelic Pickles and that retarded SpongeBob Squarepants.

 

[QuickDuck]

arguments can go on forever, but i will toss in a few....

Pinky & The Brain
Blue Falcon & Dog Wonder (yes i remember them)
Rick Hunter (from Robotech)
G-Force

*sigh* so many to choose from

/wave
QuickDuck

 

[Jedi_Outcast]

mickey mouse, yeah right. He shoudn't even be on the list. Disney really missed the boat on that one. Anybody my age (early 30's) will remember the bugs bunny/roadrunner show on CBS. I never, ever saw a disney cartoon on TV until my senior year in high school ('87) and that was the gummi bears. Even though I have toon disney I'm hard pressed to catch a mickey or other disney short. they just aren't showing them.

my personal favorites (in no order) :
Dragonball (the young goku is great. read the magna, the guy who wrote it is seriously perverted)

spongebob (love the mermaidman and barnacleboy episodes)

angry beavers (alright son, find the poo spot!)

baby blues (my wife loves it)

south park, the early years. (why is it that everything is going into can coming out of my ASS)

harvey birdman, attorney at law (the showu weenie lines are priceless)

Pokemon is a guilty pleasure for me, so is josie and the pussycats. my wife thinks i'm sick because I'd leave her for josie

animaniacs/pinky and the brain, some of the best satire I have ever seen.

not US cartoons but Cowboy Beebop. the best writing and characters ever in a cartoon. period. The japanese do know thier toons.

gee, do you think this is a passion of mine or what?

 

[Silverlily]

not US cartoons but Cowboy Beebop. the best writing and characters ever in a cartoon. period. The japanese do know thier toons.

Amen, Cowboy Bebop rocks. Yu Yu Hakashu is growing on me as well. (Adult Swim, anyone?)

As for the list, the creators have lost their fucking minds. Speed Racer #49 !?! I will never buy another T.V. Guide.

 

[Comshaw]

Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman not even on the list. Who's the asshole that made that dumb ass thing anyway?

Comshaw

 

[Private Vasquez]

The Hair Bear Bunch is sadly absent. That's just not right.
Heckle and Jeckle are there, so Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinxie should be too.
I notice the ape discrimination...no Grape Ape or Magilla Gorilla. I'll have to make my own list, I guess.
Pete Puma is the man! Or...at least...the mountain lion.

 

[Basia]

The fact that any character from Invader Zim did not make the list is an insult!

 

[glamorilla]

Pee Wee Plucky!

 

[Weird Harold]

maybe i'm a little under the hill but who the hell is Gerald McBoing-Boing ?

A Warner Brothers character created by Chuck Jones -- He's he little boy with the overactive (and overly dramtic) imagination who is always daydreaming.

Gumby! Gumby is on a list of great cartoons? Gumby's NOT a cartoon -- he's a stop-motion puppet!

I've not been terribly impressed with any opf TV Guide's top fifty lists. In their list of "worst shows" they listed two that they admitted they had praised extensively when they were first run programs.

 

[Silverlily]

A Warner Brothers character created by Chuck Jones -- He's he little boy with the overactive (and overly dramtic) imagination who is always daydreaming.

The one who daydreamed he was a dog?

 

[Weird Harold]

The one who daydreamed he was a dog?

I don't think so. I know the cartoon you mean, but I don't remember if was Gerald for sure or not.

Gerald McBoing-Boing is the one who imagines he's a poney express rider when sent to the principle with a note in one cartoon, and that he's an african explorer rescuing his parents after he's sent to his room for breaking a window with a baseball. In another, he's a "space cadet" who saves the world from martians with a secret weapon that lassoes the martian space ships.

Actually, the modern conotation of "space cadet" pretty much describes Gerald.

 

[Silverlily]

Ok, I know which one it is now, the little guy who's always daydreaming during school and when he's sent to his room.


(ugh, maybe I should turn Cartoon Network off )

 

[scylis]

where's He-Man!?!?!?

He-Man RULED!!

Freakazoid should be up there, too! i mean, his show gets Ernest Borgnine, Ricardo Maltoban, David Warner, and Jack Valenti to all do voices, with Valenti spoofing himself describing the different MPAA ratings! how can you NOT like that??!

 

[Weevil]

The biggest oversight in my opinion is Shaggy.

I don't think Batman or Superman or the like should qualify. I'm also surprised that no Simpsons supporting cast made it.

Diamond Joe Quimby is the funniest guy on that show

"Hey, I am no longer illiterate"

 

[70/30]

The biggest oversight in my opinion is Shaggy.

I don't think Batman or Superman or the like should qualify. I'm also surprised that no Simpsons supporting cast made it.

Diamond Joe Quimby is the funniest guy on that show

"Hey, I am no longer illiterate"

I like watching Dexter's Lab. GI Joe, Transformers, and He-Man did have quite a few characters and huge background plots that made them interesting. Inspector Gadget was pretty good entertainment for a kid-that darned Penny was so sharp.