I watched all the Hanna Barbera cartoons when I was a kid: the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Magilla Gorilla, Huckleberry Hound, and Quick Draw McGraw. I still have a fondness for them (my family recently binged all six seasons of the Flintstones on MeTV)--but, looking back, they're not a tenth as good as classic Looney Toons or even the Jay Ward toons. It wasn't until the Disney syndication boom of the late 80s (DuckTales, TaleSpin, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck) and the Warner Brothers renewal of the 1990s (Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Pinky and the Brain and Batman: the Animated Series) when I felt TV cartoons reached that high level again.
I also loved some oddball animated features, like The Point (1971), Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie (1975), and Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet. The Point and Really Rosie feature some of the best songwriting in the catalogues of Harry Nilsson and Carole King, respectively, but both have kind of disappeared down the memory hole....
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Date: 2020-07-15 03:38 pm (UTC)I also loved some oddball animated features, like The Point (1971), Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie (1975), and Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet. The Point and Really Rosie feature some of the best songwriting in the catalogues of Harry Nilsson and Carole King, respectively, but both have kind of disappeared down the memory hole....