As I reminisce back on old school cartoons I went into deep thinking mode, wondering the last time I actually watched cartoons that provided so much fun just from their intro to their ending. As years go past we obviously get older, but our inner childhood always remains and with that, our love for such things as cartoons remain. But since I watched less and less I’m slowly convincing myself that it was not cause I was getting older, but mainly it was because everything simply turned shit.

It seems nowadays what we see on television has either become a terrible remake, or something for pedophiles to enjoy. I think the only cartoons literally able to make me laugh and worth watch for entertainment still, are the likes of Spongebob Squarepants, Futurama, Family Guy and Simpsons now and then. Even then I don’t imagine the last three named shows are what kids wake up to at around seven in the morning for. Which is where my issue lies; What happened to the good shows worth following and love? I get that times evolved and such but the interaction with the media and the world did not have to take a giant downfall.

I came up with a top 15 list of my all time greatest cartoons, things that did show on early mornings and were worth waking up to watch. A lot of them quite old school, a few maybe just a few years back. It just gives an idea of what really should be classed as entertainment and imagination that we all deserve to remember. That, plus showing what I watched and what was my favourite based on its sheer factor of awesomeness.

Check it out:

15. Galaxy High

That intro pretty much explains the show, two kids: one popular Doyle, one nerdy Aimee, both somehow get chosen to go to a space high school, showing that not only there’s life on different planets, but we can breathe in space. tables turn as “Aimee is the sweetheart, Doyle’s got a lot to learn” when introduced to Galaxy High. Soon enough Aimee sticks by Doyle to help him reclaim his popularity with the alien dudes via his sporting gifts. This show only aired 13 episodes, which is possibly why I could not remember much about the cartoon other than its intro song. There was a part where Aimee went blue skinned for awhile, and to a majority sci-fi fans, women in blue skin = sex, apparently. Also the aliens had to be the following: furry, two/three headed, different coloured and/or jelly shaped.
The bizarreness of this cartoon is that it was created by director Chris Columbus, who went on to direct the first two Harry Potter movies. Also, the song is composed by Eagles member Don Felder, hence its catchy tune. Speaking of which, is that not use of Autotune? Insert Kanye West taking notes…
Below the top ten due to the fact it was a cartoon I remember only getting up to watch because power rangers stopped for awhile. But nonetheless makes the list for being remembered.

14. The Tick

This dude has to be one of the most bizarre superheroes I have ever come across seeing, along with that however; he’s one of the greatest superheroes of all time. Created by the cartoonist Ben Edlund, the Tick’s background is a mysterious one, mostly because he himself does not know of his own past. With that it was good enough to dress up like a giant blue flea and have the abilities to create “Drama Powers” along with his superhuman strength and speed. Think of him as basically the surreal-humoured spoof of your typical superhero.
What made this cartoon great was its sheer randomness of what he was actually up against. The supporting characters in the cartoon also made this more laughable, with the likes of Tick’s sidekick: Arthur, who dressed as a Moth and could fly (though one point had equal powers as the Tick and nearly destroyed him), the parody hero of Wonder Woman/Captain America: American Maid, and Die Fledermaus! who had no powers what so ever, just usually ran away…but was a parody of Batman.
There will never be another like him to provide laughs I garnered from this show, whenever all felt odd and/or difficult, the Tick provided the answer to all problems since he came on with just one simple powerful word: “SPOON!!!!”

13. Extreme Ghostbusters

I’ll probably get some heat over the fact I chose the “extreme” Ghostbusters and not the “original”, I feel this is like a “you sold out choosing this!” moment. But there was something about the original I could never get into. I loved the movies but when I watched the cartoon I found it boring, at the age of 5 or something I did. The follow up was awesome for three things: That intro song, the girl who had blue hair (remember, blue attachment to a lady = sex), and Egon, my favourite Ghostbuster, was there. Fan favourite/annoyance Slimer was also about, as well as the receptionist Janine Melnitz. Being it a continuation from the original series, and not a reboot like some, it was actually one cartoon which had a nice decent storyline keeping the franchise still alive, fresh and known.
The problem was as you get older and remember the cartoon, you realize the damn stereotypes they put in again; Goth girl who doesn’t look smart but is the smart-EST, Latino lazy guy, that one guy who…whilst in a wheelchair still gives you that HOPE, and a token black guy. Nonetheless I got up watching this on Nickelodeon, and found this more entertaining to watch than the original. Lasted a good 40 episodes, last one re-introducing the old crew. Ain’t that nice?

12. Captain Simian And The Space Monkeys

Monkeys, in space. Had about 20+ episodes but lasted four years on TV. watched always before and after school and still never forget that “high feet” motive, to which was always the way to do things in school…you know, just going to your friends knowing he too watched Captain Simian, and rather than give him the high five, we slapped feet instead…because as a kid, that’s how I role. Again explains the point of this article.
A space chimp named Charlie gets knocked off course and tossed into the outer reaches of space after a crazed monkey-manned spacefight happening. After many years pass, Charlies’ spacecraft is discovered by a race known as ” “, yup, a race so advanced ahead of time that their name could not be pronounced, just thought about. They provided Charlie with advanced technology, a new spacecraft, intelligence and a crew of his picking (chinese golden monkey ‘Shao Lin’, spider monkey ‘Spydor’, orangutan Dr. Splitz, and gorilla Gor) in return to defend ” ” from the evil Lord Nebula, the half human-half black hole villain who wished to be a full black hole but had the weakness of a tummy-ache and a cold.
Loved this cartoon, I remember it making a lot of sci-fi references too, most notably the one where a weird creature-thing hatches from an egg and creepily stalks the crew, similar to facehuggers in the Alien franchise. The intro need not words, but just “OH WOH AHOH!!”. This cartoon also had character depth which is meaningless to kids, but dedication nonetheless. Gor (or Gor-illa) was my favourite, the peaceful Gorilla who normally would get upset if you beat up his crew and/or stepped on his flower, starts raging all Hulk like afterwards.

11. SilverHawks

SilverHawks goes into number 11 for the sheer fact of that song & animation. I feel bad otherwise that I do not actually remember too much of this show, but it did make an amazing 65 episode career of itself, animation provided by Pacific Animation Corporation, who had a group of Japanese people under the name of ‘Topcraft’, later on becoming the famous ‘Studio Ghibli’. Also, SilverHawks the space equivalent as previous series of same producers (Rankin/Bass) TV show ‘ThunderCats’.
I think I may have to go checkout this show fully, for its another sci-fi moment in the cartoon world and also knowing what ThunderCats was like, this had to be good! Knowing Hollywood however, I’m likely about to see this become a movie in the not too distant future. Warner Bros. currently hold the rights to this show, so once all the rebooting and pointless sequels calm down, I can likely see this happening on the big screen. After all: Humans who are “partly metal, partly real” hired by a bionic policeman with an awesome name, Stargazer, fighting a bad guy named Mon*Star, an alien mob boss, sounds a good movie people can buy into anytime.

10. Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors

Once again, awesome intro song, in fact it is probably considered amongst old school cartoon lovers the best intro song ever to be conceived. The French/American cartoon which was animated by about five Japanese studios was like many shows of the 80′s – a cartoon with no finale…
‘Jayce’ was the leader of the “Lightning League”, AKA humans. The bad guys were vegetables, pretty much. The leader ‘Saw Boss’ and his group “Monster Minds” proved just how much kids would say no to Vegetables – they’d turn into monster trucks and zap you. The plot was of Jayce looking to reunite with his father, Audric, who was a botanist experimenting with biotechnology, creating a humanoid girl named ‘Flora’. It all seemed well when Audric had possibly found a way to end galactic (not just the world) hunger, but alas – a solar flare created a radiation burst, creating his plants into evil sentient beings. Just wasn’t his day…
Eventually Audric would have the roots to kill Saw Boss, but had to flee in order to not be killed himself. His lab turns into the Monster Minds base, leaving Audric to split the roots for some reason and keep one half to himself whilst sending the other half to his son, Jayce, who again for some reason was not around, but kinda cool anyways. As the series did not have a closure with father and son reuniting, there was talks of a movie to actually make sense of things, and also be a little extreme, as producer at the time J. Michael Straczynski was planning a death to Audric via Saw Boss, leaving Jayce fatherless, but happy nonetheless since Saw Boss is dead by then also. Nice.
I remember having the toys of these, which is what the cartoon was based on. It is quite an achievement as well for the team to come up with a interesting storyline for something that never really had a background theme to itself, Mattel simply just made cars, one set good and one set evil, and nothing more to it. It was actually a pretty cool show, but the only thing that put me off so badly…was that little bastard Oon…

something about him really irritated me, I mean normally we’d go support the little munchkins but not this one…something about him pissed me off. I loved when he got beaten down by Monster Minds, but props to him for taking the battering only to then be unfazed by the attacks. Either way, this was a show that deserved an ending, but never got. Even then however, we were kids, we never knew much. VEGETABLES ARE EVIL!!

9. Captain Planet

It always amazed me that the representation of being a clean act was to be a shiny silver man with a green mullet. Captain Planet was a message from the future in the form of 113 episodes telling us how to treat our planet better, “lootin’ and pollutin’ is not the way” kids…oh how we just sang along but never took his advice…
The spirit of the Earth, Gaia, sends five magic rings across the world after seeing human activity threatening the ecosystem. These magical rings would possess the power of the elements (earth, fire, wind, water), the fifth ring being the extra element “Heart”. Garnering once again a token black guy, the fiery American, the hot Russian, The Chinese to pick on, and some guy with a monkey, the rings combined called upon the greatest hero the world needs – Captain Planet. He would sell T-Shirts to random kids telling them polluting is wrong.
The bad guys were…well insane in a sense. It was the good times when baddies didn’t care that they’d kill themselves in the process of killing others. I mean, when you’re in support of oil leakage and global warming…you really can’t get more evil then that now in all honesty…
The best episode of this show was when the bad guys created “Captain Pollution”, a poisonous mullet man equal to take down Captain Planet and his goodie-two-shoes way. One of the bad guys, Dr. Blight, manages to steal the rings from the “planeteers” and rather than destroy them, he instead makes oily clones of the rings, and I dunno gives back the originals. passing on the greasy rings to his fellow evil-doers, the Eco-villains had their own special “elements” to shout and combine bringing out Captain Pollution, who looked like AIDS, if anything. The Eco-villains would shout “GO POLLUTION!” As a means of wanting to die as well…Captain Pollution however was Planets biggest threat, and it was always cool to see superheroes have an evil identical twin. Good times.
The show aired with special little segments which would tell us how to throw things away, and I swear down always involved a Dolphin in that typical state of have a six pack can holding wrapper thing stuck around its mouth. OH THE CLICHE TIMES!

8. He-Man And The Master Of The Universe (2002)

Another point where I may get ripped into regards to choosing a newer generation of an old classic, but firstly – look at that intro. Secondly, after that intro watch the show and realize they were actually pretty well made for a reboot/remake/update. I love how the intro dedicates the way He-Man usually starts up, only to just get straight to the point and just fill it with invasions. After eleven years it was a damn good show to watch and I think in all honesty one of the last cartoons I would really watch, considering Toonami just suddenly stopped.
This set of series went on to explore more of the storyline’s original roots, giving origin stories to tell as well as new yet familiar faces to appear in the toyline sense. It lasted two seasons, though a 3rd was to be made until…well I guess cancellation. This I put high on my list however for one reason alone: Skeletor.

Don’t care what anybody says, but Skeletor was badass. The guy is a floating skull and he just laughs about taking pain. Whilst all the funny bits about him are indeed from the old school cartoon (by clicking here and here YOU FOOL!) He is to this day one of my favourite villains thanks partly to this updated version of him, where he is pretty menacing. I always thought him, Mumm-Ra from ThunderCats and Megatron from Transformers would be the trio force of evil to take on. How awesome of a group is that?
Also, besides his dead face he knows how to keep in shape. In all honesty though, Skeletor went through the stages of being once a powerhouse badass, to then being pushed into the shadows badass (after the Snake Men gradually took control of being the main villains in season 2, led by ‘King Hiss’) to only then return as the major player shouting “YOU FOOL!” to everyone. Dedication and sneaky.

7. King Arthur And The Knights Of Justice

I think me and my brother both played air guitar every time that intro hit up on those mornings. The storyline to this was kind of stupid, but again as a kid I most likely did not care to understand as long as there was something to watch. But it follows the theme of King Authur and the Knights of the Round Table, only in this case Merlin the Wizard is unable to free King Arthur and the Knights after they are trapped in a cave of glass by the evil Queen Morgana. Hang on, cave of glass? that’s not exactly hard to escape from really…
Nonetheless Merlin went on to find the timeline for the Knights and such. Conveniently he comes across the New England Knights (American) football team, and their quarterback conveniently called “Arthur” and last name “King, ‘Arthur King’, King, Arthur, IT SHALL BE DONE! The whole team were transported to Camelot and became the new Knights of the Round Table, assigning them the task to free the real crew. Whats odd is they all had American accents but once they became Knights, it changed to British, and then halfway through the cartoon I swear they tried mutating both accents together and it formed something confusing…
I remember how cool the armour use to look, all shiny and just awesome. Animation wise it wasn’t bad either, still to this day though the frame rate may seem a bit iffy, the detail they put into it still prevails. What was cool as well is that the characters weren’t just Arthur and the rest being just generic teammates, each Knight had their own personality, wit and strength, therefore letting you choose your favourite. Was a great show with an intro in my opinion, clearly better than Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors one, yeah I said it!

6. Thundercats

The awesome ThunderCats, where it was alright to fancy an animal because she was “kinda human-like, right?” Made by the same guys who did SilverHawks, this had to be in the top 10 simply cause of its legendary status. EVERYONE in their life has to watch something ThunderCats, everyone wanted that sword more than they did He-Man’s, and everyone shouted “HOOOOOOO!!!” not realizing the true term and discriminate it brought along with shouting it. Broadcasting in over 20 countries it was and still is a major franchise.
From the planet Thundera came these Cat-Human creature things, all somewhat heroes and protectors of the sword that held the “Eye of Thundera”, source of the ThunderCats powers. With the pilot episode showing Thundera dying, and the Thunderean’s all being killed by their enemies, the “Mutant of Plun-Darr”, the Eye of Thundera and the sword itself manages to drive the evil away. But with the damage done, the last surviving “ThunderFleet” are left to travel to what they called “Third Earth”. Long story short, Lion-O (the main character) finds himself being a boy in an adult body after waking from a long sleep, but is passed down the sword, and along with his crew consisting of Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra, WilyKit and WilyKat, and Snarf, they must overcome evil against the Mutants of Plun-Darr’s and their leader “Mumm-Ra”, the mummified demon sorcerer.
What made this show great was that every character was awesome, bad guys included and Snarf included. The story might have been a little confusing, but if you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, it never mattered. Lion-O was a classy hero to look upon also, with a kick-ass crew, making this one of the best cartoons ever. Mumm-Ra as mentioned above would kick ass with Skeletor, but he isn’t as awesome. The cartoon had sweet animation, badass intro, lasted four seasons and also had a movie titled “ThunderCats – Ho!” The fact you can excuse shouting HO and say you’re merely remembering ThunderCats is an instant win.
Why this is sixth however, is because of the fact the UK only aired Season 1 and provided the movie/five-part episodes which was suppose to lead to season 2. there was no more duration after that, and it just seemingly ended. Mumm-Ra was supposedly dead and we were left happy…but we were WRONG, Mumm-Ra was alive! AND WE NEVER GOT TO SEE THE SEASONS AFTER!!! Duration becomes the reason it is not higher, possibly why it is not even my favourite number 1 show. With rumours strongly hinting a return to TV, being a reboot, is yet to be known and hoped for. Otherwise, on to the next five it is then…

5. X-Men (1992)

Probably the only X-Men thing which followed (or atleast out of the other things, more accurately) the comic books and original themes. It was Marvels second attempt getting an animated series of the heroes on screen, after “X-Men: Pryde of The X-Men” aired only one episode, and had Wolverine with an Australian accent. Their intro was…interesting… to say the least. If there’s no Jean Grey, there’s no such thing as a true X-Men.
“The Animated Series” of the 90′s however was awesome to watch, the artwork was improved, character details were spot on, Jean Grey existed, as did Morph – at the time my favourite mutant. Wolverine was not Australian and back to his ruthless Canadian self also, and Magneto was sinister, irony being the show had Mr. Sinister also. It was a cartoon which special guest mutants such as Bishop, Cable and Colossus, as well as cameo appearances from Deadpool and Spider-Man. You couldn’t get anymore happier with Marvel right then, unleashing a load of mutants and constant explosions and an example of good and evil, yet the classic friendship also between the leaders of good and evil, professor X and Magneto. Mind boggling yet cool nonetheless.
The cartoon also provided loosely story events from comics such as ‘The Dark Phoenix Saga’; Jean Grey becoming the Phoenix, plus it liked to deal with real social life issues, such as prejudice, isolation, and racism. It was the perfect show for awhile to watch, with 76 episodes all stretched out to five years. Watching the beef between Wolverine and Cyclops, Jean Grey being in a love triangle, that kick ass intro in general where Cyclops wipes out the sentinels, questioning why Rogue was hot but had white in her hair, and so much more. Come to think of it, Wolverine had beef with everyone, including Spider-man and the Christmas holidays, all the more to love the show.

4. Dragonball Z

Now…this I may get either slagged off about considering the other cartoons I have chosen on this list, or laughed at for the same reason, but my fourth all time favourite is indeed Dragonball Z. I remember I was picked on a bit for watching this show in school, all the while when Pokemon was still going through its popularity phase mind you. But when it was announced to show on Cartoon Network and I watched that first advert, I was intrigued, then when I watched the first episode of Goku, having a son named Gohan and all the talk about tails and full moons I was confused but damnit I was hooked! Goku died pretty much straight away in order to beat Raditz, realizing also that they were both brothers, and a race called Saiyan’s who get powerful the more they are beaten up (and eventually recovered from). Eventually Gohan kills Raditz, and Picolo, who you discover use to be Goku’s enemy, decides to go train Gohan and whilst this is happening you’re thinking “there’s tons of stuff I know I have missed on knowing, but damn so much just happened in 60 minutes!”
Highly ranked because I watched every episode possibly shown on TV. Despite its heavy censoring, I stuck by and watched the growth of Goku becoming a super saiyan and defeating the most powerful foe in the world, Freiza. I watched the first epic battle between Goku and my favourite character, the badass small man Vegeta. Watched when Gohan became a Super Saiyan grade 2 and beat Perfect Cell. It was awesome, every season showed improved animation, and the 291 episode running saga provided addictive story telling. Despite the episodes gradually getting to a point where all the characters did were scream at each other for a good seven episodes and then fight, the battles were epic and friggin’ hardcore.
Again, different characters brought different personalities, and between me and my brother, my cousins as well as millions of followers, the most funniest disses you could ever come up with. Everyone had their favourites and dislikes, but there was one character EVERYONE HAD TO HATE, otherwise you were not human, and that was Chaozu…

What. A. Bitch. He was really pointless to have around, despite accompanying Tein, the three-eyed bald guy who was decent out of all the “low-classed” fighters. When he fought against Nappa, thinking he could be the hero of the day and self destruct himself, only for Nappa to just have his armour explode from that experience, EVERYONE LAUGHED! Or had to. It was the most pathetic attempt to be awesome, and since then he really did fuck all. I don’t even think I remember him being wished back to Earth when the Dragon Master came about. No one liked him, not even the cartoon characters.
Nonetheless this show had duration, anticipation, eventually drew those who would make fun of me into watching the show themselves, and garner such population across the world.

3. Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers

Now this has the best intro song in the world. No matter what you say this song was my favourite and was the reason I still remember this cartoon. “No Guts No Glory”, the theme song name and the theme to the Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers – Western-styled officials protecting the galaxy from evil terrestrial afairs with group BETA (Bureau for Extra-Terrestrial Affairs), or…something like that. People thought I was talking rubbish when I brought up remembering this show, but the Galaxy Rangers was considered a revolutionary children’s show with its lush animation and brilliant mixture of the wild west, and sci-fi. Literally: Space Cowboys, what more could you want?
On top of that, each special Galaxy Ranger held a special power garnered from their series 5 brain implant thing, making us have a favourite character, everybody choosing to love “Goose”, real name Shane Gooseman:

Genetically produced in a test tube as a Government experiment created for being a super enhanced soldier known as “SuperTroopers”, inventive. Fortunately, Goose became the only unaffected trooper after the tested ones were gassed supposedly to speed up their strength and power, but only made them unstable and gain side effects, thus left to be cryogenically imprisoned. With some escaping, Goose’s only option to avoid being frozen and prisioned was to join the Galaxy Rangers and help find the remaining SuperTrooper subject. The fact he was so cool though and had the best powers (ability to heal, absorb, temporary shapeshift, adapt to environmental conditions) was the reason he was a favourite, that, and he is modelled after Clint Eastwood – which you can’t get anymore old school.
You also had the token black guy who looked like Lando Calrissian from Star Wars! Who was also cool and I believe is rightfully the singer of the band, yup, that’s what made them double the coolness, when they aren’t out taking out crime, they are a band rocking out! “NOW THATS WHAT I CALL A BATTLEAXE!”, As Goose randomly said. Walter Hartford (the black guy) was awesome to me for he had a sword, yet fought with his fists anyways. He was a hardcore genius too, with his implants abilities to control any computer system through the use of “programs”. These crazy lights in diamond shapes would appear and he’d talk all kinds of crazy, not before also adding some typical 80′s one liner.
This cartoon has the ingredients to still do some damage to what is on/what we watch today. If this show was rebooted, given smoother animation/frame rates, with the same story and characters it would be the best thing about. It’s difficult not to put this as my number one show, for it was considered innovative and way ahead of its time. I loved it, sounds like my perfect show in all honesty, but because of specific reasons (and mainly the fact it took me years to remember the name of this show, the vision always stayed put mind you) it is not. Final two then…

2. Bots Master

The final two were quite difficult to make, but in the end Bots Master gets my second spot. I’m going to take a comment made on YouTube that perfectly explains partly why: “Life Rule #172: if anything starts off by two Robots high fiving each other, by law it will be made of Win.”
Created in 1993, the 40 episode cartoon was set in 2025 AD, where the world hasn’t ended (though at that time, who suggested it would?). As technology advances robots were made and commonly known to work doing menial jobs, all thanks to Ziv “ZZ” Zulander (the Bots Master) and the RM Corp. But while ZZ revolutionized the world and its application to his 3A robots, RM Corp president, Sir Lewis Leon Paradim, wanted world domination, as usual. with his henchman – the hot Lady Frenzy and the ugly Dr. Hiss – Leon Lewis Paradim (LLP for short) planned to take control of the world through a swift coup, using the very same 3A’s that ZZ created to benefit humanity. Dr. Hiss created a new chip, called the “Krang Chip”, overriding any 3A series bots and instead take orders from the RM Corp, enabling LLP to take over the world with sheer robotic force. That swine! With ZZ finding out about the plans, he decided to defect from the company and stand against their plans of world domination. Long story short, ZZ saves his sister, LLP randomly tries at one point running for President, ZZ creates his own bots and his group called B.O.Y.Z.Z. (Brain Operated Young Zygoetopic Zoids) and live underground going up against RM Corp.
The specialty of this show was that each episode provided a 3D moment, and it had bots. Every time ZZ shouted “LASER TIME BOYS!!”, there was proper use to put those plastic red and blue shades and be amazed that all those lasers are hitting towards you. There will never be another decent use for those glasses, now that James Cameron made that damn camera of his its all high tech and what not. Even then, Majority of films fail to even live upto 3D (I’m looking at you Clash Of The Titans!). Bots Master however, did not fail, and as a kid putting on those shades and watching that cartoon in 3D I felt cool…
Not even that, but the bots were crazy. I remember going to school with my friends and we would pick out being our favourite, which was typically Ninjzz, even when he did sound like Steven Seagal he was specially built for combat and had crazy glowing nun-chuks and sword (I guess you could say like Steven Seagal, only much…much better). My favourite however were the two of Toolzz and Jammerzz, that’s right, I was two of them in school. Also, Watzon was class, he was uber smart and could break you in such a calm and blunt manner therefore pretty damn amazing. Come to think of it, majority of them had “zz” at the end of their names, and having a “z” alone in your name was cool. I have a “Z” in my name, I am therefore cool…
It was a perfect use of an old school technique that is now being revamped as something of “advanced technology” when it clearly is not. The fact it ended in a cliffhanger, never to return and finish off the fight makes it irritatingly number two (hehehe) on my list. This cartoon actually had some crazy twists – LLP was seemingly accused of kidnapping the Presidents daughter, ZZ strikes a major blow into the RM Corp, and Dr. Hiss’ very own scientist discovered his own A.I. technology that rivals ZZ’s processing technology that created a “thinking bot” (the BOYZZ). This would leave us to suggest that ZZ and the BOYZZ would have gone facing up against a new stronger foe of “Thinking Bots”, but alas, nothing was happening…
Also I must say, ZZ was hugely pussy whipped when it came to Lady Frenzy. It began to fall into that cliche mode of smart scientist falls in love with beautiful girl but is only using him to get to another man/thing/fame? But the twist of it all was that Lady Frenzy was indeed holding true love feelings for ZZ, which begs the question – WHY DIDN’T SHE JUST TURN AGAINST THE RM CORP THEN!? nonetheless ZZ always gave her “one more chance,” only to get bitch slapped in face by bots and/or something taken away from him. Overall it became another Cartoon with no settled ending, another cartoon easily able to just input into watching this set of years and enjoy.

Bots however, are in the number one spot…

1. Transformers

Had to be done, and why not? Transformers was simply what kids wanted: robots, who transformed into cool things, that talked, fought, flew, and whatever else. It wasn’t 3D like Bots Master, but it was insanely better still. Also with this coming on at 8am in the morning every weekday before school, provided thanks very much to the legendary DJ Kat (he looks odd now, but damn he was awesome back then) and being able to watch it with my brother all those weekdays proves this deserves its number one spot. It was the one main cartoon we would get upset missing an episode of, and one cartoon we collected the toys of, I still have the massive Scorponok from the old school headmasters movie.
Formed in the 80s from Hasbro’s toy line, after their success with America’s favourite G.I. Joe, was given life in the form of comic books by Bob Dudiansky, with hero Optimus Prime and Villain Megatron crashing to Earth along with their respected ‘soldiers’ and carry on their war there, how nice of them. Transformers use to be apart of the Marvel Universe, which included guest appearances of Spider-Man as well as Nick Fury.
When it became a cartoon, Bob Dudiansky’s way of character and story development was changed quite a fair bit, but garnered much success to have its own movie which showed insane improvement in animation as well as a brilliant movie…..compared to what we have to watch made by Michael Bay…..unfortunately. To show just how great Transformers exactly was, here’s four reasons:

1. Megatron vs Optimus Prime:

2. Optimus Prime dying = crying kids and impossible to imagine:

3. Megatron, whilst a badass, became Galvatron voiced by Leonard Nimoy (In the movie, anyways):

4. Grimlock:

Whilst my favourite Transformer was Soundwave, there’s no denying Grimlock’s smarts. There were even more great reasons this show is legendary, added on with great soundtrack, characters, story and th way it was able to keep itself fresh and in tune for the kids to easily get along watching. Overall this cartoon represented true battle of good and evil, Optimus Prime especially was everybody’s favourite hero whilst Megatron was the irritating badass who always wanted to get in the way, it was the perfect set up. Even when Prime died people still said HE was the hero, what an icon. The ‘one shall stand, one shall fall’ moments were always epic and never forgotten afterward. It brought me and my brother to good times which is what a cartoon should be doing: making moments to remember. The one liners from both sides of forces are a classic (from “AUTOBOTS! TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!” to “I STILL FUNCTION!”) and there was always a Transformer always to have a main focus, giving everyone a favourite to choose from rather than just Optimus Prime. Whilst many remakes and such have tried (with Beast Wars seemingly the okay outcome), and a movie just in my opinion a shambles when given to Michael Bay, nothing compared to just how great the old school cartoon really was.

That is my top 15. Whatever the order, despite what you may think, these cartoons in general were amazing and need to come back in great entertainment fashion. It’ll probably be awhile again till people come back to old school traditions of how these shows use to be smart and brilliant, as well as there not really being enough hand drawn animation shows going about. But cartoons have never felt so good to watch since those shows.

Do you agree however with this list? I know there are a different likings to cartoons, so you have a different order in mind, let us know what you think with your comments below…