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Old 07-22-2003, 04:29 PM   #1
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What was your fave?
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I'm a bit old to have actually watched any of those for myself, but DS, who is now almost 21 loved to watch the Smurfs in the morning before school. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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The Smurfs ruled! I remember one Christmas I even got a present from "Smurfette".

And Gargamel was the coolest villian in all of cartoon land.
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ooohhhh I loved the smurfs and then the gummy bears! Anyone remember the Wuzzles? BumbleLion and Eleroo?

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Out of what was there Jem and the Holograms was my favorite, and the Snorkels can in a close 2nd.
But one of my all time favorites was Kimba the White lion. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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I had to go with the Smurfs - when John and I were dating - they were a Saturday morning ritual! His little brother even gave us a matching set of Smurf glassware he bought at a flea market for a gift! After 17 years - we still have one of the four! (I'm amazed - my girls are notorious for breaking glasses!)

For actual kids watching cartoons - my girls were too little to watch in the 80's (Amanda was born in 89, Jen in 90), but they used to live to watch the Gummi Bears and the Care Bears on the Disney Channel - Jen's big fave was My Little Pony.
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Zoobilee Zoo.

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My kids were watching cartoons in the 80's.

Our favorite was the Smurfs but Care Bears was a very close second! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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What? No Thundercats? No Voltron? He-Man's the only one that comes close on that list. Now those were 80's cartoons, the best of the best, it was a decade of animation for the adolescent male [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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Okay, this was tough. I watched them all! The only cartoon I didn't like in the 80's was Dungeons and Dragons. I just didn't get it at all. I'd probably like it better now.

I went with the Smurfs, as I had a stuffed Papa Smurf and tons of Smurf books. I call my wardrobe for work my "Smurfette wardrobe", since it is all khakis and white shirts~one outfit just like the next.

"Smurf" the word is still part of my vocabulary too.
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DH: "How does this look on me?"
Me: "Smurfy!"
DH: "How does that taste?"
Me: "Smurfy!"
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My favorite was the Muppet Baaabieees! Yea!!! I love LOVE the Muppets!!
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i don't knkow if ai ever watched any of those. i always watched good old bugs bunny and friends.
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That is such a hard one to vote on!!! But in the end I chose the Smurfs-watched that all the time!
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