Top 100 Animated Series Nominees – Pre 1980s!

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Series Nominations Podcast right here on ToonCast

and GeekCast Radio. First up, we're diving into

the classics, the cartoons from before the 1980s.

So sit back and tune in now. Hello and welcome

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Network. I'm your host, Steve, Joe, and Mike.

Joining me is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Yo.

And, of course, Optimus Solo is back as well.

How are you guys doing? Ho. Ho. A pirate's life

for me. He said yo. I said ho. You missed your

part. You missed your cue, Mike. Yeah, I need

a bottle of rum. Please just send me a bottle

of rum. I don't. Yeah. Send all bottles of rum

to geekcastradio .com. All right. No, don't,

and stop. You know. No. More. It was a perfect

use of it. It was, but no. Don't give me a reason

to. we've done eight top 100 countdowns in 14

years and now we go back to the beginning but

we are starting in a completely different way

over the next five episodes of the podcast we

will be revealing the top 100 animated series

nominees take it away optimus solo and tell us

what's in store for the listeners as we go through

this new format well see in the world of pop

culture things get done And then they get redone

or rebooted or reimagined. So we wanted to like

just get right into that frame of reference.

So yes, we've done a bunch of these top 100 records

and we decided what better thing than to go back

and do one all over again. So that is what we

are here to do, but we're going to do it a little

different. Can't do it the same way. That'd be

boring. People could just go back and listen

to the other ones if we did the same thing. So

we have to. mix it up a little bit so what we

decided to do is to give you some it's like tease

you guys a little bit over the next five episodes

so we're going to narrow the field down so when

we talked about the top 100 animated series once

upon a time first off it was 15 years ago so

there was 15 years less of content to cover in

the last 15 years there's been a few cartoons

that have come out and We've had more time to

watch the old cartoons and all kinds of other

stuff. So if you wanted to actually look at the

life of cartoons and how many there would be

to choose from in order to narrow it down to

a top 100, it would be a monumental task. We'd

be talking about thousands and thousands of cartoons.

And we don't want to put anybody through that

toil because even though Mike and I could probably

get on our Discord and do another eight -hour

marathon overnight as we narrow down our list

to 100, Most people aren't that crazy. So the

funny thing is, before we started this episode,

I said, you know, we really should make this

a 10 episode arc. And instead of just doing pre

1980s, have it 50, 60, 70s, eight and just do

each decade. He's like, only we are that crazy.

Yeah, I know. Mike likes pain. But we figured

if we wanted to get people to actually submit.

their versions of this top 100 as we'd normally

do with these top 100 lists, it would be much

easier for them instead of having to choose from,

I don't know, 3 ,000 cartoons, if we narrowed

it down a little bit to say 250. So that is what

we have done. We have divided up the cartoon

eras into different time periods. And then we

have hashed out amongst ourselves. We've looked

at online lists. We've looked at rankings and

ratings from across the interwebs. And we have

narrowed each time period down to 50 nominations,

50 nominees that people will then have the choice

to vote out of those 250 shows. So five episodes,

50 shows a piece. That's what we're going to

reveal. Pretend it's like the day that they do

the thing that's usually streamed somewhere because

nobody really cares, but they do the thing where

they announce the Academy Award nominees. I've

never watched that in my life. But I know a lot

of like big time movie crazed people might tune

in for that. Most people just wait until the

article comes out that says like, hey, here's

the nominees. But we're going to be doing that.

It's like the reveal show where these are the

people that could potentially. It's like the

most anticlimactic thing we could possibly do.

And that's why I love it. It's like the shows

that could possibly, if everything goes right,

make it on our top 100. If we don't list the

shows off. In these episodes, they have 0 % chance.

There's no write -ins. There's no different ballots.

You have to choose from the 250. So what we decided

to do is reveal those to you guys in chunks.

So today, we're going to be starting in chronological

order with the pre -1980s. So for those that

know anything about cartoons, first cartoon aired

in the very late 40s, technically. But basically,

you have the 50s. is when cartoons took off.

So this is going to cover the 1950s, the 1960s,

and the 1970s. Why three decades, you say? Well,

because number one, we had to find a way to group

these. That made sense. And in the 50s and 60s

and 70s, there was much less cartoons being produced

on a yearly basis than, say, the 2000s and 2010s.

where there's a lot of new shows every single

year. So from a numbers standpoint, if you add

the 50s, 60s, and 70s together, it's probably

still technically less cartoons than what we're

going to get when we say like the 1990s or the

2000s or whatever. So that's kind of how we decided

to do this. Plus, when you think about ranking

and quality and things like that, everybody has

a different criteria of how they kind of pick

what's going to be on the top 100. But a lot

of times, the older the cartoon is, sometimes

harder to make the list. Although, there are

some cases where it does help because it's the

first or because it's just been around for so

long. But there's definitely not as much reason

as to why it comes to these old shows. So that

is what we're going to do. The way we're going

to do that today, unbeknownst to Steve and unbeknownst

to Mike until like two minutes ago, is I have

sorted the 50 shows that are going to be revealed

today in alphabetical order. So this has no bearing

on anything. actually cast any votes for the

top 100 so we have no idea what eventually is

going to make it or not so i just figured we'll

just rattle them off in alphabetical order we're

going to reveal them in sets of five so i'm going

to give you five shows that are possible nominations

for this time period i might give you a quick

couple notes about that set of five and then

mike and steve are going to react let us know

which ones they really are going to be pulling

for to make the top 100 or maybe which ones they're

thinking are going to be a cinch or they would

vote for or whatever their comments are about

that set of five and then we'll move on and do

it in chunks of five until we have the 50 revealed

then mike is going to have a very very apt timed

ad break in there and then we are going to because

it's the year 2025 and because i think i like

to rile mike's uh nerves up sometimes and i know

he's probably not a fan of steve's he's gonna

love this steve's gonna love this So after the

ad break, we're going to do a little section

where I asked some AI questions online to predict

this set and which ones would make the top 100,

and we'll see what AI has to say about that.

And we'll get our quick reactions on that just

for a little bit of, I guess, fun and to try

to keep ourselves somewhat current, I guess.

And then Mike and Steve at the end and myself

will give our kind of final thoughts on the set

of 50 overall. Maybe a quick guess as to how

many of those 50 might make the top 100 or just

fun stuff like that. Mike, did I miss anything?

I don't think so. All right. I'll also give you

a tally at the end of how many shows for each

decade actually made this set of 50. So how many

from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. And then I've also

scoured the interwebs for nine different rankings

that were online. That did similar things to

us. Over the last decade or so. So things like

TV guys list. Indie wires list. There's a variety

of those. I have nine different ones. Including

IGN's list. And including our first list. So

which of these shows. Made our original list.

Just as a point of reference. Steve any questions.

Before we start revealing. No. Alright. So again.

I could say in no particular order, but it is

in alphabetical. And in one particular order,

that is alphabetical. Here is the first set of

five possible nominees for the top 100 animated

series list part two. Father, don't say that.

After all, I'm your son. I'm your very own Astro

Boy. Oh, I'm Seven Dark Seven, complex computerized

coordinator for G -Force. Please, Minnie. Maxie,

let me go with you. I promise not to get in your

way. Oh, I don't know, Casper. To arms! The pirates

are coming! They'll steal all the silver! Well,

it seems the angry Admiral was unconvinced. Well,

don't just stand there, Admiral. Do something!

I intend to! What? Justice! So saying, the Admiral

sent Crusader tumbling toward the street below.

First off, we have from the 1960s, the show Astro

Boy. This was on both IGN and Digital Dream Door

list. We have Battle of the Planets from 1970s.

That made IGN's list as well as three other lists

that we looked at. We have Captain Caveman and

the Teen Angels, also from the 70s. It made the

Channel 4 listing. We have Casper and the Angels,

which is also from the 70s. One of the first,

actually the first, a lot of people consider

it the first cartoon ever, Crusader Rabbit, which

is technically from 1948, but we're calling it

the 50s. So Astro Boy, Battle of the Planets,

Captain Caveman, Casper, and the Angels, and

Crusader Rabbit are our first set of five. Mike,

anything that strikes your fancy, any that you

think you may vote for out of that group, or

are they all not going to be worthy enough on

your top 100? Captain Caveman easily will get

mine. It'll probably be in the 60s on my list,

maybe. All right. Steve, any reactions to that

set of five? The only one I could possibly see

on there, like, yeah, I mean, I get Captain Caveman,

but at the same time, there's there's like Astro

Boy. I've like it had a more modern revival at

one point, even if I'll be it briefly. So I could

see that one. But again, I don't foresee any

of these five really making the list. Yeah, I

think the argument for Crusader Rabbit would

be it's the first, right? The argument for Casper

would be kind of like the iconic character, more

so than the show. I think Battle of the Planets...

Casper and the Angel? You said Casper and the

Angels? Yeah, that's the name of one of the series.

I could see Battle of the Planets possibly showing

up. Battle of the Planets out of those five was

the one that made the most lists that we looked

at. So it was on four different lists. And I

know Astro Boy 2 from a franchise standpoint,

a show that was rebooted or redone a couple different

times, so maybe more generations know about that

one. I agree with Steve, though. I don't know

if any of these five will make it. I don't know

if they'll actually. make it but like i said

on my list i will put captain caveman i will

put a different version of casper i will put

casper the friendly ghost version i i've never

heard i've never seen casper and the angel i've

never i don't know which one i don't know what

form casper was first i don't know if it was

a theatrical short a movie or a cartoon first

but this is no clue one of the early versions

yeah i'm not a casper aficionado so that is the

First set of five, nothing that struck us as

half to make it on there, but it'll be interesting

to see. I guess it depends on the makeup of our

panel. Okay, you guys, break it up. Reed, Johnny,

Ben, come quick. It's Dr. Doom. His image is

on the television screen. He came right on in

the middle of the race. Is Felix the cat daydreaming

again? Say, look at all those signs. Why, Felix

doesn't even see them. Let's see what they say.

Private property. Scram. Keep out. This means

you. Me, George. You, Jane. Shep. Puppy. Big,

grey, peanut -loving puppy. What makes you think

so? Speak, Shep. Jane here. A -flat. All elephants

have sharp. Man, we're really hot today. Yeah,

our game with the hillbilly hill stars ought

to be a breeze. Well, don't make too much of

a breeze, Curly. I don't think this gym can stand

it. Get ready, Jim. Send it my way, shout stuff.

I wonder what's keeping everybody. For the second

set of five, we are going to go with the 1967

version of the Fantastic Four. We have Fat Albert

and the Cosby Kids, who actually had one win

and four nominations, I think, for different

awards, whether it be Emmys or whatever I was

looking at. It was also on five different lists,

including this is the first one that was on our

original list. It was number 93 on our first

countdown. We have Felix the Cat from the 50s.

We have George of the Jungle from the 60s. And

we have Harlem Globetrotters from the 70s. So

Fantastic Four, Fat Albert, Felix the Cat, George

of the Jungle, Harlem Globetrotters. Steve, any

of those that could potentially get a vote out

of you? I mean, they're all difficult choices

because I've seen all of them. I could probably

see maybe George of the Jungle and Felix the

Cat. I would say Fat Albert, although some people

may still lump that in with the creator himself

of it. Right. And so may not get the list just

because of that. But I could see those three.

There's been better Fantastic Four series. And

then the Harlem Globetrotters, they did a lot

of other crossover shows. So I could see that.

being more where they're recognized but maybe

those three i don't foresee me voting for any

of them though right i think this is too it's

going to be interesting because this episode

of reveal this first set of 50 is going to be

the most uh the one that has the most shows that

maybe people aren't as familiar with as well

being that some of these are fairly old shows

so that's going to be another thing that may

go against like depending on what age all of

the different people that submit lists are Some

of them may not be as familiar with this set

as well. As we get through, it'll be all shows

that people know, basically, and have heard of

and things of that nature. That'll be an interesting

progression to do these reveals. Mike, any of

them that stood out in that set of five? Fat

Albert and the Cosby Kids and Harlem Globetrotters.

They'll make the low end of my list. I can separate

from the creator. The show is what the show is.

Same. I always looked at the fiction more so

than the behind -the -scenes of whatever. That's

just the way I was. I was raised with whatever's

on the television, that's your reality. If you're

watching something and they're teaching you something,

that's just what reality was 40 years ago. I

think for me, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids does

represent, I guess in my... opinion from a decade

standpoint like it's probably one of the most

notable shows from the 70s agree yeah i think

there's some that some on this set of reveals

that will garner more attention because of them

being from the 50s or 60s which makes them a

little bit more classic a little bit more like

original for some of these franchises 70s is

an interesting time period and i think in my

recollection of what i voted for or I think in

the contest that we did 15 years ago, I may have

only had two shows from the 1970s on my list.

And Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was one of

them. And the 70s was kind of, yeah. And the

funny thing about the 70s is, as far as I remember,

just like everything else in that decade, cartoons

were experimental back then. It was an interesting

period, for sure. Yeah, no, and I'm not trying

to veer off the conversation, but I just want

to point out that The 50s and 60s, you had the

Flintstones, the Jetsons, the this, the that,

the whatever. You had the Scooby -Doos. You had

the Laugh Olympics. You had all this stuff. The

70s, you had some... We could do a whole separate

episode of TimCast about the cartoons of the

70s. Cartoons in the 70s were very heavily censored,

and there was a lot of different things that

they had to get around. Obviously, it's not until

the first couple years of the 80s where we break

away from that. Not that the 80s didn't also

have other parent groups that were doing other

things, but the 70s was very much affected by

that. So it's almost like a transition decade.

Yeah, it is. It is very much transition. Interesting.

On that set, we'll see if Fat Albert and the

Cosby Kids or any of those others will be able

to make the eventual list. Let's go to our third.

One other note, really quick, really quick that

I remember this. I actually got to go to at Freedom

Hall in the 90s. I got to see the Harlem Globetrotters.

So that's why that cartoon. And besides the fact

of them being in Scooby and other things, but

that specific cartoon, that's why that's making

my list. I can see Steve's point, though, as

well, though, like a lot of people may not view

Love Trotters as a cartoon property. They may

see it as other things. Yeah, absolutely. Once

again, before you dare your own eyes, I will

hop into the bottom drawer of this here filing

cabinet, and then quick as a flash, I'll pop

out of the top drawer as superhero Hong Kong

Fooey. Can't sign crows. Uh -oh. Them corny crows

are coming in for the attack. No respect again.

Not even from a little goldfish. You like my

secret agent? It's Dr. Zinn. Nothing can stop

it. I will have to work fast. Look, the robot's

taking off. I'm not getting a reading yet. Is

it fire? No. Soon another ship will be sent to

the bottom. Well, gang, we're on our way to our

big gig at Pagel Pagel Island. How do you like

it? I'd like to throw you over the side for getting

us stuck in this old rust bucket. All right.

The third set of five we have. There's going

to be three from the 1970s here. We have. Hong

Kong Fooey from the 1970s. That appeared on three

different lists, including our original list

at number 96. We have the Huckleberry Hound Show

from the 1950s. That had a couple award nominations

and wins. It was number 94 on our original list

and appeared on five of the nine lists that I

looked at in preparation of this. We have Jabberjaw

from the 1970s. We have Johnny Quest from the

1960s. That appeared in five of the nine lists

as well, and it was as high as number 74. on

our original list, and Josie and the Pussycats

from the 1970s as well. So that's Hong Kong Fooey,

Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw, Johnny Quest, and

Josie and the Pussycats. Maybe a little bit more

name recognition here. Steve, what do you think

of that set of five? See, this one's tough because

this is where it starts getting me. I'm like,

oh, I remember all of these. And I would say

that a lot of these have contender status, at

least for those of us that are older. I would

say anybody that's in the modern generations

aren't going to have a clue what any of these

are unless we showed it to them. And I out of

these, I liked Huckleberry Hound and Hong Kong

Phooey. Jabberjaw was kind of like, OK, but I

those are two were kind of like the main two

that I liked. I mean, a lot of the animation

around this time was very, very similar in style,

just had a different type of animal of some kind.

It was the. the lead of something, but yeah,

I, those two, I would, I would probably still

include on my list. Mike, there was three on

that, that were on our list originally. Like

I said, Hong Kong, fully Huckleberry and Johnny

quest. Do all three of those still deserve a

spot or do you see some of them getting edged

out by the fact that we're including, you know,

15 more years of cartoons? Absolutely. They deserve

a spot and especially. Yeah. Jabberjaw. I love

Jabberjaw. Oh, God. I'll take Jabberjaw all day.

I love that. Jabberjaw. Jabberjaw. Yeah. Frank

Welker. Yeah. Frank Welker as Curly. Oh, man.

Frank Welker doing a Three Stooges impression.

Give me that all day, every day. And, you know,

you can't go wrong. You cannot go wrong with

Scatman Crothers as Hong Kong Phooey. you know

huckleberry is huckleberry so absolutely those

all belong on the list i think somewhere definitely

definitely be interesting to see how that plays

out for sure all right i think for me personally

i love jabber jaw i don't know if i could vote

for it specifically it didn't have a huge like

tenure but i do think the character is is definitely

a classic hong kong i think the other thing that

you have to think about with those is there is

sometimes an effect that happens in these top

100 countdowns where it's kind of like the same

thing that we saw with the top 100 animated movies

the list we did once upon a time right sometimes

people will take a certain studio and then they'll

rank them and then they'll only include so many

so like they'll say disney like i'm only going

to include you know 20 disney movies in this

or i'm only going to include 10 Pixar movies

or something like that. So there becomes a thing

like with the Hanna -Barbera when it comes to

cartoon series, which ones rise to the top and

is there a cutoff where they won't vote for Jabberjaw

because they voted for six other that they think

are more well deserving from that studio. So

sometimes that can play a part. I never think

like that. I always think of which one is my

most favorite. And then I think, okay, which

one is my second most favorite that I feel like

I can drop. So if I need to, and that's the other

thing. And I mentioned this, I think the last

time we talked about this on a podcast, I only

list 100. number one i don't ever put any numbers

above so that way i know i only can list 100

things so i don't ever have any extra so i don't

ever have any wiggle room of of having to juggle

things of whatever to figure out what can belong

or what needs to go oh there's definitely always

interesting methods that everybody uses we all

have our different way of narrowing down yeah

i know For sure. The players are on the field,

in the stadium even. So let's get on with it.

Black Olympics. That, sir, is an insignificant

fabrication. It's Webbit season. Duck season.

Webbit season. Duck season. Webbit season. Duck

season. season. Rabbit season. Rabbit season.

Duck season. Rabbit season. I say it's duck season

and I say fire. This is the end of you. It's

Mighty Mouse. Now take it easy. Take it easy.

Don't come any closer. Stop or I'll shoot. Now

let's talk this over, pal. It is the year 0079

of the universal century. A half century has

passed since Earth began moving its burgeoning

population into gigantic orbiting space colonies.

A new home for mankind. Where people are born

and raised. And die. I don't think it'll make

the top 40. Aura. She comes with her hunters.

Aura? Princess Aura. Ming. offspring. She and

her witch women warriors will hunt us down. Alright,

so the next set of files. Let's see where we

go from here. We may have a powerhouse involved

in this one. So we have from the 1970s, we have

the Laugh Olympics that appeared on the Wizard

list. From whatever decade you want to qualify

it for, we have the Looney Tunes, which... It

may have appeared in eight of the nine listings

that we did, including number four on our original

list. It also appeared number three on IGN, three

on the Wizard Countdown, eight on CinemaBlend,

three on the TV Guide listing, one on the Digital

Dream Door, 20 on Channel 4, and number three

on the Ranker list. So a lot of love for the

Looney Tunes. Then we have the Mighty Mouse Playhouse,

which also appeared on four different lists.

We have Mobile Suit Gundam, which appeared on

one list. And we have the New Adventures. of

flash gordon so laugh elements looney tunes mighty

mouse playhouse mobile suit gundam and the new

adventures of flash gordon steve what do you

think i think really the only ones that might

show up here are looney tunes mighty mouse and

mobile suit gundam because gundam kind of is

a big thing i'm not a fan of gundam but i i get

that it's a huge anime of you know animation

and and so like i i could definitely see that

showing up mike what do you think i hope it shows

i know you love your laugh olympics i y 'all

gonna understand that that was special that was

and i don't mean you guys because you guys know

when i'm when i say y 'all i'm talking to the

audience that is The Scooby -Doobies, the dum

-dums, the this, the that. That was the Hanna

-Barbera characters teaming up. You never saw

that. You never saw Scooby -Doo going into dino

-mutt. And Blue Falcon. You never really, I mean,

I'm sure they had one or two, maybe just one.

I'm sure you can say which one, Optimus Solo,

but it's just one of those things where that

was the coolest thing about Laugh Olympics was

that you had all the Hanna -Barbera characters

doing Olympic event type thing. Same thing is

Laugh Olympics and Wacky Races are essentially

the same damn thing. Sort of, kind of. Same type.

But I would like to see Laugh Olympics in there,

even if it's low. I don't care. I don't care

if it's at 99, but at least it made it in. And

then obviously, like Steve said, with Looney

Tunes. Was it Looney Tunes? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Looney Tunes has to make it. I mean, it would

be a. Without Looney Tunes, we wouldn't freaking

be here. I don't think anything is going to go

from number four on our previous list to boost

it off of the last 15 years. Yeah, I understand

that. But I'm just saying, like you said, we've

had 15 more years. That's a decade and a half

of a new generation that may not. You'd be surprised

how many doom scrolling Instagram reels I find

of people finding Looney Tunes for the first

time and just like, oh my God, what is this?

And some of them like it and some of them don't.

It's weird. Like I said, out of this set of five,

Looney Tunes was the only one that made it. We'll

have to see if Mighty Mouse or Mobile Suit Gundam

can make a push to crack into our list this time.

Just a quick clarification. Mighty Mouse Playhouse.

That's not the same thing as New Adventures of

Mighty Mouse, right? Because I don't remember

Mighty Mouse Playhouse. I remember the original.

I mean, obviously, Mighty Mouse was a theatrical

short first, but Mighty Mouse Playhouse was like

the 1955, the first compilation made for TV.

I only remember the 80s or the 90s version, the

New Adventures of Mighty Mouse. The theme song

you definitely know from the 50s, though. That

is probably here to save the day. Paddington

peered thoughtfully at the box and then hurried

out to the kitchen. Oh, no flowers for me, sweetie.

I'll just borrow some from me good. My favorite

pet petunias. Why, I'll... Well, as long as you're

back anyway, I might as well explain what's been

going on. We all know that everybody can do something,

even Bullwinkle, who proved beyond a doubt that

he can remember everything he ever ate. What

did you have for dinner 25 years ago today, Bullwinkle?

Moose milk. Boy, you really can remember everything

you ever ate. That was too easy, Rock. 25 years

ago, I always had moose milk. You were an addict?

No, a baby. But Bullwinkle is grown up now, and

he must learn to face the facts. Now, everybody

try to find a good hiding place. This old tree

is going to be the base. I'm going to close my

eyes and hide my face and count to 100 by fives.

Ready? Go. What a nervous night to be walking

home from the movies, Scooby -Doo. And all because

you had to stay and see Star, Dog Ranger of the

North Woods, twice. It's coming from the bushes.

Go see what it is, Scooby. Don't worry. I'm right

behind you. All right. Next set of five. You

thought? that we had a heavy hitter with Looney

Tunes, which may be one of the heaviest hitters

of the day. We're getting a group of them here,

probably. So with our next set of five, we have

from the 1970s, Paddington. We have from the

1960s, Popeye the Sailor. That was on eight of

the nine lists that we looked at, including number

53 on our list originally. We have Rocky and

Bullwinkle Show, which was on seven of the nine

lists and was originally ranked number 25 on

our first list. We have another 70s powerhouse

with Stoolhouse Rock. It appeared on four out

of the nine lists. It also has four wins and

four nominations for awards. And then rounding

off this set of five, if those weren't enough,

let's add in Scooby -Doo Where Are You from the

1960s, which was on all nine lists that we looked

at. That's the first one of those that we've

seen, and it was ranked number 14 by us originally.

So we have one of them ranked... 14, 25, and

53 originally. We did not rank Paddington or

Schoolhouse Rock. Steve, what do you think about

this set of five? It's got a lot of good contenders

here. I could see Scooby -Doo showing up. I could

see Paddington. I could see Schoolhouse Rock.

But again, this is 15 years later. There's 15

years more animated series out. people who were

15 years younger when we started this journey

yeah and right and so some of the people we may

be inquiring lists from may be very skewed towards

newer stuff whereas we're very skewed towards

old right the question is going to end up being

interesting when we have something ranked like

i would think that there would be like it won't

work out like perfect like this but where if

you were on our original list How high did you

have to be ranked in order to be safe and on

this list? You know what I mean? You would think

the top 50 maybe from our first list should still

be safe. Will anything fall 50 spots from the

last 15 years? But that's just a stab in the

dark. Or is the top 40 safe? Or is the top 60

safe? Where is that line where it's like you

get into the thing where, well, there's been

how many more additions from the last 15 years

that are going to start booting out? Something

that we had, like Hong Kong Fooey, we had that

ranked at 96. You would think that would be in

much more jeopardy than maybe Rocky and Bullwinkle,

which we had ranked 25. Is something ranked 25

going to slide 75 spots out of the countdown?

I know, like Steve says, it definitely depends

on the makeup of the people we have involved,

for sure. Whether you have more females or more

males. Whether you have more people born before

1990 or after 1990. All that kind of stuff can

play into this, so it's going to be interesting.

Mike, we had Popeye, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and

Scooby -Doo on our original list. No Schoolhouse

Rock or Paddington. Do you think that stays the

same or changes? I think it stays the same, but

I think you could add Schoolhouse. I've never

gotten into Paddington. That's one that you have

to wonder if the movies that have come out, what

has there been, three live -action movies that

have come out in the last five? 10 years. Will

those affect that? I don't know. Is that enough

to get that in there? It's hard to say. With

Schoolhouse Rock, is being 15 more years in the

past or has there been enough time where people

will appreciate it? Some stuff grows with time.

Some stuff people love through time and some

stuff fades more into the history books. It's

interesting how that works. I would be shocked

if Scooby -Doo and Rocky and Bullwinkle don't

make it. I think Popeye makes it. But I don't

think it's nearly as high as 53 anymore. Yeah.

See, that's going to be the interesting thing

as we talk through these five episodes, folks.

As we talk through all of these selections and

figuring out where we think they're going to

land. Because obviously some of these aren't

going to make it. But like you're saying with

Popeye, is he going to make it as high as 53?

Or is he going to end up at 97? 84 or whatever

i don't know if that can of spinach can get him

as high as 53 anymore we will have to see so

that's the first half of shows that are eligible

from this time period let's jump into the second

half Dr. Williams, are you all right? I'm okay,

Ed. It's the lab I'm worried about. I don't understand.

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in the second half, we have a couple from the

70s here. We'll have to see if these... It's

interesting with this set because there's a couple

that I think are more popular for a future version

of these shows, which also is interesting when

any franchise or show has already been rebooted

or reimagined multiple times, how that all works

out. So we have from the 1970s, we have C -Lab

2020. Did not make any of the lists we looked

at. Obviously, C -Lab 2021 or whatever comes

out as part of Adult Swim and has a different

type of life. We have Speed Buggy from the 1970s.

We have, oh, I didn't do this in alphabetical

order. This one was supposed to come first. Space

Ghost and Dino, which was also obviously later

redone into Space Ghost Coast to Coast, even

though it's completely different. We have the

1960s version of Speed Racer. That's 1967. And

we also have from 1967 that version of Spider

-Man, which out of this group, only one made

our original list. That would be Spider -Man,

which was ranked 81 on our original list. So

how do we feel about this set, Mike? Other than

sputtering speed book, I'm probably not voting

for any of it. I did not like the 1967 Spider

-Man. I don't know what it was about that one.

Maybe it was the animation. I don't know. It

just didn't hit with me. As far as the lists

that we looked at, the only ones that appeared

on a couple different lists would have been Speed

Racer and Spider -Man. Yeah. Steve, what do you

think of these? Hmm. I remember all of these

shows. Yeah, coming after Scooby -Doo and Popeye

and Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's interesting. Yeah,

exactly. It's like, wow, we just went into the

trash can. Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, Popeye

is great. I could see him possibly showing up.

But again, a lot of these depend on if they've

had a modern resurgence somewhere. And again,

depends on the pool of people we have that are

submitting lists. I don't foresee really any

of these showing up. I mean, I had Speed Buggy

on my original list in the 90 to 81 section.

I think it was like 89 or something. I had to

take out my old list. I was like, I know I have

this somewhere. I pulled out an external hard

drive that I had this backed up on. I'm like,

there's my list. There's my list. That's right.

Yeah, I've got a number of shows that are just,

they take place between the 80s, 90s, and that's

the bulk of my stuff. I think with Spider -Man,

it was ranked number 81 on our list, and I think

that's the danger zone. Like, if you're in the

80s or 90s, you're in trouble. Yeah, absolutely.

One thing I'll say is, I didn't realize C -Lab

2020 was that old. I had no idea it was in the

70s or 60s or wherever it is. 1972, yep. Okay,

yeah, but I didn't realize. I thought that it

was at least early 2000s, especially when C -Lab

2020. I've never seen either one. They're not

my shows, but I've heard of C -Lab 2021. Didn't

even realize that C -Lab 2020 was over 50 years

ago. Crazy. Time flies when you're watching cartoons.

That's right. All right, moving into the next

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of one of three suspects. Now let's see what's

lined up for our next cartoon. We have Star Trek

The Animated Series from 1973. It had one win

and one nomination. It was on the IGN list originally,

but not on ours. Super Friends, I guess all -encompassing

Super Friends. It was ranked number 40 by us

originally. 50 by IGN. It also appeared in three

other lists. We have the Adamantin Secret Squirrel

Show from the 1960s, the Banana Splits from the

1960s, and the Dick Tracy Show from 1961. So

a series of 1960 shows, but the ones that seemed

like they garnered the most attention from other

lists that we looked at, including ours, were

Super Friends and Star Trek The Antics Series.

Steve, what do you think about these five? Well,

I had... Super Friends and The Adamant and Secret

Squirrel on my original list. I don't know if

they would make it to the new list. And the same

goes for Star Trek, the animated series. I did

not have it on my original list. And I still

stand by the decision because we've had some

better Star Trek series in the last 10 years

that I would argue deserve a spot. Right, and

that's the other thing that becomes interesting,

because before it was the only Star Trek animated

series, and now it is one of, what, three or

four that have come out? At least three that

have... Yeah, it's one of three. Yeah, there's

Prodigy and Lower Decks. So that's also something

that starts playing into it, like for a series

that appeared when we did this 15 years ago that

didn't have any competition in their franchise

with other series, and then now they do, such

as that. such as Star Wars has had a number of

different series that have come out in the last

15 years. It's still stuff like that. It's like

Batman and the Ninja Turtles have all had multiple

revivals and DuckTales. All of the Marvel, all

of the DC stuff has had new stuff. Before there

used to only be one DuckTales, one Animaniacs,

now there's two. Stuff like that. It's interesting

how that would play out. Wait a minute. Prodigy

is animated? Star Trek Prodigy? Yeah. It's CGI.

It was on Nickelodeon. I thought that was live

action. No. They just had Discovery, Picard,

and Strange New Worlds and that garbage shoot

that's section 31. If we were ranking classic

action figure lines, then I might vote for Dick

Tracy, but I can't vote for it just based off

of the cartoon. No. And I've watched way more

super friends than I did at this point, 15 years

ago, since I've watched like three of the series

in their entirety so far or three seasons. But

yeah, because you were doing your, uh, uh, uh,

yes. Okay. So, uh, yeah. So I've done all the

ones that appeared in the eighties. I've watched

all of those and there's some that are definitely

better than others, but like Steve said, now

15 more years of Marvel and DC stuff has come

out. Oh, yeah. That may be one that, even though

it was ranked 40 on our list originally, that

may be one of the ones that drops the most. Oh,

yeah. It could be dropped completely off, and

that would be something where I didn't think

anything in the top 50 would fall off, but I

could see Super Friends falling off completely.

Yeah. We'll have to wait and see. Give me the

list again. Star Trek, the animated series, Super

Friends, Adamant, and Secret Squirrel Show, Banana

Splits, and Dick Tracy. Secret Squirrel is the

only one I would probably vote for. I love Secret

Squirrel. Secret Squirrel is so, like, that show

was so, out of all of the random animal shows

that we got back then. No, seriously, like, Secret

Squirrel. I get it. Okay, no, no, no. Okay, hear

me out, okay? I don't think this will ever happen,

and I would not, I don't think I want it to happen.

But let's go back to that time. Could you imagine

a Secret Squirrel? and Danger Mouse crossover,

I would have loved that. That would have been

amazing. They would have just called it Danger

Squirrel. That's right. That's right. Alright,

let's move. Yeah, Secret Squirrel. Move on here.

So up to this point, we've only had four shows

that have been on at least six or more of the

list that we looked at. So those four shows would

be the Looney Tunes, Popeye, Rocky and Bullwinkle,

and Scooby -Doo. We have three sets of five left,

and we're going to see six shows that were on

at least six or more lists. So we've got some

heavy hitters coming in these last three sets

of five. Oh, boy, good old Sunday. Nothing to

do but lazy around and read the Sunday paper.

Oh, honey. Yes, Fred? Did you see the Sunday

paper? No, Fred, it hasn't come yet. For heaven's

sake, why'd you have to get me up so early? Why?

Why? Today is the day for your first driving

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Slide over. Honey, it don't. Why does a ghost

have to learn to drive? What would you like,

Gumby? A chocolate milkshake, please, without

ice cream. What? No ice cream? It makes me so

cold and stiff, I can't move. But what's this

about inviting Mr. Spacely when all we have in

the place is leftovers? I didn't invite him,

he invited himself. All right, all right, break.

When does your boss get here? Any split second.

Where are the leftovers? In the kitchen. Never

fear, while Rosie's here. Aloha, that's Hawaiian

talk for Howdy. This is old Beach Boy McGillis

surfing at Wacky Wacky Beach. Uh -oh! What's

Hawaiian for ouch? All right. First off, we have

from the 1960s. It was nominated for one award

at least, which is interesting because that was

a primetime award, not a daytime award. It was

on all nine lists, including number nine on our

list. We're talking about the Flintstones. We

also have, from the 1970s, the Funky Phantom.

We have the Gumby Show from the 1950s. It appeared

on one of the lists we looked at. We have a show

that appeared on seven lists, and it was ranked

45 on our original list. This would be the Jetsons.

And then we also have the Magilla Gorilla Show

from the 1960s, which did appear on one of the

lists as well. So that's the Flintstones, the

Funky Phantom, the Gumby Show. The Jetsons and

Magilla Gorilla. Mike, where do you want to start

with this set of five? See, I grew up with all

of these, and Jetsons and Flintstones are easily

top 20. Easily top. Somewhere in the top 20.

They just are. For you. They were 9 and 45 for

us in the first round. Well, fine, but I'm saying,

like, I'm just saying, that's fine, but I'm saying,

like, for what they did, and I think for how

approachable they can be, like, to show these

to people today, and just to have, like, you

know, Steve, or either one of you guys, do you

guys follow the Professor of Rock? On any social

media? Okay, well, this is Guy, not Professor

of Rock. Anyway, he does blind react to music,

or he does the no react to, like, stand there

and don't react to the song type stuff. Like,

show the Jetsons or the Flintstones to somebody

and have them react to it. I think it would be

a positive thing because it's something that

they've probably never seen before kind of thing.

It's not just because I grew up watching the

Jetsons and the Flintstones, but it's just they're

two very different shows that I think are really,

really good. What else is it? Magilla. Magilla

was fun. He probably, unfortunately, is going

to be, if he makes the list, he's going to be

in the 80s or 90s. I feel like that's one that

the Hanna -Barbera group would knock Magilla

Gorilla off. We also had the Funky Phantom and

Gumby. Yeah, I don't care about the Funky Phantom.

Gumby... I like the blockheads. I thought Gumby

would have made our original list, but it did

not. Do you remember where it... I know you kept...

I'd have to pull it up still. I still have it,

but I would have to pull it up to see where it

fell. I think one thing that a show like the

Flintstones, besides it being groundbreaking

for the... adult or for the time aspect of it

and kind of the the way it paved the way for

a lot of stuff that came in the 90s and since

then i think one thing that the flintstones has

similar to what we see with scooby -doo similar

to what we see with looney tunes is the flintstones

has been it hasn't gone that long of a time period

without it being brought back into pop culture

whether it be through another series a movie

or whatever the case may be maybe not as much

in the last 10 ish years but for a long long

time just like scooby -doo like right it gets

reinvented every like couple years and do a new

series etc looney tunes same thing i think that's

something that helps flintstones kind of stay

in that top 50 range whereas jetsons hasn't had

that as much which even though it had like the

series in the 60s and then it had a kind of a

reboot in the 80s other than that we haven't

seen a whole lot of jetsons in the last 20 to

30 So sometimes I feel like that may hurt it.

I think the only time we've seen the Jetsons

is in certain commercials. Like that one Walmart

commercial where everybody was there. Like all

the 80s. No, I agree. So to me, it comes down

to the Flintstones, the Jetsons, or Gumby. Steve,

what do you think? I think it just comes down

to the Flintstones and the Jetsons. I honestly

don't see any other contenders there. I think

that none of the other ones will show up. If

very well, out of these five, it'll be those

two. Very well could be true. Are you local?

Senior Brambles will kill you to pieces. And

I'll throw the pieces to the coyotes, tenderfoot.

Whom's a tenderfoot? You are. Oh, ouch, ow, ow,

ow, ow. What do you say, quick straw? I said.

We've got Crackula and Brainly's brain. We're

over our junkyard, Mo. What do we do now? We

deflate and... All in a day's work for a robotic

stooge. Go west, young man, go west. I'll bet

the guy who said that ain't been west of Hoboken.

Not a living thing in sight. All right, down

to our last set of 10. So first half of that

would be the Pink Panther show, which came out

in 1969. It got a nomination. Six lists that

it appeared on, including number 55 on our list.

Quick Draw McGraw show, which got a nomination.

It only appeared on one list, and it was not

on our original list. We have the Robotic Stooges

and the Tom and Jerry show from 1975. That appeared

on lists, including number 33 on our original

list. and the Woody Woodpecker Show, which appeared

on seven lists, including number 84 on our original

list. So we have two shows that had nominations

for awards, Pink Panther Show and the Quick Draw

McGraw Show. We had three shows that appeared

on our original list, Woody Woodpecker, Pink

Panther, and the Tom and Jerry Show. Steve, which

one stands out in this group of five for you?

Probably the Tom and Jerry Show. That was ranked

the highest by us. Do you think the Pink Panther

or Woody Woodpecker have a chance? Probably Woody

Woodpecker only because they came out with, uh,

some recent series of it, uh, or movies. And,

uh, then people just kind of search it out on

YouTube to watch. So I could see that having

a resurgence as well. Mike, what do you think?

Tom McGraw didn't make our first list, but if

it didn't, I can't see it making this list. No,

I, I, I, as much as I love the quick straw, I

don't think. I don't think even Baba Louie can

get him on the list, unfortunately. Does Woody

Woodpecker or Pink Panther have a chance? Oh,

yeah. Tom and Jerry is universally classic, just

like Scooby -Doo and everything else, so I hope

that makes it. I'm pretty sure that will make

it. I hope Pink Panther makes it. Pink Panther

is one of those things where it's infinitely

classic in my mind. They had so many different

versions of it over the years. They had so many

versions of that that Inspector Clouseau actually

popped out and became his own character and did

his own separate movies a couple of times. And

then they brought it back and you had the father

of the bride be Inspector Clouseau in the live

action Pink Panther movies. I'm like, oh my God.

How did Steve Martin become Inspector Clouseau?

That was just crazy. So I love the... And the

coolest thing about the Pink Panther show, besides

the Pink Panther himself, is the Ant and the

Aardvark. I love those cartoons. This is so cool.

Yeah. Okay, Yogi. I'll be glad to let you read

the telegram. You see, Boo, the ranger can't

make a move without me. This is one move I'm

making without you, Yogi. Here, read this. Mr.

Ranger, it means you're leaving the park. It

means I'm leaving you, Yogi. And I want to tell

you, you've caused me nothing but trouble since

I've been here. Filching picnic baskets. Yogi,

you are a bad bear. And I'm glad to get away

from you. Since we're leveling, sir, let me point

out... That we bears were here before you rangers.

Now it's don't do this and don't do that. And

we're always tripping over the red tape. For

your information, sir, and there is nothing personal

here, you are known to all the animals as Jughead

Smith. I'm glad to know how you feel about me,

Yogi. Goodbye and good riddance. If I never see

a bear again, it'll be too soon. Step right up,

folks. This is it, the big time in the big top,

where for a slight fee you will see right before

your very eyes the most daring, unbelievable

high trapeze act ever attempted. I call your

attention to stage right for the start of this

death -defying act. Nobody said anything about

defying no death to me. This brave performer

will swing across the street, catch his partner,

and swing back all without a net. Now he tells

me. Okay, my... All right, that leaves us with

five final nominees for this time period. We're

going to go with four shows from the 60s and

one from the 70s. So we have... From 1961, the

Yogi Bear Show, which appeared on sixth list

and was number 48 on our original Top 100. None

of the rest appeared on any of our Top 100, but

they did appear on at least one list that we

looked at. We have from 1961 also Top Cat. We

have from 1964, Underdog. From 1968, Wacky Races.

And from 1977, What's New, Mr. Magoo. So the

Yogi Bear Show, Top Cat, Underdog, Wacky Races.

What's new, Mr. Magoo? Steve, any standout for

you there? I know I had Top Cat and Yogi Bear

on the original list that I had, but none of

the other ones. Do you think either of those

two stand a chance for this new iteration? Only

Yogi Bear, to be honest, because they have the

Yogi Bear campgrounds. They've had the movie

that came out, I think it was like 10, 15 years

ago with Tom Cavanaugh on it. Yeah, Justin Timberlake

was in one too. Yeah, he was Boo Boo. And Dan

Aykroyd was Yogi. But Tom Cavanaugh was Ranger

Smith. So I mean, I could see it hanging around

just because of that. film is that one that falls

though from 48 to like the other end of the countdown

or do you think i think so okay i mean i had

it in my you know my back 20 you know close to

between 181 so i i think it still fits i could

see it sneaking in towards the the end of the

countdown uh so to speak so mike what do you

think of those i know you're a big wacky races

fan wacky races I know it's getting your vote.

Do you think it makes the top 100? I don't think

there's enough people that would vote for it,

but I hope it at least makes it close to getting

in. Maybe 101, 102, something like that. I don't

know. What about Yogi Bear? Obviously, Yogi.

Yeah, you got to get Yogi. Hey, boo -boo, I see

a picnic basket over there. Go get it. Yeah,

what else was in that group? Top Cat and Underdog?

Top Cat's got to get in. And Mr. Magoo. Between

Top Cat, Underdog, and Mr. Magoo, I think Top

Cat is... Underdog might have a chance, but I

think Top Cat has the best chance. I don't know

of anyone besides maybe you and I, Kev, that

have... Steve, you've never seen Mr. Magoo, have

you? I've seen all of these. I watched so many

cartoons as a kid, it's insane. I understand,

but sometimes I hear certain cartoons that I've

seen and I'm like, how many of my friends have

actually seen this? I never hear anyone talk

about Mr. Magoo. Out of these, I liked Underdog

and I liked Top Cat. underdog did have a cgi

movie a few years back top cat has not had a

revival no it hasn't i feel like this one unless

it's our generation i don't feel like they're

going to vote it in i think the other thing to

consider too mike i know you said you know you

hope wacky races at least gets close or something

like that i would counter that with saying one

thing we didn't kind of talk about right off

of the bat is any of the shows that are even

getting mentioned today means that at least they

were considered for their time period You know

what I mean? So it is like, I guess we are saying

that it's at least top 50 of its time period,

whether it comes close or not. Just by being

mentioned, it means that it was in the 250 that

we were considering, I guess you could say. So

that's something to speak for that. Mike, I think

you had a mesmerizing edit loop in this podcast.

Vote for this. Vote for this. Mike, do you need

to pay the bills before we go any further? uh

yeah i think so unless did you have anything

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we close out this first episode of the GCRN Top

100 Nominees for Animated Series, Optimus Solo

is going to take us through his AI chat GPT prediction

thing he did. Okay. take it away so i thought

it would be fun to just mess with online or ai

uh as far as just asking it certain questions

about our countdown to see what kind of things

it said and we'll get the panel's reaction to

the different things i said and what ai reacted

and see if we think that they're somewhat on

the money or not so obviously it said that predicting

How people are going to vote for the top 100

animated series based on our list is going to

require a balance of nostalgia, critical acclaim,

cult fandom, broad appeal, things of that nature.

So it said these things may play a part. Number

one, nostalgia bias. Viewers tend to rank more

familiar and emotionally resonant series higher.

Those that grew up with often get preference.

Critical acclaim versus popularity. So whether

a show was praised both critically and popularly,

if that's the case, it almost guarantees a top

spot. Fandom intensity. So franchises with passionate

fan communities, Star Wars, certain animes, stuff

like that, tend to punch above their general

audience percentages. And genre and demographic

spread. So to appeal broadly, the voting will

likely naturally distribute across adults, families,

kids, men, women, etc. So how it has a... spread

across demographics or genre can play a part

as well or like active online fan bases so i

asked it a couple other questions i asked it

to kind of summarize the different decades so

for the 50s and 60s it says mostly the shows

that would make it from this time period would

have to be foundational series that were historically

significant but that they were less likely to

place high due to general generational distance

all right And it said that the voter influence

would be low unless older demographics are overrepresented.

So unless we have a lot of old folks, these shows

may not be represented as much. And it actually

lists six shows that I'm not going to reveal

quite yet. And then for the 1970s, it says fewer

high -ranking contenders. Many shows from this

era are remembered fondly but are unlikely to

crack the top 50, kind of like what we talked

about with the 70s being kind of that interesting

generation. Kind of a transition generation,

and I list five potential shows from there as

well. And then I asked it to summarize how many

shows would make the top 100 from every decade.

I know our group, we lumped a few together, but

decade by decade, what it thinks is going to

make it. So it says from the 1950s that we're

going to have one or two entries, historical

impact only. From the 1960s, it says two to four

shows, iconic but low recency. And it actually

says from the 1970s, three to five based purely

on nostalgia. So that is its guesses from that.

Then I asked one more question. I asked out of

the 50 shows that we just revealed, which we're

going to make our top 100. So it broke it down

and told me that there's about 14, I think, at

list that said have no chance. And there's looks

like another 14 that says possibly or occasionally

featured on people's lists. And then there's

15 that it says are most likely to appear on

a top 100 list. Before we get to what it thinks,

I thought it would be fun also to look at our

previous lists and stuff like that. From this

group of 50, which breaks it down by decade,

we had eight in this group that were from the

1950s or before. We had 20 from the 1960s. We

had 22 from the 1970s, which is interesting since

we said that's kind of a weird generation, but

it actually had the most in this 50. On our last

countdown, we had 16 of these shows appear on

our list. And ChatGPT says we're going to have

15 this time. So it may be on to something. We'll

see. If we went through the other eight rankings

that we looked at online, this set would have

comprised 21 shows, 20, 20, 28, 9, 6, and 5.

So we go as far up as 28 and as far down as 5

of these shows appearing. So Mike. What do you

think is your best guess for how many shows from

this group of 50 that will make our top 100?

Just kind of a random guess. 16 made it last

time. You say 13 this time? Yep. Steve, do you

think it's right that we'll have less that appear

this time as we did, you know, if we had 16 last

time that it should go down, stay the same, or

go up? I think it's going to go down. Interesting.

So here's the shows that ChatGPT says have no

chance. They said Casper, Laugh Olympics, Mr.

Magoo, Josie and the Pussycats, The Funky Phantom,

Jabberjaw, The Robotic Stooges, Magilla Gorilla,

Speed Buggy, Banana Splits, Animant, Secret Squirrel

Show, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, Paddington,

and C -Lab 2020. Mike, agree or disagree? I agree

with some of it, but I disagree with some of

it because Secret Squirrel belongs on it. Do

you think that list is right, that none of those

have a chance? I think it's pretty close. All

right. I think it's interesting for sure. These

are the ones that they say are probably going

to appear at least occasionally through the list

that we get turned in, but they're not sure if

it's going to have enough to make the list. This

would be Crusader Rabbit, the 1967 Fantastic

Four show, Captain Caveman, Underdog, Wacky Races,

George of the Jungle, Top Cap, Battle of the

Planets, Quick Draw McGraw, Mighty Mouse, Huckleberry

Hound, Pink Panther. Yogi Bear, and Super Friends.

So they're on the fence on those sets. Steve,

what do you think? I could see some of those

actually landing on some lists. I don't know

if they'll hit the top 100, but I think they'll

definitely hit some of the contributor lists.

Right. Mike, any opinions on those? Yeah, I could

see that happening. Alright. Here is the 15 that

it says are most likely to appear based on...

influential aspects, culturally significant,

critically acclaimed, or historic aspects of

it. So these are the 15 it thinks will make the

list. It says Felix the Cat, Speed Racer, the

1967 Spider -Man, Johnny Quest, the Jetsons,

Popeye, Fat Albert, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mobile

Suit Gundam, Astro Boy, Schoolhouse Rock, Tom

and Jerry, Scooby -Doo, the Flintstones, and

the Looney Tunes. Steve, what do you think? I

think about 85 -90 % of those are going to definitely

show up on this list. It's interesting, too.

It gives even a little snippet of each one, which

is kind of interesting. For Mobile Suit Gundam,

it says The Birth of the Real Robot Genre in

Anime, Cornerstone of Mecha Anime. For Tom and

Jerry, it says One of the Most Awarded Seven

Academy Awards, Timeless. For Looney Tunes, it

says Possibly Top Ten, Iconic and Foundational

for American Animation. Flintstones, it says,

first primetime animated sitcom, huge cultural

milestone. So it's interesting what their opinion

of the set of 50 was, and we'll have to see how

accurate that is. Steve, when you're looking

at the overall group from the pre -1980s, what

is your takeaways, or what do you think? I'm

definitely seeing that... It's going to be difficult

for us old timers. It's not going to be so difficult

for the younger generation. It's definitely something

we're more familiar with, something we grew up

with, something our parents grew up with. So,

I mean, there's a lot of history in a lot of

these. And not that they're not relevant or not

good, they're just quite possibly just forgotten

or overshadowed by newer... uh, inundated content,

because the, as we know, the content mill doesn't

slow down and we get constant revivals of old

shows, uh, or reimaginings of them. And so there,

there definitely is going to be a lot of hair

splitting. The closer we get to modern day of

like 2025, where we have, you know, three or

four versions of Ninja Turtles. 12 Transformers

shows. There's going to be a lot of hair splitting

there, and I feel like it's going to get very

fragmented very quick, which could possibly push

out a lot of these. I think one thing that I'm

going to be very interested in, I'm going to

try to track it a little bit, is I feel like

there's definitely in this time period maybe

a half a dozen, let's say six to ten shows that

have really stayed in the cultural bubble and

have been rebooted redone reimagined etc etc

had movies had new cartoon series etc and then

there's some that haven't and i'm interested

to see how that breaks down so what i'm talking

about here is will the likes of something like

huckleberry hound pink panther the jetsons hopi

or even maybe like a rocking bullwinkle be forgotten

about because of a lack of reboots not that they

haven't had some But we're not talking about

the number that we have seen with the Looney

Tunes, the Flintstones, Scooby -Doo. Even Tom

and Jerry have had quite a few of those. So I'd

be interested to see how that plays apart. Because

a lot of these shows came out in the same time

period, were as popular or as influential as

each other. But some have just stayed in the

zeitgeist, so to speak, and some have not. And

I'd be interested to see if that plays true.

Whereas if the ones that haven't are the ones

that drop or disappear from the countdown. Mike,

what do you think? Yeah, I agree. It's going

to be interesting. So that is our first set of

50. We're going to do this four more times. So

we're going to do it with the 80s, the 90s, the

2000s, and then the all -encompassing 2010s to

present, only because we haven't had a full decade

for the 2020s. So we're lumping a few of those

in with the 2010s. So that's how that's going

to go. Mike, do we need to tell them about anything

else? I don't think so. It'll be interesting

as people watch this, listen to this, and start

to formulate their voting lists in the top 100

that they're going to turn in. How many from

this time period will they include? Yeah, because

like you said, it's going to be interesting to

see how many actual of the younger generation

now are we going to get lists from versus...

Oh, it did say one other thing. It says minimum

from our list should be 12. It says maximum would

be 20 out of this group of 50. It says minimum

of 12 of these should make our list. Like we

said, we had 16 last time. It's saying minimum

12. It says the maximum amount of these 50 that

will make our top 100 is 20. Oh, okay. I still

say 12 and 20. You're in the range. I know I'm

in the range, but I still say 13. Lucky 13. Because

it's the 13 ghosts of Scooby -Doo. I knew you

were going there. I knew. That's right. That's

right. That, folks, is when you know it's time

to wrap up the show. That's right. The 13 Ghosts

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