The FB cartoon pic from your childhood thing...

[LusciousLucy]

If you hadn't all failed to notice the popularity of the latest awareness campaign on Facebook related (apparently) to NSPCC where have you been? I say apparently as I first saw this begin about 5 weeks ago in Australia on my friend's FBs there and then it became an NSPCC thing over here. I am supporting it obviously but also for the great fun of trawling through Google to try and remember and find all the ace cartoons from the 80s.

It has been a brilliant week seeing what people have been coming up with and then easily being able to guess people's ages by the cartoon they posted from the decade they were kids in and very funny when folk born in the 90s are asking who and what their older friend's pics are of.

Some of my FB chums are in a competition with each other to find the most obscure cartoons and posting the pics and see who guesses correct first. Rude Dog took a while and Reboot never got a reply! The most obscure winner in my world was Towser so far. (He was a dog - on ITV I think).

There is some of the usual bullshitting that it's all in fact a ruse to get kids snared by a gang of paedophiles because they can guess the ages of the people posting from the cartoon era. Gotta love FB and its paranoia inducing nature haven't you?! I don't give two hoots whether this is true or not, having FB full of pics of Dogtanian, The Moomins, Dungeons and Dragons, Mysterious Cities of Gold and so many other fab shows (mostly from the greatest era of kids tv cartoons - the 80s of course!)

If my FB wasnt playing silly buggers with me when I try to post profile pics, I would be changing mine by the hour.

Who remembers Pirates of Dark Water? The Smoggies? Bobobobs? Forget Hanna Barbera...bring on the obscure and dig out those memories of hours well spent in the years before Sky TV and the demise of decent kids tv on terrestrial.

The saddest thing (for me at least) is being able to remember exactly what time and day each show was on...and then there are the theme tunes!

If anyone has those elusive links to the websites that apparently harbour entire series of cartoons of yore...spread the love

[LusciousLucy]

I am not going to get dragged into any silliness between people saying whether this is right or wrong, fake or real. At the end of the day, if some people do donate to the NSPCC that's a good thing and for everyone, it has been a marvellous exercise on putting smiles on people's faces seeing all the pictures of the old shows.

[Alcatraz]

Donated money and found it all to be good fun. Went for Dougal from Magic Roundabout. Most my age were going for the obvious Disney ones, a few inappropriate Family Guy ones:

[amy246]

90% of my friends now have cartoon profile pics which is really cool - although slightly confusing when quickly looking though stuff and trying to figure out who the person is! I've got the Shoe People - anyone remember them, I used to have a t-shirt with them on!

[Paul ™]

Ivor!

[RABun]

Mine is Button Moon

[rabid]

Battle of the Planets followed by Thiundercats and currently Danger Mouse.

[RABun]

Battle of the Planets followed by Thiundercats and currently Danger Mouse.

[ampersand]

was cow and chicken for me...

[rabid]

shush penfold!

[rabid]

was cow and chicken for me...

[5co77ie]

We didn't have television in the South Pacific - let alone cartoons.

[RABun]

Cor, Danger Mouse. Statue!

Yes Penfold, of course it's me.

They just don't write 'em like that any more.

[rabid]

Penfold get back in the car! I said wheel spider not real spider!

[RABun]

I had a friend who was the double of Penfold, even had eyebrows hovering above his glasses.

[swede]

Mines Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors - absolutely loved that when I was a kid

Edited December 6, 2010 by swede

[funkymp]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336035/Facebook-cartoon-character-campaign-NSPCC-charity-says.html#ixzz17IxEfMiW

the daily mail what a bunch of clueless jackarses actually ran an article saying it's linked to paedo's, who the hell does the research at that paper? hilarious how random bs spreads like wildfire on fbook and the general populos believe it without even bothering to think for just a second

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/facebook-cartoon-profile-picture-week

Edited December 6, 2010 by funkymp

[jump]

Can't decide between the Grim Of Adventures of Billy & Mandy or 90's Batman cartoon.

[gratedenini]

We didn't have television in the South Pacific - let alone cartoons.

[modey]

mine is:

[Wooderson]

I would love to read a detailed critical analysis of Thundercats. It is a preposterously weird concept. The opening credits alone are worthy of doctoral thesis. An element of my undergrad thesis was on Mysterious Cities of Gold. I made my lecturer cry with delight during the presentation! haha

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One other thing. He may have forgotten but I know Ollan was pretty much obsessed with MASK when he was a kid.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

I went for Paedo Bear. I was thinking Homer strangling Bart but someone already had it.

[sifi]

I'd don't have Facebook but I'd have Wordsworth of Jamie and the Magic Torch, or Drooper off the Banana Splits. Although technically he's not a cartoon character.

A lot of acid involved in the banana splits, I'd say. But then Jamie and the Magic Torch's theme tune sounded like Mott the Hoople.

[Wooderson]

Although technically he's not a cartoon character.

[sifi]

I never watched it, no. I'm guessing it's the same Chocky with the imaginery alien friends as the John Wyndham book, which I have read? I love Wyndham - Triffids, Crysalids, Midwitch Cuckoos. All excellent.

Just checked Wiki, it is the same thing. Brilliant. I'm going to acquire it shortly

Edited December 6, 2010 by sifi