Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

[AmethystWitch]

Me and my husband were having a chat this morning about cartoons and I started talking about how I used to love The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and that the only reason I tried pizza was because one of the turtles always ate pizza and it looked soooooo good! I had this idea in my head what it would taste like etc and wanted some so bad but when I tried it, I was very dissapointed lol My husband then told me that the only reason he ate lasagne when he was a child, was because he loved Garfield and he always ate it! LOL

So I was just wondering if anyone else was influenced like this by cartoons aswell???

[Trickyvee]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

I can't remember being influenced by cartoons other than wanting to be the characters sometimes, like Princess from Battle of the Planets and at one stage, Hong Kong Phooey. We had a battered little old bible that was just the right size to become my Hong Kong book of Kung Fu.

[Megawitch]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

I used to love Popeye but it didn't give me a craving for Spinach, thank goodness! I never believed it would make you strong like that!

[Trickyvee]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

I used to love Popeye but it didn't give me a craving for Spinach, thank goodness! I never believed it would make you strong like that!

I'm pretty sure Popeye's love of spinach must have been a deliberate attempt to try to get children to eat it. It didn't work with me either, although I do like it now.

[Grosh62]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

'Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist' by Leonardo da Vinci

[Grosh62]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

...and Charlie Brown. I was always impressed by anything Linus had to say, he always seemed so cerebral. I think Peanuts was the genesis of Dawson's Creek.

[stockportyears]

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I attempted to draw/write the Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu when I realised it wasn't something you could buy in WH Smith. I got to page 2.

[Jacqueline]

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When we played Scooby Doo I always had to be Velma when I really wanted to be Daphne.

Apart from that I don't think cartoons influenced me.

[Austin Maxi]

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I don't think cartoons influenced me much either! (runs through wall leaving a 'me' shaped hole.)

[Cartimand]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

Watching the original 'Astro Boy' in the 60's started my life-long love of animé.

[Marcella]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

I wouldn't say that cartoons influenced me, but much to my parents delight all the cartoons kept me quiet, lol.
But the one that grinded my teeth, was the 'Roadrunner' I so wanted him to be caught!.

[AmethystWitch]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

Tom and Jerry annoy me, the cat was always getting told off, hit and thrown out, nasty old woman and the mouse got away with everything!!! To this day, if I see the cartoon, I have to turn it off lol

[thosewerethedays]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

I had a thing about wanting to be Penelope Pitstop. Loved her!

I begged my mother to let me have red sandals one summer when I was about 5 or 6 as she had red boots. I wore them every day and ran about the garden on tip toes just like she ran!

Needless to say the sandals only lasted about 2 weeks. I was gutted!

Thinking about it now I may just have to go and buy myself a pair of knee-high red boots!!!

[Cartimand]

Re: Cartoons that influenced you as a child.....

Tom and Jerry annoyed you? Oh come on, the early ones were utterly sublime. "Slicked up Pup" and "Baby Puss" (both available on Youtube) are two of the most side-splittingly funny cartoons of all time!

[Jingbang]

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Scooby Doo influenced me, why only last week i was running down the street with my Dog and i felt the urge to run into a cupboard then hop out minutes later with us both dressed as Barbers.