Each week I create a 2-2.5 hour block of programming for the family to watch together over a nice breakfast. We call it Sunday Brunch Cartoons, and we’re nearly two years into it without missing a day. I’m releasing a full list of our watch queue, with the hopes that you can think of something really good (or memorably bad) that we should include.

No 70s Hanna-Barbera.

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Plaintext: Title Batman: Caped Crusader Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years Cybersix Gargoyles Infinity Train Mythbusters Hey Arnold! Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amphibia Animaniacs Scooby Doo; Mystery Inc. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Gumby Gurren Lagann Mighty Max (Remastered) My Adventures With Superman Sailor Moon Original ReBoot Recess Crash Course Video Games She-Ra Space Patrol Luluco The Owl House Tron: Uprising Star vs the Forces of Evil Rocky & Bullwinkle Sym-Bionic Titan Freakazoid! Teen Titans Bump In The night Looney Tunes Golden Collection Nate Is Late / Oskar et Malika The Big O Unicorn Warriors Eternal Mega Man Megas XLR Motorcity Fraggle Rock Men in Black: The Animated Series Histeria! The Tick Swat Kats Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake Kim Possible Dexter’s Laboratory Star Trek Mobile Fighter G Gundam The Adventures of Salmon Max Captain N: The Game Master Darkwing Duck Danny Phantom Wakfu Kirby: Right Back At Ya Regular Show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspector Gadget The Legend of Zelda Underdog (1964) Kid Cosmic Looney Tunes Cartoons Samurai Jack Adventure Time The Loud House King Arthur and the Knights of Justice The California Raisin Show Visionaries Knights of the Magical Lights He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Transformers: Prime Yuu Yuu Hakusho Invader Zim Ducktales Avatar: The Legend of Korra Codename: Kids Next Door Pingu Bill Nye TSG Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Reading Rainbow Wishbone Red Wall Ramen Akaneko Space Ghost Powerpuff Girls Transformers War For Cybertron Dungeons and Dragons Ren & Stimpy Rugrats Super Mario World Fairly OddParents Hilda Moomin Batman: The Animated Series Earthworm Jim Amazing World of Gumball Beakman’s World Rocko’s Modern Life The Real Ghostbusters The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Bravest Warriors Beetlejuice Ruri Rocks Transformers: Beast Wars Courage the Cowardly Dog Rentaghost The Busy World of Richard Scarry Over the Garden Wall Button Moon Cow & Chicken Bocchi the Rock Adventure Time: Distant Lands The Angry Beavers The Trap Door Pinky and The Brain Clone Wars (2003) Avatar: The Last Airbender Gravity Falls A Series of Unfortunate Events Steven Universe Trigun Batman Beyond Bluey Ed, Edd, & Eddy

EDIT: Thanks, Lemmy!!! You’ve all delivered so many really exciting suggestions. There’s enough on my ‘shopping list’ now to keep us going, well, basically forever - but what’s another 10Tb of cartoons among friends?

Here’s the full list of suggestions I’ve collected. In alphabetic order, this time. Thanks again!

  • Wallaby@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Man, Zoids would be a perfect addition to that list. Maybe SD Gundam would be fun too, its like a chibi version of Gundam.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I don’t see Steven Universe mentioned anywhere. That might be my all-time favorite, and slots right in with the likes of Adventure Time and She-Ra.

    Sticking to the Adventure Time-related ones, Over the Garden Wall is great and very autumnal. My wife ans I try to watch that every October. Gravity Falls is also great, especially for the summer since it takes place over the course of one summer vacation. Bravest Warriors is okay- not a must-watch, but decent. Bee and Puppycat is pretty solid and chill.

    For slightly older crowds (I see yoy have stuff like Gurren Lagan on here), Midnight Gospel is pretty good and also from Adventure Time’s showrunner.

    For other anime, there is always Fullmetal Alchemist. Saiki K if you can get past the fast editing. Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is one that’s probably just “okay” but I like a lot.

    Centaur World was surprisingly good.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Sorry my list is hard to parse, I wish I could just ctrl+v a table directly into the text box. We’ve finished Steven, OTGW, AT, GF, BW, and She-Ra is currently in our rotation! I agree about Bravest, it’s pretty decent but not on par with AT.

      I do want to add the rest. The tender kiddo needs happy endings though, so FMA and Midnight Gospel are not happening yet. I love me some FMA:B. Centaur World is a strong rec in particular!

  • Iunnrais@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    You have Batman Beyond and Batman Caped Crusader, but no Batman: TAS? The show that redefined Batman away from goofy Adam West style comedy and into deep character drama… some of those episodes still give me the chills to this day. That show elevated camp into something deep and truly moving.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Sam & Max : Freelance Police

    Dexters Lab

    Johnny Bravo

    Couldn’t see them on the list but it is loooooong and not alphabetical.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Sorry about that! I wanted to give a sense of what our rotation is like, hence the date descending sort.

      Sam and Max is amazing, and we finished it earlier this year. It’s one of his top faves. He will even put up with DOS emulation to play old Sam and Max games. Dexter’s in our rota as well.

      Johnny Bravo is on my to-do list as of today. Great recs!

  • CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers Duck Tales

    And since it seems like you’re not shying away from shows with some fucked up things kids probably shouldn’t have watched but are kinda formative anyways

    Super Dimensional Fortress Macross

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Thanks! The newer DuckTales is in this list, we finished that earlier this year. The older stuff I haven’t gotten to yet. I definitely need to get Chip & Dale, haven’t seen that stuff in centuries, feels like.

      We’re fairly permissive with scary/intense stuff, our true north isn’t PEGI or ESRB so much as Don Bluth’s admonition that kids can handle anything, as long as there’s a happy ending. He found Robot Dreams (2023) way more traumatic than Ghostbusters (1984), and that’s just a story about growing apart and making new friends. He’s very self aware, and will tell us when something’s too much to handle.

      I should get Macross, yeah. I never saw that one actually. Thanks!

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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          19 days ago

          You’ve got me there. I rarely use either, for that reason. R&S is actually out of rotation because the wife doesn’t approve, just yet. Fair is fair, our kid is weird enough as it is.

          • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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            17 days ago

            I’m not really sure about space ghost. The zapping of Zorak that happens pretty frequently is your typical cartoon violence comparable to what goes on in bugs bunny. I’d just want to give it a review before putting it in front of kids.

            Ren and stumpy on the other hand can be kind of dark and brutal, especially the later episodes. I’d have similar (or stronger) reservations about aqua teen hunger force, or venture brothers.

            • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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              17 days ago

              ATHF and Venture Bros are out of the question until he’s at least 15. Even then a lot of the humour won’t click until later. Like, there’s an actual pedophile in VB. Give me a little credit.

              The action in Space Ghost is mild for his tastes. Wacky violence doesn’t faze him, what really gets to him is bittersweet endings where there’s a happy ending, but not quite the one he expected.

  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The Critic Galaxy Rangers The adventures of teddy ruxpin Defenders of the earth Centurions Jem Robotech The Mysterious cities of gold

  • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I think the following would make great additions

    Talespin

    Garfield and Friends(seem to remember watching this one religiously as a kid, but more so for the “and friends” part. )

    COPS was a weird one

    Gotta have the Thundercats!

    M.A.S.K

    Gotta have X-Men just for the theme song at least lol

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      I’m def adding Thundercats, Talespin, and X-Men, but COPS is a hard no lmao. I didn’t even know that existed though, that’s hilarious. Is M.A.S.K. good or hilariously bad?

      • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        I agree with you on COPS was just one of the cartoons in my brain as I was thinking of things I watched a bit of as a kid.

        Mask was like a mix of GI Joe and Transformers I think, transforming vehicles but with a focus on the driver as well. I haven’t watched it in ages, I’ll have to see if I can source it.

        Gobots could be an interesting one, knockoff transformers but only had like a season, I recall liking the villainous motorcycle as a kid.

        Another one I’m going to have to look up is centurions, I enjoyed them when I was 4, but they as a show didn’t last long and I have almost forgotten everything about it.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        20 days ago

        I was gonna mention M.A.S.K. There was also a straight to video series for Ring Raiders. Both of them were really to sell toys, but so was Transformers and G.I. Joe (I think the toys came first in all these cases). Full caveat, I haven’t watched any of these since the 80s, but I do still have a MASK toy my son is now playing with.

        Mobile Police Patlabor is similar to Gundam and maybe not a kids cartoon, but does feature in a KMFDM video from the late 90s for Juke Joint Jezebel.

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
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    20 days ago

    You’ve got a lot of good recommendations already. But it seems like you enjoy some weird stuff so I’ll recommend Family Dog, and Pirates of Dark Water. Two Stupid Dogs, and Cow n Chicken might work for you too.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I found Freakazoid to be hilarious when I was in my teens, even though a lot of the jokes felt like they were written for my parents. It’s a fairly short series too, at least compared to a lot of the other kids shows.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      It wasn’t a commercial success because all the adverts were targeted at too young an audience. It should have been presented for what it is, which is goofy and random enough for kids and genuinely twisted enough for grownups.