...I think it was pretty much just Kim Possible. I saw a few scattered episodes of other animated shows (stuff like Proud Family and Fairly Odd Parents, though I think I might have the second title a little wrong), but in terms of shows I really liked and didn't just see with younger friends/cousins (Arthur, Franklin, tiny bits of Caillou, and just barely enough of Bob the Builder to know the theme song--I do know there was one show my cousins watched that I actually kind of liked, but unless it was Barney I have no clue beyond that I don't think it was animated), it was really just KP. I used to read Clifford books and W.I.T.C.H. books and comics, though, albeit at different times. I also read a bunch of the manga/manga versions of shows that the library had. And this answer is now far longer than I expected it to be.

In terms of actual gushing...well, put it this way. I saw my first KP episode on an airplane before age ten, and it just stuck. The show really holds up, too, especially with nostalgia goggles in the mix: I've seen some of it within the last couple years, and I still like it. The animation is nice, the writing is fun and frequently good in some way, the characters are pretty 3D and have interesting relationships with each other (and are usually interesting in their own right), it doesn't talk down to the audience, and it doesn't have terrible messages, either. It's a good, fun show that I somehow rather enjoy as an adult (perhaps because of the aforementioned nostalgia goggles where it's concerned). It was a good show when I was little, and in my opinion, it still is. Would absolutely recommend it to kids around ten (ish? It probably has a recommended age, and I haven't seen the whole show recently. Ten is probably a reasonable age to watch it, though).

~Z

Back when I was really young, Peppa Pig was my life. I loved that show. I watched loads of DVDs because my tv didn't have channels. When I was a bit older I also really got into transformers because my brother was crazy about them. There was also this show called Buzz lightyear of star command which was a cartoon toy story spin off series. My parents also showed me a load of the banana splits show, my favourite segment was arabian nights. I think that's what it was called.

Late 90s, early 2000s, but we never had satellite TV growing up so Cartoon Network &c was extremely very off the cards. I only remember one specific cartoon from my childhood, and not for good reasons: the aptly named Butt-Ugly Martians. It was a very early 3D-animated series about... I'm not quite sure exactly. Humans and Martians living together and this causing, uh, shenanigans? Somehow? Maybe? Eh, whatever. The point is, it was stupid and had a horrible theme song and the character design was ugly to the point of actively poisonous. My childhood's cartoons kinda sucked.

What did not suck, however, was the live-action stuff. Shoebox Zoo, Black Hole High, Aquila, The Ghost Hunter, Bernard's Watch, those are the things I remember. I mean, I might even count Raven, even though that was technically a game show (think high-fantasy obstacle courses with the presenter who made me realise I was into men). This was my childhood, and I think it stuck. Sure, I watched a ton of my dad's Supermarionation stuff, and even looked up some myself; sure, I watched my mum's favourite kids shows, like the works of Oliver Postgate and Small Films. I love them, and they formed me. But the weird, short-lived live-action shows on CBBC and CITV in the early-to-mid-2000s? Those were mine, in a way that the others weren't. They'd been... pre-owned, in a way. Examined and vetted and sanctioned for consumption. The live-action shows, for all their (very, very many) faults, were something I got to first. I loved them all the more for that, and a part of me always will love them, as long as I live.

Oh, and they brought back Raven with Angela Toussaint as the second Raven (with James Mackenzie's iconic character and capital-L Look being kept on as the Raven Of Old), and I am EXTREMELY HERE FOR IT. Extremely. Here. For it.



Do you understand now.

Lessee... early 2000s kid.

I remember getting really, really invested in Dragon Booster, a show very loosely based on Arthurian legends about dragon racing, and W.I.T.C.H., which was actually my first real introduction to Magical Girls. They came on one right after the other on Saturday mornings, so I always made sure to get up extra early for them. If I got up early enough, I'd also get to watch that X-Men cartoon with the awesome theme song. I was obsessed enough that I used to run around on my knuckles like Beast until my mom told me to knock it off.

As I got a bit older, it was Avatar: The Last Airbender. My brother and I had friends over when the season 3 finale aired; everyone cried when we realized a part of our childhood had ended.

Baby bro and I also watched a load of old Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry episodes that had been collected into DVD boxed sets. Good times... good times.

What I remember most is hardly ever getting to see the ones I really liked, such as Gargoyles. The angst appealed to me then as now, but I was hardly ever around when it was airing for some reason.

Same with David the Gnome, though I did recently get to watch most of it because a friend of mine has it on DVD. Good stuff. David helped inspire my interest in (fantasy) herbalism. {= ) Its age really shows in the portrayal of female gnomes, but it's still definitely something I'd recommend to anyone who likes Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc. That and/or the sort of down-to-earth "a magical world is right under our noses if we only look for it" fantasy aesthetic.

What else... hm. I watched Nickelodeon and Fox Kids a whole lot, but I don't remember having strong feelings about most of the programming...

Oh, Spider-Man, though. I really liked that at the time (does not hold up so well on review as an adult, though!). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, too, which I haven't seen since to judge.

I definitely remember Digimon, but I don't know if I really liked it that much? I saw it as off-brand Pokémon, and I for sure wasn't really into the Pokémon anime. I did get emotional about Wizardmon, but that arc happened right around when I stopped watching.

I was also in the Adult Swim demographic, and that was my first exposure to a lot of great anime, like Cowboy Bebop, which is definitely the best of a pretty good lot, IMO. I'd recommend that to anyone for the soundtrack alone.

~Neshomeh, hoping the login works now. If not, will just log out next time.