I miss old time cartoons. And I have a very broad definition of old cartoons. I grew up on Loony Tunes and the like. I'm talking about old school humor. Humor done right.

Do you want him to shoot you now, or later?

SHOOT ME NOW! SHOOT ME NOW!

BAM!

Good stuff.

And you know what else was awesome? Road Runner and Wile E. Coytee. I still fondly remember the gag where Wile would paint a backdrop over an outcliff. Road Runner would come charging along and then somehow run through the backdrop as actual space. Confused, Wile would try to do the same, only to fall through the backdrop and over the cliff. Honestly, you don't see that kind of thing anymore.

Also, Tom and Jerry. That's when physical humor was actually done right. Nuff' said.

And then there were the great old cartoons. Rugrats before the first movie were epic. Angry Beavers were always hilarious. Howler Leeches still stands as one of my favorite episodes in Animated Cartoon history. Although most of the jokes went over my head, Rocko's modern life had some seriously good stuff. Doug was good stuff. I love the horror movie episode from that. KaBlam and Action League Now, greatest concept for a show, or greatest concept for a show? Although the movie sucked, Inspector Gadget was win. Invader Zim was funny in a girm way.

And digressing from the Nictoons, we have the epic win that Cartoon Network provided. Secret Squierl. Two Stupid Dogs. Johny Quest. Sheep in the Big City. Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Cow and Chicken. Time Squad.

And now I would like to take a break to discuss in my opinion the three greatest cartoons to ever grace the planet.

First off, Johny Bravo. The tale of a muscular man looking for a woman. Some of the zanniest stuff I have ever seen has come out of that show. They had Clown on a Plane before Samuel L. Jackson ever tried to take on Snakes on a Plane.

Two, Samurai Jack. Samurai Jack was a warrior who's people were enslaved by Aku, some crazy shape shifting wizard or something. Using some sort of legendary kattana, Samurai Jack then took on Aku, and beat him. But before Jack could lay on the final blow, Aku opened a rift in time and sent Jack to the future, where Aku would be at the hight of his power. Jack then proceeds to take on hordes of crazy angry cyborg beetles, climb a mountain to help a Dragon with a bad case of the gas, befriend a highlander with an automatic machine gun for a leg, try on various kicks, partake in a gladiator arena, and still find time to get that great Kimono. Awesome stuff.

Third and in my opinion the greatest animated show to grace the airwaves, Dexter's Lab. Awesome show in general, but what I want to address the movie that was meant to mark the end of the series, Ego Trip. The movie starts out with Dexter working in his lab, when suddenly out of nowhere robots from the future pop out of nowhere saying that they have come to destroy the person who saved the future. They then attack Dexter, who defeats them after a really cool action scene. Taking this to mean that he is to save the future, he jumps off into a time machine because he's too impatient to wait for it.

So after coming out of the Time Machine, Dexter finds a future version of himself. Turns out this future version of himself is a weak willed person working under Mandark, his arch-nemisis. Unsatisfied with this, Dexter and his future self head even farther into the future. However beacuse they were looking at some sort of reactor core before they left, Madark finds it out in the open. Cue forshadowing and evil laughter.

So anyway they go too far into the future and meet senior citizen Dexter. Senior Citizen Dexter has created a perfect utopia using the reactor core mentioned earlier. Problem is he can't remember how he saved the world because he's so old. Frustrated, all three Dexters head back in time to see how he exactly saved the future.

Well they end up in an 1984 scenario when Mandark, using the reactor core, has enslaved all the people and made them stupid. Super omega buff Dexter shows up and destroys the robots that were attacking the other Dexters. They then head back to his old lab, which is run down. They create a super fighting robot army thing and attack Mandark's main base, where the core is.

Well after busting their way through the base, they come across Mandark and the core. Turns out Mandark has his own time machine, and has taken the three other Mandarks from the three other time periods that Dexter visited. In the epic battle that ensues, the original Dexter gets close to pushing a button on the reactor, that will reverse the effects. The other Dexter's start changing "Go Dexter! Go!" And it seems like he's going to make it when suddenly his sister Dee Dee comes out of the time machine. She walks up to the reactor, says "Oooo what does this button do?", and presses the button, thus defeating Mandark. She then heads back through the Time Machine.

Now here's the kicker. The Dexter's get so angry that they create a horde of angry robots to go back and destroy Dee Dee, the one who saved the future. The original Dexter comes back to his own time period, just to see himself destroy the robots they had created. The old dexter then heads through a time machine, thus starting the movie all over.

Seriously, how do you come up with stuff that good?