{"id":67,"date":"2006-12-22T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-01-17T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:28:57","slug":"the-50-greatest-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/the-50-greatest-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Greatest Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic collection of some greatest animated shorts ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/http3A2F2Fen.wikipedia.org2Fwiki2FThe_Fifty_Greatest_Cartoons\">as rated by Jerry Beck<\/a>  (via  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/12\/21\/greatest_cartoons_of.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>). The list includes many of the great Warner Bros. cartoon, a few Disney cartoons and a few of my absolute favorites including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Popeye_meetsSinbadtheSailor\">Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King-Size_Canary\">King-Size Canary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is somewhat amazing to consider that there aren&#8217;t more Disney cartoons on the list, but then again, who has seen a Disney cartoon? I grew up with an hour or so of Bugs Bunny every day. They, and their historical and pop-cultural references, have become a part of my vocabulary, even though I didn&#8217;t get most of the humor until much later in life. I still reflexively shout &#8220;Turn out that light!&#8221; even though I have never seen a civil defence helmet outside of a WB cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney shorts, at least the ones I have caught on broadcast TV and Netflix, are beautiful, but just don&#8217;t trigger nostalgia like the Warner Bros., MGM and Fleischer shorts.<br \/>\nThe list is missing some of my really wonderful cartoons, but it is about the &#8220;greatest&#8221; cartoons, by a number of historical standards, and not a list of cartoons to make Greg <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=iJb72rtJdhQ\">happy<\/a>. Bambi versus Godzilla made the cut. So did Peace on Earth, an MGM short that made me cry when I was a kid. Surprisingly &#8212; or not so, depending how you think of it &#8212; Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, one of the infamous <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Censored_Eleven\">Censored Eleven<\/a>, also made the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic collection of some greatest animated shorts ever, as rated by Jerry Beck (via BoingBoing). The list includes many of the great Warner Bros. cartoon, a few Disney cartoons and a few of my absolute favorites including Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor and King-Size Canary. It is somewhat amazing to consider that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}