{"id":4172,"date":"2010-03-25T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2021-07-16T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:34:55","slug":"not-the-greatest-cartoons-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"[Not the] Greatest Cartoons in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z032510greatest_cartoons.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week <strong>CoedMagazine.com<\/strong> listed their choices for <strong>The 10 Greatest Saturday Morning Cartoons in History<\/strong>.\u00a0 So, using just <strong>their top ten<\/strong>, here is <strong>my top four<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4.\u00a0 The Superfriends<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2.\u00a0 H.R. Pufnstuf<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1. The Wacky Racers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to tell you, their choices stink.\u00a0 First of all, how are <strong>H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmun the Sea Monster<\/strong> and <strong>Land of the Lost<\/strong> considered cartoons?\u00a0 If these shows qualify as <strong><em>&#8220;cartoons&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> then <strong>The Monkees<\/strong> and <strong>The Banana Splits<\/strong> should have made the list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d always thought that <em><strong>&#8220;cartoon&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> indicated animation.\u00a0 Using that criteria then why didn&#8217;t <strong>Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, Tom &amp; Jerry, The Roadrunner,<\/strong> and others not make the cut?\u00a0 Bah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week CoedMagazine.com listed their choices for The 10 Greatest Saturday Morning Cartoons in History.\u00a0 So, using just their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27935,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/27935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}