The Fluent Mind ESL Podcast Topic Talk | What cartoons did you watch as a kid?
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about the cartoons they used to watch on television as children.
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Jack
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00:00:55
Jack
Welcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my Co social. And today we are talking about what cartoons did you watch when you were a kid. And we'll try to keep it at like 3. I think 3 each if we can. And so I grew up. I was a kid in the 80s and in the 80s.
00:01:10
Xochitl
Yes.
00:01:16
Jack
There was this thing called Saturday morning cartoons and every kid.
00:01:23
Jack
Couldn't wait to wake up on Saturday morning and watch Saturday morning cartoons. This is because this is before the Internet, right? I mean, we're talking 5 channels on the television and the whole Saturday morning is just for you. Yeah, just cartoons.
00:01:41
Xochitl
Cartoons.
00:01:44
Jack
So.
00:01:45
Jack
The ones that I watched the first one that I watched was, uh, Transformers. I loved Transformers. Yeah, and now you can watch those movies, those ridiculous.
00:01:54
Xochitl
Interesting.
00:01:58
Xochitl
Those came out like when I was a kid. Ish. Those transformed? Yeah, I.
00:02:01
Jack
Yeah, right. And I I remember having the toys in the 80s and watching the original cartoon in the 80s, and it was great. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and all the all the main characters. But that was that was a.
00:02:21
Jack
A A definite staple when I.
00:02:24
Jack
As a kid, uh, another one that I watched was GI Joe. My brother and I loved GI Joe. And GI Joe is now a famous movie series as well because they take all these 80s cartoons and they turn them into, you know, big blockbuster movies.
00:02:42
Xochitl
Movies, real action, live action things. Yeah. So now I understand that live action isn't new because I I was like, why are they turning all these Disney classics that I watched when I was a kid into live action? And now I see that life actions that I saw when I was.
00:02:56
Xochitl
Growing up were things that were cartoons when you were a kid, so it's not a new thing.
00:02:59
Jack
Yeah, right. You you're saying the copy of the copy of the copy? You know what I mean? Like you're.
00:03:04
Xochitl
Right, yeah.
00:03:06
Jack
Yeah, because all the all the directors and the writers were were kids that were my age. Watching these these Saturday morning cartoons going, these would make great movies. I can't wait to grow up and make this into a movie, which is funny because people that are watching those movies have no idea that those used to be cartoons.
00:03:27
Xochitl
Right, it's weird.
00:03:28
Jack
Yeah, it's, it's weird.
00:03:30
Jack
Uh #3. I used to watch uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
00:03:35
Jack
Which is yeah.
00:03:35
Xochitl
Ohh, let's let's.
00:03:37
Xochitl
Do a thing. When I was a kid.
00:03:38
Jack
Yeah.
00:03:40
Jack
And you know, I was choosing. I was trying to decide between that and dungeons and Dragons because I love the Dungeons and Dragons.
00:03:47
Xochitl
No dungeons and Dragons was a cartoon.
00:03:49
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, it was a. It was like a game and it's it was a cartoon.
00:03:54
Jack
There was also a show called.
00:03:58
Jack
The the gummy bears? No. Is it? Yeah. The gummy bears. Yeah.
00:04:02
Xochitl
Care bears the care bears.
00:04:04
Jack
No, no, no. The gummy bears they used what they called the gummy bears. Wait.
00:04:09
Xochitl
Are you sure it's not the care bears?
00:04:12
Jack
No, it's the gummy bear. They were like, they would. They would drink this like gummy bear potion and then they would jump around. And I used to watch that show all.
00:04:15
발표자
Through Google.
00:04:21
Jack
Time The Smurfs, OK.
00:04:24
Xochitl
Oh yeah, adventures of the gummy bears. Oh, this looks cute. It's on Disney. Plus, I'm gonna watch it later.
00:04:26
Jack
Yeah.
00:04:30
Jack
Yeah, it's it was. It was the.
00:04:32
Xochitl
The Smurfs. My aunt is like around your age. My youngest aunt, and she watched The Smurfs. And because she's short, people called her.
00:04:43
Xochitl
Smurfette.
00:04:43
Jack
You rather Smurf Smurf at? Yeah. Yeah, I'm. I'm kind of look like Papa Smurf these days with my beard. I've. I've got a beanie and a white beard.
00:04:44
Xochitl
With that, there's not much.
00:04:49
Xochitl
You do and your beanie. You just need, like a white beanie. You just publisher for Halloween. That would be so cute. And your wife can be Smurf that. Yeah, that's good.
00:04:56
Jack
Yeah, I should.
00:04:59
Jack
Yeah.
00:05:01
Jack
So you know I want I, that's my generation, right? The Smurfs, the gummy bears. I used to watch Uncle Scrooge. Like the adventures of Scrooge Mcduck. You know, like those kind of Disney ones. Yeah, all that stuff, you know.
00:05:13
Xochitl
Oh yeah.
00:05:16
Xochitl
By the time I was a kid, a lot of these have been made into life live actions like.
00:05:20
Xochitl
Performers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Smurfs had also been made into live action, so that happened. I didn't like them. I liked the cartoon ones when I was a kid, the most iconic cartoon of all time for my generation has to be sponge Bob Square pants.
00:05:26
Jack
Yes.
00:05:38
Jack
Yeah, yeah. And I used to watch that because my daughter, that's my daughter's, is 15 now. She watched Sponge Bob when she was young, and I watched it in Korean, which is really funny because I was learning. So in Korean, it's like nemu baggy, spongy Bob Nemu baggy, spongy Bob.
00:05:39
Xochitl
Yes.
00:05:44
Xochitl
Right.
00:05:48
Xochitl
Yes.
00:05:51
발표자
Oh.
00:05:58
Xochitl
Uh.
00:05:59
Jack
Sponge Bob.
00:06:02
Jack
Nate Chingu, my friend. Do you know so something like that? I don't know. I can't remember exactly. Yeah.
00:06:06
Xochitl
And then that's funny. Yeah. So Sponge Bob is the definitely one of the number one most iconic cartoons we saw as a kid. #2. I really like scooby-doo. They've done, like different ones for every generation. But when I was a kid, they had one. And I loved scooby-doo.
00:06:16
발표자
Yeah.
00:06:24
Xochitl
That was the one I saw the most, scooby-doo.
00:06:26
Jack
That's funny because I watched the old one, the original one I.
00:06:30
Jack
Was a huge.
00:06:30
Jack
Scooby-doo fan as well. I watched. Yeah.
00:06:33
Xochitl
Yeah, I love scooby-doo, I.
00:06:35
Xochitl
Think I might have.
00:06:35
Xochitl
Seen that ohh Gee one because my mom is a Gen. Exer and I believe she would. She popped in the the OG ones actually because we had them on like VH. So that must have been her old VHS or something.
00:06:44
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:51
Jack
The real the the real old ones are the best ones because they're they've got Casey Kasem as as shaggy with his voice.
00:06:59
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:06:59
Jack
You know.
00:07:00
Xochitl
Yeah, yoinks. Yeah. So that SpongeBob, scooby-doo, and I was thinking of another one that when we were talking about them.
00:07:04
Jack
Yeah, that kind of thing.
00:07:14
Xochitl
And I was like, oh, that'd be a great one to bring up. And I was, like, blanking on it now because I wasn't allowed to watch a lot of cartoons.
00:07:22
Jack
Mm-hmm.
00:07:23
Xochitl
So but I remember.
00:07:24
Jack
Was it like uh, not Ren and Stimpy or Phineas? Phineas and Ferb were the ones that my daughter used to watch a lot.
00:07:28
Xochitl
No, I will not understand mine.
00:07:32
Xochitl
I didn't like minions for that much. I did it did. I was a kid when it came out and I I was around the age, but I didn't really like it too much.
00:07:41
Jack
OK.
00:07:43
Xochitl
Ah yeah, it looks like another 2000s cartoon. Come on, sponge Bob. scooby-doo. I watched some international ones like Shaman King, which was like an anime, and that would come on Saturday mornings. And I also watched someone that like some like The Simpsons, which is.
00:07:56
Xochitl
Classic and still run.
00:07:57
Jack
Ohh Simpsons is great. Yeah, but that's not a Saturday morning cartoon. Really. That's more of a.
00:08:01
Xochitl
No, that's like a more of a adult. It's it, it's an, it's like a PG13. It's not a super inappropriate or anything. It's not like.
00:08:08
Jack
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just the humor is definitely for adults. Like kids, kids might might find it cute, but they they're not gonna understand the judge. No.
00:08:12
Xochitl
Yes. Yeah.
00:08:15
Xochitl
Yeah, they don't understand the full the humor. They definitely don't. So also SpongeBob is the same way when you see it as an adult, you're like, wait stuff, I'm.
00:08:24
Jack
Yeah, SpongeBob is is made for the kids, won't get the the the subtle jokes, but it, you know, keep the parents interested while they're taking their kids to go watch the, you know, movie, SpongeBob or.
00:08:29
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:08:36
Jack
Watching it on TV, parents can enjoy it too, because it's just bizarre and strange.
00:08:42
Xochitl
Yeah, I yeah, I think that was one of the staples of, I mean, I think that was mainly the things I watched. Dooby Doo, SpongeBob. I obviously saw the Disney Classics as a kid, like the movies.
00:08:54
Jack
MHM.
00:08:55
Xochitl
That they kind of turned to live action and there were some weird cartoons that I remember. There was one that I don't remember anymore. That was like she was a robot teenager robot.
00:09:10
Xochitl
And those she had these like, pigtails. And she was like blue and white. And I just, I don't even remember what it's called anymore. But I did watch quite a bit of that when I was a kid, and it was kind of.
00:09:21
Jack
I I used to watch the my parents generations cartoons. The Flintstones, the Jetsons.
00:09:28
Xochitl
Ohh I did see the Flintstones as well. I saw the Flintstones and the Jetsons. I've I've seen both of those. Those are such classic American cartoons that I feel like every generation I've seen them because.
00:09:38
Jack
And what is the Jetsons? Is like 2015 or something? It's like, not even?
00:09:43
Jack
It's not, it's.
00:09:43
Xochitl
Right, yes. It's like we've already surpassed it here. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. So we for surpassed the year that it aired on. Yeah. But yeah, I think those are the big ones. Phineas and Ferb was one that I did watch sometimes.
00:09:45
Jack
Like 2002 or something.
00:10:00
Xochitl
And I think that's pretty much it. I was in a big cartoon watch when my mom claimed it was like ohh, I watched some Arthur.
00:10:07
Xochitl
Yeah, that was more like my sister's age though, like.
00:10:10
Jack
Ohh yeah, what about Rugrats? Did you watch that one?
00:10:12
Xochitl
Oh my God, I love.
00:10:13
Xochitl
Rugrats and all grown up, they like Rugrats, was like at its tail end when I was a little kid. And so when I was kind of a little bit older, they had all grown up, which was the Rugrats. When they were all older.
00:10:27
Jack
Ohh OK. I never got into it. My daughter watched a little bit of it, but not much so.
00:10:28
Xochitl
Yeah. And so.
00:10:29
Xochitl
Watch that.
00:10:33
Xochitl
Yeah, I really like. Yeah, I yeah, I I like the the Nickelodeon shows quite a bit.
00:10:37
Jack
What about Doug? Did you ever watch Doug?
00:10:41
Xochitl
No, I think that was a little, yeah, I don't remember. I didn't. I didn't watch Doug. I watched one called like teachers PET where the dog is smarter than the kid.
00:10:53
Xochitl
Everything else.
00:10:53
Jack
What about Rick and Morty? Rick and Morty? Are you a fan?
00:10:55
Xochitl
Oh yeah, that's more like adult one, though, right? And Leanne Lee Pepper and pepper. And that's what it was called. She was a redhead with, like, glasses. Pepper ran or Pepper ran or something. And I saw that one.
00:10:59
Jack
Yeah.
00:11:11
Xochitl
Yeah, I don't know. Those are kind of all ones that were kind of more in my generation. They're making live actions out of a lot of them.
00:11:17
Xochitl
Now.
00:11:17
Xochitl
Like the Disney Classics, and they turn a lot of the Disney Classic movies into series. When I was a kid.
00:11:18
Jack
Yeah.
00:11:22
Xochitl
So they have.
00:11:23
Xochitl
Like a little and stitch series or like a.
00:11:28
Xochitl
Aladdin series and they had different things like that that you could watch when I.
00:11:31
Xochitl
Was a kid.
00:11:32
Jack
Yeah, there's still milk in that and making money after that, franchises.
00:11:36
Xochitl
I know because now they're making the live actions and Danas and then it's just bad and then a a really famous one. When I was a kid was Shrek.
00:11:46
Jack
Ohh sure. Yeah. Big time. Yeah, love it. First one is great. Yeah.
00:11:47
Xochitl
Yeah, I love Shrek. I still watch.
00:11:50
Xochitl
For this like.
00:11:51
Xochitl
Yeah, my 24th birthday. I was like, I want to watch Chuck one and my dad complained and I said.
00:12:01
Xochitl
And I just popped on Shrek for my 24th birthday and that's what we watched. So.
00:12:07
Jack
That's great.
00:12:08
Xochitl
And I would say my generation was like getting international already. So I watched a lot of cartoons like thought I am on Studio Ghibli, like the movies, like Spirited Away Howls with all of those.
00:12:18
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give yeah, sure.
00:12:20
Xochitl
Things.
00:12:23
Xochitl
Yeah, I would say my generation saw like content from all around the globe a lot already.
00:12:31
Jack
Yeah, because of the Internet, yeah.
00:12:33
Xochitl
That's what I was thinking of. Adventure Time. Adventure Time was super popular.
00:12:37
Jack
Ohh yeah, I my daughter loved that show. It was so weird. It's the weirdest show ever.
00:12:42
Xochitl
It is weird. I just started watching it and it's so weird. It's like I remember thinking it was when I was a kid. That's so weird and kids like normally don't really pick up the same way because the world is weird to them. And I still thought it was weird when I was a kid.
00:12:51
Jack
Yeah.
00:12:59
Xochitl
Yes, I didn't see.
00:12:59
Jack
Yeah. No, it's it's a. It's a bizarre, bizarre show. It's almost. I almost wouldn't let my daughter watch it because it was so strange.
00:13:00
Xochitl
It.
00:13:00
Xochitl
But I.
00:13:08
Xochitl
Some stuff.
00:13:08
Jack
But then I was like, well, it's not.
00:13:11
Xochitl
That's it. So go ahead.
00:13:12
Jack
Like this? It's not dirty or anything, it's just weird.
00:13:16
Xochitl
Yeah, it's some of it is kind of like mildly inappropriate, like the ice king, like.
00:13:16
Jack
Just now.
00:13:22
Xochitl
Locks the princesses up or whatever and present. I mean, that's the kind of stuff that you've seen all throughout history of. Like what kids content is, but it is just kind of a weird. It's a weird show, but yeah, it is weird. Yeah.
00:13:31
Jack
Yes.
00:13:38
Xochitl
That was a big one. All right, well, if you guys have specific cartoons that you saw as kids, I would really like to hear about that. If you saw any of the cartoons.
00:13:47
Xochitl
We're talking about.
00:13:49
Xochitl
I'm interested in hearing about that too. Leave us a comment down below at A-Z, englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com and join the meeting and WhatsApp groups.
00:13:59
Xochitl
In conversation and we'll see you guys next time.
00:14:01
Xochitl
Bye bye.
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