Best Cartoons Growing up

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This post is not meant to be a list of the best cartoons or even a comparison of them, rather it is meant to pay tribute to some of the cartoons we all grew up with. I'm only going to post one cartoon tonight, and will probably add to this feature whenever I feel like it. Without further ado, the cartoon I have chosen is: Disney's Recess. Come on, we all grew up with this one and we all loved it; as a matter of fact I re-watched some episodes to refresh my memory and guess what? They are still watchable (unlike most of the garbage cartoon networks are putting up these days). My favorite episode has to be 'economics of recess' for several reasons. First it is a T.J. episode. T.J. was just a boss, he was the crew leader, enjoyed pranking anyone and everyone, and was probably the most interesting character on the show. Second, a popular set of stickers is the new playground 'currency' and being sick for a week T.J. has none and has to find a way to cope. I don't know what to talk about first; remember when Pokemon cards were all the rage? This episode basically made these popular "cards" as a means to do anything at school. Need a ball to play basketball? 2 stickers. Need to use the water fountain? 1 sticker. Talk to the king of the playground? 4 sticker. (Yes, they had a 'king' I mean, if you have not gone to watch an episode of this what the hell are you waiting for?). So our hero T.J. starts at the very bottom and starts doing grunt work. He starts collecting stickers at the water fountain and getting paid to do it by the guy who did not want to waste an entire recess doing this, and he collects a small amount of stickers. Once he gets a bit of a profit, he starts recruiting people to do this for him and so on. You can see where this is going, eventually he basically owns the playground! I think the appeal of this show was how much funner (and longer) they made recess seem and that as kids, we all wished it would be like that. I am going to leave you with the episode I just described, for old times sake.