Here's 5... Childhood Cartoons That You've Forgotten About

Get ready for a trip down memory lane with five of the tens of animated shows you probably watched when you were younger.

Arthur

Probably with the best theme tune ever, Arthur had everyone tuning in. The stars of the show are brother and sister Arthur and DW (who are aadvarks) and we follow their and their friends' adventures in the fictional Elwood City. The show was so popular that's it's still going on today, 21 years after its first episode. 

But obviously the characters haven't aged! I guess it's the talking animals and the relatable plots that draw kids in every day. The plot was simple back then but now they're touching on issues such as dyslexia to make the show more modern.

Try to get that theme song out of your head after listening to it!

Recess

Recess was probably not that popular but you must have watched it at some point or another. The series covered 6 diverse elementary school students: Vince, Ashley, Mikey, T.J., Gretchen and Gus (R-L in the picture) and their daily challenges in the school which is unofficially governed by a 6th grader, King Bob. 4 movies came out of the show as well which has to be a record. 

The show's diverse characters made it appealing to everyone and the classic 'evil' adults made it a complete kids show. A few episodes are available on YouTube if you want to go through some early 2000s nostalgia.

Kim Possible

"Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me"

(Don't lie. You definitely just sang that in your head.)

Kim Possible ( like impossible, get it?) is an average, boring high school student. Who just also happens to be a secret agent fighting supervillians on the daily...

She mostly works with her best friend Ron Stoppable (like unstoppable), who she later goes on to date, his talking naked mole rat Rufus and Wade, her information source.

Enemies have included a man obsessed with monkey-ninja, a professor with a henchwoman who's way more evil than him and a fat Scottish bloke whose main weapon is exploding golf balls. Disney Channel's action-packed 2nd ever animated series proved a hit.

Fairly Odd Parents

The show centres on Timmy Turner, a young boy who is neglected by his parents and tortured by his babysitter, Vicky. One day, he is granted two fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, who grant his every wish to improve his miserable life. 

However, these wishes are guaranteed to cause problems that Timmy must fix. It's silliness and humour is obviously why it's still been going since 1998.

Lilo and Stitch

It started off with the movie. And the TV show became a hit. Stitch is an alien, one of many genetically modified experiments made by an alien professor. When the professor was sent to Earth on exile for some crime, all the other 625 experiments were scattered all over Hawaii. Lilo is a Hawaiian orphan who 'adopts' Stitch into the home she shares with her older sister, Nani.

A typical episode consisted off a new experiment (or cousin as Stitch called them) being set off with Lilo and Stitch finding and capturing the alien (they were always up against the bodyguard Gantu who was searching for the experiments for his villain alien master, Dr. Hamsterviel) to find a job it could do on the island.

If there's anything children and adults alike could learn from this, it's the importance of family. It was the major thing Stitch learnt about human life. "Ohana" and "family sticks together" sticks in the mind.

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