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Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow
I remember it quite vividly from the toons I watched as a kid. Darkwing Duck, Beast Wars, Tale Spin, Rescue Rangers, Sonic the hedgehog (SATam), Extreme Ghostbusters, and to an even weirder extent, Bucky O'Hare and the Toad wars (which featured a interspecies couple which I still am WIGGED out over).
I think during my search for examples or shows I ended up mentioning kids and I think that's how it all got started. Disney does often have romances, but there are quite a few toon movies that do it as well. Cat's don't dance was an especially beautiful toon movie with a very cute romance I'd love to have seen more of.
Also the older days I remember when I FIRST saw Pokemon and got so excited seeing/finding episodes or pictures that hinted towards Ash and Misty's romance, which in my opinion is still the most perfect anime couple around. I saw the Pokemon LIVE show and i nearly crappy my pants seeing "Misty's song" live.
It was an indescribable feeling seeing two characters I watched for so much of my childhood years to make those cute blushing colors on their cheeks, and say comforting words to each other. This may sound sappy from me but it's the truth, these romances these small moments impacted me so signifcantly.
Even if it was just for a few seconds, even if it was only a brief glimpse into Eduardo and Kylie from Extreme Ghostbusters or a small glance seeing Chip or Dale fight over Gadget in Rescue Rangers. That one moment was strong enough to touch me personally for a lifetime, and I REALLY want that feeling again.
That's why I got so excited when a newer show like Teen Titans and Justice League brought some animated couples to a more modern age. And even though I felt these newer relationships lacked the heart warming comfort of the ones I grew up on, I still really hope and look forward to reliving those expierences with toons of today.
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Those particular animated shows that you mentioned were aired in that era of my life when I thought that animation was for kids only, unfortunately, so missed out on them. I grew up in the sixties and seventies, so I watched the things that were shown in that era. There was no Disney Channel or video games(unless you count "Pong") or Cartoon Network, just three regular networks, and animation was limited to Saturday mornings or some weekday afternoons, but weekdays were mainly the domain of Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. Most of the cartoons of my day were pretty lame, actually, following a formula which either involved a bunch of teenagers and some talking, anthropomorphic animal or other non-human riding around in some odd vehicle solving mysteries and looking for ghosts or other scary things(which always turned out to be humans in disguise), or some cutesy pop music group that solved mysteries on the side, or some cutesy-but-smart underdog character trying to avoid the always-stupid-and-bumbling Bad Guy, who was always out to get him, usually to eat the Good Guy, but often for no apparent reason at all. There really wasn't much in the way of a plot to any episode and no character developement. I guess that the creators of animated tv shows didn't think that kids were intelligent enough to need things like plots, and animation was just made to keep the kids in front of the tv and sell sugary cereal. Probably the most intelligent of the shows I watched was "Johnny Quest", where there was actually a sort of plot and the animation was pretty good, but again, no romance, though I vaguely recall an episode in which "Haji", the Indian boy, had a crush on some Indian girl. That was about it, and my memory is probably not accurate enough that far back so that episode might not have happened.
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