what was your favorite?

so i've been thinking alot about my childhood(i wonder why?) and the experiences i had growing up. and i started thinking about movies, books, or television shows that i watched or read that left their mark one way or another.

i remember when we (my brother Andy and I) were little and coming back to the "states" from guatemala (i'm sure alot of you can relate), the one thing we wanted more than anything, was our saturday morning cartoons. we would get up early, jump started by that internal cartoon clock, and race to get dressed, make our beds, comb our hair and brush our teeth. getting all this out of the way so that our parents had no reason to disturb us as we sat too close to the tv, forever requiring me to wear glasses.

i remember being at my grandparents house in their tv room, pouring cap'n crunch into my bowl; hearing those golden nuggets of goodness fill the bowl like the sound of glass; cutting the roof of my mouth but not caring because it was so wonderfully bad for me.

we would watch nonstop from early morning till a little after lunch, when the old western tv shows would come on. we'd watch shows like grape ape, george of the jungle, smurfs, MASK, alvin & the chipmunks, scooby-doo, popeye, the littles. it almost seems impossible to watch that many cartoons, but we did, i swear! my brother and i were so jazzed on saturday morning cartoons that our grandparents would tape them and send them to guatemala. we could have watched them anytime, but we only watched them on saturday.

i remember when we first unpacked the tv in our house in guatemala, my brother asked my dad if it was the "english tv". talk about addicted!

there was one cartoon in particular that was our favorite. I'm not sure why but the godzilla cartoon was the most memorable. partly because it had this giant lizard that could breath fire and fought "totally radical" monsters and partly because of the shows inspired theme song. it sounds just the way i remember it! if they had just gotten rid of godzooky, the idiot son of godzilla; the bob hope to godzilla's bing crosby. actually that's an insult to bob hope, how about godzooky was Balki Bartokomous to godzilla's "cousin" Larry. yea, much better. besides that abomination, that cartoon was the one we missed the most.

in retrospect, i think it had more to do with being at our grandparents house, knowing that all summer long we would have our saturday morning cartoons with no tape delay!

what were your favoites? which do you remember most?