Damn, you got the theme song in my head now...so I return your theme song sticking moment with this show Banana Splits and here's the Theme song:

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Coming on to bring you the Banana Splits Show

heehee We can't forget SuperFriends, Captain Caveman, Grape Ape, and Josie and the Pussycats either (speaking of annoying theme songs LOL)
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The Electric Company. You know, I still to this day get that song stuck in my head. "We're gonna turn you on. We're gonna bring you the power." |twinkle

And we can't forget Ruth Buzzi's "Hey YOU GUYYYYYS!" |bananna|

Well - lets see - we didnt have a TV - most people didnt - so Saturday mornings we would go to the local movie theater where we would have a matinee that usually included about an hour of cartoons, some magic tricks on stage from the local talent, some games and then a full length movie of something like Roy Rogers - all this and we got in for six bottle caps from pepsi bottles or on some weekends we actually had to trade in 6 pepsi bottle empties.
I dont think I saw a color TV until I was around 12 years old - and some kid in the neighborhood had the beatles cartoon show on

Okay, yep, ya got me. The old Cartoon Corners General Store! :D

Of course then there was Sally Star, and that hot chick Pixanne who had her own show (I was actually on that one when I was really young...and yes, she was hotter in person).

Now as far as 'cartoon characters' I'm not sure the earliest I remember, but the biggest impression was made by Woody Woodpecker cartoons at the movie theaters when I was a kid.

Most others, like Felix the Cat, had to deal with people being after them, or things that happened to them that they had to overcome. But not Woody. He'd wake up and be thinking "hmm... now who am I going to go out there and screw with today?"

I really liked the pro-active approach he took to life. Might have helped shaped some of my early views on things. ::grin::

Simon

Well, I remember lying on the floor of my Grandma's living room under the dining room table watching the 2x2 b&w tv (was teenie tiny) and all I remember seeing was mighty mouse, kukla fran and ollie, romper room, zackarly's (some freak into monsters and vampires and had a wife who live in a laundry cart later to become a famous dj - ny peeps should know him), soopy sales, heckle and jeckle, diver dan I think, the captain and mr greenjeans and freakin Bozo the drunk clown..

Come on Greenguy were`nt you a Rocketship 7 fan?! hehe

How about Magilla Gorilla or QT Hush.

How about a little Kaptain Kangaroo action? :) And of course The Banana Splits :)

Did'nt KK Get brought up on Molestation charges?

I do remember Rocketship 7 |couch|

Of course anyone from the deep south should remember 'Buckskin Bill" with the Monday Morning March , and the Elephant March much later for the zoo.|pink

I remember bigfoot and the monster machines (animated), Jem (I think is the spelling), Transformers, The Monkeys (on Nick), You Can't Do That On Television (believe it or not Alanis Morisette was on it), Snorks, Punky Brewster.

popeye .... flintstones, jetsons, all the old one's the new one's aren't as good I don't think