TV Guide's Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters

Here's TV Guide's latest half-assed attempt at a Top 50 list:

1. Bugs Bunny
2. Homer Simpson
3. Rocky and Bullwinkle
4. Beavis and Butt-head
5. The Grinch
6. Fred and Barney
7. Angelica Pickles
8. Charlie Brown and Snoopy
9. SpongeBob SquarePants
10. Cartman
11. Bart and Lisa Simpson
12. Fat Albert
13. The Powerpuff Girls
14. Daffy Duck
15. Pikachu
16. Gumby
17. Betty Boop
18. Top Cat
19. Mickey Mouse
20. Popeye
21. Gerald McBoing-Boing
22. Scooby-Doo
23. Underdog
24. Josie and the Pussycats
25. Heckle and Jeckle
26. Arthur
27. Winnie the Pooh
28. Felix the Cat
29. Mr. Magoo
30. George of the Jungle
31. Ren and Stimpy
32. Tom Terrific
33. Tweety and Sylvester
34. Bill
35. Space Ghost
36. Yogi Bear and Boo Boo
37. Mighty Mouse
38. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
39. Superman
40. Batman
41. Daria
42. Wonder Woman
43. Donald Duck
44. Alvin
45. Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale
46. Woody Woodpecker
47. Porky Pig
48. Bobby Hill
49. Speed Racer
50. Tom and Jerry

The top 2 are right on, but the rest of the list is a mess. How the hell can a lame character like Top Cat rank higher than Mickey Mouse? How come there are comic book characters ranked higher than Donald Duck? Why in the world are Tom and Jerry at the bottom? Where are Darkwing Duck, Shaggy and The Jetsons? I can go on and on....

 

It's a sad day when the likes of Woody Woodpecker, Porky Pig, and Tom & Jerry are at the bottom of a top 50 cartoon character list.

 

Mickey Mouse isn't in the top ten?? ? Odd....

 

I'm just glad Daria and Charlie Brown made the list.

 

TV Guide's "Top 50" lists have been consistantly awful... i also agree with the first two being well placed, but am surprised by many of those omitted, and more surprised by some who made the list, considering they suck/ed, IMNSHO

 

This is BS.

Where the hell is Optimus Prime? Or Starscream?

 

Who is Bill?

 

I think Top Cat is a bit over-rated. It's good to see Underdog do so well, though.

 

I think "Bill" is that claymation guy from SNL (aka Mr Bill)?

If they're gonna put claymation on there, I would think Pokey would rank ahead of Mr. Bill.

 

The TV Guide website doesn't say anything about the characters, so it could be any Bill. I guess you'd have to buy the magazine to find out.

 

I haven't heard of half the characters on that list.

 

Could someone please enlighten me and tell me who Gerald McBoing-Boing is?

 

That's the one I'm stuck on too. That and the mysterious "Bill."

 

I think Bill was an animated version of Bill Cosby maybe.

 

Maybe that should say "Top 50 Greatest American Cartoon Characters". There's a suspicious lack of any good Anime characters. EDIT: Actually, Pikachu is there

And no Smurfs, He-man, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Dangermouse, Spider-man, or even Ninja Turtles?

Did these people just skip the 80s? And why the hell would a Rugrat break the top ten?

 

Wow, looks like they put their best trained typing monkeys to work on that list.

 

Gerald is an obscure Dr. Seuss character, apparently.

 

Pikachu and Speed Racer are the only anime characters on there. What a load of crap.

 

Actually, I think he's an obscure Mr. Magoo character...

 

As a cartoon buff and afficinado, I find this list absolutely blasphemous. TV Guide should be branded for this crap. What the hell is Tom and Jerry doing at No. 50? I can tell they polled a bunch of kindergartners who don't know their boogers from their lunch for this list. I think they should have at least defined the word "cartoon" when they wrote this. Most of these arent even cartoons.


15. Pikachu (WTF??????)
16. Gumby (Not a cartoon. Was claymation)
21. Gerald McBoing-Boing (Who the hell is that?)
25. Heckle and Jeckle (The two crows? They suck)
34. Bill (Bill who? Gumby's horse?)
41. Daria (diarhea, cha-cha-cha)
42. Wonder Woman (That's like saying Spiderman is a cartoon...whoops)
48. Bobby Hill (too stupid to be a cartoon)
50. Tom and Jerry (Should be no lower than No. 3)

 

Gerald McBoing Boing
[image=http://www.toonopedia.com/gerald.jpg]

 

"Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters"

Hmm, there are about 70 characters on that list, I believe...

 

WTF?! No ThunderCats ! I demand a recount.

Thunder....Thunder....Thundercats HOOOOOO!!!

 

He appeared with Magoo, but he was created by Dr. Seuss for an animated short that won an Oscar.

 

EDIT: Never mind. They have him listed as "Fred and Barney".

That's two characters. They're not siamese twins. TV Guide can't count.