There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply gave them everything?”Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some cartoons don’t just live in our memories — they live in our vocabulary. For anyone who grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, certain ...

Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs. Just laser guns, synth music, animal hybrids, toyetic vehicles, and an intro theme that went harder than it had any right to. Some of these ...