Lists are a valid form of blog post device.

Right, as mentioned below I've just finished watching "The Top 100 Cartoons of All Time" and have now added the following information to my brain:-

Jamie used to play with his magic torch under the bedclothes.

A seagull in the animated film of "Watership Down" tells one of the rabbits to 'Piss Off'.

Kenny Everett did the voice for Charlie the cat in the "Charlie Says..." infotoons.

Dumbo is the only Disney movie where the lead character never speaks.

Herge dropped all anti-Nazi references from "The Adventures of Tintin" when the Nazi's invaded Belgium.

Aled Jones did not sing "Walking in the air" in The Snowman because he didn't have an agent.

"Seaman Staines" and "Master Bates" were never characters in Captain Pugwash.

Top Cat = Bilko, Dibble = The colonel.

Some of the scenes of woodland creatures and forest fire in Bambi are unused footage from Pinocchio.

Princess, from Japanese anime 'Battle of the Planets', used to flash her knickers.

Disney's 'Snow White' made $9million in 1937 and 8 minutes of the film is simply a sequence of the dwarves washing their faces.

Almost every line from the 'Meet the Beet-Alls' episode of The Powerpuff Girls is an original line from Beatles songs.

Agnes Poirier, a critic with French newspaper Liberation, is really rather sexy. (allow me one off-topic comment, ok ?)

Fantasia was the first feature film of ANY kind to use stereo sound.

Only 13 episodes of Bod were ever made but they were shown through most of the 1970's

Nancy 'Bart Simpson' Cartwright is also the voice of Rugrat Chucky.

Spongebob Squarepants has so far made $3billion in product sales alone.

When the Popeye cartoon began spinach became childrens third favourite food, behind ham and icecream.

Wilma Flintstone asks of Betty Rubble how their husbands always "manage to bollocks things up" (no, it's true, they showed the clip)

The 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" managed to compress all 14hrs of Wagners "Der Ring des Niberlungen" into 6 minutes and 32 seconds.

Mufasa's death in The Lion King is the only time Disney has had a character die on screen


...and yes, of course the Simpsons came top of the poll. Did you really have to ask ?



So, that's four hours well spent then.......