When it Comes to Cartoons, I'll Never Grow Up!

Spring has sprung and thus I have developed a dire need to clean. Unfortunately, I have also developed a cold. So I am sitting on my posterior staring at all the things I need to pick up, organize or throw away and groaning because I haven't the energy to do so.

On the bright side, being ill has encouraged me to sit back and really enjoy something I haven't in a long time. '80s and '90s cartoons! Bless DVDs, for they have granted me the opportunity to own many of my favorite childhood television shows. I was an avid fan of just about every show on the Disney Afternoon, including Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Duck Tales, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers and more. The best of the best of Disney's animated shows are now available in the form of affordable DVD box sets, which provide me hours of entertainment on days when I feel completely incapacitated, be it by illness or my usual lethargy. The past few days, I have been watching episodes of Animaniacs and Gummi Bears on DVD and thoroughly enjoying the miniature trips back into my childhood.

My most recent edition to the toon library is perhaps my most prized; the Saturday morning Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series from the early '90s, also known by its avid fanbase as "Sonic SatAM". This cartoon was one I was absolutely crazy about. It had great plots, atmosphere, characters.. everything! Having the full series on DVD for me is like a small dream come true.

There's some series out there I'm still hoping to find on DVD one day, though. Bonkers, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Wuzzles and The Raccoons, to name a few.

In heaven, I will have every cartoon series I ever enjoyed in the form of a DVD box set, and they will all be digitally remastered.