December Meme: Cartoons

drizzlesofcastamere asked my favourite childhood cartoon/cartoon heroine? Which is a question I can't actually answer first hand.

Fun thing about me, before I started secondary school, about twelve, I don't actually remember very much at all of my childhood. Not because it was awful or anything; I was a much loved and well looked after kid, I was also for a long time a pretty sick kid. A lot of my early years have just disappeared into a blur of surgeries, and physiotherapy, and wheelchairs (which I didn't mind so much), and leg braces (which I really, really did).

And the reason I know I was a loved and well looked after kid was that I am now a much loved and well looked after thirty-something. Actually my mum told me to stop by on my way home the other day so that I could pick up some soup she'd made for me, which gave me the opportunity to say: Hey, mum, do you remember what cartoons I liked when I was little?

Apparently, I was obsessed with, and I quote, a cartoon version of The Three Musketeers, except that they were all dogs. The internet informs me that this was doubtless Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. I've just found the theme tune on youtube.

( One for all, and all for one! )

Proof positive, if any were needed, that my childhood could not have been all that bad.

I also apparently liked the Ewoks cartoon, which doesn't seem to have had nearly so catchy a tune, He-Man and She-Ra.

So, yeah, my mum makes me soup specially and remembers my favourite cartoons twenty years later; whatever it is that I don't remember, it's probably not that I was being beaten with lengths of rubber hose.

Actually, I do remember-- it's not properly a cartoon, but I remember being confined to my bed after dislocating my hip for, well, not the first time, and watching our VHS tape of The Phantom Tollbooth just over and over again endlessly. It's possible that I internalised this song for use in later life.

( Don't say there's nothing to do in the doldrums )