The news of the Smurfs turning 50 this week has gotten me thinking about other favorite cartoons of my childhood. I used to love waking up super-early (I know!) to sneak in a few hours of cartoons before school or weekend activities, and I was particularly fond of She-Ra: Princess of Power and Jem and the Holograms. For a while, there were some great after-school cartoons going on, too, including DuckTales! What was your favorite?
What was Jem's real name on Jem and the Holograms?
These days it seems everyone on the Internet is drafting up lists left and right, so here's a super-duper fun one: the best fictional bands of all time! Based on readers' votes, Grūpthink has listed off the top 50-ish bands that don't really exist. Some of them are rather obscure, but the top 25 or so should be familiar. However, because this is based on readers' votes, the order can change at any time depending on how many new votes come in.
What do you think about this list? Agree? Disagree? Should Jem be way further up the list than No. 9? Time to weigh in, Buzz readers.
The Best Fictional Bands of All Time
For the rest of the current top 25, read more
Rumor has it that Mark Wahlberg might play a lead role in a live-action film based on the "GI Joe" cartoon series. Popular with children of the '80s, "GI Joe" brought to life Hasbro's toy line. Wahlberg would play Duke, or First Sergeant Conrad S. Hauser, one of the American soldiers fighting against terrorist organization COBRA.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura just completed production on Shooter, another film starring Wahlberg and has already approached Marky Mark about the GI Joe project. For all the details, read more
