Dangermouse - This is extremely surreal.  I'm surprised I didn't notice at the time.  It's impressive the lengths they go to to avoid having to use any colour - they could put a single colour tint onto the background cheaply but that was it.  So a lot of episodes happen on the moon, or at the north pole, or we get seriously odd stuff like the pink zone and the world covered in custard.

Ulysses 31 - I learned everything I need to know about greek mythology through this show.  It did have the annoying brat effect, and the really annoying robot sidekick.  But it had Star Wars rip-off laser swords in it and a really cool spaceship.

Mysterious Cities of Gold - Surprisingly good and a lot of attention was put into the animation.  Like many contemporary cartoons, background characters are stock still, but they're always justified in this by being posed in a stationary position.  There are a lot of little unessential touches that add character that the animation geek in me likes.  Little things like knocking a vase off a table and catching it. 

Transformers - Wow.  That's so corny.  Not actually seen a lot of it though.  I did see the Movie (which now happens in he past) some time ago.  It's trying a bit hard to be cool. 

Dungeons and Dragons - Oh god.  This was afwful.  Maybe it is just for kids but you can still have slightly complicated plots. 

Knowing a lot of RPGers in real life does add something to it.  Sheila is clearly played by a slightly pervy guy.  Hank is a combat munchkin takes the game way too seriously but hasn't quite worked out how ineffective weapons are for a level 1 ranger.  Bobby is spoof combat munchkin. 

Battle of the Planets/GeForce - I quite enjoy GeForce but it's a bit dopey.  the Battle of the Planets producers clearly decided there weren't enough cute robots or Star Wars rip-offs, so added 7-zark-7 and set it in space rather than Earth. They kinda gutted it

Star Fleet - Well, not a cartoon, but the suitmation Dai-X was so cool it has to be mentioned.  Surprising to see such a strong back story in an episodic TV series.  And did this a decade before B5.

I've really got to sort out my CDs of Star Fleet.  There are a lot of currupt frames on a previous generation of the discs, which on a VCD causes severe sync problems.  Anyone know of a good free utility for doing lossless editting of mpegs?  Preferably something that will let me put it on a DVD as well.  8 VCDs might just about fit on a single layer DVD.

So there you have it. Watch Dangermouse, Ulysses and Cities of Gold. Avoid D&D and Transformers. anything else I should look at?