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Nostalgia

Remember the Captain Planet AIDS episode? Or how Helga&#39;s mom on&nbsp;Hey Arnold!&nbsp;was apparently an alcoholic? Or when we found out on Adventure Time&nbsp;that the Ice King was suffering from a severely debilitating mental illness? Every once in a while, cartoons will put out a seriously <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/emotional-cartoon-episodes/josephwelkie" target="_blank">emotional episode</a> and take on very weighty medical issues&nbsp;to hopefully explain things to kids in ways they can understand.

It&#39;s always a fine line to walk when trying to address serious and emotional problems to a child through the medium of cartoons, and some shows definitely do&nbsp;a better job of it than others. It&#39;s an admirable task, because explaining cancer or Alzheimer&#39;s to a confused child can be daunting for any parent, and it&#39;s hard to know what to say sometimes. Let&#39;s take a look at some of the most memorable attempts at tackling real-world health problems that the cartoons of our youth took on.

All The Times Kids' Cartoons Addressed Serious Diseases

TV Episode

Ian Fortey

What have we always said is the most important thing? Breakfast. (At least of the things you eat.)

The Best Part of Waking Up

Breakfast

The forgotten cereals of yesterday can bring on a real <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/discontinued-nostalgic-cereals/lowe-saddler" target="_blank">nostalgia kick</a> when we stumble upon them again. That generally only happens when we actually enjoy the cereal in the first place though. Far too many cereals vanished into the shadows of yesterday because that&#39;s where they belong. Let&#39;s face it, innovating new cereal has to be a pretty hard job. You&#39;ve got corn, or rice, or wheat and not much else to use as a base. Then you can add fruit flavors, maybe some chocolate or cinnamon, just cover it with&nbsp;sugar, or leave it plain. That&#39;s the formula behind probably 99% of all the cereal you&#39;ve ever tried in your life. In order to stand out in a crowd, sometimes you have to take a risk and have a weirdly irrelevant movie tie-in, a baffling spokescreature, or swing for the fences with a flavor mix no one really asked for. Here are just a few of the cereal missteps of a bygone era.

The Worst Cereals That Time Forgot

General

Thor (Marvel)

Thor the God of Thunder has gone from being one of Marvel&#39;s B-listers that sat on the bench while Wolverine and Spider-Man got all the glory to the primetime, top-tier hero we all know him as today. The MCU took the characters that most people outside of the world of comics didn&#39;t care that much about, like Thor and Iron Man, and showed just how awesome they could be. That, in turn, reinvigorated the comic series and allowed them to really shine. Now there are a ton of great <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-thor-comics-storylines/stephanroget" target="_blank">Thor stories</a> and renewed interest in some of his past hits, as well. In fact, there is so much Thor in Marvel Comics that one Thor can&#39;t even begin to handle it all. That&#39;s why there&#39;s a veritable cornucopia of the Odinson that most audiences have no idea ever existed. From women to aliens to dinosaurs and frogs, there&#39;s a Thor out there to appeal to any taste.

If the only Thor you know is Chris Hemsworth, then it&#39;s time you expanded your Asgardian palate and took a look at some of the coolest Thors you&#39;ve never even heard about.

The Coolest Thors You Never Knew Existed

Comic Book Character

It&#39;s a superhero dog eat superhero dog world, and there are a lot of power pooches to keep track of out there. More than any other animal, artists and writers like to make dogs with superpowers come to life on the page. Is it just because as humans we have this need to see <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-comic-book-animal-companions/ranker-comics" target="_blank">animal companions</a> alongside our heroes to make them more human and relatable? Is it because we all think our own dogs are kind of super and they deserve to be immortalized in comics as&nbsp;larger-than-life characters? Maybe it&#39;s just because the idea of a flying and/or talking dog is pretty cool. Whatever the case, there is&nbsp;a whole kennel&#39;s worth of super dogs in the world and we&#39;ve assembled some of the finest. Who&#39;s the best good boy of all?

The Best Super Dogs In Comics

Comic Books & Characters

So, who would you say is your favorite reptile superhero? <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superheroes-ranked-by-most-comic-book-appearances/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Comic book characters</a> often follow certain themes and tropes you&#39;ll see again and again. There are super-strong beings from other worlds like Superman and Thor, there are geniuses in suits like Iron Man and Batman, and then there&#39;s the Wide World of Nature. You have cat-themed characters like Sabretooth and Black Panther, bug-themed ones like Spider-Man and the Blue Beetle, and then you&#39;ve got reptiles.

Soooo many reptiles.

Whether we&#39;re talking lizards, dragons, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-dinosaur-characters/reference" target="_blank">or dinosaurs</a>, there&#39;s a long and proud history of making heroes and villains out of green-skinned beings who are a little more savage than humankind. Some of these characters are incredibly cool, and others... well, maybe just lukewarm.

The Best (And Worst) Comic Book Reptiles Of All Time

Lists about everything from the best burger toppings to the most unbelievable things to ever happen inside fast food restaurants. 

Beep Beep It's Fast Food

Old Stuff

They call fast food &quot;fast&quot; for a reason. Trends come and go like the wind, and if something doesn&#39;t work right away, it gets&nbsp;thrown on history&#39;s short-lived fast food items heap to be forgotten by all but the rare few who tasted them way back when. We&#39;ve seen it in the past with <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/discontinued-fast-food-breakfast/donn-saylor" target="_blank">fast food breakfast foods</a> and we&#39;re seeing it again here. Some were legitimately delicious but impractical, while others were just terrible ideas from their inception. They can&#39;t all be winners, right? If you&#39;re feeling a little food nostalgia, take&nbsp;a walk down memory lane and see how many of these forgotten menu <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-everyday-things-looked-like-in-history/jordan-love?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">items from the past</a> you remember.

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