Like any self respecting man in his early to mid-twenties, I spent most of my early life in front of the magic box watching animated characters with all the amazement of a Victorian gentleman gazing upon the first steam train. Cartoons stood alongside fish fingers and chips as the main staple of my childhood diet, and I couldn't get enough of them. School playground talk would always consist of what the funniest cartoon was, and great intellectual debates about the merits of different theme songs were among the most hotly contested. Now that I am older, and yet no wiser, cartoon theme songs will invariably come up in conversation a lot. I spend a lot of my time as a professional actor on tour, and have to meet many new people every few months or so. After the inevitable conversations like where you grew up and so on, the next big thing to bond you together would be your shared experience of childhood cartoons and their theme songs. Suddenly we're transported back to the playground arguing all over again. Only this time there's beer involved. Which is only ever a good thing. Here are 11 of my personal favourite cartoon themes from childhood in no particular order. Be warned, viewing these slides may result in nauseating nostalgia and an inability to control smiling. Click Next to continue.