Power Rangers, Rugrats, Pokemon (Before they started repeating the same season over and over with a younger girl side-kick each time), DBZ, TMNT (before it got weird), Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, The Ren and Stimpy Show (Thank god for Powdered Toastman).
I'll probably think of more later but not post them xD.
But i have to give a shout out to my favourite cartoon now (yes i still watch them, and so do you goddammit!)
So many shows that aired passed in a blur, I swear. I hadn't realized until now how quick my childhood elapsed.
Well, here I go:
-Ren and Stimpy
-Animaniacs
-Rocko's Modern Life
-Fantastic 4
-Spiderman
-Gargoyles
-Dragonball and DBZ
-Simpsons
-Scooby Doo
-Wacky Races
-Popeye
-Flinstones
-Yogi the Bear
-Looney Tunes
-Addams Family
-Dexter's Lab
-Hey Arnold
-Pokemon
-Cow and Chicken
-Johnny Bravo
-Angry Beavers
-Catdog
-PPG
-Wild Thornberrys
-Ed Edd n' Eddy
-Batman Beyond
-Courage the Cowardly Dog
-Spongebob
-Yu-Gi-Oh
-Jackie Chan Adventures
-Invader Zim
-Samurai Jack
-Fairly Oddparents
-Totally Spies
-Hamtaro
-Jimmy Neutron
-Codename KND
-Code Lyoko
-My Life as a Teenage Robot
-Teen Titans
-Xiaolin Showdown
-W.I.T.C.H.
-Danny Phantom
-Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
-Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
-Robotboy
-Yin-Yang-Yo
What tops them all is either PPG, Dexter's Lab, Looney Tunes, Fairly Oddparents, Foster's, DBZ & Dragonball, or Animaniacs. Can't decide, they are all magnificent on their own.
A mix of everything, really. I occupied most of my time with Legos, videogames, reading, and cartoons. Good times...
Wow... I really didn't think I watched that many cartoons when I was a kid, but I'm pretty sure I saw every one of those. I'm not sure if it's just blind nostalgia, but I swear kid's TV programs have taken a nose-dive in quality since then.
Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, What's under that trapdoor?, Goosebumps, X-men (best theme tune ever), mighty morphin' power rangers and super ted.
So many shows that aired passed in a blur, I swear. I hadn't realized until now how quick my childhood elapsed.
Well, here I go:
-Ren and Stimpy
-Animaniacs
-Rocko's Modern Life
-Fantastic 4
-Spiderman
-Gargoyles
-Dragonball and DBZ
-Simpsons
-Scooby Doo
-Wacky Races
-Popeye
-Flinstones
-Yogi the Bear
-Looney Tunes
-Addams Family
-Dexter's Lab
-Hey Arnold
-Pokemon
-Cow and Chicken
-Johnny Bravo
-Angry Beavers
-Catdog
-PPG
-Wild Thornberrys
-Ed Edd n' Eddy
-Batman Beyond
-Courage the Cowardly Dog
-Spongebob
-Yu-Gi-Oh
-Jackie Chan Adventures
-Invader Zim
-Samurai Jack
-Fairly Oddparents
-Totally Spies
-Hamtaro
-Jimmy Neutron
-Codename KND
-Code Lyoko
-My Life as a Teenage Robot
-Teen Titans
-Xiaolin Showdown
-W.I.T.C.H.
-Danny Phantom
-Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
-Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
-Robotboy
-Yin-Yang-Yo
What tops them all is either PPG, Dexter's Lab, Looney Tunes, Fairly Oddparents, Foster's, DBZ & Dragonball, or Animaniacs. Can't decide, they are all magnificent on their own.
A mix of everything, really. I occupied most of my time with Legos, videogames, reading, and cartoons. Good times...
Wow... I really didn't think I watched that many cartoons when I was a kid, but I'm pretty sure I saw every one of those. I'm not sure if it's just blind nostalgia, but I swear kid's TV programs have taken a nose-dive in quality since then.
I was a distracted kid back then, and I spent so much time in front of the TV.
Part of the experience had to do with the process of digitizing information and making information easier to digest, and I took in all this information in as a kid as the internet began to gain ground back then. It became easier as I grew up to watch more stuff, and I accepted it as a mainstay of entertainment, intrigue, comedy, horror and drama in my life.
Regarding the nose-dive in quality, this requires describing how cartoons are seen as an art form as compared to other forms of animation, including from other perspectives. The difference in animation produced in the last decade, and of those produced in the past could be attributed to how the targeted demographic was approached in regard to how open the opportunity for a larger and more open audience became available as the concept of animation as art came as a realization of new opportunities in terms of developments in cartooning and techniques in general animation, but animation as a genre has taken a step back for a majority of animators in the west.
I'd agree with how there has been a dip in overall quality, but some shows still have the merit to be called great works of animation.
MLP: FiM for one is a show I appreciate for being a gem that stands out among all other shows and appeals to a broad audience. The show stands for creative freedom, and the team behind the show vie for the best production possible, which I attribute to an actual willingness to understand the audience and open up the storytelling to many forms of establishing context, such as creating unique pony personalities kids of all ages can relate to (Incidentally, adults and teens too. As a result of good writing and animation, a simple kid's show managed to appeal to a greater demographic. The show has complexity, the characters have flaws and strengths and are relatable to ), wonderfully catchy music, colorful and varied stories, environments, and characters, an top notch voice acting.
The content chosen to be released so far and the acceptance by a wider demographic (Bronies!) is the net result of opening up to the audience and accepting the audience as mature individuals. In the case of MLP, aims of appealing to demographics is irrelevant when compared to animation as an art. Now of course, the sustained popularity of the show has the MLP team acknowledging the Brony community and on a side note puts intelligent nuggets of win, such as inserting a Hitchhiker's Guide reference in episode 13 "Fall Weather Friends". Cool stuff.
I'm pretty sure there are more shows that show an exception to the rule, such as Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt, although definitely NOT a kids cartoon, nor does it , it is a good example of how an audience is treated, and the show is the ultimate satire of western animation.
This show approaches from a more mature (Haha, double checking this I realized P&Sw/g is far from mature, but that's a good thing. The audience the show appeals to is the mature end of the spectrum. Without an audience, the show has less of a reason to exist than one with, and the audience acts as feedback and they are what make most of the show, not just the content the show panders the audience with.) outlook in terms of how the show is perceived, and is immature in its take on the genre, but on purpose of course. Although P&S/wG is immature and not the best example for technical merit or creativity, the way Gainax treats its audience is incomparable to most western animations as they aren't afraid of getting down and dirty to get to the good stuff.
In terms of describing the production of P&Sw/G in comparison to other Japanese animations however.. I'm not actually sure how it compares, I don't have much 'experience' with JapAnimation (Oo, I like that word, gonna use that from now on), but as the show draws parallels to western animation and forms a parody, it acts as a functioning example for comparing the treatment of animation in Japanese culture to the treatment in western culture. As satire, it is easy to understand the appeal of the show as a mix of both the qualities of western animation used to describe the parody in question, and Japanese animation as the approach to producing the content, and it embraces these concepts and creates a solid, unique and quirky feel.
With so many shows out there, I don't know if it would be right for me to say if an individual show is good or bad in terms of technical aspects, but a decent description of a show's quality is the reaction from viewers. Animation is an accepted art form and has been for a while now, and I feel to not use the understanding of what the fundamentals of producing viably entertaining, thought provoking or emotionally enticing content to an audience to help expand that base and gain new ground seems like a missed opportunity. A majority of modern western animators have taken root in a belief grounded that animation must hold archetypes, of both the technicality of the genre and how to promote the content as a stimulating, complex, and entertaining product to be successful, when in fact creativity is the opposite of this.
With what I stated, does this mean all cartooning and animation needs deep context and have a profound hold on parallels to the real world? No, of course not.
Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon, or just for fun. But do I believe that when looking at how animation approaches an audience, the best animations and cartoons are usually applauded for great production and those that challenge the norms, and in this case ride against the currents of the mundane, at least until a majority of people in the west catch on, open up their minds and shift their focus to animation as an artistic genre in general.
SIDE NOTE: Computer crashed while typing this up. Almost teared up, but I managed to restore this post. But it was worth typing this up, and I feel grateful that I restored it, somehow.
X-Men! I remember staying up past my bedtime to watch it. Beasties (Beast Wars?) was another favourite. And Power Rangers (The first season!!)
I also religiously watched DBZ, even into high school
I vaguely remember watching Inspector Gadget, Arthur and Tiny Toons when I was really young.
Pretty much everything here, except for Arthur, never really got into him.
OT: There's too many to name, so I'll just name a few. Beatle Borgs(?), Voltron, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Sailor Moon I watched all the time. Animaniacs and Histeria! I watched religiously and was sad to see them go.
The grim adventures of Billy and Mandy
Are you afraid of the dark?
Dexter's lab
Pokemon
Digimon
Arthur
Astro boy
Powerpuff girls
Ed, Edd and Eddy
Goosebumps
Mighty Morphin' power rangers
They're the ones I can think of from the top of my head and I watched a LOT of cartoons when I was a kid I'm 22 and I still watch a lot of these cartoons now, especially of I want to feel like a little kid, at least for a little while.
Almost all of the 90s Nick and Cartoon Network line up.
Seriously, I was glued to the television as a child. One of my more fondly remembered times is watching Cartoon Cartoon Fridays on Cartoon Network, great shows and a great atmosphere. I still miss those days.
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