CN Real has killed the Cartoon Network

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Worgen

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
*sigh* depressing, I havent watched anything but adult swim on it in awhile but it used to be great before they started trying to be nick (Im not going to try spelling all of that stupid name)
 

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I find myself weeping for what was once the only channel I watched as a kid/teen. I guess CN (not worth sullying the former Cartoon Networks good name) has finally said, "Why stay original and keep to our target fan-base when we can mimic Disney and become more mainstream?" Oh well, it's dead, it's gone, guess I'll dig up what I want to watch on YouTube...
 

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Simon Hadow said:
If you haven't guessed by now, I blame the consumer.
Indeed. The fact that this "crap" keeps showing on "CN" shows that there must be a market for it.
 

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Jarrid said:
KarumaK said:
Cartoon Network died way back when it stopped showing anything old in favor of reruns of crap that just came out.
In fairness, Cartoon Network actually replaced the old with cartoons that they personally financed, so they could directly dip their hands in the profits rather than leech off decades old profits from golden era cartoons.
The point was that it's just not interesting if the same episode of the same show comes on four times a day. It makes things grow boring at a much faster rate.
 

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While I don't watch the channel anymore this news is still pretty sad...I remember watching that fat little robot on Toonami every day after school. I even busted out the VHS to record episodes of Gundam, Reboot, and DBZ.

/cry

Rest in Peace Cartoon Network.
 

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*applaud*
What more is there to say? Very well written, I agree, and that's hands-down the best post I've read yet.
 

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I think this sums up everything pretty well...
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s[/link]
 

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War Penguin said:
I think this sums up everything pretty well...
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s[/link]
I somehow knew that was gonna link me to star wars before I clicked it o_O .
sgtshock said:
I always thought that the new shows seemed retarded as they were simply because I had grown up, but deep down I knew what our generation had was much better. Good to hear others feel the same.

Ahh, that takes me back........7 years ago when I was 7 :p
 

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i hate the way they killed it and cancle eany chance of it rizeing from its asshe and mutateing like a mtv
 

Disaster Button

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The best thing Cartoon Network ever did were shows like Billy & Mandy and Ed, Edd, n Eddy. What they're doign now is just kinda sad..
 

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The channel is pretty much dead to me. Occasionally I'll settle down to watch it but won't really care and will lose interest about twenty seconds in. The current shows aired on CN aren't as good as the old ones and all seem to lack any real story to them. Adult Swim went downhill after it started airing things like Tom Goes to the Mayor, 12oz. Mouse, and Squidbillies.
 

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Disaster Button said:
The best thing Cartoon Network ever did were shows like Billy & Mandy and Ed, Edd, n Eddy. What they're doign now is just kinda sad..
the only thing we have left is creepy fan-fics, and they're not helping the cause... or are they?
 

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I agree. I grew up with it and it was great, but now it's just some idiots that make loud noises.
 

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As I said before, it died a long long time ago. I've talked about this many times before, and CN has only gotten worse. First they stopped airing a lot of anime shows, and CHRIST the new anime they have sucks. SO. HARD.


Their art style changed a lot, and 4kids became the supreme ruler of censorship, they got rid of Toonami, Out of Jimmy's Head aired (thankfully that piece of shit got cancelled), a cartoon reality show aired, more live action shows was introduced, REALITY shows were introduced, CN real became a reality (metaphors: GAHAHAHahahahahaha!), etc.

I wonder how that meeting went when they wanted to start CN real...

Suit #1: "Well, our ratings are faltering. Any ideas?"
Suit #2: "Couldn't this be due to the fact we're filtering out foreign shows, previously successful shows, censoring everything, and ignoring our core audience for a younger demographic with generic shows with poor recycled writing?
Suit #1: "Those aren't IDEAS, Suit number 2. Anybody else?"
Suit #3: "Other networks have been doing pretty well with airing live action reality shows, and we've already aired a cartoon one and a live action abortion."
Suit #1: "Go on."
Suit #3: "Let's make an entire BLOCK around reality TV! =D"
Craig McCracken: *frowns* *shakes head*
Suit #2: "Isn't a live action reality block kind of an oxymoron on our network?"
Suit #1: "SHUT UP SUIT NUMBER 2!"
Suit #2: "=("
Suit #1: "GREAT IDEA SUIT NUMBER 3! You're going to get a paycheck this month if you keep that up!"

I mean really. What were they thinking?
raxer92 said:
TO all who read this, get your head out of your ass and get to work, Americans have completely failed in competing with the other cartoon creators of the world, your only original works in the last few decades were The incredibles, toy story, up!,and Avatar!
Why are you bringing american movies up? They aren't competing with cartoons from other countries. They compete with whatevers in the box office. Personally, I think Teen Titans was alright, Ben 10 was pretty good (also it's sequel was alright too), and perhaps a few other shows from recent years.
raxer92 said:
Nostalgia corrupts our vision, nostalgia doesnt let us see how truly horrible our show/videogame was in the old days!
You know, not all of us avoid revisiting our nostalgic pastimes and evaluate what we liked back then as adults.
raxer92 said:
All of these shows fell through after the international cartoon boom of the 90's led by the japanese which brought us coherent storylines, characters we could actually relate to, and a few sex jokes for the lulz, they brought us metaphorical works which were considered masterpieces in their own rights such as Akira and Neon Genesis Evangelion!
Talk about run on sentences. Led by the japanese? They didn't lead shit. It's not like coherent storylines, relatable characters, and 'sex jokes' DIDN'T EXIST before then. >.<
raxer92 said:
ITS YOUR FAULT IF YOUR SHOWS ARE GONE, all of you complain that they've killed off your favorite tv shows and characters, move on morons!
No it's not my fault, or any other fan's for that matter. I'm getting a very not-so-subtle anti american animation RAAAAAAAGE from this post. I wonder why.
raxer92 said:
The only coherent tv show cartoons in america have managed to pull out of their ass in the last few decades
FEW DECADES? Now this has got to be either the most obvious troll ever, or the most ignorant poster I've seen in a while. Let's continue to tear this apart:
raxer92 said:
was Avatar and even that had to be designed in anime shonen style to compete in the market!
Here comes the ignorant false information train, and it's first stop is YOU, MY FRIEND! Avatar's 'anime' style was designed to make it reflect the eastern influences easier, NOT to "compete in the market". What are they competing with? Shows that don't have an 'anime' style?
raxer92 said:
Dont you all realize that we have no style?
Oh, I see. You're an american.
raxer92 said:
As long as we continue to believe that cartoons are for children then we will always be considered laughing stocks just as Disney was considered a laughing stock for creating nothing but stupid movies which gave furries a hard on -_-,
Again one huge run on sentence. I really don't know what to say for this part. I could defend disney, but you know, giant international companies don't really need defending from a lone internet ranter.
raxer92 said:
If we can not find a way to mature our shows and not just making them to keep the population stupid then how long will it be till every cartoon show in america tries to imitate ren and stimpy (the greatest adult social commentary american cartoon ever made?)
I thought you said America hadn't made anything good other than Avatar in the past few decades? Or perhaps you just mean that the 'greatest adult social commentary american cartoon ever made' pales in comparison to the 'greatest adult social commentary foreign cartoon ever made'. Nevertheless, I have to take a break from this.... forum.

I don't know why I responded to that one. I wanted to respond to something, but... Man.
 

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BlueTomfoolery said:
Disaster Button said:
The best thing Cartoon Network ever did were shows like Billy & Mandy and Ed, Edd, n Eddy. What they're doign now is just kinda sad..
the only thing we have left is creepy fan-fics, and they're not helping the cause... or are they?
Sir, you forget yourself. Fan-fiction is evil, eeeeeevil