When they cut Toonami Cartoon Network started cutting there own wrists.
On the bright side you can catch find so good reruns on Boomerang.
On the bright side you can catch find so good reruns on Boomerang.
CN Real has killed the Cartoon Network
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I found CN's decline happened when it's original lineup of classic Hanna-Barbera toons were slowly pushed out by the same replayed handful of Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and Dexter's Lab eps. There's some anomalous channel called "Boomerang" that shows the classics but I've never actually seen it and my cable company doesn't carry it (despite having it listed in the On-Demand section, damned fascists at Comcast!) I especially miss the better adult-ish 'toons like Johnny Quest and Thundaar the Barbarian. Adult Swim's filled the gap to a certain extent with its adult-oriented shows (both live-action and animated) but I wish they'd add some of the classics to their lineup if only to keep from watching the same damned Family Guy or King of the Hill eps.
If kids want to watch reality shows, and based on seeing what my 10-year-old daughter watches it would seem that they do like shows like that ghost hunting show (she and her best friend LOVE that show and seem to have seen most of the eps) and live-action programming (as evidenced by all the programming that Disney throws at the "tweens"...I'll admit to a slight fondness to the "Jonas" show as it reminds me of The Monkees' tv show I'd watch in my youth.) My 4-year-old son still loves cartoons and I happily watch the same SpongeBob or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with him (and the occasional Family Guy...for 4 he seems to get their humor pretty well...the Surfin' Bird ep is his fave.)
I am confused as to who hired Andrew W.K. to host that demolition/rebuilding show (which is ridiculously edited to only show the kids working on tasks, never the adult crews that help them...kind of a sham if you ask me.) Where on his "It's Time to Party" and "Party Hard" resume did tv show host come in? And why's he still wearing the same grubby white clothes he was back when his music career was in short but full-bloom? But I digress.
"Give the people what they want, or what we want them to think they want" is, I'm sure, the mantra of every tv programming executive. It's how channels like MTV quit being about music, G4 quit being about videogames (and before it, TechTV quit being about computers & technology), and, ultimately, Cartoon Network will quit being about cartoons. Now we just wait for CNN to stop being about news.
If kids want to watch reality shows, and based on seeing what my 10-year-old daughter watches it would seem that they do like shows like that ghost hunting show (she and her best friend LOVE that show and seem to have seen most of the eps) and live-action programming (as evidenced by all the programming that Disney throws at the "tweens"...I'll admit to a slight fondness to the "Jonas" show as it reminds me of The Monkees' tv show I'd watch in my youth.) My 4-year-old son still loves cartoons and I happily watch the same SpongeBob or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with him (and the occasional Family Guy...for 4 he seems to get their humor pretty well...the Surfin' Bird ep is his fave.)
I am confused as to who hired Andrew W.K. to host that demolition/rebuilding show (which is ridiculously edited to only show the kids working on tasks, never the adult crews that help them...kind of a sham if you ask me.) Where on his "It's Time to Party" and "Party Hard" resume did tv show host come in? And why's he still wearing the same grubby white clothes he was back when his music career was in short but full-bloom? But I digress.
"Give the people what they want, or what we want them to think they want" is, I'm sure, the mantra of every tv programming executive. It's how channels like MTV quit being about music, G4 quit being about videogames (and before it, TechTV quit being about computers & technology), and, ultimately, Cartoon Network will quit being about cartoons. Now we just wait for CNN to stop being about news.
It's shitty. They did the same thing with Nicktoons Network and Toon Disney, both of which showed classic cartoons from the heydays of their respective brands. Now Nicktoons is god knows what, and Toon Disney has been completely re-named/re-branded. They don't even show so much as Ducktales! (I just shed a tear)
I have no idea why these networks are trying to "fix" (and I use that term very loosely) what isn't broken.
I have no idea why these networks are trying to "fix" (and I use that term very loosely) what isn't broken.
Does anyone realize that one of the shows is hosted by Andrew W.K.? That's right, ANDREW FUCKING W.K. which immediately makes it good again.
Honestly, the only Cartoon Network I watch anymore is Adult Swim. Trust me, even the cartoons on Cartoon Network suck nowadays.
Honestly, the only Cartoon Network I watch anymore is Adult Swim. Trust me, even the cartoons on Cartoon Network suck nowadays.
I havent looked to nicktoons network and found somthing on that wasnt avatar in weeks. Now avatars pretty good. But i dont care anymore, i dont even want to see the movie coming out. And im 90% sure that this movie will do nothing but tread over the same ground as the show, but thats another threadskcseth said:
I am just waiting for the Bratz reality T.V. show to come around, starring a group of 7 year old spoiled rich girls...which inevitably will end up upon milk cartons due to the attention.
Toonami and Cartoon Cartoon fridays really made my weekends whe I was little. After those were pulled I mainly just watch that channel for Robot Chicken and Family Guy reruns.
The feeling is mutual with the article writer. Cartoon Network is what I was raised on. I remember when Nickelodeon first came up with "Nick Jr." and I found it horrible . . . I was still in the "age" that would learn from it, and hated it . . .
Then I was at a party for a friend, we all stayed the night, and the next morning he was watching some channel I'd never seen before. It was showing these OLD OLD OLD cartoons, like 1960s old. The year was between 1995 and 1997 I forget which exact year. But I found out later that morning, over breakfast (reheated pizza . . . mmmm) that it was called "Cartoon network" and was even on basic cable. Happy that we would get the channel at home (we had just better then basic) I rushed home . . . and it'd been a beautiful friendship mostly ever since.
Nowadays though, Adult Swim is about the only thing that's worth watching . . . and really only some of it.
Then I was at a party for a friend, we all stayed the night, and the next morning he was watching some channel I'd never seen before. It was showing these OLD OLD OLD cartoons, like 1960s old. The year was between 1995 and 1997 I forget which exact year. But I found out later that morning, over breakfast (reheated pizza . . . mmmm) that it was called "Cartoon network" and was even on basic cable. Happy that we would get the channel at home (we had just better then basic) I rushed home . . . and it'd been a beautiful friendship mostly ever since.
Nowadays though, Adult Swim is about the only thing that's worth watching . . . and really only some of it.
Oh my god, I hold those days of splendid animation with an almost holy respect.sgtshock said:
It's a pity kids today will grow up without having any clever, outlandish shows to inspire their imaginations.
It's all painfully derivative reality shows with some bearded crazyman screeching at the camera for hours on end now.
what about the "cartoons" they watch now? the bland crap that's passed off as "funny" but is all violence and comedy that falls flat before the punch line, or hits the lame punchline but keeps going. And going . . . and going . . .13lackfriday said:
The shows they have kids watching today, it's no wonder some of the things on Adult swim are as viciously violent as they are yet still fall under "comedy" and are still considered "funny"
I knew things were bad when cartoon cartoon fridays dissappeard along with dexter and the other cartoon cartoons...
Then Toonami became screwed up with the stupid looking tom robot(the one with the face, not BA space helmet one)still i held out hope that things could come back to the way the were
Then CN real appeared and toonami was cancelled...My childhood and everything good in the world died...
As for adult swim it's good the way it is now..but i remember back to all action saturdays...that was the good life...
(i'd post a video link but i don't know how)
Then Toonami became screwed up with the stupid looking tom robot(the one with the face, not BA space helmet one)still i held out hope that things could come back to the way the were
Then CN real appeared and toonami was cancelled...My childhood and everything good in the world died...
As for adult swim it's good the way it is now..but i remember back to all action saturdays...that was the good life...
(i'd post a video link but i don't know how)