It's CARTOON Network, Seriously! how do you fuck that up?
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I'm glad you were nice and clam there after my little rage out.Et3rnalLegend64 said:
Calmed down since then.
See I myself actually do think, there were much more awesome cartoons back in my day.
Then I take a step back and think to myself, No, When my nephew grows up he's gonna be saying the same thing I am now and so on and so forth.
Maybe its just me growing out of Cartoons, Maybe Cartoons of my era just appealed to our Generation more.
Who knows.
Now me that's for sure
Aren't we a bunch of nostalgic old/aging people/old men with canes waiting to happen?Jezzascmezza said:
Just saying....
I used to hate Samurai Jack as a little kid, but I recently discovered that it was fucking awesome. I try to watch it on the rare occasion they show it on Boomerang. And Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab (there's still an episode that makes me lol no matter what), and Loony Tunes were stuff I grew up with, and I'm really starting to appreciate them. (I'm thirteen years old, btw)
This is pretty much what I'm hearing from you guys: "WHAAAAAAAA! THEY DON'T SHOW THE SHOWS I USED TO LIKE! I ALSO DO NOT LIKE THESE NEW SHOWS. THIS NETWORK IS NOW CRAP!"
That sounds alot like pretty much EVERY older generation talking about the "entertainment these days" is nothing but crap.
Now I do have to agree that Cartoon Network should contain, ya know, cartoons. I also admit I'm not all that interested in some of the newer shows on CN, but whether that's because the shows are actually bad or because I've just outgrown shows like that is anyone's guess. This probably applies to most to you. I'm pretty sure that alot of you would defend you favorite shows against people who "just don't understand" them. Have a little self-awareness and realize the patterns here.
That sounds alot like pretty much EVERY older generation talking about the "entertainment these days" is nothing but crap.
Now I do have to agree that Cartoon Network should contain, ya know, cartoons. I also admit I'm not all that interested in some of the newer shows on CN, but whether that's because the shows are actually bad or because I've just outgrown shows like that is anyone's guess. This probably applies to most to you. I'm pretty sure that alot of you would defend you favorite shows against people who "just don't understand" them. Have a little self-awareness and realize the patterns here.
Ren and Stimpy. Best. Show. Ever.
I also miss the old Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, before they gave Wile E. a voice actor.
I also miss the old Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, before they gave Wile E. a voice actor.
I could give less of a shit what else they show, but goddammit Adult Swim needs to bring back more Anime. That piss poor excuse for programming they have now is rediculous.
Not to mention the regular line ups for kids consist of potty humor, girls being stupid and shallow, potty humor....and fail.
/nostalgia for shows that actually meant something and were memorable.
Not to mention the regular line ups for kids consist of potty humor, girls being stupid and shallow, potty humor....and fail.
/nostalgia for shows that actually meant something and were memorable.
I don't understand how you still try to watch cartoons on CN, How do you stand the fricking Barbie commercials!?
It's not just Cartoon Network. Ever since the spawning of Spongebob (from Hell), Nickelodeon went downhill as well. I honestly think the networks want to cater to a new form of audience (the current kids of today). Sadly, I think it works but alienates all of their old viewers who grew up watching shows with some moderately intelligent ideas behind them. Remember how awesome shows like Looney Toons were or Animaniacs? Whatever happened to the zaney and insaney shit that I grew up with that was fucking hilarious?
cartoon Network simply followed suit after Nickelodeon died... I'm not sure when that started for CN though. I wanna say it was after the most recent reformat of Toonami, but it might have been sooner.
cartoon Network simply followed suit after Nickelodeon died... I'm not sure when that started for CN though. I wanna say it was after the most recent reformat of Toonami, but it might have been sooner.
Check and mate.Tehlanna TPX said:
I could definitely believe that the shows back then appealed to our generation more, and that may partially be the case for me. I know I'm not outgrowing cartoons if my more lighthearted anime counts for anything at all.comadorcrack said:
I blame all the flash animation on t.v. these days. Cartoon Network hasn't been good since I was in my early teens though, but at least you finally caught up and saw this too.
I keep forgetting about that, dammit. I watched it as a third grade (?) kid (can't remember when), and I loved it (probably because there was a giant robot with a car for a head and flames painted on it), then it started only showing reruns (near-death) followed by nothing at all (too far beyond for recall).REM_lite said:
I love most of the shows you guys listed (Samurai Jack for some reason was never on when I turned on TV), Toonami was sweet, and does anyone remember Miguzi? Courage the Cowardly Dog was awesome (If a bit scary in my 5-year-old mind), Powerpuff Girls (I am a guy lol) was sweet. And Johnny Bravo? I remember getting a Scooby Doo movie that had a little short with Johnny Bravo meeting the "Gang"! By the way it was on Toonami and no one listed it, but what about Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo? (I think that's how it's spelled)
No, and if you watched anything before 1968 you would know that. That is roughly when prime time cartoons stopped existing and the Saturday Morning cartoon glut started. Stuff like Jonny Quest (1964?1965) and sarcastical stuff like Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959?1964) aimed primarily at an ADULT audience were gone. Since Saturday morning was traditionally children's time anyhow cartoons made for this timeslot were aimed at kids. If you were lucky you got a rerun of the classic Prime time stuff originally aimed at adults (Flintstones, Jetsons, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc) or general movie audiences (WB's massive cartoon library, the occasional Tex Avery cartoon).Jezzascmezza said:
By the early 1980s Saturday morning was in such a production standard straitjacket that it had degenerated to a "ghetto" and in 1982 with "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" cartoons began to be syndicated. In 1986 GI Joe took American cartoons as far as the standards of the time would let them with Cobra able to torture and even kill (shown in "Worlds without End" with the corpses of three Joes). This was also the year Robotech came to America and the clamor for more "adult" cartoons kicked into high gear.
Simpsons brought cartoons back to prime time in 1989 and in 1992 Batman the Animated Series replaced the kidified Batman made for Saturday morning with a far more serious one. The 1990s also saw many of the old makers of Saturday morning cartoons go defunct and more of a focus on importing cartoons and reworking them.
Cartoon Network is dead to me, first the good shows like Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo went down, then Toonami and Adult Swim might not be far either.
Because Andrew W.K. is in it. That's all you need, actually.crimsonshrouds said:
How about they redo Toonami and put all the Gundam and Dragonball Z and all those other shows on it and bring back the good Cartoon Network shows that I remember growing up with and put it on a separate station. And call it something else. Or just flush out everything currently on and replace it with what it used to be. Now I'm stuck with watching clips on YouTube...
I never realized how much that show reminded me of Newgrounds. I'm pretty sure the main character used "algebraic!" as an exclamation.Giantcain said:this reminds me of a long egoraptor videop3t3r said:
sorry if this ends up being a double post