NOSTALGIA TIME: The 90's to mid 00's: the golden age of cartoons. (plus, toonami!)

[WorldCritic]

My favorites as a kid.
Dragon Ball Z
Yu Yu Hakusho
Pokemon
Power Rangers in Space
Digimon
Yu-Gi-Oh

 

[sycoesis]

Holy hell you've listed most of the one's I was thinking of in that. Though you did miss two biggies IMO.

That would be Ed, Edd, and Eddy and Freakazoid. And typing Freakazoid just made me remember a third, Zoids.

ahh freakaziod one of my favorite cartoons as a kid i still have yet to say or type the word ________

seriously im never saying it it traumatized me as a kid and subconsciously i think it could happen even though i know it cant

if you dont know what word i mean look up the scream-o-vision episode

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Holy hell you've listed most of the one's I was thinking of in that. Though you did miss two biggies IMO.

That would be Ed, Edd, and Eddy and Freakazoid. And typing Freakazoid just made me remember a third, Zoids.

ahh freakaziod one of my favorite cartoons as a kid i still have yet to say or type the word ________

seriously im never saying it it traumatized me as a kid and subconsciously i think it could happen even though i know it cant

if you dont know what word i mean look up the scream-o-vision episode

Majora's Mask did that to me, but now I embrace it.

 

[teutonicman]

Nostalgia overload, can not think.....

Hot damn we had some kick ass cartoons. It also does my heart good to see Samurai Jack listed by the 5th post.

 

[arbiter592]

OMG, when I was a kid I would literally watch every episode of Zoids that aired, finally someone mentions that show!

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Okay, updated:

All shows without intro's in the OP now have them, except zoids

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Toonami ruled. So did all the old classics from CT including Johnny Bravo, Courage, Dexter and Cow & Chicken. Alas, I miss all those old cartoons.

Hence this thread.

I would like more discussion, and less "HOLY CRAP NOSTALGIA OVERLOA- *BOOOOOM*" though XD.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Toonami ruled. So did all the old classics from CT including Johnny Bravo, Courage, Dexter and Cow & Chicken. Alas, I miss all those old cartoons.

Hence this thread.

I would like more discussion, and less "HOLY CRAP NOSTALGIA OVERLOA- *BOOOOOM*" though XD.

Not much to discuss though, is there? To me, these cartoons have come and gone, and aside from illegal means, it's tough to really watch many of them nowadays. Though CartoonNetwork.com does host a few Courage Episodes, it's not the really good ones that I miss. The Last of the Starmakers. <3

Well, discuss your favorite memories, and so on.

 

[Altorin]

the "Golden Age" of Cartoons is a myth.

It's all about the period you grew up in. No matter what period that is, those will be your favorite cartoons.

 

[Nyce1]

LOVED LOVED LOVED... S-Cryed, Tri-Gun, Vampire Last D, few of the gundams, one of the zoids forget which one think it had the white lion german sounding name like liger, DBZ sorry but I am a sucker for that show still, and aqua teen hunger force

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

the "Golden Age" of Cartoons is a myth.

It's all about the period you grew up in. No matter what period that is, those will be your favorite cartoons.

Exactly, but as what I guessed the majority of the escapist community grew up in this one, it'd be the "golden age" for us.

 

[Altorin]

the "Golden Age" of Cartoons is a myth.

It's all about the period you grew up in. No matter what period that is, those will be your favorite cartoons.

Exactly, but as what I guessed the majority of the escapist community grew up in this one, it'd be the "golden age" for us.

yeah, but a lot of people have this idea that cartoons of the other ages are objectively worse though. Like "Cartoons today suck". They don't. They're just meant to appeal to todays kids, and they do. If we're talking about objectivity, cartoons have gotten much better, in terms of production values and actual writing.

For me, the best cartoons will probably always be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Animaniacs and Looney Toons

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

the "Golden Age" of Cartoons is a myth.

It's all about the period you grew up in. No matter what period that is, those will be your favorite cartoons.

Exactly, but as what I guessed the majority of the escapist community grew up in this one, it'd be the "golden age" for us.

yeah, but a lot of people have this idea that cartoons of the other ages are objectively worse though. Like "Cartoons today suck". They don't. They're just meant to appeal to todays kids, and they do. If we're talking about objectivity, cartoons have gotten much better, in terms of production values and actual writing.

For me, the best cartoons will probably always be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Animaniacs and Looney Toons

Well, I feel that cartoons have gotten porgerssively less original and less "mature". Even stuff like pokemon got pretty dark at times, but it made a lasting impact.

 

[Jaythulhu]

The 90s as the peak of cartoons? You're dreaming mate.

Transformers, He-Man, GI Joe, Thundercats, COPS, Silverhawks, Ninja Turtles, Macross, Ulyesses 31, Mysterious cities of Gold, Inspector Gadget, Batman, Superman, The Fantastic Four, I could go on for days. All of these and many many more, all far superior to anything made in the 90s or 00s, all made in the 80s.

The 90s and 00s have NOTHING that's as good, and many of the shows are just re-makes or "re-boots" of 80s originals. If you're going to give a decade praise, then make sure you get the right decade mate. The 80s own all, the 90s and 00s are just borrowing from it.

 

[Squilookle]

If you were born in the 90's or mid 80's, you know it.

Pfff, everybody knows the golden age of televised cartoons started long before that. Hell Rocky and Bullwinkle is still awesome. Besides Looney Tunes, while a different kind of cartoon definitely has it's own golden time.

I'd say the golden era of kids cartoons was about 1981 (when Cosgrove Hall started making nothing but win, starting with Danger Mouse) up until about 1997 when Rugrats started going downhill.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

The golden age stopped mid 90`s kiddo.
When the sword of Thundera was lifted to the skies for the last time.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

If you were born in the 90's or mid 80's, you know it.

Much as I hate to disagree, and on this topic I do really hate to, but it's only the silver age.

The Golden Age was 1923-1957. 80/90s easily take the silver and are WAY better than even the 60s/70s Hanna Barbera miracles, but...





Sorry.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

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Look:

the "Golden Age" of Cartoons is a myth.

It's all about the period you grew up in. No matter what period that is, those will be your favorite cartoons.

Exactly, but as what I guessed the majority of the escapist community grew up in this one, it'd be the "golden age" for us.

I realize that.

The issue is that I didn't have my childhood in the 80's, or 70's or anything other tha the 90's and early 00's.

Therefore, I don't feel it'd be right of me to include cartoons from before than, as I never experienced them, so I can't relay or properally exhibit what made those shows special.

If someone wants to make a list like I did in the OP, and turn it into a thread, feel free to, we could have a link in each of them to the other, or something.