what is wrong with mordern day cartoons

[Hamish Durie]

so I saw the thread about watching and reviving old cartoons and a flood of mermories just came out and when I look back at all of them and then i look at mordern day cartoons i shake my head and think "what has happend cartoons you sold out"
loony tunes
samurai jack
ren and stimpy
easily the best(in my opinion)

 

[loodmoney]

Short answer? Nothing.

There is no long answer.

 

[Veldel]

because censors and policical correctness along with idiot parents.


I got most my old cartoons on box sets or such and constently watch them.


The only good cartoon nowadays is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

 

[silver wolf009]

Well, perhaps nostalgia clouds some visions, but I can say, as someone who has more often than not found the old shows of the past better, I find that for some reason, the older shows seem to have more effort put into them than the newer ones. I don't know why, but that is how it seems.

EDIT: *SNIIIIIF*
So close now, musn't compromise myself

EDIT 2:
The truth!

because censors and policical correctness along with idiot parents.


I got most my old cartoons on box sets or such and constently watch them.


The only good cartoon nowadays is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Has been revealed once again!!

 

[ThisIsSnake]

Wierd... I'd have classed Samurai Jack as a modern day cartoon.

Sounds like selective memory though, there have always been plenty of terrible cartoons. We only remember the good ones typically.

Last time I watched cartoons it was stuff like spongebob, samurai jack and invader zim.

 

[dubblem]

"Modern cartoons suck! Animaniacs was better!"
"Animaniacs sucks! Thundercats was better!"
Thundercats sucks! Speed Racer was better!"
"Speed Racer sucks! Flinstones was better!"

Everyone thinks their nostalgia stained cartoons were better. Everyone's right. Everyone's wrong.

P.S. Adventure Time, Chowder, Regular Show, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic invalidate nostalgic bias.

 

[MasterV]

Well, like this fella here....

I am a 80s kid so to me those (apart from Loony Tunes) were all shit too.

Also, no rock music. Everything seems so tame and sterile now. Search on Youtube for the intros to M.A.S.K. , Saber Rider , Zone Riders and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (although this doesn't classify as a cartoon entirely) and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

If you had started this thread three years ago, I would have agreed with you that modern cartoons aren't very good. However, in the last year or so, we've had something of an animation renaissance; cartoons today are at least on par with what was available in the late 80s. Some of them, like Phineas and Ferb, are on up there with the stuff from the 90s. These things come in cycles; ever watch any cartoons from the 70s that weren't Scooby Doo or Johnny Quest? They were terrible -- yes, even the Looney Toons shorts that were being made at the time.

 

[ManWithHat]

Maybe because we were kids. What we think is good as kids and what we think is good as adults is generally different (for the most part). I know there were things I loved as a kid and once I came across it as an adult, I wondered why I ever liked it in the first place.

Sounds like selective memory though, there have always been plenty of terrible cartoons. We only remember the good ones typically.

Yeah, I remember some bad cartoons I watched back in the day. Not all of them were good. I think what gets us the most is we remember so many good cartoons way back when, but don't see as many good ones now. The ratio of good to bad probably throws us off, at least it does to me.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Maybe because we were kids. What we think is good as kids and what we think is good as adults is generally different (for the most part). I know there were things I loved as a kid and once I came across it as an adult, I wondered why I ever liked it in the first place.

Sounds like selective memory though, there have always been plenty of terrible cartoons. We only remember the good ones typically.

Yeah, I remember some bad cartoons I watched back in the day. Not all of them were good. I think what gets us the most is we remember so many good cartoons way back when, but don't see as many good ones now. The ratio of good to bad probably throws us off, at least it does to me.

I don't know; this is true of the 80's cartoons that were in reruns when I was a kid, but nearly every 90's cartoon that I've gone back and watched as an adult has not only been just as good as I remembered, but actually better, because they were full of parental bonuses that I didn't get as a kid. Most of the bad ones I didn't like as a kid, either.

 

[ChupathingyX]

P.S. Adventure Time, Chowder, Regular Show, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic invalidate nostalgic bias.

Wait, wait, wait...you actually like that show?

 

[ForrestDeath]

I rewatched/sat through enough bad cartoons in my day to know that about 85% of everything deserves to be forgotten 8 years after it has been done. The internet age has given everybody access to all the things we had as a child and now we get to deal with going "See, your childish stuff isn't that orriganal. We did it before."

That being said, I have seen this 8 year periods gem in the new refuse ready heap thrown at kids today, "Phineas and Ferb". Great because it works on many levels and is engaging for multiple generations. I literally kept a friends three kids distracted as their parents dealt with a dificult medical situation without having to pull any of my hair out and had a geniunely good time. The icing on the cake is that bowling for soup does their theme.

Everything you remember is the best of the era. You have probably forgot at least half of the poo that you had to wade through to get to that one really good show that you loved, and that is probably a good thing

 

[ManWithHat]

Maybe because we were kids. What we think is good as kids and what we think is good as adults is generally different (for the most part). I know there were things I loved as a kid and once I came across it as an adult, I wondered why I ever liked it in the first place.

Sounds like selective memory though, there have always been plenty of terrible cartoons. We only remember the good ones typically.

Yeah, I remember some bad cartoons I watched back in the day. Not all of them were good. I think what gets us the most is we remember so many good cartoons way back when, but don't see as many good ones now. The ratio of good to bad probably throws us off, at least it does to me.

I don't know; this is true of the 80's cartoons that were in reruns when I was a kid, but nearly every 90's cartoon that I've gone back and watched as an adult has not only been just as good as I remembered, but actually better, because they were full of parental bonuses that I didn't get as a kid. Most of the bad ones I didn't like as a kid, either.

That's what I mean. I didn't see any of the 80's cartoons much (Thundercats, scooby doo), but I enjoyed most of the 90's cartoons. Much of what I see today isn't really good to me. But if MLP:FiM is a continuing trend, than I have much to look forward to. (Not that I regularly look forward to watching kids' cartoons, mind you.)

 

[Wallofseacow]

adventure time is the only one thats come up so far that i think is actually better that what was around when i was a kid. (90s)

 

[Twilight_guy]

Nothing. Cartoons usually seem good only due to nostalgia. Most of the cartoons you watched were crap. Most of the cartoons today are crap. In both instance only a small number are worth a damn. Nostalgia just makes crap seem less bad.

 

[Saint of M]

I'm a 90's kid, so I had the stuff from the 90's, and the stuff that stood the test of time the decades before hand, so I feel our pain OT.

If I had to guess, the creators can't tell if they are catering to kids or adults, or are too worried about the sensors so the have the whole get crap past the radar thing.

Also the current "adult" cartoons are largely just "it came out of the mind of a thirteen year old" or "it came out of the mind of a thirteen year old having an acid trip"

 

[Adzma]

Everyone knows the 80s and the 90s were the best period of children's cartoons. They just don't put the effort in anymore.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm not going to use the nostalgia card. It simply our surrounding had change therefore the cartoons had change to adapt with the time.

 

[Cuacuani]

I guess it's mostly nostalgia. A while ago, I caught a repeat of what I used to believe was the best cartoon ever (Biker Mice from Mars). Turns out that as a six year old, I watched some utter shite.