Why Cartoonnetwork? Why?

[Dread_Reaper]

It's nostalgia. Just like the generation before looks on your generation with detest, you look on the next generation.

You know its funny, I would have thought that as well, until I actually went back and watched archived episodes of shows like Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo and Looney Toons. Guess what?

THEY STILL WERE AWESOME.

Proving that it wasn't nostalgia addling our minds, but rather that our generation of cartoons was in fact better and that this current generation is garbage, and that anyone who disagrees is STUPID.

-Dread_Reaper

 

[uncle-ellis]

I don't like Cartoon network and never have.

Am I dead inside?

 

[Beowulf DW]

Wahh, wahh, people don't play what I watched as a kid anymore, so I think they should crawl in a hole and die! Seriously, that's what you sound like. It lends nothing to your own argument and only makes me sad to think about it. Yes, it's horrible that they don't play things that were popular when you were a kid. No, it wouldn't profit them to show it still as their audience is young, as opposed to you.

....


Oh, and Tim and Eric suck too.

I assume from you're comments that you are a pre-teen or teen. I also assume that you are under the impression that some of the crap that's on TV these days is good. As such, I will disregard you as an idiot.

As much as I would like to do that, though, I'm 19. As such, I can only regard a pre-teen/teen as immature. I'd have to be at least 50 to regard you as an idiot based on the previously mentioned criteria.

Lovely. I'm actually 26 years old and a graduate student in the world of film and TV. You also assume wrong in that I think what is on is good to me. Or you. Never said that. But it is cute that a teenager can assume what I am thinking.

If you would have assumed correctly, you would have been able to figure out that executives of networks go after the demographic that most helps their network. Cartoon Network is from about 6 years of age to 17. Even you are out of that. The ADD generations that have come up recently have been targetted by the networks with shows more than those that would pay off for someone that likes plot. But even those are still in there if you look closely. I caught a few episodes of Courage on this past week. The Batman cartoon, while nothing compared to the animated series, is still at least lightly entertaining.

Look at things past face value and please say it with me.

You are not their target demographic anymore. They could give a damn less about you. As long as people keep procreating, people will have children that they wish babysat by cartoons. And as long as it can wave something shiny and keep a kid's attention whilst melting their brain, they will keep doing so. And that is what the network wants. Not someone that will complain about every little show that they had when they were a kid.

I was being about half sarcastic there, my friend. Your initial post was seemed to be the work of an angsty pre-teen. The "Wahh, Wahh," part is probably what threw me off. If you had written like you did in that second post (i.e. like a 26 year old graduate student) I would have been inclined to take you a bit more seriously.

I'm not lamenting the fact that CN is no longer catering to my tastes anymore, I'm lamenting the fact that their shows now lack a certain quality which made them appealing to more than just their target demographic. There was a time when cartoons had something for everyone, children and adults. However, that's just not there any longer.

 

[The_Prophet]

Well, cartoon network is dead. It stopped awesome shows like Johnny Bravo, Dexter's lab and Samurai Jack and traded them for...... well...... see for yourself. Watch out tho, you might start poking out your eyes just becouse pressing off would take a few seconds longer

 

[SimplyTheWest]

Seriously, what happened to Ed' Edd N Eddy...that was my favourite show ever. I used to wait for it to come on t.v. But only the old series of course...
I can still do the Ed voice though...

 

[Randomologist]

Don't mean to replicate in a parrot fashion what everyone else has said, but since Dexters Lab, Johnny Bravo and Ed, Edd and Eddy died, so did CN. Back then, I could tell when Ed was joking, smacking his face into the ground pretending to be a woodpecker, but I saw a friends brother watch something the other day that looked like an Arnold Schwarzenegger film.

 

[Sir_Chumley_Warner]

You must be wary of Cartoon Network... t'has be infected by the taint!

 

[Simriel]

Cartoon Network is digging it's own grave. All the cool shows like Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Laboratory are gone.

Oh yeah, the upside is CN created the greatest cartoon ever, Billy and Mandy.

Fix'd

Billy and Mandy has been kicking around for a few year though, no?

Also CN ROCKED! Dexter's lab was amazing! Johnny Bravo was funny as hell! And lets not forget the pure gold of Samurai Jack, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. What happened to these shows? When did cartoons stop having any sort of intelligent humor? yeah some of these shows had stupid bits, but at other times had episodes that where really clever and not just low brow toilet humor!

 

[Cowabungaa]

i miss KABLAM

Ooo I remember that! The Action League was hi-la-rious (example [http://www.guba.com/watch/2000904950]). I really miss CN, we had it a few years ago for a while on cable, then they suddenly dropped it and put TV5 in place...a French bullcrap channel. This was my initial reaction when I found that out. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s] Ed, Ed & Eddie, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls (F YEA!!!), you name it. *sigh* Good times. I already noticed back then (2003 maybe, can't remember exactly) that CN and other cartoon channels like Fox Kids in general were slowly going down, at least here in Holland. It was the start of a sad development for cartoons in Holland: dubbing. I mean...Sharky's laugh, ya know that awesome dog from Eek the Cat, just isn't the same when it's dubbed, nor is Cow and Chicken. They just started broadcasting the new series of Heej Arnold here, all dubbed...it's horrible, simply horrible. Same with reruns of the Animaniacs, used to lóve that when it was just in English, but dubbed in Dutch it's ghastly

When did cartoons stop having any sort of intelligent humor? yeah some of these shows had stupid bits, but at other times had episodes that where really clever and not just low brow toilet humor!

Yeap, shows like Eek the Cat, Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken and lots more all had this hidden humor behind the obvious toilet humor. Hidden references, high brow jokes subtly sneaking through the show? Example: remember that dinosaur A-team spoof from Eek the Cat, with Mr T-Rex? Cracked me up so many times, hilarious. You don't see that anymore nowadays, well Spongebob pulls it off sometimes, but other then that...nothing? I miss 80's and 90's cartoons

 

[Haddi]

I loved Dexters laboratory for the sheer amount of things they did, the humor that actually REPEATEDLY made me laugh out loud at the same joke, the unique little art style, and the whole awesome.

I loved Samurai Jack because it was an action cartoon without ludicrous stupidity. Also, I think I was addicted to asia at the time. I went to a support group, and have been clean for three da-Two minutes.

I loved Johnny Bravo because it's fun to see the doofus screw everything up. Plain and simple.


Now, today, cartoons can't get any of these things right. We have motha-friggin Ben Ten, possibly one of the worst things I have ever seen, the goddamn Johnny Test (I still want to cave my Tv in when it comes on.)
And a whole slew of stupid stuff.

I mean, CN just seems like a shambling zombie, minus the awesome and potential hilarious uses.

 

[SuperGoomba64]

People say it died when Toonami died, but I say it died when they got rid of Tom from Toonami and replaced him with those...things.

Seriously...Tom was cool.

Anyways, I liked the stuff like:
Edd,Ed, n' Eddy
Johnny Bravo
Dexter's Laboratory
Samurai Jack
Megas XLR
Yu Yu Hakasho
Rurouni Kenshin
Courage the Cowardly Dog
And I couldn't help but like Invader Zim

Now that I think about it, they had a lot of good stuff back then, but threw it all away in favor of this new brand of trash that people somehow manage to call entertainment. Seriously, Chowder and Flapjack *shivers* are prime examples. I have no words to describe them.

Apparently, all people want to see are a bunch of mentally unstable retards frolic around on-screen, because that's pretty much the theme of all their shows now, albeit a few, but they're just as terrible. I've come to ignore Cartoon Network now, their name one of many symbols of failure ( I almost feel like making a reference to Enron...too late), but hey, what comes up must come down I suppose.

Hmm, I may be becoming more cynical with every post. Guess that's the Escapist at work...or it's just me.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I really do miss Johnny Bravo, such a shame

 

[Dudemeister]

Well we still have the memories of a once great channel.
:')

 

[bowserboy26578]

Well we still have the memories of a once great channel.
:')

we do. we do.

 

[Twilight_guy]

You grew up. Stuff that made sense then makes no sense now. Nostalgia makes the old stuff look good, when the new stuff is pretty much the same.

 

[MalevolentJim]

They stopped showing Animaniacs,Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid,thus dooming our future generations to complete and utter gayness.


Unless some new show comes and amazes us like they did...

*sees Ben 10 on screen*

*cringes*

 

[Caliostro]

Cartoon Network is digging it's own grave. All the cool shows like Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Laboratory are gone.

Here here... Here here...

I still remember CN from when it wasn't a half assed piece of shit... Dexter's lab, Johny Bravo, Beetlejuice, Ed, Edd and Eddy, SW: Clone Wars... All down the drain...

 

[Klagermeister]

If only they had the good shows back.
Dexter's Laboratory, Ed Edd and Eddy, and all the Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
Oh, and Cow and Chicken.

 

[Marv21]

People say it died when Toonami died, but I say it died when they got rid of Tom from Toonami and replaced him with those...things.

Good point. That was also one of the nails in their coffin.

I used to love toonami, the thing kind of died once Naruto got on there...sorry Naruto Fans!

But I used to get excited every Friday for an anime movie...best movie ever watched
DBZ: Tree of Life...amazing, as much as a campy cartoon movie can be.


Also I loved the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, kinda milked the thing to death afterwards...good show good show. *sigh* I feel old now, and im only 16...*sigh*....at least there is AS, the anime varys from show to show, yet I feel that CN needs to learn that original programming is the best. Thats why AS is doing pretty well, tell me if im wrong, but Robot Chicken, ATHF, Boondocks etc. made by AS?