Cartoons

[Marik2]

Adventure time is awesome
but I went through an anti-cartoon phase when I was around 11. that was only recently fixed when a friend got me into anime.
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I wish that more american cartoons could be this funny.
just like the good old days.

LOL I was surprised by how good the dub was, wasnt as bad as I thought it be.

Guys.

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[sub]R.I.P.[/sub]

I heard they got taken down cuz I think one of them said something that sounded like "fuck"?

 

[Marik2]

Does no one here watch the Venture Brothers? Episode with Scooby-Doo and gang makes me pee myself its so funny

I watch it its pretty hilarious, but I stopped watching it in like the 4th season?

 

[Nuuu]

PPG was awesome, i even watched the movie! I still watch it today actually if it's on when im watching TV.
But im more of a random type person, cartoon netowrk was my favorite before Fried Dynamite came on and took over.
Before: PPG, Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Camp Lazlo (or was that during), most of the shows really, never liked Scooby Doo though.
I actually remember when they tried to turn it into a kiddie network, im glad that didnt go on for long.
Now: Chowder, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Mad TV

Luckily, a lot of the old CN shows made it onto boomerang, if not all of them.

 

[Firetaffer]

Uh,

Adventure time and Regular show are pretty good.

If you liked Powerpuff Girls than My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is AWESOME.

Annnd

I can't really name anything else, the other cartoons are pretty much meh.

 

[Marik2]

Whats with all the boring, unoriginal cartoons nowadays? All I see now are boring and to say the least, bland shows! So please, what happened to Sponge Bob? Jimmy Neutron? Hey Arnold? And of course, PowerPuff girls.

Oh heres an adult version of powerpuff girls, enjoy

 

[The_Echo]

You obviously haven't been watching Adventure Time or Regular Show.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[godfist88]

adventure time is pretty good, oh and the new my little pony.

(for the record, it's OK for guys to watch girly cartoons if they're well made.)

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Needa get away from the kiddie stations and take a look at some of the more "adult" themed cartoons. Namely Archer, one of the most underrated shows airing today.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Whats with all the boring, unoriginal cartoons nowadays? All I see now are boring and to say the least, bland shows! So please, what happened to Sponge Bob? Jimmy Neutron? Hey Arnold? And of course, PowerPuff girls.

*grumpy old man voice* Hrumph! Back in my day we didn't have cartoons or these fancy "moving pictures"! If we wanted a picture to move, we picked it up, and moved it! And we couldn't because there were no pictures! These damn kids and their box socials and pecan sandies and hoop and stick.

OT: I don't have cable.

 

[godfist88]

Needa get away from the kiddie stations and take a look at some of the more "adult" themed cartoons. Namely Archer, one of the most underrated shows airing today.

that show is actually pretty good. it would probably get more praise on adult swim.

 

[Nazulu]

What happened? You grew up and now the same stuff doesn't seem as original. You still like Spongebob, and Hey Arnold, and (for some inexplicable reason) Powerpuff Girls, because you liked them when you were a kid, and so now they have a massive nostalgia factor. But if you were to go back and watch them for the first time today, it's unlikely that you'd find them even mildly enjoyable.

It's the same thing with the new cartoons, you didn't grow up watching them, you're too old to be a part of the audience that's jumping into them, and they have no nostalgia factor like your favorite cartoons.

Why does no one ever consider that it's not the world that has changed, but instead that it is they who have changed?

Well it's both. I don't think of it as nostalgia at all, there has been a big lack for originality lately and I can't get into any of the new shows today. The last one was Sponge Bob but I don't like the new episodes. Actually, Archer isn't bad, it's mixed in with clever witty humour and really stupid crap.

It's not just cartoons, it's everything. I decided to look in the past for inspiration.

 

[p3t3r]

You obviously haven't been watching Adventure Time or Regular Show.

Granted Regular Show probably isn't for everyone. But I love it because the characters do the exact same stupid crap me and my one friend used to do.

Adventure Time is just sweet.

Phinius and Pherb is also a pretty decent cartoon.

Also Symbionic Titan, which is made by the dude who made Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory.

yes i freaking love adventure time. and the punchies episode if regular show was great. Phineas and pherb are also really good i agree with everything you just said

 

[Lewieroo0]

Toonami and Adult Swim was without doubt the best thing Cartoon Network had before they pulled the plug on both of them it was thanks to both of these things that i was introduced to such awesome Animes including: Cowboy Bebop, Orphen, Trigun and Zoids New Century Zero (Fun for the robot action ;p)

 

[drisky]

I'm defending cartoons today, there's plenty good you just grew out of it. Really I don't trust the opinion of any one who says that Jimmy Neutron is one of the most noteworthy cartoons.

Spectacular Spiderman is still around somewhere, better than the 90's Spidey show.

It got canceled though, partly because of the disney buy out but mostly because of the "all cartoons suck now" crowd refused to watch it because of misguided nostalgia, I still can't get over the loss of that show.

 

[lord.jeff]

what about rockos modern life, doug, rugrats, beast wars, batman, superman.. I could go on but I feel old now XD

YOU feel old? People are being nostalgic over Spongebob, a show that didn't even start until I was almost out of high school...

Touche sir.

Ma'am.

Curses, and I thought their was another guy on the site that enjoyed "MY Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"

OT: Bland shows are nothing new try watching most of the cartoons from the 80s, or look at half of Hanna Barbara's library, they have a lot of Scooby-Doo was popular lets cash in on that. Nostalgia is overrated.

 

[Rewdalf]

So far nobody has mentioned Megas XLR, which was undoubtedly the best show of its time...

Spoiler

I mean, it never tried to teach you a single thing throughout the whole experience.
Hell yeah.

Also, for some reason, I have not seen head nor tail of Xiaolin Showdown in ages...
Not on the internet, forums, anything...

Spoiler

Did everyone forget about it?

 

[Aris Khandr]

Curses, and I thought their was another guy on the site that enjoyed "MY Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"

There are a few people about with MLP avatars. I know for sure that at least one of them is male, as he's a friend of mine.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Needa get away from the kiddie stations and take a look at some of the more "adult" themed cartoons. Namely Archer, one of the most underrated shows airing today.

that show is actually pretty good. it would probably get more praise on adult swim.

They already have Reed's other work, Frisky Dingo which, while also good, isn't on par with Archer.

True story, but my friend and I did the "danger Zone" bit at a bar one time.
Me: jeremy....Jeremy........JEREMY.
Him: WHAT?!
Me: DANGER ZONE!

Also..Adam Reed is a GOD.
Adam Reed and his partner Matt Thompson started out at Cartoon Network doing various odd jobs until they came up with their own show called High Noon Toons in the mid-90s. High Noon Toons was a 3-hour programming block of cartoons hosted by cowboy hand puppets Haas and Lil' Jo (a Bonanza pun). While working on this show, Matt and Adam were usually heavily intoxicated and the two eventually got reprimanded for lighting one of the prop sets on fire.

 

[teutonicman]

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Oh wait never mind there is no prize...

Wow man, thanks! I would of never seen those 1Million threads on the first page if you didn't tell me!

Oh wait..

I was wrong there is a prize! It's called access to the search bar!

Aren't prizes supposed to be prestigious or at the very least have a certain amount of exclusivity? My god man, your prize sucks./sarcasm

 

[Justanothergamer300]

Whats with all the boring, unoriginal cartoons nowadays? All I see now are boring and to say the least, bland shows! So please, what happened to Sponge Bob? Jimmy Neutron? Hey Arnold? And of course, PowerPuff girls.

So what do you want in a cartoon? Just saying that these cartoons are unoriginal won't do anything at all.

What makes a show good for you. And maybe we can find something to fit your mold