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Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network?

  • Nickelodeon

  • Cartoon Network

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Is Adult Swim any good anymore? I used to watch Family Guy a lot when I was young and debated with my Christian parents to let me watch it. As an adult I see it for what it was; scandalous smut. But it did bring in a lot of viewers and airing on Adult Swim revived the show and gave it more seasons after it was dropped by Fox.

But how is Adult Swim nowadays? I haven't heard anything good coming from it other than that Rick and Morty garbage.
 
Pwener said:
But how is Adult Swim nowadays? I haven't heard anything good coming from it other than that Rick and Morty garbage.
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The Venture Bros has always been an Amazing show...just one with one of the worst season schedules ever.
 
ironmask said:
To be honest most Netflix shows look bland.
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Bojack Horseman is one of my all time favorite shows, animated or otherwise. That being said, I don't have Netflix so I can't speak on the quality of their other in-house productions.

Pwener said:
Rick and Morty garbage.
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I always thought Rick & Morty (at least the first two seasons and some episodes of the third) was very clever and well written. I didn't realize until recently that its fanbase gives it a bad name, though.
 
TerminallyChill said:
Bojack Horseman is one of my all time favorite shows, animated or otherwise. That being said, I don't have Netflix so I can't speak on the quality of their other in-house productions.
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I like bojack more for the serious moments and episodes. Besides that, the comedy is weak and I disagree with some of the politics.
 
ironmask said:
I like bojack more for the serious moments and episodes. Besides that, the comedy is weak and I disagree with some of the politics.
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I never really got the impression that Bojack was overtly political in any way. I mean, I remember the one episode where they made fun of natural gas fracking, but I thought the joke was more that Mr. Peanutbutter was retarded enough to allow a dangerous mining operation into a suburban neighborhood than anything else.
 
Well since I was born in 99 I saw most of the age of coming kid shows that would either grow up to be famous (and bloated as a result) or just become mostly good then peacefully go off the air.

My 4 favorite are 2 shows from each network cn and nick for the nick side I loved SpongeBob and Invader Zim.

Obviously as a kid I enjoyed the characters and the humor of spongebob in is first couple of seasons especially more so as an adult if I catch one of the older episodes playing but with it being milked to death by Viacom and them even announcing the series ending in 2020 or 2019 I haven't watched it since, Zim I loved for the absurdity of it in terms of the art style and plots of each episode.

Now for cn is close tie to Ed Edd n Eddy and Courage the Cowardy Dog, What I liked most for these two shows is at least they ended In a good way or least before they began to run out of ideas and drag the show down as a result, Ed Edd n Eddy in particular had like 4 specials and the big picture (basically a movie) to end the series on such a good note.
 
I only voted Nickelodeon because of the earlier programming. The modern Nickelodeon is a bunch of cheesy, live action garbage.
 
Uber Morpth said:
Well since I was born in 99 I saw most of the age of coming kid shows that would either grow up to be famous (and bloated as a result) or just become mostly good then peacefully go off the air.

My 4 favorite are 2 shows from each network cn and nick for the nick side I loved SpongeBob and Invader Zim.

Obviously as a kid I enjoyed the characters and the humor of spongebob in is first couple of seasons especially more so as an adult if I catch one of the older episodes playing but with it being milked to death by Viacom and them even announcing the series ending in 2020 or 2019 I haven't watched it since, Zim I loved for the absurdity of it in terms of the art style and plots of each episode.

Now for cn is close tie to Ed Edd n Eddy and Courage the Cowardy Dog, What I liked most for these two shows is at least they ended In a good way or least before they began to run out of ideas and drag the show down as a result, Ed Edd n Eddy in particular had like 4 specials and the big picture (basically a movie) to end the series on such a good note.
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I was always deeply embarrassed by the fact I wasn't allowed to watch Invader Zim, Ed Edd & Eddy, or Courage The Cowardly Dog growing up, so I used to pretend I hated them anyway so everyone at school didn't think I was a total loser. (I'm several years older than you.) At least I was allowed to watch Spongebob, though. My poor best friend wasn't so fortunate on that one. He became even more of a social outcast than me as a result.

I've seen most of Ed Edd & Eddy now, and I think it's great. It does have a finale that does it justice. From what I did see of Courage back then I found it pretty creepy and honestly would have avoided watching it voluntarily. I did always think it was good, though. I was just a chicken. Invader Zim I've still never seen thanks to its association with the Hot Topic crowd, but due to the tone and subject matter I have a strong suspicion that I would enjoy it.

Fizzycswag said:
I only voted Nickelodeon because of the earlier programming. The modern Nickelodeon is a bunch of cheesy, live action garbage.
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Same, I will forever be a Hey Arnold, Wild Thornberry, and Jimmy Neutron kinda guy.
 
My mum would tape a lot of cartoons for me to watch when I was a kid, this was in Scotland so I never really grew up on any of the popular networks a lot of people were used to. Some of the kid channels still got stuff like Pokemon and Arthur and all that, but I only remember seeing it as far back as around 2004/5. So pretty much past a lot of the cartoon's runtime in the States. A lot of the ones I'd watch seem like a chimeric memory of all kinds of absurd concepts and settings. The only three I really remember were
  • Watch my Chops: This real ugly looking show about a dogsitter and a talking dog. I don't actually remember anything about it besides the intro theme. And even then, its just the last 5 seconds of it.
  • Count Duckula: Nobody in my family believes this show exists. They all think I'm crazy for remembering it even after I've found the tapes and showed them clips.
  • South Park: Yeah, I know. But as a kid I really didn't see it as anything different from the other stuff on TV. Just that my mum would confiscate any tapes I had of it. First time I saw it was when my dad put it on the TV to keep me occupied while he was doing something. I don't really think he knew what it was. A couple years down the line I managed to snag a copy of the movie and ended up getting in trouble from a lot of people in town for singing the songs around other kids to look cool.
Also, one of the shows on the tapes was the animated sequence for O-Ren in Kill Bill. Which was followed by the entirety of Spirited Away. I don't know if my mum realised what either was. She just saw animation and thought to tape it. Spirited Away really messed my dreams up for a while though, what a weird movie.
 
Haha, Count Duckula. I had one audio play tape of it as a kid, and it was just the audio track of the show, meaning that it was not really understandable at all.
But it had some good german voice acting; in that episode where they go to Scotland, the Scots have a supremely hard to understand bavarian dialect instead of some scottish dialect.
 
I'm particularly fond of the late 90s/early 00s EXTREME cartoons like Mummies Alive!, Extreme Dinosaurs, Extreme Ghostbusters, that kind of shit.
And here's the most radical and manly intro of all time:

My balls just grew more balls.
 
ironmask said:
You can watch the whole series on YouTube. Too bad it was cancelled because of Seth.
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Seth?

Another IMAGE comic turned into an animated series back in the 90's was The MAXX on MTV. It was about a muscular homeless guy in purple skin suit with mental problems who thinks he might be a superhero who unwillingly drifts in and out of consciousness and ends up in a place called the outback, his freelance social worker/queen of the outback that looks out for him and a trans-dimensional psychic serial killer and rapist that knows what is really going on. The show itself had Amazing animation and this creepy nightmaredelic atmosphere. Viacom seems to have done a pretty good job expunging it from Youtube but I did find the show on Vimeo.
 
TheGM said:
Seth?

Another IMAGE comic turned into an animated series back in the 90's was The MAXX on MTV. It was about a muscular homeless guy in purple skin suit with mental problems who thinks he might be a superhero who unwillingly drifts in and out of consciousness and ends up in a place called the outback, his freelance social worker/queen of the outback that looks out for him and a trans-dimensional psychic serial killer and rapist that knows what is really going on. The show itself had Amazing animation and this creepy nightmaredelic atmosphere. Viacom seems to have done a pretty good job expunging it from Youtube but I did find the show on Vimeo.
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Damn I have been trying to remember the name of this comic/show. Thanks.
 
I love cartoons and animes. I had a really shitty child hood and I think it helped me to secure that little bit of sanity that's left in my fucked up brain.
 
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