Toons Of The Past

R.Graves

R.Graves

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I've had the unfortunate pleasure of witnessing the Abomination that is the Powerpuff Girls reboot. and I can say without hyperbole that it was physically painful. but it happened reflecting on the cartoons I watch as a kid. I found myself comparing them to the the majority of trash a cartoon seem to be now.I don't think the cartoons of nowadays will hold up for the kids of today as adults nearly as well as the tunes I watched hold up for me now. long story short I would really love to hear about your guysesfavorite Tunes as kids.

Tl;Dr: what are your favorite toons from your childhood and do they hold up today? And why or why not? Or just a list whatever.
 
Bravestarr was, is and always will be my favorite cartoon from my childhood. Hulu has the series and I re-watch them with my kids now.

 
Because i have so many im goin with a list.

- dexter's laboratory
- cow and chicken/i am weasel
-ed edd n eddy
- powerpuff girls
-foster's home for imaginary friends
-the simpsons
- futurama
- angry beavers
- batman:TAS/ batman beyond
-tmnt(2003)

This is getting a little long but also south park
 
I think the ppg reboot is trying way too hard to be hip by using Internet memes like duckface that are already outdated and they actually twerked *vomits* they're kindergarteners well moving on here's my list of cartoons
•invader zim
•animaniacs
•teen titans
•avatar: the last airbender
 
^ SAME

Also... Rick and Marty's pretty good but that's fairly recent.

Samurai Jack

Johnny bravo

And others...
 
The most Noteworthy ones are probably:

-Invader Zim
-Tom and Jerry
-Popeye the Sailorman
-Ed Edd and Eddy
-Courage the Cowardly Dog
-Fairy Odd Parents.
-The Misadventures of Flapjack
-Foster's home for Imaginary Friends
 
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Yeah cartoons have been in a decline, I rather liked it when in cartoons they put both gags for kids but also cleverly put in jokes for adults to enjoy.
I have not watched the new Powerpuff Girls yet but I rather liked the old series, some of my favorite episodes include the one that is a parody on the Beatles and one in which the bodies or minds of characters keep being switched around.
Someone else told me PPF now goes with internet memes as jokes which doesn't sound that funny and which also means that a lot of jokes will quickly become irrelevant when the internet 'moves on'.

Several of my favorite cartoons have already been mentioned here such as Johnny Bravo (especially Season 2 and 3 with Carl and Pops), Courage the Cowardly Dog, Samurai Jack (I love the universe Genny Tartakovsky had set up, allowing action, drama, and comedy stories to be told in it. There should be a Samurai Jack RPG).
-Batman The Animated Series speaks for itself.
-Superman the Animated series
-Justice League/Justice League Unlimited
-Batman Beyond
-Pinky and the Brain (love LaMarche's diabolical Orson Welles)

There was this cartoon called Exosquad which was basically started out as a toy cartoon such as GIJOE and Transformers (at least I think it was made to promote a toyline) but it quickly developed into a storyline about an interplanetary conflict in which future humanity was at war with their Neo Sapiens creations, a race original created to serve as workers to colonize Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
War was depicted in it as a brutal and remorseless thing in which the good guys could not always win when the enemy was simply smarter or in larger numbers, even main characters could die.

Last, I discovered a cartoon last year I also rather liked called Gravity Falls. It reminded me of Spielberg and other movie and television producers from the 80s and early 90s when unsettling fantasy and horror was a lot bigger than now. To make you curious and spin your imagination but also give you the occasional scare.
One of the main antagonists is basically an avatar of nyarlathotep, it just wants to mess up reality and release madness because it is there. Humanity from its viewpoint are just meat puppets to play with.
And like many Lovecraftian entities it offers knowledge but often at a great price which it is not always clear about.
 
Cow and Chicken
Two Stupid Dogs
Scooby-Doo
Dexters Laboratory
Thomas the Tank Engine

Although i watched everything on cartoon network from 1994 to 1998~ (they later switched it to Fox Kids), i only looked forward to a few series and the other ones i just watched because i didn't have anything else to do. At the time i thought that new cartoons in the 90' were shit. I think i liked Cow and Chicken the most, as it was kind of a new concept at the time to have these, in a way, really creepy characters. I don't know why i liked two stupid dogs, as it always seemed to me as such a bleek and depressing world. And of course the bonus of cartoon network channel in my country was, that after 11-12 pm it switched to a soft porn network, so when i was alone at home i had something to look forward to when watching cartoons.

The first time i really got hooked on something animated was when i saw The Dragon Balls series for the first time. It was not overdubbed, so could still hear the original track and it was the first animation where people would die in various ways. This always buged me about american cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Spiderman etc (the ghosts and monsters in scooby doo would really capture my imagination and then in the end it would turn out that i was all some bullshit scam by some people, and that would instantly suck out all the excitement for me), is that even if they tried to create some drama, it always ended up ok for everybody, there were no deaths, no real injuries, and that seemed like bullshit to me. Did anyone else feel the same way, or was i just a weird bloodthirsty kid?
 
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Is that even if they tried to create some drama, it always ended up ok for everybody, there were no deaths, no real injuries, and that seemed like bullshit to me. Did anyone else feel the same way, or was i just a weird bloodthirsty kid
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Nah I understand that you wanted more serious risk in a cartoon.
I myself wouldn't exactly call it blood thirst but we want to see characters actually having to experience risk and facing situations of life and death in which actually the possibility does exist that they can die, and that a happy end is not actually given but has to be earned, and that sometimes the characters can not win and just have to make the best of a bad situation.
In other words we want characters to face hardships like we do in real life, being forced to adapt and grow as persons as they have to deal with loss.

I think it sort of part of growing up, we want more continuity, stories that have more nuance or aren't as clear cut. Things that make us think or hold us in suspense.

Now I wouldn't exactly attribute this all to Dragon Ball Z as there was quite some juvenile humor in it as well. Please deaths were sometimes really cheap and with the Dragon Balls around death is not really the permanent thing as it is in reality.
It is a bit like a superhero fantasy, powerful men and women slugging it out with each other, blowing up mountains with ease.

I recently started to read the original Dragon Ball which IMO has a bit more storyline than DBZ had in the end in which one saga in which the Z heroes need to fight the most powerful fighter ever is only followed up by a new saga in which there is suddenly an even more powerful fighter.
It started to get a little ridiculous.
 
Dexter's Laboratory, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, Cow and Chicken and The Adventures of Johnny Quest were all pretty epic.

Are modern day cartoons really so bad? I mean, I once watched some of the cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid, and they were all really dumb. It's hard to judge cartoons as an adult.
 
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Nah I understand that you wanted more serious risk in a cartoon.
I myself wouldn't exactly call it blood thirst but we want to see characters actually having to experience risk and facing situations of life and death in which actually the possibility does exist that they can die, and that a happy end is not actually given but has to be earned, and that sometimes the characters can not win and just have to make the best of a bad situation.
In other words we want characters to face hardships like we do in real life, being forced to adapt and grow as persons as they have to deal with loss.

I think it sort of part of growing up, we want more continuity, stories that have more nuance or aren't as clear cut. Things that make us think or hold us in suspense.

Now I wouldn't exactly attribute this all to Dragon Ball Z as there was quite some juvenile humor in it as well. Please deaths were sometimes really cheap and with the Dragon Balls around death is not really the permanent thing as it is in reality.
It is a bit like a superhero fantasy, powerful men and women slugging it out with each other, blowing up mountains with ease.

I recently started to read the original Dragon Ball which IMO has a bit more storyline than DBZ had in the end in which one saga in which the Z heroes need to fight the most powerful fighter ever is only followed up by a new saga in which there is suddenly an even more powerful fighter.
It started to get a little ridiculous.
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I did not ponder about it in any sort of in depth way, it just always bugged me, when i was little, that the enemies of a hero would purposefully not use guns and monsters, or ghosts would turn out not to be real and everybody would just play whack a mole with each other.

As for Dragon Balls, well, i started with Dragon Balls - the original series, not DBZ. At first i thought it was some cartoon for kindergartners (like pokemon), but then tried to watch it and was hooked. I loved the pervert turtle guy and the jokes around that, the various adventures of goku, the strange, exotic world, interesting characters and badass fights with deadly reprecussions. And i agree, the original series had a more palatable growth of character power and culminated at around the tipping point where it begins to steer off into absurd.



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Visionaries.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
Transformers (the very first one).
Ring Raiders (most unfortunate cartoon/toy line title ever).
Ulysses 31.
Starfleet X (actually puppets, but eh, same deal).
Terrahawks (again, puppets, but awesome regardless).
Dungeons & Dragons.

Others I'm probably forgetting. I'm old, leave me alone ;p
 
R.Graves said:
I've had the unfortunate pleasure of witnessing the Abomination that is the Powerpuff Girls reboot. and I can say without hyperbole that it was physically painful. but it happened reflecting on the cartoons I watch as a kid. I found myself comparing them to the the majority of trash a cartoon seem to be now.I don't think the cartoons of nowadays will hold up for the kids of today as adults nearly as well as the tunes I watched hold up for me now. long story short I would really love to hear about your guysesfavorite Tunes as kids.

Tl;Dr: what are your favorite toons from your childhood and do they hold up today? And why or why not? Or just a list whatever.
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I'm just gonna make a list of what Powerpuff Girls did wrong that really makes you cringe:



That's the end, go home pls.

Oh, and they got rid of Mrs Bellum
 
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