“Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” Is the single saving grace for today’s cartoons.
This show is utterly brilliant in my mind, and holds up to the cartoons I had as a kid (Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Doug, Rockos, Rugrats). The jokes on Fosters is great for a kid, but there’s tons of stuff in there for adults to “Get” as well, which is the one thing I feel makes a Cartoon “Stand out”- the test of time sorta deal - do i still enjoy it when I’m older, and appreciate it more sorta deal. This one show I think can hold up to that standard, I don’t think many others nowadays can say the same.
I kinda like the ones they show late night on Disney (I’m sure they show them other times too, but that’s when I watch them–while falling asleep). Kim Possible, The Replacements, The Emperor’s New School, and American Dragon: Jake Long are all pretty good, and none of them are shrill.
I want to know where you can still watch classic but racial Warner Brothers cartoons? I’m seriously afraid one of these days, they’ll all be sent down the memory hole.
When I was a kid, there was mostly only Hannah-Barbera crap. Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, fucking Huckleberry Hound. None of it was funny and all of it was repetitive (even when I was like 5, I figured out that Scooby Doo always had the same ending).
I loved Looney Toons, but they weren’t always easy to find. I was a little kid in the prehistoric days before cable was very widespread and HBO didn’t exist yet (and neither did VCR’s).
I think Spongebob is better than anything Hannah-Barbera ever did.
What titles are you talking about, here? Sealab 2020? Space Ghost Coast to Coast? Harvey Birdman? The Brak Show? Those all being parodies of H-B works, I suspect that’s not what you;re talking about.
Stroker and Hoop? Perfect Hair Forever? Squidbillies? Dangermouse? Metalocalypse? Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Tom Goes to the Mayor? The Venture Bros.? That’s more of a mixed bag, for me. Venture Bros. is inarguably the best show on TV. The rest, well, I like ATHF, because I want to learn how to be as rude as Master Shake when I grow up.
I’m 51.
Re: Naruto: I’m currently watching “Naruto:Shippuuden”, which seems to be X-treme only in the slowness of the plot development (the last episode I saw almost solely consisted of characters looking for someone, opening doors, and proclaming “he’s not in here”).
When I read the OP I thought, well, maybe he has a point. I then spontaneously started thinking of a (generic) cartoon image with bright neon colors, bold lines, and slightly “askew” faces - but when I tried to put this imaginary picture to an actual cartoon, it seemed not to match any actual show. And the more I keep thinking about it, the less I agree…if you look at the Cartoon Network website, you can see that there still are all kinds of approaches to cartoons.
BTW, one of my favorite shows used to be The Maxx on MTV. That was weird and nonsensical. And in 1993.
I like cartoons. I’m in my mid-40’s and I’ve been watching kids cartoons continuously for my entire adult life. And I’m here to tell you that we’re living through a golden age right now. Kid’s cartoons right now are the best they’ve been since the early 1960’s. They’re well-written, graphically innovative, and focused more on entertaining their audience than selling toys.
Kid’s television in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s was a vast sea of crap. The few high points like Animaniacs were good only in comparison to all the rest of the crap being shown at the same time. Remove the golden haze of childhood memories and compare them to the best of todays cartoons – Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, for example – and they don’t stand up. Foster’s is better than *Animaniacs * in almost every respect – it has better graphic design, better animation, better voice acting, and is better written, funnier, and more original.
Captain Planet? People have fond memories of Captain Planet? Next you’ll be telling me how much better Superfriends was than Kim Possible … . :rolleyes:
It also had the same beginning and middle, thanks to the way Hanna Barbera recycled their animation!
There’s one difference for you, by the way. I’m not nuts about some of the most heavily anime-influenced cartoons, but Family Guy aside animation looks a lot better today. “Adult” influences are filtering down, and I think the result is shows that are smarter and try harder. I don’t remember any cartoons from the 80s that were aimed at teens and the “tween” designation didn’t really exist, so there wasn’t a niche for something like Kim Possible. (Of course, adults don’t watch Kim Possible. None of my family members ever starts singing “I used to be blue…” and my brothers never ask me to yell anything like “AAAH! Monkeys!” Anyway…)
I watched Transformers and almost all of the other 80s/early 90s shows (and whatever older stuff was in reruns) as a kid, and I’ve always found the nostalgia really silly. Most of them were long toy commercials. Saying TV shows today don’t measure up to that is silly; they haven’t changed much as far as that goes. The energy has been amped up in a lot of cases, though, I’ll agree with that much.
Idk but I like Sponge Bob and it seems pretty off the wall but amazing as well- Plankton = great character
I’ve begun inserting the phrase “mystical monkey power” into conversations whenever I can.
It comes up more often than you’d think.
Of course they don’t. Because he used to be Drew, then one day he turned blue-just like suede shoes and berries- which made him look scary. Then he ponytailed his hair-y, got him a nasty scar, and a funky-fresh flying car. Now Drew be Dr. Drakken, so quit that yakkin’. Think he’s out? Ha! He’s back in!
Or at least that’s what I’ve been told.
mobo, you think you’re all that… but you’re not!