Bear in mind that back then you had an underdeveloped brain. Literally.
People always say that it’s just because the shows aren’t made for you anymore and that’s actually the problem but not the way you think.
The shows are quite literally dumber. Cartoons used to have content for parents as well as the kids. Like sneaking in adult jokes that would fly right over a kids head. Now cartoons are just about capturing attention through flashy colors and constantly changing scenes.
Put on a cartoon made decades ago and the whole family can enjoy it. Put on a modern cartoon and anyone over 12 can’t stand it
Bluey would like a word, sir… :D
You mean shitty remakes made to capitalize on the parents that want to share their nostalgia with their kids, there are plenty of excellent shows for kids nowadays and frankly I’m jealous, there’s plenty of variety of shows that don’t treat you like you’re dumb (there’s still pepa pig style of crap tho).
It’s like the marvel garbage, they make it for people who are addicted to their stuff and so will buy it regardless of quality and even buy more into it when they can complain about a brown character or something.
Edit: I wanted to add: shitty reboots don’t magically make the originals disappear, yet people treat it like that. Find new stuff, don’t be old man yelling at cloud.
Hey, don’t go hating on Peppa Pig, that show is great!
Peppa pig is FILLED with jokes for the parents. It was one of the few shows I could watch with my toddlers because of all the jokes between the narrator and the parents. I wouldn’t watch it now because the sentences and narratives are meant to match the life experience of kids up to about gr 1-2, but it was a great show.
Everyone loves when mr bull digs up the road zooms out to all the cars in the traffic jam honking.
I present Bluey as my defense.
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They still have adult jokes
New Magic School Bus fucking rocks.
Teen Titans Go fucking rocks.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fucking rocks.
They aren’t the same as the versions we grew up on, but give them a chance, really.
I haven’t watched the others, but yeah, Teen Titans Go was hard to get into because of nostalgia fever. After a few episodes I saw it for the new thing it is and not what it was, and yes, it fucking rocks.
I really loved the (relatively) dark feel of the original Teen Titans show. The new one is good, but a completely different show than the one I love
Check out Young Justice if you haven’t. Significantly more mature than the original Teen Titans, and an overall great show.
I will! Thank you!
The whole Timmverse lineage had this lovely radio-drama tone. It was all PG at worst, but the characters took it seriously. Compare Michael Caine in that Muppets adaptation of A Christmas Carol: he played it completely straight even though he was co-starring with felt.
The goofy self-aware responses to all that are at least as jarring as the tryhard grimdark responses to it. Better - but still odd. At least they’re not trying to out-edge the show that did Heart Of Ice in its first season and dropped Batgirl onto the hood of Jim Gordon’s car.
That fandom nostalgia is a helluva drug. Mix it with updated norms and politics and you’ll get 10,000 word essays on why purple-hair Dr. Sattler can’t use a hyperdrive as a weapon because it’d make Star Wars unrealistic.
The best thing is that they’re made by people who grew up on the same stuff. Like OK KO is this wild blend of Looney Tunes and 90s/early 2000s Shonen and I love it.
those all suck
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Loonatics, teen titans go, Ben 10. It’s a shame what companies do to such great things.
SpongeBob, what have they done to you?
Teen Titans, what have they done to you?
Dexter’s Lab, what have they done to you?
Muppet Babies, what have they done to you?
Garfield, what have they done to you?
Tom & Jerry, what have they done to you?
Teenager mutant ninja turtles, what have they done to you?
New movie slaps
Incredibly good.
Gummy Bears. Am I the only person who watched it? It’s on Disney+ atm. Absolute classic show.
Tail spin
Cartoon Network is a dead mall selling sloatmeal.
Teen titans
Where’s a remake of Biker Mice from Mars or Swat Katz tho
For real, I’d actually forgotten about the kats till now
A needlessly serious reboot of Street Sharks sounds hilarious.
… I double-checked, and I’m genuinely shocked it wasn’t written with a z.
Not really a cartoon (well, it kinda is now), but they took a hatchet to Sesame Street
My two year old loves Sesame Street. Having grown up with it myself, I can say it’s perfectly acceptable l and is in tune with this generations needs.
Is it my kind of perfect? No. But then again nothing is.
In what way?
It’s not so much that they cut it in half to 30 minutes, but more that so much of it is copy paste content. Having Anderson .Paak or Feist on is cool, but they got them to record 5 minutes then put that same 5 minutes in what felt like 6 episodes of the season for some reason. So much of it is 2D animated now where it used to have way more actual human interaction. It feels very aged down. Idk, it’s not awful by any means and the inclusionary aspect remains, but it’s not close to the same quality in my view
Part of that is because their mission statement isn’t literally regarded as radical anymore. When Sesame Street launched, and really up through the early 90s, it was radically progressive to have a kid’s show that tried to teach kids things, and more specifically targeted inner-city kids by using surroundings they would be familiar with. Most of us grew up with Sesame Street just being on the air normally, and most of us here didn’t live through the Senate hearings on public television. It’s a minor miracle shows like Sesame Street and Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood are regarded as mainstream and boring now.
I knew I should have stayed home today!
Company plays off nostalgia for easy money. This doesn’t actually bother me because on the flip side of this is that the best quality cartoons have been made in past 20 years and it’s not even close.
