Bear in mind that back then you had an underdeveloped brain. Literally.
The adults used to make the same complaints when I was a kid. Some things never change.
So shows get dumber with each generation?
No, you probably don’t remember the crappy ones from when you were a kid, but they were there. Survivorship bias.
Go ask highschool teachers what they think of the current generation.
Go ask highschool teachers in 1990 what they thought. It’s the same shit every generation.
“But the kids today are so much more violent!”
Nah, you just see kids being normal amounts of violent because they have cameras on them 24/7
For fun, I went through some old newspapers and really, nothing ever changes. Here’s one from 1959:
It even has the theme of “most generations think the younger generation is out of hand, but we’re really right this time.” So it has always been.
My daughter was watching - I guess it was the current Mickey Mouse (?) - cartoons on Disney+ a couple nights back. These include Mickey, Donald, Goofy, etc.
Only none of them look like the standard toons anymore but look like Disney had inbred sex with Ren and Stempy.
Even the humor and art is similar to that same style drawn by Kricfalusi where the characters all seem to be borderline psychotic and all the humor is based on shock value.
I actually like the new mickey tbh. I would describe it as steamboat mickey mixed with teen titans.
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 busy 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!
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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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
The new movie leaned super hard into the “teenage” part of the teenage mutant ninja turtles, and it was an incredibly interesting take.
Incredibly good.
The 2012 show was pretty good.
Gummy Bears. Am I the only person who watched it? It’s on Disney+ atm. Absolute classic show.
Tail spin
Loonatics, teen titans go, Ben 10. It’s a shame what companies do to such great things.
Cartoon Network is a dead mall selling sloatmeal.
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.
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
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.
