People who try to wave it off as simple nostalgia are fools. It was a golden age, the peak of western ~~civilization~~ animation.
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Lemmy 1995 cartoon watch day when?
I've been trying to collect all the 80's cartoons and make a Saturday morning playlist, it's VERY slow going.
And Sailor Moon!
Scooby doo
The Tick!!! That cartoon was ridiculously funny.
The 2001 live action show was enjoyable too. The more recent amazon reboot wasn't bad either. Actually got two seasons and an arc.
The only thing I really remember from the Amazon reboot(almost a decade ago) was how put off I was about the rampant Amazon Echo product placement. Pretty sure I only watched the first season.
I enjoyed the more recent one over the 2001. They both came out on Netflix recently.
The antenna were what sold the 2001 for me. That and Warburton. I don't know that I've ever seen anything with Warburton in it that I didn't like. But between him and those damn animatronic antenna. Even though he didn't have the proper cowl Etc it was still very enjoyable. The fox show was definitely a lot campier and low budget. But that sort of worked for it in a way. While they had a lot of star cameos throughout the short run. Just some of the basic scenarios and situations were hilarious. Like the tick fighting the Red Scare in an elevator while Jimmy Carter watched on. But then I'm also an older viewer so probably your mileage could vary.
Unfortunately edland didn't have the full rights to all the characters. So each show is really its own experience. But I think at least some Nostalgia puts the 2001 a little bit out ahead of the Amazon reboot. Even though I could easily recommend it.
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The '70s were way better. We got Looney Tunes and The Little Rascals.
90s got Tiny Toons 😭
That point in history where everything had to have a “baby” version
I never thought I'd live to see the day someone denigrates Tiny Toons Adventures. What the hell.
I was more a fan of Animaniacs.
Also wtf. Why did it go from Looney Tunes to Tiny Toons??
Saw the above and wondered why he spelled it Tunes, cause I thought it was Toons, looked it up, he’s right. Spelled Tiny Tunes above, then saw your comment and said the fuck, looked it up and sure enough. Confusing af.
I think at some point, someone started referring to cartoon characters as "toons".
It was an attempt to distance themselves a little from the 70's/80's cartoons that had a lot more violence, inuendo, and racism. It was a time when were as a society were trying to see if we could do better by the kids. If anything I'm more confused why they called the old ones tunes. They put effort into the musical components back the, but it never seemed like a top billing kind of thing.
TMNT, Batman TAS, and DuckTales (woo-oo!) for me! I used to set my alarm!
Edit: Admittedly, this was a few years earlier. By 1995, I was 16, and I had more interesting things to do, having just gotten my drivers license. Does anyone remember Q-Zar? also, paintball was all the craze at the time.
The 80s and 90s were a really fun time to grow up.
If you haven't watched it, the 2017 Ducktales reboot is better than the original imo.
If you think there’s anything with David Tennant in it that I haven’t watched…
Woo-ooo!
I preferred tail spin to duck tails, but either way both themes slapped.
The tailspin video game was one of my favorites
I'mstill amazed Tailspin existed. Retrofuturism with sky pirates and the cast of the Jungle Book. It's an insane, awesome concept.
Most of these weren't even Saturday morning shows for me; they were after school shows that aired during the weekdays.
Out of this list the only ones that were exclusive to Saturday were Bobby's World, Life with Louie, TMNT and The Tick.
There were people getting X-Men on days other than Saturday!? So not fair, if so.
Life with Louie was pretty good. I grew up in WI and the packer references were fire. Lol
it was digimon for a while in MS/hs
The Wild Thornberries, Hey Arnold, Doug, Aaahh!! Real Monsters... didn't know how good I had it.
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Er mer gerd! Magic School Bus isn't shown?
That show was fucking wild.
mmm delicious loss lead IP to sell dirt cheap toys
Thundercats, Dragonball, Batman TAS , Sailor Moon (my sister, not me..ofc..), X-Men, Pokemon, Inspector Gadget.
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Shhh as long as mom stays asleep she can't know we're watching cartoons!
(Mom knows. Mom just wants to sleep in).
Fast forward 30 years and my kids are fine launching cartoons on Jellyfin but apparently wake up completely deaf, because my alarm clock all summer has been the 10-tone Teen Titans: Go interstitial at max volume.
Oh well. Could be worse shows. It is DC Comics longest-running animated show, after all.
And my kids circadian rhythm is on point. It's almost the exact same time every day...when the night begins to shine.
I couldn't watch many of these because I had Saturday school :(
I could watch Dragon Ball and MegaMan super early in the morning too.
USA Cartoon Express of the 80s and early 90s was the only reason to wake up on Saturday mornings.
I was that weird kid who liked Bobby's World the most.
Spider-man and his Amazing Friends and a giant ass bowl of cereal. Life was good.
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