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Disney, Nickelodeon, or Cartoon Network?
Today Spotto is feeling NOSTALGIC!
Well...I always feel nostalgic.
Our childhood has always been known as the golden age of our lives, particularly in terms of the entertainment avaliable. Nowadays everyone, particularly those in my generation and perhaps before my generation, always angst about how cartoons these days just absolutely fail. They are all far inferior to what we had in our childhood, what we experienced when we were wee lads and lasses, sitting in front of the ol' tube on a Saturday Morning.
Well last Saturday I woke up early due to my rather skewed sleep cycle (yes, to me waking up at 7am is a screwed up sleep cycle) and I decided to see what the heck was on TV. I at first took a look at the morning news, but then as I channel flipped I noticed some cartoons being played this morning, particularly from some sort of 4kids Saturday Morning block I had never heard of until that day.
What did Spotto watch, you ask? Was it some sort of modern cartoon that I can't even name because I never even watch them? (Well, I can name cartoons such as LEAGUE OF SUPER EVIL!!! Or uh, that cartoon with that evil cat who looks more like a RAT or whatever. I honestly am not interested in the cartoons they put on TV these days to remember their names)
No, I saw a TMNT movie titled "Turtles Forever" which I actually enjoyed despite never watching the 1987 TMNT cartoon (I wasn't born then >_>), nor getting into the 2003 TMNT cartoon, nor having HEARD of the first comics of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles until that day. (Actually I had heard via surfing on the internet that there were earlier incarnations of the turtles with red bandanas but it never clicked to me that they were the originals.) Then I watched Dragon Ball Z KAI which looked like DBZ...and it was DBZ, just with this random new "KAI" attached to it. The opening gave me the impression that all the animation was redone and rehashed so the battles looked much smoother,but much to my chargin it just looked liked the old DBZ...
I stopped watching afterwards as I had no intention to watch whatever this "Yu-Gi-Oh" 5D stuff was or whatever Dinosaur King was, just 4kids dubbed stuff...but I looked at the TV schedule and noticed other children's channels running things like "Metal Fusion Beyblade" and "Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl" (Actually it was Pokemon GALACTIC something or PLATINUM or whatever I HAVE NO CLUE I DON'T REMEMBER) but what do these shows all have in common? (Besides Dinosaur King, no idea what on earth that is.)
They're all OLD shows.
Sure, some of them have brand new characters and supposedly brand new synopsises, but they all originated from older shows. It's as if instead of creating something brand new to catch the kids attention they just dump old successful shows that worked before and rehashed them, even RENAME them but changing NOTHING (DBZ:Kai) in an effort to grab those children's short attention spans. Everyone is running out of ideas or something!
For example I'll choose the show I'm most familiar with, Beyblade. There's this new "Beyblade" with like...new kids, and new plot, but it's still advertising the little spinning tops, which I think has been out of the loop for YEARS yet here they are on TV trying to grab our children's attention so they can go out and buy more tops. It's not as if this idea is original. You have Yu-Gi-Oh trying to get kids to buy more cards, this Bakugan show which tries to get kids to buy their...Bakugan things, and then we have TMNT which has been restarting their franchise with new movies and cartoons for YEARS. It's as if people never let go! Don't get me started on Pokemon. That one never even ENDED, they just keep Ash a 10-year-old forever!
Those cartoons however, are anime. (Okay besides TMNT, but whatever)
What I wish to speak about are the cartoons America created, if not America, Canada, or France, or whatever country has decided to create animated comedies or action scenes for all of our young eyes to see. The biggest companies at the time were Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney.
It's not as if these companies STILL aren't making cartoons. Disney continues to turn their movies into cartoons, Nickelodeon still has the successful-but incredibly long-running Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents, and Cartoon Network has the third sequel to Ben 10...wait a minute.
Never-ending cartoons? Adapting their successful movies into animated shorts on television? Adding dozens of dozens of sequels to their tried-and-true series? That sounds just like the Anime above! What has happened here? No new ideas guys?
Well nowadays these companies are creating shows with REAL people in it, not two-dimensional people. Of course I don't think anyone actually likes them, at least those of my generation. I hear constant criticism on these companies, their dwindling numbers in cartoons and their new "REAL" television being puked onto their channels today. The explanation for these sequence of events is usually attributed to the fact that everyone watches 3D cartoons now on the big screen, and people are just getting tired of the old-school style of animation, rather preferring to animate some 3D model to dance around in a farm. Even the "new" TMNT cartoon, adaptation, whatever is supposedly going to be full CGI.
Before we enter this new era of Saturday Morning cartoons, let's take a moment to remember the good ol' days, when our favourite shows were airing, whether it be a saturday morning, or right after school...these memories we will cherish forever.
Let's start with Disney! Good ol' Disney. Not only did they have incredible movies in the wondrous decade that is the 90s, (and even the early 00's) but they didn't have half-bad cartoons either. I remember such shows like Recess, Kim Possible, Fillmore, any cartoon involving ducks (whether it be Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, or THE MIGHTY DUCKS), PB&J Otter, Dave the Barbarian, The Replacements...
Of course my absolute favourite show from the Disney Channel was the Weekenders. Before my television was reduced to 30 channels I watched this show religiously whenever I could. It wasn't incredibly crazy or silly or anything, but I really loved the subtle humour of this show, a shame that it doesn't seem to be one of the most memorable cartoons of Disney back then, but certainly mine! (I actually got tired of Recess being shown constantly. The two shows were aired I think, right after one another (I forget which was first or which was last) as well as Fillmore (TARA STRONG VOICES INGRID!? I'm still going: "WHAAAAT!?" from that) and I was always like "GODDAMN RECESS I WANT MY WEEKENDERS" over and over and over again. Sadly those days are long gone because even if I did get the Disney channel back, they no longer air The Weekenders, yet for some reason still air Recess...
GODDAMN RECESS I WANT MY WEEKENDERS!!
I probably missed tons of other Disney shows other people loved like uh...Pepper Ann, the Proud Family and some others I'm neglecting to mention, but the ones I listed were the ones I watched and they were very dear to me, except maybe Recess. (Goddamnit!)
Another cartoon from the Disney channel I remember is "The House of Mouse"...actually I have no clue if that was the actual name of the show, I just remember it was like some sort of "live" show with a bunch of cartoon characters in fancy clothes sitting at their tables as the audience as if they were watching a stage. Anyway Mickey Mouse was the "host" and he went up to the podium and played some shorts of the Disney characters and I just loved watching it...
Alas, those were the old days! Now they have...they have...
Oh Disney, I don't even want to mention whatever it is you have now...it's just so different from the old days. These shows aren't even 2D! What happened, Disney? WHAT HAPPENED!?
Well, let's move on.
Nickelodeon.
Okay I have to be honest, Nickelodeon is actually my least favourite company of the three. I actually didn't like Rugrats that much. When I was a kid and saw it on I was impatiently waiting for it to be OVER already to watch my other favourite cartoons. I didn't care for Spongebob Squarepants even if I watched it a few times. I wasn't that big of a fan on Fairly Odd Parents (that live-action movie is still terrible though). I wasn't that big on Hey Arnold or the Wild Thornberries or Danny Phantom. I WAS NOT A NICKTOONS KID. They never even SHOWED Invader Zim in Canada until I was like seventeen and at MIDNIGHT. (At least where I lived, I have no clue if it was ever on elsewhere but I never really saw it when I was a kid) (And I did enjoy watching it but seventeen is BARELY even childhood if you can call it my childhood at ALL)
I am not an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan, nor did I give a damn about Jimmy Neutron, wasn't that big on Doug, I just didn't like Nickelodeon cartoons. I guess besides Invader Zim I DID like the Angry Beavers, CatDog, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and My Life as a Teenage Robot a bit, but they weren't my favourites either. I enjoyed Disney and Cartoon Network a lot more over Nickelodeon stuff.
Although I think of the three companies, Nickelodeon is the most successful in terms of children's cartoons these days. I mean they have the powerhouses Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents, which are STILL running! The after-school kids block they show here in Canada just plays like three episodes of these two cartoons each in a ROW! Then there's the massively popular Avatar which actually got a movie released in freakin' threatres and there's still a sequel series coming. I'm sure tons of fans are happy who DO like these shows but they weren't my nostalgic childhood TV shows and that makes me sad :C
Moving on...
CARTOON NETWORK YAY!
Dexter's Laboratory! Samurai Jack! Codename Kids Next Door! I AM WEASEL! COW AND CHICKEN! Courage the Cowardly Dog! The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy! I can keep! Naming! Cartoons! With! Exclamation! Marks! In! Fragmented! Sentences!
Oh yeah, now I was a Cartoon Network fan. I loved Disney stuff, but Cartoon Network was the company I loved most cartoons from. I still remember watching Johnny Bravo completely fail, with that little girl who hangs around with him who was incredibly competent. I can even remember Sheep in the Big City even if it ran for a very short time. I even watched Time Squad with that Otto dude going back in time. I always found Ed, Edd, and Eddy ridiculous but watched it anyway. Hell, I even watched Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi and pretty much EVERY GODDAMN SHOW THIS COMPANY MADE...until 2004. I'm not a particular fan of their current cartoons...
And I haven't even mentioned the Powerpuff Girls. You know, the nostalgic show of mine.
Sadly like Disney the cartoons of today for CN aren't as varied or successful like Nick is...which again keeps my frown from going up-side down because GODDAMN of all companies to be the most successful it's the one with the shows I don't like the most. Whaaaaat.
Of course that's why we have memories to remember the good ol' days. I don't recall too much from Dexter but I think one of the most memorable episodes to me is this weird pink monster imaginary friend Deedee came up with, and also her counterpart, Mandark's sister I think? Lala Vava? or Olga or whatever her name was, or that episode when Dexter's and Mandark's DADS were yelling at each other trying to prove who is BETTER and Dexter's robot doing ballet and...okay so I do remember a bit more than I give credit for.
I also remember a crazy episode in KND when their dead pet (I don't remember if it was a hamster or gerbil or guinea pig or whatever) came from their grave through some sort of soda machine and they went under to their world which was filled with clouds and pink and...it's all fuzzy in my head, but I liked Numbuh 3.
Most memorable Samurai Jack episode had to be that one where it was all black and white, and his opponent could not be seen in the darkness, however Jack was covered in white so he couldn't be seen in the WHITENESS. I found the visuals to be incredibly clever.
And so on and so forth. I can name a hundred PPG moments if only because I actually have them all on my computer, lol. (If I had NEVER rewatched them though, similar to the other cartoons I likely wouldn't have remembered too much)
But our childhood wasn't that simple. It wasn't just these three companies. There was always MORE.
The most memorable cartoon company besides these three for me? The Warner Brothers. I watched Animaniacs. I watched Pinky and the Brain, and I watched Tiny Toons. (Unfortunately never saw Freakazoid. :X) They also came up with Looney Tunes obviously, THE archetype cartoon (at least to me. When I think cartoons...BUGS BUNNY is the first thing that comes into my head. Not Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny.)
And other cartoons not affiliated with any of these companies, stuff like Reboot and Transformer's Beast Wars (Okay it relates back to Transformers itself but whatever) and Arthur and Daria and Cybersix and Blues' Clues and I can keep naming every cartoon in existence, but these were the notable ones for me.
Don't get me started with Japan's cartoons...
But these days I suppose I grew out of the cartoon stage, and the only thing I bother to catch on TV is either sports or the news or a documentary and maybe very occasionally a cartoon...then again I'm watching childish Anime at the moment, maybe I haven't moved on at all. :D
Not to mention animation aimed at older audiences. Despite not watching South Park in ages, I still love that, The Simpsons should end already but it's always nostalgic, and even though I hate Seth McFarlane's work American Dad isn't half-bad, certainly better than his other rubbish works. You also got these random oddly-animated aimed-at-adult cartoons like Robot Chicken, etc.
Nonetheless, this post wasn't really a rant, mostly a LET'S LIST STUFF SPOTTO WATCHED AS A CHILD FOR NO REASON BUT TO REMEMBER THEM! :D
In terms of answering my subject line? Cartoon Network hands down, at least when I was a kid. Nowadays...? Let's not think of today, let's think of yesterday...
I will however end this with a quote I read in a Youtube comment. I could go into a massive rant of why Youtube Comments are retarded and yet so addicting to read, thus lowering my IQ and ruining my knowledge of the English language, but this particular quote touched me. (I reduced the amount of EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! that were attached to the quote though. It IS a youtube comment, lol.)
"People don't stop playing because they get old! People get old because they stop playing!"
Of course I have no clue why this person said PLAYING when he/she was commenting on a song people believe they are too old to LISTEN to, but the point of the quote is there. You only get too old to do/play/watch/read or listen to something when you stop and actually believe that. Who cares if Sailor Moon was for little girls or Alvin and the Chipmunk's was for silly children! If you still love them, you're not too old to rewatch these nostalgic TV shows of before, and even of today! Now let's all go watch Storm Hawks!!!
This has been Spotto.
Well...I always feel nostalgic.
Our childhood has always been known as the golden age of our lives, particularly in terms of the entertainment avaliable. Nowadays everyone, particularly those in my generation and perhaps before my generation, always angst about how cartoons these days just absolutely fail. They are all far inferior to what we had in our childhood, what we experienced when we were wee lads and lasses, sitting in front of the ol' tube on a Saturday Morning.
Well last Saturday I woke up early due to my rather skewed sleep cycle (yes, to me waking up at 7am is a screwed up sleep cycle) and I decided to see what the heck was on TV. I at first took a look at the morning news, but then as I channel flipped I noticed some cartoons being played this morning, particularly from some sort of 4kids Saturday Morning block I had never heard of until that day.
What did Spotto watch, you ask? Was it some sort of modern cartoon that I can't even name because I never even watch them? (Well, I can name cartoons such as LEAGUE OF SUPER EVIL!!! Or uh, that cartoon with that evil cat who looks more like a RAT or whatever. I honestly am not interested in the cartoons they put on TV these days to remember their names)
No, I saw a TMNT movie titled "Turtles Forever" which I actually enjoyed despite never watching the 1987 TMNT cartoon (I wasn't born then >_>), nor getting into the 2003 TMNT cartoon, nor having HEARD of the first comics of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles until that day. (Actually I had heard via surfing on the internet that there were earlier incarnations of the turtles with red bandanas but it never clicked to me that they were the originals.) Then I watched Dragon Ball Z KAI which looked like DBZ...and it was DBZ, just with this random new "KAI" attached to it. The opening gave me the impression that all the animation was redone and rehashed so the battles looked much smoother,but much to my chargin it just looked liked the old DBZ...
I stopped watching afterwards as I had no intention to watch whatever this "Yu-Gi-Oh" 5D stuff was or whatever Dinosaur King was, just 4kids dubbed stuff...but I looked at the TV schedule and noticed other children's channels running things like "Metal Fusion Beyblade" and "Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl" (Actually it was Pokemon GALACTIC something or PLATINUM or whatever I HAVE NO CLUE I DON'T REMEMBER) but what do these shows all have in common? (Besides Dinosaur King, no idea what on earth that is.)
They're all OLD shows.
Sure, some of them have brand new characters and supposedly brand new synopsises, but they all originated from older shows. It's as if instead of creating something brand new to catch the kids attention they just dump old successful shows that worked before and rehashed them, even RENAME them but changing NOTHING (DBZ:Kai) in an effort to grab those children's short attention spans. Everyone is running out of ideas or something!
For example I'll choose the show I'm most familiar with, Beyblade. There's this new "Beyblade" with like...new kids, and new plot, but it's still advertising the little spinning tops, which I think has been out of the loop for YEARS yet here they are on TV trying to grab our children's attention so they can go out and buy more tops. It's not as if this idea is original. You have Yu-Gi-Oh trying to get kids to buy more cards, this Bakugan show which tries to get kids to buy their...Bakugan things, and then we have TMNT which has been restarting their franchise with new movies and cartoons for YEARS. It's as if people never let go! Don't get me started on Pokemon. That one never even ENDED, they just keep Ash a 10-year-old forever!
Those cartoons however, are anime. (Okay besides TMNT, but whatever)
What I wish to speak about are the cartoons America created, if not America, Canada, or France, or whatever country has decided to create animated comedies or action scenes for all of our young eyes to see. The biggest companies at the time were Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney.
It's not as if these companies STILL aren't making cartoons. Disney continues to turn their movies into cartoons, Nickelodeon still has the successful-but incredibly long-running Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents, and Cartoon Network has the third sequel to Ben 10...wait a minute.
Never-ending cartoons? Adapting their successful movies into animated shorts on television? Adding dozens of dozens of sequels to their tried-and-true series? That sounds just like the Anime above! What has happened here? No new ideas guys?
Well nowadays these companies are creating shows with REAL people in it, not two-dimensional people. Of course I don't think anyone actually likes them, at least those of my generation. I hear constant criticism on these companies, their dwindling numbers in cartoons and their new "REAL" television being puked onto their channels today. The explanation for these sequence of events is usually attributed to the fact that everyone watches 3D cartoons now on the big screen, and people are just getting tired of the old-school style of animation, rather preferring to animate some 3D model to dance around in a farm. Even the "new" TMNT cartoon, adaptation, whatever is supposedly going to be full CGI.
Before we enter this new era of Saturday Morning cartoons, let's take a moment to remember the good ol' days, when our favourite shows were airing, whether it be a saturday morning, or right after school...these memories we will cherish forever.
Let's start with Disney! Good ol' Disney. Not only did they have incredible movies in the wondrous decade that is the 90s, (and even the early 00's) but they didn't have half-bad cartoons either. I remember such shows like Recess, Kim Possible, Fillmore, any cartoon involving ducks (whether it be Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, or THE MIGHTY DUCKS), PB&J Otter, Dave the Barbarian, The Replacements...
Of course my absolute favourite show from the Disney Channel was the Weekenders. Before my television was reduced to 30 channels I watched this show religiously whenever I could. It wasn't incredibly crazy or silly or anything, but I really loved the subtle humour of this show, a shame that it doesn't seem to be one of the most memorable cartoons of Disney back then, but certainly mine! (I actually got tired of Recess being shown constantly. The two shows were aired I think, right after one another (I forget which was first or which was last) as well as Fillmore (TARA STRONG VOICES INGRID!? I'm still going: "WHAAAAT!?" from that) and I was always like "GODDAMN RECESS I WANT MY WEEKENDERS" over and over and over again. Sadly those days are long gone because even if I did get the Disney channel back, they no longer air The Weekenders, yet for some reason still air Recess...
GODDAMN RECESS I WANT MY WEEKENDERS!!
I probably missed tons of other Disney shows other people loved like uh...Pepper Ann, the Proud Family and some others I'm neglecting to mention, but the ones I listed were the ones I watched and they were very dear to me, except maybe Recess. (Goddamnit!)
Another cartoon from the Disney channel I remember is "The House of Mouse"...actually I have no clue if that was the actual name of the show, I just remember it was like some sort of "live" show with a bunch of cartoon characters in fancy clothes sitting at their tables as the audience as if they were watching a stage. Anyway Mickey Mouse was the "host" and he went up to the podium and played some shorts of the Disney characters and I just loved watching it...
Alas, those were the old days! Now they have...they have...
Oh Disney, I don't even want to mention whatever it is you have now...it's just so different from the old days. These shows aren't even 2D! What happened, Disney? WHAT HAPPENED!?
Well, let's move on.
Nickelodeon.
Okay I have to be honest, Nickelodeon is actually my least favourite company of the three. I actually didn't like Rugrats that much. When I was a kid and saw it on I was impatiently waiting for it to be OVER already to watch my other favourite cartoons. I didn't care for Spongebob Squarepants even if I watched it a few times. I wasn't that big of a fan on Fairly Odd Parents (that live-action movie is still terrible though). I wasn't that big on Hey Arnold or the Wild Thornberries or Danny Phantom. I WAS NOT A NICKTOONS KID. They never even SHOWED Invader Zim in Canada until I was like seventeen and at MIDNIGHT. (At least where I lived, I have no clue if it was ever on elsewhere but I never really saw it when I was a kid) (And I did enjoy watching it but seventeen is BARELY even childhood if you can call it my childhood at ALL)
I am not an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan, nor did I give a damn about Jimmy Neutron, wasn't that big on Doug, I just didn't like Nickelodeon cartoons. I guess besides Invader Zim I DID like the Angry Beavers, CatDog, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and My Life as a Teenage Robot a bit, but they weren't my favourites either. I enjoyed Disney and Cartoon Network a lot more over Nickelodeon stuff.
Although I think of the three companies, Nickelodeon is the most successful in terms of children's cartoons these days. I mean they have the powerhouses Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents, which are STILL running! The after-school kids block they show here in Canada just plays like three episodes of these two cartoons each in a ROW! Then there's the massively popular Avatar which actually got a movie released in freakin' threatres and there's still a sequel series coming. I'm sure tons of fans are happy who DO like these shows but they weren't my nostalgic childhood TV shows and that makes me sad :C
Moving on...
CARTOON NETWORK YAY!
Dexter's Laboratory! Samurai Jack! Codename Kids Next Door! I AM WEASEL! COW AND CHICKEN! Courage the Cowardly Dog! The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy! I can keep! Naming! Cartoons! With! Exclamation! Marks! In! Fragmented! Sentences!
Oh yeah, now I was a Cartoon Network fan. I loved Disney stuff, but Cartoon Network was the company I loved most cartoons from. I still remember watching Johnny Bravo completely fail, with that little girl who hangs around with him who was incredibly competent. I can even remember Sheep in the Big City even if it ran for a very short time. I even watched Time Squad with that Otto dude going back in time. I always found Ed, Edd, and Eddy ridiculous but watched it anyway. Hell, I even watched Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi and pretty much EVERY GODDAMN SHOW THIS COMPANY MADE...until 2004. I'm not a particular fan of their current cartoons...
And I haven't even mentioned the Powerpuff Girls. You know, the nostalgic show of mine.
Sadly like Disney the cartoons of today for CN aren't as varied or successful like Nick is...which again keeps my frown from going up-side down because GODDAMN of all companies to be the most successful it's the one with the shows I don't like the most. Whaaaaat.
Of course that's why we have memories to remember the good ol' days. I don't recall too much from Dexter but I think one of the most memorable episodes to me is this weird pink monster imaginary friend Deedee came up with, and also her counterpart, Mandark's sister I think? Lala Vava? or Olga or whatever her name was, or that episode when Dexter's and Mandark's DADS were yelling at each other trying to prove who is BETTER and Dexter's robot doing ballet and...okay so I do remember a bit more than I give credit for.
I also remember a crazy episode in KND when their dead pet (I don't remember if it was a hamster or gerbil or guinea pig or whatever) came from their grave through some sort of soda machine and they went under to their world which was filled with clouds and pink and...it's all fuzzy in my head, but I liked Numbuh 3.
Most memorable Samurai Jack episode had to be that one where it was all black and white, and his opponent could not be seen in the darkness, however Jack was covered in white so he couldn't be seen in the WHITENESS. I found the visuals to be incredibly clever.
And so on and so forth. I can name a hundred PPG moments if only because I actually have them all on my computer, lol. (If I had NEVER rewatched them though, similar to the other cartoons I likely wouldn't have remembered too much)
But our childhood wasn't that simple. It wasn't just these three companies. There was always MORE.
The most memorable cartoon company besides these three for me? The Warner Brothers. I watched Animaniacs. I watched Pinky and the Brain, and I watched Tiny Toons. (Unfortunately never saw Freakazoid. :X) They also came up with Looney Tunes obviously, THE archetype cartoon (at least to me. When I think cartoons...BUGS BUNNY is the first thing that comes into my head. Not Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny.)
And other cartoons not affiliated with any of these companies, stuff like Reboot and Transformer's Beast Wars (Okay it relates back to Transformers itself but whatever) and Arthur and Daria and Cybersix and Blues' Clues and I can keep naming every cartoon in existence, but these were the notable ones for me.
Don't get me started with Japan's cartoons...
But these days I suppose I grew out of the cartoon stage, and the only thing I bother to catch on TV is either sports or the news or a documentary and maybe very occasionally a cartoon...then again I'm watching childish Anime at the moment, maybe I haven't moved on at all. :D
Not to mention animation aimed at older audiences. Despite not watching South Park in ages, I still love that, The Simpsons should end already but it's always nostalgic, and even though I hate Seth McFarlane's work American Dad isn't half-bad, certainly better than his other rubbish works. You also got these random oddly-animated aimed-at-adult cartoons like Robot Chicken, etc.
Nonetheless, this post wasn't really a rant, mostly a LET'S LIST STUFF SPOTTO WATCHED AS A CHILD FOR NO REASON BUT TO REMEMBER THEM! :D
In terms of answering my subject line? Cartoon Network hands down, at least when I was a kid. Nowadays...? Let's not think of today, let's think of yesterday...
I will however end this with a quote I read in a Youtube comment. I could go into a massive rant of why Youtube Comments are retarded and yet so addicting to read, thus lowering my IQ and ruining my knowledge of the English language, but this particular quote touched me. (I reduced the amount of EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! that were attached to the quote though. It IS a youtube comment, lol.)
"People don't stop playing because they get old! People get old because they stop playing!"
Of course I have no clue why this person said PLAYING when he/she was commenting on a song people believe they are too old to LISTEN to, but the point of the quote is there. You only get too old to do/play/watch/read or listen to something when you stop and actually believe that. Who cares if Sailor Moon was for little girls or Alvin and the Chipmunk's was for silly children! If you still love them, you're not too old to rewatch these nostalgic TV shows of before, and even of today! Now let's all go watch Storm Hawks!!!
This has been Spotto.