07-22-2020, 07:00 AM | #61 |
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I'm not a TV guy either. If I can't find a show online, it's not worth my time.
I enjoy cartoons a lot and if I'm gonna watch something I go online. THE WEB is so vast that I use it as my primary entertainment. Articles, videos, looking at art etc. Millions of things to do online! |
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If that was aimed at me, thanks! It was also fun chatting with ya a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it probably was, just didn't notice it as much I suppose since the FCC was getting stricter with the content aimed at kids by the time the 90s rolled around.
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As bothersome as all of that would be by today's standards...there's something a bit nice about it. I think we balanced our time better back then because of instances like this. Like, back in the late 80s, I don't recall the time exactly it aired when syndicated and before it was on CBS in my area and also before the Disney Afternoon was a thing, but TMNT came on in the evenings. I knew that if I had my homework done by a certain time or whatever else I had to do, I would be able to watch it. Same as I got older. If there was a show I watched, I had it planned out so that I'd be able to watch it...as time has gone on, I rarely do this because I can watch stuff at any time because of the net. I rarely watch television now...?ept for maybe the local news and sometimes reruns of Quantum Leap on one of the stations we get with the antenna...but it's not the same. Even as far back as the early 2000s, my television watching was starting to go down due to the lack of shows that interested me enough to watch. Last edited by ssjup81; 07-23-2020 at 12:24 AM. |
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07-22-2020, 08:38 AM | #63 |
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Yes it was. And Yes! It was!
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I agree, especially during the Summer when the weather is usually great. Most tv shows don?t interest me either.
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"Dark Side of the Ring" is the only Must-See show in all of television, for me. I'll stop everything to watch that show, but that's not even fair because nothing else really comes close to it.
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07-22-2020, 12:12 PM | #66 |
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The 90s had the CBS SATAM episodes of FW TMNT, Pirates of the Dark Water, Bucky O Hare and the Toad Wars, the final episodes of The Real Ghostbusters, Toxic Crusaders, Conan the Adventurer, Biker Mice From Mars, Street Sharks, and Exosquad to give you examples.
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The other stuff mentioned weren't on the "big 3" (pretty sure Fox did...I know it was for Pirates of Dark Water). The other channels could be a bit more lax in their programming. Sorry I wasn't more specific about that. I was focusing on the networks. |
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07-22-2020, 10:28 PM | #68 |
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No more long vacations, please, you're really good at this.
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07-23-2020, 09:55 PM | #70 |
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Except on youtube when you're nostalgic of old commercials and now watch them because you want to. I can't stand watching anything on disc anymore, the loading kills the experience for me everytime.
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07-24-2020, 12:51 PM | #71 |
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For whatever reason, they marketed the CBS run as the comic book come to life. My young mind interpreted this as us getting some of the Archie comics adapted to the screen as the comic did with the first seven episodes. D'oh!! I still enjoyed them and I still love The Dimension X Story, Fly and Cufflink Caper.
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I'm not sure how other kids at the time felt about the show...but I know I was one of the ones who didn't watch the entire run out of boredom and was switching to the other stations, unless it happened to be an older episode....before the main four became secondary characters in their own show. |
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07-27-2020, 01:32 PM | #73 |
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I mean, you address a good point. I LOVE Kath Soucie in just about everything. And for many years, watching cartoons was like a giant game of "HEY, there she is!" because her body of work was huge. She was like the 80s/90s version of Tara Strong (between the fact that they're both so prolific and even have very similar voices with some of their characters; Strong basically gets the kind of roles Kath used to get when she was younger).
I didn't even know she did Real Ghostbusters until a few years ago. And I absolutely watched the episodes she was in because now that I know it was her, I remember it. But those later episodes just didn't sit well with me AT ALL, they weren't as memorable as the earlier seasons. Once they put such a focus on aiming younger and going all-in on Slimer, that really wrecked the balance of the show all the way around. Even the "regular" parts of the show simply weren't as good.
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You know, also thinking back on the show, I really favored Janine. She was a fun female character. She didn't take any mess and she was written as an actual character. She was Janine first, woman second, unlike most things now that are trying too hard to force an agenda, imo. I liked how sassy she was and I always liked the accent. I hated her change when remembering about it. She became so boring and motherly. Also, the episode that they did to try and retcon the change made it even worse to me. She was changing to get noticed by Egon when he was already kind of noticing her back in the earlier eps. They'd even had a date. I felt it was a terrible character change. Using Kath Soucie for weak Janine I guess worked, but I know that Kath was capable of pulling off an accent and stuff. I've heard her do other works. Wish they could redub the entire series and bring her original voice actress back and kick out Kath...too bad you can't do that with Lorenzo, though. My bias is totally showing here... ^^; Last edited by ssjup81; 07-27-2020 at 02:51 PM. |
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Oh, man oh man I am so with you on just about all of that. That one episode with Peter staying to chat with the old lady always gets me righthere, man. The early seasons of that show had some absolutely stellar writing.
A lot of the ghosts unnerved me a bit as a 5-year old but that's what I liked about Ghostbusters. Stuff like Sandman, Boogeyman, and Samhain were definitely pushing the limits but that's what made it great! That's what made it memorable! Like, the episode with Egon and the Boogeyman is such a classic, and it really puts over a great lesson for the kids. Boogeyman is legit horrifying in that show, through a 5-year old's eyes, and they sell that even Egon as a grown-ass man is terrified... but that he overcomes it because he has a job to do. That's what growing up is, realizing that you can't just stick your head in the sand and hide when things are scary or "uncomfortable", you push through it, not run from it. It reminds me of an issue of Superman from around 2008 when he and Supergirl have to fight Brainiac, who Supergirl's never met before, but she's terrified of him because he destroyed the city where she grew up back on Krypton when she was a kid. And she doesn't wanna fight him because she's afraid. And Clark just smiles and says, "It's OKAY to be afraid." And then they go to work. Same thing. Egon was totally "triggered" but he was able to man up and do the deal. What a great role model! What a well-written show! I stuck around off-and-on for most of it, but those earliest seasons were the best. I didn't much care for Janine's revamp, either. I thought she was hot already. I didn't think she needed any "help".
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Boogeyman was the second episode I watched after bbeing introduced to Saturday morning cartoons by some friends who had cable and sent a VHS full of the day's block coming from the big three US networks. Mrs. Rogers was my first. I moved away from my current home that summer and showed one of the cartoons; just not RGB for obvious reasons. I could get RGB where I lived, but it came in very poor quality; grainy and changing from colour to black and white.
Intereresting to note that the Gummi Bears episode "Gummi In A Guilded Cage" which introduced the Carpies was also on there, but didn't scare either. That one is pretty intense now. On topic of TMNT: i don't remember my first episode, but I do remember compiling a VHS for another friend in the same situation later. Enter The Rat King scafed him more than anything shredder did. Go figure. |
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