From Cartoon Network to Nickelodeon
 

When I was growing up, Cartoon Network was the best. There was Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, the Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd, N' Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cartoon Planet, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and anime every weekday. I could never get into Nickelodeon stuff when I was a kid, except for Kablam! The exclamation point is in the title, LOL. Now as an adult I am watching the opposite, in that Cartoon Network is just meh......... and Nickelodeon has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and SpongeBob SquarePants. Nick is where it is at if you want a good cartoon. That Uncle Grandpa show on Cartoon Network is funny, but its so random and like internet memes have been turned into a cartoon.

That's debatable, honestly. Outside on Turtles Nick doesn't really have that many good shows at the moment, imo.

Agreed.

I actually think that streaming is taking the place of cable overall--at least among younger demographics. There's a lot more choice in consumable media nowadays.

Don't really bother much with most kids channel, a combination of outgrowing certain types of humor, or finding better stabs at humor on the internet. I do stick by Disney a bit for Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, and Wander Over Yonder

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don't agree. The golden age of cartoons is dead. Once every decade we might get a good one but yeah the rest is just filled with crap.

I remember on cartoon network .com back in the day there was this game where you could run around as a character of one of the old cartoons and there was missions and stuff. all the cartoons were In it. it was soo cool I can't remember the name of it

Are you refering to FusionFall?

I like Adult Swim, so nah. I've seen it all a million times, but TV is usually just background noise anyway. And I prefer my background noise to have a lot of d*ck jokes and racially insensitive humor.

I think Cartoon Network is doing much better

I mean CN has: Steven Universe, Amazing world of Gumball, Regular Show, Adventure Time (though it's a little lacking lately)

I think all of these shows are fun to watch~

Nick has.....TMNT....and...SpongeBob? Is that it?

Cartoon Network has better joints now than ever. I remember when their best cartoons were things like Chowder and Flapjack. Gross.

When I was a kid I was all about Nick. Though when I was watching it they had Ren and stimpy, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life and Aaaah Real Monsters. When things like Courage and Powerpuff girls came around I was almost in High school and became mor interested in Anime like Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. I liked Ed, Ed, N' Eddy though but couldn't stand others like Codename Kids Next Door. As for modern cartoon network I will say I enjoy Adventure Time. It speaks to the D&D side of my nerdom.

Nick only ever had TMNT and Avatar/Korra when they were on.

I grew up with 80s Nickelodeon and 90s, but started to stop regularly watching maybe in the late 90s.

IMO, old Nickelodeon had more variety in programming and didn't have like one show dominating the entire network. *coughs*Spongebob*coughs*. Although, You Can't Do That on Television and Pinwheel were shown a lot...

Never mind. The network just felt more balanced and in the 80s, they showed imported programs/toons from Canada, Japan, and the UK.

As for Cartoon Network...I'm a little biased. I haven't watched the station regularly for maybe over 10 years now. I guess I preferred the network in its early days. Pretty much the programs that used to air on the USA Cartoon Express (some of them), which lasted from the 80s into the mid-90s, seemed to make its way to CN. I just prefer the older stuff I guess.

I used to love Pinwheel and You Can't Do That On Television. Those two, along with The Monkees and Today's Special, were the first shows I ever watched religiously.

Yeah, same here. They had great non cartoon shows too in t he early 90s like Salute Your Shirts and The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

uhh no!
 

I'm not 3 years old. it came long before fusionfall

No need to get snarky, man. I was just checking.

I think I know the game you're referring to, but the name has long since faded away from my memory as well.

I used to watch CN for Powerpuff Girls and sometimes Dexter's Lab. I also watched Code Lyoko on there, too. Never really watched Nick that much, and even now only watch that for TMNT. Nowadays, I don't watch CN anymore. Used to watch Teen Titans Go! but now I just don't feel like it anymore.

They both had gems back in the day, I loved them equally. Now, I think they both still have some quality programming, but given it's not made for me, I can't appreciate the bulk of it. Obviously I think my generation's stuff was better in ever way, but that's my personal bias speaking. The only modern output of theirs I get down with is Adventure Time & TMNT respectively, but I've watched a few episodes of most of their curren series' & it was all watchable (well, Uncle Grandpa... Dunno about that one). The Rabbids show used to come on after turtles & I'd sometimes watch it, that ish is pretty funny.

I'm pleasantly surprised that kids today actually relate to Adventure Time & (especially) Regular Show since it seems like there's so much "We grew up in the 80s and look we're making references" in those shows.

I like that Regular Show references cassette tapes and laser disk movies. That is such a nice nod to the past. :)

TMNT is the only good cartoon on Nick right now in my opinion. As far as CN goes, I absolutely love Steven Universe! I also like to watch Regular Show sometimes. Gravity Falls on Disney is the best though :)

Pretty much another which cartoons were best topic.

I watched Nick all the time in the 90s. As mentioned before they more balanced then, regardless of my personal preference for the shows themselves. Nick is really a shell of its former self. No pun intended...TMNT is good and they show PR so there's that at least.

Now I watch a mix of CN and Disney. Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, Slugterra, Ben 10, Scooby, Sonic...depends what it is. I usually check out new shows once or twice. I watch mostly Boomerang which is CN.

Still they show too many blocks of the same show. They could add a lot more to one day. I know they alternate and swap out certain hours with something else but still they could have an epic schedule of classic cartoons if they wanted to.

Really do NOT like the random/crazy/internet inspired humor stuff...Uncle Grandpa, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball etc.

I wouldn't say AT falls under that banner. There is a plot that hangs over the entirety of it. Sure, there are a lot of "downtime" episodes that have wacky things in them, but the show is pretty easy to categorize & make sense of. It's a lot like old school Zelda games. Boy lives in wondrous magical land, boy goes on quests to find artifacts & get rid of baddies, when he's free to, boy does odd tasks for townsfolk & friends. Has a strange sidekick who advises & assists him. Befriends & falls for the princess, who is all knowing & powerful. A great evil constantly is cast away only to return & put the world at risk. Etc. Every episode has a general plot, it's not like it's just vibrant stick figures making up words & throwing rainbows & references at the viewer as those who never actually watched it assume...

Ya I understand I've seen it a few times. Still seems kinda inspired by that sorta humor to me though. Like the outrageous characters that are pretty much anything and everything the gags or "things" they make up seem like memes.

Like Powdered Toast Man? Or Spongebob?

Or maybe you meant things like this-
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...1/1e/Krumm.gif

Cartoon characters have been wacky & nonsensical from the get-go. Don't let nostalgia cloud your mind.

As for the 'gags or "things"', I really have no idea what you're talking about. There's nothing memetic about the show as far as I remember.

I mean characters that are literally anything...food, animals, clouds, machines etc. It's like a free for all just to be out-there. The promos come off as memes to me. It's always one joke or "thing" repeated over and over.

Spongebob is kinda "outrageous" too, himself. The humor seems natural or whatever (opposite of crazy). Don't know about recently. Never really got into it. Only seen some of the old episodes.

Ahhh Real Monsters! was not crazy for the sake of it. They're monsters. The humor fit that theme. I watched that pretty often.

Ren and Stimpy...Ill give you that one. That definitely was the 90s equivalent of crazy/internet humor.

90's cartoons had all of those same things, as do many anime series & video games from across generations. Robots, elements, foods, etc. Nothing has ever been exempt from becoming sentient and/or anthropomorphic in pop culture. The Brave Little Toaster is a film series about talking appliances. Plenty of Disney films had zany sh*t like living candles, tea sets, clocks & more, in Beauty & The Beast. Rocko's Modern Life had characters that were poop, ringworms, deli meats, etc. That's really not a valid complaint for modern media whatsoever. I haven't seen the promos for the show, so they may very well be annoying & repetitive, but the show itself, isn't. The humor's nothing like that.

Who's to say what is "crazy for the sake of it"? Ah! Real Monsters makes sense in the context of the cartoon itself, but to an objective outsider, it just looks zany. But the same can be said of virtually any cartoon. Adventure Time seems zany & random at first glance, maybe, but in the context of the show, in their universe, one where the world went through an apocalypse of sorts wherein magic exploded all over everything & brought all kinds of sh*t to life, it's not. They started anew with only trace elements of their former worlds in tact, which is why their slang & interests are pieced together from different generations.

& let's not kid ourselves, there are a ton of 90's cartoons with LOLSORANDOM humor. Kablam, anyone?

Yeeeaah, it's just hard to explain. I know plenty of things have had inanimate-object characters. They just fit within themselves. They weren't crazy even if they came off silly. I imagine alot were made just to be cute.

Is that origin of Adventure Time? That sounds purposely outrageous to me but I do understand it has context.

Ya Rocko. I can give you that one too. Don't think it was extreme as Ren and Stimpy though. It was an exaggeration on modern life. Ya know like 90s culture.

Don't worry, I can explain it for you. You're too stubborn to accept that cartoons have always been absolutely freakin' ridiculous just because you prefer your era of them. I get it.

He's blunt, but he's got a point.

And a beard I'm convinced birds are currently living in.

Haha what? I just agreed on Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life. One of my favorite shows. I just said it exaggerated the 90s...Ya know like trends and daily life.

Plus Beauty and the Beast and Brave Little Toaster are kinda bad examples. They had more serious storylines with characters that were meant to be cute. I mean their purpose was not to be crazy or zany.

Guess that's a better way to describe it.