Should I go back and re-watch the original series or...

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Originally Posted by Leo656

I still love the old show but I find much of its humor very dated and juvenile. Some of the dialog, especially, you can just tell they were like "We have no idea what they should say here so let's have a forced pun or a pizza joke".

I can think of many '80s/'90s cartoons shows that fit that label, but I never feel like OT is one of them. In fact very few jokes feel dated at all. Or for that matter, specific to the '80s. They did jokes you would have heard years before and would still hear today. And puns are deceptively simple but are in fact quite challenging to create.

And if we want to talk about juvenile, that's the vibe I get when watching the 2k3. It's like a kiddie show pretending it's grown up (again, chasing Batman: The Animated Series' success). Whereas the OT felt like it was clearly written by grown ups challenging kids to understand adult humor and references.

I'm conditioned to think that no matter how silly the audience finds the scenario or the premise, the characters involved need to play it somewhat straight or the drama falls out completely.

The OT was satirizing your typical action cartoon, that what I think fans don't realize. It's not that they're not playing it straight, it's that they're picking apart the quirks of your standard action plot, which frankly often does take itself too seriously.