Not really a cartoon (well, it kinda is now), but they took a hatchet to Sesame Street
My two year old loves Sesame Street. Having grown up with it myself, I can say it’s perfectly acceptable l and is in tune with this generations needs.
Is it my kind of perfect? No. But then again nothing is.
In what way?
It’s not so much that they cut it in half to 30 minutes, but more that so much of it is copy paste content. Having Anderson .Paak or Feist on is cool, but they got them to record 5 minutes then put that same 5 minutes in what felt like 6 episodes of the season for some reason. So much of it is 2D animated now where it used to have way more actual human interaction. It feels very aged down. Idk, it’s not awful by any means and the inclusionary aspect remains, but it’s not close to the same quality in my view
Where’s a remake of Biker Mice from Mars or Swat Katz tho
For real, I’d actually forgotten about the kats till now
Teen titans
Company plays off nostalgia for easy money. This doesn’t actually bother me because on the flip side of this is that the best quality cartoons have been made in past 20 years and it’s not even close.
Loonatics, teen titans go, Ben 10. It’s a shame what companies do to such great things.
Cartoon Network is a dead mall selling sloatmeal.
I knew I should have stayed home today!
New Magic School Bus fucking rocks.
Teen Titans Go fucking rocks.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fucking rocks.
They aren’t the same as the versions we grew up on, but give them a chance, really.
those all suck
The best thing is that they’re made by people who grew up on the same stuff. Like OK KO is this wild blend of Looney Tunes and 90s/early 2000s Shonen and I love it.
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I haven’t watched the others, but yeah, Teen Titans Go was hard to get into because of nostalgia fever. After a few episodes I saw it for the new thing it is and not what it was, and yes, it fucking rocks.
I really loved the (relatively) dark feel of the original Teen Titans show. The new one is good, but a completely different show than the one I love
Check out Young Justice if you haven’t. Significantly more mature than the original Teen Titans, and an overall great show.
I will! Thank you!
That fandom nostalgia is a helluva drug. Mix it with updated norms and politics and you’ll get 10,000 word essays on why purple-hair Dr. Sattler can’t use a hyperdrive as a weapon because it’d make Star Wars unrealistic.
SpongeBob, what have they done to you?
Teen Titans, what have they done to you?
Dexter’s Lab, what have they done to you?
Muppet Babies, what have they done to you?
Garfield, what have they done to you?
Tom & Jerry, what have they done to you?
Teenager mutant ninja turtles, what have they done to you?
New movie slaps
Incredibly good.
Gummy Bears. Am I the only person who watched it? It’s on Disney+ atm. Absolute classic show.
Tail spin
Bear in mind that back then you had an underdeveloped brain. Literally.
People always say that it’s just because the shows aren’t made for you anymore and that’s actually the problem but not the way you think.
The shows are quite literally dumber. Cartoons used to have content for parents as well as the kids. Like sneaking in adult jokes that would fly right over a kids head. Now cartoons are just about capturing attention through flashy colors and constantly changing scenes.
Put on a cartoon made decades ago and the whole family can enjoy it. Put on a modern cartoon and anyone over 12 can’t stand it
Signs of the times, there was usually only 1 tv so they had to make the media touch everyone. Now a days they can actually make media just for kids, since the parents can watch something else.
I’d argue it’s also a deliberate attempt to destroy attention span like most things targeted towards kids nowadays.
You can’t notice the problems in the world and fix them if you’re constantly searching for that next dopamine hit.
There’s a global conspiracy among cartoonists. They want to destroy the world one kid at a time. Lmao get real.
Yeah it’s not the cartoonist. It’s the media corporation they operate through.
It’s not a secret that media outlets heavily influence what is aired on their channels. Hell they determine what they air in the first place. That and the FCC is a govt agency that determines what is or is not appropriate for public television. And with half our govt trying to strip education it’s not that far of a stretch.
The actual cartoonist is usually on the lower end of the power dynamic. You make what they tell you to make or you don’t work for them.
Pretty sure it’s a lot easier to do what cartoons have been doing forever: sell toys.
I distinctly remember all the cartoons I used to watch had some elements of maturity and sometimes even quite complex science as well, in fact I remember quite clearly when i was surprised how a bunch of friends ‘fell apart’ because of ‘ego’ and had to balance their friendships as well as their own desires, probably one of the best things that i have ever watched
Nowadays tho i see a lot of kids just browsing bullshit reels all along which serve no purpose other than kill time, and a lot of the ‘cartoons’ have just become some superhero and big flashy colours and whatnot
I think there’s a lot of element of nostalgia in my rant but I do genuinely believe that kids and people in general are just becoming dumber
Peppa pig is FILLED with jokes for the parents. It was one of the few shows I could watch with my toddlers because of all the jokes between the narrator and the parents. I wouldn’t watch it now because the sentences and narratives are meant to match the life experience of kids up to about gr 1-2, but it was a great show.
Everyone loves when mr bull digs up the road zooms out to all the cars in the traffic jam honking.
I present Bluey as my defense.
Bluey would like a word, sir… :D
You mean shitty remakes made to capitalize on the parents that want to share their nostalgia with their kids, there are plenty of excellent shows for kids nowadays and frankly I’m jealous, there’s plenty of variety of shows that don’t treat you like you’re dumb (there’s still pepa pig style of crap tho).
It’s like the marvel garbage, they make it for people who are addicted to their stuff and so will buy it regardless of quality and even buy more into it when they can complain about a brown character or something.
Edit: I wanted to add: shitty reboots don’t magically make the originals disappear, yet people treat it like that. Find new stuff, don’t be old man yelling at cloud.
Hey, don’t go hating on Peppa Pig, that show is great!
They still have adult jokes
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