City of Amnesia

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I noticed this last weekend too.

Saved By the Bell opened up the floodgates, dude.

Cartoon Network has gone mad.

MAD I SAY!

that's just depressing. i heart jumanji, but come on. i noticed that cartoon network was no longer a network of just cartoons when their FRIDAYS thing was hosted by tony and zenga (who is now on current tv, talk about desperate.) i miss the days where blossom would fight over who was hosting with chicken, mojojojo, and some small person. :'(

Cartoon Network: As woefully misnamed as Comedy Central.
War.

i think it became your turn to lose me.

[insert live-action Ben 10 movie here]

There isn't much left on Cartoon Network that captures my attention these days anyway.

This is blasphemy.

This is madness.

Cartoon Network: A Network with no cartoons.

Comedy Central: A channel that's not funny.
War.

...madness?

THIS. IS. TURNER BROADCASTING!

[boots D into pit]

But yeah, it really is crazy and wrong.

Just goes to show cable television is just as disappointing as network television.

Television in general is disappointing anymore. Only thing any good on now is Dr. Who.
War.

Lies. The Discovery Channel continues to be awesome.

Also "Torchwood" ... which is a Doctor Who spin-off apparently.

Also, Nickelodeon..... why the hell did they stop showing good shows like "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" and Angry Beavers... and Salute Your Shorts.

This is really surprising...

...I mean, the fact that some of you still watch Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon and all the other usual suspects still.
Peace.

When the Anime On-Demand channel starts showing GitS: 2ndGig.... then we'll talk.

Why are you watching cartoon network.

I often question why adult swims on still also cause its just robot chicken and other garbage

Well, new doctor needed a new woman, yes?
War.

Some time last century.

Also, children have awful taste and you remember those because they were exceptions to the rule

Oh except salute your shorts which wasn't all that good I thought

So you liked Angry Beavers? Definitely a better show than Spongebob.
War.

Angry beavers was AWESOME.

That and Rocko still rule. You know how I know? I happened across the Nicktoons channel a little while ago and saw Angry Beavers. It was still funny. Unlike everything else, which you can tell will be hated by anyone older than 11.

Angry Beavers, Courage the Cowardly Dog, SAMURAI JACK...

The age of semi decent American cartoons is drawing toward its twilight. And Japan isn't faring much better.
War.

Just because you grow old doesn't mean you grow OUT of your childhood. Courage, Samurai Jack, hell, even the Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab were great.
War.

"Censoring" that kind of language doesn't make it any more appropriate.

Don't do that again.

Whoo! Look at the new Badmin, getting down with his wicked awesome self.
War.

This is the worst game of mad libs I've ever SEEN. You don't mark what words are needed, verbs or adjectives, nouns maybe?

Cinemax and Starz don't really have any original programming they're just rebroadcasts of movies.

Or maybe cinemax does, I wouldn't really care none of the non-hbo pay cable shows ever looked that appealing

I never watch TV anymore except when I'm at my dad's (okay, that's cause I can't afford cable TV AND internet at my place...), and I don't watch any of the cartoon programming anymore unless I can find old reruns.  I watch daytime TNT (the reruns of shows I like) and CSI.  I'll watch Food Network... and I'll "watch" random stuff as background noise for whatever else I'm doing.

I miss when Nickelodeon was actually good.

I am Jacks complete lack of surprise. I dunno. It just seems like the logical progression. Cartoon Network gets more popular, Cartoon Network, not realizing it's popularity is for its unique stuff generalizes themselves as much as possible to 'keep' their new audience. Cartoon Network settles mediocrity.

To be fair though, I'm pretty sure they have shown live action children's movies before now.

Only one I knew of was Osmosis Jones. And to be frank, that one was shown once, then never again as I understand.
War.

Osmosis Jones is acceptable because it is at least half cartoon.
Hell, Who Framed Roger Rabbit would be good, since it's about cartoons and is awesome.

They showed Who Framed Roger Rabbit once or twice. They edited out some of the better stuff though, even stuff that didn't make sense. Like they cut the Harvey joke! Why the Harvey joke? The mind boggles.

Because the jokes could be construed as vaguely sexual in nature? Cartoon Network sucks for the most part, save for some of the shows previously mentioned.
War.

It's like they run out of cartoons or something.

Ran out of good cartoons. Seriously, they should bring back shows like Samurai Jack, maybe actually finish the show.
War.

Samurai Jack was AWESOME.
Especially the one with the Scotsman.
And the Spartans.
And when he learned to jump good.
Basically every episode was quality.

Unlike Dexter's Lab, which failed as soon as Tartakovsky left and it tried to emulate Samurai Jack but ended up stinking worse than what my dog leaves on the kitchen floor if you don't let him out.

True enough, Mike. I still anxiously await news and/or confirmations of the feature film Samurai Jack movies apparently being planned and worked on.
War.

am I the only one concerned about the distinct lack of Tex Avery, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Gumby during the wee hours of the morning on that channel?

Well, they now have Adult Swim on inthe wee hours of the morning, which brings in more ad revinew that old shows ever did, methinks.

So... get Boomerang.

Wait when the hell did they ever air rocky and bullwinkle?

Ditch robot chicken, and go with this. If people want references let them deal with ones from 1959.

They did show Rocky & Bullwinkle, yeah, in the past.

Those were better times.

Banned Looney Tunes at 2 AM after Mobile Suit Gundam.
With Nazis and racism! THOSE were the days.

Please tell me they aired the ones involving the Japanese right after gundam. That would just be too perfect.

That would be an excellent combination.
War.

I've always wanted someone to go into an anime convention and swap out the dvd of whatever they might be screening for a compillation of the ww2 disney and looney tunes stuff with the bucktoothed japanese.

You can't even watch anything on the channel without getting five minutes of solid commercial time.

Also, I don't have cable. and if I did, I wouldn't pay extra for shit that was on that channel before.

It'd be nice if this were their main problem.

It really would.

Too true, Sharpy. Cartoon Network has really gone downhill in the last few years.

Crap, I remember watching Sailor Moon on UPN when I was little.
War.

I have vague memories of this too.

PTSD does that after all.

And the old Ghostbusters Cartoon. Came on right after Sailor Moon. That was awesome.
War.

I have no real issues with ghostbusters, no.

That weird Xtreme Ghostbusters thing was weird, though. Like, watching it sometimes made me dizzy, like "WTF is happening here exactly?"
War.

I didn't ever see that since...yeah I stopped watching cartoons.

Oh, come on, growing old doesn't mean you have to stop watching cartoons.
War.

No. It means you just stop watching awful ones only a child could appreciate

Rocky and bullwinkle? Like I said, thats from like 1959 you maybe pick up on some of the wildly obscure references from then. Pinky and the Brain? Now I fully understand the constant orson welles references in it. Animaniacs? There was once part of that which is just a direct parody of apocalypse now.

So really, all of those got better..and looney tunes, thats just awesome in general.

"XTREME GHOSTBUSTERS"? Nah the ghostbusters cartoon that was on when I was a kid was okay..and I'm sure if I watched it now I wouldn't like it probably.

MORE GI JOE AND THUNDERCATS, NOW.
War.

Thundercats invented furries I'm pretty sure.

Everyone involved with making it shall be purged, their judgement is nigh.

Furries and Thundercats are two completely different things.

No matter how hot Cheetara may have been.
War.

My theory is furries didn't exist prior to the internet going public.

So yeah thundercats did that partially.

I never really liked Thundercats.

Pinky and the Brain, though, yes. YES. Until they dropped acid and thought making it Pinky Elmyra and the Brain was a good idea.

Also there was an Apocalypse Now spoof on Animaniacs? I must see. Probably a lot better than the one on the Simpsons a year or so ago.

What the hell? There was a parody of Apocalypse Now on both the Animanics and The Simpsons?

I need to check this out. Because really, what do any of you know about surfing? We're all from goddamn New Jersey (hi, Sharpie).
Peace.

My dad tried to surf once. He almost died.

It was the episode where The Simpsons Go To India. Mr. Burns outsourced the power plant to India, and Homer was put in charge, where he declared himself a god. The actual Apocalypse Now part was just a 5 minute scene where the family was going up the river but it was the best part of the show.

Everyone and their mother has parodied Apocalypse Now.

If Mistress says this beach is safe for surfing, then this beach is safe for surfing!

Really, the whole time I was watching that, I was HOPING for some scene of Robert Duvall surfing. Because being Robert Duvall, that would have been one of the best scenes in all of cinema.
Peace.

This is being quoted for posterity.
War.

sadly, i am forced to watch the crap they show on cn, as a six year old tends to hog the remote, and, even more tragically, it grows on one... somebody save me. harry potter only takes so long.

I know how to save you! Keep posting! This forum is full of awesome and win!

This is total and absolute truth. The forums here are awesome. Anywho, what was this discussion about again?
War.

The long downward spiral of Cartoon Network as it parallels the decline of Western civilization.
Discuss, citing specific examples, in at least 500 words. You have 90 minutes. This is a closed-book exam.

I don't like this discussion. Can we instead just talk about how Western and Japanese cartoons both are getting more and more messed up and less and less good?
War.

i would post more if i was allowed on the computer... have you seen that re-animate thing?
*shakes head*