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Y-Hat posted:Hasn't Nick Jr.'s programming been horrible for a while before that? I've heard that a lot of their shows are hyperactive ADHD-enabling crap like Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! I remember a time when they played Rugrats, Muppet Babies, and The Muppet Show while their original programming was forgettable, aside from Blue's Clues of course. Maybe? Nick Jr. as a channel has only been around for like 5 or 6 years, before that it was Noggin, which was essentially the same channel with different branding. I think I remember it having reruns some of those really old kids' shows like The Electric Company back like 10 years ago when it shared a channel with The N (now TeenNick) and it would switch over after Daria reruns, but besides that I'm only familiar with it as far back as the couple of years that I've had kids. I'd say that most of their programming that isn't Dora or Diego (which is like, 75% of their schedule) is closer to inoffensive but painfully dull stuff like Max & Ruby though, and even Wubbzy isn't nearly as bad as say, Spongebob or The Fairly Oddparents on the ADHD scale.
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quote:“Hulk and the Agents S.M.A.S.H.” — in this never before seen team up of Hulk, his cousin She-Hulk, A-Bomb, Red Hulk and Skaar, Marvel’s mightiest super heroes form an eccentric family living under one roof, working together to tackle threats that are too enormous for other heroes to handle. From trying to house break their giant red pet T-Rex to stopping Ego the Living Planet from crashing into the Earth, the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. must learn to balance Hulk-sized action with everyday family-sized problems. The series premieres SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 (11:00 a.m., ET/PT). Starring are: Fred Tatasciore as Hulk, Clancy Brown as Red Hulk, Eliza Dushku as She-Hulk, Ben Diskin as Skaar and Seth Green as A-Bomb. The creative talents of Paul Dini (“Batman: The Animated Series,” “Lost”) and Henry Gilroy (“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”) have been tapped for this series. What an utterly shameless ripoff of The Justice Friends.
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Wow, we've been hearing about that for years, what took them so long?
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http://www.awn.com/news/business/disney-s-nikki-reed-joins-hubquote:“Nikki Reed’s background as both a producer and an executive at top-level entertainment companies like Disney, NBC Universal, and Touchstone Television makes her the perfect person to lead our development and programming during this unprecedented time of growth for The Hub” Ah, well. RIP Hub you seemed promising for a while there.
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raditts posted:What an utterly shameless ripoff of The Justice Friends.
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achillesforever6 posted:drat it now I'm wishing there was Justice Friends series, those Dexter's Lab shorts were the best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjZ_ebFJm9A  I always felt the staff from CN around that time was brilliant. Hell, there would be no Family Guy/American Dad if not for Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab and shows like that. Whitenoise Poster posted:http://www.awn.com/news/business/disney-s-nikki-reed-joins-hub Why does every cartoon based channel feel the need to go in that direction? Granted I'm not the target demo, so it's not my place. I'm not the one who's going to run out and buy the products they're pushing during their commercial breaks. Juice Boxes, Lunchables, Barbie Dolls, Hot Wheels, etc. But was their a study done that K-8 kids all love the Hannah Montana's of the world?
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If by study you mean Neilson ratings then yes, kids like stuff like that. Any drop-off from cartoons is not enough to make up for the amount saved by their cheapness to film. Anyways the problem shouldn't be that Hub has live-action, it has since the start, its that the guy they are getting to do it has made nothing but poo poo so far.
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Yeah, the Hub always had live action, and it's pretty good (Aquabats!) But seriously. Dog with a Blog.
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achillesforever6 posted:drat it now I'm wishing there was Justice Friends series, those Dexter's Lab shorts were the best. The one where a bee gets into the apartment and they are doing all they can to get rid of it is hilarious
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FuzzySkinner posted:Why does every cartoon based channel feel the need to go in that direction? Yeah I guess kids love this poo poo. I really feel old when I start to complain about the dumb stuff kids are watching these days 
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I get the same feeling whenever I'm busy hating Johnny Test, Level Up, or any of the other terrible shows that just won't die. Maybe I hate them as an adult, but maybe they appeal to the youth of today. God knows how many of the shows I remember fondly were poo poo. Then again, I do remember hating Super Duper Sumos and anything that relied on "gross-out humor", and I knew that Captain Planet was the dumbest loving thing.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:http://www.awn.com/news/business/disney-s-nikki-reed-joins-hub One of their launch shows was the hourlong Hasbro commercial called Family Game Night, and most of their current popular shows are toy cartoons that are revivals of 80s toy cartoons. The Hub was never promising. SlothfulCobra posted:I get the same feeling whenever I'm busy hating Johnny Test, Level Up, or any of the other terrible shows that just won't die. Maybe I hate them as an adult, but maybe they appeal to the youth of today. God knows how many of the shows I remember fondly were poo poo. Kids tend to have poo poo taste, but they aren't nearly as dumb as we tend to think they are as we get older. I hope most of us can come to terms that most of the live-action Nick shows in the 90s were poo poo and we knew it, and that the only people that think otherwise after watching that 90s block are way too nostalgic. raditts fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Martytoof posted:Yeah I guess kids love this poo poo. I really feel old when I start to complain about the dumb stuff kids are watching these days It's a bit of a conflict for me. On one hand, I find myself disappointed that the Disney/Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network I grew up with is no longer a "thing". I truly loved some of the cartoons that aired on there, and am somewhat bummed that it's been overrun by Bieber-types. My feelings are near indentical to the South Park ep that made fun of the "High School Musical" craze. "THIS, is what's cool now?". On the other hand? You know, I imagine there's some good shows out there for kids to like. Phineas and Ferb for example seems to be in that category, along with Adventure Time, Regular Show, etc. Also, I'm not a kid anymore. I'm in my 20's, and I'm pretty far removed from their target demographic. I imagine I'll care a lot more when I have a kid someday, and I hope to god that there's at least one good cartoon out there to enjoy.
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Adventure Time seems like it could become nigh-immortal like Spongebob. Regular show also seems to have found a similar comfortable niche. Is it just me, or have none of the kids' networks been knowing what to do with their action shows? Most recenly we've seen the end of DC nation and a couple Disney action shows. That Friday night action block on Cartoon Network was always switched around all the time, and the only things on relatively consistently were Clone Wars and some form if Ben 10. I have no idea what happened to Generator Rex, and I was shocked to look it up and see that it was three seasons. It didnt seem like it. And there were episodes that apparantly aired this year? When?! Korra was popular, wasn't it? I can't recall ever seeing reruns, though. Is that new TMNT show doing well? Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Nickelodeon shows like a 3-hour block of the new TMNT show every Friday, so I should hope it's doing well if they're pimping it that hard.
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raditts posted:Kids tend to have poo poo taste, but they aren't nearly as dumb as we tend to think they are as we get older. I hope most of us can come to terms that most of the live-action Nick shows in the 90s were poo poo and we knew it, and that the only people that think otherwise after watching that 90s block are way too nostalgic. One thing that bugs me about the 90's nostalgia trend is how everyone pretends everything was better back then. I think one of the stupid things I kept seeing pop up in my twitter feed was something like "IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THESE 90'S TOYS AS A KID..YOU HAD NO CHILDHOOD" Yeah, all that time with my family and friends. Exploring stuff in the woods, birthday parties, playing tag. All of that now means nothing because I didn't have a talkboy.  .As I mentioned above, the most hilarious forced nostalgia by Nick was trying to push the Kids Choice Awards as "Do you remember?" thing. I remember it being complete poo poo back then, if that's what they mean't. If you look at the nominees/winners of that awards show in years past, you'll see my younger self wasn't that far off the pace.
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FuzzySkinner posted:One thing that bugs me about the 90's nostalgia trend is how everyone pretends everything was better back then. Well it certainly didn't start with the 90s, because I remember text files on BBSes (and later, email forwards) in the 90s that were pretty much the same thing about 80s nostalgia. It's the "all the best things in the world happened when you were 12" phenomenon in action. Give it 5-6 years and you'll see people remembering late 90s / early 2000s boy bands fondly. Funny thing though, I can't remember any huge kids' toys from the aughts (furbys, elmos, and beanie babies were all 90s, right?), and many of the popular cartoons of the time were turned into shambling zombies whose corpses still walk to this day. raditts fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Yeah, 80s nostalgia was alive and well up until a few years ago when the 86s/87s started graduating from college. Sites like X-Entertainment were basically entirely dedicated to that stuff. As to current toy-lines there's Ben 10, Bratz, those dolls that look like Universal Monsters, Domo-kun maybe(I still see the stuff in stores occasionally anyway), Gundam stuff (not exactly hugely popular but everything but Wing that aired over here aired in the 2000s,) all the Angry Birds crap that is plastered around and that might be about it. Yeah that is a comparatively toyless era I suppose. Cliff Racer fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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raditts posted:Well it certainly didn't start with the 90s, because I remember text files on BBSes (and later, email forwards) in the 90s that were pretty much the same thing about 80s nostalgia. It's the "all the best things in the world happened when you were 12" phenomenon in action. Give it 5-6 years and you'll see people remembering late 90s / early 2000s boy bands fondly. Funny thing though, I can't remember any huge kids' toys from the aughts (furbys, elmos, and beanie babies were all 90s, right?), and many of the popular cartoons of the time were turned into shambling zombies whose corpses still walk to this day. As a 90s kid I've had to put up with 80s nostalgia my entire life. 80s kids can suck it, you spent over a decade acting like Transformers and He-Man weren't utter trash so the least you can do is let us have our fun. And toys in general have kind of died down, partially because after Wal-Mart took over everything their distribution eliminated the issues that made Tickle-Me Elmo and Furby so infamous and partially because it's the information age and videogames and computers took over that niche for the most part. As for the whole "shambling corpses" thing...just about every 80s and 90s action series has been rebooted or continued so it's not some mark against 00s cartoons. hell, just in the last year we had a Thundercats reboot and a TMNT reboot.
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I haven't actually watched any Disney anything on TV in quite a few years. Do they still actually make cartoons or is it just Gravity Falls surrounded by live action stuff? I'm vaguely aware that there was some kind of Emperor's New Groove cartoon a while ago and that's pretty much it. e: I guess the last actual Disney cartoon I remember watching was Timon and Pumbaa but that was over a decade ago now 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:As a 90s kid I've had to put up with 80s nostalgia my entire life. 80s kids can suck it, you spent over a decade acting like Transformers and He-Man weren't utter trash so the least you can do is let us have our fun. I'm talking about poo poo like Spongebob that has literally been dragged out for over a decade when they should've been euthanized long ago. Martytoof posted:I haven't actually watched any Disney anything on TV in quite a few years. Do they still actually make cartoons or is it just Gravity Falls surrounded by live action stuff? I'm vaguely aware that there was some kind of Emperor's New Groove cartoon a while ago and that's pretty much it. Close, it's Gravity Falls and Phineas and Ferb surrounded by live action stuff.
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I guess I'd love to see them try to revive Disney Afternoon or something like that. Now that you've got cartoons basically being made in Flash it would probably cut down the cost of traditional animation a bit. At this point I'm not sure I would mind if they rebooted some of the old shows. Hell, if they could make a new DuckTales I would probably watch a few episodes. But that's totally me in "poo poo was awesome when I was 12" mode. I tried to go back and watch a few episodes of DuckTales and now I picked up the TaleSpin DVDs, and while they're still enjoyable I certainly wouldn't call them the "high art" that I remember them being 
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Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated finally returns next week to finish out its run, Mondays-Fridays at 5 PM.
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raditts posted:Close, it's Gravity Falls and Phineas and Ferb surrounded by live action stuff. Don't forget Fish Hooks. Actually, do forget Fish Hooks.
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DivisionPost posted:Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated finally returns next week to finish out its run, Mondays-Fridays at 5 PM. You trapped me at "finally returns."
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raditts posted:You trapped me at "finally returns." There's like, 11 episodes left, and they're doing 2 episodes a day all next week. Cartoon Network wants this thing wrapped up. EDIT: Or maybe they're just doing two episodes next Monday, so they can finish it out on Friday the week after next.
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Martytoof posted:I haven't actually watched any Disney anything on TV in quite a few years. Do they still actually make cartoons or is it just Gravity Falls surrounded by live action stuff? I'm vaguely aware that there was some kind of Emperor's New Groove cartoon a while ago and that's pretty much it. Do not watch the Emperor's New School. In fact, also do not watch Kronk's New Groove. Both are horrible nonsense.
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DivisionPost posted:Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated finally returns next week to finish out its run, Mondays-Fridays at 5 PM. Oh hey something actually good, quick we gotta burn it before somebody notices! And I think it actually did well too when season 1 kicked off all that time ago, even if it was too scary for children.
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Macaluso posted:Do not watch the Emperor's New School. In fact, also do not watch Kronk's New Groove. Both are horrible nonsense. DivisionPost posted:Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated finally returns next week to finish out its run, Mondays-Fridays at 5 PM. 
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There was a lot of poo poo that was big back in the '90s that really don't hold up to scrutiny- most live-action Nick shows and Goosebumps books come to mind. I still love Rocko's Modern Life, even though I think that Hey Arnold! is the better show now that I've watched both of them on Netflix.raditts posted:Give it 5-6 years and you'll see people remembering late 90s / early 2000s boy bands fondly. Macaluso posted:Do not watch the Emperor's New School. In fact, also do not watch Kronk's New Groove. Both are horrible nonsense.
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Y-Hat posted:There was a lot of poo poo that was big back in the '90s that really don't hold up to scrutiny- most live-action Nick shows and Goosebumps books come to mind. I still love Rocko's Modern Life, even though I think that Hey Arnold! is the better show now that I've watched both of them on Netflix. 98 degrees is touring again, and playing arenas. ...yeah. There's also apparently people who still think fondly of Limp Bizkit, along with other bands that were rightfully ripped to shreds back in the day by Dr. David Thorpe and Lowtax. Also, take a look at what Amanda Bynes has been tweeting lately: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/amanda-bynes-drake-vagina_n_2929248.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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That sure is a way to end a series. I just saw what I believe is the last episode of Young Justice(Ep 46) and whelp spoilers! Kid Flash dies in the final moments of the episode because somebody had to die and why not the guy two days from retirement. Then Vandal Savage shows up and high fives Darkseid because... and then Reach just go quietly into the night to face vague charges from the Green Latern corp. It was kind of a bummer to see how rushed things were.
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Neo Helbeast posted:That sure is a way to end a series. I just saw what I believe is the last episode of Young Justice(Ep 46) and whelp spoilers! Kid Flash dies in the final moments of the episode because somebody had to die and why not the guy two days from retirement. Then Vandal Savage shows up and high fives Darkseid because... and then Reach just go quietly into the night to face vague charges from the Green Latern corp. It was kind of a bummer to see how rushed things were. They didn't rush things on purpose, actually. It was gonna be a lead in to season three, but alas that just didn't work out. Though I get the impression that with the writers ending a majority of the episodes with the Light talking about everything went according to plan, it would have been a surprise to see an actual ending no matter how many seasons they got.
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According to this website we are getting an assload of Cartoon Network cartoons on the 30th and not just Adventure Time and Johnny Bravo: http://www.streamingsoon.com/2009/10/coming-this-week.html
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Neo Helbeast posted:According to this website we are getting an assload of Cartoon Network cartoons on the 30th and not just Adventure Time and Johnny Bravo: http://www.streamingsoon.com/2009/10/coming-this-week.html
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Oh sweet, like the whole DCAU is coming.
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TwoPair posted:Oh sweet, like the whole DCAU is coming. Yeah, I always wanted to see the big deal about that, and now I can!
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Upon further inspection, it looks like it's just Batman Beyond and Justice League. And they don't even have the final season of JLU. Man, that's kind of bullshit. Oh well.
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