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https://twitter.com/pkrugg/status/1625511826984169473 Teen Titans Go brought back Freakazoid for an episode and they got everybody back, even Joe Leahy the narrator. Fun fact, Paul Rugg was originally a writer and producer for the show who got tasked with finding a voice for the titular Freakazoid but eventually decided that he was actually the best choice.
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Freakazoid was too good for this world. Really the only Warner Bros. cartoon from that era that sucked was Histeria. Animaniacs could sneak in an edutainment segment every once in a while, but an entire show of them was just cringy. Oh, and Pinky, Elmira, and The Brain, but of course that never happened so I don't have to include it and now let us never speak of it again.
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Knormal posted:Freakazoid was too good for this world. Histeria sucked rear end but it was still a guilty pleasure of mine. But nothing will beat the Cartoon history of the Universe in my mind though. ever.
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I'm probably the only person in the world who is unreasonably obsessed with The Mighty Ducks Animated Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYwlXRVWCCI
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I gave a few 90s cartoons a bit of a watch after mostly missing out on them in the 90s, in part due to already being into other animated media at the time. Savage Dragon was pretty interesting when I gave some of the episodes a rewatch. Ultraforce was the real surprise, though. I had mostly skipped this series in the 90s other than than first episode or two when it premiered, but going back to it now I'm surprised that it didn't develop a cult following as a spiritual successor to the 90s X-Men cartoon. It REALLY is better than it probably has any right to be, despite its problems. Given that I didn't follow the comics all that much, I don't know how accurate they were to that, but on its own the series really impressed and shocked given the era it came out. Some examples: The drugs episode that has almost nothing to do with the drugs. A character casually refers to drug addicts as 'crackheads' with it being treated as a revelation or anything. A mother (in a completely unrelated episode) just flat out says her son is 'acting like he's on drugs'. In a 'very special episode' installment of a series, there would be something more substantial to the 'drugs are bad' message, but not in these. In the 90s, you didn't hear these kinds of things unless the show was really hammering home a point. Let's talk about death and violence. Not only do we have a pseudo-Deadpool walking around, but right in the first story line a teenage girl dies in a pretty gruesome way. You've got a kid gangster running around with (magic) guns in a storyline. He's not a magical ageless kid, he's just a normal kid. It's not a message about how guns are bad because kids might find them, either. There is an episode with a carjacking that plays out much better than it has the right to. Again, I stress, "FOR A CHILDREN'S CARTOON IN THE 90s". There's also a strange as hell episode co-starring Night Man that goes off in a REALLY strange direction involving a woman that culminates in so many "Wait, what hell was that?!?" moments for me. I swear, Antagony from Frisky Dingo HAD to be influenced by this. Then I watched 2 episodes of WildCATS and it was one of the worst 90s cartoons I'd ever sat through.
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Don't forget there was a Toxic Avenger cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2_g52p__Y Apparently because one of the TMNT creators was a huge fan of the movies. Weirdly enough I feel like the cartoon is still in the spirit of the movies, especially given there was apparently somehow a Toxic Avenger musical.
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Feb 17, 2023 05:43
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Tied for best Hero AND best theme on planet earth: The Huntsman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Wb14NZ01E
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Feb 17, 2023 08:44
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You want to dedicate a quarter of our runtime to a spoof of the 1969 Barbra Streisand musical "Hello, Dolly!"? Yeah sure, go for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUa2I2q4nD8
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Feb 17, 2023 14:51
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I wonder how well a gimmick band that just does songs from 80s cartoon intros would do? I think they'd get a lot of gigs. The Cybertronic Spree already exists, yes they dress up as Transformers, and yes they appear at it seems literally every convention so good luck if you're a nerd who doesn't like them bc welp, you're gonna see them whether you like it or not, as they rule that gimmick space.
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Going over to a friends house who had the animated Capt. Power VHS tapes and watching them play with them on their TV with their jet. No, you're not allowed to play. You can watch.
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Those things were cool as hell. My brother had one and I got to use it.JediTalentAgent posted:There's also a strange as hell episode co-starring Night Man 
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Feb 17, 2023 21:00
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An interesting thing about Freakazoid is that for probably the first decade or so of its existence it had a lot of fan hatred aimed at it for ripping off the comic "Madman". Not sure how accurate the legend is, but the rumor for a big part of the latter 90s was that WB was going to do a Madman animated series decided to scrap it and but use it as a basis for F!. But Madman was a bit off my radar and I don't know how similar the two really are. They seemed pretty different enough, but this was also the era of "Someone wore a hat, it's a rip off!" from fandoms.
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muscles like this! posted:Fun fact, Paul Rugg was originally a writer and producer for the show who got tasked with finding a voice for the titular Freakazoid but eventually decided that he was actually the best choice. And he was right.
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Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego (the fox kids cartoon) has more character depth than a 90s kids show has any business having
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Junk posted:Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego (the fox kids cartoon) has more character depth than a 90s kids show has any business having Rockapella. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Rockapella. that was the game show (which also ruled for different reasons)
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Junk posted:Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego (the fox kids cartoon) has more character depth than a 90s kids show has any business having You'd be surprised about those shows sometimes. A lot have more effort in them than you'd think, though where it shows up varies. The Mighty Ducks show was imo pretty surprisingly good. I think the voice cast carries it; they're shockingly good in their roles and have quite a bit of variety and chemistry. And it might seem like a cliche but having the hulking brute duck be a soft-spoken Zen monk type who uses his strength with deliberation and precision, and is overall the most chill member of the cast, is pretty fun.
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Bark and scratchin. Frisbee catchin', presidential pets. Drive souped up cars and jets.
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I don't think I'm misremembering this, but didn't the MASK cartoon of the 80s have a really hard shift from a GI Joe like plot to essentially Wacky Races? Maybe that was just the comic, though. Another great thing about the 80s/90s: The War on Drugs being so big that even GI Joe and Cobra, C.O.P.S. and Criminals, Capitalists and Commies, all will put their differences aside to fight drug dealers.
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Junk posted:Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego (the fox kids cartoon) has more character depth than a 90s kids show has any business having That show had the guy who voices Squidward as the talking computer! 
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I'm 38. I definitely had a cartoon cutoff, where the style was shifting and it no longer appealed to me. I can't remember what the last cartoon I really enjoyed as a kid (predictably, in my 30s, I'm now getting back into it) but like, Cow and Chicken was something that was contemporary that I didn't like. It was around that era, any cartoon that wasn't something like The Simpsons or whatever no longer drew me. Drew me Animaniacs was contemporary before said cutoff but it has always sucked I'm sorry
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Animation in the US seemed to have a hard turn by the late 90s as more stuff felt like it was mutations of the Cartoon Network original content style and Ren and Stimpy. That and I feel the rise of the E/I broadcast requirements more or less killed Saturday Morning and afterschool fare, while cable channels could get away with not only skipping out on those but also save money just just dubbing more import content.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I don't think I'm misremembering this, but didn't the MASK cartoon of the 80s have a really hard shift from a GI Joe like plot to essentially Wacky Races? Maybe that was just the comic, though. Yes, the second season, which was only ten episodes, focused on auto racing. It still had adventure plots like the first season but everything had to revolve around racing. Also no one had a secret identity any more. Fun (?) fact: Chuck Lorre of The Big Bang Theory was a writer on MASK. Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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I remember Toonsylvania being pretty good. Does anyone else remember Toonsylvania? Also the Tick.
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Junk posted:that was the game show (which also ruled for different reasons) I think I only ever saw a kid win like once or twice. The ending segments was usually way brutal.
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mmhherrrr https://i.imgur.com/ZPaoYHv.mp4
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Yeah you can't say no anime because if you remember a cartoon with a kickass intro that featured great mech design, cool special effects like blinking consoles, rays of light flashing from engines, or characters vaguely well animated, it's probably a Japanese studio that was paid for it.zone posted:Bravo Dooby Doo was one of the best crossovers CN ever did. And that chase sequence! easily the best part of the episode Velma: "my glasses! I can't see without my glasses!" Jonny: "My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!!"
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah you can't say no anime because if you remember a cartoon with a kickass intro that featured great mech design, cool special effects like blinking consoles, rays of light flashing from engines, or characters vaguely well animated, it's probably a Japanese studio that was paid for it. The Real Ghostbusters has entered the chat FilthyImp posted:*Velma and Jonny crash into each other* this bit's stuck with me since I was a child, because it's funny and emblematic of both of these characters 
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https://youtu.be/ygrEVnrg3Ic Gargoyles
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In the late 80's or so my grandfather tried to get cable set up at his house. He was a couple of miles outside of town and the cable company didn't have the infrastructure in place to install service that far out. Instead, grandpa spent a fortune getting one of those huge satellite dishes installed, the kind that rotated every time you switched satellites. A couple of months after he had it installed the cable company called to say that they could now offer service out in the sticks. Grandpa was fuckin furious and carried a grudge for years. The satellite service, however, was very very good. Unlimited everything, thousands of channels and premium content with nothing restricted. No subscriptions required. If you owned the hardware you had unfettered access to like a dozen satellites with hundreds of channels each. At the time it was completely mind blowing, and looking back on it now it still seems very cool and kind of futuristic. What grandpa hasn't known was that he was late to the party and satellite was trying their best to move to a subscription service. After enjoying a year-or-so of unlimited everything, the number of channels you could watch slowly started dwindling. Eventually you were left with maybe 10 channels per satellite, with everything else being scrambled. Eventually the motor that turned the dish froze in the middle of tuning in, so the dish was stuck between satellites and was unusable. Grandpa was fed up with the whole thing and just went back to rabbit ears, so for the next 5 years or so we were limited to 3 or 4 channels depending on the weather. Around 1994 or so grandpa must have gotten over his grudge against the cable company because he surprised me by telling me to stay home from school that day so i could wait for the cable guy to show up. Once the cable was installed i got to see cartoon network for the first time. I loved the branding and aesthetic but i was disappointed in the endless amount of flintstones and scooby, two of my least-favorite shows ever which dominated the CN programming block. This was around the time that shows like Cartoon Planet, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast, and the what a cartoon block were beginning, but most of the time that i tuned in it was the loving Flintstones. That's what made Pirates of Dark Water such a breath of fresh air. At 14 years old i was a little outside the target audience but i really found that show enthralling. It wasn't just the show, like i said i was really into the early CN vibe and i was thrilled that they were showing something that wasn't scooby doo. So yeah, all of that to say that pirates of dark water was cool and i wish it got another season.
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Thinking about how sharply Dexter's Lab declined after the movie. Should've just ended it right there and had a perfect run.
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Remember Blackstar? Now that was a cool cartoon. Those classic Filmation mattes were amazing in a far future post apocalyptic style. The premise was basically sword and sorcery buck rogers. I don't remember if the show was good but that poo poo had style.
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super sweet best pal posted:Thinking about how sharply Dexter's Lab declined after the movie. Should've just ended it right there and had a perfect run. OG Dexter's Lab was the poo poo. That one episode where he became the Hulk if he didn't get vegetables to eat was amazing. And when he successfully managed to ruin christmas for everyone. And who can forget the Koosalagoopagoop?
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titties posted:Remember Blackstar? Now that was a cool cartoon. Those classic Filmation mattes were amazing in a far future post apocalyptic style.
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Gargoyles was great but it was at that point where I was getting too old for cartoons so I didn't tell anyone I watched it. 
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Woah, another one just popped in my head. King Arthur and the Nights of Justice. I think I only got to see a little less than 20 minutes of this show each day because I had to catch the bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K6YGCSiwA Also Captain Planet was awesome and it's pretty amazing seeing the modern GOP is literally Captain Planet villains.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Woah, another one just popped in my head. Captain Planet was incredibly based and had the best ending theme ever.
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I saw one of those new Ducktales episodes the other day and needless to say I was not impressed.
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super sweet best pal posted:Thinking about how sharply Dexter's Lab declined after the movie. Should've just ended it right there and had a perfect run. The episode with Badaxtra was the intended series finale, alongside the film. Genndy left after the film. The latter, bad, seasons were done by different folks, hence the dip in quality and change in artstyle. I believe something similar happened with the Powerpuff Girls, too? Not even mentioning the recent reboot. But that the latter season(s) were done by a different showrunner and hence inferior in terms of both writing and animation. EDIT: If you pitched NFTs or cryptocurrency in the Captain Planet writers room, they would have laughed you out of there for being hamfisted and unrealistic. "You're telling me the villain intends to set huge chunks of the planet on fire so that he and his friends can own pictures on a computer?" "No, actually, they claim ownership, but they don't actually own the thing. It's like if I told you right now that I own the Mona Lisa but nothing else changed."
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Szyznyk posted:I saw one of those new Ducktales episodes the other day and needless to say I was not impressed. in a later episode that takes place on the moon, they use a riff from this song.
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