Kids television just aint what it used to be !

Overflow

I have a young son myself so i get to see plenty of kids tv, but it just aint the same as it used to be, for example this i what i grew up with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFEdhggOw0

This sh*t is still cracks me up, maybe doesn't say much for my sense of humor

Run_to_da_hills

I grew up with the Pink Panther and used to watch it in my mates house because they had a colour TV.

Quazzie

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I grew up with the Pink Panther, I used to go to my mates house to watch it because they had a colour TV.

the pink panther sure was better than the light grey panther.

minidazzler

Not enough innuendo in todays Kids television programs.

Tech3

Teenage mutant hero turtles was the bomb when I was a kid.

"Kala bunga dude"

The Master

tech2 wrote: »

"Kala bunga dude"

Cowabunga!

Niall09

Have you got your twangers out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7IR36XGfXo

:pac:

Cormic

You have to watch SpongeBob SquarePants. It's the best kids show in years. It's cracked.

Overflow

Actually thats one exception i forgot about

mike65

Pffffffft! 5.35 on a weekday evening before the 5.40 news on BBC1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3DcChXNyYQ

Overflow

Didnt know that was still on, anyone remember Button Moon or what ever it was called, that sh*t was wierd!

chopperbyrne

Transformers people.

It's all about Transformers.

MagicMarker

Bring back Sooty!!! Actually... please don't.

Teenage Mutant Teenage Turtles
Thundercats
Trapdoor
Count Duckula
Animaniancs
The Mask (cartoon)
Batman (cartoon)
Spiderman (cartoon)

Can't get shoes like that anymore, sure they've even fúcked up TMNT now:mad:

Biggins

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Transformers people.

It's all about Transformers.

You mean cross-dressers etc? Is that suitable kids viewing? :rolleyes:

xOxSinéadxOx

that is actually not true. there are so many good kids programmes. spongebob is amazingly good. It doesn't even seem like a kids programme!

raindog.promo

Samurai Jack. Fantastic stuff.

Estella

Pingu is top

mental07

James Bond Jr. ftw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5JdjJBQ1C4

K-9

Love the oldies, but Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends is excellent.

Wibbs

Tales from the riverbank
Barbapapa
The clangers
Bod
Mr ben
Grizzly Adams
Magic roundabout
Vision on
The Beachcombers
How!
Bagpuss(and emily loved him...)
The clangers
and Tom Baker Dr' Who(with some pertwee thrown in)

Yes I'm aged:D

jester77

They sure don't make them like they used to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-KnZVseNnY

Ann22

Spongebob can be amusing but his laugh irritates me:mad:. Fairly odd parents is good:). Sky has any amount of kids' programmes but I don't think the stuff is as good as back in the Seseme street, Banana Splits (with the Arabian Knights and Valley of the Dinosaurs) Pipkins, Muppet show days:). Maybe we feel the things we watched were better 'cos we were young ones then, getting lots of enjoyment out of them. I still like to watch the old Scooby Doos, not the new ones or even the ones with Scrappy Doo in them.

K-9

Tom and Jerry is still king for me, even beats the Simpsons.

Others:
Top Cat,
Animaniacs, (Hellooooooo Nurse)
Mutley and Dick Dastardly,
Road runner,
Dangermouse,
Pink Panther,
Yogi,
Flintstones.

jester77

These guys were the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TTk_0XYn4

ronnie3585

SpongeBob and Fairy God Parents are hilarious, amusing for both kids and adults.

Aodan83

Niall09 wrote: »

Have you got your twangers out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7IR36XGfXo

:pac:

THANK YOU!! That was pluckin A1 man.
Animaniacs was one of the best cartoons of all time. Can't understand why they stopped that.

K-9

Aodan83 wrote: »

THANK YOU!! That was pluckin A1 man.
Animaniacs was one of the best cartoons of all time. Can't understand why they stopped that.

Correction, Pinkey and the Brain was the best. Not 100% sure, but there may have been a new series a couple of years ago.

Edit: Nope, just re runs on Boomerang. They've stopped them now.

GirlInterrupted

K-9 wrote: »

Correction, Pinkey and the Brain was the best. Not 100% sure, but there may have been a new series a couple of years ago.

I loved that.
Every night my brother would ask me

''what are we doing tomorrow?''

And of course I'd tell him

''Same thing we do every day, try to take over the world!''

Hande hoche!

I blame this show for me being so screwed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtuGoIIKGs

cautioner

YO GABBA GABBA

Samurai

tom and jerry!!! Will still watch it if i stumble across it

Sam Vimes

K-9 wrote: »

Tom and Jerry is still king for me, even beats the Simpsons.

The simpsons was never meant to be a kids cartoon. One of the very early episodes is about homer's sperm count. If you didn't mean that it was a kids cartoon then never mind

Spongebob is hilarious. One show that used to wreck my head was the amanda show if anyone remembers it. Even when you're older you can normally watch a kids show and get some enjoyment out of it but that show was just lame, annoying and not funny.

The best was TMNT for me. When i was a kid i had a crappy turtle costume which i wore whenever we had pizza

I stopped when i reached my 20's though, it seemed silly at that point

Overheal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8RWeKkCprc

And long before that,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZjmiTpB5U

And then there was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UFFzPsSsg

not to mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Sb0hGUNIQ

Bijoux

Overheal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8RWeKkCprc

Ah, Power Rangers was awesome.

Bosco was class...and Animaniacs...used to love Looney Toons as well.

I remember when kids 1 or 2 years younger than me started going mad for barney when it came on....even then, i found it slightly disturbing :eek:

Also: used to be addicted to dexters lab

xOxSinéadxOx

I like fairly odd parents and fosters home too. the one where they're meant to go to europe is brilliant!

has anybody ever watched genie in the house? It is the worst programme ever!

K-9

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

fosters home too.

Brilliant. I could watch the bowling one, over and over. Listen to the GURU, the ball is you, become one with the ball!

Dexters isn't bad, Ed, Ed and Eddy is looped. The Young ones for 10 year olds.

Sanjuro

K-9 wrote: »

Love the oldies, but Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends is excellent.

Glad you like it. I was an animator on that show.

Overheal

Sanjuro wrote: »

Glad you like it. I was an animator on that show.

Prove it - wait I dont know what youre talking about. Irish thing?

phasers

This was pretty brilliant imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0GKfOZaMmQ

And Anybody remember Pugwall? The Den used to show it. Also X-men cartoon, Gigantaur, Animaniacs, Spiderman cartoon, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, original Pokémon etc.


For the younger kids there was Rosie and Jim and Sesame Street

mental07

For the younger kids there was Rosie and Jim and Sesame Street

And John he drives the boat!!

pablomakaveli

This thread is giving me a serious dose of nostalgia. So many great cartoons iv forgotten about.

I don't think Thomas the Tank Engine or Thunderbirds has gotten a mention.

Tom and Jerry are the kings though. It still makes me laugh when i watch it now.

mike65

Thursday at about 5.00 for literally years on end!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FteZimbz59I

Kiera

Dangermouse (penfold ruled)
Fraggle Rock
cockelshell bay
He-man
Smurfs
Bagpuss
The spitty monkey (cant remember his name)
Buttonmoon
Morph

norwegianwood

phasers wrote: »

This was pretty brilliant imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0GKfOZaMmQ

ugh, i hated this show, that aul lad gave me the creeps!
He-Man ftw!:D

K-9

Sanjuro wrote: »

Glad you like it. I was an animator on that show.

Overheal wrote: »

Prove it - wait I dont know what youre talking about. Irish thing?

Don't think so. It's good, but the animation lets it down.

mike65

One of the great "joys" of RTE scheduling in the old days was that they would somehow end up with gaps to be filled with something and that usually meant a cartoon from either Warners Bros or Hanna/Barbera so stuff like Mr Magoo, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker and Tom & Jerry were on several times a week.

Classic Coyote V Gravity moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz65AOjabtM

truecrippler

Overflow wrote: »

I have a young son myself so i get to see plenty of kids tv, but it just aint the same as it used to be, for example this i what i grew up with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFEdhggOw0

This sh*t is still cracks me up, maybe doesn't say much for my sense of humor

Haha, just watched the first link and I actually enjoyed it .

Acacia

Spongebob is ledge. But all other kids' cartoons and programmes treat children like idiots, and have lazy, predictable, boring writing. I'm not just saying this cause I'm old and jaded (really!) but I'm sure I would have hated cack like 'Drake and Josh' and that odius cash-in 'Hannah Montana' as well , if they were around when I was a kid. The problem is it's all too safe and they are afraid to show anything controversial. The early-90's Batman cartoon was great but they probably wouldn't make anything like that now because it's too 'scary for kids'.

Bring back the old stuff I say!

And for nostalgia's sake- \o/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk

Thephantomsmask

No mention of Dogtanian and the 3 muskerhounds, l loved that when l was small. Does anyone remember Sandokan, a cartoon about pirate tigers? Network 2 had it running for quite a while

Acacia

Sam Vimes wrote: »

One show that used to wreck my head was the amanda show if anyone remembers it. Even when you're older you can normally watch a kids show and get some enjoyment out of it but that show was just lame, annoying and not funny.

Sweet Jesus. That show just insulted the intelligence of whoever watched it. I hated it, even when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I think a lot of kids' show are trying to be like that - 'stupid-funny' instead of 'witty-funny'. I mean, why bother writing good jokes when you can have Dancing Lobsters ?:mad:

Kiera

How could i forget about these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUNoy0Qub0