how much s*** are kids watching these days in comparison with our childhood cartoons

Phryxus

lets make a quick comparison shall we

pokemon vs thundercats
digimon vs MASK
anything vs transformers
else that's
on


they're being filled with all this " I love everything" crap, i mean
kids should be dreaming about driving some sort of rocket tank to kill their teacher or having a thundercats sword to chop their heads off, or anything along those lines, certainly not talking to their pets and telling their friends they love them, thats not what kids should be.

Lawnkiller

the Ph33r of being thrown down the "trap-door" with all those plasticine monsters was enuf to give me a good learnin...

Neil3030

Mr. Ben


Need I say more.


Ok I will.

Legend.


That is all.

DiscoStu

uylsees 31, need i go on? yu gi oh? what the hell is that supposed to be? an effort to stop cardcaptor sakura hentai flooding the internet by introducing a similar format with a man? die i say die.

DrunkLeprachaun

Card Captor Sakura is actualy pretty damn good in it's true form, it's just nelva ****ed in the ass with their subbing of it. In the japanese version, almost every character is attracted to someone of the same gender, both of sakura's teachers are in love with someone from her class(bear in mind these are 10 year olds), Sakura's father was sakura's mother's teacher, and sakura's mother's (female) cousin was in love with her, and that's why she resents him. Tomoyo/Madison is completely infatuated with sakura, even though they're the same gender and they're, again cousins. Also, Meilin is Li's cousin as well as fiance. CLAMP are a ****ed up organisation. But it is a good anime/manga.

mike65

Excuse me while I feel about 100! :mad:

I grew up on The Clangers, Mary, Mungo and Midge and Top Cat.


Mike.

Tails

come on people!!

how dare you forget the legendary teenage mutant turtles!

Makaveli

The Clangers. Oh how I hated that program. They were so bloody annoying.
Who remembers Bod? Now that was a classic.

BKtje

Captain Planet any one?

DeVore

Oh come on people!!!

How can you forget BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!!!!

Also anyone remember the nursery rhyme.. Three Blind Mice?

"....farmers wife
who cut off their tails with a carving knife
did you ever see such fun in your life
as three blind mice."

I mean, we were taught that mutilating disabled animals was FUN!
















actually, that may explain a few things...


DeV.

Neil3030

BOD!!!!! That program ruled!! The music for PC Plod was legendery.

PA PA PA POMM POMM POMM PA PA PA POMM POMM POMM
PA PA PA PO-O-OMMMM

scipio_major

I quite agree with Raziel. There is far too little mindless baddy bashing going on. As far as I've noticed every new children's cartoon is either some kind of animated soap set in "real life" where NOBODY has superpowers or a secret identity (I blame Hey Arnold for these) or a tie-in to a new collecting game (I don't even know if Card-captors cards are availible in this country).

That said I did watch Jackie Chan's cartoon series today with my little brother. It's exactly what there should be in the afternoons.

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Scipio_major

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Tails
how dare you forget the legendary teenage mutant turtles!

indeed. that show had 2 important lessons. eat junk food and stay away from civilisation unless absolutely necessary

Dustaz

I agree with mike on this one

Originally posted by Raziel
pokemon vs thundercats
digimon vs MASK
anything vs transformers

All the 'old' ones are crap compared to the stuff i remember

The Gopher

Ah the Ninja tutles-the Pokemon of my generation.I watched that show religiously when i was a kid:D Twas a classic.Bebop and Rocksteady were like monsterised versions of Beavis and Butthead(they were dim but cool guys:D )I also remember Shredder and that brain that lived in the robots body(kang or krang wasnt it?)Todays Japenese crap aint a patch on it(though the turtles were japanese made but diffo story).Aye the turtles ruled.As for the singalong types of shows i loved Playbus(?) on BBC(especially the Y Bird stop).Also ALF and the Den in general.But if you watch a few eps of Pokemon they connect to the next like a normal tv series and b4 you know it you watch it every day to find out where they are gone to next.
Dont worry Im attending Pokemonoholics Anonomyous and Ive quit viewing.;)

BuffyBot

<sing along everyone>
Up above the streets and houses,
Rainbow climbing high.
Everyone can see it climbling
Through the sky.

Paint the whole world with a rainbow!

</sing along everyone>

...and can't forget Playschool can we Jemima, Big Ted and Little Ted and the woman whose name sounded like some form of food poisioning (Fluella??), can we? :P

the celtic tiger

there are 2 pure classic shows that people seem to be forgetting about here.

Gummi Bears


+



the mysterious cities of gold!

Makaveli

Originally posted by the celtic tiger
there are 2 pure classic shows that people seem to be forgetting about here.

Gummi Bears


+



the mysterious cities of gold!

Read through the list of cartoons in the thread about peoples favourite cartoons. They're both mentioned there.

the celtic tiger

or.....i dunno, maybe i could post them on this thread since it seems to be a bit more active?

now fuc|< off.

Hobnail Monkey

About the only modern cartoons I'd give my vote to is X-Men (the later series) and Batman Animated (which friggin' kicked ass). Iron Man is cool too, but a little too goody-two-shoes.
As for the one's I grew up on;
Ulysses 31
Captain Planet
Ultra Force (seriously under-rated cartoon)
Thundercats
HE-MAN
Defenders of the Earth
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Transformers
Maxi's World (sad, I know, but Maxi was my first cartoon crush)
Gummi-Bears
Duck Tales
etc etc

Makaveli

ha, relax there.
Don't cry.
Didnt mean to hurt your feelings. :rolleyes:

the celtic tiger

Originally posted by Makaveli
sorry buddy.
If i offended you i'm really really sorry. if you could forgive me it would be great. if not, i'll just have to live with the fact that i'm a fag9t.

apology accepted makaveli, but you're still a fag9t.#

YOU = FAG9T

Makaveli

cheers

Panda

i know what you mean, CLICK THIS and you'll see what i mean when i say "i know what you mean"

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

erm..
right lads

anyway

does anyone remember the FIRST spiderman cartoon? the VERY VERY first one? was on YEARS and years and years ago.. I loved that, the intro was pure class

he was always foiling bank robberies and musuem heists, none of this robotic spiders and stuff that's in the middle version.

does anyone know if they can be bought on vid or dvd?

Hobnail Monkey

Is this the one 'Spiderman and his amazing friends' with Iceman and Firestar in it???

Grand_Izer

I think Mord is refering to the version from the late 60s. It had a cheesy but memorable intro tune sung in the style of commericals from that time...

"Spiderman. Spiderman.
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size.
Catches thieves- just like flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!
Is he strong? Listen, bud.
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing, from a thread?
Take a look overhead.
Hey, there! There goes the Spiderman!
In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime.
Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time!
Spiderman. Spiderman.
Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman.

Wealth and fame? He's ignored.
Action is his reward.
To him, life is a great big bang-up.
Wherever there's a hang-up,
you'll find the Spidermannnnnnnnnnn"



http://www.comicbookresources.com/resources/tvthemes/

Makaveli

I remember that theme tune.
It used to always be stuck in my head. In fact I was disappointed when it wasnt used for the film.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yes yes yes! that's the one heh, class.

Clintons Cat

yeah i remember the original spider man cartoon it was great at the time.
Unfortunately the Animation was of very poor quality even by the standards of the day and it has Aged very badly.

Bagpus on the otherhand is Timeless.

SOL

But who remembers bosco, now that was the best sort of peace and love kiddies program ever,

And there was captain pugwash but i was to old for that, oh well

Dustaz

Umm captain pugwash was made in the early 70's wasnt it?

DMC

One of the things that grates me nowadays is the lenght of time kids programmes are on for now. FFS in the 70's we were lucky to see on Wanderley Wagon once a week! And when Dempsey's Den went to Network 2, we were amazed when it ran for 3 hours (not including Bosco!) Now the Den goes on for 13 hours a day!!

Kids programmes were unheard of in the mornings during the week, safe for Play School at 11am.

When I was a young 'un, schools programmes and the test card was best thing on telly.... which might explain a few things.....

(Yes, and Captain Pugwash has been remade recently, Dustaz)

/|/)etal)-|ead

I blame the crapness of modern cartoons on computers. Before the mid-90's everyone painted them nicely on cel and filmed them, and they had to make damn sure the plot/animation was good to justify the huuugge expense. Now every retard with a pentium and a tablet can just draw some crappy outline and color it badly in crappy washed-out pastel colors in photoshop or whatever. Also, what the fcuk is the deal with collecting monsters?!?!?! every damn show nowadays is copying the pathetic pokemon thing.
My fave cartoons:
Dungeons and Dragons
Jayce and the wheeled warriors
he man
pacman
cities of gold etc.

anyone know if they have stuff like this on DVD nowadays?

Makaveli

All I know for sure is that you can get Transformers on DVD.
I'd love to be able to get M.A.S.K. and He-Man though.

m1ke

ah the amount of hours i'd sit infront of the tv watching cartoons was sickening. The mid-late eighties even with the T.C.C channel The Childrens Channel, it's well closed down now, i'd watch that for hours. And I musta seen every show mentioned here.

If anyone wants to get some of these old episodes I suggest taking a look at www.episode-heaven.com . There are a few good sites mentioned with old classic cartoons for download.

Celt

What about Battletech Cartoon?
Or Botmaster?
TCC was teh win when it came to cartoons.
Now we have ****ty nickleodeon with endless repeats of sabrina the teenage bitch and kenan and kel

Pigman

Originally posted by Raziel
lets make a quick comparison shall we

That's just nostalgia talking mate. I'm sure, like we do, that the kids of today who grow up on Pokemon will shudder at the kind of stuff kids of 10 years from now are watching. It doesn't mean that any era was better than the others. It's just a matter of how we felt at that point in our lives and we are merely holding onto that feeling thru our fav cartoons.

Funky

some new cartoons are deadly imo, but none are as good as Battletech

mocar

Memories...........
Captain Planet, Spider Man, The Clangers....Whistle Whistle (isnt that what they used to do?)

Marlon

Ulysses 31, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Battle of the Planets, Dungeons & Dragons, Thundercats, He-Man.

So much better than the sh1t they show today!!

Steven

Ahh, nostalgia. It's not what it used to be. Back in my day we reminisced much better than you whippersnappers.

mirv

Battletech and Earthworm Jim are the ones I miss the most.

The crappy 3D scenes we'd wait for half the episode of Battletech made it worth it, ahh the green polygons.

Earthworm Jim had one of the most funky intros ever made, plus it had snot

Slutmonkey57b

Poekmon=cr@p
digimon=cr@p
MASK=cr@p
Thundercats=The world jsut imploded due to the unrelenting CR@P
Transformers=What do you want to buy today?

Sorry, Batman and Starship Troopers kick the fu.ck out of anything from the 80's and early 90's.

Really. Turtles?? Have you watched repeats of that? I'd rather cut my own eyes out.

Clintons Cat

Animaniacs and freakazoid seem curiously forgoten in this thread.

PS for every show of the quality of flintstones or wacky races there were 100 shows of forgetable dross like wait till your father gets home,captain caveman,scrappy doo,yogis treasure hunt,all new adventures of popeye...

Makaveli

Have to say I hated Freakazoid.
It was just too annoying for my liking.

Actually I forgot all about Popeye. The old ones that is.


Batman the cartoon? That was crap.
How you can say M.A.S.K. is crap is a mystery to me.