Were Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network better in the 90s?

This topic makes me feel really old.

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Oh and is Sesame Street still shown on Channel 4 in the mornings?

chalkitdown wrote:Not CN nor Nickelodeon, but who cares. How they got away with this, I'll never know.

Incredible!

Skarjo wrote:It's probably more that we didn't realise how gooseberry fool the programmes were when we were ten.

This is pretty much the answer to the question. Of course you get the exceptions (Samurai Jack is a genuinely brilliant show) but stuff like nostalgia and being a thick kid can make you overlook a lot of subpar stuff. Probably my favourite example of this relating back to Youtube comments is for Pokemon. You get all those asinine 'thumbs up if you agree' comments saying how there are only 150 Pokemon (lol wrong 151) and that all these new ones are gooseberry fool. Which is factually wrong, the originals had timeless designs like Graveller and Goldeen, the new stuff can only manage garbage like Piplup and Vanillish.

DrPepperMan wrote:This topic makes me feel really old.

Your in this group like me if you remember this...



Oh and is Sesame Street still shown on Channel 4 in the mornings?

Trelliz wrote:

DrPepperMan wrote:This topic makes me feel really old.

Your in this group like me if you remember this...



Oh and is Sesame Street still shown on Channel 4 in the mornings?

Sharky and George ya?!I remember the song but not really kinda the show

In answer to the topic reply and the morons who think they have is right: no.

Cartoon Network is in the best place its ever been at the minute. Ben 10 gave the 'action/adventure' cartoons the shot in the arm they needed after the great shows of the 80s like Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 and Thundercats started to be replaced with comedy bullshit like ren and stimpy, cow and chicken and catdog in the late 90s. This paved the way for The Clone Wars, Generator Rex, Battleforce 5, Batman:the brave and the bold and Alien Force by provimg children still cared more for cheering the hero than laughing at fart gags. My son is 4 and I gladly watch these shows with him because im genuinely jealous of their quality compared with some of the crap i was subjected to as a child.


Anyone that disagrees with me clearly hasnt seen Avatar: The Last Airbender which may well be the greatest action cartoon series ever made.

Victorious is pretty good on Nick

The only good Children's TV now is Horrible Histories (CBBC) and Phineas and Ferb (Disney). Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon's glory days are behind them.

Although Nickelodeon showed Avatar: The Last Airbender which was amazing.

Just caught a little bit of Adventure Time on CN...I only saw about two minutes of it but now I have to watch more. Amazing.

Carlos wrote:In answer to the topic reply and the morons who think they have is right: no.

Cartoon Network is in the best place its ever been at the minute. Ben 10 gave the 'action/adventure' cartoons the shot in the arm they needed after the great shows of the 80s like Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 and Thundercats started to be replaced with comedy bullshit like ren and stimpy, cow and chicken and catdog in the late 90s. This paved the way for The Clone Wars, Generator Rex, Battleforce 5, Batman:the brave and the bold and Alien Force by provimg children still cared more for cheering the hero than laughing at fart gags. My son is 4 and I gladly watch these shows with him because im genuinely jealous of their quality compared with some of the crap i was subjected to as a child.


Anyone that disagrees with me clearly hasnt seen Avatar: The Last Airbender which may well be the greatest action cartoon series ever made.

While I did enjoy the Damian Wayne episode immensely, Brave and the Bold is nowhere near the 90s Batman cartoon in quality.

man-eater chimp wrote:The only good Children's TV now is Horrible Histories (CBBC) and Phineas and Ferb (Disney). Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon's glory days are behind them.

Although Nickelodeon showed Avatar: The Last Airbender which was amazing.

All good.Add Flapjack on cartoon network to the list,that gooseberry fool is funny!

Anung wrote:Samurai Jack was amazing. I need to hunt it down and start watching it again.

Never finished though did it?

Cosmo wrote:Just caught a little bit of Adventure Time on CN...I only saw about two minutes of it but now I have to watch more. Amazing.

Its fantastic. I like Regular Show as well though if I had to play favorites, I think Adventure Time just edges it.

Actually, you know what bugs me the most? Not that cartoons aren't as good as they used to be. Just that many of the good old ones are a pain in the ass to get complete sets.

When I used to visit my mums mum in Poland, who had Sky, I absolutely loved all the gooseberry fool on cartoon network, but back in reality I had to watch shitty kids gooseberry fool on bbc and itv, which was gooseberry fool.

Looking back it's all terrible, I could never watch any of it again.

Wow this is all taking me back.

Kenan & Kel
Sister Sister
Hang Time
California Dreams
Saved by the bell
USA High

Dexters Lab
Jonny Bravo
Cow & Chicken
Powerpuff Girls
I am Weasel
Grim & Evil (replaced by The Grim adventures of billy and mandy)

I'm not ashamed to say that i continued watching many of these cartoons whilst i was at university. I also didn't realise that Seth MacFarlane used to work on many of these cartoons.

Carlos wrote:In answer to the topic reply and the morons who think they have is right: no.

Cartoon Network is in the best place its ever been at the minute. Ben 10 gave the 'action/adventure' cartoons the shot in the arm they needed after the great shows of the 80s like Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 and Thundercats started to be replaced with comedy bullshit like ren and stimpy, cow and chicken and catdog in the late 90s. This paved the way for The Clone Wars, Generator Rex, Battleforce 5, Batman:the brave and the bold and Alien Force by provimg children still cared more for cheering the hero than laughing at fart gags. My son is 4 and I gladly watch these shows with him because im genuinely jealous of their quality compared with some of the crap i was subjected to as a child.


Anyone that disagrees with me clearly hasnt seen Avatar: The Last Airbender which may well be the greatest action cartoon series ever made.

Opinions, Carlos, are like arseholes. Everybody has them and sometimes they stink. No matter how forcefully you put yours across it won't change anyone's mind and no matter how much you think you're right it doesn't make it true. I have seen Avatar and I strawberry floating hate it. Incidentally, bringing up Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken or Catdog totally whitewashes the awesome shows I watched as a kid. Give me Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles or the Biker Mice From Mars over them any day of the week. Or Batman: TAS. Or Spiderman. Or the X-Men cartoon from the 90s. Or Mighty Max. Or Street Sharks. Or the Mario 3 cartoon, Talespin, Rocko's Modern Life, Tiny Toon Adventures, etc etc.

By the way, I'm trying to remember the name of a cartoon that used to show on Cartoon Network back when the channel stopped airing at night. It was about a fish who solved mysteries in an underwater town and was clearly modelled on old school noir. Anyone remember it?

EDIT: Add Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego, Goof Troop, SWAT Kats, Donkey Kong Country( ), Marvel Action Hour(Iron Man, Silver Surfer and Fantastic Four), The Tick, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Freakazoid, The Mask, Flash Gordon, Hercules, Aladdin, Hey Arnold, The Hulk, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Pokemon, Men in Black, Mummies Alive!, Godzilla, The Big O, Batman Beyond and the Starship Troopers animated series to that list. And strawberry floating Reboot! Fart jokes my ass.

I just had a nostalgia-gasm.

EDIT AGAIN: I see you were only on about Cartoon Network. My apologies. Still, most of the stuff I listed was shown on either that, Nick or Disney during the nineties.

Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles

Light a fire and go dance in it. I never want to see you again.

StayDead wrote:

Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles

Light a fire and go dance in it. I never want to see you again.

It's how I remember it from childhood! The 90s were so full of awesome it actually hurts my brain to think about it. I'm having the Turtles as well, as they produced episodes until 1994.

Incidentally, the fish police program was called, err, Fish Police. And it's strawberry floating awesome.

Floex wrote:

Something Fishy wrote:Kids TV has been going downhill since the mid 80's.

Quiet you.

You had tons of crap in your day I bet. Banana Splits? I mean really, what the strawberry float was that about?

Not to imply your old

ah but we had some amazing stuff too. Like Battle of the Planets. In my teens there was some of the great 80's stuff like Ulysses 31.

The Splits.. yeah i did watch it in the 70's but I never had a clue what was going on. I liked the buggies at that start and the song so i kept watching it

Something Fishy wrote:

Floex wrote:

Something Fishy wrote:Kids TV has been going downhill since the mid 80's.

Quiet you.

You had tons of crap in your day I bet. Banana Splits? I mean really, what the strawberry float was that about?

Not to imply your old

ah but we had some amazing stuff too. Like Battle of the Planets. In my teens there was some of the great 80's stuff like Ulysses 31.

They used to show that on Fox Kids. Excellent program.