Were Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network better in the 90s?

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.

Corazon de Leon

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( :shifty:

), 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. :wub:

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. :lol:

Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles

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

Corazon de Leon

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. :shifty:

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

Something Fishy

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 :lol:

Corazon de Leon

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. :wub:

Corazon de Leon wrote:
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.

True, the cartoon was called 'Hero', not 'Ninja' in the UK.

Something Fishy

Corazon de Leon wrote:

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

seriously good.

I've seen most of the shows Carlos has mentioned.

The Brave and The Bold is very cool (I love Aquaman), and a nice new direction after The Batman series which started going wrong at Season 3 when they started including the whole damn Batfamily (as they always do).

But personally, none of those other shows do it for me. Ben 10 is particularly crap. I've never understood the fascination with The Clone Wars.

Samurai Jack is the peak of animation. It's just perfect.

And Carlos was doing so well until he brought the last Gaybender into it, ruining all and any credibility.

Corazon de Leon

Honestly? I hated Samurai Jack, but I think that was more to do with it bringing out a bizarre anxiety that everyone in my family was going to disappear. :fp:

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:
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.

True, the cartoon was called 'Hero', not 'Ninja' in the UK.

I don't give a damn, it's still wrong!

They're not heros. They're Ninjas. The practice Ninjitsu and use traditional Japanese weapons.

Corazon de Leon

So what, they didn't save the world on multiple occasions? Just because they're ninjas, doesn't mean they can't be heroes. And Damn it, they're the strawberry floating Hero Turtles.

It was a golden age - between Fox Kids, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, you could potentially sit in front of the tv all day. I used to like cartoons a bit before those as well, like Bravestarr, GI Joe, TMHT, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters...

Corazon de Leon

Buffalo wrote:It was a golden age - between Fox Kids, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, you could potentially sit in front of the tv all day. I used to like cartoons a bit before those as well, like Bravestarr, GI Joe, TMHT, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters...

Yes!

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Buffalo wrote:It was a golden age - between Fox Kids, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, you could potentially sit in front of the tv all day. I used to like cartoons a bit before those as well, like Bravestarr, GI Joe, TMHT, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters...

Yes!

Carlos getting it completing wrong, I see

The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, if you want to compare to Ben 10. The point is there was so much variation, from what I can see of your post involves nothing but action. Where is the variety?

Just out of interest what did you watch when you was a kid?