Cartoons going down the tube?

Question

What do people think of the next generation of cartoons (ie Spongebob, Teletubbies, Dora the Explorer, etc)? In my opinion the old shows on Nick and others were so much better. What ever happened to the Rugrats and Doug?

Answer 1

I totally agreed! I absolutely adore the old school cartoons. We should petition all the cartoons networks and tell them that we want the good cartoons back!lol

Answer 2

I grew up with the old Merry Melodies cartoons from Warner Brothers, and with Tom and Jerry, but they were stuck in the 1940´s and the Hanna Barbera cartoon factory of the seventies, where most of the cartoons they churned out were'nt worth a damn. I also grew up with japanese series like astroboy (not the watered down version you see today, the real one) and they were extremely violent for their time. The cartoon business almost died out because there were no new options, so if you look at cartoons as a product then you have cable channels churning out their own stuff, which they can market as they please. We live in an age where cartoonists can experiment and are not hampered by rigid and obsolete guidelines. Dora the explorer, Blue's Clues and other series were a milestone in the business, but they only last for so long, we are a fickle audience, always looking for something new, we get bored in record time and want something different. The best cartoons are made by people who never stopped being children, at least in spirit. Spongebob is a wacky enjoyable cartoon, and the character is very much a child himself, but I like it. Rugrats had to grow up or die, so they got an extension. Not all cartoons are funny, Cow and Chicken I found deplorable with excessive references to butts, buns, farts and other unacceptable bodily functions that polite society does not glorify. Other cartoons border on the grotesque, the animation is bizarre, the storyline has no beginning or ending. Modern Japanese Animé like Crayon Shin Shan and others like it are not my choice by far. The Wild Thornberry's was an excellent show, you at least learnt something, although I never did like the animation style. The champion of Gross Cartoons has to be Ren and Stimpy, even though I laughed at some of them, several episodes were absolutely disgusting. Who knows what future generations will watch but I am looking forward to it. Some cartoons will always be bad, others will be enchanting, but nothing lasts forever. Evolve or die. Look at it this way, there is a cartoon for every decade of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, a reflection of the times. See it as a sort of history sampler. Enjoy the ones you like and look forward to new ones. That´s part of the global culture.

Answer 3

Doug moved to the Saturday morning lineup on one of the major networks (ABC?) and then just disappeared from one year to the next.

The Rugrats had a show on Nick where they were all teenagers and it probably never got renewed.

I don't like the new cartoons. I have never gotten Spongebob- I think I'd either have to be drunk or high to think it was funny, instead of my current thought that it's stupid.

Just bought some DVDs in the past few weeks, of the classic cartoons I grew up with, even the ones which came out before I was born (Tom and Jerry, The Pink Panther) and I now pop one of those in to get my cartoon fix.

Answer 4

Yeah many shows nowdays are crap...such is the phenomena of our time when shows are either made just for ratings or just cause there are too many acid-tripping producers and writers out there. There are a few shows from this generation which can be considered cool (personally i prefer Kim Possible and Samurai Jack), but eventually they'll decay and pass out just as surely as the classic shows did. The sad thing is many of the old shows one way or another failed to evolve and capture the new audiences that come and thus they die. Even the oldies who are supposedly still alive in one form or another(Scooby Doo or the Rugrats comes to my mind) and the current and future generations of cartoons will eventually get corny and crappy and fade into obscurity as well. For some shows that moment will come sooner than others, but it will come to all in time. Lets just hope then that some of the better shows have DVD/video compilations.

Answer 5

I watch Boomerang which is full of old school shows that are giving me nostalgia. So I do agree this Generation of cartoons are not going to do well save few like Avatar on Nickelodeon and some other toons that aren't coming to me.

Answer 6

Yeah the old cartoons were better....the old Nick was better....Rugrats. doug. ren and stimpy. Are u afraid of the dark... Clarissa explains it all? Remember those? Throwbacks

Answer 7

This generation of cartoons suck, well, at least ALL of the ones you talked about sofar suck, there are a few good cartoons, like the ones that are for adults are better, but the rest of the ones on TV suck.

Answer 8

Any cartoons that are violent should be banned from children's viewing. If they are specifically for adults, as long as they are labeled so they are fine. I looove South Park, the movie.

Answer 9

Yea, I loved the older cartoons!

Spongebob is weird and retarded.
Teletubbies are scary for children.
Catdog are too mature for children (sexy bi***es and all)

Answer 10

I know right the new shows are so lame and boring.the old shows are cooler they still put them on though.