[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Dude, I used to live and breath for that Spiderman cartoon. I used to imagine the day when I could own my own apartment where all of the furniture flipped over into hidden computers…for what I hadn’t figured out yet.[/quote]
thats fucking weird.
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You’re just mad because your childhood fantasies involved the Count from Sesame Street and Elvira.
90s Batman. Damn that show was good.
[quote]orion wrote:
Alrighty then:
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Alle lieben Maja!
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Dexter’s Laboratory, Ed Edd n’ Eddy, Spiderman, X-Men, Powerpuff Girls (not even ashamed), Courage the Cowardly Dog, Recess, Cow and Chicken (a bit meh)…
90s cartoons ruled.[/quote]
Terrible taste, going to request that you leave this thread good sir.[/quote]
I watched Dexter’s Lab and Ed Edd n’ Eddy a few weeks ago… and loved them. Not just because of the nostalgia but because I kept seeing jokes my 9 year old self never noticed. See the episdoe 1+1=Ed for EEE. They were definitely writing for adults as well.
EDIT: Cheers IronDwarf and X for backing me up
I loved me some Starblazers in the 80’s.
[quote]Bambi wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Dexter’s Laboratory, Ed Edd n’ Eddy, Spiderman, X-Men, Powerpuff Girls (not even ashamed), Courage the Cowardly Dog, Recess, Cow and Chicken (a bit meh)…
90s cartoons ruled.[/quote]
Terrible taste, going to request that you leave this thread good sir.[/quote]
I watched Dexter’s Lab and Ed Edd n’ Eddy a few weeks ago… and loved them. Not just because of the nostalgia but because I kept seeing jokes my 9 year old self never noticed. See the episdoe 1+1=Ed for EEE. They were definitely writing for adults as well.
EDIT: Cheers IronDwarf and X for backing me up [/quote]
Have to agree with you three here cause I was one of those parents watching with my children during those years. Probably same reason ID was watching, I think our boys are the same age.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
I loved me some Starblazers in the 80’s.
I’ve been trying to find an instrumental of this for so long, with no success. The search continues…
[quote]enrac wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
I loved me some Starblazers in the 80’s.
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I’ve been trying to find an instrumental of this for so long, with no success. The search continues…[/quote]
Maybe here?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
Alrighty then:
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Alle lieben Maaaaaaaaaaa-jaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Fixed
The 90’s was the best for cartoons. In particular the X-men animated series. Dealt with adult issues, interpreted comic stories with success. Had a bad ass opening theme and featured Wolverine threatening to " rearrange your windpipe".
Pokemon trumps al this bullshit.
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
Pokemon trumps al this bullshit.
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Blasphemy. That crap was created to give kids seizures and to steal your souls.
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
Pokemon trumps al this bullshit.
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Pokemon is probably the most cynical exercise in product placement ever. Every single episode is an extended ad designed to sell trading cards (and later on, video games). If a kid hated a character that happened to be powerful, they still had to buy the corresponding card so their friends wouldn’t beat them, and the most powerful cards were the rarest, which meant spending money due to peer pressure was inevitable.
Like every other tournament-based kid’s show, it’s not a cartoon but a business model.
[quote]Ulty wrote:
The real push behind these terrible cartoons was the marketing of the toys. I thought it was so awesome in Thundercats and Transformers when new characters and especially the kick ass new vehicles would be introduced, but I realize as an adult that those were just new marketing efforts for the toy line.
The original Transformers movie in the 80s (where everyone essentially died) was shocking for a elementary school kid because of all of the violence, but it was incredibly awesome at the same time (I think the original Transformers cartoons hold up better than a lot of the other 80s shows). However, it turns out the movie was just a reason to reboot the series and introduce a whole new line of toys to sell.[/quote]
Good point, well made. But consider this for a moment - without that marketing drive we would never have had Transformers: The Movie and its theme, the inspirational hair metal anthem “The Touch” by Stan Bush:
If that happened, I ask how Dirk Diggler could have covered it in Boogie Nights?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Dexter’s Laboratory, Ed Edd n’ Eddy, Spiderman, X-Men, Powerpuff Girls (not even ashamed), Courage the Cowardly Dog, Recess, Cow and Chicken (a bit meh)…
90s cartoons ruled.[/quote]
Terrible taste, going to request that you leave this thread good sir.
Late 80’s/early 90’s wins, no contest, I don’t care what your adult logic and rationality says looking back on it 20+ years later.[/quote]
I disagree! Bambi listed some good ones that had great variation in visual style, over-the-top plots and scripts, all without dumbing them down. In fact, you could find PLENTY of humor that adults would only understand in some of them. TV animation was coming back in a big way in the 90’s.
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It was somewhat of a joke, I actually enjoyed a few of his listed toons(the best spiderman cartoon series, the best x-men anything outside of comics, and Dexter’s Lab was good). Considering my statement though, it’s not like I disagreed with his ‘90’s cartoons ruled,’ more that I didn’t like most of his list. If I’m dropping 90s cartoon names I can’t possibly leave off Doug, Animaniacs, Talespin, Batman Beyond(Batman dealing with puberty and teen drama? It’s like they knew all of us 90s cartoon watchers were just entering middle school…)
I’d still keep the late 80s thing in there though, because you had reruns of only the best 80s cartoons, along with some startup classics like Ducktales, good times.
As far as the part about those cartoons holding up for me as an adult now I wouldn’t know, I definitely haven’t gone back to watch any in a long time, only cartoons I watch now are when I’m entertaining my nephew and he’s all about his Phineas and Ferb.
A great 80s cartoon was Inhumanoids, it was canceled after only like 10 episodes probably because it was pretty violent and scary, it had people getting melted with acid and shit. I wish I could find it on DVD.
I also remember watching Tranzor Z, I had to get up like at 5 to watch it while it was still dark outside, it came on before Pink Panther. Pink Panther was a good cartoon too. Those were some sweet memories.
And of course, Ren and Stimpy ruled the 90s for me - hands down the best cartoon of the 90s. Perhaps ever. I watch it with my nephew, like passing down the classics.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It just occurred to me how fucking lame we were as kids in the 80’s. I have recently watched both the He-man cartoon and the Superfriends…and both look like the were written for 3 year olds today. I remember watching that shit in grade school.
What the hell was wrong with us?
Did we really need every villain to explain what he was about to do before he did it…as well as the heroes?
yeah, that’s a real quote. A fucking BAT SKI LIFT…and we never questioned it.
I mean, while [quote]“Wonder Woman: Batman, give me your Bat-Saw.”[/quote] could potentially lead to some kinky mental imagery, this shit was corny as hell and treated us like we were idiots.
Were we idiots?
LOL, He-Man was even worse.[/quote]
I think ‘Shark repellent bat spray’’ takes the crown lol
Pokemon sucked balls. I hated that show.
Pikachu was real cute though.
TMNT rocked.
Remember Pinky and the Brain?
I loved Pinky and The brain! 
ehehehe…