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It may be that some memories are better left alone, but dammit, any one of the series named here that I'm familiar with (and it's quite a lot) would run rings around what's on for children these days. Has anybody SEEN Cartoon Network lately? What the hell is Captain Flapjack? Thia show is on at a local pizza palor in town and I really came close to telling them to turn it off if they couldn't do better. The humor apparently consists of characters throwing up for no apparent reason at all.
Man, and I thought SpongeBob killed brain cells (well, actually, the cartoon "SpongeBob B.C." does...every time I watch that 7 minute short, I can feel several brain cells jumping to their death, screaming in pain...yet my 7 year old is not bothered by it).
I would rather have hot coals shoved in my eyes,nose and mouth than to EVER see another episode of FlapJack, Give me Bugs and Daffy and day over this garbage. Good god, it makes Pokemon look like - quality wise - Bugs and Daffy in comparison! It makes a class show like Anamaniacs and "Looney Tunes", plus anything by Tex Avery, look like "The Godfather"!
Some days I just know old Chuck (Jones), Friz (Freleng), and Tex are just spinning around in their graves seeing that their art form has come to this.
LOL... I think your reaction simply indicates that you've grown up into an old fart. Flapjack and Spongebob are quite possibly the best children's (by that I mean intended for those 12 and under) cartoons on television today. They are witty and enjoyable enough for adults (or apparently most adults) to watch as well. Both have won several awards for excellence. And it's funny that you mention bugs and daffy because both sponngebob and flapjack are HEAVILY influenced visually by the works of tex avery and chuck jones (with a bit of ren and stimpy for good measure). As a matter of fact, with the exception of show geared towards teens and adults (see the adult swim lineup) it is the highest quality animation on the air today! Also what you are describing doesn't sound like any episode I've ever seen. I doubt you've ever actually sit and watched an entire episdoe of flapjack because most adults like it, even those that hate spongebob.
Mind you I'm a fan of the 80's as well, because I grew up in the 80's, but quality-wise, both in terms of writing and animation, what is on today, as a whole, is FAR SUPERIOR to anything that was on when we grew up. I also need to point out that the shows you are comparing them to are either from the 50s-late 70s (looney toons) or from the early 90's (tiny toons).
The only thing the 80's shows had going for them was the intorduction of really great toy products.... err I mean characters..... You know, gijoe, transformers, he-man.... The shows themselves weren't so hot after you take the nostalgia glasses off. Well except for thundercats... that show was pure win!
Btw... no love for alvin and the chipmunks? That show, along with looney toons aired pretty much the entire decade!
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And don't forget the endless disney toons! Not the new ones they have now that are terribly malformed so that you can use characters from a successful movie, but the originals like duck tales, darkwing duck, gummie bears, rescue rangers and talespin. Although some of those might be heading into 90's territory.