Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

[Trilby]

Man, you just gave me a vision of a completely inverted version of "preschool show for adults" and I actually really want it.
Imagine a show with cute appealing characters, cartoony animation, no cheap shock/swearing/drug garbage and everyone talking in a relatively mature tone ...while still being about day to day adult life with adult problems.

Fuck. That sounds like the sort of thing Jim Henson would make.

See, I could live with that.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Dean's response to the backlash for Astrid's casting for the HTTYD remake.

If that's the case Dean, then it'd be OK if say, someone remade Kirikou and the Sorceress but with all white people instead, because that movie is only a fantasy and not historical too. God, never meet your fucking heroes man.

 

[Space Police]

Man, you just gave me a vision of a completely inverted version of "preschool show for adults" and I actually really want it.
Imagine a show with cute appealing characters, cartoony animation, no cheap shock/swearing/drug garbage and everyone talking in a relatively mature tone ...while still being about day to day adult life with adult problems.

Fuck. That sounds like the sort of thing Jim Henson would make.

Most 80s action cartoons are similar -- they're not edgy and grimdark, but they have interesting stories and a serious tone.

 

[starborn427614]

This year will mark the first time EVER that Teen Titans Go! has taken up the entire Cartoon Network schedule for a week straight. The only other year that comes close is 2017.

 

[Trilby]

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This year will mark the first time EVER that Teen Titans Go! has taken up the entire Cartoon Network schedule for a week straight. The only other year that comes close is 2017.

I wish the channel died already. They're beating it's corpse now.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I wish the channel died already. They're beating it's corpse now.

When times are so bad you miss the Live action era

 

[Super Malario]

When times are so bad you miss the Live action era

At least you had variety back then, not the same show playing every hour of every day.

 

[Thiletonomics]

When times are so bad you miss the Live action era

Heck, it's so bad that even Total DramaRama would be missed, even with the show having blatant "creator's fetish on display" episodes like the infamous Fart Fairy one.

 

[Cloudby Skytoucher]

The Wacky World of Tex Avery?

A great reminder that things were not necessarily that much better in the 90s. The shit just got filtered by time.

 

[Cloudby Skytoucher]

This year will mark the first time EVER that Teen Titans Go! has taken up the entire Cartoon Network schedule for a week straight. The only other year that comes close is 2017.

Can someone explain why they're willing to air reruns of TTG but no other shows? Did they lose a bunch of licenses or something? I feel like if you were just going to air re-runs there's a shitload of content to pick from. Why is it all just one show?

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Can someone explain why they're willing to air reruns of TTG but no other shows? Did they lose a bunch of licenses or something? I feel like if you were just going to air re-runs there's a shitload of content to pick from. Why is it all just one show?

cuz that show is the only thing that kids are willing to watch from them.


Same reason why Nick spams SpongeBob and The Loud House.

 

[Computer Guardian]

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This year will mark the first time EVER that Teen Titans Go! has taken up the entire Cartoon Network schedule for a week straight. The only other year that comes close is 2017.

Reminds me when TruTV had nothing but Impractical Jokers reruns on repeat almost every day a few years back because it was the only real hit they had that wasn't clip shows or some random bullshit that was limpped across a couple seasons. guess this is kind of a common thing among networks that were under the Turner umbrella.

cuz that show is the only thing that kids are willing to watch from them.
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Same reason why Nick spams SpongeBob and The Loud House.

To be fair, if most of the new shows you could play was leftist seething sessions like We Baby Bears or late season Steven Universe tier shows like Craig of the Creek, it's not hard to push the one show the kids actually like

 

[A Grey Cat]

Dean's response to the backlash for Astrid's casting for the HTTYD remake.
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If that's the case Dean, then it'd be OK if say, someone remade Kirikou and the Sorceress but with all white people instead, because that movie is only a fantasy and not historical too. God, never meet your fucking heroes man.

Just fucking admit you auditioned actors who looked like their animated counterparts but you're a sellout trying to cling desperately to the woke agenda of black washing.


At least then you'd be honest about it. Still a woke cuck but at least an honest cuck.

 

[The Lawgiver]

This sounds like it would be an interesting premise if not for the whole “Whitey bad, museums bad” shit. Seeing ISIS destroy artifacts has told me that mayyyyybe keeping that shit in museums isn’t bad at all.

before the "museums bad" and "displaying old artifacts from dead cultures bad and racist!" narrative shit started there was the more sane shit that still technically happens like that one shield where the home countries artifacts are from regained ownership of them and put them in museums that then rent them out globally to other countries museums for exhibitions. Egyptian stuff is one of the bigger ones of those (and ironically the isis attack thing you mentioned was egyptian ones like the fucking cow statue iirc) . Maintenence and security against crazy fuckers like that costs money so just claiming it's racist is the easy way out the US government and museum staff has been taking the last 4 years or so, technically 7 years probably but it accelerated post corona. Never stopped being fucking disgusting to me on so many levels. Really says something when countries infamous for constant political turmoil like egypt treat museums like actual fucking proper museums to show cool shit from history still.

 

[Trilby]

before the "museums bad" and "displaying old artifacts from dead cultures bad and racist!" narrative shit started there was the more sane shit that still technically happens like that one shield where the home countries artifacts are from regained ownership of them and put them in museums that then rent them out globally to other countries museums for exhibitions. Egyptian stuff is one of the bigger ones of those (and ironically the isis attack thing you mentioned was egyptian ones like the fucking cow statue iirc) . Maintenence and security against crazy fuckers like that costs money so just claiming it's racist is the easy way out the US government and museum staff has been taking the last 4 years or so, technically 7 years probably but it accelerated post corona. Never stopped being fucking disgusting to me on so many levels. Really says something when countries infamous for constant political turmoil like egypt treat museums like actual fucking proper museums to show cool shit from history still.

At least some countries know what they're doing.

 

[SpiderBitch]

It drives me inane how often cartoons depict women in hijabs everywhere at all times in all eras. Ignoring how even Afghanistan had normal looking women up til the 80s, how fucking often do any of us even see Muslims in our day to day lives? I never had a hijabi classmate, and only ONCE have I had a hijabi coworker. For fucks sake you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a catholic, but Muslims are the ones front and center in every cartoon???

I see plenty of muslim women on the daily, but very little of them actually wear a headscarf. Back in school my classmates moms still wore one, but they themselves didn't.
They still did ramadan, halal etc but they were more than happy to abandon this part of their original cultures and their families allowed it. And these were of a bunch of different cultures, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Morocco, Afghanistan, etc.

As far as I've seen it's the same in other western countries with higher muslim populations, the girls that wear headscarves are likely a minority of muslim girls, yet its basically the only type of muslim girl the media will portray because otherwise she'd just look ambigously brown.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Fuck. That sounds like the sort of thing Jim Henson would make.

The muppet show was supposed to be for adults

 

[Kari Kamiya]

cuz that show is the only thing that kids are willing to watch from them.
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Same reason why Nick spams SpongeBob and The Loud House.

Maybe Cartoon Network is cleaning house behind the scenes. I take it that recent We Bare Bears episode was poorly received or something.

 

[starborn427614]

Maybe Cartoon Network is cleaning house behind the scenes. I take it that recent We Bare Bears episode was poorly received or something.

Wikipedia doesn't seem to list ratings for the more recent episodes of We Baby Bears (the main show ended a while ago), but the ratings I was able to find aren't exactly painting a positive picture.

 

[Commander X]

Most 80s action cartoons are similar -- they're not edgy and grimdark, but they have interesting stories and a serious tone.

I'm not what you would call a fan of GI Joe, but there were some amusing bits, especially around the period Steve Gerber was working on the show, like the episode "The Wrong Stuff", penned by Stanley Ralph Ross, where Cobra takes over the airwaves with pro-Cobra programming and swipes are taken at the state of TV and Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Then there was the Gerber-penned episode "There's No Place Like Springfield" where Joe operative Shipwreck finds himself waking up in a hospital, apparently suffering from memory loss; years have passed, Cobra has been broken up, GI Joe victorious and he's married with a daughter, living in a town called Springfield. But he starts wondering if he's going crazy, if he's losing it, if reality and illusion are getting mixed up in his head.