Modern Cartoon Network

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I like Cartoon Network. From Sym-Bionic Titan to The Amazing World of Gumball, I think they sometimes put out some really great animated series. But I come to you all today to discuss a strange new future for CN. Something dark. Something horrifying.
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This is Cartoon Network's schedule for the coming week. Notice anything strange? What's going on with Cartoon Network? Why would they do this? This isn't some special marathon they advertised or anything. Its just the upcoming schedule.
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In the middle of all of it they're premiering a new show called "OK KO: Lets be Heroes". One could perhaps surmise that this is in celebration of this, but I don't honestly see what they have to do with each other. Surely kids don't enjoy watching the exact same thing 24/7. Has CN gone mad?

Is anyone else as disappointed with CN as I am? Is there any hope for this company?
 
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Battlechili said:
I like Cartoon Network. From Sym-Bionic Titan to The Amazing World of Gumball, I think they sometimes put out some really great animated series. But I come to you all today to discuss a strange new future for CN. Something dark. Something horrifying.
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This is Cartoon Network's schedule for the coming week. Notice anything strange? What's going on with Cartoon Network? Why would they do this? This isn't some special marathon they advertised or anything. Its just the upcoming schedule.
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I'm so glad I don't have cable. It's like they never got better despite getting rid of CN Real, probably because they still have the same asshole who a-okayed that in charge of the network. (Because who else would approve of this.)

I also heard Boomerang isn't... Boomerang anymore. Like it's apparently a graveyard for older shows now.
 
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I think OK KO holds promise as a TV show but this Teen Titans dominating the schedule seems utterly shit

CN needs two networks one for the really kiddy stuff like TTG and Gumball and another one targeting adults with Adventure Time and Steven Universe playing through the day and at night have one host Adult Swim and one host Toonami
 
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I was under the impression CN spent the last eight years or so hemorrhaging talent. The people who write/draw cartoons because they like writing/drawing cartoons are all gone. Now the only people working for them are a bunch of easily-jerked around "Totally 90s Kids!" faggots who jumped at the first chance to write fan fiction for their childhood obsessions. It's why reboots and social justice are becoming so popular on this channel.

Also if you're posting on this site you're probably too old to give a shit about the state of Cartoon Network.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
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I'm so glad I don't have cable. It's like they never got better despite getting rid of CN Real, probably because they still have the same asshole who a-okayed that in charge of the network. (Because who else would approve of this.)
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He's gone. The woman who succeeded him is little better. I recall that the cartoon spergs were saying how much an improvement she'd be - and now they're cursing her name.

Replicant Sasquatch said:
I was under the impression CN spent the last eight years or so hemorrhaging talent. The people who write/draw cartoons because they like writing/drawing cartoons are all gone. Now the only people working for them are a bunch of easily-jerked around "Totally 90s Kids!" faggots who jumped at the first chance to write fan fiction for their childhood obsessions. It's why reboots and social justice are becoming so popular on this channel.

Also if you're posting on this site you're probably too old to give a shit about the state of Cartoon Network.
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You would not be wrong.

I stopped watching CN around the same time they gave the world CN Real and canceled Chowder and Flapjack. Everything that's gone on since has not made me regret it.

(Speaking of which, I recall that Thurop van Orman, who created Flapjack, tweeted that in 2009 the CN studios felt like a graveyard. Perhaps that explains something...)
 
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and at night have one host Adult Swim and one host Toonami
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I'm not sure that would work. At least not if you're trying to split the channels between child and more adult oriented stuff. Some stuff aired on Toonami is mostly benign such as Dragon Ball Super, but on the other side of things you get ultra violent and adult works like Deadman Wonderland. Unless you mean that both theoretical channels would aim their nights at adults...
 
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(Speaking of which, I recall that Thurop van Orman, who created Flapjack, tweeted that in 2009 the CN studios felt like a graveyard. Perhaps that explains something...)
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I'm past the point of caring about cartoons, but I will admit I'm still a pretty big fan of Billy and Mandy. As a kid I had a dark sense of humor so a show which was basically B-movie horror schlock in cartoon form hooked me. Now as an adult I look back at it and appreciate it as one brilliant love letter to cult genre fiction. Maxwell Atoms was clearly focused more on indulging his fantasies and interests than making some cheap mercenary show for studio shekels. He seems like the kind of guy who'd make a real fun GM for a Worlds of Darkness game. Last I checked he's currently working on a post-apoc web series with puppets but I haven't checked in on that in a while.

I guess it's almost poetic the show ended right when I reached the age where watching cartoons wasn't cool anymore. I thought Flapjack was stupid and at that point I just kinda stopped watching the channel. Looking at it now, I think it's the case most cartoons are stupid no matter what "era" you're in. I don't see much of a difference between today's lolrandom nostalgia-bait bullcrap and the glorified toy commercials which were cartoons in the 80s/90s.
 
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When I was visiting family friends in the states I watched Cartoon Network (because we don't get it in Canada normally and it's a novelty to me) and like 50% of what they played was Teen Titans GO

It didn't bug me, I thought it was fine at least it seemed like kids would enjoy it. Let the kid's have their stupid shows because it seems like all the really popular shows are like Spongebob-esque nonsense funny shows but if kid's enjoy them I don't mind at all
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
I'm past the point of caring about cartoons, but I will admit I'm still a pretty big fan of Billy and Mandy. As a kid I had a dark sense of humor so a show which was basically B-movie horror schlock in cartoon form hooked me. Now as an adult I look back at it and appreciate it as one brilliant love letter to cult genre fiction. Maxwell Atoms was clearly focused more on indulging his fantasies and interests than making some cheap mercenary show for studio shekels. He seems like the kind of guy who'd make a real fun GM for a Worlds of Darkness game. Last I checked he's currently working on a post-apoc web series with puppets but I haven't checked in on that in a while.

I guess it's almost poetic the show ended right when I reached the age where watching cartoons wasn't cool anymore. I thought Flapjack was stupid and at that point I just kinda stopped watching the channel. Looking at it now, I think it's the case most cartoons are stupid no matter what "era" you're in. I don't see much of a difference between today's lolrandom nostalgia-bait bullcrap and the glorified toy commercials which were cartoons in the 80s/90s.
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You know what, it was a great show. One of my favorites.

But in any case, the problems people have with modern CN today... show-wise, let's face it, these things aren't made for us adults. We've outgrown them, despite those people who wish they hadn't. Everything else, however... when you look at the schedule posted above, you realize the people who were complaining about the overplay of Scooby-Doo 15 years ago don't know how good they had it.
 
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While I feel sorry for the kids of today who have nothing to look forward to on TV during one of their last weeks of summer vacation, at least TTG is a children's cartoon that some children actually seem to like and actually buy toys and t-shirts for and not, you know, Steven Universe.

Still, looks there will be a resurgence of Spiderman and Elsa videos very soon.
 
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