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But the goddamn Troubles episode....which manages to provide commentary on the IRA and the Iraq war
The Worst Shows You Used to Watch When You Were a Kid - I.E. Childhood shows that make you cringe in retrospect.
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You know, Captain Planet really does earn a top spot in cartoon infamy. This was literal propaganda, shoving very heavy and troubling issues down little children's throats.
I'm glad I was too old for it when it debuted. Even then, I knew something was wrong about it. Thankfully the worst thing my cartoons did was sell me toys.
I'm glad I was too old for it when it debuted. Even then, I knew something was wrong about it. Thankfully the worst thing my cartoons did was sell me toys.
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Captain Planet is fun though as an adult while drunk/high. It's so dumb and preachy it circles back around into being hilarious.
Plus I can't remember it trying to advocate for anything harmful like critical race theory, just pretty bog standard don't pollute or chop down trees and shit like that.
Adam Sandler movies, not a show but I watched them and I'm sure other people did as well.
Plus I can't remember it trying to advocate for anything harmful like critical race theory, just pretty bog standard don't pollute or chop down trees and shit like that.
Adam Sandler movies, not a show but I watched them and I'm sure other people did as well.
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My question is why the fuck was it attached to the Digimon movie? That and I think people hate it bc it’s why kablam can’t be released on dvd due to lisencing or some shit
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Boy, this thread was a nice walk down memory lane.
Seeing some shows I hadn't thought of in years. What a bunch of shit I used to watch but yet still look back and say "Well, it's still better than shit kids now get to watch.
All those kid shows that taught kids to yell at the fucking TV? Dora the explorer, Go Diego Go, Ni Hao Kailan... Insufferable. At least blues clues actually had a kid's voice to point out to Steve where the clue was, and Steve wasn't encouraging kids to shout "OPEN THE MAP, DUMMY!" while mommy tries to sleep off her Avon party the night before. Fuckin sesame Street had to go get a Muppet with aids. And didn't Arthur have some racist episodes and make one of the teachers a fag recently? Jesus. Could you imagine making Doug today? Skeeter would be a mopey asshole because the green people pick on the blue people.
One show that I watched that I liked, but didn't understand very much was The Tomorrow People. After I heard they remade it, I did some digging to find old episodes. Yeah, that one was pretty garbage.
The nicktoons, in retrospect, aren't very watchable anymore. Hey Arnold is still kinda cool. Doug is so bland, Ren and Stimpy was just about getting stuff past the censors and giving kids fart jokes to laugh at, and the rest of them are pretty unremarkable. At least nickelodeon eventually had some good stuff sandwiched between utter garbage. Avatar was good, and I unironically like the Nick version of ninja turtles. But, fuck me, man. Breadwinners? Sanjay and Craig? God, at least when rugrats had poop jokes...theyre babies, they shit all the time.
Horror shows were always fun to watch. Tales from the Crypt and, to a lesser extent, from the Darkside were good. And quite a few episodes are still pretty good. Twilight zone never interested me as a kid, but when there's a TZ marathon on today, I like watching. There was a sort of Tales from the Darkside spinoff called Monsters (I think, anyway... It's kinda fuzzy) that I enjoyed, but could never seem to find it later on. The kid shows like goosebumps, eerie Indiana, are you afraid of the dark were OK, but seeing them now is rough. Hell, zeke the plumber from salute your shorts was more terrifying than MOST of the other stuff.
I didn't like the pokemon show. Ash just pissed me off all the time. Use an electric type on a ground type! That'll show em. One show I did get into, because I had the game, was Monster Rancher. Nowadays, that show is just as awful. But, the novelty of using the hundreds of CDs we had to make monsters was cool. And a show about the game had me up at 5am to watch it.
Oh, and the Gummi bears. That show, duck tales, tale spin... Fuck those cartoons.
Seeing some shows I hadn't thought of in years. What a bunch of shit I used to watch but yet still look back and say "Well, it's still better than shit kids now get to watch.
All those kid shows that taught kids to yell at the fucking TV? Dora the explorer, Go Diego Go, Ni Hao Kailan... Insufferable. At least blues clues actually had a kid's voice to point out to Steve where the clue was, and Steve wasn't encouraging kids to shout "OPEN THE MAP, DUMMY!" while mommy tries to sleep off her Avon party the night before. Fuckin sesame Street had to go get a Muppet with aids. And didn't Arthur have some racist episodes and make one of the teachers a fag recently? Jesus. Could you imagine making Doug today? Skeeter would be a mopey asshole because the green people pick on the blue people.
One show that I watched that I liked, but didn't understand very much was The Tomorrow People. After I heard they remade it, I did some digging to find old episodes. Yeah, that one was pretty garbage.
The nicktoons, in retrospect, aren't very watchable anymore. Hey Arnold is still kinda cool. Doug is so bland, Ren and Stimpy was just about getting stuff past the censors and giving kids fart jokes to laugh at, and the rest of them are pretty unremarkable. At least nickelodeon eventually had some good stuff sandwiched between utter garbage. Avatar was good, and I unironically like the Nick version of ninja turtles. But, fuck me, man. Breadwinners? Sanjay and Craig? God, at least when rugrats had poop jokes...theyre babies, they shit all the time.
Horror shows were always fun to watch. Tales from the Crypt and, to a lesser extent, from the Darkside were good. And quite a few episodes are still pretty good. Twilight zone never interested me as a kid, but when there's a TZ marathon on today, I like watching. There was a sort of Tales from the Darkside spinoff called Monsters (I think, anyway... It's kinda fuzzy) that I enjoyed, but could never seem to find it later on. The kid shows like goosebumps, eerie Indiana, are you afraid of the dark were OK, but seeing them now is rough. Hell, zeke the plumber from salute your shorts was more terrifying than MOST of the other stuff.
I didn't like the pokemon show. Ash just pissed me off all the time. Use an electric type on a ground type! That'll show em. One show I did get into, because I had the game, was Monster Rancher. Nowadays, that show is just as awful. But, the novelty of using the hundreds of CDs we had to make monsters was cool. And a show about the game had me up at 5am to watch it.
Oh, and the Gummi bears. That show, duck tales, tale spin... Fuck those cartoons.
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Not overtly, but as I recall the white male American lad was portrayed as the dim one and always had to be "corrected" by his POC and commie colleagues.
Propaganda cartoons of all kinds can be hilarious if you're in the right mood. I love the WWII ones myself.
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Really? Because from what I remember he was the main one that actually did shit and the other characters were tokens who got kinda shoved aside with him. Especially Mati or whatever the fuck his name was, he was fucking useless. Wasn't there one episode where he could've used his power to stop notHitler and doesn't even do that?
Speaking of tokens, I've mentioned it elsewhere but jesus christ Suzie from Rugrats was awful. Even as a kid I realize she was only in the show to be black. No personality outside of being generically nice and always good and right.
I think SJWs who insist on trying to shove tokens in comics and shit nowadays must have been too young to remember the first wave of tokenism and why it's bad.
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Did you ever see the episode where the Planeteers traveled back in time to Nazi Germany, and the mere presence of Hitler was enough to physically harm Captain Planet?
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Ironically, Captain Planet doesn't care about polluting the timeline. Go figure.
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It was the same episode where one of the villains traveled back in time to sell a nuclear bomb to Hitler. Because Captain Planet villains are a special kind of stupid.
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This is the kind of shit that makes Captain Planet hilarious as an adult when you aren't sober.
Speaking of Hitler, I mentioned Adam Sandler movies. At 11 I thought Little Nicky was the greatest movie ever solely because I though the part with Hitler in a maid outfit with the pineapple was the funniest thing I'd seen in my life. In retrospect it was a terrible movie, but the Hitler thing is still pretty funny.
I do still unironically enjoy Big Daddy though. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I rewatched it a few years back and still liked it.
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Make him a fag?
Chille....if you didn't know Ratburn was a flaming homo before....its obvious
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My favorite thing about Captain Planet was that he was such a pussy he could literally be killed by garbage. There were episodes where he almost died because someone threw trash on his head or the villain's pollution machine just rolled coal in his face.
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Team Rocket keeps us coming back.
Funny you mention it. Pokemon was the first instance I had googling something only to find fetish art.
At this point it's parasocial. We've known him for most our lives, and we want him to do well. The fact that he keeps fleecing Hollywood only makes us like him more.
He's charmingly mediocre, like Jimmy Fallon.
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Honestly my favorite Pokemon characters were the random side characters and one offs, like gym leaders and movie characters and shit. I still have a few in waifu/husbando territory (shhhhh).
DBZ in retrospect isn't exactly a great story, but damn that shit is fun.
DBZ in retrospect isn't exactly a great story, but damn that shit is fun.
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Good God damn, Captain Planet is even worse than I remember it. It was razzlin-dazzlin' popular down here in Brazil in the early 90's, if only because we didn't know better.
Someone mentioneed Bobby's World earlier on. That one is popular in Brazil too, if only because it used to air on a popular monday-to-friday morning block for quite some time, well into the late 00's. Brazilian imageboards even use "Bobby" as a slang for someone who may be lying about their prowess, either at their jobs or with women, and it is an obvious reference. to the show.
Has any of you guys watched Saint Seiya? That one is considered one of the catalysts for the anime boom in the late 90's and early 00's in Latin America, and it is still fondly remembered here in Brazil. It's not bad, just standard shonen fare (one that influenced many of the tropes we see today at that) but I read they tried to "adapt" it to murrican tastes, only to butcher it even worse than what they did with other mid-90's imports like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. I mean, it's a series that doesn't shy from being freaking bloody and violent, and from what I read, they cut off most of the violence and came up with the excuse that the blood was actually "vital energy" being drained away from the harmed. That took away one of its biggest selling points, since rarely, if ever, did kids shows produce that much blood and death. It was a total novelty back in 1995 when it first aired, which is why it is remembered fondly.
It must have been incredibly bad, because it never saw any kind of release. I wish to know if any anglo users watched it.
Someone mentioneed Bobby's World earlier on. That one is popular in Brazil too, if only because it used to air on a popular monday-to-friday morning block for quite some time, well into the late 00's. Brazilian imageboards even use "Bobby" as a slang for someone who may be lying about their prowess, either at their jobs or with women, and it is an obvious reference. to the show.
Has any of you guys watched Saint Seiya? That one is considered one of the catalysts for the anime boom in the late 90's and early 00's in Latin America, and it is still fondly remembered here in Brazil. It's not bad, just standard shonen fare (one that influenced many of the tropes we see today at that) but I read they tried to "adapt" it to murrican tastes, only to butcher it even worse than what they did with other mid-90's imports like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. I mean, it's a series that doesn't shy from being freaking bloody and violent, and from what I read, they cut off most of the violence and came up with the excuse that the blood was actually "vital energy" being drained away from the harmed. That took away one of its biggest selling points, since rarely, if ever, did kids shows produce that much blood and death. It was a total novelty back in 1995 when it first aired, which is why it is remembered fondly.
It must have been incredibly bad, because it never saw any kind of release. I wish to know if any anglo users watched it.
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Watching the Ocean dub up until halfway through the Freeza saga until Funimation kicked in is a pretty fond memory of mine. It would always get up to that middle point before looping all the way back to episode 1 and every single time I thought there'd be new episodes. Nothing...until one day. Good times.
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Yeah, and that was when we suffered through Garlic Jr. Saga reruns for a long time. The day that first started the Trunks saga was a really glorious day, since there were no more reruns until the very last episode.