Cartoon Network General

[PS1gamenwatch]

Isn't CN rebranding to become a preschool age network? Wonder what's going to happen to Adult Swim, imagine transitioning from content for literal babies to... Adult Swim.

Like this

I remember back then in Asia and from what I heard also Europe had Cartoon Network and TNT as one channel cartoons at day and classic movies plus WCW Nitro at night.

Which is why I say one of the best shows of Cartoon Network was WCW Nitro since it was technically on the same channel well half of it. Funny story one night after Cartoon Network became TNT the logo of Cartoon Network was still there when Nitro was airing. It was strange it did change during the commercial. Unfortunately they didn’t show all of the Hollywood Hogan and Giant match there wasn’t a Robin Hood airing on TNT Asia they just aired Phantom of Hollywood. In 2001 when Nitro got cancelled since WWF bought it, Cartoon Network Asia and TNT Asia now TCM Asia split and each got their own 24/7 network.

Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch, the creators of Total Drama, said that DramaRama takes place in an alternate universe, which still seems like very weak reasoning.

And I still can't get over how the Fart Fairy episode of DramaRama was allowed to be made, as in why no one stopped to think that it would be a very bad idea.

Those guys didn’t like that fan made Total Drama Reunion on YouTube and got it stopped after it’s first episode and this happened

 

[big rig 42]

I'll defend Steven Universe as a pretty solid show up to the point that they defeat Peridot, after that one thing I noticed was the animation quality took a hit, it's not that it was BAD where I left off but I felt like it was starting to spread itself a little thin.

Yup. I watched through the entire series for work (avoiding revealing powerlevel but I watch a lot of tv programming as a career), once the whole "homeworld so scary!!!!!!" fear dies down the show drops in quality. Series probably should have ended after they defeated jasper. Or better yet, if the show was done through HBO maybe they would have some more interesting scenes instead of dumbing every single allusion (relationship abuse, etc) down for the sake of being approved for a kids series. Makes me hopeful that Steven Universe gets the HBO treatment that Adventure Time got because admittedly, despite the overall autism feminism the show features, the overall basis is pretty neat.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Yup. I watched through the entire series for work (avoiding revealing powerlevel but I watch a lot of tv programming as a career), once the whole "homeworld so scary!!!!!!" fear dies down the show drops in quality. Series probably should have ended after they defeated jasper. Or better yet, if the show was done through HBO maybe they would have some more interesting scenes instead of dumbing every single allusion (relationship abuse, etc) down for the sake of being approved for a kids series. Makes me hopeful that Steven Universe gets the HBO treatment that Adventure Time got because admittedly, despite the overall autism feminism the show features, the overall basis is pretty neat.

It definitely would have worked better as an adult series, even at the show’s best I never thought it would be something an actual kid would like since they wouldn’t get any of the references, in jokes or the overall point, it was so obviously made for nostalgic millennials.

“What if a boy was part of a magical girl team” is not something that would be interesting to you if you didn’t grow up or at least have a passing knowledge of stuff like Sailor Moon.

Kids shows had references and parodies that often went over my head when I was a kid, like Rocko, but Rocko wasn’t really predicted on nostalgia.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

Yo, anyone else have any memories of this show. I remember watching it at 5 a.m. in elementary school.

I also remember it having a good tower-defense game on CN’s website. I wonder if it is still out there?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Those guys didn’t like that fan made Total Drama Reunion on YouTube and got it stopped after it’s first episode and this happened

And then just after that, they announced new seasons coming. I don't know if it'll be a complete reboot or not. But some Youtubers dropped some comments. That one is right on target.

Samantha Brito
You know what says a lot, is that the huge band Gorillaz was going to make a music video for Rhinestone Eyes. It gets cancelled. HOWEVER, a very dedicated fan took the storyboard of what the music video was supposed to be and spent SIX YEARS animating the music video because they saw true potential in the band’s idea to be a music video. This fan took their idea and ran with it and created a masterpiece. You know what Gorillaz did? They left a comment on their video and gave them a “”. They never tried taking it down, no copyright claims, nothing. And that was more of any kind of “copying” than anything but it still wasn’t!! They took the storyboard and made an awesome music video for their beloved band and that band saw that and was proud. This hurts me to see this behavior towards fans because they just wanted to give remembrance to a great show. Not make a full production to dismiss anything. This honestly shows how insecure Fresh TV is about their own content.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

Fresh TV shutting down productions of Total Drama for fan projects is nothing new. Within a short time frame of reveal, FusionFall Legacy got hit with Copyright terminations for their Total Drama content, setting the team back months for the ultimately unfinished product.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

The end of a shitty era is upon us. No more Total Dramarama.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

The end of a shitty era is upon us. No more Total Dramarama.

Huh. Thought they were going to try to have both this and the main show on at the same time. Oh well.
(never watched Dramarama, so generally indifferent)

 

[Dom Cruise]

Does anyone remember O Canada from the 90s? It was a late night show with content that was not always kid friendly, very much like a proto-Adult Swim, except they would air weird animated shorts from Canada.

I remember finding that weirdly fascinating as a kid.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

Does anyone remember O Canada from the 90s? It was a late night show with content that was not always kid friendly, very much like a proto-Adult Swim, except they would air weird animated shorts from Canada.

I remember finding that weirdly fascinating as a kid.

Heard of it, but never saw it myself. I do know it had the pilot for the show Bob and Margaret.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

Heard of it, but never saw it myself. I do know it had the pilot for the show Bob and Margaret.

I watched that short when TCM ran NFB shorts a few years back. Still hard to believe they ran a short where a guy's dick is on full display (obviously, CN censored it, but still...). Even funnier was that the full series had an episode that had him completely naked in a nightmare sequence, and he was uncensored there (in Canada, at least, I know it aired on Comedy Central in the US, and I'm not sure if they'd have been willing to show uncensored peen at the time).

 

[KIllz]

Does anyone remember O Canada from the 90s? It was a late night show with content that was not always kid friendly, very much like a proto-Adult Swim, except they would air weird animated shorts from Canada.

I remember finding that weirdly fascinating as a kid.

Yes, I've searched online for copies and ended up only finding 1 or 2 episodes on youtube. Hard to find apparently. https://youtu.be/E2wbfHBXnJU

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

Merry Knishmas everybody!
I hope you all properly built your Shmingerbread houses so that you can receive gifts from from Knish Kringle. I am so happy that I got my electric broccoli trimmer this Knishmas.

Any way, anyone got any favorite CN holiday specials?

 

[Oats12345]

Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch, the creators of Total Drama, said that DramaRama takes place in an alternate universe, which still seems like very weak reasoning.

And I still can't get over how the Fart Fairy episode of DramaRama was allowed to be made, as in why no one stopped to think that it would be a very bad idea.

That was clearly a fetish episode how that got air is beyond me?

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

It seems that CN is bringing back Cartoon Cartoons soon.

Cartoon Network Reveals First Look at Reboot of '90s Classic​

Cartoon Network is bringing back one of its classic programming blocks as a whole new initiative, and we now have the first look. Cartoon Cartoons, the '90s block of animated shorts, is returning as a new shorts program to help find the next great animated projects. The initial Cartoon Cartoons spawned numerous beloved Cartoon Networks shows, including The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Johnny Bravo and Ed, Edd and Eddy.

While the new Cartoon Cartoons won't feature those titles, this new project will see creators bring a whole new crop of series to life, with the end producing potentially being "globally distributed by WarnerMedia across a variety of platforms including linear broadcast through Cartoon Network, streaming through HBO Max, online and much more," per a previous press release. On Nov. 23, Cartoon Network teased glimpses at the first group of these shorts.

The list includes "Accordions Geoffrey & Mary Melodica" (Louie Zong), "Dang! It's Dracula" (Levon Jihanian), "Hungy Ghost" (Jesse Moynihan), "Unravel" (Alexis Sugden), "Mouth Wash Madness" (Lisa Vandenberg), "Scaredy Cat" by JJ Villard), "Fruit Stand at the End of the World" (Rachel Liu), "Off the Menu" (Shavonne Cherry) and "Harmony in Despair" (Andrew Dickman). Will any of these spawn the next great animated series? Only time will tell!

As for how this Cartoon Cartoons program works, a group known as the "Cartoon Cartoons Creative Council" oversees the shorts, providing mentorship to the artists. The council includes Pete Browngardt (Looney Tunes Cartoons), Manny Hernandez (We Bare Bears, Inside Out), Katie Rice (The Book of Life, Hulu's Animaniacs) and Aminder Dhaliwal (The Owl House, Close Enough). Cartoon Network Studios is joining with Black Women Animate Studios and Exceptional Minds, an animation academy for young adults on the autism spectrum, during the process.

Cartoon Network Reveals First Look at Reboot of '90s Classic

Cartoon Network is bringing back one of its classic programming blocks as a whole new initiative, [...]

popculture.com

Sorry for being a little late to this reveal.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

It seems that CN is bringing back Cartoon Cartoons soon.

Cartoon Network Reveals First Look at Reboot of '90s Classic​

Cartoon Network Reveals First Look at Reboot of '90s Classic

Cartoon Network is bringing back one of its classic programming blocks as a whole new initiative, [...]

popculture.com

Sorry for being a little late to this reveal.

I recognize only two of these names. Is that a blessing?
JJ Villard is an interesting one, given his recent background of adult shows.
And I see we have a Channel Awesome adjacent, too.

 

[thegooddoctor]

When did Cartoon Network peaked for you guys?

Absolutely the Early to mid 2000s the influx of so many new shows that the new century had brought, KND, Ed Edd n Eddy, Dexters lab, Billy and Mandy, Courage, samurai Jack, Fosters and even lesser known hits like Time Squad, the Hannah barbera movies and ´Whatever happened to Robot Jones? (Anybody remember that?) combined with so many 90s toons and a lot of classic HB and Warner Bros shows made early CN always a joy to watch. The Mid 2000s CGI Cartoon Network city was the best though, seeing all these characters interact was like pure heaven and seems unreal even today:

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

“Johnny Bravo could never be made today, he never changes and learns like my favorite characters from Gravity Falls.”

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Johnny Bravo could never be made today,

This is sadly true, though.

he never changes and learns like my favorite characters from Gravity Falls.”

He shoots... and doesn't score. Rinse and repeat, and that's fine. Many cartoons in that era didn't have character arcs, let alone story arcs. That Nerdstalgic misses that point is disappointing, but not unexpected since so many cartoon reviewers (he's not just a cartoon reviewer, but he's talked about them enough that he counts) have gotten spoiled with cartoons from the late-2000s-onwards having story arcs somewhere in the wackiness.

It's honestly not that fair to compare-contrast cartoons from different eras if they weren't made by the same people, or if it was never explicitly stated that the older cartoon was an inspiration. He was on the right path with Courage since I guess there's actual continuity, but nah, serialized storytelling is a more modern thing, I guess.

Also I think Nerdstalgic missed another point in his video, too, by pointing out that Johnny Bravo is--whoa, mama! A misogynist!--yet was also stylized in '70s decor and demeanor. Like of course Johnny is shocked, SHOCKED! that there are successful women out there. He's not "getting with the times, man". (The line "A lady doctor? Has science come that far???" is hilarious knowing that.) Maybe dude just wants himself a trophy wife, but he's misguided, for sure. And that's why it's funny, since he doesn't learn his lesson.

Or for fuck's sake, it's just a cartoon and you're not supposed to be looking much deeper into it.

 

[starborn427614]

As a fan of these SU/GF etc. style muh deepest lore shows, you don't need every single one to be like that. The novelty very quickly wears off.