Was Captain N a DiC show? That explains literally everything wrong with it. DiC was single handedly the worst animation production company in history, and is tied only with Hannah Barbera for flooding television with the most low quality garbage
Yeah all of their programming sucked cock.
I'm tempted to defend Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM, not Adventures of), which was slightly more sophisticated that DiC's Mario efforts, but I haven't watched the series in about a decade and my nostalgia blinders would be on if I tried. Plus, Sonic was the franchise that launched a new wave of furries and lolcows on an unsuspecting public, so there is that.
I will say that I laugh out loud when Bob tries to hold 80s cartoons as culturally important when shows like
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, and the like were designed to sell toys after Kenner made off like bandits with
Star Wars. There was an episode of the
The Big Picture where he analyzed an episode of
The Transformers for its environmental message. However, the truth is this: many of these scripts were rushed and the writers did not give a flying fuck about the product aside from the paycheque they had received from it.
Donald Glut said as much.
For all his hatred of most things 90s. Children's entertainment was usually more sophisticated during that decade as evidenced by shows like
Batman: The Animated Series and a fair chunk of WB Animation's other output. I mean,
Animaniacs managed to sneak some adult humour under the radar and skewered the morality plays of the 80s with the "Wheel of Morality" segments. It was still a highly commercialized environment with adaptations a plenty, but the writers and animators cared more about their product than they did in previous decades.
For someone who hates the politics of Reagan/Bush Sr. era, Bob certainly loves the cultural zeitgeist of that era.