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

[Trilby]

It's kind of like an adult version of Gumball, in a way.

That is a good way to put it. It doesn't come off as obnoxious that it does.

EDIT: This is what being in your 40's is like.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

April 1. The birthday of that guy from Total Drama.

 

[starborn427614]

I find it funny, but it's not really what I'm looking for in the long term. Especially since I've just finished it all. Anyone got any better recs?

If you want a series with an ongoing narrative, you could try Gargoyles.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

It's kind of like an adult version of Gumball, in a way.

This show is the new hotness and I am here for it. Everything about the show is something actually relevant in modern times. Celebrities and characters we used to like are reduced to coughing up member berries on request from Cameo and talk shows. And it's an actually well made show that anyone can enjoy.
I hope they end it before Zach and Michael get tired of it, that's what ruins shows like this.

 

[NoLoveDeepWeb]

I hope they end it before Zach and Michael get tired of it, that's what ruins shows like this.

Zach and Michael have gone on record on some podcasts that they don't want Smiling Friends to become seasonal rot garbage, and will pull the plug if they feel like they're grasping at straws for anything entertaining.

 

[Life is Hell...]

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ACTUALLY NEW EPISODE on the Youtube stream.

I honestly can't remember how hard i laughed at an episode of a cartoon in my life, this was amazing.

 

[TVB]

It's kind of like an adult version of Gumball, in a way.

That, and it's more like this generation's Angry Beavers. It's random and fast-paced but still comes across as hilarious rather than trying desperately to make audiences laugh unlike most of modern comedies

 

[Product Placement]

Watched April and the Extraordinary World, been on my hard drive for awhile, was a rather nice movie to watch in the morning. Wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but another nice animated movie from mainland Europe.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

This show is the new hotness and I am here for it.

I enjoy it just for the fact that it's not another Family Guy clone or something else designed to leech off the popularity of another show. It's got it's own distinct visual style and it has it's own approach to humor as well. You can tell that it's something that wasn't designed by a committee trying to check off some vaguely defined boxes that they think made other shows successful.

The unfortunate part of this success is that other studios will try to make Smiling Friends clones instead of finding some talented people who have their own fresh ideas that they want to try out and giving them a chance. Maybe it was just me getting older and less interested, but I do feel like there's been a massive dearth of quality product in western animation for almost a decade.

 

[Trilby]

That, and it's more like this generation's Angry Beavers. It's random and fast-paced but still comes across as hilarious rather than trying desperately to make audiences laugh unlike most of modern comedies

So true of Angry Beavers. It loved it's Boomer/Gen X sensibilities.

 

[Quijibo69]

The unfortunate part of this success is that other studios will try to make Smiling Friends clones instead of finding some talented people who have their own fresh ideas that they want to try out and giving them a chance. Maybe it was just me getting older and less interested, but I do feel like there's been a massive dearth of quality product in western animation for almost a decade.

I would say around the mid 00's is when I stop caring about animated shows. Once in a blue moon you will get something good, It was at it's peak in the late 80's into the 90's.

 

[Trilby]

I would say around the mid 00's is when I stop caring about animated shows. Once in a blue moon you will get something good, It was at it's peak in the late 80's into the 90's.

This was the same for me

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Smiling Friends makes me sad that the generation of Newgrounds creators was passed over to let trannies and headcases do animation.

 

[Lone Star]

Smiling Friends makes me sad that the generation of Newgrounds creators was passed over to let trannies and headcases do animation.

Even worse when you remember a lot of that generation became those trannies, or at least close enough like with Arin...who probably is a closeted tranny.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Even worse when you remember a lot of that generation became those trannies, or at least close enough like with Arin...who probably is a closeted tranny.

Trannyism is to the autist community what heroin was for the black community

 

[bango skank]

I hadn’t seen season 7 or the movie, so I watched through the entirety of the Venture Bros over the last two weeks and now it’s over and I’m sad that there isn’t any more.

I tried switching to Adult Swim’s other cancelled show, Metalocalypse, since I hadn’t seen the ending of that either but it’s no where near as clever or funny to me so I gave up halfway through season 1.

 

[anustart76]

Are there any good cartoons anymore? The /co/nsensus seems to be that there's no good shows anymore and people are just worshipping mediocrity because it never has the chance of falling as far as Adventure Time or Steven Universe did and people feel safe in that reassuring nothing.

There are a few, at least kids' cartoons. We really like Big City Greens and Kiff, which are on Disney Channel, of all places. They're both nice wholesome silly shows. Hamster & Gretel isn't bad either.

More than a few days late on this one, but considering Nickelodeon is going through controversy regarding their sex offender situation with Nick producers grooming and sexualizing children on the recent documentary that made Drake Bell came out and say he was was sexually abused, it just shows that putting out nothing but The Loud House as your #2 hit is either tone deaf or just shows that no kid under the age of 17 is watching your network.

How do you not even show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron or Hey Arnold?

Nickelodeon's main channel only airs shows that are currently expected to produce new episodes, as far as I know. Their Nicktoons and TeenNick channels air old reruns, though Nicktoons is mostly SpongeBob and Loud House too.
TeenNick was the only channel that still aired any of Dan Schneider's shows. In previous years, it would rerun a variety of those sitcoms, but the last couple years, around the time they dropped the Nick Rewind block, it basically just started airing Henry Danger 24/7. They brought back iCarly on weekends oddly enough, brought back The Thundermans in the evenings recently to promote the reunion movie, and started airing the Loud House (WHY) at night. Seems like after the Schneider thing came out, they dropped Henry Danger and iCarly entirely, replacing them both with Thundermans (which was definitely better than Henry Danger).
I think the Danger Force spinoff of Henry Danger ended this year, so with that Dan Schneider's legacy at Nickelodeon is finally completely ended, with no more of his work being aired on any channel, though it's all probably on the streaming services.

Anyway, what I was originally going to get at was that Nickelodeon is pretty much creatively bankrupt. They had one or two decent shows that were cancelled in recent years, but the vast majority of everything they've done, animated or live-action, over the past few years has been total garbage.

 

[TVB]

I would say around the mid 00's is when I stop caring about animated shows. Once in a blue moon you will get something good, It was at it's peak in the late 80's into the 90's.

For me, animation died by early/mid-2010s, which was sad because its renaissance of animation peaked in both 90s and 2000s. The mid-to-late 80s were just seeds planting of what the two decades would end up being

 

[AnAccount]

Are there any good cartoons anymore? The /co/nsensus seems to be that there's no good shows anymore and people are just worshipping mediocrity because it never has the chance of falling as far as Adventure Time or Steven Universe did and people feel safe in that reassuring nothing.

Bluey

 

[Trollblade69]

Bluey

Doubt. JelloApocalypse said that cartoon was the best show he'd seen in years, and if he says something is better than everyone else, you know something bullshit has to be up.