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Ultraman Orb Dark said:
I remember the cartoon my mom hated me watching was The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
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Surprisingly, mine liked that one. Ed, Edd n' Eddy was odd hated one, but I think it was just because they were seen as assholes, plus the Canadian humor didn't click.

Speaking about Billy & Mandy, I believe Maxwell Atoms said Billy was the main reason parents hated the show. Mandy and Grim were seen as fine.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Speaking about Billy & Mandy, I believe Maxwell Atoms said Billy was the main reason parents hated the show. Mandy and Grim were seen as fine.
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Billy is the most obnoxious little shit on earth, I also would not want to listen to him as an adult and I adored that show as a kid and I still think that the rest of the show is great. Billy is just an annoying tumor.
Waifuchu said:
Weird. Same. My parents didn't care at all about what cartoons I watched as a kid... But that one specifically, my mom would express hating every time it was on the TV.
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Ed, Edd & Eddy is a generally very mean spirited show that revolved around kids being mean to one another, but not in a super cartoonish way. Personally I think the show is fine but I can perfectly understand why a parent wouldn't want a child, especially a child under the age of twelve or so, watching it.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Ed, Edd & Eddy is a generally very mean spirited show that revolved around kids being mean to one another, but not in a super cartoonish way. Personally I think the show is fine but I can perfectly understand why a parent wouldn't want a child, especially a child under the age of twelve or so, watching it.
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The weirdest thing is that she is fine with other mean-spirited shows like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. She would legit break the modern cartoon autist’s brain with her take on Ed Edd n’ Eddy vs Foster’s.

Recalling things, she usually labels the favorites as Dexter’s Laboratory, Billy & Mandy, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Courage The Cowardly Dog. Dexter is usually the main big one as his voice is funny. If I was to ask my dad, it was always the superhero cartoons (DCAU and X-Men) he liked, but I do remember him mentioning Codename Kids Next Door.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Recalling things, she usually labels the favorites as Dexter’s Laboratory, Billy & Mandy, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Courage The Cowardly Dog. Dexter is usually the main big one as his voice is funny. If I was to ask my dad, it was always the superhero cartoons (DCAU and X-Men) he liked, but I do remember him mentioning Codename Kids Next Door.
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EE&E is far less cartoony than any of those, and when it comes to things your children watch you aren't watching them yourself but you're still listening to them from the next room over and EE&E is far more "real" in regards to the ways in which the characters speak and are mean to one another. EE&E is very white trash.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Billy is the most obnoxious little shit on earth, I also would not want to listen to him as an adult and I adored that show as a kid and I still think that the rest of the show is great. Billy is just an annoying tumor.
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Wasn't his existence supposed to distract/appease Cartoon Network so they could sneak things through the radar? That's the impression I get from him, that it's purposeful he's an annoying little shit.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Wasn't his existence supposed to distract/appease Cartoon Network so they could sneak things through the radar? That's the impression I get from him, that it's purposeful he's an annoying little shit.
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No idea.
 
my mom's big stick up her ass was realistic violence without realistic consequences, like GI Joe laser attacks in particular stuck in her craw

if it was an actual depiction of war as a miserable shitty thing of death it was okay, or the conflict was massively abstracted from irl war it was okay, like Star Wars or Transformers, but she had a very hard line that "let's go play war tra la la" was right out

I didn't really do much of the Sat morning scene, I liked getting to sleep in and G1 comics was my TF jam. only thing I really liked of the cartoon was the movie because Prime got a much better death. Thinking back my mom probably dug the bloodbath of that movie, or at least how it didn't pull punches. Those fucks were dead af.
 
Another sign that the endless regurgitation of old properties has long reached it's "needless" and "nonsensical" stage, where they're rebooting shows and franchises nobody cares about, it looks like someone is bringing back the Snorks.

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Some of the new character designs, that give off a very "How do you do, fellow kids?" aura.

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Nobody asked for this, moreso than a lot of the previous forgettable attempts at rebooting older franchises that have come and gone with little notice over the years. Even when 1980s nostalgia was taking off you only saw the Snorks being used as a punchline.

What's next, a reboot of something even more disposable and mediocre, like Speed Buggy or Turbo Teen? I should not joke, there's probably someone getting ready to adapt properties like that, too.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Speaking about Billy & Mandy, I believe Maxwell Atoms said Billy was the main reason parents hated the show. Mandy and Grim were seen as fine.
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I vaguely remember my mom hated me quoting the "DESTROY US ALL!" bit for my brother, but it was a while ago.
Commander X said:
Even when 1980s nostalgia was taking off you only saw the Snorks being used as a punchline.
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I'll admit this is way before my time, but weren't the Snorks always compared to the Smurfs?
 
Quijibo69 said:
Clearly the best episode of Garfield and better than the ending to Stranger Things:
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1) I've had whiskey shits better than the ending of Stranger Things.
2) The best episode of Garfield is the Garfield: His 9 Lives movie, which I will defend as legitimately good art.


Now, be sure to play a round of Gar-Type in honor of the Orange One.
 
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