Cartoon Network Nostalgia Thread

[Avaitor]

Because we need this thread.

Discuss your favorite memories of the network.

[talonmalon333]

I remember the days when something as graphics and bloody as The Powerpuff Girls was allowed to be watched by children...

Seriously, while I generally think people over react about this stuff, that show was definitely too much for kids.

[Avaitor]

I usually try to find an ad or something for us to look at again and discuss, but I'm feeling lazy.

http://www.youtube.com/user/90sCartoonNetwork

Tons of great stuff here. Someone try to find something to talk about.

[Commode]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8WPmNYDtU0

Had to bring this video back.

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

That video just made my evening, could of been more effective on Valentine's Day though.

[SSJ Jake]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfvR4hl-Gzw

Solomon Grundy want pants too

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9ZxPHjBdU
In response to yours, SSJ Jake. Does anyone remember this Superfriends/PPG crossover skit?

[Avaitor]

You know what just got posted online?

All of these gems. Word.

I'd love for another block like this to see the light of day. Even if I was the only one who'd watch it.

[Avaitor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Wm-VaYxeA

Just watching this gets me nostalgic. I miss the original network to death.

I can understand why just about none of these cartoons air on there anymore, but I just miss the atmosphere of CN from back then. We may never get a channel like this again.

[Avaitor]

I like what EK's doing with his random bumps for conversation, so I'll try to do the same.

I know most of us were big Cartoon Network fans from back when, but what made the network worth watching so much? Was it the presentation, collection of shows, variety, or what? Did you prefer Nick or Disney to CN when you were younger? If so or not, why? And when do you think your favorite era of the network was?

[gunswordfist]

Was it the presentation, collection of shows, variety

This

[Avaitor]

Lemme answer my own questions.

Yeah, I think what I listed and GSF seconded may be what I liked about the network so much. There was a wide range of shows on, from classic cartoons from each decade to original series that appealed to a wide range of audiences to various kinds of anime. I could turn CN on any time of the day, and usually found something worth watching, be it Huckleberry Hound, Bugs & Daffy, the Eds, Tenchi Muyo, or what have you. And the presentation more than complimented the selection of shows.

I definitely preferred Cartoon Network as a kid. Nick had a couple of shows I'd watch when I first turned to CN, but a lot of what I watched were either repeats of shows I've been watching for a while since then or other shows I'd only catch up on when I didn't feel like watching the same episode of The Flintstones or Jetsons again so soon. By the aughts, I ended up only regularly watching Invader Zim on Nick while I stuck to everything else on CN.

Disney just didn't matter to me by the time I got it. Completely different wave lengths there.

And my favorite era was the Powerhouse age, around 97-03, although I'd probably end at 02 for the "golden age". Good for the network since CN was cutting out the filler from the Hanna-Barbera library and focusing on the cream of the crop, making way for fresh new shows, building Toonami up into something really special, and integrating Warner into the network with it's merger with Turner. Although I wasn't huge on how the more popular CN's originals became, the more the classics were being edged out, their new shows were still innovative and entertaining enough for a while that I didn't mind that as much.

I'll never forgive the network for taking off Flintstones, Jetsons, and Looney Tunes though, and I still think that taking them off for Boomerang were some of the first signs of CN losing steam. But there's more to that than just losing a few key classics.

[gunswordfist]

CN was definitely my favorite..well still my favorite pretty much by default. I liked a few of Nick's shows but they never came close to Cartoon Network. I almost never watched Disney. Either we almost never had it or when we did, I paid it no attention. I only got a little bit of Duck Tales, Tales Spin (WATCH THIS, EK!!), Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop and some of the movie spinoffs. Between the Cartoon Cartoons, the classics and the anime, CN was the clear best. Just thinking about it, it was impressive that CN ushered in a great new generation of cartoons. Even moreso, was the balance they kept.

[Avaitor]

Oh man, this one. Haven't seen it in ages.

Still a favorite.

[Sketch]

So some guy on TZ posted a pretty dumb thread about ditching Adult Swim for a 90s CN block. That's not gonna happen but perhaps it could on Boomerang and perhaps it could even have silver age WB cartoons.

09:00 PM - Tiny Toon Adventures
09:30 PM - Animaniacs!
10:00 PM - Pinky and the Brain
10:30 PM - Freakazoid!
11:00 PM - Dexter's Laboratory
11:30 PM - The Powerpuff Girls
12:00 AM - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
12:30 AM - Batman: The Animated Series
01:00 AM - Superman: The Animated Series
01:30 AM - SWAT Kats
02:00 AM - 2 Stupid Dogs
02:30 AM - Taz-Mania!
03:00 AM - Cow and Chicken
03:30 AM - I Am Weasel
04:00 AM - Johnny Bravo
04:30 AM - The Moxy Show (anybody remember this one?)
05:00 AM - Space Ghost Coast to Coast
05:30 AM - Captain Planet

Or if silver age WB is out then maybe just this

12:00 AM - The Powerpuff Girls
12:30 AM - Dexter's Laboratory
01:00 AM - Johnny Bravo
01:30 AM - What A Cartoon Show
02:00 AM - Cow and Chicken
02:30 AM - I Am Weasel
03:00 AM - The Moxy Show
03:30 AM - Space Ghost Coast to Coast
04:00 AM - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
04:30 AM - SWAT Kats
05:00 AM - Pirates of Dark Water
05:30 AM - Captain Planet

Either one would basically require Turner to do SOMETHING with Boomerang so it's not going to happen but man, wouldn't it be something if they did something like that?

Old CN sure was fun.