Cartoon watchers with jobs

Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

Oh yeah, don't even get me started on He-Man and G.I. Joe, those are just terrible. Hell even Exo-Squad, which had a pretty good plot, just doesn't hold up in terms of animation, voice acting, and pacing.

Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

The only action/adventure type cartoon that's survived, for me, is Batman The Animated Series. Everything else I enjoyed as a kid that I've gone back to has been a huge nostalgia killer. Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

I'd add Gargoyles to that list

Tanglebones wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

The only action/adventure type cartoon that's survived, for me, is Batman The Animated Series. Everything else I enjoyed as a kid that I've gone back to has been a huge nostalgia killer. Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

I'd add Gargoyles to that list

Thanks, Keith David!

Grenn wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

The only action/adventure type cartoon that's survived, for me, is Batman The Animated Series. Everything else I enjoyed as a kid that I've gone back to has been a huge nostalgia killer. Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

I'd add Gargoyles to that list

Thanks, Keith David!

Thundercats... is... really really bad.

The outtakes was hilarious, and while some sound true, a few of them sounded too modern.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

The show seems to be a continuation of Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Sadly not, WordofGod says no. Hell, Wasp isn't even a member, I think. I don't know if I've gotten up to #11 yet.
I liked the end of the episode where everybody turns into Hulk-ified versions

Spoiler:

Hulk: I'm the strongest there is! Rawr! *smashes ground*
Black Widow: (Maybe I should use this device to kill him now, it seems like he's about to go on a rampage)
Hulk: I'm the strongest! You were there! You saw it.
Black Widow: *smiles, puts away device*

Have we discussed Gravity Falls? It's darn good.

Finished up JL:U last night. I'm now starting on Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Any DC cartoons I need to check out on Netflix Instant Streaming? I remember last year at SDCC Bruce Timm mentioned his love for the Green Lantern Animated Series so I might check that out.

Young Justice.

Grenn wrote:

Young Justice.

+1

cartoonin99 wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Young Justice.

+1

10-4 I'll check it out.

Green Lantern is good too. You may want to start with that, I dunno, that kind of supposes YJ is better in every way.
GL is more swashbuckly, YJ is like, tense, and builds up, also like a superhero soap opera, but in a very good way.

Teen Titans is also good.
Teen Titans Go! is a very different show, and sometimes good, but not as often.

Adventure Time has been serious weird lately, right?

wordsmythe wrote:

Adventure Time has been serious weird lately, right?

Lately?

Yeah, it sort of jumped the shark since season 2. In a good way, though-- I haven't seen an episode I haven't liked. But yeah, they've been slowly ramping up the crazy for several season now.

Yeah. Thing is, my partner and I both really liked the original stuff. Now I like it, and she's thinking we need to find a new show to watch together.

(It may be Bob's Burgers, via Netflix.)

wordsmythe wrote:

(It may be Bob's Burgers, via Netflix.)

Bob's Burgers is excellent. Rick and Morty can be good but sometimes DARK.

Regular Show is also a pretty fun show along the lines of Adventure Time.

wordsmythe wrote:

(It must be Bob's Burgers, via Netflix.)

Fixed that!

Bob's Burgers is an awesome show and is definitely one of my favorites now. Seriously, very smart and great characters. We've been watching The Regular Show too. Only a few episodes in, but also very funny.

wordsmythe wrote:

Adventure Time has been serious weird lately, right?

Watched 6 episodes and don't really see why people like the show. I didn't hate it but it wasn't very good.

Batman The Animated Series

I watched that for the first time a few years ago. At its worst, it's quite good, and at its best, it's some of the finest cartooning ever done.

Just the simple intro plates for the episodes have spawned some detailed, interesting analysis.

If there's any poor schmuck here who hasn't caught it yet, do so. You will not regret it.

I'm in this thread for love of animation, but really, being made of plastic and all really helps them hit the marks of classic toony animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

You are a bad person. Very very bad.

I just watched the Futurama episode where Leela's mother (who as you know is a sewer-dwelling mutant with one eye, tentacle arms and a tail) and Zapp Brannigan date each other.

It filled me with disgust when that revolting, vile, gross simulacrum of a human kissed Leela's mother.

Spoiler:

No really, at least a little, if it had been realistic instead of abstracted in cartoon form, sure, maybe things would be different, but the abstraction is the fun of cartoons

Been watching Rick and Morty which I just heard about. Its a crazy type toon show full of parody and puns.

Tanglebones wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

The only action/adventure type cartoon that's survived, for me, is Batman The Animated Series. Everything else I enjoyed as a kid that I've gone back to has been a huge nostalgia killer. Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

I'd add Gargoyles to that list

Of cartoons that stood the test of time, I assume, or else WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS ANYMORE.

And dear God, Thundercats. I went back and watched an episode of that a few years ago. It's dreck. There is zero reason to even consider making a movie of it.

I also loved a cartoon called "Dinosaucers" as a kid. I tried rewatching it on YouTube, and turned it off 5 minutes in.

But! I did finally start watching Regular Show these last few weeks. I have been missing out, clearly.

I watched Superman:TAS last week and have been working on Batman:TAS this week. I think I should have watched them the other way around because the early Batman episodes especially feel like a step backwards visually, only 5 years before the Superman series.

Still Superman was really excellent, including the 3-part Batman crossover, and of course Darkseid's invasion and

Spoiler:

Dan Turpin's death.

Although I remembered seeing those key episodes (and for some reason the Flash guest appearance) years ago in reruns, I had definitely not seen the entire series. That's why I started with it over Batman, as I remember watching Batman every day after school, with my parents. Yeah it was good enough that they watched it too.

Now I'm running into some strangeness on Batman because the episodes are way out of airing order. Apparently they were put in production order on the DVDs and are that way on Amazon Prime (and probably Netflix), but it's weird. In particular there were two episodes in Volume 1 that had Robin, and I don't think he's actually introduced until Volume 2.

Still it's been fun.

I may dig up Spider-Man and X-Men next. I am afraid they won't hold up as well. Since I found a copy of Days of Future Past 2-parter a few months ago and was trying to show that to my wife before we went to the new movie, and she was very turned off by it. And it was definitely worse than I remember. Maybe I should just leave them alone and not spoil my memories? I do remember the end of Spider-Man in particular and know I will just be upset again when

Spoiler:

he doesn't get his Mary Jane back

Prederick wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Very few cartoons from my childhood have aged well at all. X-Men tried harder and was at least a little better than most, but was packed with some pretty awful melodrama and quite bad writing, and still ends up being pretty bad.

The only action/adventure type cartoon that's survived, for me, is Batman The Animated Series. Everything else I enjoyed as a kid that I've gone back to has been a huge nostalgia killer. Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

I'd add Gargoyles to that list

Of cartoons that stood the test of time, I assume, or else WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS ANYMORE.

Indeed

And dear God, Thundercats. I went back and watched an episode of that a few years ago. It's dreck. There is zero reason to even consider making a movie of it.

We talking the original or the 2011 remake? 2011 was good.

I also loved a cartoon called "Dinosaucers" as a kid. I tried rewatching it on YouTube, and turned it off 5 minutes in.

I've made it through a number of the Legend of Zelda cartoons on YT, haven't managed to finish them all yet

But! I did finally start watching Regular Show these last few weeks. I have been missing out, clearly.

That plus Rick and Morty, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Ren & Stimpy past season one, the relatively new one with the fish in school, sometimes SpongeBob, and others like these...I don't know a nice way to describe them, but I could never get into these series that my brain keeps calling 'stupid-looking sh*t'.
I was marginally less revulsed when I learned Adult Swim's Perfect Hair Forever was supposed to be a parody, it remains crap though.

Thin_J wrote:

Transformers, in particular, was just astoundingly bad.

The recent Transformers Prime can wash away that experience with one where the characters are actually characters and not caricatures, plus the series has a definitive end. You do have to stick with it past the zombie Transformers, though. And as much as I loved the DCAU that spanned from Batman the Animated Series through Justice League Unlimited, Young Justice's character designs and writing were even better.

Yes, test of time passed for Gargoyles, Pred

We've been going through Adventure Time slowly over here, in between unpacking boxes. At the halfway point of Season 3, I'd say it feels like the show's hit a new level of maturity, particularly with

Spoiler:

The episode which deals with Marceline and PB's past as a couple