This pretty much sums it up. I consider the 90s my childhood, and I find it very hard to believe anyone who wasn't there would deny that things were better, and not just because of the cartoons; the economy didn't suck, terrorism wasn't a household term, televisions with channels that matched their resolution were still being sold, a 20 oz coke was 99 cents or less...I could go on.
I know everyone thinks the decade they grew up in was the best time the world ever saw, and while I don't think that (God knows the 90s had their problems and were no Utopian time), I sincerely feel the world, from an American perspective at least, was a far more pleasant place at the time.