Anime vs. Nicklodeon vs. Old School Cartoons

[aeris2001x2]

Anime is divine. *brainwashes everyone 2 vote anime from now on*

[Lindy]

...Anime is just plain bad. I mean, if you want emotion, go watch something with real people you can relate to, not to a cartoon.

Old school cartoons, but then Powerpuff girls and Fairly Odd Parents fall into rather new, but thankfully, they're Cartoon Network and not Nickowhuteva.

[aeris2001x2]

*must destroy Lindy for such blasphemy* lol. Each to their own .

[kikimm]

A while ago, it would have been Nickoldodean (sp? whatever), but recently...it's been anime. After seeing aeris2001x2 so enthusiastic about it all, it kind of got me started. (thanks. :rolleyes2 ..... ) So now, I'm hooked. To manga, as well. Old, 80s manga is what I'm reading now.

IMO, old school cartoons are bad. I've never liked them, even when they were "new"-ish. I don't like the humor that's in a lot of them, or the plots. The only thing I liked were the Muppet Babies (if that's considered old school) when I was 5 or 6.

[Shoeberto]

Old school is radical, dude!

[Dingo Jellybean]

Oh man, don't forget Duck Tales and Chip N' Dales. Oh man, those were the trout.

Don't forget about Aladdin, that was a great cartoon. Sonic(the Paramount one, not the CBS one) The Hedgehog was good too. I remember the Paramount version once had like, 100 straight new episodes. How many shows in any era do that? None.

Not sure if you can count Spider-Man, that was a bit late. Oh yeah, Tiny Toons...and not to mention those Warner Bros specials they use to have on CBS that were an hour long. Oh man, cartoons these days are total garbage. Pokemon use to be good, but went sour after too many stupid repetitions and reincarnations.

[Loony BoB]

Oh man, Tiny Toons. That show was Godly at one point. *dink* "I hit the bally!" *dink* "I hit the bally!" *dink* "I hit the bally! The baaaaaaall go dowwwwwn the hooooooole... hole in one!"

"Look Daddyyyyyyyyy, it's blimp!"

That little subepisode was one of the greatest cartoon things ever.

[Armisael]

aeris2001x2 said it all for me..

[gokufusionss1]

nothing is better than Transformers, danger mouse and m.m.m.m.MASK they took me too a happy place and left me there to play.

[Craig]

I don't watch cartoons often but when I do i'm watching Fairly Odd Parents and Sponge Bob Squarepants on Nickelodeon.

[edczxcvbnm]

Old school. You can't beat the classics. I would watch the flinstones, jetsons, looney toons, tom & jerry, Transformers and all that other stuff over any thing else today. The other channels may have a good show or 2 but if I had to choose between an old school channel, nick or anime. Old school would take them to school!

[krissy]

motor biker mice from mars

[Cz]

motor biker mice from mars

xD. That show was the product of a deranged imagination.

[Peegee]

Denver, the last dinosaur. He's my friend and a whole lot more

I don't know any other lines

I like nick. I like anime. I don't universally like old-school stuff. Sure thinking back to shows like James Bond Jr, Cpt. Planet, and that Peter Pan cartoon is nice, but if we were to watch it NOW, we would be laughing ourselves wet, and not because the show is entertaining, but because it's so haphazardly unbelievable.

Example: I saw an episode of Thundercats like at least four years ago in Florida. It was this bizarre episode where the two children ran off and visited Mum'ra's lair or something. Utterly unentertaining and bizarre. If the show has better episodes, I would probably find something wrong with it, either plot wise or sensibility-wise. Cpt. Planet victimises the planet, and paints 'polluters' as evil beings bent on polluting the world. James Bond Jr. teaches kids to lust after women..which isn't that bad I guess

Transformers bothers me all the time, with its rampant anthropomorphism. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon are no different in their plot development. And so forth. The 'classics' may be classics, but they aren't 'better' than anything we have now. Frankly since it was 'back then', odds are it was worse, considering the 80's were filled with market share wars. For good cartoons, watch the Flintstones, which btw also has very little character growth, but at least it is very entertaining.

I don't know what I'm talking about

[Loony BoB]

If you only consider television that is believable to be entertaining, I feel sorry for you. Cartoons are a way of expressing imagination, and imagination should be encouraged. TV shows us things we can't see in real life and that's why people watch it. Excluding illogical fantasy and science fiction from TV would be the death of cartoons.

EDIT: http://members.aol.com/babynewyear1983/denver.html