The antenna were what sold the 2001 for me. That and Warburton. I don't know that I've ever seen anything with Warburton in it that I didn't like. But between him and those damn animatronic antenna. Even though he didn't have the proper cowl Etc it was still very enjoyable. The fox show was definitely a lot campier and low budget. But that sort of worked for it in a way. While they had a lot of star cameos throughout the short run. Just some of the basic scenarios and situations were hilarious. Like the tick fighting the Red Scare in an elevator while Jimmy Carter watched on. But then I'm also an older viewer so probably your mileage could vary.
Unfortunately edland didn't have the full rights to all the characters. So each show is really its own experience. But I think at least some Nostalgia puts the 2001 a little bit out ahead of the Amazon reboot. Even though I could easily recommend it.
I was so disappointed in season 2 of the reboot. Season 1 felt like it wrapped up the whole series in one go, and then the writers were surprised when they got renewed.
Honestly I think within the limitations of live action and the budget. There's probably only so much they can really do. The cartoon show as long as there was budget to produce the cartoon could do just about anything and get as silly as they wanted. I think they probably really were genuinely surprised when they got a second season. But struggled to really write something worthy of it. It was still enjoyable for what it was though.
TMNT, Batman TAS, and DuckTales (woo-oo!) for me! I used to set my alarm!
Edit: Admittedly, this was a few years earlier. By 1995, I was 16, and I had more interesting things to do, having just gotten my drivers license. Does anyone remember Q-Zar? also, paintball was all the craze at the time.
The 80s and 90s were a really fun time to grow up.
I'm so happy to see "Life with Louie" included in this meme. I loved that show as kid, but it seems like it's been lost amid nostalgia for better shows from the era. It was still pretty fuckin' good and deserves to be remembered, though.
🎶That's right... The answer to the riddle is cakes on the griddle! 🎶
Thats's from my favorite episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch where Sabrina tries pancakes, but pancakes are crack to witches. I remember after watching it, I went on a pancake bender myself 😆
Shhh as long as mom stays asleep she can't know we're watching cartoons!
(Mom knows. Mom just wants to sleep in).
Fast forward 30 years and my kids are fine launching cartoons on Jellyfin but apparently wake up completely deaf, because my alarm clock all summer has been the 10-tone Teen Titans: Go interstitial at max volume.
Oh well. Could be worse shows. It is DC Comics longest-running animated show, after all.
And my kids circadian rhythm is on point. It's almost the exact same time every day...when the night begins to shine.
Clarissa Explains it All is older than Sabrina; which is why I am with you for it being from Sabrina because Melissa is almost a full grown adult in this picture.
Also wtf. Why did it go from Looney Tunes to Tiny Toons??
Saw the above and wondered why he spelled it Tunes, cause I thought it was Toons, looked it up, he’s right. Spelled Tiny Tunes above, then saw your comment and said the fuck, looked it up and sure enough. Confusing af.
It was an attempt to distance themselves a little from the 70's/80's cartoons that had a lot more violence, inuendo, and racism. It was a time when were as a society were trying to see if we could do better by the kids. If anything I'm more confused why they called the old ones tunes. They put effort into the musical components back the, but it never seemed like a top billing kind of thing.
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gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 34d
The Tick!!! That cartoon was ridiculously funny.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 34d
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 34d
Eldritch@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 34d
The 2001 live action show was enjoyable too. The more recent amazon reboot wasn't bad either. Actually got two seasons and an arc.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 34d
I enjoyed the more recent one over the 2001. They both came out on Netflix recently.
Eldritch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
The antenna were what sold the 2001 for me. That and Warburton. I don't know that I've ever seen anything with Warburton in it that I didn't like. But between him and those damn animatronic antenna. Even though he didn't have the proper cowl Etc it was still very enjoyable. The fox show was definitely a lot campier and low budget. But that sort of worked for it in a way. While they had a lot of star cameos throughout the short run. Just some of the basic scenarios and situations were hilarious. Like the tick fighting the Red Scare in an elevator while Jimmy Carter watched on. But then I'm also an older viewer so probably your mileage could vary.
Unfortunately edland didn't have the full rights to all the characters. So each show is really its own experience. But I think at least some Nostalgia puts the 2001 a little bit out ahead of the Amazon reboot. Even though I could easily recommend it.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Then you're very unlikely to enjoy his stand-up
happysplinter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
I never knew he did standup. Had to look it up. Dear god this is the truest comment I've ever seen on Lemmy.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Rough.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 28d
Serafinovicz is so good as Tick.
JordanZ@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 34d
I was so disappointed in season 2 of the reboot. Season 1 felt like it wrapped up the whole series in one go, and then the writers were surprised when they got renewed.
Eldritch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Honestly I think within the limitations of live action and the budget. There's probably only so much they can really do. The cartoon show as long as there was budget to produce the cartoon could do just about anything and get as silly as they wanted. I think they probably really were genuinely surprised when they got a second season. But struggled to really write something worthy of it. It was still enjoyable for what it was though.
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 1 pts · 34d
Yeah, but because of the serialised format they had to reset HAL-9000 back to not being crazy at the start of the next episode.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 7 pts · 34d
Obligatory...
https://youtu.be/NJHFrU8mCwk?list=PLLhOnau-tupQAVcvfsQB8EKaPeKcSNiQS&t=121
bklyn@piefed.social · 32 pts · 34d
TMNT, Batman TAS, and DuckTales (woo-oo!) for me! I used to set my alarm!
Edit: Admittedly, this was a few years earlier. By 1995, I was 16, and I had more interesting things to do, having just gotten my drivers license. Does anyone remember Q-Zar? also, paintball was all the craze at the time.
The 80s and 90s were a really fun time to grow up.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 14 pts · 34d
I preferred tail spin to duck tails, but either way both themes slapped.
The tailspin video game was one of my favorites
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
I'mstill amazed Tailspin existed. Retrofuturism with sky pirates and the cast of the Jungle Book. It's an insane, awesome concept.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
If you haven't watched it, the 2017 Ducktales reboot is better than the original imo.
bklyn@piefed.social · 2 pts · 33d
If you think there’s anything with David Tennant in it that I haven’t watched…
Woo-ooo!
D@piefed.social · 22 pts · 34d
The Wild Thornberries, Hey Arnold, Doug, Aaahh!! Real Monsters... didn't know how good I had it.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
Ren & Stimpy and Pete & Pete
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Johnny Bravo
thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Pete & Pete! I think about that show every time I see/hear the word riboflavin
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
For me it’s when I hear the name Martin van Buren
taiyang@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 34d
Where is Earthworm Jim?
Or did I hallucinate that cartoon...
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 34d
Where's CatDog?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Or Doug
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Nah that show’s a classic
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Now that's the thing. Right before or after Rurouni Kenshin.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
I never saw the cartoon, but I definitely played as him in Clay Fighter 63⅓.
ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 34d
I'm so happy to see "Life with Louie" included in this meme. I loved that show as kid, but it seems like it's been lost amid nostalgia for better shows from the era. It was still pretty fuckin' good and deserves to be remembered, though.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 34d
Lol. I was about to ask why they bothered to stick Life With Louie up there with all the good shows.
Sorry
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 34d
Most of these weren't even Saturday morning shows for me; they were after school shows that aired during the weekdays.
Out of this list the only ones that were exclusive to Saturday were Bobby's World, Life with Louie, TMNT and The Tick.
yrnttm@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Life with Louie was pretty good. I grew up in WI and the packer references were fire. Lol
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
There were people getting X-Men on days other than Saturday!? So not fair, if so.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 34d
Spider-man and his Amazing Friends and a giant ass bowl of cereal. Life was good.
comador@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d
USA Cartoon Express of the 80s and early 90s was the only reason to wake up on Saturday mornings.
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 34d
🎶That's right... The answer to the riddle is cakes on the griddle! 🎶
Thats's from my favorite episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch where Sabrina tries pancakes, but pancakes are crack to witches. I remember after watching it, I went on a pancake bender myself 😆
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 34d
Shhh as long as mom stays asleep she can't know we're watching cartoons!
(Mom knows. Mom just wants to sleep in).
Fast forward 30 years and my kids are fine launching cartoons on Jellyfin but apparently wake up completely deaf, because my alarm clock all summer has been the 10-tone Teen Titans: Go interstitial at max volume.
Oh well. Could be worse shows. It is DC Comics longest-running animated show, after all.
And my kids circadian rhythm is on point. It's almost the exact same time every day...when the night begins to shine.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 33d
Tailspin! Ja ja ja!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25Atd5nxYM
nuko147@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
Thundercats, Dragonball, Batman TAS , Sailor Moon (my sister, not me..ofc..), X-Men, Pokemon, Inspector Gadget.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 33d
I watched Sailor Moon because they were all my girlfriends. I can admit that at this point of my life.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 34d
mmm delicious loss lead IP to sell dirt cheap toys
altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 33d
The pink panther!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8jjbhm4OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDNFPAw14aw
absentbird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
And Sailor Moon!
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 33d
Lemmy 1995 cartoon watch day when?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 33d
I've been trying to collect all the 80's cartoons and make a Saturday morning playlist, it's VERY slow going.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 33d
it was digimon for a while in MS/hs
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
What is this picture from? It's like a breakfast bukake scene.
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 3 pts · 34d
Clarissa Explains It All maybe?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 34d
It's so crunchy I thought it was Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 34d
Clarissa Explains it All is older than Sabrina; which is why I am with you for it being from Sabrina because Melissa is almost a full grown adult in this picture.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 34d
I'm with y'all cause I googled "Sabrina breakfast scene"
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 2 pts · 34d
Could be
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
The '70s were way better. We got Looney Tunes and The Little Rascals.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
90s got Tiny Toons 😭
That point in history where everything had to have a “baby” version
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
I never thought I'd live to see the day someone denigrates Tiny Toons Adventures. What the hell.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
I was more a fan of Animaniacs.
Also wtf. Why did it go from Looney Tunes to Tiny Toons??
Saw the above and wondered why he spelled it Tunes, cause I thought it was Toons, looked it up, he’s right. Spelled Tiny Tunes above, then saw your comment and said the fuck, looked it up and sure enough. Confusing af.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 3 pts · 33d
I think at some point, someone started referring to cartoon characters as "toons".
treesapx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
It was an attempt to distance themselves a little from the 70's/80's cartoons that had a lot more violence, inuendo, and racism. It was a time when were as a society were trying to see if we could do better by the kids. If anything I'm more confused why they called the old ones tunes. They put effort into the musical components back the, but it never seemed like a top billing kind of thing.
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 3 pts · 33d
I never saw most of the cartoons, because the shit startet at 6 am and as a child I loved seeping without having a schedule.
chunes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
I was that weird kid who liked Bobby's World the most.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Er mer gerd! Magic School Bus isn't shown?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
That show was fucking wild.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 34d
I couldn't watch many of these because I had Saturday school :(
TwistedTurtle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 33d
People who try to wave it off as simple nostalgia are fools. It was a golden age, the peak of western
civilizationanimation.Aneb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Scooby doo
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 33d
As long as it wasn't during the Scrappy doo era, god I hate that little bastard.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 34d
I could watch Dragon Ball and MegaMan super early in the morning too.
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 2 pts · 30d
Holy moly, someone that still remembers Bobby's World and Life with Louie!
w33n1s@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
Eeek the Cat. I 'member.
oeLLph@feddit.org · 2 pts · 34d
thinking about telekaddi - seeing all those childhood series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDvBqWb1UAGe1juhCDCeTm1c6u7EwF5DO
#coldmirror <3
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 1 pts · 33d
Same! Not sure if it ran on Saturdays but I was also a huge Li-la-Launebär fan at the time. And these weird Nintendo Shows.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Now do another one for 2005.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
I'm pretty sure that Saturday morning cartoons had been nuked by then. Only holdouts I think were Fox affiliates and Nickelodeon.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
I feel shock and outrage that Eek the Cat is not included
Zidane@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 34d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Oh snap, not sure how I missed that
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 34d
Kumbaya
Thorry@feddit.org · 4 pts · 34d
Honorable mention to The Terrible Thunder Lizards
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
Let's croak us some toads.