Its Saturday...Where have all the cartoons gone?
Ahh...Saturday morning! The birds are chirping, there's not a soul stirring yet, and its time for some good old fashioned "cartoon watching." But what is this, where Voltron should be I see the Power Rangers. Where BTAS should be I see "the Batman", ( which I hear has a Joker who fights with a Jamaican style...plus he has dreads!! )
Am I remiss or do we have no more originality, class, style, good stories, in depth plots, etc..etc...with today's Saturday morning cartoons? Where have all the good ones gone? Even Cartoon Network stinks...( Which I'm not ashamed to say I have watched for quite a while. )
They do have one block of time that is in a word "decent." Toonami. It is by far the best time of the week ( on Sat. at 7pm-11pm ) With quality programming like the JLU ( if you have'nt seen it you need to see it, 3 Batmans nuff said!) with lines like, "You don't get to joke!! I just took a bullet for you!!" Good stuff man, Good stuff! Teen Titans ( is Raven going to be the end of it all? ) And Slade is one vicious villain, he almost kills Robin by using his own mind against him. Mean man, that's just plain mean. Rouruni Kenshin, about a wandering Samurai trying to redeem himself for his past sins as "botosai the manslayer." And lets not forget DBGT...its...well...a classic. No one will ever have the grunting down to an art like that show, or stretch it out that long for that matter. No one. And the fight sequences still give me chills when I see it.
Maybe, just maybe, one day we can reclaim Saturday mornings again. So we can once again run down stairways with our blanket tied around us like a cape ( inspired by Mr. Hibbity Gibbity ) proclaiming, " its time for Beastwars, DBZ, or Batman (BTAS not the new one) , Thundercats, the Gobots (no wait that show was bad! ) Transformers, GI Joe ( come one who didn't watch them make Sepentor? ) , or even Reboot, yeah that was a good show, but not as good as Voltron, that show was awesome!
Am I remiss or do we have no more originality, class, style, good stories, in depth plots, etc..etc...with today's Saturday morning cartoons? Where have all the good ones gone? Even Cartoon Network stinks...( Which I'm not ashamed to say I have watched for quite a while. )
They do have one block of time that is in a word "decent." Toonami. It is by far the best time of the week ( on Sat. at 7pm-11pm ) With quality programming like the JLU ( if you have'nt seen it you need to see it, 3 Batmans nuff said!) with lines like, "You don't get to joke!! I just took a bullet for you!!" Good stuff man, Good stuff! Teen Titans ( is Raven going to be the end of it all? ) And Slade is one vicious villain, he almost kills Robin by using his own mind against him. Mean man, that's just plain mean. Rouruni Kenshin, about a wandering Samurai trying to redeem himself for his past sins as "botosai the manslayer." And lets not forget DBGT...its...well...a classic. No one will ever have the grunting down to an art like that show, or stretch it out that long for that matter. No one. And the fight sequences still give me chills when I see it.
Maybe, just maybe, one day we can reclaim Saturday mornings again. So we can once again run down stairways with our blanket tied around us like a cape ( inspired by Mr. Hibbity Gibbity ) proclaiming, " its time for Beastwars, DBZ, or Batman (BTAS not the new one) , Thundercats, the Gobots (no wait that show was bad! ) Transformers, GI Joe ( come one who didn't watch them make Sepentor? ) , or even Reboot, yeah that was a good show, but not as good as Voltron, that show was awesome!
posted by Clandestine at 8:10 AM
5 Comments:
I personally liked "JEM" . . . er . . . how do I erase this?
Yes. Jem they truly were "outrageous." Ahem...so which do you think is the greatest saturday morning cartoon of all time? I like Captain "N" and the Gamemasters.
Hmmm. "Batman: the Animated Series" and "Beast Machines".
You're both wrong. The best saturday morning cartoons will always be a tie b/n 3 of the best cartoons ever created.
#3: Freakazoid!! iwant a dog like him. That show rocked!
#2 The Tick! "I'm the midnight bomber who bombs at midight, yeah baby!" Nuff said.
and the #1 show...Drum roll please............................
ANIMANIACS!!! Hands down the best show EVER!!
PS. Don't try to deny this or any others. You know the truth hurts.
OK you got me there they were, and still are, (in my humble opinion) great shows! But I was going for content and plots, not just political satire, and nonsensical funniness...I loved the Tick though, and if you want to get technical "Pinky and the Brain" had by far some of the funniest episodes ever. What do you think Hibbity? or is it Gibbity?? *pondering*
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