Short-Factor 2012-03-11 16:36:44

You have a seriously bad taste in cartoons and what makes them good and bad. While you're right about some of these, I consider you wrong about everything because whatever judgements you used to conclude which cartoons were good and bad are ultimately distorted and false.
Sheep in the Big City and Courage the Cowardly Dog were among the best shows they ever had, ESPECIALLY Courage. Courage was a fucking gift from god among all the cartoons they ever aired, on Cartoon Network and on ANY channel. Courage outshined most cartoons in every possible category. Ideas, intellect, creativity, originality...
At least your good list is mildly agreeable. Kids Next Door had good ideas in it but it was overall a poorly conceived show.

A better way to summarize it is:
Has their shows declined in quality since:
2004? No.
1994? Significantly.

browndog5 2012-03-11 17:06:38

i like regular show but who in their right mind would compare it to beavis and butthead those people bring shame to the review world... i guess i see a iota of resemblance the repetitive laughing and suchhhhhhh. i think megas should've gotten more seasons too and who da fuck decided not to finish samurai jack.
i think lolololol

pirate9899 2012-03-11 17:16:43

i stopped watching it and im only 13 i stopped a year ago now i jsut watch planet green and scy fi

XxCrazy-MetalxX 2012-03-11 18:51:22

Courage has got to be one of my all time favorites along with samurai Jack.Definitely agree with about all of this except for Flapjack and Regular Show,mainly just love their cartoon style though. Lotta different things been losing their pazazz lately from TV,music & movies..jus don't make 'like they used to!

ryphos 2012-03-11 20:54:12

CN is just absolutely awful now, Adventure Time and Regular show are the only ones worth watching if anything at all. The last good show left on CN was ed edd and eddy, but that's gone too. Ahhh I miss the days of Courage and Johnny Bravo.

MalacodaAligheri 2012-03-11 21:03:19

Let's see:
Courage- I actually like Courage despite the tired episode formula.
KND- Fun to watch on occasion, but too much, and I start thinking about how bereft of sanity that world is; I see a deep satirical aspect to the main premise (someting to the tune of "War is hell, and ridiculous too.").
Chowder/Gumball: I'll need to watch both to form a better opinion; I have a thing for randomness.
Billy & Mandy: Loved it for Richard Horvitz and Billy's stupidity. If ya ask me, Grim will hate his masters once puberty hits. That or he'll find some way to take advantage of it.
Ben 10/GenRex: animated comics, basically. Even if the shows suck, I'd LOVE to visit those universes.
Dexter's Lab: Rumors abound of a lost episode shown in '98. Google "dexter's rude removal" I'd LOVE to get my hands on that. FUCK Time Warner!
WaC: IIRC, the man behind What a Cartoon! (Fred Seibert) did something similar at Nickelodeon around '98-'99 called Oh Yeah Cartoons!
Cow and Chicken: I loved that show as well! Charlie Adler at his finest, I think.
PPG: fun, that one.
EE&E: Oh, yeah, definitely a must-watch. I wonder, do you think the first two Eds will ever sever their ties with Eddy should he keep on acting like a complete spiv?
Juniper Lee: The first thing that hit me when I first watched this was June's voice sounding familiar: turns out her VA (Lara Jill Miller) was the English voice of Yagami Hikari in Digimon.

MerlinTM369 2012-03-11 23:42:50

yeeaaa sorry even in opinion some of the toons u said tht were bad (billy and mandy, courage etc) were good. HONESTLY, i think the reason why CN is losing its touch is because of toonami. toonami was the base of CN`s entertainment, upon all the other cartoon channels (excluding disney and nickaloodeon) even kidsWB (now known as the poorly named toonzai) and foxbox. thats what i think. heck even adult swim is falling. sigh man i wish i can get those 12 years back. tch imma go ahead and say it, CN sux now. lol

Gallowswaiting 2012-03-12 02:28:30

You don't like Courage The Cowardly Dog?

Well, it looks like it's about time for a huge tl;dr-style comment full to bursting with irrational butthurt and fanyboy-ish-ness.

Y'know, the kind where I waste several minutes of both of our lives asking questions like "How dare have an opinion that so radically differs from my own, you swine?!" and make very hateful remarks about you, your parents, and the general aspects of your day-to-day life?

Yeah. That kind of comment.

Of course, I'm now obligated to inform you that the preceding message was positively dripping with sarcasm (which, without the proper aid of tonal inflection and body language, would be impossible to determine. This may not be the case, but I must still assume so, if only to keep from starting a flame war.).

In all seriousness though, I disagree (and quite strongly so) with some of your choices. For example, I actually enjoyed Flapjack. Sure, it was mindless, I will concede that to you. But, it still made me laugh even so. On top of that, Billy and Mandy was also a favorite of mine.

And don't even get me started on Ben 10: Ultimate-We're Gonna Change The Title Again In 2 Episodes-Force Alien EX Director's Cut. I despise that show. I really do. They should have gone the route of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and ended it after Ben 10.

However, I do agree with you on some of the other points you've made. Yes, CN's quality has been sharply declining for a long time now, and it's only gonna get worse from here because they'll eventually pull the plug on Adventure Time (the only decent show they have left, imho) and replace it with more crap live-action shows.

Anyway, I realize that those were of course, your opinions. That's cool. You're entitled to them, just as I am to mine, and others are to theirs.

TL;DR:
Witty, sarcastic comment, followed by brief commentary on your post. You're entitled to your opinion, and it's totally respectable that yours are different from mine.

lokistarwind 2012-03-12 03:52:01

I admit a lot shows you mentioned are not so great but I believe regular show is different in many respects. The show attempts to make a normal situation and adds a super natural effect to it in which despite all the events the characters are involved they learn no lesson and thus the reason why a similar event to reoccurs. It uses references of the eighty's that remind one of what was funny back then . Regular show attempts to build characters so they become more three dimensional and makes you think about who they are.
Also on a side note I found humor in Beavis and Butthead to be dry and obvious like Jay Leno. The show was okay but most of humor was just two dumb characters that kinda act like they are on drugs that critiqued aspects of life in a dumb way. The only parts I ever found that show funny is when characters as dumb as them find something too stupid even for them like Jersey Shore or some random music video.

saathvikputhran 2012-03-12 07:07:31

some of the shows you mentioned I never saw them and...... I stopped watching CN and using only and only computer.

Swackman 2012-03-12 12:25:46

I haven't gotten anywhere near CN in years (except a few months ago), ever since the awesomenesses (yeah, I know it's not a word; shut up) that were Megas XLR and the entire Toonami block were booted. And then there's the whole frigging issue with live-action shit that has no place on a network for ANIMATION.

One thing I have to note, though: While I've never watched Johnny Test before, I will give it credit for being the only show from the former Kids WB block to be still running; it has to be doing something right to have survived where everything else didn't.

Shikamarana 2012-03-12 13:30:51

Grow up and let go

Croire 2012-03-12 13:30:51

Did you research any of these? If you did you would know Flapjack wasn't ever cancelled, the creator decided to stop the show so he could be an executive producer on Adventure Time

retardednerd 2012-03-13 13:01:51

Almost all of the shows you posted in the good were my favorite shows. Codename Kids Next Door was amazing, not to mention the flash games on their website were actually fun to play. I will have to disagree with you on Billy & Mandy though.

ZecoreZecron 2012-03-16 19:53:59

Over all, I agree with you. I have different opinions about quite a few shows but I think you hit hit nail on the head. I'm supprised that you didn't mention the live action crap though. I mean it is called CARTOON network for a reason.

Qchan 2012-03-19 07:37:56

i like regular show and the amazing world of gumball but everything else i completely agree on

TheAtticus 2012-03-19 19:38:56

What the hell with putting Generator Rex in the Bad list?!?!?!? Dude, I love you, but that show is amazing! It has great action, animation, story, writing, characters and voice acting. I have to assume that you haven't watched much of it, because if you watch more episodes, there is a deeper plot line than you would expect.

P.S. Six is NOT a rip-off of Agent Smith. He is a ninja assassin who kicks ass and takes names with dual swords that can send sonic shockwaves in order to knock down his enemies.

323starlight 2012-03-20 20:29:28

i wouldnt say regular show isnt bad. its pretty funny at some times. plus remember its anything but regular. also i dont know why people don't like Squirrel boy, i know most episodes were kinda crappy but it did have some good ones like wall of the wild. also Chowder was a pretty interesting show. i mean you have characters named after food. and Gumball, ill admit it had some episodes that made it fall from grace, but there were some really funny moments.

TheAtticus 2012-04-01 22:39:38

I know it's an opinion. It's just that I think Generator Rex doesn't get enough credit (especially compared to a certain show involving some certain equines) so I can get a little defensive when someone takes umbrage with it. Also, from your analysis, it seemed that you hadn't watched enough of the show to get the gist of it. (Again, I direct your attention to Agent Six, who clearly has a different personality and attributes than Agent Smith)

Anyway, I'm sorry if I seemed out of line in my last comment. If you watched more of the show and still had the same impression, that's fine. What I was trying to get across is that your explanation as to why you didn't care for Generator Rex was - for lack of a better term - vague.

ste4999 2012-04-16 11:58:33

your right the new ones are shit classic ones are are funny like cow and chiken and edd ed n eddy even though they are old still funny and on the elder council of cartoons