Do you think cartoons are just getting lazy lately?

Honestly, I've been talking to my cousin about cartoons now and we both think they pretty much suck, especially Cartoon Network's. The only shows on CN I really like now are Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends and Chowder. The rest aren't all that great.

We talked about the good ol' days when we'd turn on the TV and watch Rugrats and Rocko's Modern Life and Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab and Courage the Cowardly Dog and such. Cartoons now just seem lazy and stupid and frankly, kinda gross & weird. Pretty much pointless.

What do you guys think? Better before or okay the way they are?

 

I agree. The animation isn't as good and the storylines are just boring and redundant. I makes me kinda not wanna watch cartoons anymore.

 

indeed, i agree. The only time that cartoons were any good was in the 90's. anime is a different story though.

 

I completely agree! Also, look at the violence. We used to have my mom worried about the Powerpuff Girls bieng too violent. Cartoon Network is only any good for becoming Adult Swim; on which you can watch anime. And lemme tell ya, I'd rather my brother be watching Code Geass or Death Note compared to the Misadventures of Flapjack or Chowder. They may be more 'grown up' topics, but as long as he's not whining about getting to go outside beacause he'll miss a single episode when all the episodes have the same topic.​

 

I guess we really miss cartoons that are in a way realistic and at the same time not so realistic. ​

 

Eh, it's like all the good ideas have been used up in the 70+ years of cartooning, so the executives at the companies are just re-using once-good ideas. Hollywood is falling into the same trap. There are very few movies nowadays that are not a) based on the same premise as an earlier movie or b) blatant remakes of earlier movies *coughDayTheEarthStoodStill,ChroniclesOfNarniacough*

 

One thing you have to remember of course, is that we watched those shows growing up so to us they appeared amazing. Now we look back on them with nostalgia and declare kids TV is nowhere near as good now as it was when WE were younger.

Talk to your parents, they will say the exact same thing.

It isn't so much that cartoons etc are getting lazy or the quality is decreasing, we are just watching them with a different perspective.

 

Sadly this is true. CN is going way downhill. Flapjack is awful, Chowder is boring, 6Teen is WTF, TDI is repetative, Ben10 is stupid, and WTF happened to Toonami? Foster's Home is a freaking GREAT cartoon but it is never on. Nothing will ever be better than Dexter, PPGs, or Edd Ed n Eddy. Courage the Cowardly dog was cool too.

Nickelodeon is very meh. They always introduce new shows and cancel them. The only show they are good for is Fairly Odd Parents. and perhaps Jimmy Neutron.

DC is the same as Nick except all it has is Phineas and Ferb (that show rules.)

Anime is doing pretty awesome too.

Yes, I have way too much time on my hands.

 

I agree. I enjoyed watching shows like Hey Arnold, Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Leb, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, Two Stupid Dogs, Rocko's Modern Life and etc.

Anyone feel that comedy shows are getting worse now too?

 

As I said, just about everything is getting worse. Or, at least, more repetitive. Very few new ideas are being developed, and when they do, they usually suck.

 

I truly believe that too many shows, movies and cartoons are being developed.
I mean eventually there won't be anymore concepts and ideas.

We'll be seeing a lot of remakes...

 

Cartoons now are a disgrace
even if we are watching them with a different perspective:
Chowder
Misadventures of Flap Jack
6Teen
Drama ISland
are extremely...pointless.
I don't even bother watchin cartoons with my little sister anymore
and even the other types of cartoons that are based on comics
Batman: Brave and Bold and Spectacular Spiderman for example, The older shows put these two to shame.

 

That may be true for some of us. But it's easy to tell which cartoons were good and which were just stupid, and defiantly cartoons made nowadays are very clearly targeted for kids. But oldish cartoons will still interest me.

 

i agree with you all the way!
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There will always be new ideas. We just need someone to think outside of the box and not think about the thing that will make the next quickest million bucks for them.

I believe that if someone can think outside of what we've been doing for the past 80 years, then we'll have some awesome new shows. But if people only care about money and how most little girls are easily swayed popstars and swirly colorful patterns and most little boys are easily swayed by violence and that they can make a lot of money by putting only those factors in TV then television will be extremely boring.

 

That's probably true, it's just that some of them have no point whatsoever and some of them I'd really rather not have, say, my little cousin watching. Sometimes his sister and I put on PPGs or Dexter and he likes it just as much, which makes us feel a lot better about what gets put in front of him.

I was thinking about that the other day, too. Seems that when my friends and I go over plots for movies, we all come up with the same, cliché thing. D:

 

that's not to say most "new" movies are bad... just re-used. I quite enjoyed the effects of Day The Earth Stood Still, and the Narnia movies are MANY times better than their 1980s predecessors. I would, however, enjoy something new at some point.

 

I blame the parents. Don't get me wrong, they have good intentions, but when you think about it and start looking at the cartoons in the 90's, they had a LOT of sexual innuendoes. Not to mention the violence. Parents were worried it would affect their children, so they complained and complained until some of them were taken off the air. Or made kids not watch them, they got low ratings, and then were cancelled.

And no, I'm not saying it's 100% the parents fault, but it was a slight factor in it.

Other than that, blame the FCC.

 

I blame Political Correctness' stranglehold on American society. People are too worried about offending some marginal religious/ethnic group with about 5 members to actually say/do anything, and this has perverted pretty much every powerful American's thought processes into making dilute crap with no inherent value at all.

Seriously, if some tiny group chooses to get their panties in a bunch over some word use that could be construed to be directed at them, let them. Let them vent, let them moan, and get on with your lives. They can either get over it or grow some thicker skin than the paper-mache (sp?) stuff they have now.