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12-23-2016, 05:15 PM | #1 |
Tokusatsu Hero
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So what TV shows from your childhood has hold up and has not hold up very well to you? Here is my list.
Aged Well: Animaniacs Batman: The Animated Series and any of the DCAU TV Shows Digimon (The dub has not aged well. The show is more enjoyable in Japanese) Ducktails Invader Zim Ren & Stimpy Rocko's Modern Life Samurai Jack Spawn: HBO Animated Series Simpsons Season 1-12 (Seasons 1-10 of The Simpsons are pretty much timeless. Season 11 and 12 still have great episodes as well) Tiny Toons Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Didn't Aged Well: 60's-70's Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Bobby's World Captain N (Loved the show as a kid, but the show is pretty bad now. I still enjoy it as a guilty pleasure) CatDog G1 Transformers Hercules: The Legendary Journeys MMPR (Without the nostalgia value, it's really not that good IMO) Rocket Power (This show screams 90's-Early 2000's XTREME in a bad way!) VR Troopers Voltron I will add more later.
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12-23-2016, 05:28 PM | #2 |
Stronger Than You
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Aged Well:
Digimon Adventure (Only if in Japanese) Digimon Tamers (Both languages) Batman: TAS Jackie Chan Adventures Beast Wars: Transformers (Well...S2 and 3) My Life as a Teenage Robot Angry Beavers Power Rangers: Time Force Fresh Prince of Bel-Air MXC Iron Chef Has not aged well: Cubix Yu-Gi-Oh! Mucha Lucha CatDog Rocket Power Doug Most other PR series Street Sharks (Or whatever that show was called) Dragon Ball Z Pokemon Big Bad Beetleborgs VR Troopers Transformers Unicron Trilogy Mega Man All the Sonic Cartoons All That! Cousin Skeeter ...Fuck it, basically every live action Nick show (Aside from a couple decent ones)
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12-23-2016, 08:25 PM | #3 |
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I'd say 80's TV sucked almost across the board until three things happened:
1) American cartoon companies started importing Japanese designers for action cartoons 2) Fox network started producing "anti" sitcoms like Simpsons, Married with Children etc. and better produced genre fare such as Friday the 13th (sort of a "proto-X-Files") 3) Ren & Stimpy save the funny cartoon from the depths of Hannah Barbaric and others non-stop crapfest of artless toy shilling and video game garbage. I worked at a place here in Atlanta back in the late 90's and we had hundreds of cells from all of these HB "classics", painted for peanuts by South Korean factory drones. They looked like they were painted blind folded! Just awful stuff. While the 90's still had some real junk, by and large things were far more entertaining than in the 80's. I know a lot of Millennials seem to love the 80's but, trust me, they were terrible.
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12-23-2016, 08:27 PM | #4 |
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I was never big into a lot of 80's stuff. Helps that I was born in the 90's~
Oh yeah, slap Spider-Man under my list of shows that didn't age well.
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12-23-2016, 09:02 PM | #5 |
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I'd say 80's TV sucked almost across the board until three things happened:
1) American cartoon companies started importing Japanese designers for action cartoons 2) Fox network started producing "anti" sitcoms like Simpsons, Married with Children etc. and better produced genre fare such as Friday the 13th (sort of a "proto-X-Files") 3) Ren & Stimpy save the funny cartoon from the depths of Hannah Barbaric and others non-stop crapfest of artless toy shilling and video game garbage. I worked at a place here in Atlanta back in the late 90's and we had hundreds of cells from all of these HB "classics", painted for peanuts by South Korean factory drones. They looked like they were painted blind folded! Just awful stuff. While the 90's still had some real junk, by and large things were far more entertaining than in the 80's. I know a lot of Millennials seem to love the 80's but, trust me, they were terrible. I generally think any sitcom the Disney Channel made in the 2000's wasn't good at all after thinking back on them. The closest I could think of becoming half decent was Zack and Cody maybe because they had to stop relying on the twin gimmick the show originally started with as the boys got older and the writing probably got a bit better as a result. Cartoon Network live action was pretty eh. I kinda liked Destroy Build Destroy, for its interesting premise but I don't remember the specific challenges in that show being all that good at all. Nick live action was about the same as Cartoon Network's. But they had Drake and Josh, which looking back on, is actually kinda good for how surreal and absurd the show is while being self aware of it. Seriously, one of the episode plots is Josh running over Oprah, how weird is that? Probably the cartoons hold up the best. Stuff like Teen Titans, Kim Possible, Avatar and early Spongebob are shining examples of good things I remember from that era that I think would still be considered definitivly good now by a lot of people. Other stuff like Kids Next Door, Danny Phantom and Jimmy Neutron I remember being good but I'd have to look into those again to see if I'm right. |
12-23-2016, 09:24 PM | #6 |
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Pretty much every cartoon from the early and mid 80's
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12-23-2016, 09:32 PM | #7 |
Tokusatsu Hero
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I was too old when the any sitcom on Disney Channel since they came out when I was losing interest in those type of shows. I also in High School when the Hannah Montana boom from 2006-2009.
90% of the 80's cartoons are made to sell toys. The only 80's cartoon that I seen that holds up well to me is Inhumanoids, The Real Ghostbusters and Inspector Gadget (Not a amazing show. I still find it funny). TMNT is still okay, but I do think the other shows are better.
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12-23-2016, 11:52 PM | #8 |
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Probably the cartoons hold up the best. Stuff like Teen Titans, Kim Possible, Avatar and early Spongebob are shining examples of good things I remember from that era that I think would still be considered definitivly good now by a lot of people. Other stuff like Kids Next Door, Danny Phantom and Jimmy Neutron I remember being good but I'd have to look into those again to see if I'm right.
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12-24-2016, 12:17 AM | #9 |
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People whom complain about current PR being too cringe worthy REALLY didn't try to watch old school power rangers
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12-24-2016, 12:34 AM | #10 |
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Well, the cringiest thing about old school PR was Alpha 6, to be honest. Other than that, it was more super cheesy than cringe worthy.
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