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Originally Posted by MarsHottentot

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.

Sounds awful....

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.