Adventure Time rocks.

In fact, a lot of CNs new cartoons rock. Regular Show is great, as is their newest one The Amazing World of Gumball.

OH, and for those of you claiming drugs are involved or somehow attempting to diminish the quality of the shows, did you watch ANY 90's animation AT ALL? Look at freaking Ren and Stimpy. Jesus Christ was that show messed up.

I suggest you try watching more Adventure Time and Regular Show before you judge them. They're great shows with good humor and also great action. In fact, Regular Show turns more into an action than a comedy, since it escalates into insanity pretty often.

Edit 2: Now, that isn't to say that these shows aren't outlandish. They have a lot of odd things happen in them, but that usually goes with the style of the world. You begin to expect the strange to happen.

Boo! Hiss!

Should've just left it as Macross. Maybe then I could have bought a reasonably priced DVD box set. Damn you Harmony Gold. :meh:

Oh, I've got far more reasons to hate Harmony Gold than Robotech. Stop blocking the Unseen from being used in Battletech, you bastards!

Oh, another REALLY good new cartoon is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQYfM-M2fU. Its so perfectly campy. It totally captures the feeling of the old golden/silver age comics. And, yes, they actually changed their style for that episode just so that it would look exactly like an old Scooby doo episode. They really put effort into it. In addition, Scooby Doo, Mystery Inc. is also really well done and fun. I think its the best Scooby Doo made, at least besides A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

I can agree with you that adventure Time and shows like this are on the random "WTF?" side.

Some of the episodes seem to even have a few sixual references. But I bet if I went backand watched some of those shows you mentoned in the OP my mind might find some aswell.

Didn't the Animaniacs have tons of over the head jokes?

I don't care much for the New Scooby Doo but I did enjoy the Hatecraft reference.

But all in all I like some of the new shows but dislike others. Adventure time is fun to watch, but I hate regular Show.

This was an amazing cartoon as well, probably not for everyone as it is most definitely on the crazy side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02u2JCayKeY

They really aren't random, just absurd. Almost nothing ever happens in them for no reason, which means it isn't random. As with any comedy, some things will come out of left field.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908


I don't care for it as much as I do The Brave and the Bold. TBATB is so freaking great. I personally think its greatness is on par with Batman: The Animated Series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cR-6rBpYz0

Personally, I think Harvey Birdman was one of the best comedy cartoons ever made.

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This thread made me visit Dragon Ball's, Pokemon's and Digimon's wikias :) Damnit >_<

Ha Ha... references.

I knew somhow you were going to post the "fingerprints" joke.

I watched the brave and the bold. Not a fan of the art style but I see it as quality and looks like much work was put into it. Its so cheesey, but in a way that gives off nostalgia.

I noticed with movies too. They make me...tired. Every film now acts like it needs to be some two and a half hour epic jaunt of epic explosions and epic scenery and epic amazing epicness. It's one of the reasons I don't really want to go see things like the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie very badly.

Well, in my defense, when I was watching Robotech, I didn't know about Macross. It was just a cool cartoon that had transforming jets and giant enemies. Plus, it had the first death of a major character I'd seen in a cartoon.

Oh god, the word epic has to be the most overused word in director/producers' vocabulary. If EVERYTHING tries to be "epic", wouldn't it make sense that eventually nothing will SEEM epic?

One of the best shows in recent memory. We need a sequel to its game too, perhaps in the form of Phoenix Wright vs. Harvey Birdman since it's a spin-off of Ace Attorney.


I watched it too when I was little and didn't actually mind it. Of course, I later found out about Macross and liked it so much more than the Robotech universe. Just a shame we haven't gotten Macross 7 or Frontier.

*Sit's back in rocking chair and recounts the days of yore*

The shows on CT Network or any network have really gone down hill, I remember when I was young I watched shows like, G.I. Joe, He-man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Bravestarr, Conan the Adventurer, Sailor Moon, Super Mario Bros. Super Show with The Legend of Zelda cartoon that aired only on fridays, Captain N and the Video Game Masters, Captain Planet, Valtron, Mobile Suit Gundam, G Gundam and Gundam Wing. Then later shows like, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Chowder and The Marvilous Misadventures of Flapjack. I've watched all these shows and they where great but nowadays---they become mindless and boring.

I think you might want to go back and check out your nostalgia. You will be sorely disappointed.

Tried watching Thundercats several times recently. Its just terrible.

Pfft, you people throw "nostalgia" around way too much. Most of the shows I watched when I was little are still awesome, and that's coming from someone that's seen 'em recently.

But.. The Legend of Zelda cartoon is pretty bad. Worth it for a few laughs though.

Not really, during the Super Mario Bros. Super Show every Friday they would show a Legend of Zelda Cartoon. It got me pumped for Fridays more ways then one. But I still enjoy the live Mario and Luigi segements----until they changed the host...then the show got stale. So i stuck around for the Mario and Zelda cartoons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxY8lpYAUM

Momma had a chicken
Momma had a cow
Dad was proud
He didn't care how
Cow
Chicken
Cow and chicken!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3d2GHBuvQ

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This made me think if they revamped all the Zelda games they would have to have a button distinctly only for use to make Link say this recording.

"Well excuuuuuuse me, princess!"

Who's saying that's a bad thing? Some of the best music (imo) was made in the 60's and 70's, and you can't deny the influence drugs have had on the creativity expressed in the music of that time. It even became the name of a freakin' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock for christ http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sake.png. But I digress...

My friends love Adventure time (any guesses why? :teehee: ), but tbh I'm not a fan. I can appreciate the humor of it at certain times but it just doesn't appeal to me. I find something really off about it, and many kids shows on TV now. One show I remember in specific, although I don't remember what it was called but it was on Cartoon Network, had an entire episode dedicated to a character purposely getting hurt, or faking injuries, so that the other characters would give him attention and feel sorry for him, ect. I thought the entire episode was stupid, but I figured at the end they'd at least have a moral, but instead they just dropped it and ended on a completely unrelated note. So they basically told kids "If you don't get attention, hurt yourselves! Or make something up.", it was just stupid. I know people go on about nostalgia, but I really think a lot of the older cartoons at least had a positive, or clearer, message for kids to take away from them.

I also agree with the poster that mentioned political correctness in cartoons now. When I watch these kids shows, I can't help but feel that some of the dialogue, situations, ect, are just so forced as if the show has to fit in with some kind of...agenda (I'm already wearing my tinfoil hat!). Although my friend kind of explained it to me as the shows can really only be about "good is good and bad is bad" which I kind of get, but I feel like these shows treat our children like they're idiots or something. That they can't grasp a message or meaning that isn't handed to them every 4.5 seconds.

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Yeah, they do drugs...