Don't do it, Cartoon Network! Don't do it!!

[MrHat]

Of course, creepy old guys watching Powerpuff Girls are just that, creepy. But Cartoon Network has some truly great shows on, they just don't happen to come on before 9 pm EST.

[Paelos]

I'm pretty confident that if you've actually seriously thought about what level of stigma might be attached to a recreational hobby of yours that you are a pathetic fucker in real life just like you are here.  You logic is akin to that of the mythical jock-gamer who plays Madden 24/7 then calls anyone who plays an RPG a fag or something like that.  Grow a pair, be your own person and do whatever the fuck you want to do.  People who spend their lives worrying and making choices based on what other people might think are more pathetic then even Mr. Catass McPoopsock in my book.

That would have been an excellent point if it didn't just follow a defense of your own lifestyle choices in reference to what someone thought of them. If you really believed that, you would have just chalked up my comments to my own weird opinion, and shut your mouth.

EDIT: Also, why so angry over cartoons? It's not helping my whole "creepy" vibe I got off you anyway.

[Hoax]

Judge not lest ye be judged eh buddy?

Also I don't see where in that quote I defended my own lifestyle choices, unless your trying to be clever and infer that I'm a hardcore catass?

you would have just chalked up my comments to my own weird opinion

I chalk up your comments, as I always do, to the fact that you are an idiot.

[El Gallo]

If you don't like ATHF, you will be sent to a re-education facility after the revolution.

[Merusk]

Wow, this thread took a turn into the hardcore stupid, didn't it.

Bring back the boobs.

[Rasix]

/1 Take to it to tells.
/2 WTS [e-peen], PST.

[Signe]

Yeah, but what if one of them comes up with a reasonably clever insult that I've not heard before?   Not that I'm expecting that to happen or anything given the calibre of insults so far.

[Roac]

This is about what I imagine it would be like to say Han Solo could beat up Picard at a Star Trek convention.

[Paelos]

Yeah, but what if one of them comes up with a reasonably clever insult that I've not heard before?   Not that I'm expecting that to happen or anything given the calibre of insults so far.

Hoax is just angry about something. I'm not really sure what exactly. It doesn't really matter, there's no need to derail the thread further as Rasix so kindly put it.

To re-rail. I do think Cartoon Network should be about cartoons and not live action. After all, that's like Comedy Central playing dramas, which I think they do occasionally under the guise of comedy, but that's not the section of the store where you'd find those videos.

[Signe]

I actually paused on that channel once because they announced Dexter's Laboratory was coming up next but it was something else.  If you are expecting Dexter's Laboratory, anything else is just disappointing.  I never looked back.

[Shockeye]

After all, that's like Comedy Central playing dramas, which I think they do occasionally under the guise of comedy, but that's not the section of the store where you'd find those videos.

That explains last weekend's marathon of "Gigli".

[Polysorbate80]

After all, that's like Comedy Central playing dramas, which I think they do occasionally under the guise of comedy, but that's not the section of the store where you'd find those videos.

That explains last weekend's marathon of "Gigli".

They're showing horror movies now?  Oh, the poor children....

[Fabricated]

If it's creepy or immature to watch cartoons past 20, then it should be creepy or immature to watch any of the popular drek on "normal" TV channels, like 24/Lost/Desparate Housewives (what a pile of horseshit that show is)/The O.C./Smallville/etc.etc.etc.

[Samwise]

If it's creepy or immature to watch cartoons past 20, then it should be creepy or immature to watch any of the popular drek on "normal" TV channels, like 24/Lost/Desparate Housewives (what a pile of horseshit that show is)/The O.C./Smallville/etc.etc.etc.

...at any age.

Although I admit to being entertained by Smallville.  But then I never claimed not to be creepy and immature.

[Llava]

Hoax is just angry about something. I'm not really sure what exactly.

Cause you were being a douche.  Your "lol get a girlfriend" comment sealed that deal.  Pretty shitty and ignorant thing to say, especially given that, until just recently, I was in a 5+ year relationship with a beautiful and intelligent girl who enjoyed watching Cartoon Network with me. In fact, she's the one who turned me on to Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.  It might be "for kids".  So what?  Mario, Katamari, Pikmin, Sonic, Zelda (Wind Waker, hi), Puzzle Pirates.

But double standards aren't a problem for you, so by all means go ahead and continue to be a douche.

To re-rail. I do think Cartoon Network should be about cartoons and not live action. After all, that's like Comedy Central playing dramas, which I think they do occasionally under the guise of comedy, but that's not the section of the store where you'd find those videos.

I agree with that, too.  Comedy Central airs way too many shitty movies that not only aren't funny, they're not good.  A film like Hi-Fidelity is as serious as I want any movie on Comedy Central.

[Yegolev]

Life is too short to not enjoy yourself.  Being hung up on perceived societal regulations isn't something I do, for the most part.  I have decided that a man feels like I currently do, and oddly it's a lot like a big kid that finally understands all that responsibility junk his father was trying to drill into him... and I have control over the money.  This particular dedicated husband/father/desk jockey really laughs at some PowerPuff episodes because they are very smart and funny (the Yoko Ono episode, or Lucky Captain Rabbit King), and I don't feel the need to pull the drapes when I watch.  Ed, Edd and Eddy is also a great show; I enjoy the art as well as the stories.  Samurai Jack.  My wife likes Foster's and I think I do too, I just haven't seen much of it.  She also watches SpongeBob and Rocko on NickToons, and I catch Zim sometimes.  Good shows, don't let the fact that they are animated throw you off.  Some people can't get past facades (retread Wind Waker stuff) and that's just too bad for them, but whatever.  Do as you please.  I do.

[Dren]

Hey, I wanna play too.

I love cartoons.  Love em.  My kids love em too.  My wife hates em.  Hates em with a burning passion.  My kids and I make fun of my wife for it.  It is a fun game.  We own the TV on Saturday mornings!

When I look at my choices of TV anymore, I normally end up watching cartoons or VH1 I love the 80s or similar show, because I like to laugh at how I used to dress, buy things, eat, dance, etc.  I used to settle on Comedy Central, but (as said earlier) they are playing more and more movies that I wouldn't consider laugh riots.  When I turn to that channel, I want to instantly start seeing teh funny! (Stand up, SNL, MAD tv, Daily Show, etc.)

My wife gets back at me though.  She loves reality TV and that's about all she watches at night.  I absolutely hate reality TV.  It makes me physically ill.

I agree with the topic.  Keep the cartoons a comin.  Dumb and Dumber?  It gets played constantly on TNN.  I'd rather see them go out and find more talent like they did when they launched.  I'd also like to see more stuff that would bridge the totally stupid slapstick cartoons with more adult cartoons (not in the pervy sort of way.)  It seems like there is no in-between cartoons so I can see where people grow out of them during that gap.

[Hoax]

I miss Teen Titans, that show was le brilliant.

[HaemishM]

I miss Teen Titans, that show was le brilliant.

They'll be doing Teen Titans movies instead of a regular show.

[Hoax]

After watching that fucking god awful Avengers movie that really doesn't make me happy in the slightest.

[Fabricated]

I wasn't aware Teen Titans was cancelled.

[Llava]

Lucky Captain Rabbit King

Heh.  That was a good one.

I was a big fan of the Scotsman in Samurai Jack.

[HaemishM]

I wasn't aware Teen Titans was cancelled.

Yep. Followed by Justice League. They'll be showing all the Justice League shows they did and then maybe (though no announcement has been made), they'll do movies. Teen Titans has already finished, but the movie is being aired later this year I think.

[Dren]

I wasn't aware Teen Titans was cancelled.

Yep. Followed by Justice League. They'll be showing all the Justice League shows they did and then maybe (though no announcement has been made), they'll do movies. Teen Titans has already finished, but the movie is being aired later this year I think.

Damn it.  Those are two I really did enjoy (My oldest son too.)  Justice League was my favorite.  Teen Titans was the only cartoon I felt hit that middle spot between cartoons for children and cartoons for more mature audiences (again, not pron!) 

Argh.  They cancel those but will continue to run shows like the Ed's into the ground much like Ren and Stimpy.

Why'ed they do that?  Were they so popular that they felt they could make more money more efficiently by releasing movies?  Were they so unpopular that having 15-20 new episodes per year was losing money?  I don't get it.  This seems to happen to anything I find worth watching. (They yank around Batman every season too!  My son's favorite next to old Spiderman episodes.)

[HaemishM]

I'm not sure what the reasoning was. They appear to have other DC Comics based products in the wings.

[Llava]

 
Justice League was probably my favorite thing on Cartoon Network right now (I consider Adult Swim a separate thing... but it gives even the best of those shows a run for their money).

But I know Bruce Timm has been talking about getting tired, lately.  Guy's been drawing Batman since I was in... I think elementary school. Geez.

Any Batman not voiced by Kevin Conroy isn't Batman, though.  Like any Joker not voiced by Luke Skywalker.

[Fabricated]

I'm not sure what the reasoning was. They appear to have other DC Comics based products in the wings.

I was confused since I remember reading it on some site I can't remember that focuses heavily on comics and their TV/movie adapatations, and how CN was wishy washy on saying Teen Titans was flat out cancelled and how they still were "supporting" it.

[Merusk]

This isn't worth a new thread, so I'm bumping.


Anyone else catch the "coming soon" bumper for Saved by the Bell on Adult Swim last night?  That was a joke, right? A tie-in to the use of Screech in the 2-Coreys part of Robot Chicken, right?  Please?  What the fuck?

[Hoax]

Considering they said it was going to be on at midnight which would fuck with ATHF or Robot Chicken I assumed it was a joke.  I turned the TV off though just to be safe.

[Llava]

So the Saved By The Bell thing wasn't a joke.  They've been wasting airtime on it for the last few weeks.

When people say things like, "Man, Saved By The Bell was awesome!  That was real TV!" they're being stupid or ironic.  They don't actually want to watch that shit.  And, just in case there are any Adult Swim programmers here, I know you're eyeballing the next logical step- Charles In Charge.  Just know, if you do it, I will destroy you.

[stray]

I recently got Adult Swim and CN On Demand. Great invention, that is.

[WindupAtheist]

Cartoon Network is committing suicide and I'm GLAD.  It's what they deserve for failing to excercise their rights to a third season of The Big O, and then foisting shit like Stroker & Hoop onto the world.  I hope they cancel Aqua Teen to run old episodes of Who's The Boss.

[Merusk]

Sit through one episode of Bo-Bo-Bo Bo Bo Bo-Bo-Bo and S&H looks like genius.

Or perhaps I'm just getting old.

[tazelbain]

Sadly, many people hated Big O. Appaintly thoughtful, cutting-edge anime isn't what people want and endless re-runs of Family Guy is.  (I like it but enough is enough).

I think the problem for AS is they are stretched too thin. They have a finite amount of talent and they attempt to divide it between too many shows.

Let's not forget the Brak Show.

[WindupAtheist]

Family Guy has never been funny.  Ever.