Cartoon Shows

[Rulez]

People in Poland are still shitting their pants over that. I'm not because I'm a nitwit with a big dick and never watched that show.

[Skiffy]

Hm, maybe I should rewatch it. If I could find it anyware

If you wanted I could try and stick the episodes I have on to a DVD and mail it to you if you wanted? Sadly I only use my phone for internet access at home (the issue of living near the Black Hole of Calcutta for internet connections!) so I couldn't upload but I have all the Moomins in digital format.

And Bzzit, the Groke was easily the creepiest thing in the Moomins although I always found those wiggly white things... Hattifatteners (was that what they were called?) really creepy too!

Cairnie I am so going to look into purchasing/importing the show then if that's how cheap it was. And yes, good grief you must watch the Last Airbender, one of the better more "modern" cartoons for sure.

[Master]

Well, I've watched all three seasons of Avatar, and blimey, I'm impressed, no wonder the Critic tore into the movie as much as he did.

[Cairnie]

I've only ever watched like 2 episodes of Avatar and people are always comparing it to Mysterious Cities of Gold which is a BRILLIANT cartoon, so yeah.

[Master]

Erm, was it not to your tastes?

[Keane]

I never said it did not end fine, but having more episodes after movie would be even better.

Quality over quantity my friend. There's a shit ton of Spongebob but the past five or six years have changed it from being one of my favourite shows to a big pile of nonsense. It feels like they stopped writing episodes and just put in whatever comes into their minds.

[OCG]

I never even looked at new SpongeBob episodes because I was lazy to search for them on internet, and local TV station stopped brodcasting SpongeBob few years ago. I guess I am not missing much

[Keane]

I never even looked at new SpongeBob episodes because I was lazy to search for them on internet, and local TV station stopped brodcasting SpongeBob few years ago. I guess I am not missing much

This is the current day formula:

1) Fill up a 12 episode DVD with 7 episodes where Plankton tries to steal the recipe
2) Make Spongebob do absolutely pointless things because randomness is obviously hilarious
3) Can't think of an ending? Fuck it! Just have a nonsensical, abrupt end.

[Dark Lum Lord]

I never even looked at new SpongeBob episodes because I was lazy to search for them on internet, and local TV station stopped brodcasting SpongeBob few years ago. I guess I am not missing much

This is the current day formula:

1) Fill up a 12 episode DVD with 7 episodes where Plankton tries to steal the recipe
2) Make Spongebob do absolutely pointless things because randomness is obviously hilarious
3) Can't think of an ending? Fuck it! Just have a nonsensical, abrupt end.

Sadly, that appears to have been their fomula for many years now. They should've, and were orignally going to, end the show with the movie. But no, fucking Nickelodeon had to cash cow the show even more and turn into into a steaming pile of dog shit.

Can we please talk about Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, and/or Wander Over Yander? Because those are currently the only good modern day cartoons. Keepin' originality and quality alive.

[Bradandez]

Ah I love Gravity Falls! My favorite modern cartoon as of now and Wander looks like it's gonna be 2nd. Adventure Time...ehh...I don't really like it.

[Dark Lum Lord]

Ah I love Gravity Falls! My favorite modern cartoon as of now and Wander looks like it's gonna be 2nd. Adventure Time...ehh...I don't really like it.

Agreed. GF and WOY are both very promising and keep my faith in cartoons alive. I haven't seen too much of Gravity Falls yet, and I already love it as mcuh as I can love a show - with all of my heart. I actually hated Adventure Time in the beginning, but I've recently started getting into it. It's not as good as GF, but I still like it and it definitely has more quality and potentional than any other modern day, trashy cartoon out there. In addition to the quality, another problem I have with many modern day cartoons is the drawing style of them. Cartoons of today are cheap, easily, computer drawn toons and it bothers me too much. Yes, it's much easier to simply use a computer, but could they at least put some effort into it? As the times went by the quality of the style of cartoons went lower and lower, eventually falling into the crapper.

[GNineify]

The art styles vary greatly today. Sure there is quite a lot of crap, but why complain about them when there's just as much great ones? I just ignore these little stains of imperfection and focus on the ones that have effort and quality in them. Most popular ongoing and future CN series (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe) and some shows from other networks (Gravity Falls, The Legend of Korra) are not only good plot wise, but they're also animated completely in traditional frame-to-frame methods, where cheap Flash-ish keyframe animation is rare. Just like in the good ol' days. And I don't see what's so bad about keyframe animation either in some cases, most notably in Wander Over Yonder (Which is animated using ToonBoom, a Flash-like program, but I also noticed quite a lot of tiny parts that were animated traditionally when a character's movement required it, so it's more of a hybrid of these two).

[Dark Lum Lord]

The art styles vary greatly today. Sure there is quite a lot of crap, but why complain about them when there's just as much great ones? I just ignore these little stains of imperfection and focus on the ones that have effort and quality in them. Most popular ongoing and future CN series (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe) and some shows from other networks (Gravity Falls, The Legend of Korra) are not only good plot wise, but they're also animated completely in traditional frame-to-frame methods, where cheap Flash-ish keyframe animation is rare. Just like in the good ol' days. And I don't see what's so bad about keyframe animation either in some cases, most notably in Wander Over Yonder (Which is animated using ToonBoom, a Flash-like program, but I also noticed quite a lot of tiny parts that were animated traditionally when a character's movement required it, so it's more of a hybrid of these two).

Hmm, I have to agree after reading that and thinking things over a bit more. There are cartoons with good art styles out there, but I guess I focuse a bit too much on older cartoons with good art styles and newer ones with bad styles. Just more of my nostalgia speaking. I've also noticed that Cartoon Network has started to pick up some good shows lately so my faith in cartoons is definitely still there. It's Nickelodeon that's really bothering me - absolutely no good cartoons on it nowadays. Even Disney has Gravity Falls and Wander Over Yonder, which both make up for the vast amounts of tasteless crap that is the rest of their awful shows.

[Bradandez]

I missed the Wander premier. Anybody else catch it?

[OCG]

I don't have any channel on TV that brodcast it so I did not watch it either. I will go and watch it on internet.

[GNineify]

They've been available on US iTunes for free. For non-US people, here are some download links (Thanks, bronies!)

[OCG]

Whooo! I have both American and Japanese iTunes accounts
Time to download it. Hopefully, all episodes will be free.

[Dark Lum Lord]

Am downloading.

[Shrooblord]

Well, I've watched all three seasons of Avatar, and blimey, I'm impressed.

Here, have some Jasmin tea!

[Master]

I love the character of General Iroh, such tragedy, and wisdom, I can be quite sentimental at times, but I've never been touched by anything as much as his segment in the Tales of Ba Sing Se, props to the late Mako for being such a wonderful VA, and also to his replacement, for maintaining it.