Shrooblord wrote:GNineify wrote:Nickelodeon has Korra and the new TMNT, but otherwise they still have to get more interesting things on their network, which is kind of a desert at this moment.
I was looking at the programming for Nickelodeon yesterday, just to see if I could watch some of the old shows I used to like, but I discovered a horrible truth:
The whole day, from 5:00 till 3:00 (the rest of time being filled up by kids' shows like Dora the Explorer) was filled up with series like Victorious, iCarly, Degrassi and more such nooonsense. There was
one half-hour block of Spongebob. What happened to the iconic cartoons Fairly Odd Parents, El Tigre, Avatar, and - at night - Ren and Stimpy?!
Bah. That channel has gone down the swimmer.
Yeah, they completely quit showing reruns of all of their good shows - they'll only show reruns of older Spongebob episodes but that's only because Spongebob is their bitch. But they put a block on TeenNick that shows all of the older shows. Also, they released the other shows on DVD and while those DVDs can be hard to find you might stumble upon one eventually. I myself have season 1 of Rocko's Modern Life on DVD, and there's a season 1 and 2 DVD of Ren & Stimpy that I also have and it
wasn't released by Nick, if I'm correct.
GNineify wrote:Nickelodeon is still obsessed with Spongebob, I see. They've created some crossover video games starring the most popular characters from their shows and in the box arts Spongebob is always the one who's mugging for the camera. He is the network's butt buddy.
Yeah, they're focusing all of their attention on Spongebob in the cartoon department and it's just sad. The show was supposed to end with the movie but they decided to make more episodes so they could cash cow it, but the original creator of the show left after the movie and all of the episodes after the movie are complete shite. That has to do with the fact that there's different writers. They cash cowed it since before the movie and made plenty of Spongebob games and had him - like you said - on the cover of those crossover games. I basically quit watching Nick when they stopped showing Invader Zim reruns on Nicktoons Network.