The Good Ol' Times

[Amaterasu]

Remember them? And I'm talking about anything. I've noticed some terrible things happening to beloved cartoon characters, and it just makes me think: "Why?". Also, they are beginning to milk shows like crazy, and the shows being milked were once good, but are now completely annoying.

I remember the old Scooby-doo gang, A pup named Scooby-doo, Looney Toons, and Tom and Jerry. The old Spongebob, Fairly Oddparents, etc etc. Hell, the old Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network!

Pretty much, I'm just saying: Do you miss something that you used to love as child? Do you remember The Land Before Time series? I used to love them so, and now thier memory has faded...

[hea777]

I remember all those shows... yeah, they were better when they were older. Especially Spongebob ._.
Ah, and also, they had Toonami on Cartoon Network which hosted some pretty kickbutt shows. Even the host of Toonami was kickbutt! XD

[Amaterasu]

Wasn't he a robot? xD I can barely remember. 3:

[Yusei]

We've fallen into the age of Moral Cartoons that aren't even funny no more o___o.

[Melancholy]

I want to strangle Spongebob so badly, it's not even funny.

[Amaterasu]

You're telling me. The insanity is too great...how dare they replace Courage the Cowardly dog with Flapjack.

V_V

EDIT: I know, what happened to the Nautical Nonsense Sponge? This, obomination is not Spongebob...

[Insoletic]

I miss Dexter's Labratory, and I miss Toonami. They were the best. :(

[hea777]

@ Amaterasu: Yeah, the host of Toonami was a robot. ;P

Just remembered about the Powerpuff Girls. That was a pretty good show, too. >:
Gargoyles was awesome, and so was Batman the Animated Series. Heck, I'd even go for some Wild Thornberrys right now D:

[Raddy]

TOONAMI WAS EPIC.

Not JUST because it had DBZ, or Dragonball either. XD That host was awesomeness. Other than that, I dunno. I'd have to think on it.

[Amaterasu]

Lol! I remember the Powerpuff Girls! Adorable.

Remember the Rugrats? xD If only we could sue for the crappiness of newer shows.

[Josh]

I miss everything. I miss everything that ever happened in my childhood, because those truly were the greatest years of my life, and I can really see why.

What happened to the TV Shows? You guys are already complaining about them. If you go to....Wikipedia, and look at Nick, or Cartoon Network or hell Disney channel, and see from the early 90's to now, the tv shows that took place, you would see something truly saddening. They got progressively worse. Like everything did. You went from the good old days when Pokemon used to mean something. I'm not saying it doesn't mean anything now, but it just doesn't have that same spark it used to. Or Yu-gi-oh. If you watch the first season, from the beginning until the end of Pegasus, and then the last season that's been on of GX or whatever, you would chose the first season. I don't think anyone wouldn't.

The TV shows like everything else, got worse. I used to think it was just because I was getting older. You know, the, you get tired of things that you loved in your childhood, but now I see that's complete crap. Miley Cyrus....Hannah Montana....shows about talking cows? If I ever have any kids, I swear I will refuse to let them watch any shows from the late 2000's. I will not stand for it.

The movies. I just re watched the Lion King on youtube yesterday, and it just reminded me of how great of a movie it was. You watch that movie, you love it, the characters, the songs, you want to watch it over and over again. What now? What became of Disney, the whole movie system that was so great back in the 90's? Nothing. It became nothing. Now all Disney does is make movies just to make profit. I see the time period of kind of the reign of Michael Eisner. You remember him? I thought he was great. He was that person that brought the movies.

Did you ever on Saturday nights, go on ABC and see a Disney movie on? That happened every Saturday night. It died with Eisner. And I miss it. And, what now of today's movies? What have they become? It seems like simply the old drawn out stories. The, love story that gets repeated over and over. The horror movie that gets repeated over and over. I see it as, you're now paying 8+ bucks for a ticket alone, to see the same thing again and again. This is why I rarely see movies anymore. What's the point?

Do you remember the Pokemon Movies? Do you really? Do you remember when that first movie came out, and after seeing it, you loved the series even more? Hell, even a Pokemon movie could flat out beat most of today's movies. Do you remember Saturday mornings? How, they had all the good shows on Kids WB? Batman, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, everything. That died too.

This next bit might be just me, but it could be not.

As a kid, I see one thing, that lets you truly have the best time of your life. You just didn't have a care. Life was good, you went with the flow. Every time was a happy time. I hardly remember any school whatsoever, and if I do, it was a good time with friends, or pounding the nails into a stump of tree that my K5 teacher had, or playing with blocks, or building puzzles, or playing on the Jungle Gym set. And then came summer. It was always most days going to a waterpark, or going to a roller coaster park or riding down all the streets on your bike, or sliding down the slides. Nobody punished you for anything in those younger years, because you were a kid. You did not know your actions yet, and you were free to get away with a lot of things. Now in life you have all the pressure of jobs, school isn't fun anymore, you don't go to the fun waterparks or roller coaster parks as much anymore, and now you have the feelings of hate, jealousy, anger, sadness. Life sometimes is just too hard to deal with. I miss those care free times when life was just a fun ride that never seemed to end. And I never thought it would.

Do you remember the games? The playing Pokemon all day long. The going on the long car trips that weren't that bad, and all you did was just sit on your gameboy and beat the crap out of a Dragonite with Pikachu? Or maybe your game was Mario. And all you played was Super Mario World. Hopping around on your SNES with Yoshi, eating everything in sight. Or maybe, you were brought into Zelda at a younger age and all you played all day long was Ocarina of Time because you were obsessed with it. Games seem to have died for me. I no longer have the extreme urge to play every game and play those games over and over. Plus, there isn't as much good as there used to be. I think the last time I bought an actual game, was Phantom Hourglass almost a year ago. And if I did buy something else, hell it wasn't important enough to remember. Game companies, yes, even Nintendo, just don't seem to be making those good games anymore. With Nintendo sure it's more noticeable now, what with everyone complaining about it, and all that ever comes out anymore is the cooking games, or Wii Fit or Nintendogs.

Childhood to me, was something that allowed me to have a good time, all day long every day. From when I woke up, until I went to sleep, I went everywhere that my mother and sister went, and we went to some pretty good places. It saddens me, because I know that I can never have back those feelings of just plain happiness that I did when I was a child. You think those times will never end, but sadly they do, and I was just too late to realize it, and make more of the time I had with everything I loved.

If you took the time to read all that, then I congratulate you.

[Amaterasu]

I did, and I must say, bravo Josh. :3

That tells it all.

[Yusei]

I did, and I must say, bravo Josh. :3

That tells it all.

This.

Josh you hit the nail on the buzzer. I agree fully with you.

*reps*

[Amaterasu]

Indeed. He's pretty much summoned up everyone's anger in one post. xD

Holy fu--...you must feel stong about this topic, Josh.

[Raddy]

Yes, I'll have to agree myself. As well as with Ammie, there. XD

[Josh]

Holy fu--...you must feel stong about this topic, Josh.

I do. I really really do.

[Yusei]

So yeah. Josh basically won the thread. :D

[Amaterasu]

No kidding. xDDDD

[Raddy]

No kidding indeed. I wish I were as awesome as Josh. D:

[Melancholy]

TOONAMI WAS EPIC.

Not JUST because it had DBZ, or Dragonball either. XD That host was awesomeness. Other than that, I dunno. I'd have to think on it.

I liked little Tom the best, I absolutely hated the last one.