Anyone else besides me think Kids TV today is a joke?

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I miss old school nick and old school Disney. They started to go downhill in the early 2000's. I know things change all the time, especially channels and TV shows so it seems like things have gone down hill simply because we grew up in the 80's and 90's so we are used to that stuff. While kids today think shows today rock and someday they are going to change again and they will be saying TV shows suck now and they were better in the 2000's.


But I do watch shows these days like Spongebob, Madagasgar, Fairly Oddparents, iCarly, Drake & Josh, The Suite Life on Deck. I notice I am not watching TV much these days anymore. It seems less now that I am.

I completely agree. The Family Channel here in Canada sucks ass the last good shows they fully phased out about four months ago Disney's Fillmore and The Weekenders, were the only reason I ever even tuned into family anymore after they fully phased out BMW and then started airing 8SR:FDMTD about four years ago and fully phased, actually not phased, more like just totally dropped off their schedule at random about two years ago. I can't stand the Nick shows today there just idiotic and totaly brainless. I've heard people compare spongebob to a child, he ain't nothing like a child. He's a pot head, on a crack binge, in the midst of a seriously bad acid trip. Then again, I was even very picky with my programming selection as a child. I did watch Gargoyles and loved it, As for Nick shows back then I really was only partial to three Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats(of which I still have the christmas special VHS), and Ren and Stimpy, Even back then I wouldn't have touched Dexter's Lab w/a 100 foot pole. Does anyone remember the The Little Mermaid series from the early 90's? The live-action garbage with the minor exception of That's So Raven, is all crap I wouldn't watch even if my life depended on it. I don't know if it was Nick or maybe some other network who licenses their show to CN but Duckman was also an awesome show. On show I was sorry to see FOX have not made a second season, regardless of graphic novel material to adapt into a script and screenplay, was Cybersix. I'd have loved to see how Jose stood up to her and Data 7 as compared to Von Richter.

Does anyone notice how alot of cartoons these days tend to be Japanese/anime influenced? in the cheap-like Pokemon way?

I used to be a big anime fan but now my interest has completely waned thanks to today's kids!! !!

I think there are a few bad which kind of anime influenced, but they do a poor job, even if they gave the character more motion, it just seems kind of jarring, I guess kind of in a 4Kids lame way.

I agree about all those shows you listed and I expecially hate the disney brand in general, but I was raised on PBS and so are my kids now. They have a lot of really good stuff out.

Yes. Old cartoons and Disney movies used to be so awesome. Now they're s**t

I grew up in the 1970's. My favourite kids tv shows were:

The Banana Splits, Hong Kong Phooey, The Flumps, The Clangers, Mary, Mungo and Midge, Bod, The Hair Bear Bunch, Dick Dastardly, Pipkins, Hector's House, Bagpuss, Willow The Wisp, Ivor The Engine, Rainbow.

I do agree that they don't make them as good as that anymore. Also, when I search the internet for pictures of these programmes, it takes me right back to my childhood days!!

If anyone else out there remembers these shows, and likes them as much as I do, let me know.

Vikki **

no reason top wake up early on saturdays any more

When I was 4 years old they played Dragonball Z in a slot designated for children, awesome! MA 15+ shows shown to 4 years olds.

I'm sure they recieved over 9000 complaints though, and that's why childrens TV is so terrible today...

Hey, Dexter's Laboratory IS fun.

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This is a very good thread and can surely be discussed, but I only see it leading to the conclusion of the murder of imagination.

Yes, what they have done is horrible and every time I come across a kid TV show I weep inside.

It's basically the hand of a corporate man wearing a dark suit with a raggedy ass sock puppet on his hand, and not the lovable funny kind. The kind missing an button eye, with no funny excuse for it.

(And don't get me started on 3D animated "cartoons". *pukes in a bucket*)

Cartoons started to go downhill in the mid 90's.

I agree with the poster. Children's television has gone down quite a ways. The oldest of children shows have been changed drastically (looking at you, Thomas & Friends), and some are new with crummy writing and CGI is the dominant anmation.

it seems like trying to makje the world good for children does just the opposite