On every channel, Saturday cartoons today are either (a) Japanese anime about card games, (b) Japanese anime about dinosaurs or, for variety, (c) Japanese anime about card games involving dinosaurs.
This cartoon is not epic. Please go far, far away, though you should take Brittney Spears and The Situation along on your one-way mission to Mars.
This is wrong, wrong, WRONG.
Japanese anime is fine and all. It should be on the menu.
But it should not be the entire menu, and every show should not be geared toward selling card games and toys to the pookies.
Road Runner will be classic forever.
Tom and Jerry. The Justice League — all good.
Listen to me now and believe me later in the week, nancypants network executives: give the pookies of today some variety. Give them classics.
Give them silly little shows like the Smurfs or and My Little Pony if you must.
Just stop feeding them a cartoon diet with no nutrition whatsoever.
This is why my Munchkin loves Boomerang. Because on Boomerang she can see Tom and Jerry and the real Scooby Doo (not the nancified new Scooby Doo) and Penelope Pitstop and freaking POWERPUFF GIRLS and Dexter’s Laboratory. The world needs more Dexter’s Laboratory and more Powerpuff Girls (I mean, really, how can you not love a series with villains like Mojo Jojo and “Him” and Princess Morbucks?).
No card game cartoons for my Munchkin!
What is this Boomerang? I must find it. I do not really watch of the TV much, as my cable subscription consists of about five channels and UNIVISION, which is glorious, because even the newscasters break out into dance randomly, and everyone who does the news is either (a) gorgeous or (b) happily nuts.
sadly, Boomerang is, indeed, on cable.
Univision is the most awesome network in the world to watch any kind of sports. The broadcasters get so excited it’s infectious. Plus, the soccer commentary is stupendous.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were among my favorites. I also loved the Laff-a-lympics, Josie and the Pussycats, and Jabber Jaws. The cartoons today can’t hold a candle to those classics.
Wile E. Coyote was the best. I always wanted to see what insane thing he’d mail-order from ACME Corp.
I miss Dexter’s Lab-or-a-tory. I don’t have kids, but if I did, they would watch Dexter’s Lab-or-a-tory. I promise you that.
I have been using the word “nancypants” in conversation a lot lately. I blame you.
But it’s a good blame. Or, at least, a funny blame.
Dexter’s Lab is epic. I don’t care that his parents and sister have boring Midwestern accents and he somehow has a Russian / Slavic one — it doesn’t matter. Dexter rocks. He is epic.
Everyone should use “nancypants” as a noun, adverb, preposition, adjective, helping verb, not-so-helpful verb and all-purpose expletive.
oh, Elise. My boy LOVES Boomerang too. Wacky Races, Smurfs, Snorks–they show them all. Even Pussycats and JabberJaw
Boomerang is a different Cartoon Network devoted to classic cartoons.
HUB is a new channel (previously Discovery Kids) and they’re starting Fraggle Rock back.
What I wish they’d create is a classic Disney channel for all the old Mickey Mouse cartoons. Who remembers the Goofy Sports and Donald dealing with Chip&Dale?
Son has 2 DVDs of Bugs Bunny cartoon and they are among his favorite movies to watch.
Fraggle Rock? Really?
Okay, I must confess that there are a couple of modern kids shows I like – probably because the people writing/producing them are doing as many drugs as the team that did Fraggle Rock must have done (and The Great Space Coaster – does anyone remember THAT? With Gary Gnu?). Anyway – Yo Gabba Gabba is bizarre and freaky and just …. whoa and damn. And I like LazyTown. I admit it, I’m a Sportacus fan-girl.
Oh Elise I totally forgot about that!…no gnews is good gnews with Gary Gnews…..I loved that too! And I am also remembering the Banana Splitz….One banana, Two banana, Three banana, Four……tra-la-la-la-la-la-la!
I lurv Dexter…..before I had the boy-child I would watch with my nieces and god-children, and wish for a child like Dexter…..boy child loved Dexter too til he discovered Ben 10….I now know more about all that is Ben 10 than any sane adult should. I miss the days when Dexter and Jimmy Neutron ruled the house. My personal favorite was George of the Jungle and Mr. Magoo (I realize this ages me, but really, I miss the ape named Ape, I really do!)
We discovered a lot of cartoons on Netflix after we quit cable and had no other source. My children’s latest obsessions are STREET SHARKS (Half shark, half man / fighting evil that’s the plan! Jawsome!) and OSCAR’S OASIS, which for the longest time sounded like OSCAR’S A RACIST because my 8-year-old doesn’t enunciate.
My two favorites are CURIOUS GEORGE, which is packed with awesomesauce for children and adults, and JIMMY NEUTRON, which is just plain funny. I love the writing on these shows, but the lack of accompanying $13.00 spinning metal tops and anime mythology makes them a harder sell than BEY BLADE.
CURIOUS GEORGE and JIMMY NEUTRON are good.
If you want a laugh, watch TOM AND JERRY episodes from the ’70s. The old ones were classic. The ’70s and later, those shows turned into acid trips.