Cartoons Today vs Cartoons When I Was a Kid:
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
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Music:
'Ukulele Song' by Rafael Krux
'Beyond, pt. 2 (re-created)' by Alexander Nakarada
I'm not too up-to-date with cartoons today, but that 80s cartoon homage is _painfully_ accurate!
both were very accurate
I am so unpretty 😭 When I go to the bank, they turn the cameras off. At least I am a big star on RUclips. So don't feel too bad for me, dear blue
@@AxxLAfriku Are you okay? Did you have, like, a stroke or something?? What are you on (about)???
@@TheZetaKai I've seen this guy all over the place. The only comments he leaves are begging people to view his channel. Its just a ploy to get people to check it out.
The animation was too good on the "modern" cartoon. Cartoonists these days seem to think that the ability to draw is entirely optional.
The fact that I can name 20 individual action figure toy lines from the 80s off the top of my head means that "buy me" was a very real part of cartoons back then.
that sounds depressing
But didn't you have a blast playing with them?
@@johntabler349 Oh absolutely!
Same with none action figure cartoons like My Little Pony, Rainbowbrite and The Get along Gang. I had toys from each of those cartoons.
@@Ttegegg Oh not at all. It reflects the amazing variety of options kids had back then in terms of toy designs, and more important, the lore that went along with it.
Doesn't matter if it was Transformers, GI Joe, Sectars, Sky Commandos, Dino Riders, M.A.S.K., BraveStar, Silverhawks, or GoBots. Heavy marketing aside, it was a blast that really engaged our imagination, had us engage in corporative play with each other, gave us lessons in diversity, and the expanded universe via comics and storybooks actually encouraged reading + creating our own stories and worldbuilding.
It just kinda all worked for the positive for everyone other than our parent's wallets.
It certainly is strange how many children's cartoons take a firm stance against space genocide
And then theres Star vs Evil going full in with the genocide
@@C0C0L0QUIN "Won't destroying magic will kill all magical beings?"
"Oh no! Anyway..."
Idk, SU makes a whole "space Genocide isn't so bad, evil space n@zis just need someone to understand them so we're all friends" statement in less screen time than Steven's irrelevant uncle, while Star straight up promotes it as good and worth it to be with a boy you like, ignoring the fact it was the exact thing the original Villan was crucified for attempting.
@@_-Lx-_ A LOT of shows spend the entire series building up to a confrontation or revelation the creators realize too late they can't actually do because the show has a normal it always has to return to... but SU took that to a whole new level with that ending.
They are heretics and traitors against the Imperium of Man
They won't even mention the God Emperor in kids shows anymore!
"I'm [doing evil thing] on purpose, for no reason!" was the battle-cry of many a villain in the 80's and 90's.
I mean it's realistic, can you name a reason Assad gasses his own people, Iran sends drones and troops to kill people abroad or russia decides to wage war on three continents? Just insane tyrants playing soldiers.
Yes, that's the joke
"I'm going to....BLOW UP THE ORPHANAGE! nyA HA HA!" Ok but what do you actually gain from that
@@breadmilkYT Do you want the communists to win????
Hmmm... Funni@@breadmilkYT
I'm amazed at how much hilarity is condensed into every line of this 30 second video. "Well Professor Meatdog, getting eaten by that ghost sure taught me a lot about unconventional family structures" might be one of the densest, funniest sentences I've ever heard in my life. ("Yeah baby!")
Preach!
Back in MY day we were ENCOURAGED to commit space genocide because drugs are bad and recycling is cool
Oh yea. CAPTAIN PLANET was originally gonna have like normal people. Like the villains where just regular dudes you know
Ah, the pew pew lasers never even hit anybody.
@@jsmith498 That describes the philosophy of every faction Warhammer 40K
@@Noperare we do a bit of purging
Space genocide is pretty cool too, so why not encourage it?
I agree, modern cartoons ARE sorely lacking in robots.
And ads
There is always anime for that...
@@martimking1craft and commu-
@@ExtremeMadnessX Meh modern robot animes are pretty bad.
The simple fact that the robot are in 3D is a huge let down.
not really
"If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs."
Underrated comment
Sorry to interrupt but high school exit exams require you to " brush up " on that scrambled riddle of yours.
I've cracked the code! I need to stay in school, drink my milk, don't do drugs, get 8 hours of sleep, and ... eat ... My ... Teeth?
@@TheSneezingAnouki Nooo: eat your own face.
@@TheSneezingAnouki Yes, exactly. Eat your teeth. *Do it.*
The "Or the communists win" really got me
Also a cartoon about space genocide really hits home
it's called Steven Universe
@@joereno955 And the moral is that you can be forgiven for if you're sad and/or sorry.
@@joereno955 Let's be honest with ourselves, if a modern cartoon has space in it, you can guarentee there is, has been or will be space genocide in it's main plot.
@@The_Sigillite Steven never said “I Forgive You” to any of the diamonds, and in the Movie he literally couldn’t stand to be around them. Maybe if you actually paid attention to the show instead of parroting what other critics said about the show (some of whom were acting in bad faith because of the shows pro-LGBTQA+ message, let’s be real here), you would know this.
@@Popcultureguy3000 Ignoring your presuptions about how I came to my conclusions and your condesending tone, I stand by my point. You had three varying degrees of space tyrant, all intolarent of any deviations and signs of sedition, all fine with murdering organic and gem life on a whim, and experimenting on their own kind in a manner that would result in genocide. Genocides they would have been a part of many times over mind you.
Pray tell, what repercussions did they face for this? Steven never outright says "I forgive you" (your requirement not mine) but he does seem perfectly happy to just leave them to once they show an ounce of contrition. That they worked off-screen to dismantle their empire is a point in their favour, but that in no way justifies the attitude shift they receive.
In the year or so between series and movies they go from tyrants to Steven's annoying aunts. Only yellow seems to be doing anything half way redeptive before they come to hug Steven back into his right mind.
I ask you, is this an acceptable way to handle the subject of genocidable space tyrants?
Now, I know Axis of Legend started off as a simple cash-grab, but as the stories have carried on and new writers have taken over, we've seen some really nuanced takes on the plot structure. Even Pollutionator has had better character development thanks to modern comics!
Pollutionator's backstory in the IDW canon had important things to say about addiction and PTSD.
Well, they had to improve the writing if they wanted to retire old toys and introduce new ones. Nothasbro learned the hard way after killing half of the original cast on AoL: The Movie, and receiving backlash by the parents of traumatized children that saw Moneyptimus Cash die on-screen . So in the end, it went from a simple cash-grab, to an elaborate and convoluted cash-grab. Specially when they started licencing the IP to Japan for animes, and the UK for more comics.
At least they're refreshingly candid about the "to sell toys" effect on the wiki
@@thesexybatman263 I still didn't like the Axis of Legend Michael Bay movies tho.
@@starkillersneed The Bumblebuyme movie by Travis Knight was pretty good though, hope the next movies are more on that level than the Bay films
That scrolling desert in the “old cartoon” though.
Back in my day, Franchise mcToySales defeated skele-communism every single episode and _we liked it_ !
Fun fact: Axis of Legend was actually a mash up of three unrelated Japanese kids cartoons - Super Money Spender Z, Smog Buster Plus: Do You Remember Love, and Interplanetary Cat Pizza Dilettante G - redubbed into one 207 episode show for syndication, named Axis of Legend solely because the name wasn't yet trademarked.
I understood that reference!
Macross?
@@SidheKnight Strictly speaking, Robotech, of which Macross (Super Dimension Fortress Macross) formed the first part.
@@KeithFraser82 Could you help me with this refrence, i can't find what you're referring to.
@@seamusquain2706 There were three unrelated anime series in the 1980s (Super Dimension Fortress Macross and two others) which were dubbed and released in the US all under the name "Robotech".
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech
As a child, you idolise Batman.
As a teenager, you think the Joker had a point.
As an adult, you realise Commissioner Gordon wasn't paid enough to put up with all their shit.
Indeed.
Commissioner gordon is just Gotham's dad
@@bepisthescienceman4202
Gordon: "I'm putting BOTH of you in Arkham!!!"
@@nexusmods9068 batman:"but gordan he started it"
Bro, go read War and Peace or something
The subtle background transition in the first cartoon to convey the darker tone was awesome. That effort made the joke hit harder, and we appreciate it.
The parts where they forgive Professor Meatdog's sister for killing that planet filled with orphans because she had a sad backstory were pretty weird though. They committed a massive space genocide to stop her evil plan of taking over the universe, just so she could join the gang in the epilogue sequel.
Thankfully, 80's cartoons have better morals: communism is bad, buy our stuff, and don't get touched by strangers.
I say the same for vegeta. I mean I’m pretty sure that dude was in control for that arena scene
Childhood: Don't get touched by strangers.
Adulthood: Here's an app to find strangers who want to touch you.
@@Ttegegg it seems that you're forgetting your Rose tinted glasses. Here you can borrow mine.
@@Ttegegg Vegeta... had some shit to work out. In fairness, he was cool with going to hell for it. He only got to come back when everyone he killed did.
Also, *give a hoot, read a book!*
'80s cartoon: "I'm polluting on purpose for no reason!"
Actual tycoon: "I'm polluting on purpose for buttloads of money!"
"I'm also stealing their water and selling it back to them!"
@@NeoTechni also that's a tax write off.
couldn't go that way back then. if kids lost hope in capitalism they could take interest and later action towhard other form of government, even, GASP, communism!
@@serPomiz and that's how i happened
@@serPomiz communism is worse than nazism and killed more people.
Chiming in to appreciate the background music for the first cartoon. The Steven Universe theme song chord progression was a good choice, and somehow you managed to make it sound like a perfect combination of the music from Steven Universe and Adventure Time. A lot of thought went into what ended up being a very small piece of this skit.
With a splash of the She-Ra reboot (lots of space genocide in that one too)
I love a lot of modern cartoons, but Stephen Universe is one show I wish I could un-watch. Absolute gack.
@@googleuser3163 too much freedom to one single writer in that. you cans see it a lot in lower-scope production
I heard the music and immediately thought of that type of show! It clearly stood out to me and made me grin.
@@dawica Yeah, beneath the new She-Ra's cute and kid-friendly exterior, it is SUPER dark. Like surprisingly so.
I am a big fan of modern cartoons and that's such a great parody. The lessons, the random creature, the dark twist, the music, spot on.
Ah yes, the space genocide episode.
I'll never forget the words Professor Meat-Dog left us at the end.
never forget
Preach 🙌🏻
youre joking but thats just steven universe
"Now I am become meat-death, destroyer of meat-worlds"
@@googleuser3163 The Meat-death... of the Universe!
I like how he mocks the cartoons of today, AND the people who get angry at the cartoons of today, AND the people who say the cartoons of yesterday were better, AND the cartoons of yesterday.
Literally pissing everyone off with one rapid-fire spray of jokes.
it a jab at people who have nothing to say. a blanket statement of "new thing bad, old thing good" was never good for any generation that used the argument. obviously, you can have gripes with certain trends and general choices being made but alot of the time people really don't care to be nuanced. like how people will revive 80s cartoons with the assumption that seeing as it was primarily meant to sell toys there wouldn't be anything worth adhering to beyond the barest bone things like a characters name or macguffins
A true poet indeed.
The "fuck all o' y'all" approach, a succinct and efficient manner of handling fandoms in general.
I don't really see how it's mocking the cartoons of today.
AND endorses space genocide.
The voice acting in this is underrated. Now I want to see ABK star in a cross-generational mashup cartoon that nonsensically combines clashing tonal elements spanning from GI Joe to MLP.
I have no idea what that means but now I want to see it.
@@mchelvantx Raining the unbridled power of friendship down on America's enemies
@@user-et3xn2jm1u GI Pony: Friendship is Victory
Can something that was posted literally yesterday already contain underrated elements?
From what I've heard the IDW comics transformers/MLP crossover is apparently quite good. Now if only we could find a dashingly handsome man to narrate it...
As a Gen-X who still collects Transformers and GI Joe toys, but appreciates the new stuff for today's kids like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, this is painfully accurate.
Steven Universe is pure and total liberal commie shit. That show sucks. Adventure Time is awesome though.
@@TheYTSucks If you really wanna rail on the communists, go complain about batman. That guy redistributes money from a wealthy guy to provide services relating to anti-terrorist protection and in-situ therapy sessions free for the public.
@Arnór Róbertsson It's still considered part of the modern era of cartoons, and helped kicked off the ongoing creator driven animated series renaissance.
Plus! It didn't end years ago, they're still putting out long-form/short-movie style episodes of Adventure Time on HBO Max!
@Arnór Róbertsson whatever, the point is grown men crying about modern cartoons as if they weren't raised by toy commercials is cringe.
@Arnór Róbertsson yeah was just joking no need to overthink everything.
Funnily enough, it's the exact opposite in my perception (non-US). When I was a kid there were firm laws that forbid the direct marketing towards children, so it was easy to just enjoy the story and lessons.
Those laws got eroded since, and now you see actual real life products show up IN cartoons, incorporated into the plot in incredibly cringey ways just to make sure kids know they can beg their parents for them. So frustrating :x
In my country, there is a fairy popular children comic about four animal-headed friends.
It had a film adaptation, the plot was... on pair with comic, but the product placement was unbelivable.
And thanks to clashing art style, they were quite noticable.
What "real life products show up IN cartoons" again? I'm really asking. 80s cartoons would not _directly_ market at children, but they were built from the ground-up to do just that. Even the designs, the vehicles, the armors and gadgets, the team vs. team format plus episodic characters. Even the character design; say how all the characters had the same body-type so they could re-cast the plastic bodies and only change the outfit and heads to make cheaper figures. It's all developed around making the cheapest cartoon that'll sell the most toys.
@@thotslayer9914 Argentina, why?
Reverse conservatism
Damn, imagine seeing the worst possible way to create a show and then copying it LOL
You really hit “nondescript parody of Steven universe” perfectly. But you left out the grown man yelling about CalArts
"You really hit “nondescript parody of Steven universe” perfectly"
I even got it and I didn't even watch that shitty calarts show. (grown woman though)
@@NeoTechni ) you're missquoting a creep.
and watch the show.
@@steamboatwill3.367 You're the creep here. And I didn't misquote anyone given I copy/pasted the quote.
@@NeoTechni ) i meant your "calarts" quote.
and where did you find that?
@@NeoTechni ) and you're a creep
The license plate on the jeep is the tiny detail that brings this whole thing together.
It always troubled me that Ulysses (from the cartoon Ulysses 31) was blamed by the Gods for killing the giant cyclops, yet was an accessory at best. The culprit was his annoying robot, Nono. Never was there a greater injustice in the sphere of 1980 animation, with the possible exception of the Thundercats' forced colonization of Mum-Ra's planet.
Nice reference you made! :D Ulysses 31 was one the best cartoons of that era, IMO.
The Berbils seemed okay with the colonization.
There is, BTW, a fantastic fan remaster of Ulysses31 on RUclips by TheAdamAdamant which I can't link to or the automoderator will eat my post. ...also, if you rewatch it, you'll notice that during Zeus's rant to Ulysses about how he's being exiled to Olympus, Ulysses is actually in the engine room tinkering with the iris and didn't hear any of it.
@@hjalfi I guess Shirka, the ship's main computer, must have briefed Ulysses about that afterwards... ;)
ABK kind of looks like a live action version of Ulysses
On a serious note though, I honestly wonder what cartoon makers back then would think of modern cartoons if you went back in time to show them. It's one thing to ask them now, when it's considered the norm. But how people from the 80s and 90s have reacted at the time? Take the 1987 Ducktales vs. the 2017 reboot for example:
Both are great shows, but they have a lot of differences just because of when they were made. The Ducktales reboot has season spanning plots, story arcs with mysteries and plot twists, character development over the course of the series, and that one episode with Darkwing Duck that was a whole meta-commentary on reboots. Apart from that last thing, most of that is pretty common in modern animated shows. Just look at Gravity Falls or the Owl House. The original show was mostly one-episode adventures where the status quo didn't change very much.
I'm not saying one style of animated show is better than the other. But I do wonder how the newer style would've been viewed in the 80s and 90s.
There's a good reason for that, and it's not just about selling toys. Cartoons in the 90s - and every decade prior - were heavily focused on syndication. For that to work really well the show had to be flexible - it needed to allow any of the stations buying broadcast rights to be able to fit the show to their schedule, even if that meant removing episodes or showing episodes out of order, or skipping over an episode because of national sensibilities. That doesn't work if you've got a lot of continuity - but with one-episode adventures and a fixed status quo, episodes can be thrown up in any order.
It also means you don't lose audience as the season progresses when people miss an episode and lose track of the story, and that you can easily grab new audience who are just flicking through channels and drop in mid-season without watching all prior episodes. That's not such an overwhelming issue since the introduction of the DVR and streaming, but back then it was a real concern for studios and the reason that very few shows of that period would maintain season-long continuity or story. Those that did usually kept to the mini-series format, with only three episodes.
@@vylbird8014 I have heard about the syndication factor before. While DVR made it possible for the viewer to decide when they wanted to watch their shows, it seems adult content adjusted to that far faster than children’s media did. I’m unsure why as Nickelodeon and Disney Channel’s target audiences are certainly old enough to use a DVR
Showing stuff like Pixar's Piper would make them shit themselves from the technical advancements but stylized stuff like Spider-Verse, The Last Wish, or Mutant Mayhem may cause them to go into cardiac arrest from the sheer visual creativity on display.
Been watching through Batman: The Animated Series lately and I am *thoroughly* surprised at how amazingly written it is.
It really seems like late 90s early 2000s was peak cartoon.
Thing is, what we remember may indeed be better than most of what is on now. Mostly because we only remember the very best ones, or what we consider to be the very best. 90% of cartoons back then were also really bad, but they came and went and we no longer remember them.
Outside of cartoon network/nickolodeon, the only show I can immediately remember from the 90s without having to look at lists and such is Gargoyles.
I had someone recommend that and I can't see anything redeeming it from the rest of the chaff that the 90s produced
Not only 90s, but Batman, Scooby Doo, MASK, Phantom 2040, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, David the Gnome, I could go on. That’s not to say there isn’t anything recent that’s decent, Totally Spies and Phineas and Ferb for example were excellent, but I’d say that back in the day the marketing push didn’t necessarily go before the fun, and when it did, like with He-man it was dead, very, very quickly. These days, while there is nothing wrong with a message, too often the message comes before the fun, and that in my opinion is missing the mark.
Also, we were kids and had absolutely no sense of taste, perspective or self-respect, so we must watched whatever was shovelled down our throats.
Which is exactly what the toy companies wanted.
For every Hey Arnold, there was also a Mega Babies.
I vaguely remember Wild C.A.T.S. Just not sure of anyone else does...
Except for Star Vs, where the moral is that Space Genocide is totally fine
Yeah baby!
Well that and racism isn't bad magic is though.
If I had a nickle for all the times cartoons fumbled a story about space genocide it would be 2.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
remember kids: human rights only apply to humans
Just ordered my Prof. MeatDog plushie, can't wait for it to arrive!
"Buy me, kids! Buy me! Or the Space Nazis win."
"And I must never commit space genocide."
Ah yes. Much lessons taught by Doctor Who.
As someone who only watches Dr. Who when my friends are over, why is it that sometimes he brags about it, or at least doesn't care about commiting space genocide, then like super sad panda about it.
@@huneylove5They like the idea of it? But actually doing it is sad. That's just my guess.
@@huneylove5 Because the Doctor is, at least in his own view, a genocidal war criminal now trying to do good to balance out the bad, at least a little. But that underlying willingness to kill, to take the easy way, is always there, and he's not above reminding people that they wouldn't be the first species he wiped out if they push him too far. Which tends to be fairly effective at making people who know his reputation reconsider whether what they're doing is worth the risk.
Because he probably wouldn't wipe out your entire species. But he *could.*
@@huneylove5 Cos the writing is awful.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over Professor Meatdog just going “Yeah Baby!” randomly
Preach!
Grown men being angry at media not targeted at them is my favorite genre of RUclips video.
sitting back and watching civil wars over shipping cartoon characters is mine
Grown men AND women.
Commenting on grown men commenting on grown men being angry at media not targeted at them is my favorite pastime.
I only get angry when media not targeted to me (which is a lot) is played in public spaces, at full volume. I don't need to hear your music, or the audio from whatever show you're streaming, and certainly not the bells and whistles from some shitty mobile game. There are a hundred different options for headphones/earbuds. Pick one.
Sums up the quartering content. He’s in fat too so it works
The aggressively capitalist robot certainly taught me about unconventional family structures…
One thing we've learned about robots in the years since is that because someone spent several decades insisiting that girl robots shouldn't be a thing, there are a lot of gay robots now.
@@RAFMnBgaming Can't a robot change its programmed gendered behaviour really, really easily, just by flashing its ROM? Or by wearing a bow, if 80s arcade games taught me anything.
I never bought the robot. But you know what? My resources were then allocated to goods and services that were actually needed! Curse you, capitalism!
@@MCVessels I mean, it's either bows or goggles. Everyone knows girl robots have goggles.
Yes, a family can be five adult male robots looking after a young human cyborg girl, like in Transformers Animated.
I love watching cartoons from the 60s-80s and modern stuf, but a lot of people forget they were frankly way preachier than modern cartoons
I mean, He-Man and stuff always had a moral at the end of every episode, I feel like romantizers forget that
Most of the time the animation was Shitty and they were only 20 min ads kids would watch ; in opposition to today's cartoon where the show comes first and the toys after.
Stock footage/stock animation out the ass too.
@@madmouse4400 I mean, all joking aside, I think the toy ad complaints sometimes get a _little_ overstated. There's no mistaking the corporate intention of them, but the writers (usually) genuinely did want to tell fun stories for some of these shows. They're not great by todays standards, but there's some honest effort and creativity behind so many of the stories featured in shows back then that I think gets overlooked
There's a reason why I think He-Man, Transformers, G.I Joe, and MLP are so fondly remembered to this day, and why so many cartoons from the same era like Moo Mesa, Karate Kommandos, or MoonDreamers just aren't
@@amelialonelyfart8848 Some 80's cartoons later went on to shape new generations just like some modern cartoons of yesterday. But it's sad that people are going out of their way to smear their reputation and they don't understand what made everyone like those cartoons or what made them special and iconic.
The moral at the end was there because it was essentially mandated by law from the 70s to early 90s. The FCC had regulated children's TV at that time to require that all channels must show a minimum quantity of 'educational content,' in order to address pressure from a number of groups representing parents and expressing their concern about the impact of television on children. But the FCC management never actually wanted to pass those regulations - the political situation at the time was orientated towards deregulation and free markets - and studios certainly didn't want to make educational children's TV because it was less profitable than showing what amounted to long-running advertisments. So they reached an informal agreement: The program makers would stick some moral lesson into the episode, or some paper-thin attempt at education, so they could claim to be complying with the law. And the FCC would in turn accept this flimsy pretence without question.
I like how the modern example looks like something that would be animated on Toon boom while the older show was more stylized. Very accurate.
And you know what? They're both really entertaining shows to watch in their own way
Why do I feel the urge to buy toys...
Because you don't want the Communists to win?
This idea couldn't have been executed any better. Great idea, perfectly shown
When I was a kid, we had Ren & Stimpy. I still can't figure out how that was considered appropriate for kids. Excellent cartoon though.
I'm too young to have experienced the 80's, but man I really miss 1990's and early 2000's cartoons.
They may have been ugly as sin, but by god 90's and early 2000's cartoons were entertaining.
This is what we call, 'The things I enjoyed as a child were better because I wasn't old enough to question plot holes or poor writing.' and then people go, 'but I went back and watched it again as an adult and it still holds up!' ignoring the fact that the plot holes and bad writing were patched up with later media so now the dumb stuff makes sense if you have the later knowledge.
I don't know I'm kind of rambling, I just hate when people try to justify their nostalgia logically when nostalgia is just pure emotions.
@@kid14346 this is a valid point of course but the whole bashing and dismissing of any historical comparisons as "just nostalgia" is a form of induced self-censorship which is more harmful
@@Dudsgon self censorship? ...bro... recognizing flaws in the things you like is not censorship
@@kid14346 sorry I've misread a bit. Yep that particular thing you described is annoying
Hmm I guess I'm happy I grew up in a time before these eras. All I had were Looney Tunes and sweet cartoon violence. I do recall having an urge to buy up a lot of war bonds though. Not sure why.
But... Dangermouse!
Duckula.
Unhhhh flinstones smoking ad
Dangermouse was a high bar.
Or even Inspector Gadget.
I DID NOT expect to see you here, sir, but I am pleasantly surprised.
I thought "huh that kid kinda looks like Steven Universe" and then he said the space genocide thing and I thought "yeah that's definitely Steven"
OH MY GOD ONION BUUUUUUBS
@@rhaeven 👈😎👈
Also Prof. MeatDog is Jake from Adventure Time.
Nailed it to a T with this one. 🤣
Also what's sad is that there have been some great cartoons that got canceled solely because the toys didn't sell or they couldn't market a toy line for them.
Poor Sym-Bionic Titan
Poor Generator Rex
Visionaries, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, and Starcom just upped and vanished because of that. LOL!
Or they botched the initial toy release so badly that stores refused to buy any more.
Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles got that treatment oof
I've just discovered that RUclips has full episodes of Duckula. That still has the ability to make me giggle like an imbecile but Cosgrove Hall always did make quality toons.
The writing on that show was priceless. It's very odd for ANY show to be that sharp and quick with the patter, let alone one for kids.
Cosgrove Hall understood cartoons could have an appeal to both kids and adults long before the likes of the Simpsons.
Shows like Duckula relied on actual Intelligent wit, not fart jokes and pop culture references.
Back in the 80's everything was marketed as children toys. R-rated movies, horror icons, even TV sitcoms.
Whenever a new ABK video comes out, I usually just end up watching his entire catalog
90's - 2000 cartoons is where it's at
"You idiot, Jenkin! I told you *not* to put lava on the cat!"
*Close-up still of grotesque, melted cat flesh with bubbling sound on a loop*
I know I should be rooting for the "modern cartoon", but that one is shockingly accurate, too. Right down to the random catchphrases.
You shouldn't be rooting for either
I root against modern cartoons and I am proud of it
@Disposable Email I don't take myself too seriously and I love the fact ABK equally lays down the humor blanket upon us all
@@johntabler349 Based, redpilled chad.
Lesson of the history: every period of cartoon history has his flaws
These animated skits are great,keep up the good work,man:)You really nail all those artstyles that make them look like actual shows of different tike periods!
As a man of 44 I can confirm this is completely accurate.
44 gang chiming in
At the moment, you have 44 likes, which is fun.
Hey those are American cartoons!
What about British ones like when several baby mice were skewered on thorns, off screen, in The Animals Of Farthing Wood by a shrike?!
Count Duckula is brilliant. :)
@@minicle426 I still laugh like a crazy loon at the jokes in ‘No Sax, Please: We’re Egyptian’.
Hands up anyone here who was traumatised by _Watership Down_ as a child.
Even a lot of anime shows are just as if not more merchandise driven than a couple of American toons.
It's about building moral resilience. The cute talking animals set off on their journey, which becomes a gruelling death march. Most of them die, and every death is giving special attention to build the impact - it starts with the newts being burned alive, and only gets more terrifying from there. There is crushing, predation, hunting, and even one suicide. And yes, the shrike... the last we see of the mice they are impaled upon thorns, depicted graphically complete with spilled and congealed blood. When the child eventually stops crying and emerges from their trauma they are more ready to face the true terror of the real world.
Soundwave was awesome
I'm a cartoon enthusiast old enough to have experienced both eras decipted in the video, and I can safely say this; the true golden age of American television cartoons were neither the 80's or the 2010's/20's, it was the 90's. In the very last few years of the 80's an idea came about among a few cartoon producers seemingly independently of each other that basically went "What if we let the cartoonists make stuff that they actually WANT to make, and maybe they'll churn out stuff that can compete with average offerings like The Smurfs and Ninja Turtles by virtue of actually being GOOD?" leading to both The Simpsons, The New Adventures of Might Mouse (precursor to Ren and Stimpy), Tiny Toon Adventures and the first batch of Nicktoons. These were shows that were driven by a genuine individual creative visions, which could clearly be seen as the artstyles of the shows were extremely different from one another. This was the era when an american televsion cartoons could have almost ANY visual style, the variation was enormous. Of course during the first part of the decade, these creative shows did share the screen with other cartoons that were more of remnants of the 80's way of thinking; stuff like Biker Mice from Mars or Street Sharks. But by the second half of the 90's, these corporatist and bland shows had almost disapeared. By 1997 or so, an american televsion cartoon was almost EXPECTED to be creator driven and unique. Although with that said, the artsyles of the various shows often began to look more and more similar with a sort of neo-50's limited animation sendup becoming extremely popular (think PowerPuff Girls). By the early 00's it unfortunetly seemed as if certain artstyles had become almost expected by studios in order for a cartoon to get picked up, usually the aforementioned thick-line 50's inspired style (with perhapes a few dashes of anime thrown in with extra dashes of anime if the show was of a more serious mnided action/drama variety, like Teen Titans). Certain subject matter like "kid lives double life and has to juggle regular school life with sci-fi-/magical stuff" being extremely common. It was clear that studio executive had now reached a point where they felt that THEY had the ability to tell beforehand which cartoons could become hits by judging by what had worked before. And this is the same situation that we are in now. It's just that after the success of a handfull of shows in the early 2010's like Adventure Time, that truly WERE genuinly new and creative when they came out, THOSE shows immediately became the new norm and nowadays it seems studio executives are often unwilling to greelight a show unless it's drawn in the so call CalArts stule with the soft curves and thin black lines and has content featuring characters living in quirky universes filled with "lol random" elements while having adventures that teach tolerance, which always to me came of as a formula that seems to in actuality be just as much aimed at now adult millenials that grew up with internet humor and a critical look at western society as they are aimed at actual children. Regardless, the era when a cartoonist could get almost any concept with almost any visual style on air like they could in the 90's is long gone.
I enjoyed cartoons in the 1990's but this is when they started the trope of having characters get rebooted as chibi babies and it was also the last time they tried interrupting the show in a different medium as a live action cross-over self insert . Modern Lawyers have made it impossible to cameo anymore.
Ninja Turtles showing up on talk shows to talk about sex with Oprah and teaming up with the power rangers on a entirely different show will never happen again. The terrorists of 2001 ruined everything.
But hey, at least, Japan is still making anime though. And they have made some of the greatest animated TV shows of the past decade (in my humble opinion) like Symphogear, Vivid Strike!, and Getter Robo Arc.
Sorry, but the best cartoons were made before television became the standard for watching visual content. Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes are simply irreplaceable.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I did say "golden age of american TELEVISION cartoons".
I was an 80's/90's kid and still primarily watch/collect cartoons to this day so I think I can safely say: Yep.
Seriously though, you have to dive through a lot of crap to find gold.
That’s how I feel about anime as well. There are some real gems there, but you have to wade through a lot of trash to get there.
Yeah that's the thing about nostalgia, it kind of filters out all the crap and only focuses on the good parts, giving us a warped and biased view of the past.
Today's kid shows tend to have cutesy visuals but with real life lessons and even dark storylines. Older ones were more straight forward action cartoons that relied on merchandise. Both are great in their own ways.
Plus today's cartoons have absolutely insane character designs. Its like they smoked weed when coming up with characters. Look at Regular show or Gumball
@@artemzeytunyan7293 The people making gumball definitely had _way_ more than just weed
@@artemzeytunyan7293 people sometimes mention bad animation in SU, transformer animators where on crack 24 hours and turbo kid was a real show
People miss how batshit crazy things where
@the hevy Not neceserly. Sure budget can give you more elbow room but with inflation, is hard to pin point the fact that animation has bigger budget now. But even then what make a bigger impact than that is that the target audience and the market has drasticly changed.
Even with streaming, you also have a generation that's more into animation at an older age and less dependance on toy sales to make money out of a show. As an example, all of those shows made to sell toys were very restrictive to the animator cause they had to make the entire show look like the toys, and while that does still happen today, it's at a very small proportion compared to that time.
Also now animation shows have more time to develope, a few years ago shows were shackled to the 24 episodes yearly season rule, so they had a HUGE demmand of content in a very small window of time. Now, just look at Rick & Morty as an example, they have the freedom to take their god damn time.
Also, higher budget doesn't equal quality always, I mean just look at every crowfunding disaster story.
It's not 'real life lessons', it's radical politischizo indoctrination.
"I'm polluting on purpose for NO reason!" - Captain Planet villains in a nutshell.
They had their reasons:
Duke: Stupidity.
Greedly: Greed. He desires wealth no matter the consequences to others, or even to himself in the long term. He just wants everything, and wants it now.
Plunder: Greed, but with style. He sees business as a good thing, and good things must always grow. The line must go up, and costs can be externalised.
Blight: Spite, at her scientific genius being rejected by the world. She's a genius and she knows it, but was never recognised for it. She'll show them all!
Skumm: Envy, born of the hate that others have always shown him. He and his kind will never be welcomed, and what he feels he is unjustly denied, he will take by force.
Each of them represents a specific bogeyman of the environmental movement at the time. Duke is nuclear power, of course. Remember that this was a time when nuclear was regarded by many as an extreme danger, post-Chernobyl. Greedly and Plunder both represent business, but different aspects of it: Greedly is the blatantly criminal and uncaring business who will dump toxic waste in the river to save on disposal costs, while Plunder is the wealthy, powerful business interest who will lobby politicians to make dumping the waste legal. Blight represents the dangers of uncontrolled scientific advancement and industrialisation - again, a somewhat dated aspect of the cast, but this was a time when people were warning that GMO tomatoes would give you cancer. And Skumm was a bit of an odd one out, in that he was not really an environmental villain - he was the social villain, a representation of how hate and anger would split people apart so they could not handle the growing crisis.
I imagine that if it were made today, Skumm would be replaced with someone representing social media and fake news, and Duke could be replaced by a slimy politician who refuses to accept evidence right in front of him and speaks a lot about polls and campaign funding. Blight would be a bit more complicated, given that the environmental movement today has a very different collective attitude towards scientific advancement - seeing it as both the cause of all our problems, and the hope of a solution to them.
@@vylbird8014 Greedly and Plunder are easily the most accurate to real life.
Thirty years from now we'll have no idea how it was acceptable for Prof. MeatDog not to be made from plants.
It of course is an artificially grown chunk of meat made through morally sound bio-engineering. Or at least that is what will be said in thirty years when it is brought to question.
The character will turn out to have been made of a sustainable meat substitute and his stellar witticisms will, therefore, retroactively support radical veganism, leading to a complete ban on showing these cartoons again in the man-eat-man world of the future.
@@clogs4956 seems like a inneffient system for protein
I think by then plant-based meat substitutes will largely be a thing of the past, we'll have figured how to make actual meat.
@@scottdaniels8129 isn’t what lab grown meat is been about? Some video talked about it
Fantastic production quality. And he never mucks about and wastes any precious seconds.
The "no lipsync" license tag was a great touch.
I'm nearly 48 and I can't dispute this. Not too fond of the modern art style for cartoons these days but it's a fair trade to get rid of the rampant commercialism. And hey, modern cartoons weren't made for me anyway, thus the term modern.
Hey, it's not like modern cartoons is not completely ridden of commercialism. But they teach you about unconventional family structures....
@@luchomscyfy so did og ducktales, it's not that recent a trope
Transformer's movie introducing like 12 new characters, plus reskins of old characters, so they could sell more toys
@@MurasakiTsukimaru But it killed like 20 characters. That was hard. I mean, you can argue the fact they are toys, but the writers worked hard to give them enough personality to make them like actual characters.
I still watch Bugs Bunny. Id wish his side won and that weird hullabaloo about Toontown having to move to San Jose and transition to digital didn't happen and Cartoon Alley had the right amount of AA/Artillery.
Professor Meat-Dog was undoubtedly my sleep paralysis demon at some point. I have a vague, horrifying memory of it.
I am an Owl House superfan and I'm not ashamed to admit that that first cartoon is exactly the kind of stuff that goes into it. I love it anyway
I think the real problem with animated shows nowadays is that they're all just "Super diversified world with a cute artstyle that starts out with childish jokes to culminate with a fight against cyber/magic/animal Hitler (basically the same exact type of villain who wants to destroy everyone and everything because he either had a bad dream, got betrayed by a loved one or he's just racist.)
But the problem is that they're way too ambitious, shows that started out as stupid as Adventure Time shouldn't aim for an overly complex story.
That being said, I'm not saying that they should have no story, but at least have one that can work with the show's esthetic without feeling like a retcon or forced in it just because the writers wanted to say "Hey guys, look! Our show has such a deep lore. Go check it out. You won't be disappointed!"
The villain's mouth being conveniently covered by the windshield was a great touch. Lip sync ain't cheap, kids. Neither are robot toys.
so buy em. buy plenty for christmas.
Spot his car's license plate?
You forgot the "Axis of Legend" 2005 reboot, though!
"I'm polluting on purpose, but only because I do not understand love!"
"Buy me! Or the terrorists win!"
In the 2022 version, the villains are polluting on purpose because they feel that otherwise the Communists will win, and they all wear Make Axis Great Again hats.
Wow, you even got the "beanmouth style" down for the modern cartoon.
CalArts style.
Hong Ying Studios originated this mess.
There’s good stuff and garbage in every era, anyone who dismisses new stuff by default is lacking in appreciation for the art forms (animation and storytelling, both)
People re-watch and talk about all the good stuff while they forget the bad and forgettable stuff. So unless it's really bad no one really cares about the extra long poorly disguised commercials.
Yep
Modern western cartoons are social and gender identity politics platforms, no they are not good. Cartoons from the 80s and 90s were written with heros, life lessons, and an actual story. Regardless of the marketing aspect shoehorned into most of them. I refuse to acknowledge modern Cartoons as art, because they aren't. They're a platform for activists.
@@JosephArata because it's not like captain planet ever said anything.
@@JosephArata yeah you looked like the type to say that.
I'm a bit too young to remember, but didn't those old cartoons have some psa message at the end of the episode? Like I vaguely remember a GI Joe video I had with some message. It was probably like, 'well kids, we had fun today disrupting a terrorist organization that'll somehow bounce back just as strong after countless defeats. But you know what isn't fun? Drugs. Drugs cause friends to bond together and laugh while listening to music. Drugs may also cause you to forget about your problems and enjoy the moment you're living in. If you or a friend are on drugs, please keep a reserve of snacks nearby, as you may experience the munchies.'
But nobody is pointing out how he manage to nail both the flash animation and hand drawn cells styles so perfectly.
The music in the first example, right down to the chord progression, is spot-on.
Technically every dog is a meat dog
Shoutout to those who grew up in the late 90s-2000s who got a whole different blend of cartoons than today
But today you can go back and watch any cartoon for free. And the internet means the popular old school ones still get recognition.
Translation: Shoutout to myself, the people older or younger than me had a boring childhood
@@DrakeRing ofcourse only 1 man was born during that intire time
Makes sense to me
Tbh by this point modern kids cartoons these days are actually more mature than most modern adult cartoons
They gotta cater to their different audiences after all.
@@clochard4074 HEY-OO!!!
I don't know, hating the wife while enjoying fart jokes is quite challenging material.
Well, not stuff like Blood of Zeus or Castlevania.
@@Croz89 I mean that’s more of an exception. Most adult shows are just comedy. Being that most adults have there imagination drained away. It makes sense that they like boring stuff like eating
As a Finn I've never seen anything like that. We just had shows that scared the shit out of us and left us traumatized for the rest of our lives here.
Oh yeah, and Pokemon.
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@@istachi aa Joo :D
@@ilikevideos4868 Säikähin että sanoisit "häh?"
Aw man I remember all the 80s “TOTALY NOT AN ADD” show when I was a kid takes me back
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you."
*Goes to store* "I'll take 5 Axis of Legend RoboMorphers! Can't let the Commies win!"
Employee: "Sir, this a Gardner White ."
Me: "Where's Toys R Us?"
Employee: "It closed in 2017."
Me: "Stores were way better when I was a kid!"
You know you're old when Professor Meatdog is a character that you just don't get.
Honestly the dark twists is why i like cartoons today way more, the most memorable and story-driven ones have always been the ones that take a more serious tone sometimes.
THE ARTSTYLES THESE ARE SO ACCURATE
I showed this to my kids because they love the old transformers cartoon and they keep asking to see it again and again. They would probably buy that toy if it were real. 😂
Good kids right there
@@shitpost-o-matic7469 But aren't there transformers series in modern era that are better than the orginal like prime or animated? I don't think those are very flawed. And those were made in the early 2000s.
The animation quality is just great! All your videos are so consistently funny and observant. I don't have a more witty way to say that. Have a great day Interdimensional ABK!
To be fair, Mysterious Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31 were incredible shows that didn't try to push plastic tat on kids. Just great animation with great writing.
I hate you. I’ve now got the song from Mysterious Cities of Gold stuck in my head.
"Children of the Sun,
Your time has just begun...."
@@tiamatmichellehart6821 "Searching for your way, through adventures that are extremely gay" ... or something like that, I think?
@@googleuser3163 Close; it's
"Through adventures every day."
Though there was apparently a 2012 version so maybe yours is in the *new* opening....
Maybe because they were created in collaboration between France and Japan .
This reminded me of a childhood experience. I still remember this one show I would watch as a kid. It was called Dragon Booster. For morning cartoons before school, it was one of the most badass cartoons I’ve ever seen for the mornings. You got fights, choosing sides, legends, on screen corruptions, even slight horror if you no squint enough. The opening theme further hyped me up!
It was said to have had a sequel planned. Dragon Booster Academy. But it was a shame that the sequel never even happened at all and was cancelled.
Wasn’t Dragon Booster shown on Monday nights as well?
That's why I'm glad to be a 90s/00s kid. Got the best years of cartoons.
For the old cartoon you forgot to put a “cute” sidekick for kids to buy. And for the modern one you forgotten to add at least one lesbian relationship
Ah yes, lesbians in modern cartoons, like Sailor Moon.
Looks like the 90s cartoons were the sweet spot.
No one is mentionning the walking piece of meat on fire wearing a graduation cap.
Favorite caracter ever
And I want a crossover between Axis of Legend and Professor Meatdog and the SpaceGenocide Boy
A joke summary of Western animation:
early 2020s: Internet cartoons are where it's at now. Sorry.
late 2010s: weirdly wholesome friendships with slightly violent storylines
1990s/2000s/early 2010s: creative people only limited by budget and network standards
1980s: BUY ME! BUY ME! BUY ME!
1960s/1970s: entertaining but lots of recycling due to budget
1950s: either fluid, Disney/WB-styled or simple, thick-lined animation, almost no exceptions.
1940s: impossible but believable physics, perfect for cartoon violence!
1920s/1930s: *WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON HERE?*
1900s/1910s: just starting out, mainly experimenting
"1960s/1970s: entertaining but lots of recycling due to budget"....
aka Hanna Barbara.
@@zandercruz3487 If you want recycled, check out an episode of Rocket Robin Hood. About half of that show was the same bumpers and character intros every episode. 2 episodes were also reused with Spider-Man for budget reasons.
@A Catalan Liam _Avatar_ is from the 2000s, actually.
Late 90’s and early 2000’s was virtually open season for writers, Standards and practices were getting pretty loose
I would amend the 1980s to *BUY ME!...But here's an important lesson for kids thrown in with varying levels of clumsiness.*
Also, the quarter-century analysis from 1990-2015 might be a tad naive; those cartoons moved their share of product too.
Just noticed the "N0 L1P S4NC" on the front of the jeep, nice touch
How are both of these ao delightfully accurate, you genius
2003 Teen Titans fans when you remind them that there were only like 7 or 8 "dark, serious" episodes and the rest of the show was a comedic monster/encounter of the week series. And ironically it was criticized by comic fans for being too kiddie.
Thats funny
Professor Meat-dog is pretty spot on. You only need to watch about five minutes of Adventure Time or Gravity Falls to see how accurate it is.
The cool transforming robot didn't have to tell me to buy him, I was already nagging my parents for the money when he first appeared on the screen back in the 80s.
The car said "no lip sync" on it. Great detail!
As a 90s kid i feel the lack of cutting down the rainforest insulting