Dan Williams I think the only episode from the initial Tom & Jerry shorts that ran around the 1960's or so that had them looking like they were friends for the majority of the episode (including the ending) was that one episode where Tom & Jerry were in Italy with that baby gray mouse (I don't remember the guy's name), and even then that was likely because there was a rival group that became the antagonists for them to work together against.
Thethreebrothers What? Who says that? I can't believe anyone with a brain could say that with a straight face. Unless they're talking about Japan, and even there I'd argue the 80's were better on balance. 70's-era US cartoons were dreadful.
Miss Mutton I grew up during the '70's, and I easily recognize that everything on TV that I liked back then was crap, and I only liked it because THAT'S ALL THERE WAS. Except _The Muppet Show_. That remains terrific. But the '70's is the decade that thought the _Star Wars Holiday Special_ was a good idea. Seriously. F**k the '70's.
I've always said the worst thing media can be is boring or unpleasant. Boring makes you want to look for something better, unpleasant makes you want to turn off the TV.
***** For me, The Room and Birdemic 2 I can laugh hysterically on how bad it is, to sidetrack a bit, Sonic 06 as well. You weren't the only one who found Blade Runner boring, I ended up hating it because I couldn't understand what it wanted to be. Quite probably the most boring film I've ever watched, and I've watched films that are very difficult to understand themes such as: 2001 A Space Oddesey, Fight Club and some New Wave films from France. I mean I would watch any 70's animation on loop for 24 hours over Blade Runner, Harrison Ford's greatest blunder.
***** And people think the 2000's were awful, not when compared to this. Mine said the 70's was the end all-be all decade for everything. In which his ignorance is rancid. That is like me saying the 1990's was the end to end all eras, which isn't the case. They still rehash old shows till this day. But the main question now is how in the Hell did parent groups gain power throughout the 60's and 70's, since they were the reason why Animation in the 1970's was a wasteland of shit after shit?
Adam Kalb Yeah...it’s kinda strange how Marge reversed that decision at the end of that episode when she decided that she wasn’t against Michelangelo’s David being brought over to Springfield. I figured it’s like how some parents are against what their kids are into, yet they’re perfectly fine with letting those same kids sit through any R-rated films that they’re assigned to watch in school, with Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot as a few notable examples.
@@SaraHouck461 Because those films are seen as important in educating kids, by the parents. "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" take place around WWII, while "The Patriot" is circa The Revolutionary War. Parents see them as being OK to be viewed because they're historical dramas thinking, usually incorrectly, that they're educational on some level.
@UltraGalaxyify Now I know why my mind was easily blown when I learned that history lesson during my college education on how the MPAA ratings system actually started. 😳 After all, it's no wonder why that ratings system had easily come under fire since then, basically by being somehow treated as a set of barriers from whichever audience any film in particular most likely deserve to be shown to!
6:50 Reagen got us out of the animation mess? Sweet, although I have no idea how I'm going to incorporate that into a picture of him carrying the American flag and a gun while riding a Velociraptor.
Daikenki Tagline: "Coming soon to your television: action, adventure, excitement! Making Saturday's fun again" Maybe also have him yell, "Ho!" a la "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan.
sandiman21 That would work quite well, actually. Reagan was a screen actor prior to his political career, and continued to be involved with the industry throughout his presidency.
PokeDude011 On its initial syndicated run in the 90's, it WAS. (but still not as bad as what DiC did to Sailor Moon). Only after CN picked it up did DBZ get slightly less Bowdlerized. And even then fans had to wait several years for Funimation to get the series back from Saban and release the uncut version on video.
Soufriere True but at least it wasn't like this: Goku: Frieza if you don't stop being a bully I'll tell on you! Frieza: Oh alright you win! I'll leave you and your friends alone! *runs away like a little bitch* Krillin: You did it, Goku! And NOBODY even died!
Honestly, if you wanted to make Tom and Jerry friends, it should be out of an advancement of their usual antagonistic relationship. In other words, being friendly enemies with each other. They could go from their usual antics to watching a movie, with the idea being that they've been at it for long enough that they know each other better than friends do. Kinda like the entire thing with Bowser and Mario. One minute they're doing their usual battles, next they're playing tennis with each other, and then they're fighting alongside each other to take out a common foe. If you have to make them friends, that's the angle you should take, I feel.
It's so weird to think that the original Tom and Jerry shorts of the 40s had so much better animation than this pile of crap made 30 something years later.
That's the thing. 2D animation doesn't improve with time and new technology. It's all about the budget and how talented the animators are, which is why cartoons from the 1940s can look just as good and even better than those of today
Dude, I love your reviews. You can always make something so dull, sound completely hilarious. Only because of how true it is, and how you say it. xD Great job
That is because an episode where there is so little worth talking about (like this one or There's No Business Like Monkey Business) makes it easier to get through. June 26, 2019, 11:01pm
I also thought it was interesting to find out about how the stigma of animation as a children's medium came to be. The problem somehow didn't end until the Disney Renaissance kicked in, but even then, films from that era were considered family films, meaning they were kid-appropriate, so it's been quite difficult to get rid of that particular stigma despite all those edgy cartoons that have been cranked out.
KIKI Hideout That exact term has been around to describe this era for a long time. I remember studying animation history in high school a little, and yes, the late 60's, the 70's and early 80's are indeed widely known as "The Dark Age of Animation". If I remember correctly, Batman: The Animated Series was one of the first shows to break us out of that era.
I actually agree that the 80s Toy cartoons had a great hand in fixing animation. They openly had conflict, there were a lot of abstract creative concepts, and most importantly, it had a powerful impact on the kids who grew up with them, which influenced many people who work on cartoons today. Those cartoons showed that a little effort can go a long way, and paved the way for more sophisticated cartoons.
I hate it when people tries to recreate the classic cartoons, and make it modern, and shitty. Like, why not do the same thing, but with better animation or something? If not, then at least try.
Technology helped the Renaissance as well I remember seeing a few of Richard Williams (Of Rodger Rabbit fame) talking about how the process changed and how he helped convince his boss to try digital test reels instead of the expensive old way. This and the explosion of indie networks really helped give us more than the Hannah Barbara stuff.
I actually LOVED the tom and jerry movie and chicken little but with those I have massive amounts of nostalgia with those movies I would seriously watch them for hours on end when I was young.
also if you thought that 1 coarse meal and forcing someone to suicide is bad, in the Toddler Titans episode "Smile Bones" beast boy and cyborg literally STARVE their so called "friends" half to f*cking death if you don't believe me look it up.
You can't make tom and jerry friends, it's like in the Simpsons when they censored the shit out of itchy and scratchy to be best friends it's just terrible
Gilly Savard actually you could, there are a few from the original theatre run, one with them as friends ended with a well executed suicide joke, but you have to remember their animosity and such.
To everyone below, I'm actually somewhat surprised and not surprised about the whole media of the 70's spectrum. While animation saw utter nosedives into garbage, it's fairly quite a discovery when you see that a lot of movies in the 70's consisted of violent revenge films like Charles Bronson's, exploitation films like Cannibal Holocaust, the rise of martial arts action and Bruce Lee films, the rise of the porno industry, and the rise of slasher horror, with Friday the 13th. I could see why concerned mothers attempted to censor out a lot of cartoons and tv, because well, cocaine flooded the streets, criminals were fucking everywhere and Nam, but if anything I blame them and the rest of the world for not getting its shit together and not accepting their problems and fixing them, but no, hide your fucking kids and throw them out into the cold hard world you're attempting to hide away from when they get older. It's no wonder why people grew all fucked up and why this world is too.
Castle Wiz sounds like it should of been a parody of Scooby Doo where Jerry and that little Grey mouse were detectives. At least the Grey mouse could speak like he did in some of the shorts to make since of the situation.
1) Thanks for the history lesson! You're one of the few people I know who can make history interesting. 👍 2) THIS WAS HILARIOUS OMG AND THE STUFF YOU WROTE AT THE END HAHA I'M DYING
Salokin Sekwah Eh. You take some, you lose some. No matter how far we go back, life has always sucked for us humans and it always will, but the peices have just re-arranged. Some things are going worse, others are doing better. The internet is a great tool of the modern age. An information highway, connecting the people of the world in a whole new way. I, just a regular city slicker from a backwater town in Finland can effortlessly get in contact with millions around the world in a second's notice. Let's put it like this. Back before the internet, your opinion wouldn't have really mattered as much as just an average joe. Now the whole world can recognize your opinion and we can share our views of life. Also, we got the supirior vidya games! The 70s don't got shit on our games. No cold war... that's a plus... although war is something that'll never not be there though. Through the internet and digital distribution, independent work like music composition, entertaining and game developement has also skyrocketed. The dominance of the oppressing foot of the publisher-relationship is slowly dying off (emphesis on slowly). Racial and sexual equalities have also improved over time. It's still not perfect yet, but I'd say that demographics like homosexuals, PoCs and trans-genders have it much better now than they did in the 70s (If I remember correctly, my country even legally accepts gay marriage). Again, internet helps in spreading awareness of equality (When it's not extremist, mind you). Honestly, most of the signifigant shittiness of today's world I can mostly appoint to our extreme capitalistic enviornment. What started in the industrial evolution has now bloated and become a hideous world structure. A world where money almost quite literally is power and the government only acts for the benefit of those with the cash. Besides that, music has become a corporate-controlled grinder of mediocrity, the AAA gaming world is pinching us for every penny at the cost of good design, and hollywood is.... hollywood. That's why I praise the independent scene so much. Most notable with gaming if you ask me, but most of the only good music today is also indie.
man, I had no idea that 70s was THAT heavily censored.... it's a good thing this didn't take off and faded into obscurity. people who say cartoons today don't get away with anything really are spoiled. Even the dumber cartoons of today get away with so much more than apparently "no conflict and not being allowed to say 'die' "
Tom & Jerry Tales and especially the newest Tom & Jerry Show were at least a step in the right direction for the duo on TV, bringing back the slapstick and the vitriolic best buds nature of the two. I also like how the latter makes use of four different scenarios: at home, at a detective's office (where the two work together as private eyes while the owner is away), in a witch's cottage, and in a professor's laboratory (where Jerry is owned by the professor and Tom is an alley cat).
Yeah, it is done in Flash, but it at least looks very fluid, more so than the '70s show. And by the same people as Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and The Mr. Men Show.
So most of the problems of 70's cartoons where because of soccer moms. Wonderful. Also i hope you mention the history songs for School House Rock, since they had most of the best songs.
Oh my God. A couple months ago they were playing Clutch Cargo on Turner Classics and I watched it with my parents.... It was the creepiest most hilarious crap of a cartoon I ever saw. X'D
So let me get this straight. Back then, parents forced tv networks to dumb everything down up to the point where the writing has no conflict?.....wow, thank god we've moved on to better times.
***** But while it was a Sclone, it was still interesting with the varying age groups finding their own evidence, resulting in it all being intricately woven together at the end of each episode and tying everything together, and it had a variety of characters too.
I know some of the old 70's cartoons, because they used to show a lot of them on Boomerang. Not a lot of them appealed to me, though. Nowadays, Boomerang shows a lot of the old Cartoon Cartoons.
2:57 I just noticed the irony of the complainer is always wrong phrase. Parental Groups: "Everyone who complains is wrong and deserved every G-rated bad thing they get except us because we're the moral guardians of children."
Why did those parents had such a big pressure on kids shows back in the 70's? I mean, sheesh, kids have seen WAY worse things meanwhile watching their own parents, like smoking, screaming, complaining, cursing, beating... and parents complained about a word 'poop'. XP
Well, apparently Jerry decided that bow ties were cool in this cartoon. Wow, that is two episodes in a row that I'm finding a way to make a Doctor Who reference.
Aldo Meylano I've watched a couple of the Gene Deitch shorts. They're not good, but I could tell what he was _trying_ to do. What I saw was too mean-spirited for Tom & Jerry (like Herman & Katnip without the thick Brooklyn accents) but was still recognizably Tom & Jerry. THIS? This is just boring.
Yeah I just kinda thought about this but if Nickelodeon was named after a animation theater then why the hell are half their shows live action shitty comedy shows I mean their aren't to many animated shows on that channel any more it's feels like Cartoon Network's mtv era but even worse
I guess they ran out of ideas, and live-action shows are cheaper than animated ones. I'm just happy they have TMNT and Harvey Beaks now; it gives us a bit of hope for their future.
FYI: Tom and Jerry being friends is nothing uncommon. It happened before even in the original series. Though they weren't BEST FRIENDS. Let alone mostly in those episodes they tend to beat eachother up anyway at some point or try to screw the other one over. This is mostly present in the current day Tom & Jerry series going on. Wich, might I say, is actually GREAT. Though there are alot of episodes with Tom & Jerry working together. It's still going to be Tom & Jerry. Mostly they are forced to work together and can't do it. In another they are business partners but take any moment to make the other one look bad. Tom is still Arrogant, aggressive and having his classic screams. Jerry still Sly, sometimes cocky , but mostly level headed. If you get to see it. Try to watch it.
kotlolish Finally, someone who doesn't hate The Tom and Jerry Show. I'll admit, the animation can be stiff at times but all the flak that series gets for it's use of flash, which is apparently the greatest sin a cartoon can commit, is very stuck up and pretentious in my opinion. I like the fact that the series stays true to it's slapstick roots while at the same time using it's various formats to do new things with it's main characters besides just slapstick. Spike's evolution from one-dimensional thug and Jerry's weapon to an actual (albeit asshole) character continues here; his cowardly streak mixed his love of beating on cats, his hypocrisy about bullies like Tom, and his (usually) level-head in a crisis makes him the most layered he's been since the Spike & Tyke shorts on Tom & Jerry Kids. The Cat and Mouse detectives episodes make for a great respite from Tom and Jerry trying to maim each other, and it's helluva lot of fun watching them work in noir setting. My own personal highlights that I feel demonstrate what the new series can do at it's best: 1. Spike Gets Skooled - Tom sets out to get revenge on Jerry and Spike and (gasps) actually succeeds. Go Tom! 2. Tom In-Tents Adventure - Nature comedy. 3. Cat-Nippy - Winter comedy. Also, Tom & Jerry were assholes and they both got their comeuppance. My favorite kind of ending. 4. Entering and Breaking - I think this was the first one to deconstruct Spike's tough guy persona. The home invasion was hilarious and Jerry was surrounded by idiots the whole night. 5. Haunted Mouse - This one seems to parody Scooby-Doo and the rather warped messages that show sometimes sent. If you try to steal someone else's home they'll totally forgive you for it and give you room and board (What's New Scooby-Doo's Christmas special was and still is bullshit). 6. One of a Kind - Easily one of the most absurd Tom & Jerry stories made recently; Barkley, you were a great one-off villain and I love the way you were dispatched. 7. What A Pain - Spike and Tom at the vet. Also, Tom clawed the shit out of Rick's arms. 8. Hop To It - Once again, Jerry is surrounded by idiots. 9. Cruisin' For A Bruisin - The pets team up for a day. 10. Bone Dry - Spike's persona as a 1940s bruiser has naturally dated more than Tom & Jerry's (though not in a bad way; a quirky, remnant from the past kind of way), so he's actually in his element in this story as a noir hood terrorizing our heroes. 11. Pipeline - The pets team up again and Jerry has to step up to the plate because his friends / frenimies are filled with so much fail. 12. Catnapped - It'll be a long, long time before I get tired of Tom's scream takes. A long time. Also, this is another story that makes me say 'Go, Tom!'. 13. Hunger Strikes - Another pets team-up (sort of) where the whole ensemble tries to survive starvation and despite the fact that only two of them actually speak, their interactions simple crackle from start to finish. 14. Curse Case Scenario - Maybe it's because of the genre, but the Cat and Mouse Detective episodes are great at creating charming one-off characters, aren't they? Dutch was a treasure. 15. Say Cheese - Despite the complete and utter hypocrisy of it coming from Spike, the anti-bullying message of this episode was a nice one to end the season on. It could have easily come off as trite, and it'll almost certainly be forgotten by the start of Season 2 (because what would Tom & Jerry be if wasn't?) but I liked the execution.
@powerstar 2028 Well, I can say that Flash is really hard and as an animation student, I don't think it's bad. Have you ever heard of Foster's Home: The Imaginary Friend?
It's not really that complicated a story. Ronald Reagan deregulates broadcast standards thus allowing kids programming to become toy commercials. This allows cartoons to be about stuff again and can have violence and conflict and other things that build story. Then Ren and Stimp with John K and Ben Camp push the envelope on broadcast standards and basically prove that TV cartoons can be just like nickelodeon cartoons from the 40's. This sort of made the Nickelodeon networks name appropriate.
I remember that Arthur used words like stupid, dumb, heck, idiot, or doofus. For that, my classmates watched Arthur in FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE. I preferred The Backyardigans over Arthur because my family didn’t even approve of Arthur. For that, people used to bully me over The Backyardigans and called me a baby show fan, but I would get shocked over them starting to use the words “heck”, “dopey”, “jerk”, “nuts”, “dang”, “rats”, “crud”, “death”, “die”, or anything to tick off a soccer mom.
Wow. I can't believe I actually recognized that soundtrack that was playing from Scooby Doo. I remember hearing that piece of music a lot when I was a kid. This cartoon straight up jacked it's soundtrack. Like when 4kids reused music from shows they've dubbed into other shows they've dubbed.
I like that this episode aknowledges that those 1980's toy-commercial cartoons like He-man, Transformers and My Little Pony were actually in the long run what saved amercian television animation. Those shows tend to get a lot of flak from younger generations who doesnt understand their significance. Yes they were pretty bad, yes they had lousy animation and even lousier writing, yes their modern-day remakes tend to be much better. BUT they were at least something DIFFERENT than the abysmal Hannah-Barbera cartoons of the 70's, and they turned television animation into a lucrative market that several companies wanted to get a share of (unlike what had been the case in the 70's when Hannah-Barbera basically had a monopoly over the market and therefore could make any awful crap they wanted and get away with it), which in turn led to everything from Disney creating Ducktales to WB creating Batman the Animated Series to FOX creating The Simpsons. Bascially, He-man (one of the earliest of the toy commerical cartoons) and his peers saved the entire artform.
60s and 70s? I thought those were supposed to be the decades of rebellion. Isn't it weird how whenever some sort of new medium is introduced, it starts out being a sort of "free-for-all", and then it gets heavily regulated, and then it gets de-regulated? This happened with radio, actually, with regular TV, and apparently with animation. (I think the Internet itself is at the end of it's "free-for-all" days). And didn't Mr. Enter say he wouldn't review products of their time?
Jonathan Jean-Louis Makes sense, but he specifically said that was something he'd never review. And now he's backpedalled. It's interesting, sure, but he sort of made a promise.
Spencer Gage when he said "products of their time", he meant that wouldn't review a toy based cartoon from the 80s or a racist cartoon from the 40s and 50s, because we've moved past those standards.
I think the show that was more affected for the protest of the parents on those days was the original Johnny Quest cartoon, I saw it when I was around my 12 or something like that, and I really like it because I felt scared in each episode, after all, is a show where we could see things as murders, and the colors were were obscure, and the music, wow.
Alisha Dee My issue with the Smurfs in animation, it's that they don't do justice to the comics at all, and yes, the Smurfs were originally a French comic book series with a lot of hidden social commentary...
I didn't know how many shows were titled "The Tom and Jerry show" I thought there was just that current Tom and Jerry show Cartoon Network made not too long ago. XD
My mother says that americans that grew up in the 70's were luckier than her, because they had cartoons in their spare time, and she couldn't see any of them because back in the 70's, the government was very isolated here, and would censor or outright ban anything not made by a romanian ( even that would be censored if it had any trace of anti-communism) or from another communist country, so she had little knowledge about western media, and she is kinda mad that there was no children TV when she grew up, just propaganda, but I bet she's luckier that she watched propaganda rather than the crappy cartoons americans watched in the 70's
4:45 They can all be explained through conventional means eh? What about the time one of the villains made a very real looking giant worm monster that could burrow and everything...out of an old fashioned car with what looked like a paper mache structure built over it! (Tho they aren't usually THAT bad. :P)
Wow, Tom and Jerry got nerfed during the transition from the Chuck Jones shorts to this. That... is tragic if you ask me, as well as 70's TV all together.
As someone who is very interested in animation, I think that you looking at cartoons from around the 70s is a great idea. I learned some very fascinating things about about animation. It doesn't change anything I've said about any show now, but this does get my curiosity peaked. Get video!
Oh trust me there are much worse things that sound like I'm high. For example, I will frequently bring up spirit science with my friends and we will make fun of them, we play a game called "Stop me when you think I'm high" "Jews are from space-" "STOP."
I just thought of something; what if Tom and Jerry were actors in a TV show within their universe, kind of like that scene at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and they didn't actually hate each other?
Or what if it took place after the beginning of the Matinee Mouse episode where Tom and Jerry were holding flags just to end this rivalry with a truce.
Great review as always! I thankfully never got to see this shit, and instead got to see reruns of the good cartoons from those past eras. I only found out about this stuff later. On that note, can you review Steven Universe?
432neptune If you want 2 episodes then thats not very smart since the episodes follow a formular like most good shows unlike teen titans go a series wich creates new problems nearly every episode the same way EA makes bad business decisions
He said he doesn't like to review things that everyone is talking about When he made a review for Lars and the Cool Kids the show wasn't very popular But it has become very successful lately
Actually Conflict is Still There in 70's Cartoons. Usually The Ones Where Superheroes are The Subject. Like The Impossibles, Super 6, Atom Ant, The Robotic Stooges, and Goldie Gold to Name a Few.
It kind of reminds me of the Time Squad episode (one of my favorites) where Tuddrussell, Otto, and Larry go inside the haunted White House and parody the shit out of Scooby-Doo, including reusing most of their background music.
strange how during the 70s kids' shows were sugar-coated, while sitcoms handled real-life issues, that weren't previously seen as appropriate for sitcoms, like women's rights, racism, antisemitism, homosexuality and abortion.
Well sitcoms are supposed to be like real life as they are human actors portraying humans as well. Cartoons until a few years ago were only seen to be only viewed by kids which is why they were sugarcoated.
I'd like Jerry and Tom to be friends. But that'd be difficult to pull off by the looks of it. How can you make two best friends go through the classic Tom and Jerry slapstick formula?
I just don't understand why the kids who loved the violent cartoons of the 40s and 50s could grow up to be violence-hating adults of the 70s. Say, could you please review an episode of "Oggy and the Cockroaches", a descendant of "Tom and Jerry"?
you can't remove tom and jerry being enemies from tom and jerry. it ruins the whole dynamic of the show, and it takes an extreme amount of effort to make it entertaining
To be honest, I really love the Jackson 5 and Osmonds cartoons. Even with that said, I want to see your side, and I will respect any criticisms these shows get from you, because your awesome. Keep up the good work!
5:20 Am I hearing things, or was there a similar tune to this in Thomas the Tank Engine? I know I remember hearing this in Scooby Doo, but it sounds awful similar to the music they'd play in Thomas whenever it was some big, suspenseful scene.
Over political correctness really started with 1960s animation as well as the perversion of limited animation techniques to pump out acres of crap by h/b and Filmatiion led to the dark age of ugly ugly and bland animation.
So something called Nickelodeon was the first place you would go to see some good animation. Nowadays that's the last place you would go. Time is a funny thing.
The only sort of "friendship" I could see Tom and Jerry having is being reluctant allies for some certain cause.
Dan Williams I think the only episode from the initial Tom & Jerry shorts that ran around the 1960's or so that had them looking like they were friends for the majority of the episode (including the ending) was that one episode where Tom & Jerry were in Italy with that baby gray mouse (I don't remember the guy's name), and even then that was likely because there was a rival group that became the antagonists for them to work together against.
Like vagina and carrot (goku and vegita)
Crazy Luigi Nibbles. The grey mouse's name was Nibbles. (thanks Wikipedia)
Neo Torres *Virginia and Kakacarrotcake
Dan Williams
They were reluctant allies for the cause of surviving in the outside world in the movie. It didn't work.
I'm flabbergasted that people still say the 70's was one of the golden years of animation .
***** umm... what?
Thethreebrothers What? Who says that? I can't believe anyone with a brain could say that with a straight face. Unless they're talking about Japan, and even there I'd argue the 80's were better on balance. 70's-era US cartoons were dreadful.
Thethreebrothers
I think the only people who say that are those who grew up watching cartoons in the 70s. I feel for them. :/
Miss Mutton I grew up during the '70's, and I easily recognize that everything on TV that I liked back then was crap, and I only liked it because THAT'S ALL THERE WAS.
Except _The Muppet Show_. That remains terrific.
But the '70's is the decade that thought the _Star Wars Holiday Special_ was a good idea. Seriously. F**k the '70's.
Thethreebrothers team vocabulary super squad
I've always said the worst thing media can be is boring or unpleasant. Boring makes you want to look for something better, unpleasant makes you want to turn off the TV.
I agree if something is do bad it's hilarious it's less you can riff it with friends, if it's boring you can't do much
***** For me, The Room and Birdemic 2 I can laugh hysterically on how bad it is, to sidetrack a bit, Sonic 06 as well.
You weren't the only one who found Blade Runner boring, I ended up hating it because I couldn't understand what it wanted to be. Quite probably the most boring film I've ever watched, and I've watched films that are very difficult to understand themes such as: 2001 A Space Oddesey, Fight Club and some New Wave films from France.
I mean I would watch any 70's animation on loop for 24 hours over Blade Runner, Harrison Ford's greatest blunder.
***** I felt like the 1970's almost killed animation as a whole. How on Earth did it get revived in the late 80's?
***** And people think the 2000's were awful, not when compared to this.
Mine said the 70's was the end all-be all decade for everything. In which his ignorance is rancid.
That is like me saying the 1990's was the end to end all eras, which isn't the case.
They still rehash old shows till this day.
But the main question now is how in the Hell did parent groups gain power throughout the 60's and 70's, since they were the reason why Animation in the 1970's was a wasteland of shit after shit?
Hotsex spy Parent groups can band together and sue people.
Suddenly the Itchy and Scratchy episode of the Simpsons makes more sense with this bit of a history lesson
You mean Itchy and Scratchy and Marge? September 13, 2017, 6:11pm
Adam Kalb Yeah...it’s kinda strange how Marge reversed that decision at the end of that episode when she decided that she wasn’t against Michelangelo’s David being brought over to Springfield. I figured it’s like how some parents are against what their kids are into, yet they’re perfectly fine with letting those same kids sit through any R-rated films that they’re assigned to watch in school, with Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot as a few notable examples.
Sara Houck
That’s kind of neat.
@@SaraHouck461 Because those films are seen as important in educating kids, by the parents. "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" take place around WWII, while "The Patriot" is circa The Revolutionary War. Parents see them as being OK to be viewed because they're historical dramas thinking, usually incorrectly, that they're educational on some level.
@UltraGalaxyify Now I know why my mind was easily blown when I learned that history lesson during my college education on how the MPAA ratings system actually started. 😳 After all, it's no wonder why that ratings system had easily come under fire since then, basically by being somehow treated as a set of barriers from whichever audience any film in particular most likely deserve to be shown to!
70s spinoff cartoons are to cartoons what Tiger LCD handhelds are to video games.
***** 64 Bits, 32 Bits, 16 bits, 8 bits, 4 bits, 2 bits, half bit, quarter bit. The wrist game!!!
A WHOLE FUCKING TIGER CONSOLE!
***** still better than a tiger virtual boy, with only one view screen!
***** Game.com
thecommenter67 R-Zone.
6:50 Reagen got us out of the animation mess? Sweet, although I have no idea how I'm going to incorporate that into a picture of him carrying the American flag and a gun while riding a Velociraptor.
Daikenki Have him signing something that says Less Censorship
Daikenki Cartoon memorabilia hat?
Daikenki Tagline: "Coming soon to your television: action, adventure, excitement! Making Saturday's fun again"
Maybe also have him yell, "Ho!" a la "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan.
Daikenki Have the velociraptor surf a VHS tape or running along a strip of film.
sandiman21 That would work quite well, actually. Reagan was a screen actor prior to his political career, and continued to be involved with the industry throughout his presidency.
A cartoon without conflict.....
WHAT?!?!?!
Someone, please explain to me how its possible to create a cartoon without conflict.
1. preach morals
2. spay and neuter your entire show.
3. copy what these boneheads did.
Padding, neutering all of your potential, writing characters flat as chalkboards, and enough preaching to try the patience of a Westboro pastor.
How to make a cartoon without conflict
Rule 1# you can’t
This makes me thankful that some didn't listen XD.
Uh... This?
Imagine if Dragon Ball Z had to be this neutered due to it being "too violent" by the league of pissed off mothers.
Or otherwise known as Soccermoms! Oh god!
PokeDude011 On its initial syndicated run in the 90's, it WAS. (but still not as bad as what DiC did to Sailor Moon). Only after CN picked it up did DBZ get slightly less Bowdlerized. And even then fans had to wait several years for Funimation to get the series back from Saban and release the uncut version on video.
Soufriere True but at least it wasn't like this:
Goku: Frieza if you don't stop being a bully I'll tell on you!
Frieza: Oh alright you win! I'll leave you and your friends alone! *runs away like a little bitch*
Krillin: You did it, Goku! And NOBODY even died!
PokeDude011
You know, I read that in Team Four Star's voices and lol'd.
PokeDude011 No one would complain about Nicktoons Kai ever again.
Speaking of cartoons being vulgar for the sake of being vulgar, Brickleberry's been cancelled! Yaaaaaaay!
ColeYote YEEEEEEES
ColeYote *LETS PARTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY*
ColeYote So that the creator can take on Scooby Doo.
Just try to wrap your mind around that one.
ColeYote Why did it take so long?
I guess I'm the only one that liked that show. Oh, well. It was good while it lasted.
Honestly, if you wanted to make Tom and Jerry friends, it should be out of an advancement of their usual antagonistic relationship. In other words, being friendly enemies with each other. They could go from their usual antics to watching a movie, with the idea being that they've been at it for long enough that they know each other better than friends do. Kinda like the entire thing with Bowser and Mario. One minute they're doing their usual battles, next they're playing tennis with each other, and then they're fighting alongside each other to take out a common foe.
If you have to make them friends, that's the angle you should take, I feel.
It's so weird to think that the original Tom and Jerry shorts of the 40s had so much better animation than this pile of crap made 30 something years later.
Sperium3000 the original was made for theaters,while this was made early TV.
That's the thing. 2D animation doesn't improve with time and new technology. It's all about the budget and how talented the animators are, which is why cartoons from the 1940s can look just as good and even better than those of today
@@generalgrievous3731 Old Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry look a LOT better than at least half of the shows that try copying Adventure Time's art style.
basically like the magic school bus reboot except the shorts were made for theaters and found their way onto tvs
Dude, I love your reviews. You can always make something so dull, sound completely hilarious. Only because of how true it is, and how you say it. xD Great job
That is because an episode where there is so little worth talking about (like this one or There's No Business Like Monkey Business) makes it easier to get through. June 26, 2019, 11:01pm
I'm proud of myself for knowing that nickelodeon fact
***** Samesies
same with me, I felt so smug when mrenter said that as a fact that nobody would know and I knew it first (wow our parents must be so proud...)
Me too
I also thought it was interesting to find out about how the stigma of animation as a children's medium came to be. The problem somehow didn't end until the Disney Renaissance kicked in, but even then, films from that era were considered family films, meaning they were kid-appropriate, so it's been quite difficult to get rid of that particular stigma despite all those edgy cartoons that have been cranked out.
So we can consider the 70s to the mid 80s as "The Dark age of Animation"
KIKI Hideout some bits of the 60's as well.
KIKI Hideout That exact term has been around to describe this era for a long time. I remember studying animation history in high school a little, and yes, the late 60's, the 70's and early 80's are indeed widely known as "The Dark Age of Animation". If I remember correctly, Batman: The Animated Series was one of the first shows to break us out of that era.
I actually agree that the 80s Toy cartoons had a great hand in fixing animation. They openly had conflict, there were a lot of abstract creative concepts, and most importantly, it had a powerful impact on the kids who grew up with them, which influenced many people who work on cartoons today. Those cartoons showed that a little effort can go a long way, and paved the way for more sophisticated cartoons.
No. MrEnter views it as that. His blind followers try to make it the truth as if his word is law.
***** Honestly the 90s were probably the best era for games.
At least The Pink Panther had something interesting to offer when it came to a haunted castle with a mute protagonist.
I have fond memories of Pink Panther. I also didn't care that much when he started to talk in later incarnations.
I like The Pink Panther.
@@reasyrandom The 1990s series made him talk. WHY!?!?!
@@ExtremeWreckI don’t know. It’s like The 1992 Tom And Jerry Movie where they make Tom and Jerry talk too much but it’s a TV show.
@@isobelmiller7464same here.
They wanted to remove all conflict from kids shows?
THEN WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN BOTHER WATCHING THE SHOW TO BEGIN WITH?!!
Mr. Snarky You can't have an interesting story without some sort of conflict. 😔
I hate it when people tries to recreate the classic cartoons, and make it modern, and shitty.
Like, why not do the same thing, but with better animation or something?
If not, then at least try.
This is false i guess you havent seen the new speed racer or scooby doo mystery incorporated
Your name is just so creative why the fuck didn't I think about it?!
There is also an even newer tom and jerry that hust came out last year. I have no idea how good or bad it is but my 2 year old nephew likes it.
Please build a time machine, smack the people behind toddler titans go, spongebob, and fairly odd parents and tell them this
Masturbating Lettuce love your name...
Tom and Jerry don't need spinoffs. They're classic. You can't mess with the classics.
You said it man!
Technology helped the Renaissance as well I remember seeing a few of Richard Williams (Of Rodger Rabbit fame) talking about how the process changed and how he helped convince his boss to try digital test reels instead of the expensive old way. This and the explosion of indie networks really helped give us more than the Hannah Barbara stuff.
A cartoon without conflict, is like driving a car without wheels. The plot will go nowhere.
Krusty the Clown after seeing the Tom and Jerry Show:
“The hell is that?!”
I actually LOVED the tom and jerry movie and chicken little but with those I have massive amounts of nostalgia with those movies I would seriously watch them for hours on end when I was young.
also if you thought that 1 coarse meal and forcing someone to suicide is bad, in the Toddler Titans episode "Smile Bones" beast boy and cyborg literally STARVE their so called "friends" half to f*cking death if you don't believe me look it up.
You can't make tom and jerry friends, it's like in the Simpsons when they censored the shit out of itchy and scratchy to be best friends it's just terrible
Well, Itchy and Scratchy were parodies of Tom and Jerry so....
Actually, they were parodying a Tom & Jerry rip-off called Herman & Katnip. One of the writers explicitly said so.
Gilly Savard actually you could, there are a few from the original theatre run, one with them as friends ended with a well executed suicide joke, but you have to remember their animosity and such.
I think thats what that episode of Tom and Jerry was based on.
Chicken Permission yea
To everyone below, I'm actually somewhat surprised and not surprised about the whole media of the 70's spectrum.
While animation saw utter nosedives into garbage, it's fairly quite a discovery when you see that a lot of movies in the 70's consisted of violent revenge films like Charles Bronson's, exploitation films like Cannibal Holocaust, the rise of martial arts action and Bruce Lee films, the rise of the porno industry, and the rise of slasher horror, with Friday the 13th.
I could see why concerned mothers attempted to censor out a lot of cartoons and tv, because well, cocaine flooded the streets, criminals were fucking everywhere and Nam, but if anything I blame them and the rest of the world for not getting its shit together and not accepting their problems and fixing them, but no, hide your fucking kids and throw them out into the cold hard world you're attempting to hide away from when they get older. It's no wonder why people grew all fucked up and why this world is too.
Castle Wiz sounds like it should of been a parody of Scooby Doo where Jerry and that little Grey mouse were detectives. At least the Grey mouse could speak like he did in some of the shorts to make since of the situation.
nibbles. the grey mouse's name is nibbles. or tuffy. i prefer nibbles though.
1) Thanks for the history lesson! You're one of the few people I know who can make history interesting. 👍
2) THIS WAS HILARIOUS OMG AND THE STUFF YOU WROTE AT THE END HAHA I'M DYING
Fucking 70s
Still, at least we got good music...
and good films...
and it was pretty peaceful...
Fucking 10s
***** I'd put my expectations down for everything not Mad Max. Just saying.
And no rights for black people.
Ahh, good times.
little rolling bean They were the good days, Dictatorships, communism, The Vietnam War, the Cultural Revolution, nuclear bombs...
Sigh...
Salokin Sekwah Worse shit goes on today... At least before, the nuclear bomb wasn't common.
Salokin Sekwah
Eh. You take some, you lose some. No matter how far we go back, life has always sucked for us humans and it always will, but the peices have just re-arranged. Some things are going worse, others are doing better.
The internet is a great tool of the modern age. An information highway, connecting the people of the world in a whole new way. I, just a regular city slicker from a backwater town in Finland can effortlessly get in contact with millions around the world in a second's notice. Let's put it like this. Back before the internet, your opinion wouldn't have really mattered as much as just an average joe. Now the whole world can recognize your opinion and we can share our views of life.
Also, we got the supirior vidya games! The 70s don't got shit on our games.
No cold war... that's a plus... although war is something that'll never not be there though.
Through the internet and digital distribution, independent work like music composition, entertaining and game developement has also skyrocketed. The dominance of the oppressing foot of the publisher-relationship is slowly dying off (emphesis on slowly).
Racial and sexual equalities have also improved over time. It's still not perfect yet, but I'd say that demographics like homosexuals, PoCs and trans-genders have it much better now than they did in the 70s (If I remember correctly, my country even legally accepts gay marriage). Again, internet helps in spreading awareness of equality (When it's not extremist, mind you).
Honestly, most of the signifigant shittiness of today's world I can mostly appoint to our extreme capitalistic enviornment. What started in the industrial evolution has now bloated and become a hideous world structure. A world where money almost quite literally is power and the government only acts for the benefit of those with the cash. Besides that, music has become a corporate-controlled grinder of mediocrity, the AAA gaming world is pinching us for every penny at the cost of good design, and hollywood is.... hollywood. That's why I praise the independent scene so much. Most notable with gaming if you ask me, but most of the only good music today is also indie.
man, I had no idea that 70s was THAT heavily censored.... it's a good thing this didn't take off and faded into obscurity.
people who say cartoons today don't get away with anything really are spoiled. Even the dumber cartoons of today get away with so much more than apparently "no conflict and not being allowed to say 'die' "
Tom & Jerry Tales and especially the newest Tom & Jerry Show were at least a step in the right direction for the duo on TV, bringing back the slapstick and the vitriolic best buds nature of the two. I also like how the latter makes use of four different scenarios: at home, at a detective's office (where the two work together as private eyes while the owner is away), in a witch's cottage, and in a professor's laboratory (where Jerry is owned by the professor and Tom is an alley cat).
Yeah, it is done in Flash, but it at least looks very fluid, more so than the '70s show. And by the same people as Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and The Mr. Men Show.
So most of the problems of 70's cartoons where because of soccer moms. Wonderful. Also i hope you mention the history songs for School House Rock, since they had most of the best songs.
If parents groups in the 70's knew about "hentai" I think they'd die of a stroke.
Oh my God. A couple months ago they were playing Clutch Cargo on Turner Classics and I watched it with my parents.... It was the creepiest most hilarious crap of a cartoon I ever saw. X'D
So let me get this straight. Back then, parents forced tv networks to dumb everything down up to the point where the writing has no conflict?.....wow, thank god we've moved on to better times.
Mr. Enter I'm thrilled to see your channel thriving. It's well deserved! Good review! Keep them coming!
Wait, _conflict_ was banned in children's cartoons in the 1970s? I could imagine how dull these shows must have been.
Have you heard of The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan which was basically Scooby Doo with Asian characters.
***** But while it was a Sclone, it was still interesting with the varying age groups finding their own evidence, resulting in it all being intricately woven together at the end of each episode and tying everything together, and it had a variety of characters too.
Is that like, Chris Chan's superhero team?
I know some of the old 70's cartoons, because they used to show a lot of them on Boomerang. Not a lot of them appealed to me, though. Nowadays, Boomerang shows a lot of the old Cartoon Cartoons.
2:57 I just noticed the irony of the complainer is always wrong phrase.
Parental Groups: "Everyone who complains is wrong and deserved every G-rated bad thing they get except us because we're the moral guardians of children."
As a young child I really loved this show because the negativity of the normal tom and jerry made me very frustrated and this show was really chill
Mr. Enter is awesome
Yep
Wreck-It Rhyperior I like his accent...
Hellkaiser what accent?
He has an accent?
Hellkaiser You must not be an American. :)
This seems more like a prequel rant for your countdown of 70's cartoons more than the actual Atrocity.
John Kricfalusi saved us from this trend as well? I knew it. That guy is a life saver.
Sadly, our hero is a pedophile.
Why did those parents had such a big pressure on kids shows back in the 70's? I mean, sheesh, kids have seen WAY worse things meanwhile watching their own parents, like smoking, screaming, complaining, cursing, beating... and parents complained about a word 'poop'. XP
Well, apparently Jerry decided that bow ties were cool in this cartoon.
Wow, that is two episodes in a row that I'm finding a way to make a Doctor Who reference.
My God, this spinoff was awful.
Brandon Roberts ...Oh boy...
Ummm..... How about the Gene Dietch one?
Aldo Meylano Well yeah.
Hmmm....
Aldo Meylano I've watched a couple of the Gene Deitch shorts. They're not good, but I could tell what he was _trying_ to do. What I saw was too mean-spirited for Tom & Jerry (like Herman & Katnip without the thick Brooklyn accents) but was still recognizably Tom & Jerry. THIS? This is just boring.
Yeah I just kinda thought about this but if Nickelodeon was named after a animation theater then why the hell are half their shows live action shitty comedy shows I mean their aren't to many animated shows on that channel any more it's feels like Cartoon Network's mtv era but even worse
Matthew Ricco Same reason Disney Channel did the same thing? I dunno.
I guess they ran out of ideas, and live-action shows are cheaper than animated ones. I'm just happy they have TMNT and Harvey Beaks now; it gives us a bit of hope for their future.
Matthew Ricco nickelodeon was originally called pinwheel back in the 70's. it's name was changed to nickelodeon two years after being founded.
Matthew Ricco Cartoon Network is actually doing really good minus UG and TTG.
***** I actually like uncle grandpa, it feels like a drug trip.(A good one, not one from shrooms or cheap lsd)
FYI: Tom and Jerry being friends is nothing uncommon.
It happened before even in the original series. Though they weren't BEST FRIENDS.
Let alone mostly in those episodes they tend to beat eachother up anyway at some point or try to screw the other one over.
This is mostly present in the current day Tom & Jerry series going on. Wich, might I say, is actually GREAT.
Though there are alot of episodes with Tom & Jerry working together. It's still going to be Tom & Jerry. Mostly they are forced to work together and can't do it. In another they are business partners but take any moment to make the other one look bad.
Tom is still Arrogant, aggressive and having his classic screams.
Jerry still Sly, sometimes cocky , but mostly level headed.
If you get to see it. Try to watch it.
kotlolish Finally, someone who doesn't hate The Tom and Jerry Show. I'll admit, the animation can be stiff at times but all the flak that series gets for it's use of flash, which is apparently the greatest sin a cartoon can commit, is very stuck up and pretentious in my opinion. I like the fact that the series stays true to it's slapstick roots while at the same time using it's various formats to do new things with it's main characters besides just slapstick. Spike's evolution from one-dimensional thug and Jerry's weapon to an actual (albeit asshole) character continues here; his cowardly streak mixed his love of beating on cats, his hypocrisy about bullies like Tom, and his (usually) level-head in a crisis makes him the most layered he's been since the Spike & Tyke shorts on Tom & Jerry Kids. The Cat and Mouse detectives episodes make for a great respite from Tom and Jerry trying to maim each other, and it's helluva lot of fun watching them work in noir setting.
My own personal highlights that I feel demonstrate what the new series can do at it's best:
1. Spike Gets Skooled - Tom sets out to get revenge on Jerry and Spike and (gasps) actually succeeds. Go Tom!
2. Tom In-Tents Adventure - Nature comedy.
3. Cat-Nippy - Winter comedy. Also, Tom & Jerry were assholes and they both got their comeuppance. My favorite kind of ending.
4. Entering and Breaking - I think this was the first one to deconstruct Spike's tough guy persona. The home invasion was hilarious and Jerry was surrounded by idiots the whole night.
5. Haunted Mouse - This one seems to parody Scooby-Doo and the rather warped messages that show sometimes sent. If you try to steal someone else's home they'll totally forgive you for it and give you room and board (What's New Scooby-Doo's Christmas special was and still is bullshit).
6. One of a Kind - Easily one of the most absurd Tom & Jerry stories made recently; Barkley, you were a great one-off villain and I love the way you were dispatched.
7. What A Pain - Spike and Tom at the vet. Also, Tom clawed the shit out of Rick's arms.
8. Hop To It - Once again, Jerry is surrounded by idiots.
9. Cruisin' For A Bruisin - The pets team up for a day.
10. Bone Dry - Spike's persona as a 1940s bruiser has naturally dated more than Tom & Jerry's (though not in a bad way; a quirky, remnant from the past kind of way), so he's actually in his element in this story as a noir hood terrorizing our heroes.
11. Pipeline - The pets team up again and Jerry has to step up to the plate because his friends / frenimies are filled with so much fail.
12. Catnapped - It'll be a long, long time before I get tired of Tom's scream takes. A long time. Also, this is another story that makes me say 'Go, Tom!'.
13. Hunger Strikes - Another pets team-up (sort of) where the whole ensemble tries to survive starvation and despite the fact that only two of them actually speak, their interactions simple crackle from start to finish.
14. Curse Case Scenario - Maybe it's because of the genre, but the Cat and Mouse Detective episodes are great at creating charming one-off characters, aren't they? Dutch was a treasure.
15. Say Cheese - Despite the complete and utter hypocrisy of it coming from Spike, the anti-bullying message of this episode was a nice one to end the season on. It could have easily come off as trite, and it'll almost certainly be forgotten by the start of Season 2 (because what would Tom & Jerry be if wasn't?) but I liked the execution.
@powerstar 2028 Well, I can say that Flash is really hard and as an animation student, I don't think it's bad. Have you ever heard of Foster's Home: The Imaginary Friend?
John krisifulci and Ronald Reagan. Sounds like a dream team to me!
It's not really that complicated a story. Ronald Reagan deregulates broadcast standards thus allowing kids programming to become toy commercials. This allows cartoons to be about stuff again and can have violence and conflict and other things that build story. Then Ren and Stimp with John K and Ben Camp push the envelope on broadcast standards and basically prove that TV cartoons can be just like nickelodeon cartoons from the 40's. This sort of made the Nickelodeon networks name appropriate.
Also, say what you will, but the Tom and Jerry movie at the very least had Tony Jay saying the word "money" really weird. That's priceless, man.
"This is the worst anything related to Tom and Jerry I've ever seen"
Little did he know......
That the live-action film that came earlier this year would dethrone it
@@AkameGaKillfan777nah. The live action film was great. You were meant to say the Gene Deitch Era.
@@ChildrenShowArchive456 No, the live-action one
@@AkameGaKillfan777it’s still great and it was an improvement over the 1992 movie.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 The 2021 movie was great. What are you on about?
I remember that Arthur used words like stupid, dumb, heck, idiot, or doofus. For that, my classmates watched Arthur in FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE.
I preferred The Backyardigans over Arthur because my family didn’t even approve of Arthur. For that, people used to bully me over The Backyardigans and called me a baby show fan, but I would get shocked over them starting to use the words “heck”, “dopey”, “jerk”, “nuts”, “dang”, “rats”, “crud”, “death”, “die”, or anything to tick off a soccer mom.
So Nickelodeon got its name from old theaters?
THE MORE YOU KNOW☄
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My gosh, the 70s was full of lazily made cartoons, and this one was no exception. Good review as always. And that joke at the end! XD
TheRich4270 no wonder Red was always threatening to put his foot in everyone's ass
skunksaregreat111 What?
skunksaregreat111 good one, made me laugh
***** Good what? I don't know what the heck he was talking about?
TheRich4270 watch "that 70's show" it's a riot!
Wow. I can't believe I actually recognized that soundtrack that was playing from Scooby Doo. I remember hearing that piece of music a lot when I was a kid. This cartoon straight up jacked it's soundtrack. Like when 4kids reused music from shows they've dubbed into other shows they've dubbed.
I like that this episode aknowledges that those 1980's toy-commercial cartoons like He-man, Transformers and My Little Pony were actually in the long run what saved amercian television animation. Those shows tend to get a lot of flak from younger generations who doesnt understand their significance. Yes they were pretty bad, yes they had lousy animation and even lousier writing, yes their modern-day remakes tend to be much better. BUT they were at least something DIFFERENT than the abysmal Hannah-Barbera cartoons of the 70's, and they turned television animation into a lucrative market that several companies wanted to get a share of (unlike what had been the case in the 70's when Hannah-Barbera basically had a monopoly over the market and therefore could make any awful crap they wanted and get away with it), which in turn led to everything from Disney creating Ducktales to WB creating Batman the Animated Series to FOX creating The Simpsons. Bascially, He-man (one of the earliest of the toy commerical cartoons) and his peers saved the entire artform.
60s and 70s? I thought those were supposed to be the decades of rebellion. Isn't it weird how whenever some sort of new medium is introduced, it starts out being a sort of "free-for-all", and then it gets heavily regulated, and then it gets de-regulated? This happened with radio, actually, with regular TV, and apparently with animation. (I think the Internet itself is at the end of it's "free-for-all" days).
And didn't Mr. Enter say he wouldn't review products of their time?
I think he's reviewing products of their time because he's doing these Eras of Animation videos, as well as to provide a theme month for this year.
Jonathan Jean-Louis Makes sense, but he specifically said that was something he'd never review. And now he's backpedalled. It's interesting, sure, but he sort of made a promise.
He explained it in his fraidy cat review.
Spencer Gage when he said "products of their time", he meant that wouldn't review a toy based cartoon from the 80s or a racist cartoon from the 40s and 50s, because we've moved past those standards.
2:19 R-R-R-Retuuuuuuurn the map...R-R-R-Retuuuuuuurn what you have STOLEN FROM ME!
I think the show that was more affected for the protest of the parents on those days was the original Johnny Quest cartoon, I saw it when I was around my 12 or something like that, and I really like it because I felt scared in each episode, after all, is a show where we could see things as murders, and the colors were were obscure, and the music, wow.
This and the Smurfs are without a doubt, some of my most hated cartoons.
Why do you hate the Smurfs? I mean, a person can like/dislike anything they want, but I honestly want to know.
Alisha Dee Really? u hated the Smurfs?
I never liked the smurfs either. It was always a really dull show to me.
At least Smurfs had conflict, so they at least contributed to the greater good.
Alisha Dee My issue with the Smurfs in animation, it's that they don't do justice to the comics at all, and yes, the Smurfs were originally a French comic book series with a lot of hidden social commentary...
The 1970's were basically the dark ages of cartoons.
Scratch that. 2023 is the new dark age of cartoons. Because of this woke thing people are making up.
For anyone missing Saturday morning cartoons, you didn't miss much. It got a lot better in the late 80's and early 90's, but by then it was over.
I also find it funny that you have footage of the osmands and Jackson 5ive cartoon characters dance to your rant about 70s cartoons.
I didn't know how many shows were titled "The Tom and Jerry show" I thought there was just that current Tom and Jerry show Cartoon Network made not too long ago. XD
Say what you will about the Gene Dietch shorts, at least they UNDERSTOOD what Tom and Jerry was all about.
My mother says that americans that grew up in the 70's were luckier than her, because they had cartoons in their spare time, and she couldn't see any of them because back in the 70's, the government was very isolated here, and would censor or outright ban anything not made by a romanian ( even that would be censored if it had any trace of anti-communism) or from another communist country, so she had little knowledge about western media, and she is kinda mad that there was no children TV when she grew up, just propaganda, but I bet she's luckier that she watched propaganda rather than the crappy cartoons americans watched in the 70's
4:45 They can all be explained through conventional means eh? What about the time one of the villains made a very real looking giant worm monster that could burrow and everything...out of an old fashioned car with what looked like a paper mache structure built over it! (Tho they aren't usually THAT bad. :P)
If the Nostalgia Critic hated the Tom and Jerry movie, wait until he hears about this.
Wow, Tom and Jerry got nerfed during the transition from the Chuck Jones shorts to this. That... is tragic if you ask me, as well as 70's TV all together.
As someone who is very interested in animation, I think that you looking at cartoons from around the 70s is a great idea. I learned some very fascinating things about about animation. It doesn't change anything I've said about any show now, but this does get my curiosity peaked. Get video!
Oh trust me there are much worse things that sound like I'm high.
For example, I will frequently bring up spirit science with my friends and we will make fun of them, we play a game called "Stop me when you think I'm high"
"Jews are from space-"
"STOP."
so is this the reason kids in the 70s would rather go outside and play with their friends?
yogi's gang is just like captain planet and the planeteers back in 1970's.
Woah, I though I saw all the versions of Tom and Jerry, I didn't know this one existed!
....
good.
A fact: In the tom and Jerry kids TV spinoff, Jerry wears the exact same red bow as seen in this series.
Young jerry is a constant reminder of THIS.
I just thought of something; what if Tom and Jerry were actors in a TV show within their universe, kind of like that scene at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and they didn't actually hate each other?
Or what if it took place after the beginning of the Matinee Mouse episode where Tom and Jerry were holding flags just to end this rivalry with a truce.
4:30-4:39 made me laugh more than anything this t&j show episode (especially when you said "dracula dude 🤣)
5:17 I know it's Scooby Doo chase music, believe me I've heard it in the show thousands of times. But what is the official name of it?
I just looked up Scooby Doo Chase Music.
THNK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW! This Tom and Jerry show made me cringe when I was a kid.
Great review as always! I thankfully never got to see this shit, and instead got to see reruns of the good cartoons from those past eras. I only found out about this stuff later.
On that note, can you review Steven Universe?
Oh FFS, you already did. For one episode at least.
432neptune If you want 2 episodes then thats not very smart since the episodes follow a formular like most good shows unlike teen titans go a series wich creates new problems nearly every episode the same way EA makes bad business decisions
likeajon I'd disagree. Many of the episodes do tackle different issues.
He said he doesn't like to review things that everyone is talking about
When he made a review for Lars and the Cool Kids the show wasn't very popular
But it has become very successful lately
Arstellum I thought he was fine with talking about popular things so long as he had something new to say on it.
Actually Conflict is Still There in 70's Cartoons. Usually The Ones Where Superheroes are The Subject. Like The Impossibles, Super 6, Atom Ant, The Robotic Stooges, and Goldie Gold to Name a Few.
Tom and Jerry = Friends?
NOPE.
It kind of reminds me of the Time Squad episode (one of my favorites) where Tuddrussell, Otto, and Larry go inside the haunted White House and parody the shit out of Scooby-Doo, including reusing most of their background music.
strange how during the 70s kids' shows were sugar-coated, while sitcoms handled real-life issues, that weren't previously seen as appropriate for sitcoms, like women's rights, racism, antisemitism, homosexuality and abortion.
Well sitcoms are supposed to be like real life as they are human actors portraying humans as well. Cartoons until a few years ago were only seen to be only viewed by kids which is why they were sugarcoated.
Man original T&J is probably one, if not is my favorite series of animation....the Chuck Jones episodes ESPECIALLY, those were good times....
I didn't like those ones
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Wow. I'm glad I wasn't born in the 1970's. Dealing with tv that crappy must have been a nightmare for the kids born around that time.
So that's where Nickelodeon got their name? Thank you Mr. Enter, I learned something today.
I'd like Jerry and Tom to be friends. But that'd be difficult to pull off by the looks of it. How can you make two best friends go through the classic Tom and Jerry slapstick formula?
Maybe they could do what Ren & Stimpy did.
Dammit, I'm about to go to bed. Eh, I'll watch it in the morning :D Keep up the good work Mr Enter :D
I just don't understand why the kids who loved the violent cartoons of the 40s and 50s could grow up to be violence-hating adults of the 70s.
Say, could you please review an episode of "Oggy and the Cockroaches", a descendant of "Tom and Jerry"?
I love the song at the end.
you can't remove tom and jerry being enemies from tom and jerry. it ruins the whole dynamic of the show, and it takes an extreme amount of effort to make it entertaining
To be honest, I really love the Jackson 5 and Osmonds cartoons. Even with that said, I want to see your side, and I will respect any criticisms these shows get from you, because your awesome. Keep up the good work!
5:20 Am I hearing things, or was there a similar tune to this in Thomas the Tank Engine? I know I remember hearing this in Scooby Doo, but it sounds awful similar to the music they'd play in Thomas whenever it was some big, suspenseful scene.
The flinstones meet the thing? If that's what I think it is, then oh boy....
The only good thing about this show was the theme song
Tom and Jerry did do sounds and screams in some episodes , they were voiced by John Stephenson in those occasions.
Over political correctness really started with 1960s animation as well as the perversion of limited animation techniques to pump out acres of crap by h/b and Filmatiion led to the dark age of ugly ugly and bland animation.
The worst part is Tom and Jerry is owned by Warner Bros.
I'll rather have slapstick from the original Tom and Jerry
My favorite Tom and Jerry short was when Jerry and his little friend froze the floor and Tom got stuck on the floor. Hilarious!
So something called Nickelodeon was the first place you would go to see some good animation. Nowadays that's the last place you would go. Time is a funny thing.
Ikr
Did Toon Disney just not exist in your universe?
Albus Kane PerfectZen was talking about the old Nickelodeon theatres that Enter mentions in the video.