Cartoon Network - The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- For decades now, Cartoon Network has been a memorable part of many of our lives, myself included. It's hard to say definitively, but it's a common opinion that they've experienced a significant decline followed by a respectable comeback. This video takes a look at the situation and attempts to identify reasons behind it.
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I've seen all the comments and you're absolutely right. Toonami was big for the network and absolutely should have been mentioned in this video. I never watched it personally so it was easy for me to overlook it. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out, hopefully this comment is a step forward in fixing this injustice.
Hey Company Man are you going to talk about the decline of Plymouth Car auto industry?
You did not watch the toonami block?
ive never even heard of it
Do adult swim
Moreso than that you forgot to mention AKA Cult Toons, one of the most weird and experimental things ever featured on the network.
The logo change for me signifies the end of the best era. You can't beat the lineup of Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, Sheep in the Big City, Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd and Eddy, I am Weasel, Samurai Jack, What's New Scooby Doo...
The What’s New Scooby-Doo Theme Song is still a banger and a half
Some of the best cartoons ever made in my opinion.
CZsWorld Billy and Mandy too.
CZsWorld the regular show/early Ben 10 alien force era was awesome though
Amazing World of Gumball and We Bare Bears were the only two shows I continued to watch past that era.
"They may have overdone it with Teen Titans Go..."
May have? That's 70% of their airtime these days
When combined with Gumball, at least
@@procommentr at least gumball is a good show, but it gets boring after awhile.
Blue Martian like all shows tbh
facts
It's not that way anymore, this would be true if it were pre-2017 but the schedule has really opened up and leveled out since then.
I remember going home after being bullied and watching cartoon network made me feel like everything was allright. I know they made it for money but god bless their greedy little hearts.
Sad Reality
Dude, Space Ghost Coast to Coast was HUGE for the development of Cartoon Network. Space Ghost was their 1st foray into "adult" cartoons which was the launching point for Adult Swim, their popular late night lineup. Also Space Ghost Coast to Coast featured the "Baffler Meal" segment that was the predecessor to Aqua Teen Hunger Force, my all-time favorite show
completely agree. space ghost, sealab, and the brak show kick started adult swim, as well as the whole idea of making cartoons for 18 to 24 year olds. we dont have rick and morty without space ghost.
Its safe to say CN best shows were created from late 90s to early 2010s thus making it the golden age imo.
To me the Golden Age of Cartoon Network was late 1990s to 2004. No disrespect for Adventure Time or Regular Show
@@edwardkelly3280 I’ll say 2000 too 2012
@@st4yclutch391 it’s funny I got a Cartoon Network add on this video
Idk I only watched boomerang because scooby doo
Completely
Kids that grew up with Cartoon Network in the 90’s are the same breed as kids that have grown up with Cartoon Network in the 2010’s.
i just feel like that goes with some other things as well
We got CN in 95 in my area during my senior year of high school. 25 years later I still watch the channel more than any other channel.
@@spiderman4x Even now? Most of the good 2010s cartoons are over now.
Supiragon 1998 we just got cable again so I haven’t seen what they have. I know gumball is still on. I’ve been using the adult swim app for the last year non stop. Oddly I’ve watched less tv with COVID.
spiderman4x they got teen titans go gumball and some other new cartoons. I feel you too I barely watch tv since COVID came. Were growing up. Tbh i miss the cartoons and shit. It really made my childhood
I was born in '97 and the "fall" was my prime time for watching it and the shows during that period were my favorite. It was during my nostalgia period when I was in late elementary school and middle school.
Literally every day in 2021:
-Morning: Teen Titans Go
-Afternoon: The Amazing World of Gumball
-The final hour of the day: Apple & Onion or any new show
I haven't had cable in years but I'm glad Gumball is still going. It was their best show after Regular Show. I recently saw a schedule for CN and Teen Titans GO was playing for something like 30 out of 36 slots for the day for a whole week. I wasn't aware of any special broadcast going on. It was nuts.
@@jffry890 its just a bunch of reruns lol
@@jffry890 nah gumball ended a while back, but they do reruns now
@@Nodnjdkwndnsjakxnfnsn yea cuz they are working on the movie and a new reboot
I honestly feel sorry for kids today
"They may have overdone it with Teen Titans Go."
Nickelodeon: -continues to beat the dead horse that is Spongebob-
They were both pretty bad, I am unsure if Spongebob had as bad a schduel as teen titans go's in recent history besides it being on like those special 24/7 days. I do think they do it pretty bad tho.
At least SpongeBob is back on it's feet now and was good at the beginning.
Lol they beat that dead bourse good
@@njmaag Which? TTG or Spongebob?
Seriously, meanwhile the good shows like looney toons, Doug, Ren and Stimpy were left in the dust.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was honestly one of the staples of my childhood
Yeah the whole "fall" was pretty much my childhood and those shows were awesome. It's all subjective I guess
@@emmajohnson7364 I was a teen when Foster's home came out. I loved it. I think most people agree that the fall was after Foster's home, when the live action started.
Eww
Bluuu!
Mine too
Man… _Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends_ was such an awesome series. Definitely one of my favorites of all times.
Me personally, I still miss original Ben 10 and the later sequel series from the 2005 to 2012
I think their best era was probably in the 90's and early 2000's. They were still airing a lot of the older cartoons while also bringing in a lot of new content, plus making their own kind of universe with the commercials of all the animated characters together in a city. When the original shows started reaching the end, they kind of released a lot of low quality shows and even Toonami was cancelled, so less action anime made it onto the network. Then they just started spamming TTG, erratic release schedules for other shows, cancellations of half way decent shows, and the network was basically unwatchable at that point.
I'd even venture the era before CN Real and directly after it was pretty good too.
I’d go with the CN City era (2000-2007)
I still miss the old cartoons. It's sad that they aren't readily available to watch anymore.
ah the days of ATHF and Sealab 2021
I gotta say I was bored as hell with the older cartoons (born in 91) - scooby doo, flintstones and the jetsons were meh but when they started playing Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Bugs bunny and shit I’d usually go do something else unless I was bored out of my skull
*Cartoon Network 1992-2004:* perfect, absolutely perfect. They had a lot of variety in the schedule, they had amazing originals, they had a *HUGE* library of Cartoons. They were truly on top of the world, and they also helped anime become very popular thanks to Toonami.
*Cartoon Network 2005-2008:* good. The new programs were weaker and the channel no longer had their pre-1990s stuff, but they were still good.
*Cartoon Network 2009:* awful, Cartoon Network focused on *LIVE-ACTION* more than Cartoons, which makes no sense for a channel named *CARTOON* Network.
*Cartoon Network 2010-2012:* Cartoon Network managed to become great again during this era. CN during this era was more experimental, and the network tried to push the limits of what a kids show can have during this era, as many of their programs were rated TV-PG. It also has Regular Show, my all time favorite CN show.
*Cartoon Network 2013-2015:* Cartoon Network was middling during this time period. The network would start to focus on TTG a lot during this time period, and by this time period, Cartoon Network had no 22 minute action shows beside acquired anime. Plus, Adventure Time and Regular Show would go downhill during this time period (thankfully, Regular Show improved during the 7th season), and the scheduling got worse during this time period.
*Cartoon Network 2016-2017:* terrible, this era was the worst for CN in my opinion. TTG at this point would take up nearly 100% of CN's schedule, and not only that, TTG was the only show CN advertised, and CN's new programs were terrible reboots of good shows, and those reboots were in an attempt make those franchises replicate TTG. CN also lost the rights to Pokemon because CN lost respect for anything that isn't TTG. CN also treated any show that wasn't TTG terribly, even Gumball.
*Cartoon Network 2018-present:* They are meh at this point. They have thankfully improved their schedule and started putting less emphasis on TTG, which was a great thing CN did, and they started treating their other shows with respect (even airing their older shows on Christmas week 2021), but the reason why they are meh now is because they don't really have anything interesting on anymore, and TTG still airs a lot, but not as much as how it did back in 2017. I am glad CN is improving though.
Eras ranked:
1992-2004 > 2010-2012 ≥ 2005-2008 > 2013-2015 > 2018-present > 2009 > 2016-2017
I grew up on Cartoon Network and it was an absolutely blast during the late 90's and early 2000's with the type of shows they had. I can say for sure that their massive fall was during the CN Real Era in the mid 2000's. I mean airing live action shows on a network that had the title "Cartoon" in their name was not a wise move.
Toonami brought anime to America. This was a huge oversight. Tom was so cool and Toonami was one of the best parts of after school for me.
Yes I was very shocked he did not mention Toonami. It is the sole reason why I began watching Anime. Smh!
@Kenji azure Lmao how tho?
So surprised he didn’t mention anime, it is the big reason that Cartoon Network died off. Crunchyroll was so easily accessible back then as well.
YES
@@MandoEmmm I knew adults who would only tune into CN for Dragonball Z and Cowboy Beebop when I was a kid. It's crazy he doesnt understand the impact Toonami had on the channel. There's a REASON why they brought it back.
this guy could present about paint and how it drys, and it would still be interesting
dongyongkim why is that so true?
Paint was made in the 1400's, and paint dries because blah, blah, blah...
Half as Interesting is holding out on how Bricks are made.
Interesting video idea.
The History of Paint Drying?
The Rise and Fall of Paint Drying?
i honestly want Cartoon Network to make a streaming service already, you know how many great shows were on that service? the toonami, adult swim, and the early shows, I think that’s be the only streaming service I need
With bumpers cartoon cartoon Friday and cartoon theater! Acme hour was good and so were the holiday movies. Halloween And Christmas
This has brought me closure, i always wondered why these pre 2009 shows disappeared and i was a bit disturbed by it as a kid. Change as a kid is one of the toughest things to go through.
But hey arnold didn't air its series finale nor did samuria jack
I remember waking up early on the weekends when I was younger in elementary school on Saturdays to watch Pokémon and beyblade on Cartoon Network
ya same
Dude x and y
SAMEEEE!!!!
@@ansonpanton6984 I would act like missing an episode of Pokémon or beyblade was the end of the world lol
Cartoon network is just like a Saturday morning block but 24-hour with a nighttime block that shows adult animations
Ah the memories how they have come and gone Generator Rex, Ben 10 (Every iteration except the reboot), Atomic Betty, Secret Saturday, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Life and times of Juniper Lee, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Cow and Chicken, I am Weasel, Original Powerpuff Girls (Hopefully we'll forget about the reboot), Powerpuff Girls Z, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Camp Lazlo, The Total Drama franchise (Except the spin off Total Drama Rama), Marvelous Misadventures of FlapJack, RobotBoy, Ed Edd and Eddy, Samurai Jack, Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, Steven Universe plus Future, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Regular Show, Original Teen Titans (Can't bare watching Teen Titans Go!), Chowder, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Foster Home for Imaginary friends, Time Squad, Codename: Kids Next Door, Johnny Test, Mucha Luncha!, Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated, The Looney Tunes Show(2011), Megas XLR, Xiaolin Showdown/Chronicles,Infinity Train and Justice League plus Unlimited, The Batman 2004 are ones I won't forget(Including all the anime showcases like Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, Megaman NT Warriors, Duel Masters, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Battle B-daman, Bakugan, Deltora Quest on CN as well) and I would rewatch them if I could. Though there aren't as many quality cartoons as there use to be but I'm still moving on to concurrent releasing cartoons like Ollie's Pack, Cupcake and Dino: General Services, Mao Mao Heros of Pure Heart and Unikitty. For those who are looking for fun, quality and somewhat character driven cartoons I do recommend those four that I mention that are still airing new episodes or re-airing older episodes that are quite good. But everyone of them goes to show that they are more then just cartoons but are works of creativity with passion behind them.
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Lol I’m 14 and grew up watching teen titans go not the og one so I wondered why it got so much hate.
@@suckyomom6179 Well it not just that the original is way better because of the art style, huge plots and awesome action is why people hate TTG. It because TTG is just awful in general since it over uses cheesy jokes, tries insulting the audience with fourth wall breaking, too awkwardly weird at times and always likes to constantly shove its message of the episode down your throat too much in the most obnoxious ways possible rather then be creative to have fun or create a story with that message. It does have cool or fun moments here and there on rare occasions which is the best thing I can honestly say about it but the overall quality is garbage. I mean TTG probably can't be the same or similar to the original and I get that but at the same time for the most part they aren't making it enjoyable to watch. I wouldn't mind if it was say similar to Unikitty or Spongebob where it was mostly exaggerative/fun with some continuity or is character driven and a lot of people would probably dislike it a lot less but I think they're doing a bad job intentionally since they acknowledge it time to time. Same goes for the reboot of the powerpuff girls or Ben 10 which are embarrassing stains for such amazing cartoon franchises and CN just doesn't care so I'm disappointed at them. Powerpuff Girls Z was the reboot that the franchise deserved and it was a great one that they should of left it on that if they can't make any more good continuations but nope. Also on the rare occasion they do air the original Teen Titans as a throw back on that alternating theme channel but you got to catch it.
You missed oggy and the cockroaches!
@@dod-rw9xl I remember seeing that cartoon but it never struck me as unique or something special to be honest. Though I think I did watch some episodes because it was at least decently entertaining to watch.
They should put all those great shows on streaming services, can you imagine how much money they could make?
As a 2000s kid the PEAK age for CN was 90s-2010. I'm glad that I'm able to recognize all the shows showcased here
This video and some other popular ones make me mad because they always say the 2000s was the worst when they changed it to cn. it was still great. 2010 was the start of decline
@mart5610 Agreed. After 2010 I barely watched most of the shows. And after 2015 CN has been dead
I remember when the logo change happened. Literally during a commercial break.
The first one.
epicgamer23 I remember that day too. Vividly... only because I was up all night beating Sonic Heroes. I remember switching the tv from video to cable or whatever and seeing one of those Cartoon Network realistic city bumps for the first time with the new logo. I was like I hope that shit’s temporary.
Same, I was on vacation with my family the very DAY that it changed, when we left that morning it had the old logo, when we got to the hotel hours later, the logo had since changed.
That was surreal and a small but standout moment of my childhood.
Lol I remember I was like
"What the heck!? Did the logo change?"???
Personally, throughout all of my rantings about networks failing, one of my main criticisms has always been toward networks lacking that care toward their older shows and I believe that Nickelodeon (and Disney Channel) are both prime examples of this. Over on Nickelodeon, they air something known as The Splat on one of their sister channels Teen Nick. While it is a late night block, Nickelodeon at least has the decency to air their older cartoons even if they're just simply ones from the 90s era. Meanwhile, on something like Cartoon Network, there seems to be a neglect toward their older cartoons. Ever since Boomerang rebranded itself to some horrid modern design, the lack of older cartoons has significantly increased. No more Ed, Edd n' Eddy, no more Powerpuff Girls, no more Camp Lazlo, no more Fosters, ect. You get the point. Boomerang has basically become a place where they air Tom And Jerry for hours along with shows that should air on CN or shows that are just plain horrid. It is true that Boomerang will air some of the older shows at night, but it's often barely anything and airs much later and much shorter than something like The Splat. And you could say that this is a Boomerang problem and no so much a CN problem, but CN doesn't even play shows like Regular Show or Adventure Time anymore despite those shows not even being that old and both ending fairly recently. I just wish that networks would not neglect the shows of their past as it isn't that hard not to do so. Boomerang could easily start their own version of "The Splat" or just simply return themselves back to the version they formerly were, but instead of airing the classic 60s/70s cartoons change it up to 90s/00s to cater toward the new nostalgic audience. That's all I can think to say now, thanks for reading.
that is a very on point issue. they just drop the older shows and effectively (re)start chartering to a new audience group. (who when that 5/10 year cycle) of a network programming will move on because the network is again focusing on the new show for the new group.
That in a time when the older (children and by now also adults) can't really see there shows (unless pirating).
I mean i can see older people (17+) would love to just have exes to the vault that CN has and just see a show in the setting they saw when they where children.
Gaming Wizard bruh you could use this for an essay
I used to love (re)watching Jonny Quest, Swat Kats too!
Then they stopped doing all the old good series and I stopped watching the channel!
by early 2000 I had a PC and P2P was a thing so didn't had to watch 10 min commercial for 20 min content.
At least Hulu has a good amount of older CN shows.
I know this will be unpopular, but 90/early 2000s era shows probably aren't that lucrative. Their target audience would be people with nostalgia for the shows: people in their 20's/30's, who are the least likely to have cable. I think the best option would be to add these to streaming networks. I know personally, every now and then, I'll watch a cartoon I grew up with to see how it turned out, but I just watch it online. I'm not going to flip through my cable guide to see when Dexter's Lab is on and wait until 7PM
I tuned out around the time of all the live action shows coming out. In fact, it was around that time where my family was considering the idea of cutting out TV in general, so we decided to try that. Since then, I still haven't really sat down to watch TV, even to this day. I've heard about some of those shows that came on after the live action stuff ended, but I haven't been looking that closely. It seems a lot less important to me now, but I'm at least glad the kids tuning into Cartoon Network in the last few years have had some good things to watch, just like I did in my youth.
i grew up on the 2000s-2010's CN and i absolutely loved every show, including destroy build destroy, what was fall to you felt like the rise for me.
as a kid during the mid to late 2000s I still consider that as a special era with shows like knd, billy and mandy, foster's home for imaginary friends, camp lazlo, ben 10, chowder, justice league, teen titans, bakugan, pokemon, beyblade...If I had to pick a fav era that would probably the 2000s to mid 2010s, I did watch some 90s stuff to like ppg and courage
Yea late 90s - early 2000s right before all the shows you listed was the peak, everything u listed was the last decent shows before the shit tsunami camw
Cartoon Network introduced me to Inuyasha and naruto
Yugioh Gx
Code Lyoko
I feel bad that you were a kid then and therefore missed out on The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest!!
Nah teen titans was really the beginning of the end for Cartoon Network
The DragonBallZ "Toonami" Era was peak for me despite watching CartoonNetwork for many years before that.
That's where I first saw Cowboy Bebop as a kid and got me permanently hooked on anime, lmao. Blessing or curse?
1999/2000 Toonami lineup: Reboot, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Gundam Wing
@@briankilbane7043 Ah being introduced to Gundam
The Freiza Saga. HOW LONG did they rerun that before moving on??
BIG facts.
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Thank You so much.
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This comment section is the embodiment of "only 90's kids will remember this"
fr, like we get it, ThE 90S wERe tHe beST
FACTS
They stilll re air the 90's cartoon until ate 2000 in my region
YES, we all know the '90s had a big impact on people who watched Cartoon Network during that time. But, what about the people who grew up in the early 2000s?! The CN City era, from 2004 - 2006 was OUR HIGH POINT and was something that had a big impact on us ESPECIALLY when we watched some of those re-runs of Cartoon Cartoon shows
What about the 2000’s kids . I was born in 2001 and I watch some good shows already from Cartoon Network.
I'm very disappointed that Toonami was *nowhere* in this video. It, along with Adult Swim, most assuredly brought anime into the more mainstream spot it is today.
Same hat. I get that kid!Company Man wasn’t into Adult Swim, but like. Completely NOTHING on Toonami? Really? Toonami’s revival is why we have Samurai Jack season 5, for god’s sake!
That's right, Toonami was a real hit back in the day, one of the main reasons why CN was so huge in the early 2000's
Correct, and Toonami getting shuffled around to just Saturday night and later assimilated into Adult Swim and/or removed altogether was a definite falling point for CN as a whole.
Yeah, Toonami was a massive oversight, along with not talking about the actual significance of Adult Swim whatsoever. This was a pretty crappy video by Company Man standards.
Agreed. It opened up anime to an entire generation.
And made DBZ what it is.
i grew up watching grim
adventures and code name and even as an early teen me and my friends would watch chowder and camp lazlo. cartoon network has a knack for
creating engaging shows
Cartoon Network is how I discovered the band Soul Coughing via the "groovies" interstitials that would play during commercial breaks. I still love them to this day.
I'm crying. You always pull at the heart strings for all 90's kids.
But....the moment you mentioned Cartoon Cartoons. The way they'd say the catchphrase "Cartoon Cartoons!" the cadence. Everyone would quote it. You know exactly how it sounds. I was exactly like you. Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nick on rotation all day. That's how my cousin and I spent most of our summer vacations as kids. Fantastic video dude, this one really hit the feels super hard.
I know that it's overplayed and annoying to say "kids will never understand or experience x" but seriously, the *peak* of cartoons was 90 - 2000's. It was still being pioneered, it was something new never seen before just for kids. I don't want to condescend kids today, but I really wish they could feel the magic we got to feel because it was so neat.
The peak of cartoons was definitely in the 1940s and 1950s.
AGREED. My 6yo niece didn't know what Blues Clues was until I showed her. Then she showed me YT "Slime makeup mixing" videos. Smdh Sad! ✌💗
I have fond memories watching classic HB shows and Looney Tunes shorts on CN back in the day, and also of watching movies on Cartoon Theatre. It was through that latter that I watched The Iron Giant for the first (and so far, only) time in my life, at age 11, and it's probably one of my favorite movies of all time. I can't believe that Brad Bird went from that amazing film to cliched, ugly crap that Pixar puts out.
@@robgronotte1 Correct if you're talking about cartoons in general, but if you're focusing on TV cartoons, then it would be from about the 80s through the early aughts.
@@user-mc6vw3os3y I'm both a 90s and aughts kid. Glad to see at least one person who agrees with me that Pixar and CG animation in general are total garbage. I know that's not a popular opinion, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I actually seriously considered a career in animation about the time I started high school. I wanted to bring back traditional animation with traditional techniques like traditional ink and paint, hand inking, successive exposure, multiplane cameras, and the like. I'm so glad now that I didn't because Hollywood won't touch traditionally animated features with a ten-foot pole, and what traditional animation we do get on TV is generally as rotten as CG. Hollywood is where good animation goes to die. At least there's still some good anime out there, and enough good traditional animation from the pre-Pixar/DreamWorks era to keep me happy.
Idc the era with teen Titans, code name kids next door, Ed edd and eddy, fosters home was goated
Billy and mandy too. The 2000s imo were the best era for cn imo. Childhood right there
Goated is not a thing.
@@PlatoonGoon sorry grandpa it is
I was back in a era where they alway air ed edd and eddy but it wasn't boring compare to teen titans For expect the part when they three always get beat up every second that go annoying
@@NEEDFORSLEEP213 nah. people who use it sound dumb to me, so I"m choosing to ignore it as "a thing" also. Why the fuck add an extra syllable to GOAT, lmfao. Next you are gonna start saying "That's dankey", smh.
The golden era of Cartoon Network, Top Cat, The Flinstons the Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Johnny Bravo, Dexters Lab...heck I owe all my English to Cartoon Network.
Cartoon Network was amazing back in the day. I grew up with the late 2000's Nood Era and the Check It Era. I loved watching Scooby Doo Reruns, Tom & Jerry reruns, Ed Edd N Eddy, Regular Show, Looney Tunes Show, Total Drama etc. It was amazing. I wish these era's could come back. But thanks to streaming we can still watch these classic shows.
Zorak: "Look, every time I move my arm, it costs the Cartoon Network forty-two bucks."
This is the network that kick started many people's careers and brought upon a new era of cartoons, cartoons that had actual passion behind them and weren't just seen as products for children. Shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Ed Eddn Eddy, Samurai Jack, etc. On top of that, they revolutionized adult animation and broke the formula of crappy Simpsons knockoffs, by green lighting shows that were dark, edgy, low budget, and highly experimental, shows that would've NEVER been green lit in any other network! And they succeeded! Adult Swim is debatably one of the key factors in shaping "ironic" or "random" humor, something that we see everywhere on the internet nowadays. But even on top of all of that, Cartoon Network played the most important role in bringing Japanese animation to the west! And to say that anime is "big" would be an understatement, it's HUGE! And that wouldn't have been possible without Cartoon Network, Toonami, and Adult Swim! They had a few hiccups throughout the late 2000s, but they still had some classics, like Ben 10, Chowder, and Flapjack. And on the very early 2010s, they gave us Adventure Time, Regular Show, and (one of my personal favorite shows of all time) Sym Bionic Titan!... Which got cancelled... but at least the episodes we got were good?... Point is, Cartoon Network was showing ones again that they were revolutionizing the cartoon industry and bringing something new and exciting to the table!... And now they're just making crappy tumblr calarts cartoons that are unfunny and doomed to fail after one or two seasons... Oh well. Let's just hope they change their game up for the 2020s!
SYMBIOTIC TITAN is so underrated
@@thejaycrewsshow9827 It had a lot of hype when it came out but CN subtly killed it off. If it had just kept going for at least 2 more seasons, the fanbase might be a little bit bigger now. The lost potential that is Symbionic Titan is something that will forever piss me off. Oh well, at least the season we got is still very good, and is currently available on netflix!
Philza?
@@thejaycrewsshow9827 Idk if yall know about the Secret Saturdays League of Super Evil Sidekick Storm Hawks Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 and Starwars the Clone Wars 2010
You know that Genndy Tartavosky went to CalArts right? He worked on Dexter's Laboratory and Symbiotic Titan. Are those shows bad now? The problem with shows like Thundercats Roar is that they took an old IP and slapped it onto a cartoon that had little to do with the original not that it has a simplified art style. CalArts isn't even an animation style to begin with. It's like when the old fans years ago would complain about everything turning into anime and then they would point out examples like Teen Titans and Masters of the Universe - two shows which looked nothing alike.
I was born in 98’, the 2000’s were golden man. Those were the best times of my life. Truly miss those days.
I still find myself getting nostalgic about the shows mentioned at the latter part of the video. That time in Cartoon Network really made such a difference for the channel. It was like a major overhaul. Rejuvenated my interest in them (and I was pushing 20 around the time Adventure Time and Regular Show premiered).
I love how his voice lights up in videos when he talks about things he loved as a child. So sweet.
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The grim adventures of bill and Mandy taught me how to tie my own shoes tho...
May god bless your soul 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeah i once asked a bunny to tied my shoes, ended up getting lasered eyes by it
@@davidwilliam8056 💀 lmao
that commercial with Fred Flintstone was amazing.... playing video games and listening to your videos
best snow day ever!!!!!
The rectangular checkered logo will forever be superior. I loved seeing that on the bottom-right when Dragon Ball Z, The PowerPuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Lab, and Johnny Bravo would come on.
I loved that you say 2004 is when it started declining. That’s around the time I stopped watching and coincidentally I was moving and didn’t have tv like that anymore for a while. By the time I did it was time for the Internet to do its thing (2007). But yeah overall I just wasn’t feeling much of the shows after 2004.
The bumpers where all of the cartoons were in a city living together were seriously the best.
That’s the city era! That’s my favorite one too!
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The City era was peak.
The loss of those bumpers was a serious bummer for the audience. What's worse, it could have still worked for the new cartoons; the idea of the various shows interacting with each other was not by itself outdated.
How great would it have been to see the casts of Chowder and Flapjack, or Regular Show and Adventure Time, interacting in the city setting?
Benaiah Sampson Benker ikr
Weird that we were talking about CN and didn't mentioned ben-10 anywhere
Exactly
You are too young. 😅
You know Ben 10 (classic) is still available in Amazon prime.🙂 Being a 20 year old I still enjoy the show. But, the sad part is they do not have season 1.
@@loveithateit8520 😂 dude it's not about being young or old, cartoon network is not only a channel but my whole childhood
@@naveenkumar.a.s. yup I'm 25 🙂, & I know I'll never be bored with their shows
1:17 Not even one and a half minutes in and I already figured out our starting "protagonist"'s favorite word: Network
I remember when the old logo was positioned on the bottom right of the screen. Sitting there watching Dragonball Z everyday on CN UK with all the other classics. It was also a freeview channel back in the late 90s/ early 2000s
Moment of silence for THAT one episode of courage the cowardly dog that scared the hell out of us
Return the slab
You’re not perfect...
NAUGHTYYYYYYYY
RETUUUURN THE SLAAAAAB
@Waffle Ranger OR SUFFER MY CURSE
The late 90's early 00' bumpers were fun and wacky. I watch them from time to time on youtube
oh my god, yes I remember the parking commercial. I didn't until you mentioned it, but buried deep I remember seeing it every other commercial break.
2:13 "I like watching cartoons at my friends' houses but don't like having to bring my tapes with me."
During it's prime it had Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Doo, Ben 10, Edd Ed n Eddy, Kids Next Door, Teen Titans, Samurai Jack, Grim Adventures Billy Mandy, Justice League, Courage, Fosters Home, and Clone Wars.
They had such a strong lineup of shows during the early-mid 2000s to the point I could watch for hours or even all day until finally a show I wasn't interested came on.
Then those shows got phased out/cancelled/ended and a bunch of newer shows came out that sucked and leaned more towards younger children than pre-teens.
Lightning in a bottle.
**Laughs in Regular show, Adventure Time, Gumball, and Steven Universe**
Batman the brave and the bold was also fantastic
my family got cable TV just because I wanted to watch Clone Wars so bad and then Disney bought Star Wars and off it went 😐
Literally my lineup... born in 2001 and I grew up on this. WTF was Regular show, Adventure Time, Gumball, and Steven Universe. As soon as that came out I moved to Disney/Nickelodeon
Totally Spies was my guilty pleasure. While Fosters Home of Imaginary Friends, Codename Kids Next Doo, Ed Edd & Eddy, along with Toonami where my childhood favorites.
can't believe he didn't mention Toonami. i used to watch Toonami: The MIdnight Run(which came on at 1am for me cause of my time zone) all the time to catch up on DBZ and Gundam Wing. good stuff, man.
Clover was my first cartoon crush not gonna lie
yeah toonami was huge.
I loved Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Miss it a lot. ;-;
I also really like camp lazlo and chowder
My childhood. I have so much to talk about on cartoons in the 90s. Can we revive this discussion?
I loved "dude what would happen", "destroy build and destroy", and "hole in the wall"
I miss the early days when they would air old Hanna Barbera cartoons overnight.
I miss the days when they would air the good Scooby Doo and good Ben 10
@@Redman_real I miss the days when cartoon network would air serious and dark humor cartoons like generator rex and grim adventures of billy and mandy
@@CG-sf1uw Haha Ah Billy and mandy....yes a little nasty but funny.
@@CG-sf1uw i never watched those but have you seen the new ben 10 and new Scooby Doo they're so trash the only good ones are regular show and we bare bears and Steven universe
@@Redman_real The ben 10 reboot is trash and they're are two scooby reboot's that are trash plus you should watch grim adventures of billy and mandy it's a really funny show
I'll always remember the scarring image of the CN schedule from a couple years back where it was almost _all_ TTG all day every day with like maybe a few SU episodes thrown in - it was a dark time for us, lads, hiatuses aren't fun
Ah yes the infamous 99% Teen Titans Go, 1% Steven Universe schedule from 2 years ago, that still gives me nightmares
This has since been revived by MTV - 99% Ridiculousness, some premieres for reality shows, and _15 minutes_ of music videos
Not mentioning Toonami is insane. It’s how I, and most my age started watching anime and a big part of Cartoon Network’s heyday.
I'm surprised you didn't mention samurai jack or any of the clone wars shows. Before the dark times, before Disney, those shows made their debut on CN.
The loss of Cartoon Network movies, Toonami and the Christmas shows also were a big part in their decline
I loved all of those Christmas specials that the shows had.
And having so much time to Cartoonito now and Adult Swim.
Toonami?
Why cartoon network starting to be gae?
@@KutbladeBeats they broadcast anime
I feel like cn will disappear in the near future due to the rise of streaming services and the lack of new shows, also why teen titans go like 24/7.
Same can be said for most of the big cable channels.
They'll just merge with a streaming service then. I think HBOMAX is probably the obvious answer since it's WB
I highly doubt that they will probably make there own streaming service as there’s a lot of good shows coming up the one I’m personally looking forward to is Villainous
Don’t they already have an app just make it a option like 5 dollars a month gets u all of CN or u can watch everything with commercials
@@themodestpineapple9236 uhhh I’m not sure actually for CN being the studio I wanna work for I sure do know a lot dont i XD
In my opinion, Disney is killing it atm with their cartoons, with modern CN in a *close* second, with OK KO, Craig of the Creek, Infinity Train, Villainous, Mao Mao and *sniff* Trick Moon
I thought Infinity Train was a CN cartoon?
I honestly thought my memory must be completely shot, and that toonami must have been a different network if you didn’t mention it haha.
No one gonna mention Star Wars: The Clone Wars....alr
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I feel like it's slept on way too much. My step dad, sister, and I watched that shit all the time. It was a banger, plus the movie that they put out was also dope.
There were so many great shows in the 10's, people just let nostalgia get in the way of considering that. I love the Infinity Train, so underrated
Which one. Tartakovsky or Filoni?
@@123GOHANZ Filoni
I would argue that Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast essentially established Adult Swim
Space ghost was one of the best cartoons they had
I miss old space ghost. I was too young but loved it anyways.
@@glennrugar9248 haha exactly. I loved the intro, always gave me a weird feeling.
The Glass Animals song? 😂
@@NStrdm22 lmao nah I think it's one of the 3d animated intros with that song probably.
From the 90’s-2000’s Cartoon Network was literally the golden times especially when it comes to Sweepstakes, Crossovers, Nick magazines and at Macy’s thanksgiving day parade. Up to early 2010’s it still was great except for Teen Titans go.
They made the most money between 2005 and 2010 because I’ve been 10 they made so much money. It was unbelievable. Actually Ben 10 kept going until past 10.
y'all remember the time that cartoon network only air Johnny Test. I can still hear the whip cracking sound effects to this day.
those were dark times
I just had the theme song playing in my head omg
Omg yes. Why did they do that? Was it popular? It has no cultural relevance as far as I know except just to be made fun of
It fell because Dragon ball Z ended in 04 I believe. Dragon ball Z/Toonami was the biggest reason for Cartoon Networks success.
You stopped watching when Adult Swim came on?
I was a kid and I would watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast with my dad at those hours. Plus there were more cartoons like Home Movies and Sealab 2021.
I still remember being a kid and hearing H. Jon Benjamin's voice explaining "liquor before beer". I watched way too much TV as a kid.
I loved Adult Swim. I was in my 20's when it first started so I loved those shows.
Especially the anime and joined the message board in 2004.
Adult Swim certainly has done enough for Company Man to give it its own video for its rise and fall. I’m not sure what should be considered the rise though
Yea this makes no sense to me either. The start of adult swim was prime Cartoon Network
When I was like 8 we would attempt to stay up to like 11 to watch aqua teen hunger force, but we only succeeded like never
Sealab 2021 and Space Ghost are classics!
I know I'm 3 years late, but I would argue that space Ghost was in fact influential for cartoon network. It was the early blueprint for what would become basic adult swim programming.
I can't believe I didn't find this channel
for so long.
Man, I grew up with this channel in the late 2000's. Ben 10 was my jam, to the point of defining my childhood.
I loved their action cartoons around the turn of the decade. Great lineup, even though they all flopped. Generator rex was awesome, Symbiotic titan was cool...
The finale to batman: the brave and the bold will always stick with me, partly from a sense of "wait, it's over? but it can't be! what about equinox? where's the big final battle? It can't end!" but also because it was such a mindfuck to basically break the fourth wall and go "so here's why we're closing up shop."
I spent countless hours on the website, playing flash games. I loved the event they made the beginning of ben 10: alien force out to be, or how the season two finale to that show felt like the equivalent to the avengers movies years later, or that generator rex crossover...
Hell, I didn't (and still don't) even like total drama island, but in retrospect, it was cool to hear who would win the show being debated on the bus ride to school.
Foster's was awesome, KND was awesome, courage was terrifying...
Damn, I can't wait till mid-to-late 2000's nostalgia is culturally relevant.
I love all of them but now we've a ton of shit ones
@@Redman_real no
Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends and Codename: Kids Next Door were two of the best cartoons on television. Other than SpongeBob on Nick and Dave the Barbarian on Disney, my favorite cartoons were on Cartoon Network. I remember vividly that drum beat that ended with the whispered, “Cartoon Cartoons!” Such a great time period at the beginning of the fall. Unfortunately, for me, there has never been a rise. It was nice when there was an even amount of old and new content. I miss the late ‘90s Cartoon Network.
The late 90s and 2000s were the golden age up until 2009
Post 2010 with Adventure time , the regular show, Gumball and Steven Universe Was my favorite era... Although I loved Billy and Mandy and Fosters home, The new shows had story lines and character arcs. I loved that so much! It made me want to come back and see what the next thing to happen would be!
Man, this took me down memory lane. Excellent video. Bravo.
This is the only video where I literally knew everything he said before he said it hahaha
Foreal tho
Back in the 90s CN experienced their highest ratings in their history when Dragon Ball Z was premiering never before seen episodes during the Namek saga. Also it shouldn't be underplayed how big a hand CN played at introducing anime to the US: Sailor Moon, DBZ, are two of the biggest names and most saw them first through CN.
They had a deal with Spirited Away and other Ghibli for a while as well (that was how I found out about it, although apparently Disney was the first to release Spirited Away on US video).
Don't forget how Adult Swim still airs dubbed anime to this day, though in the era of simuldubs, Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Netflix, it matters far less.
I was waiting for him to mention Toonami
@@TheYoungSlum i was alao waiting for this and he didn't tell any of the anime part which is the reason where adult also liking to watch cartoon andanime as well .
Dragon Ball Z’s ratings were HUGE when Goku turned Super Saiyan for the first time ever in the West in late 1999.
I miss the Era when cartoons did crossovers in commercials like they were all going to the office to do a normal 40 hour week
As a kid, I used to watch Sailor Moon and DBZ on Cartoon Network almost all the time in the late 90's and early 2000's. They were also one of the most popular animated shows in the U.S. at that time. Also Powerpuff Girls, Pokemon and some of the "Cartoon Cartoons" such as Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab and Cow and Chicken were very popular as well.
Toonami era was good too. I’m glad Adult Swim had anime and introduced me to one of my favs Detective Conan.
I loved that show
Yesss what ever happened to case closed!! :(
Take 21 Productions Funimation dubbed quite a bit but took it down from their site unfortunately. Wish they completed it but the demand was not high enough.
Julius Thompson I’m so sad, I feel like it’s lost forever. Honestly one of the best mystery anime’s or just shows in general.
Its still going on in japan i think
my man really had the AUDACITY TO NOT EVEN GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO MY BOY CHOWDER
Rada Rada Rada!!!
I loved Chowder 🥺
My mum loves chowder
why didn’t they put chowder
And flap jack
Oh my God, I forgot about that Fred parking space skit. Born early 90s, I'm with you, cartoon cartoons was the best era. It's practically the signature to my childhood. The punchy tune with followed by a signature character❤
I know I am late to the party, but could you do Harmony Gold? The fact that they are so litigious I think makes them one of the most hated companies - especially in the world of anime and the "controversy" of Robotech. In fact, the whole story of Robotech could be interesting in review of the business aspects of anime - especially in the earlier years.
Imagine Ben10 not even getting a mention. THE SLANDER!
YEAH ITS LITERALLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SHOW ON CARTOON NETWORK (literally you can't talk about cartoon network without ben 10)
Exactly.
It's outrageous
This video made me doubt myself if ben 10 is part of CN how can he not mention it once tho
@@carlageee yeah, the show literally made 6 billion in retail and revenue it's way more succesful than any cartoon CN has aired, even more succesful than regular show or adventure time
Same thing with clone wars for me:,(
You didn't even mention Toonami! That's where so many of us saw our first anime and fell in love with it! I was so hooked on Sailor Moon as a kid that it was my first piece of what they like to call 'appointment television.' There was no way I wasn't in front of the TV when 4 PM hit unless for some reason I was out with family or something after school. Even then i recorded it religiously. That's what Cartoon Network really means to me.
Speaking of anime, I'd love a video on Shonen Jump. They're the ones behind stuff like Dragon Ball Z, YuGiOh, Naruto, One Piece, all the way to stuff like Devilman and JoJo.
Toonami really drove the post-Cartoon Cartoon era of Cartoon Network, when it thrived and when it fell.
I was in college when Adult Swim started, and specifically, when the Toonami Midnight Run became what we thought of Adult Swim on Saturday nights.
The Starz Action Channel did a similar programming block, “Animidnight”, along with The International Channel being rebranded to G4 TV, primarily as the gamer/otaku channel, since it was subbed and dubbed anime that attracted most viewers.
If you want to look specifically what boosted CN into the stratosphere and influenced an entire generation, it was Toonami airing “Dragonball Z”, “Sailor Moon”, and their biggest hit, “Gundam Wing”.
The popularity of Wing is what motivated them to seek out more 90s anime that was finally becoming mainstream thanks to Suncoast Video at malls across the US, forums on the internet where anime could be discussed, and, arguably, Saban and Fox proving Japanese entertainment could be branded and succeed in America in the form of the Power Rangers.
The MAIN reason for Cartoon Network's success ... that Anne Murray commercial that used to play 24/7
When "King of the Hill" came on, you knew that you were up too late.
What's funny is that is one of my favorite shows now
I mostly saw King of The Hill on FX
@@thestranger9608 yeah on FX i dont think i ever seen it in CN
@@michaelcjohnsonmj it would air at midnight then at 4 am on adult swim. FX is were i saw it the most. Still remember those that 70s show and cops marathon
@@thestranger9608 what year because I remember Aquateen Hunger Force, Cowboy Bebop, Home Movies, Samurai Jack, Futurama, and many more
"Space Ghost Coast to Coast didn't have a huge impact on the network"??? Dude, it CREATED ADULT SWIM!!!!"
Most of the people that worked on that show were integral to Adult Swim. A lot of the early Adult Swim shows were heavily inspired by SGCTC's style such as Harvey Birdman and Sealab. It's like saying that Dragon Ball Z didn't have an impact on the network. lol.
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast was a great show. Adult Swim wouldn't have been the same without it.
I was just thinking that.
It has been massively influential. It is cited as an inspiration for the Eric Andre show
Fair enough. I should have said it didn't have much of an INITIAL impact.
Cartoon Cartoon was probably my favorite timeframe, but The Adult Swim lineup, especially in the earlier 2000’s was definitely what I watched the most consistently. Not the Saturday night anime lineup, but the two hour block before that and then the Sunday night lineup too. Stuff like Sealab 2021, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Boondocks, The Brak Show, Venture Brothers, and Space Ghost coast to coast. Then later on with Futurama, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Rick & Mitty, and Black Dynamite.
I just feel like Cartoon Network has changed a lot just like other channels
power puff girls, courage the dog, ed edd n eddy, dexters laboratory, fosters home, the regular show, adventure time, the amazing wold of gumball and Steven universe are all elite shows the literally made my childhood and it makes me sad that the networks most likely gonna die soon.
Steven universe WAS an really awesome show but I don't know man, it changed.
Nah I didn't like Steven universe
The style was too ugly. I loved ugly cartoon characters like courage the cowardly dog and ed,edd,eddy but steven universe was just too much
"makes me sad that the networks most likely gonna die soon."
That is not even close to the case, and I really do not understand how you even came to that conclusion.
@@Morty143 Then you missed out because it's literally one of the best animated shows of all time. Also, no it does not look "ugly" what the hell are you talking about? The art style was AMAZING for it.
@@ajaxpinecone.2993 Not really, no. No it didn't. It remained the same show right up to the end. What are you talking about?
They no longer have variety of shows like the 2000’s
Yeah
Or the early 2010’s...
Ben 10 was the last great cartoon, anything later is just children's play
@@pkthefirst1524 late 2k mostly
@@spac18 Aww that was such a good show. I'm gonna go watch it now.
For those who don't want to watch the whole video. Basically we were kids, then we grew up and it declined, then we had kids and it got more popular again.
I miss their “June Bugs” nonstop bugs bunny during the month of June, obvy lol