Cartoon Network's 20th birthday!

[Kyanbu The Legend]

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/birthday/

That's right folks, today marks 20 years of cartoon network!

To celebrate this great day, CN has been airing episodes of some of it's old hit shows! All leading up to a brand new season premeir of "Regular Show" one of their current big hits.


So I think this is as good a time as any for us to take a trip down memory lane and share all of our childhood favs on this network and the times when CN use to be pretty good.


Personally would be nice to see Megas XLR, Samurai Jack, and Simbionic Titan get some love. But it doesn't look like those shows were even mentioned at all this past month. Oh well at least they're showing some of their other gems.

[mauve]

Things I'd like to see:
-The old CN bumpers; the ones with all the Cartoon Cartoon stars and classic characters interacting with each other. I miss those.
-The original Dexter's Lab. The later seasons had a different voice actor and different art style, and I remember not liking it as much.
-Johnny Bravo.
-There was a show about theree time travellers I used to like... called Time Squad or something?
-Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
-Two Stupid Dogs
-Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
-Some of the old classics: Wacky Races, Thundercats, Pirates of Dark Water, etc.

[Flarecobra]

What Mauve said, basically.

[Bum Bill Bee]

What Double M said, minus Foster's and Time Squad, and more emphasis on Pirates of Dark Water.

Mind you, I've been able to like some of their new/newer shows enough. Cut out the inane morning anime and there could be room to give everyone some love.

[Magus]

They should just run like 4 hour blocks of MGM and Schlesinger/Warner Bros. cartoons like they did back when they first started.

[Bells]

-28kd6cHX3s

And that's that!

[Aerozord]

WHAT?

I missed all this? but, I even had the day off and, was looking for stuff to watch and relax and.... *headdesk*

[walkertexasdruid]

Cartoon Network introduced me to Dragon Ball Z, I will always be happy about that.

[mauve]

I know CN still (or used to, anyway) plays Ed, Edd and Eddy on occasion, and I remember once they had a Johnny Test / Johnny Bravo double marathon (I'll bet you can guess which one I WASN'T watching!) and I've even seen them play a few episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog. I would love it if they'd just toss in a few more of the old ones occasionally, even if it was just like one Saturday a month they'd show a few episodes of an old show for like an hour. They could rotate shows: Dexter one day, then a day for Cow and Chicken or Sheep in the Big City or Powerpuff Girls. ("But Mauve, if we did that, we'd have nothing to play on Boomerang, the channel that only those with the super fancy cable/satellite packages get!") That'd be rad. It'd certainly get ME to watch more Cartoon Network.



Oh! Also! Does anyone else remember the April Fools Day when CN played the SAME cartoon over and over again the entire day? The one about the singing owl?

[Aerozord]

and I thought I was the onlyo ne that remembered Sheep in the Big City. Most memorable for having a literal plot device

[greed]

Things I'd like to see:
-The old CN bumpers; the ones with all the Cartoon Cartoon stars and classic characters interacting with each other. I miss those.
-The original Dexter's Lab. The later seasons had a different voice actor and different art style, and I remember not liking it as much.
-Johnny Bravo.
-There was a show about theree time travellers I used to like... called Time Squad or something?
-Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
-Two Stupid Dogs
-Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
-Some of the old classics: Wacky Races, Thundercats, Pirates of Dark Water, etc.


Don't you guys have Boomerang? All it does is play what CN played in the 90s. Is this a rare case of Australian TV beating American?

[Flarecobra]

I do, but we're talking JUST the Cartoon Network channel it seems.

[akaSM]

Don't you guys have Boomerang? All it does is play what CN played in the 90s. Is this a rare case of Australian TV beating American?

We have that one over here, it had all those glorious cartoons. Then, it became yet another tween network (http://www.boomerangla.com/).

Then, this (http://www.tooncast.tv/) happened. Also, no commercials in that channel IIRC.

AT

ALL

The Tooncast site has 2 languages, spanish and portuguese, which tells me that the channel isn't available in english speaking countries. Still, I can watch them cartoons in english just fine if I mess around with my tv box thingy's options.

Also, Mauve, it has those cartoons interacting with each other things, the cartoon music videos and even good ol' silly things like Frothy Dawg and Captain Linger.

[mauve]

I don't have Boomerang; it's only available in the Super Duper Fancy Expensive cable package in my area. I only get to watch it when my provider gives everyone free preview weekends, which is rare.

Same goes with The Hub. :(

[Aerozord]

I dont even think my cable company has it in their super expensive package

[mauve]

Cuz, y'know, a channel that features nothing but old cartoons and the same four bumpers from the early 2000's must cost so much to keep up and running that they can only justify its existance by putting it in the most expensive cable package, if any at all.

Y'know, not paying for writers or having to acquire new seasons of shows can be so costly.

[synkr0nized]

No

It's more that an extremely niche network isn't going to draw in anyone looking to purchase advertising time slots. By putting it in a more expensive package, a cable company is in a way offsetting that and making at least something off that channel.

[Flarecobra]

I feel a need to post these.

Right now:
http://sadpanda.us/images/1220481-O1XEZAQ.png
Quite a few hours from now:
http://sadpanda.us/images/1220480-YCAYB2W.png

[Magus]

Ironically, I have Dish Network, which other than their fiasco with AMC (which they made up for by giving me money to buy episodes of Breaking Bad off of Amazon), has Boomerang in their crappy 20 dollar package I have so I qualify to get HBO (can't wait until they separate HBO out from cable packages, but I guess HBO likes that stability or something), but DOESN'T have Cartoon Network.

Note: By crappy I meant actually pretty good since it also has HUB, Comedy Central, History, etc. I'm not sure if they still offer it to new customers, actually, since it's okay for the 20 dollars. Much better than the 40 dollar one that has basically the same selection, I think? Just more channels I don't watch at all.

[walkertexasdruid]

I miss Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.