Fudgepuppy
Banned
Tried to rewatch Spider-Man a couple of years ago, just wasn't possible.
OP nailed it. I've realized that action cartoons tend to age horribly (Batman: TAS being the lone exception as far as American offerings go), but the comedies I loved as a kid I still love now (Looney Tunes, Rocko's Modern Life, Doug, Dexter's Lab, etc)
By now I was expecting it to be terrible, but a viewing of the Shout! DVD set confirmed...M.A.SK. is awful.
But here's the three-minute full theme song complete with second verse.
Old cartoons that are not crap upon watching as an adult include:
Beast Wars
Exo-Squad
Batman: TAS
Justice League
Superman (Really just all the Dini/Timm DC stuff)
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs
The Tick
The Real Ghostbusters
Certain parts of Robotech
I absolutely loved Scooby Doo. That show was pretty dumb in hindsight, but I guess it's ok.
Most stinky one of all:
Thanks for making Link a gigantic tool DiC(s).
TMNT episodes are mostly grating, but they are also sometimes peppered with genuinely funny forth-wall humor. At about season 7 they really started churning out some memorable episodes.
Man, just rewatching Spider-Man is depressing.
- Less frames of animation than a GIF
- Horribad 3D
- No emotion or substance to any of the stories
- Lip synching? What's that?
- Worst VA ever
- Lame crossovers and "epic" events with no logic or consequence
- Lemme just bang on the brass keys on this synthesizer BOOM soundtrack
They were shows for kids. I doubt their creators considered how they'd hold up to twenty-something message board users' scrutiny.
All of the Disney Afternoon classic shows were great and NOT shit.Anyone that says Darkwing Duck needs to be punched.
Sadly I agree with this one. And I grew up as a passionate Transformers fan. Collected countless of 'em. Even saw the movie in theaters the weekend it premiered and shed a tear when Optimus Prime died.Transformers.
Watching this as an adult was an eye opening experience. Everything about the show other than the concept itself was painful.
At least I can still enjoy the original animated film on a nostalgic level. I can't do the same with the cartoon.
I think that's more the kind of point to use when people are slamming some new kids cartoon, here it's interesting to look back and see just how bad some of this stuff we loved/liked really was, and what defied the trend and actually remained good. Fond as I am of 80s animation next to none of the cartoons from then really held up, I have to go to anime for as a substitute for the nostalgia fix. 90s cartoons seemed to fare better though, it almost seems like for every Spiderman there's a Batman, even if the reality's more like 10% aged well.They were shows for kids. I doubt their creators considered how they'd hold up to twenty-something message board users' scrutiny.
Yeah, some of that stuff that's poignant as a kid really isn't as an adult... though after an episode of the classic Astroboy on Adult Swim awhile back I wouldn't mind watching more sometime just for how ridiculous it got, IE booze gas.I found it as an adult, and I regret having found it. It felt so epic as a kid.
I... liked Garfield & Friends when I was around 7 years old. *ashamed*
Spider man TAS's voice acting is so bad, it somehow loops around back to awesome for me.
Barely made it through the first episode. Like meeting an old friend and realizing they're dying of cancer
Yu-Gi-Oh!I don't like to admit that it's shit though, but... :/
I was worried it might have turned out sucky.
Dragon ball Z, kind of, I read and liked the manga but I've always thought 80% of the show sucks thanks to the fillers, I watch it because I wanted to see the cool scenes in motion.
Captain Tsubasa too, they spend like an entire episode just running across the endless soccer field.
Also Digimon in all its incarnations. Jesus fuck are those shows hard to watch. Like looking back on your childhood and realizing you were frequently molested.
So awful
I tried to watch TMNT again and found the fight scenes to be lacking, and that was the only thing the show had going for it.
Hahaha, NO
They were shows for kids. I doubt their creators considered how they'd hold up to twenty-something message board users' scrutiny.
No he/she is right that show is crap, the 2003 version is better.Wrong on every level... every level.
Wrong on every level... every level.
This is not a good argument for anything. There were lots of shows that DO hold up today.