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[Bgamer90]

yup

it's pretty funny/sad. you have people saying that they were 2 yrs old (yes, there are actually people talking about being 2 fucking years old) and had memories therefore they are in the same boat as us born much before them...lol

Who is saying they are in the same boat as people who were teens/adults back then? I don't see anyone that was < 13 years old before the year 2000 doing that.

People can be nostalgic for different periods of their life. Kid, pre-teen, teen, young adult, adult, etc. I don't see why it's such a problem.

Edit: Add to add on to my previous examples, I went to see both The Lion King and Toy Story during their opening weeks in theaters; still have many memories of seeing both movies in the theater to this day. Yet I can't feel nostalgic about that time just because I wasn't a teen? Really?

 

[Foaloal]

I'm not even sure why this is a hard concept to grasp for anyone on this of all forums. You have none of the anticipation, hype, conversation, etc when you are getting a box of old games from your uncle or a garage sale 5-10 years after the fact, even if you cherish said games while playing them. The context is different.

[snip]

The same goes for movies, music, and culture. It can still be enjoyed after the fact, but you miss out on some of the context.

Thank you for making an argument with supporting reasoning.

You asked why it's a hard concept for anyone to grasp on forums, but the posts I'd read in the thread did not really explain themselves and mostly made bold statements with little explanation or support. I did not read anywhere near all of the posts in this thread though, so excuse me for that.

Basically what you are saying is that both hype/anticipation and context are the differentiators that separate the experiences of children (under 10, as defined by the separation by what decade you're born in) and young adults (10-20).

While I fully agree that hype/anticipation does play a large role in how big an event is for somebody and how much of an impact it has on their life (I don't know how anyone could disagree with this) I'm not sure that most people born in the '80s were actively anticipating and hyped up for, say, the Saturn or PS1. Therefore I do not believe that just because they were older it automatically makes their experience more accurate, prominent, important, or whatever than somebody born in the decade after them.

As for your second point, context - with a blanket statement like "90s kid" you (not you, but the general you) are including a wide range of ages.

Personally I distinctly remember being hyped up for Pokemon Gold/Silver when they released in 2000. But why was I hyped up for those games? Because I got Pokemon Red and a GBC in late 1998/early 1999 (probably christmas or my birthday) and I'd been playing Pokemon along with everyone else in the world. So by 5-6 years old I was experiencing things "in context" and by 7 I was anticipating/getting hyped for things. Take somebody born in 1990 and they'd be able to be anticipating and experiencing things in context from from 1996-7 onwards.

Whats funny/sad is the fact you are telling people what they cant and can feel. Nostalgia is not a set experience for everyone and for you to make other peoples memories irrelevant compared to your own shows just how low you are willing to go just to prove a point. I was born in 1991, and remember pretty much everything cartoon/game/movie/toy from 1995 and onwards

Basically this, although with the powers of empathy I'm able to understand why WorldStar sees things the way he does.

lol, i don't doubt that he can remember 2 or 3 or even 4 memories from the 90s

this does not even closely surmount to what is required to be nostalgic about something

he does not have a coherent consistent stream of memories that accurately represent how the 90s went down. same as how i have lots of random memories from the 80s but would never consider myself a 80s kid nor be nostalgic about the 80s

This is the main post that I originally found issue with. It seems to say that you literally cannot possibly feel nostalgia for something from the decade you are born in, and that at best you might have a handful of memories from that time. This might be true for some people, but it is not for everybody and I feel it has been presented as a "one size fits all" blanket statement which I take issue with as somebody who, apparently, has a much better memory than average.

tl;dr: longwinded post on why I don't want to be told my nostalgia isn't real.

 

[A_Gorilla]

Because Columbine and 9/11 happened at the end of the 90s, and even as a kid I realized the world was not a happy place anymore (I was born in 1990 btw)

 

[harSon]

The new cool thing in nostalgia is to pretend you are older than you are. You don't know how many kids born in 89' say they are "Totally rad 80's kids" on this board.


You must be from the 80's to know what a shitty, preachy, boring ass person this was!

Eh, I kind of identify with both the 80s and 90s, and I was born in 1988. My family was poor growing up, so a lot of the toys/cartoons/movies that I grew up with were hand me downs from my older brothers who were 80s kids.

 

[MBS]

People are nostalgic about whatever decade they were born in. Who doesn't reminisce about being a kid?

Not exactly. '60s/ '70s-raised kids (our parents) are often bitter about their childhood, compare a child growing up in 60's to a child growing up in the media frenzy and economic boom of '90s. These kids didn't have the swag that we had when we were growning up. Still, even the middle-aged people have nostalgia about the '90s, mainly because of the great economic climate of that time.

I was born in '92, remember everything after '97 in detail. Great times. When TV, music, and movies were at their absolute peak, before Internet/heavy piracy sucked all the good out of them.

The shows, the toys, the videogames, the movies, it was like a dream. I remember the Poke-mania, the first episode of the anime (Pikachu i choose you, and the Nidorino vs. Gengar sequence), N64, PS1, Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo, the Backstreet Boys frenzy, the mainstream rise of Diddy, the shiny suit music video era, the "decent" MTV, the original and fun movies (not the remake fest of today), the second Toy Story, the Titanic (and DiCaprio) mania, the original Matrix, and the list goes on.

I don't know, it all went downhill after 9/11, what a depressing moment in human history. The Afgan/Iraq wars, the 2008 recession, it's feels like a modern Medieval Period now. While we are taking leaps forward in technology and science, we simply forgot how to live like we supposed to. I mean, just go to a random party and you 'll get the picture: we're all so busy texting that we forgot how to talk to each other, and this is really depressing.

I want my '90s back :/

(Although i enjoyed my time around mid-'00s when the HD/broadband era started, still nothing tops the 90's vibe though. I would give up all the comforts of today (smartphones/socialmedia/broadband), just to return at that era).

 

[BocoDragon]

Not exactly. '60s/ '70s-raised kids (our parents) are often bitter about their childhood, compare a child growing up in 60's to a child growing up in the media frenzy and economic boom of '90s. These kids didn't have the swag that we had when we were growning up. Still, even the middle-aged people have nostalgia about the '90s, mainly because of the great economic climate of that time.

I was born in '92, remember everything after '97 in detail. Great times. When TV, music, and movies were at their absolute peak, before Internet/heavy piracy sucked all the good out of them.

The shows, the toys, the videogames, the movies, it was like a dream. I remember the Poke-mania, the first episode of the anime (Pikachu i choose you, and the Nidorino vs. Gengar sequence), N64, PS1, Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo, the Backstreet Boys frenzy, the mainstream rise of Diddy, the shiny suit music video era, the "decent" MTV, the original and fun movies (not the remake fest of today), the second Toy Story, the Titanic (and DiCaprio) mania, the original Matrix, and the list goes on.

I don't know, it all went downhill after 9/11, what a depressing moment in human history. The Afgan/Iraq wars, the 2008 recession, it's feels like a modern Medieval Period now. While we are taking leaps forward in technology and science, we simply forgot how to live like we supposed to. I mean, just go to a random party and you 'll get the picture: we're all so busy texting that we forgot how to talk to each other, and this is really depressing.

I want my '90s back :/

Sounds to me like you'd agree with Agent Smith that 1999 was "the peak of your civilization"

I think you're fucking high on rose colored glasses though. I mean I was a teen then, I'm very fond of that era (FFVII and Hello Nasty, yes please), but aside from the global conflict stuff, so much good has come from culture since 2000.

I prefer this world of dubstep and smartphones actually. I remember spending a lot of the 90s bored as fuck and hating what mainstream music was giving us.. And I think film and TV is better since then.

I also want to thank internet communication for gluing together my most cherished relationships. People drifted away more easily back then. Now I feel like we're all connected in a big global party. This is the peak of civilization in another sense.

 

[KalBalboa]

"Staple of 90s television"
Only three episodes aired in the last couple of months of 1999

what

Precisely. This thread reminded me of how obnoxious it got.

 

[Giolon]

Sounds to me like you'd agree with Agent Smith that 1999 was "the peak of your civilization"

I think you're fucking high on rose colored glasses though. I mean I was a teen then, I'm very fond of that era (FFVII and Hello Nasty, yes please), but aside from the global conflict stuff, so much good has come from culture since 2000.

I prefer this world of dubstep and smartphones actually. I remember spending a lot of the 90s bored as fuck and hating what mainstream music was giving us.. And I think film and TV is better since then.

I also want to thank internet communication for gluing together my most cherished relationships. People drifted away more easily back then. Now I feel like we're all connected in a big global party. This is the peak of civilization in another sense.

Ehhhhhh.......I don't know....there was a time before Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian, Facebook, selfies, tweets, wars on terror, Call me Maybe. Can't I just go back to the kitchen and play Chrono Trigger until it's my brothers turn to use the TV?

There's a lot of stuff I'd give up my iPhone for.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

Can we at least all agree that out of the entirety of the 20th century, the 90's had the worst style?

Seriously it's like everyone gave up on looking nice for a decade. The clothes, the cars, even rich people looked like trash. I was born in 1990 and I don't get why everyone decided to dress and look like shit.

At least the music wasn't too bad.

 

[WorldStar]

Whats funny/sad is the fact you are telling people what they cant and can feel. Nostalgia is not a set experience for everyone and for you to make other peoples memories irrelevant compared to your own shows just how low you are willing to go just to prove a point. I was born in 1991, and remember pretty much everything cartoon/game/movie/toy from 1995 and onwards

lol, my most recent quotes were of several people saying they're nostalgic about being 2 years old

yeah, no...nostalgia isn't nearly as subjective as you think

if you talkin bout being nostalgic bout being 2 yrs old, ur stupid brah

 

[DarkFlow]

lol, my most recent quotes were of several people saying they're nostalgic about being 2 years old

yeah, no...nostalgia isn't nearly as subjective as you think

if you talkin bout being nostalgic bout being 2 yrs old, ur stupid brah

The fuck is this shit?

 

[WorldStar]

The fuck is this shit?

me calling someone stupid for thinking they can be nostalgic about being 2 years old...?

 

[Nvzman]

I'm not nostalgic at all about the 90's, even though I was born late in them (98'). But obviously I was too little for any of that to be memorable. However, I am extremely nostalgic for early 2000-2004 stuff (turn of the century).

 

[DarkFlow]

me calling someone stupid for thinking they can be nostalgic about being 2 years old...?

You don't need to be a asshole about it.

 

[WorldStar]

You don't need to be a asshole about it.

srry brah

 

[Arcayne]

You're right, OP.

Early 90s bird here: I have no meaningful and personal nostalgia for the 90s, but only immense appreciation for what came out of that decade via music, tv shows, cartoons, movies etc.

 

[InsanerBrainer]

I loved growing up in the 90s but I have the same feeling for the early 2000s as well. I miss not having responsibilities and just playing games and listening to music. I would gladly give up anything to go back to that time.

Born in 89 btw.

 

[WorldStar]

You're right, OP.

Early 90s bird here: I have no meaningful and personal nostalgia for the 90s, but only immense appreciation for what came out of that decade via music, tv shows, cartoons, movies etc.

i'm guessing this is what most early 90s brahs experience, yet mistakenly confuse it with nostalgia

if you are talking bout stuff from when you were 2 yrs old (like others have said in this thread), odds are you are not nostalgic about it but instead can just greatly appreciate it on some significant level

 

[BocoDragon]

Ehhhhhh.......I don't know....there was a time before Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian, Facebook, selfies, tweets, wars on terror, Call me Maybe. Can't I just go back to the kitchen and play Chrono Trigger until it's my brothers turn to use the TV?

There's a lot of stuff I'd give up my iPhone for.

Here's the thing, in the 90s, mainstream pop culture was the only entertainment.

In the late 2000s and 2010s, mainstream pop culture is only one of many options in a fragmented media landscape... and honestly the people who care about Kardashians and Miley are kind of the dummies.

Real culture today is EDM on SoundCloud, top-shelf TV shows like Breaking Bad on Netflix which has a dedicated audience who find each other on social media and have a large conversation even if the viewership is not supermassive, YouTube channels on Minecraft, the Joe Rogen Experience podcast, or really, whatever the fuck you want from your culture. You totally miss the point of 2010s culture if you're only looking at the celebrities on the dinosaurs that are cable TV and FM radio.

 

[terrisus]

Here's the thing, in the 90s, mainstream pop culture was the only entertainment.

Wait... what?

 

[WorldStar]

Wait... what?

all he needs to do is look at your avatar to realize how very, very, very, very wrong he is

 

[BocoDragon]

Wait... what?

As in, we had a limited number of media options on TV, film and radio. We were very much fed a limited amount of options

Now we don't. Whatever entertainment you want, you can seek it out through online means.

If you spent the last 5 years actually thinking about twerking, Kimye, and Bieber (assuming you hate it) you're doing modern culture wrong.

all he needs to do is look at your avatar to realize how very, very, very, very wrong he is

Chrono Trigger is mainstream as fuck - for videogames.

And now we have a million indie games for a million interests finding their audience via social media word of mouth, not revealed from on high by Nintendo Power. That's my point.

I love Chrono Trigger by the way, so its quality isn't in question here.

 

[terrisus]

As in, we had a limited number of media options on TV, film and radio. We were very much fed a limited amount of options

Now we don't. Whatever entertainment you want, you can seek it out through online means.

If you spent the last 5 years actually thinking about twerking, Kimye, and Bieber (assuming you hate it) you're doing modern culture wrong.

Well... I could seek things out on the internet in the 90s too...

And, even aside from the internet... I mean, between Electronics Boutique, Funcoland, various other video stores, and the large amount of rental shops, I could easily find a huge variety of games from many different systems.

I mean, heck, I rented Aerobiz Supersonic for SNES from the rental store down the street from me, and it became one of my favorite games.
If an airline management game is "mainstream," that's a pretty broad definition of "mainstream."

 

[WorldStar]

Chrono Trigger is mainstream as fuck - for videogames.

And now we have a million indie games for a million interests finding their audience via social media word of mouth, not revealed from on high by Nintendo Power. That's my point.

how is this at all relevant to a thread discussing 90s nostalgia?

 

[BocoDragon]

how is this at all relevant to a thread discussing nostalgia?

Because the discussion went that way organically?

It came from a counter-arugment to the idea that 90s culture is better than 2010s culture. You can't just compare 90s mainstream entertainment to 2010s mainstream entertainment and call it a day. There is so much more to the 2010s than the mainstream.

 

[terrisus]

Because the discussion went that way organically?

It came from a counter-arugment to the idea that 90s culture is better than 2010s culture. You can't just compare 90s mainstream entertainment to 2010s mainstream entertainment and call it a day. There is so much more to the 2010s than the mainstream.

And people who weren't actually around/old enough to be aware of stuff during the 90s are much more likely to have missed out on all of the awesome stuff outside of "mainstream culture" in the 90s than people who were.

So, sounds like that helps the OP's point.

 

[BocoDragon]

And people who weren't actually around/old enough to be aware of stuff during the 90s are much more likely to have missed out on all of the awesome stuff outside of "mainstream culture" in the 90s than people who were.

So, sounds like that helps the OP's point.

I guess in a roundabout way, it does.

 

[Trago]

I dunno, a lot of people in my age group are more nostalgic for late 90s-early 2000s stuff than the entirety of the 90's

I was born in '94 and I can only recall a lot of childhood memories from maybe 97 or 98 and onward. 2000s was more my decade. I think people should also keep in mind that there were a shit ton of shows from the 90s that were rerun during the 00s. So whenever I bring up, say, Rugrats and someone a few years older than I says "you never watch that you young'n!", they're straight up wrong lol.

I do agree that people my age shouldn't cling on to the entire decade when we didn't even fucking live through all of it.

 

[BocoDragon]

I was born in 84 and honestly... I do not claim first-hand experience of the 80s at all. It's entirely second-hand for me.

 

[mcflyOS]

TGIF

 

[Abounder]

Because of awesome reruns and hand-me-downs

 

[Trago]

There's also this trend of people born in the 90s who don't claim to be nostalgic for the 2000s.

That's a load of shit.

 

[BocoDragon]

There's also this trend of people born in the 90s who don't claim to be nostalgic for the 2000s.

That's a load of shit.

90s nostalgia wasn't really a meme thing until the late 2000s.

So check back with us at the end of the 2010s. I'm sure there will be Oculus VRlogs dedicated to 2000s shit.

 

[Pandaman]

Ehhhhhh.......I don't know....there was a time before Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian, Facebook, selfies, tweets, wars on terror, Call me Maybe. Can't I just go back to the kitchen and play Chrono Trigger until it's my brothers turn to use the TV?

There's a lot of stuff I'd give up my iPhone for.

if you cant remember stupid media shit from the 90s, you aren't trying hard enough.

 

[ShyGuy0504]

I consider myself a 90s/2000s kid.

I only remember the latter part of the 90s in any detail.

 

[Trago]

90s nostalgia wasn't really a meme thing until the late 2000s.

So check back with us at the end of the 2010s. I'm sure there will be Oculus VRlogs dedicated to 2000s shit.

We're kinda getting that with early 00s stuff currently. But yeah, there's gonna be a shift at the end of this decade.

 

[Trago]

I consider myself a 90s/2000s kid.

I only remember the latter part of the 90s in any detail.

It's sort of the same with me since I was born near the middle of the decade.

 

[BocoDragon]

We're kinda getting that with early 00s stuff currently. But yeah, there's gonna be a shift at the end of this decade.

I like certain things from the early 2000s (PS2 games leap to mind), but I certainly don't have any rosey happy nostalgia feeling from the era.

I wonder if it's too soon for that? Or if that feeling just doesn't come for those who were nearing or in adulthood at that time?

 

[DimmuBurgerKing]

I was born in '82, and I have fond memories of that decade. Remember watching He-Man and Thundercats when they were still big. Got a huge Castle Greyskull playset for my action figures one year. Got an NES, was majorly into G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. It's not TOO farfetched that a kid born in the 90's could have nostalgic memories like that.

I consider myself equally an 80's and 90's kid, to be honest.

 

[BocoDragon]

I was born in '82, and I have fond memories of that decade. Remember watching He-Man and Thundercats when they were still big. Got a huge Castle Greyskull playset for my action figures one year. Got an NES, was majorly into G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. It's not TOO farfetched that a kid born in the 90's could have nostalgic memories like that.

I consider myself equally an 80's and 90's kid, to be honest.

And myself, born 2 years later... I really don't have any truly 80s memories.

I remember seeing The Little Mermaid in theaters... that's probably my earliest pop culture memory, and that was 1989.

There was a time when I thought I had 80s memories, but really going over milestone happenings in my memory, The Little Mermaid is truly one of the earliest memories. I've been a lifelong NES fan, but it was really "early 90s" NES I remember, even though that included 80s games. Now I see why my parents wanted me to buy a SNES with my own allowance money. It must have come out only a year or two after I got NES.

If you were born in 95 or earlier? Sure, I believe you have true 90s memories. If you were born later? I imagine you filled in a lot of the blanks with later media.

 

[Trago]

I like certain things from the early 2000s (PS2 games leap to mind), but I certainly don't have any rosey happy nostalgia feeling from the era.

I wonder if it's too soon for that? Or if that feeling just doesn't come for those who were nearing or in adulthood at that time?

Pretty much that. If you were a kid in the early 00s, you had the Cartoon Network golden age, which included Toonami and the fucking plethora of anime being brought over. Spongebob Squarepants, Invader Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, Static Shock, X-Men Evolution, 00s TMNT, Digimon, Pokemon, Power Rangers, Yu-Gi-Oh, Samurai Jack, Genndy Wars, and a bunch of other cartoons and shows I don't feel like typing out.

Those are just television shows, and that's not counting the reruns of 90s shows, so I don't blame my age group for liking or getting nostalgic for reruns of 90s shows, because we watched them.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

Here's the thing I kinda forgive people for when it comes to this topic.

The 90's were made up of two very, very, very distinct halves. So I think when people born in the 90's are being nostalgic about the 90's, they are actually referring to the second half of it. I don't imagine kids born in 1992 are torn up about Kurt Cobain's death considering it happened when they were two years old. I would argue that 1988-1993 is as culturally different from 1994-2001 as the 70's were to the 60's. The reason I say the 90's started in 1988:

• * Black Monday in late 1987 signals the beginning of the end of the roaring 80's and the Reagan Years.
• * Bush winning in 1988
• * Communism really starts to break down in the late 80's with the fall of the Berlin Wall
• * The Tienanmen Square Massacre is and the Challenger Disaster were the first two major world events that were covered by the 24 hours news networks. The coverage of those two events legitimized them. They had their coming out party probably with the OJ thing in 1994 though.

As for how they are different.

The economy. The early 90's started off with a short but very severe recession. It was at this point that the consequences of Reaganomics were becoming apparent to everyone. Roseanne - a sitcom featuring two overweight middle America parents struggling financially to keep afloat was the Number 1 TV show in America for a period of time. Look at some of the defining works of entertainment from that time period: Slackers, Reality Bites, Generation X. All of these have a theme of young adults facing a terrible job market or a decaying manufacturing base in America. Economy starts to turn around around 1993 as the tech boom begins and the Clinton years go full speed ahead.

The late 90's in comparison is almost cartoonishly upbeat and positive. The economy is at full blast, interest rates are low, America is paying off the PRINCIPAL of it's debt (can you imagine that at one time, people were saying that we should avoid paying off the national debt too quickly?). So much of late 90's pop culture was about romanticizing an ideal or just...happy. At the time, it seemed kind of shallow but in a post 9/11 world, I think everyone kinda wished they could go back to enjoying bling bling era rap and summer blockbusters where America saves the world with soundtracks that featured the latest bubblegum pop.

 

[terrisus]

Pretty much that. If you were a kid in the early 00s, you had the Cartoon Network golden age, which included Toonami and the fucking plethora of anime being brought over.

You mean the death of Cartoon Network.
That network died when it became over-run with anime, pushing aside awesome shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and a whole bunch of others.

They're mostly now on Boomerang, leaving Cartoon Network as an abandoned shell of what it once was. Scooby-Doo's practically the only worthwhile thing left on it.

Spongebob Squarepants, Invader Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, Static Shock, X-Men Evolution, 00s TMNT, Digimon, Pokemon, Power Rangers, Yu-Gi-Oh, Samurai Jack, Genndy Wars, and a bunch of other cartoons and shows I don't feel like typing out.

Ugh.
With a horrible listing like that, I can see why people wouldn't want to be associated with such a lousy decade.

 

[BocoDragon]

Pretty much that. If you were a kid in the early 00s, you had the Cartoon Network golden age, which included Toonami and the fucking plethora of anime being brought over. Spongebob Squarepants, Invader Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, Static Shock, X-Men Evolution, 00s TMNT, Digimon, Pokemon, Power Rangers, Yu-Gi-Oh, Samurai Jack, Genndy Wars, and a bunch of other cartoons and shows I don't feel like typing out.

Those are just television shows, and that's not counting the reruns of 90s shows, so I don't blame my age group for liking or getting nostalgic for reruns of 90s shows, because we watched them.

Yup.. I am not that generation. None of those shows mean anything to me.

Well, except Batman Beyond and Samurai Jack... which I thought were watchable as a young adult, much as I enjoy Adventure Time today.

It's also interesting to see the gap between the generations' perception of anime. For older 90s kids, anime was an underground thing, found in the back of comic shops. The illicit stuff with nudity and sex was preferred. We definitely got an odd selection compared to what was in Japan. We thought it was all adult cartoons. I remember getting OVA video tapes and it was much the same as when we discovered weed and porn mags. Ninja Scroll, etc.

But your generation, post-Pokemon, anime was this thing on mainstream TV, and a lot of it was the kids stuff. I don't think it had the same foreign, illicit appeal at all. It was just cartoons. I know Toonami brought a lot of good shows to light though, and I would have watched it as an adult, but we didn't have it in Canada.

 

[Trago]

You mean the death of Cartoon Network.
That network died when it became over-run with anime, pushing aside awesome shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and a whole bunch of others.

They're mostly now on Boomerang, leaving Cartoon Network as an abandoned shell of what it once was. Scooby-Doo's practically the only worthwhile thing left on it.

Are you just going to ignore the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays shows like that? Lol

We had Dexters Lab, Jonny Bravo, The Power Puff Girls, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, I Am Wiesel, Time Squad, and a bunch of other original shows.

 

[terrisus]

Are you just going to ignore the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays shows like that? Lol

We had Dexters Lab, Jonny Bravo, The Power Puff Girls, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, I Am Wiesel, Time Squad, and a bunch of other original shows.

Ed, Edd 'n Eddy was the only good ones out of those.

Johnny Bravo was a bad Elvis impersonator, Time Squad was a blatant Sherman and Peabody ripoff, I Am Weasel was just an excuse for butt jokes.

Spoiler

And Powerpuff Girls was always fairly mediocre. Sorry >.>

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

I wonder if the 2000's will be looked upon as fondly as the 90's are today. The Bush Years left a lot of bad taste in people's mouths. 9/11, two seemingly never ending wars, the expansion of government powers, the overly patriotic blowback to fight terrorism and the jingoistic attitude of American foreign policy and it was promptly ended with one of the worst stock market collapses in recent memory.

 

[BocoDragon]

I wonder if the 2000's will be looked upon as fondly as the 90's are today. The Bush Years left a lot of bad taste in people's mouths. 9/11, two seemingly never ending wars, the expansion of government powers, the overly patriotic blowback to fight terrorism and the jingoistic attitude of American foreign policy and it was promptly ended with one of the worst stock market collapses in recent memory.

2001-2004 was a particularly bleak time.

But a little geopolitical malaise never hurt the appeal of the 60s.

 

[Trago]

Yup.. I am not that generation. None of those shows mean anything to me.

Well, except Batman Beyond and Samurai Jack... which I thought were watchable as a young adult, much as I enjoy Adventure Time today.

It's also interesting to see the gap between the generations' perception of anime. For older 90s kids, anime was an underground thing, found in the back of comic shops. The illicit stuff with nudity and sex was preferred. We definitely got an odd selection compared to what was in Japan. We thought it was all adult cartoons. I remember getting OVA video tapes and it was much the same as when we discovered weed and porn mags. Ninja Scroll, etc.

But your generation, post-Pokemon, anime was this thing on mainstream TV, and a lot of it was the kids stuff. I don't think it had the same foreign, illicit appeal at all. It was just cartoons. I know Toonami brought a lot of good shows to light though, and I would have watched it as an adult, but we didn't have it in Canada.

And see that's the thing, early 90s is waaaay different from late 90s. As you said, post-Pokemon kids pretty much lived anime and things like that.


It was a weird shift kinda.

 

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Ed, Edd 'n Eddy was the only good ones out of those.

Johnny Bravo was a bad Elvis impersonator, Time Squad was a blatant Sherman and Peabody ripoff, I Am Weasel was just an excuse for butt jokes.

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And Powerpuff Girls was always fairly mediocre. Sorry >.>

Johnny Bravo and Powerpuff Girls are also 90s. I remember a buddy of mine was Johnny Bravo on ICQ in 1998

But I know you're on a side-discussion about the quality of CN.