WB has gone through phases with their animation too. For a while they had some stuff like Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Earthworm Jim. It didn't last long, but they had a show called Loonatics* which was basically combining Looney Tunes with X-Men.
Cartoon Network did a Duck Dodgers cartoon a while back that was pretty decent, but their new Looney Tunes show was awful. They basically tried to force it into being a sitcom with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny living in the same house. There was a newer Johnny Quest cartoon in the late 90's or so, and it was pretty good. Nothing like that garbage Johnny Test cartoon.
Until they rebooted it Ben 10 series was good, but went downhill with Omniverse. I think they should have just gone on to the Ben 10,000 stuff that they had hinted at since the original series instead of making Omniverse, or the rebooted junk.
It didn't last long, but Secret Saturdays was pretty good, and Generator Rex was decent during the time I got to watch it. Symbionic Titan was great, but they cancelled it because they couldn't come up with ideas for toys, and it was a show with giant robots and aliens. I mean come on guys, it's not that hard to make toys for something like that.
A long time ago I watched something called Card Captors, and that was interesting. Sonic X was a pretty good adaptation of the Sonic Adventure game series although they did make it kind of weird that it was all because they were in a different dimension. Once they returned "home" things got pretty strange.
I can't remember what it was called, but a really long time ago I remember some anime** show that was basically a collection of folk tales. The one that I actually remember involved a little boy getting turned into a deer by a witch, and his sister trying to find him to change him back to normal.
There was also a movie of Little Nemo, which I never would have known was from some really old newspaper comics if I hadn't been looking through some really old stuff at my school.
Nickelodeon had some good stuff like Angry Beavers, Invader Zim, and more recently their TMNT cartoon. I liked the earlier episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, but later episodes just didn't seem anywhere near as funny. More often they were just disturbing, like the one where Squidward gets his face injured and it somehow makes him more "handsome" each time he gets hit.
I actually like Street Sharks despite it being a rip-off of TMNT. In fact that might be why I liked it. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I used to watch Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa. It probably was pretty bad.
Bonkers was pretty good. Reminded me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit to a degree.
Another cartoon cancelled too early was Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes. They shut it down very quickly after Disney bought Marvel. They also did the same to Spectacular Spider-Man, which had kind of weird looking animation, it was pretty good. The voice actor for Green Goblin was really good, I'll have to check who he was. He was perfect for the part, like Mark Hamil was perfect for the role of The Joker in Batman the Animated Series. If it wasn't him, I think he might have been trying to imitate him to a degree.
*Might have had the word Unleashed in the title.
**Well, I think it was anime, but some animation styles can blur the distinction a bit.
Cartoon Network did a Duck Dodgers cartoon a while back that was pretty decent, but their new Looney Tunes show was awful. They basically tried to force it into being a sitcom with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny living in the same house. There was a newer Johnny Quest cartoon in the late 90's or so, and it was pretty good. Nothing like that garbage Johnny Test cartoon.
Until they rebooted it Ben 10 series was good, but went downhill with Omniverse. I think they should have just gone on to the Ben 10,000 stuff that they had hinted at since the original series instead of making Omniverse, or the rebooted junk.
It didn't last long, but Secret Saturdays was pretty good, and Generator Rex was decent during the time I got to watch it. Symbionic Titan was great, but they cancelled it because they couldn't come up with ideas for toys, and it was a show with giant robots and aliens. I mean come on guys, it's not that hard to make toys for something like that.
A long time ago I watched something called Card Captors, and that was interesting. Sonic X was a pretty good adaptation of the Sonic Adventure game series although they did make it kind of weird that it was all because they were in a different dimension. Once they returned "home" things got pretty strange.
I can't remember what it was called, but a really long time ago I remember some anime** show that was basically a collection of folk tales. The one that I actually remember involved a little boy getting turned into a deer by a witch, and his sister trying to find him to change him back to normal.
There was also a movie of Little Nemo, which I never would have known was from some really old newspaper comics if I hadn't been looking through some really old stuff at my school.
Nickelodeon had some good stuff like Angry Beavers, Invader Zim, and more recently their TMNT cartoon. I liked the earlier episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, but later episodes just didn't seem anywhere near as funny. More often they were just disturbing, like the one where Squidward gets his face injured and it somehow makes him more "handsome" each time he gets hit.
I actually like Street Sharks despite it being a rip-off of TMNT. In fact that might be why I liked it. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I used to watch Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa. It probably was pretty bad.
Bonkers was pretty good. Reminded me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit to a degree.
Another cartoon cancelled too early was Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes. They shut it down very quickly after Disney bought Marvel. They also did the same to Spectacular Spider-Man, which had kind of weird looking animation, it was pretty good. The voice actor for Green Goblin was really good, I'll have to check who he was. He was perfect for the part, like Mark Hamil was perfect for the role of The Joker in Batman the Animated Series. If it wasn't him, I think he might have been trying to imitate him to a degree.
*Might have had the word Unleashed in the title.
**Well, I think it was anime, but some animation styles can blur the distinction a bit.
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