Animation Lookback Cartoon Network Part 7 Review, and Peanut Butter Podcast Commentary

Animation Lookback Cartoon Network Part 7


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Teen Titans News

Here you'll find all my Teen Titan News podcasts for #saveteentitans

Teen Titans is Back on Cartoon Network

Teen Titans Go Final Episode Fan Idea

How I think Teen Titans got back on Cartoon Network

Teen Titans All Next Week

WATCH OG TEEN TITANS ON CARTOON NETWORK

We Got More Teen Titans

Dexter's Lab was the First Bad Reboot

Teen Titans Go Classic?

Some Updates with #saveteentitans

Classic Titans, Teen Titans Go Review

Where are the Action Cartoons Cartoon Network?

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So if you don't know already, I'm a fan of cartoons and Cartoon Network. Animation is a great medium because you can do things in it that just look bad in live action (see Scott Pilgrim for an example of such failure, text review and rant podcast). So where do I go for my cartoon needs? Nickelodeon? No it's all Schider's Bakery right now, and SpongeBob. Disney Channel? LOL nope. DisneyXD? Well I don't get that channel unfortunately. Nicktoons? Getting closer but still no. It's Cartoon Network, the network for cartoons (except for those dark times). For years they had the mix of action and comedy, and in Courage's case, light horror. If you wanted action, there was Toonami. If you wanted comedy, there was cartoon cartoon Friday's. It was fun times.

In recent years we've fallen on some rough times. It's not just that Cartoon Network is giving all it's air time to a terrible cartoon that actively tries to be terrible, or that Cartoon Network is rebooting all it's popular action cartoons as comedies (Teen Titans Go, PowerPuff Girls 2016, and Ben 10 reboot), or that they have given up on anime and let the most popular anime franchise in North America go to their competitors (after 10 years of airing Pokémon, Cartoon Network didn't acquire the license to the Sun and Moon series and now it airs on DisneyXD); all of are symptomatic of a larger problem, Cartoon Network has given up on action.

Don't believe me? Lets look at what they did with their reboots. Lets look at the cartoons they rebooted for a new audience; Teen Titans, Powerpuff Girls, and Ben 10, all originally action cartoons. The reboots? All comedies. What about their original shows? Gumball, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, We Bear Bears, Clarence, and Adventure Time are all comedy based cartoons. The most action of them is probably Steven Universe, but even SU puts more focus on Steven just living his life, and not Steven trying to save the world. Where're the Samurai Jacks, or Megas XLR, or Transformers, or Symbiontic Titans? Boys like action.

"But action doesn't sell" you say. Really now? What are the highest grossing movies in recent years? Marvel super heroes and star wars. Who likes super heroes and star wars? Boys. What shows have successful toy lines? Action cartoons. No 7 year old wants to have Grizz, Ice Bear, and Panda toy sets where it's them going to the super market or going on dates; they want ninja turtle and foot clan action figures that they can make fight. They don't want to be normal gumball who is a normal kid in a weird world for Halloween, they want to be Optimums Prime. Boys have a natural attraction to gross and violent, so as Denis Leary said in Small Soldiers "don't call it violence, call it action, kids love action."

"Well action cartoons are just too expensive to produce, and just don't deliver the return on investment now adays." If you're basing your judgement on WB cartoons like Teen Titans, Young Justice, and Batman the Animated Series in comparison to Teen Titans Go, you have a point because the WB cartoons definitely had a larger budget. But lets look at the other reboots. Powerpuff Girls classic had fairly limited animation. They reused the same cycles and did a lot of moving "still frames" (no different drawing, just sliding stills apart to show emphasis). It was probably made on a similar budget as PPG 2016. I've seen internet critics make PPG 2016 "fight" scenes truer to the source by speeding up the video and adding in sound effects. Like, someone with a $100 budget was able to turn the comedy series of PPG 2016 into an action series just by making some small edits. It really isn't that hard. Ben 10 Reboot looks to have the same level of speed and detail as the original, but it just focuses on being funny instead of being super powerful. Plus, look what Nickelodeon and Disney did with their action cartoons. Nickelodeon made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with what looks like a rather limited TV budget still full of action when they need it to be. They just show the heavy fighting off screen and have the light fighting happen on screen. Star VS The Forces of Evil looks like it costs about as Teen Titans Go, but we still get all the delicious action of Star and Marco battling the monster of the week.

"But, we need to have a successful toy line for an action cartoon to be considered a success, and kids just don't want toys anymore." And how do you measure the success of a comedy cartoon that doesn't have a toy line? Looks to me like you gauge their success by ratings and ad revenue and episode sales. There is nothing stopping you from doing that with action cartoons.

"Uhhhh, parents are more adverse to letting their kids watch action than they are to comedy, so we want to make a cartoon that's the accessible." There is some merit to your argument. I remember my parents were rather strict with what I watched as a kid, and I do remember that there were more action cartoons on their "no list" than comedies, and more comedies on their "fine list" than action; but I think you're being a tad to cocky with that statement considering what you air. TTG is TV-PG, for parental guidance suggested, definitely not something I would be allowed to watch as a youngin. We Bear Bears would probably be considered too mature for me as it deals with teen issues and adult issues. Gumball would likely be considered too visually stimulating, and therefore not be appropriate. TMNT though would probably be fine because it's about good prevailing over evil.

Look, I know I'm not the target demographic for Cartoon Network. Turner networks would rather have me watch Adult Swim. I'm just saying that they need some variety, specifically in the action category. This has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

Young Justice Season 3 is Happening

Young Justice Season 3 is Happening by catholiccontriversy


That's right, young justice season 3 is happening, and it's all thanks to #rewnewyoungjustice and #keepbingingyj

Teen Titans Go Caped (AKA OG Teen Titans Abridged)

As an added bonus, here is what I was originally going to do for my review of TTG Caped

If it's not a good

If you don't already know, I don't like Teen Titans Go. Click here to catch up. I thought teen titans go sank to it's lowest with the "we actively avoid all things smart" interview and "we're making a kids show so we don't even have to try" attitude. But this, THIS! Teen Titans Go Caped. This is a new low.

Save the last minute, the ENTIRE episode is edited, redubbed clips from the original Teen Titans, that is in the same style as all the "youtube abridged" shows. They took clips, added "funny" dialogue that matches the clips, and made an 11 minute episode about Cyborg not wanting to wear a cape.

I...I...I don't know what to say. This is a "professionally" produced show. They have a budget. This isn't some "I loved the series many years ago, I have movie maker/imovie, some comedic wit, and lots of free time, so I'm going to make a youtube series" thing. This is airing on national television, and will be sold on video. They have the audacity to make youtube crap and say "this is a professional TV episode." (Please note that I use "youtube crap" lightly, because I know how hard it is to find the right clips to make a narrative, but this is a fan made passion project done on no budget, and I expect to get a product that reflects "fan made passion project done on no budget." I'm just saying "this is not professional content.")

But this, THIS! Is where it hits absolute rock bottom (at least I hope this is finally rock bottom). After the "OG Teen Titans Abridged" episode ends, we see the Go titans watching it on TV, and talking about how great it is and how "it's better than they remember." What? WHAT!? What is wrong with you. You are saying. That a "youtube abridged" series of the original. Is great. All this episode does, is remind us that the original series. Is better than your piece of crap. When your titans said "this is great." I can't help but think. That you're saying. "A crappy youtube series is better than us." It's. It's. I can't believe they did this. The writers and creators of this show have the largest brass pair in the world. Is this some sorry attempt at bringing in old fans? Is this some weird way to sell merch for the old show? Is this trying to bring back the original? I don't know. It's just SOOOOOO bad.

Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

Pokematic Reviews Teen Titans Go Lets Get Serious

So I just finished watching the Teen Titans Go episode, Lets Get Serious. I watched this a while ago back when it first aired (and I was still a fan of TTG), but had forgotten it. As a response to critics, I felt I had to watch it again. All I have to say, “how can you idiots get so close to understanding the problems with Go, but then completely miss the point?”

If you’ve been living under a rock, and missed my pastvideos on TTG, let me give you a little backstory. In the mid-2000s, there was an animated superhero show called Teen Titans. It followed the adventures of this 5 teen superhero team. It had action, comedy, 3 dimensional complex characters, and was great. It tackled complex issues like sacrificing oneself for your friends, feeling alienated from your close friends, the basics of humanity, and much more. It also had sillier episodes involving how to spend a day off and other fun with heavy use of chiibi reaction faces. It knew when to be light hearted, and when to do some serious character development. After 4 seasons it ran its course.

Fast forward 10 or so years and a new series called Young Justice comes along. This one also follows the adventures of a team of teenage superheroes, but this time it’s about the sidekicks to the justice league. This series was also a bit more serious than Teen Titans, lacking the chiibi reactions and “how to spend a day off” story plots. It had its moments of whimsy, but it wanted to tell the stories of these super teens trying to make a name for themselves outside of the shadows of their respective heroes.  It was great, and loved by fans and critics, but only ran 2 seasons due to poor toy sales with no hope of crowd funding saviors.

A couple months after it’s cancellation, another super hero show was born; but this time, a comedic teen titans that was chiibi all the time. They brought back all the voice actors from original teen titans, and it had promise to be a good comedy series about a pre-established franchise similar to Rock Lee Spin-off. Unfortunately it fell flat on that front and you can watch why here [not for fans but it is] and here [this show is stupid]. Naturally it drew some serious criticism, some valid and some not. The most prominent was “this show is too silly, the original show was more serious, young justice was more serious, and this show should be more serious.” Well, that’s how the creators interpreted it. Personally, I think the criticism was more along the lines of “the writing is terrible, it needs to be better,” which I explain here [this show is stupid], it did involve many instances of “to silly, more serious,” and that is where “Lets Get Serious” comes in.

This episode opens with The Titans fighting The Hive, and The Titans are failing because they keep making fart noises. Then Young Justice comes in and stops the Hive. Well, Aqualad, Superboy, and Miss Martian do since Robin and Beast Boy are titans. Aqualad says that their problem is that they are too silly, don’t know how to be serious, and their constant goofing off gives superheroes everywhere a bad name. While I would say that the problem is that we have episodes that do nothing but talk about the wonders of the bathroom and say girls are better than boys, there’s still good critique to be had about how they do nothing but try to be silly, to the point where it actively hurts their abilities to be super heroes.

Then we get what is probably the most valid criticism of all. After the Young Justice encounter, the Titans are resting back at the tower being extra goofy, and Robin is brooding and trying to be more serious and 3 dimensional. Then Robin brings up how Cyborg is half man half machine, and how that should be a major character point for him. And then there’s how Starfire is an alien of this planet and doesn’t understand Earth customs. There’s also a thing about Raven having to deal with being half demon in there somewhere, but I can’t remember if that’s now or later. This is where the criticism is most valid. These characters have great backstories and in all other versions have multi-dimensional characters, whereas Go is just 1 dimensional jokes and tropes. Teen Titans Go would benefit significantly from taking the character backgrounds and histories much more seriously. I’m not saying making the series more serious, but the writers taking the characters more seriously. Rock Lee Spin-off took the characters of Rock Lee, Ten Ten, Negi, Naruto, Tsunade, Orochi Maru, etc. seriously and made a hilarious series that was faithful to the original characters. Even in the whimsical zany world of Rock Lee Spinoff, the characters were still multi-dimensional. I’m sure the kids who love Teen Titans Go and buy the toys would love to see those aspects explored in the series, and you would probably stop most of the criticism and get some older fans to buy your merch as well as watch the show.

But then you fail, HARD! With all the characters now serious, they try to be a serious “dark knight” series. It worked a little when they fought the Hive, and the whole “we need to fight at night, because night is the most serious time to fight, even though I can’t see anything” joke made me chuckle, they failed on so many levels after that. In the tower they did contrived “I’m a deep character with emotional backstory forced on you through exposition,” and Beast Boy and Cyborg trying to solve the silly problem of “he drank my juice” with their new serious tone. Then there was Raven suddenly having trouble controlling her demon half and the team breaking up...because contrived serious Teen Titans tropes.

NOOOOOO!!! NO! NO! NO! That’s not what “make it more serious” is about, at least to make it good. Being serious with the fight scenes works because fighting is serious. It’s fighting for crying out loud. It can be silly like Rock Lee, but it works with serious. However, no one wants a conflict like “who drank my juice” to be handled in a serious manner. They want it to be handled in a way that is true to characters pre-established motives and personality and develops them individually and as a group, but they want it to be silly, like it was in Original Teen Titans. If Beast Boy drank Cyborgs juice in the original series, Cyborg would have reacted a little comically, Beast Boy would have had to deal with explaining why, and in the end their friendship would have been stronger after a slightly goofy episode. That’s what they want. Also, the multi-level character thing is done organically through character development, not forced exposition. We got great character development with the sillier episodes of Teen Titans, and in Rock Lee Spinoff, all while having silly. That’s why people love original Teen Titans and Young Justice, the great development of the characters. Then there’s the Raven demon powers and breaking-up of the titans, which I think was just a giant slap in the face since both of those were real problems in the original series that made the story really complex and grew the characters in amazing ways; and then Go just makes fun of them as “run of the mill serious show trope.” No, bad writers; go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.

See, this is why people don’t like Teen Titans Go. It’s not good, and it realizes it’s not good, but instead of making itself better, it just wants to say “screw you critics, we have stupid kids who love us.” It could be a REALLY great satire of super heroes and the Teen Titans just like Rock Lee Spin-off that’s funny on itself but funnier if you know the original. However, they went with “we’re stupid, we won’t even try to be witty with genius writing because who wants a show that works on multiple levels, is appealing to kids, teens, and adults with deep characters that are both serious and fun? No, low brow humor that alienates older fans is where it’s at.” Stop. Just. Stop. Go off the air already. You’re keeping every other series on the network from spreading it’s wings since you’re the only thing on anymore. Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

There is NO Variety in Childrens Entertainment Channels, and Pokematic Explains Why That's Bad.

I'm a bit disturbed by the lack of variety on channels like Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney XD, and Disney Channel.

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Before I jump in, this is NOT going to be a "everything was better in the 90s" blog, or about the quality of the shows on children's entertainment channels. There will be some mention of it, but this is true for all channels (except maybe FXX).

So I was walking to class one day and I had the realization that there is next to nothing on air on children's entertainment channels like Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney XD, and somewhat on Disney Channel. What am I talking about? Well I have shows that I watch on those channels. I like Steven Universe, Star VS the Forces of Evil, Girl Meets World, and...well I don't watch much Nickelodeon anymore, but I checked the schedule and it holds true; these channels don't show a wide variety of shows anymore, and that's a VERY bad thing.

At the time of writing this, Cartoon Network is going to air 3 different cartoons in a 9 hour period; Clarence, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Teen Titans Go, with TTG occupying about half that time.
In that same 9 hour period, Disney XD will air 6 different shows. Better but on other days I've seen it when it's just 4 shows.
Disney channel will air 5 shows, and Nickelodeon will be airing 6 shows.

Now obviously Cartoon Network is the worst, but the REAL problem is that most of the time these guys air 5 episodes in a row, and then mix in some stand alone episodes to bump up those numbers. For example, Nick is airing 9 episodes of Spongebob in a row. Now this is bad.

Here's what I'm talking about. Back in my day, these channels had 15 shows in their arsenal, many times more. Many series wouldn't air more than twice a day (once in the morning and once in the afternoon/evening). Maybe a Spongebob would air 3-4 times, and some only aired once a day. There were even a couple that didn't air every day and only aired a couple times a week. And the channels were MUCH better for it.

So why is it better? Why is it better to have 15+ series air in a day when you could focus on a couple core series? First off, more diverse viewer base. A common practice among professional investors is to diversify their assets; don't invest everything in 1 or 2 companies, put it into 20 different companies, or more if you can afford to. If all you have on is teen titans go, or COPS, or Spongebob, people won't switch to your channel to see what's on. If they don't like the 1 or 2 shows you're airing, they won't go to your channel. EVERYONE had that issue with G4 in it's late years. All they aired was COPS, and everyone that didn't like COPS stopped checking in on G4 because they knew it was just going to be COPS. If you have many different series, people will just turn away from the channel for that 30 minute period if there's a show they don't like, and then check back to see if it's something they like. If all you ever show is that 1 show they don't like, then they won't tune into the channel. If you bet everything on a couple series, you risk alienating potential viewers. If you air a wide variety of series, there is a much higher chance that a viewer will find something they like and stay loyal to the channel.

OK, but maybe you have the most popular series ever that all the kids love. Maybe you have a Spongebob that 90% of the target audience likes. Then why not air it all the time? Well now you're running into the risk of people getting episode burn-out. I love Star VS The Forces of Evil. I enjoy Teen Titans Go. However, won't watch the same episode 10 times. Back when Nickelodeon only aired Spongebob, iCarly, and Victorious in 2012, I liked all 3 series, but I began to dislike iCarly and Victorious because it was the same 20 episodes over and over again. Spongebob was OK because there were over 100 episodes available, but eventually it would get old because I would see the same episodes day in and day out. I'm getting the same experience with TTG and Star. I'm sure I'm not the only one. All the shows airing right now only have a couple seasons, which means 30 episodes at most. If you're airing the show 8 times a day, you're going to burn through your backlog in less than a week. If the series only airs twice a day, you're good for half a month before you have to rerun. And at that point, you were kind of ready to see the episode again.

Now one of the largest losses from this is the special that is the Marathon. When I was a kid, it was special to get 6-12 episodes in a row. It was something that was advertised. Recess back to school bash, spongebob summer splash, the nicktoon beach party; all marathons of 1 series, and you looked forward to it. Now, it's just normal.

Now here's the truly sad part, the channels don't have to limit themselves to a few series. They don't have to regularly marathon a couple series, cartoon network especially. All of these channels have a giant backlog of TV series in their arsenal. I'm not saying "bring back the 90s," but cartoon network could definitely air reruns of young justice and batman the brave and the bold. I'm not saying "revive the series and make new episodes," but you can rerun the hundreds of old episodes you have. After you air all the episodes, just take it off the air and replace it with a different series. They're alienating viewers and they don't have to. I just wish they would have a little more variety. Well this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

OK, I need to address FXX and Every Simpsons Ever Forever. For those of you who don't know, FXX is currently airing episodes of The Simpsons over and over again, in a perpetual marathon 5 days on and 2 days off. Here's why FXX can get away with it with the Simpsons forever; because there are 522 episodes of the Simpsons. When they did every Simpsons ever, it went on for 2 weeks strait, and no episodes were aired more than once. After that finished they do 12 hour marathons of The Simpsons 5 days a week. They continue to do every Simpsons ever because it's almost impossible to get episode fatigue when there are over 500 episodes to watch. I tune in and I don't think I've ever seen the same episode more than 3 times.

Pokematic reviews The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, the 2014 PPG special

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Craig McCracken, Hannah-Barbara, and a student film. These were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect cartoon. But Craig McCracken added an extra ingredient to the concoction, chemical awesome. Thus the Powerpuff Girls were born. Using their broad appeal, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, have managed to stay relevant for over 15 years!

Yeah that's right, the first episode of The Powerpuff Girls aired back in 1998, 16 or so years ago at the time of writing this. 6 years ago back in 2008, they made a 10th anniversary special and released the entire series on 1 DVD box set. I actually recently bought the entire series box set and have been rematching it from the first episode. Since 1998, we've had 6 seasons, 1 origin movie, an anime series called Power Puff Girls Z which hasn't aired in the US, a 10th anniversary special, and now another special. I don't recall any other Cartoon Networks series getting this much attention, and that's because PPG is just plain awesome. I thought that PowerPuff Girls Rule! was a great way to end the series. It had a nice "walk off into the sunset" kind of feel. Many questions were answered, like "what does Ms. Bellom's face look like?," but it still left things open for more if there was going to be more. Well, now there's more.

So back in 2012, there were rumors about a PPG reboot. I remember seeing this but without the "Thoughts & Opinions."

 Like any fan with the power of the internet at his fingertips, I did a little research. All I found were rumors on cartoon forums and stuff. It wasn't until late 2012-early 2013 did we finally see an image of this reboot. And, it was this.

Needless to say, people didn't take it very well. The art style was a major change from what we were used to.

Fast forward a year, and we start seeing ads for this "reboot." Turns out, it's a 1 time special. They kept the art style, but the ads say "we didn't change the formula at all." And they were right.

Here's the low down. The girls save Townsvill, again, and the professor is going to reward them with something special. The girls decide to get Dance Pants Revolution. Unfortunately Bubbles gets addicted and this Mojo-Jojo uses this addiction in his plan to take over Townsville. Oh, and the professor has a history of dance but he was so bad at it he quit and became a man of science. OK, any more would be spoilers.

So, how does this compare to classic PPG? Quite well. Ignoring the drastic change in art style, this feels exactly like an old Powerpuff Girls episode. Most if not all of the original voice actors came back. If they weren't the originals, they did an amazing job at sounding like the originals. The girls saved the day, which caused them to engage in some sort of celebratory activity that ends up being crucial to the climax of the story. Many classic episodes followed this primes, especially Mojo-Jojo episodes. The episode focuses a little more on Bubbles like many classic PPG episodes. All the main characters (Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Professor, Mayor, Bellum, Mojo) had the same personality and character traits. Overall, it's almost just like a classic PPG episode.

One thing I really liked is that instead of 2 15-minute episodes, it was 1 30-minute episode. They used this extra time to develop the professor's back story. In true PPG style, the back story was ridiculous. They also used it to develop Mojo's evil plan more. I also like the Fibonacci and other math jokes. Basically this is the "Disney's Doug" of Powerpuff Girls. Read what I meant here.

OK, so saying it's "the Disney's Doug of Powerpuff Girls" is definitely the most accurate way of describing it, and that's because there is going to be lots of rage over minor changes and other "they completely ruined the Powerpuff Girls" BS. There's going to be people saying "bubbles never had freeze breath, that was blossom, buttercup would never say 'corgis are SOOO cute' and then rush off to see them," and all sorts of other nit-picking. While not exactly cannon, it's still Powerpuff Girls.

The only legitimate complaint you can have is the art style and animation. Yes, it looks REALLY different. Yes, they obviously used 3D models computer animation. Yes, it is really ugly at times. But all of that grew on me. It kind of reminded me of those old "3D city" bumps where various cartoon network characters lived together in a 3D city. What I never got used to though, was the jerky animation. It looked like Trey Parker and Matt Stone did all the mouth animation and a lot of the other animation. The only time it's smooth is when a character would turn their head or something like that. All the walking, arm moving, dancing, etc. looked like it was done by South Park studios. Come to think of it, the non-smooth animation was rather reminicent of "The Whoop-ass Girls," McCracken's low budget student film PPG is based off of. If cartoon network didn't properly fund it or Craig produced it himself like Whoop-ass Girls, then I'll understand the bad animation. However, if this was intentional, then Townsville's favorite crime fighters deserve better than this. If this does in fact become a reboot, please, do them justice.

So, The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, the reboot/special we've been hearing about for 2 years, a special 16 years after the original Powerpuff Girls first episode, even longer if you consider The Whoop-ass Girls as part of the series; does it deserve to be considered part of this great series? Yes, yes it does. Aside from the art and animation, it's just like classic PPG. If you love the original 15 from 15 years ago, you'll likely enjoy this one. Try to look beyond the art and animation, because that's the only thing holding it back. Don't miss this special. Well this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

What, you want more? Well, there is one last thing I could talk about. Well, 8 or so minutes before this special aired, there was a little music video thing about the Powerpuff Girls that was part of the commercial break of Adventure Time. It was basically this guy singing about how he wishes he was a Powerpuff Girl because then he's be able to wear an awesome dress and fight crime with super powers. It reminded me of the Cartoon Network Groovies that aired in like 2005 as part of the commercial break.You know, music videos like this.


PS: This is my favorite one.

Yeah, they made a music video in the same spirit as this. There were some Powerpuff Girl Groovies, and this was kind of like that. This particular short wasn't really good, but there were some actual groovies that weren't that great either. I hope they make more, because the groovies broke up the commercial breaks quite nicely. OK, now I'm done. Later.

Where's Naruto Shippuden?

It's your best show and you treat it like crap. Let us fans know when it's on.

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I don't care about the edits, they aren't that bad. I don't care about the dub and voice acting, viz does a good job with that. I don't care that it's on Disney XD and not Cartoon Network. But what I do care about is that the schedule is inconstant with no warning.

A couple of years ago, Disney XD acquired the rights to the dub of Naruto Shippuden not long after their re branding as Disney XD. I'll admit, I wasn't super happy about the Toon Disney becoming Disney XD, but once I foud out that that's where Naruto Shippuden would air after Naruto was canceled on Cartoon Network, I was looking forward to it. Sure all the other fans were all "this is so stupid, Disney is going to edit the shit out of it, why didn't they put it on cartoon network?" but not me. I went in with an open mind and genuinely liked the TV dub. I remember Viz releasing the first episode dubed for free via PSN, so I compared the uncut dub to the cut dub, and it wasn't all that bad. Sure, the time and day was a bit odd, Wednesday night at 8:30, but it was on and I watched it every week. Fast forward a couple of months, and the new episode wasn't there, it was a rerun of the suit life of Zack and Cody. I don't want to watch a TV show that I've seen already, I want new Naruto. I guess the hiatus was due to not having enough episodes. Well wait a few weeks and Naruto is back on Wednesday at 8:30.

Now I watch Disney XD regularly, so I know when they advertise. With a little warning this time, they change Naruto Shippuden to 9:00 on Wednesday night. OK, let us know, less weirder than 8:30 in my opinion. Well this goes on for months, but then Naruto drops off the face of Disney XD with no warning or explanation at all. I went months without watching Shippuden. Sure, I could have watched it subbed on Hulu like I did before XD, but I figured it was just another hiatus and would come back in a few weeks. Weeks turned into months and it seemed as if Shippuden has left the channel. I looked high and low to find when Shippuden would be on Disney XD, but aparently I just didn't look hard enough. I saw that it was on at 11 pm on Saturday, but those were reruns and I'm typically too tired to stay up later than 11 and actually get anything out of it. The Disney XD website was no help. The TV line-up websites I went to were no help. All seemed lost. Until last night.

Last night, I decided I'd see what was on Disney XD before I went to bed, and low and behold, Naruto Shippuden, an episode I haven't seen. I figured it was just a rerun that I haven't seen, but after some research, I found out it was a new episode. I was happy, but too tired to rejoice. After a little more research, I found that Disney XD changed the air date and time of Naruto Shippuden to 11 Saturday Night.

Disney XD hasn't handled Naruto Shippuden very well. I don't blame them for the lac of reruns at decent hours. Cartoon Network never even reran Naruto except for the Naruto Hundo so reruns even at crazy hours were still reruns. But beyond that, Disney has done a very poor job at handling Shippuden. Naruto Shippuden was the reason I started watching Disney XD, and for a while, the only reason. Many people came to Disney XD because of Shippuden, and found maybe some of their other shows entertaining. I saw some ads for Naruto Shippuden when Disney XD first started. They were promos saying "we're getting Naruto Shippuden" and after those, they were "we have Naruto Shippuden, watch it." But soon no ads were issued. What was probably their only reason for being successful, they just let go like it was that relative that you wish you didn't have. Then comes the hiatus with no warning at all. I watched only to find out when Naruto was coming back, but they never said. Only after it started airing again did they start running ads. While there was warning of new time slot to 9, there wasn't much. I think only in the week before did they say a couple of times, "Catch at the new time of 9." Then without warning at all, did they move it to a completely different day at a completely different time. There are no ads for Naruto at all. Trust me, I watch Disney XD regularly and there are no ads. I read somewhere that it is because of the violence in the current arc and the not wanting to tone it down to much. Disney, you are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the rights for Naruto Shippuden, and it is probably the only reason XD is successful today. I ask that you show some respect for your awesome anime. I don't ask for reruns, I don't ask for an earlier time, all I ask for, is some recognition.

Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye.

What has happened to children's TV programing?

What has happened to childrens television? It sucks now. This will be an ongoing project. If you have someinging to remember, I will bring it up. This was the first draft. Enjoy it for what it is. Come back after for a better rememberence.

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There once was a time when parents and children could sit down and watch tv together without the parents being bord. There once was a time when tv shows were organized into weekly lineups. There once was a time when Friday night meant getting to stay up later to watch new cartoons. There once was a time when you could watch anime on tv without a subscription service or video devices And finally, there once was a time when kids could watch cartoons on non-cable TV.

For anyone who is getting nastalgic, I am refering to 90s and before with television viewing. While I can find some good programing on now, it is hard to find what once made tv great. And here's the sad part, I don't think it'll ever come back. And we have Hanna Montana to blame. Now this isn't a "bash Miely and her writers" text video. This is just a lets get nastalgic thing. I will cover what was my childhood, and how I feel that I wouldn't have that great experience without what once was.

For starters, I didn't have cable as a kid. Now adays that's a death sentance to kids without cable, but it used to not be. I used to be able to watch kids WB, 1 Saturday Morning, Disney's One Too, and some others that were more obscure. And here's the thing, they didn't suck, for either my parents or me. I remember watching Sailor Moon with my dad and 101 Dialmations the series and Recess with my mom. We could all watch cartoons together, and while they may not have enjoyed it as much as some would, I remember having a babysitter that would watch Pokemon with me and one time he brought over a 6 hour tape of it. But I guess I should get back to the over the air waves being good. They had some good shows on. Over the air cartoons had some good cartoons that rivled cable. They had cartoons that were so good that they ended up on cable because they were so good. 101 Dialmations was amazing, Recess same, Disney's Doug same, Pokemon, oh man.

Then cable tv channels had good programing as well. Everyone talks of 90s nick and 90s cartoon network. Well they actually existed at one point as just nick and cartoon network. Remember Mickey Mouse? Disney Channel actually used to show Mickey and his friends. There was actually a time when Hanna Montana and High School Musical didn't exist. Nick didn't show the same 3 shows over and over again. Spongebob had new episodes, every Friday night actually. Cartoon Network showed a mix of clasic animation from warner brothers, mgm, and hanna-barbara, in adition to new shows most stemming from what a cartoon. Disney XD was Toon Disney, nuf said there.

Well then comes some changes, but things were still grand. But then 2006 struck, and VHS tapes were no longer being made. Granted, DVD is better than VHS, but all the way through 2005, childrens entertainment was still good. Sure cartoon cartoon fridays, a friday programing block hosted by cartoon characters from the network, was replaced by fridays, a friday night line up hosted by 2 stupid adults that had this party with a bunch of kids while watching cartoons, back in 2001 or so, but it still worked.But come 2006, cartoons started sucking. Cartoons were being cancled and replaced by live action. Ok, I can't go on, nastalgia is killing me right now.

(tears for the old days shed. No more remenising will happen for fear of this happening again.)

So here's the thing. I'm not one of those nastalgia fanboys that feels that only the 90s is good. I like some of the cartoons and shows that are on now. I like some cartoon network new cartoons, but it's not at the same level as it once was. I feel I must point out some things that are the past but should not be. For starters, cartoon television line ups. Gone are the days of 1 saturday morning, Disney's one too, kids WB, friday night nicktoons, cartoon cartoon fridays, fridays, saturday morning cartoons, and the like. The big thing that shouldn't have happened was the removal of new cartoons on friday nights. Yes adults don't watch TV on fridays and Saturdays because they are going out, but news flash, that's when kids can! Even when I did get cable, I didn't watch a whole lot because I was busy. I looked forward to the weekend when I could stay up late and just watch TV. Kids watch on Friday night and Saturday night, not weekdays. And that's Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon is worse. They rerun the same episodes over and over again and air a new episode in "a week long premere." I don't want 1 new episode everyday for a week. I want 1 new episode every week.

Now here's the thing. No line ups anymore. Period. Sure they have a schedule, but it's not a line up. Line ups have names. The last TV line up I recall was the cw 4kids. Unfortunately 4kids isn't the best, so we're stuck with nothing. Where was I? I blame the shitty TV I'm watching because that's all that's on. Uhhhh, o yeah, I still need to talk about how cartoons are no longer fun for both kids and parents. Cartoons used to be fun for both kids and adults. There was once a time when cartoons were imature enough for kids to enjoy, while also having humor and themes that the parents could enjoy as well. Now we are stuck with cartoons that are so imature that only the kids will enjoy it, or are just way to mature for kids. But then again, that's if we're lucky enough to get cartoons. Yeah that's right, I'm calling you out childrens networks. Cartoons are fun for kids, and for adults as well. Your stupid live action isn't and will only last as long as your young actors. Cartoon characters can stay that age forever, and adults can be funny and not creepy. Only 1/4 of Nickelodean's programing is cartoons. SpongeBob is the only cartoon. Victorious, iCarly, and Big time Rush are live action. Disney, they got rid of their cartoon channel for a live action for boys channel and don't show cartoons other than Phineous and Ferb on Disney Channel. Cartoon Network is the last hold out for cartoons, but the again *cough bs real.*

Disney XD has some hope. They still show marathons of their shows, some of them are entertaining, like I'm in the Band and Kick Butouski. They are Disney, and the others follow Disney. I hope they bring us back to a happy time.

And then there's the no more kids shows on network tv. No more 1 saturday morning, no more Kids WB, no more any kids tv on over the air waves. I thing ABC still has ABC Kids, but that line ups sucks and no one knows about it. It's a sad atempt at 1 saturday morning.

Earlier I mentioned anime on TV. We fans used to be able to watch anime on TV without the netflix, hulu plus, DVDs, or any of that. We used to be able to watch Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, and Sailor Moon on UPN. Remember UPN, before it bacame the cw? It was awesome. Then Cartoon Network used to show tons of anime. Now all we can do is watch DBZ Kai and Shippuden but only at weird times. Ahhhhh.

No more tv line ups, no more over the air cartoons, no more good cartoons, and almost no more cartoons period. Ahhhhh Well this has been pokematic signing off and bu bye.

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