The More Dated The Better

>>149431150 (OP)
What's so dated?

>>149431150 (OP)
The internet back then was just emails and forums.

remember when everyone thought that cellphones would keep shrinking forever

>>149431216
Yeah, once media consumption was possible on phones it became the opposite, how big can we make them while still fitting in your pocket?

>>149431150 (OP)
Captain Planet, all of it.

>>149431189
He's using a giant CRT monitor. Most monitors now are flatscreens.

>>149431150 (OP)
All Mall Episodes

Back in the 2000s when even shows knew that MMORPGs were very cool

>>149431225
Makes you wonder why Apple and Samsung still haven't made a collusion with pants manufacturers to make pockets bigger.

any cartoon where the MC is a kid who's main hobby is reading capeshit

>>149431304
To he honest, most of those episodes were dated even when they aired.

>subculture that peaked in the fucking 50's
>was still depicted in 2000's cartoons

Why so many people that worked with animation had such a huge boner for beatniks?

>>149431373
Beatniks had a resurgence in the late 70s/early 80s.
It's sort of how you have people doing 70s references again, because the 70s had a resurgence when they were kids in the 00s.
A nostalgia for nostalgia.

Talent show episodes

>>149431422
Bonus points if someone's doing the famous balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet.

>>149431150 (OP)
Science fairs in school, with at least one student entering a baking soda volcano as their project.

>>149431265
I don't think that was supposed to be a flattering depiction of the people who play MMOs.
>>149431373
Pretty much >>149431405 this.
Not forgetting that Hillenburg and a few of the writers were late boomers early gen-X types so would have had exposure to it through their parents or general cultural osmosis.

>>149431300
Pants pockets have been getting bigger though
>>149431373
It wasn't just beatniks, there's been a lot of 50s nostalgia in american media since the 70s to 2000s. In the early 2000s particularly, it was mid century/mid century modern. Jimmy neutron had this very 50s but still contemporary setting.

>>149431150 (OP)

>>149431552
50s/60s retofuture design is peak
mix that with 80s magenta cyber for kino

>>149431474
Since I not from north America I'm curious are science fair still a thing or did they stop and like when / why cuz I'm paper it doesn't seem like a bad idea

>>149431150 (OP)
Any involving renting movies, be it VHS or DVD.

>>149431671
I hate the fact that the troon flag claimed that color scheme

>>149431886
Obsessed with trannies award

>>149431252
But CRTs are still in the public consciousness, and some modern shows still use them because they're just more visually interesting than a flat panel as a screen.

>>149431255
This hurts because it's true and the unique fauna that formed in that environment are now all just replicants made out of egirls and hipsters. Jesus H Christ people are going to really be nostalgic for streamergirls and shit I hate this. I don't wanna see it in cartoons.

>>149431886
>sees two colors
>thinks about trannies
you never stood a chance

>>149431150 (OP)

>>149431189
>CRT Monitor
>The Monitor IS the computer with zero tower
>The internet as children's shows depicted them during the 2000s
>The notion of "cyber space"

>>149431373
it's not even proper beatniks, just a 1950s conservative understanding of beatniks that kept through the ages.

Apparently actual Beatniks were just San Fran Hipsters before that was a thing.

>>149431363
Dated because the drama around it lasted a month, and it was as pointless as any celebrity drama.

>inb4 "but muh ebul women"
I don't care, it's still just pointless celeb dick waving and I still seethe that for one month at the time, EVERYONE had to chime in about that bullshit only to goldfish memory on it the next month after.

>>149431422
First time I saw a talent show was in the US Navy. Public Schools just do not do that shit

>>149431422
Who actually does Talent shows?

>>149431594
both in /co/ and /v/ where floppies are used as a "Save Icon", even tho most people turning 18 never had to work with one ever.

>>149431886
>You're an expecting father
>You and your wife go to grab confetti blasters for the gender reveal
>See walls of baby blue and baby pink together
>Start hyper ventilating
>turn red
>sweat dripping and you're shaking
>"H-honey are you alright?"
>Have an aneurism and collapsing screaming about troons while in the fetal position

TL;DR: I'm glad I don't wake up as you.

>>149432073
I had multiple talent shows at my various schools growing up.

>>149431150 (OP)

"Over The Barrel" from Horse Show

>>149431886
I feel ya. I'm mad the rainbow got co-opted as a symbol for faggotry.

>>149432214
>from horse show
Which one?

Zoomers losing their fucking minds that the past was "a thing".

>>149432016
ONE NINE HUNDRED NINE OH NINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJho9AvR7A8

>>149431363
That was a johnny johnny yes papa reference
Not the trial shit

>>149432425
both things are dated now

not /co/ but one case of this that never leaves my mind is this one gundam series where they still use paper mail in a distant sci fi future

>>149431150 (OP)
This entire series (yes i’m fully aware it was intentionally dated)
please don’t execute me for this /co/, but i actually liked the series, even tho some episodes were very rough to get through

>>149432214
Why?

>>149431594
What's more dated is an issue of the comic where somebody saved Optimus's brain on a floppy disk right before he blew himself up. A 5 1/4 360 kb disk somehow stored the consciousness of an advanced alien robotic organism.

>>149431671
I don't what they sell there, but I want to go.

>>149432011
>I don't wanna see it in cartoons.
Don't worry cartoons won't exist in the future.

>>149432276
the forbidden one

>>149432046
>The Monitor IS the computer with zero tower
The monitor is standing on top of the actual PC.
Towers were a later development.

Somehow The Jetsons as a whole is outdated, current, and futuristic.

>>149432425
It's both. The scissors is directly referencing the theory that he cut off his finger tip himself.

>>149431886
True, but those are a more pastel tint. The answer is neon

>>149432799
>Harveybirdman.jpg

>>149432799
There's an entire episode about how horrible women drivers are.

>>149432083
you ever had one during grade school?

>>149432859
Some things stay relevant forever.

>>149431265
Computers in the 2000s (particularly Windows desktops) looked more like that up until very late 09

>>149431903

>>149432545
Yeah, whatever DID happen to him?

>>149432083
People without talents to show.

>>149432943
>Yeah, whatever DID happen to him?
Canonically, as in per word of the show's creator? He gets fed the fuck up after his experiences in middle and high school and goes full Skynet mode.

>>149431701
They were never required for a grade. At my school it was more "Hey, us in the Science Club are going to set up the experiments we've been working on all quarter in the cafeteria exhibit style."

>>149432046
The monitor is on the PC

>>149432106
I think it's safe to say that like 90% of people born after 2000 AD has never even seen one. What do people use as icons for saving nowadays, anyway? Just the little arrow pointing downwards?

>>149433563
A section of the menu that looks like this
>Save Game

>>149433577
To be fair, many old games also mostly just had the 'Save Game' written when they wanted to save, instead of an icon

>>149432859
>>149432874
If you live in a city, everyone is a horrible driver

>>149431552
>Pants pockets have been getting bigger though
I don't think so

>>149432214
The final time in television they would ever be allowed to portray Indians. Same when the zebra spouts fake Africanish gobbledegook in her first appearance, that really was their absolute last chance to get away with that.

>>149432706
It portrays what are basically American colonizers in a positive light after taking over native land.

>>149433727
i don't get it

Kinda surprised nobody mentioned south park consider since season 10 most of the episodes topic was whatever was on the news that week

>>149431150 (OP)
the entirety of this show

>>149433932
that's why it's the janetty of adult animation. topical humor is shit

>>149433818
The 2000s were the last bastion for ethnic humor. Courage the Cowardly Dog had shit like the Indian doctor and Chinese guy. That horse show was in 2010.

>>149431189
There are words on the computer screen, and children are illiterate now.

>>149431216
>>149431225
Someday.
Someday.

>>149431373
The more I think about it, the more I realize people back then saw the 50s the way we see the 80s today

>>149431552
>Jimmy neutron had this very 50s but still contemporary setting.
Naming the town Retroville was literally a nod to that. Retro was "in" basically from the 70s all the way until the late 00s. Then people started bashing anything more than a few years old like it was stone age grug shit for some reason.

Do kids still go to Summer camp? Specially the ones where you sleep there for months? I did summer camp once but it was day camp, so you’re parents would drop you off in the morning and pick you up at night, it was pretty fun
The sleep away camp was more for the kids who had money
Nowadays I don’t hear about kids doing camp anymore, instead they go to sports programs for the summer, and every now and then I’ll see some kid on a bike, wearing a baseball uniform with a bat on his backpack.

>>149434115
when I was in primary school we had one that lasted for a week. Im a europoor and it wasnt a camp like you see in those shows though.

>>149433818
This is because at its heart, Horse Show was STILL a Gen X show, made by Lauren Faust, a woman of generation X. The youth culture of that era tended to be more cynical and edgy, which is why Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends comes off like a cynical Gen X but made up to look like an wholesome feel good millennial show

>>149434128
What’s funny is here in America we had the same thing, it was something that always happened around 5th or 6th grade

>>149433945
That was a very early 2010's show.

>>149433928
The joke is that the school is so fancy, it has a website. This was back when the internet was still new.

>>149434228
even watching it at the time i could feel it being dated making constant references to the current things or things that were popular at the time

>>149433504
I had that in school

>>149433081
>Alexa, play Pumped up Kicks

>>149433945
that's kinda the catch of all satire.

>>149434115
Probably not unless it's like you said, a camp for kids with money. Probably because there's better, or maybe because there were one too many "grabby scoutmaster" stories.

Or maybe it's a completely different thing now. I dunno I'm in my 30s.

>>149435198
Yes, but in a global scale. The creator ays he ends up leading a worldwide robot uprising in the 90s and conquering Earth after exterminating humanity.

>>149433081
And he rapes that chick with the purple sweater

>>149433945
>>149434228
The early 2010s had such a distinct feel, like it was an era that was cut abruptly by the cultural crater of the mid-2010s and later

>>149431236
Like.. maybe in that it’s hopeful, but a lot of the stuff is still pretty relevant today.
“Don’t poach rare animals”, “Industrial Waste needs to be managed and not just dumped wherever”, “Bottled water companies are awful”, etc. all hold up.
It’s not every episode (for example, they have a huge thing against nuclear power), but I’d still say the majority are still applicable.

>"Do I hang out with my friends or do I play QUAKE with my new friends"
>"Oh No! I promised I would set up for the Good Charlotte concert but my friends want to play board games"
>There are only 4 Star Wars movies


This whole show is so fucking dated, I love it

>>149432545
Nearly everyone in this show except for Robot Jones himself, Cubey, Socks and maybe the parents and that janitor man were borderline unlikeable.
>robot’s girlfriend is hideous and a massive cunt who hates him
>those devo fanboys are horrible disgusting bullies who somehow never get punished
>the principal was straight up just hitler, both design and action-wise
>the teacher is a jackass just because a robot is smarter than him
>and everyone else ranges from decent to borderline insufferable
that’s why >>149433081 should have happened

>>149434115
A guy I dated got sent to fat camp. They werein shape and part of the top 0.1% of income. Like, his dad and brother bought new Rolls Royce's like buying a new PC. My assumption is that it's a rich thing for any kinda camp. Definitely not lower income especially with the amount of diversity around now.

>>149433945
Mostly just the movie parodies. The commercial parodies are still good.

I was gonna ask if people even remembered the real but apparently they made 33 seasons of that shit?

>>149435630
I continue to maintain my headcanon that Cubey, Mitch and Socks are spared and allowed to live in comfort under RJ's reign. And Shannon as his cyborg concubine.

>>149431903
hotdog

>>149432707
They were just that good at optimization

>>149435711
It was dirt cheap to produce why would they stop?

>>149434115
I went to a week-long camp every summer growing up.

>>149435711
Reality TV slop always sells to people that want to pretend they would never be as bad as the people on TV.

>>149434115
It’s a jew thing, unironically. That’s why you see it in media so much.

>>149435609
Based Undergrads appreciator.

>filming a porno complete with staff and a sleazy director
>always has a story involving a pizza deliveryman
>cliche porn music always plays in the background
>the title is always a sequel to another porno

>>149436053
I’ve heard of the Jew camp thing. The Texas floods with the Christian kids makes me think it’s a religious thing in general.

>>149436053
>>149436152
Wait a minute, I thought jews hated being sent to camps. What's going on here?

>>149436186
Different kind of camp anon.
Jew summer camp is basically how they keep the bloodlines intact and establish the connections for the next generation of the oligarchy

Those times when pre 2010s cartoons portrayed superheros based on Superman or whoever and they'd carry a certain tone in the voice to make them seem more brave or "Masculine", announce who they are and what they'll do, make them do stupid poses, etc. Imaginary man, Crimson Chin, Major Glory, that one guy from PPG.

>>149436216
nah Superman Parodies are eternal. It's just instead of being inspired by the DCAU Animated series, it's edgy supermen based on The Boys.

>>149434115
>Do kids still go to Summer camp?
no

>>149436216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gamn8KqGVg
Part of that is probably because they're conflating Superman with Hannah-Barbara shows like Space Ghost

>>149434448
I know, I was there.

>>149434115
During the last few weeks before summer vacation started, my school would send the entire seventh grade class to camp. It was a tradition that had lasted almost ten years, and the two teachers that had started it not only still taught there, but they also oversaw/planned out everything. It was extra work but also just something that they loved doing, a fun way to cap off the end of the year.

When my class went we tried raiding the girls' camp to steal bras and got caught. Then we started a food fight on the last day, and one kid in my class used the fight as an excuse to mercilessly beat up this other kid that had stolen his girlfriend. He ended up cutting the guy's cheek open with one of the cafeteria trays. Everybody trashed the whole lunchroom. The worst thing that happened to me was a flying tray hit me in the back of the head. My hair was covered in pancake syrup.

The camp cancelled the contract they had with my school after that. As far as I know they never organized another one. This was like twenty years ago now though so idk
Camp Lazlo was also on tv this one time when my friend made me staple his dick to his dad's coffee table.

>>149436255
What the actual, unironic, "I'm genuinely concerned", fuck?!

>>149433879
that's just real life though

>>149433818
>The final time in television
LPS also did Indians that worshipped a god, and that episode aired November 2013.

>>149433879
Nuh uh, they come to an agreement.

>>149432124
>gender reveal

most of the good cartoon episode plots are dead now

>>149432012
We're talking about the same people who saw a pink and blue painting in a show from the early 2000s and asked the creator if it was the trans flag.
He said no.

>>149434115
Last time I did something similar was back in like 98/99, had a bus come pick up kids and we'd stay the day. Lasted a week and on the final night we had a big dinner and slept at the camp itself.

>>149436512
You never heard of a Gender reveal party for expecting parents?

Are you actually rocking back and forth, no joke, just losing your marbles anytime you see baby pink/blue?

Christ on the cross I *am* glad I am not you.

>>149433932
Might be interesting to watch the show front to back and see how much you can remember once reminded of it.

>>149436656
>reddit spacing

>>149431552
>>149431671
>>149431373
Another thing that's itself dated is when people in the early 2000s lumped the 60s and 70s as one time period.

>>149436747
Ironically the guy furthest on right in the 70s, is also in a "modern" interpretation of a nostalgia getup.

>>149434115
My mom sent me to a day camp for autistic kids for two summers. It was just operated out of a local park, no dedicated camp grounds. Each day you got to pick your activities, which was nice. I can remember doing:
>swimming
>the very large playground at the park
>fishing (I am 100% certain there were no fish in that pond)
>reading (did it once and discovered the books were preschool level; this was around the first time I read Lord of The Rings)

I believe it was run by Autism Speaks. Most of the kids there were much less functional than I was. There was a councilor who was clearly a burn victim and also had no hands, she scared the bejeezus out of me. One time there was a tornado warning and we all huddled inside a stairwell.

>>149436255
>spoiler

>>149436656
Oh, I've heard of it. I think of it as something which is normal to people I dislike.

>>149436953 (me)
I'm not the same one you wrote your stupid greentext for btw

>>149433945
>>149434228
>>149435374
>>149435699
This show was dated when it came out, the TV parodies felt like it was written in 2007 and not in a cool way

>>149434115
the only "summer camp" experience I got is in elementary when I went out to camp for a week. Don't exactly remember the purpose I'm sure there was some educational bs behind it but nothing noteworthy actually happened for me to remember it. Where I live it's a requirement for everyone to go through this, I'm pretty sure I had to fill out a homework assignment over the week or something about the experience
https://www.outdoorlabfoundation.org/

>>149436747
I always associated the 60's with hippies and the 70's with disco

>>149434156
Horse Show is an interesting example, because it ran for so long and at such a specific period that it essentially bridged the two eras of cartooning. The early years were dictated by Gen-X values, so you had a lot of dry, cynical humor, slapstick, and Kafkaesque comedy. By the mid-point of the decade the torch had been passed to Millennial ideals, so the slapstick and more mean-spirited humor got de-emphasized (most likely due to negative fan response regarding Spike's character) for "lol awkward" comedy and attempts at socially inclusive elements (i.e. the introduction of the Friendship school and the token cast of multi-species students who served as counterparts to the main 6, reflecting the transition from monochrome casting to colorblind casting, and the more forward depiction of LGBT characters, such as Scootaloo's lesbian aunties and Lyra and Bonbon.)

>>149436747
>>149436845
He looks a lot like a late 2000s/early 2010s era hipster.
https://youtu.be/lVmmYMwFj1I

>>149436053
I think South Park is the only series that ever depicted it as a jew thing

>>149433945
this was so outdated that it hurts. It's pretty much comparable to a typical Seltzerberg movie

>>149434115
I did a two week sleepaway camp run by my church as a lad and had a blast. I also did a day camp during a previous year that was fun too.

>>149434115
I volunteered as a guest inspirational speaker at the one I went to. It was still thriving.

They did not invite me back and I can't blame them.

>>149431189
He’s not using a mobile.

>>149431189
Usenet is gone.

>>149437600
Yeah, well the jews wouldn’t depict it as a jew thing would they? It’d just be a thing

>When you’re with the Flintstones
>Have a yabba-dabba-do time
>A dabba-do time
>We’ll have a gay old time.

>>149438103
>>We’ll have a gay old time.
>Fred and Barney never fucked once

What a rip off.

Bullying episodes.

Every public school i’ve ever been to has just been the black students constantly chimping out at eachother and throwing hands over fucking everything, and the white students keeping their heads down and being quiet because they don’t wanna get “jumped” aka 15 different blacks in a group sucker punching them because they didn’t “respecc” one of them. Conflict between the two groups are sparse because they keep to their own.
Ironically multiculturalism has made the white school bully a thing of the past, because even those kind of kids are forced to befriend the latter group by neccesity.

>>149438250
Politics are gonna be uglier once the next gen become adults, i’ll tell you that

>>149433748
My pants pockets are definitely bigger than say compared to an older pair from the 10's when the only big phones were still a few androids. I know the pockets on women's jeans are definitely big enough to hold a bigger phone now.

>>149435374
never heard it described that way but, yeah it really was
like how say 2012 was compared to 2017
massive difference culturally
probably not very many similar cultural shocks to be seen like that aside from pre to post 9/11

>>149438250
Anon
You just live in a shithole

>>149432012
Yes anon that's called pattern recognition. Humans develop it very early.

>>149438444
1960 vs 1969 was pretty big
1990 vs 1999 also

>>149435374
>>149438444
>pre to post wokeism is comparable to a tragedy where thousands died
grim...

>>149432237
Huh?

>>149435549
I just think that portraying every villain as a one-dimensional asshole that pollutes the world just for the hell of it is a huge over-simplification of the problem irl

>>149435711
Mission Hill is a walking time capsule because it depicts a world that simply does not exist anymore. I always think about that one episode where Andy suddenly feels guilty for being 25 and not having a six figure salary like everyone else his age. I'm 4 years older than him and still in the college phase of the "get a good job" goal. This is just life for a lot of people.

>>149433928
They don't use https.

>>149438444
The 60s and 90s were probably the fastest culture changed overall like the other anon said, but even then other decades looked pretty different from one end tl the other. We're actually in a period of cultural stagnation not really seen since the 50s, there have been very few notable changes since 2014 and VERY few since 2016.

Any Y2K episode

>>149438776
i thought it would be this lol.

>>149438650
didn't think about 90 to 99
wasn't alive for it but I can only imagine how great it was to see the soviet union fall and then just fuck on iraq in desert storm
must've felt like we beat the final boss at the time
well aside from the general rise of anti-government sentiment after waco and ruby ridge

>>149438775
The rate inflation is going, having a six figure salary will be synonymous with poverty.

>>149438650
2000 to 2009 was very huge
You went from the Clintonite globalist, post-cold war, end-of-history, dot-com boom world to the Obamaite post-recession, post-Bush, war on terror, rising China world

>>149433594
using floppies as a skeumorph to represent saving was more of a PC thing than a video game thing. Windows in particular

>>149438849
The 90s were pretty interesting because they started out barely different than the 80s, then grunge kicked off in '91 and turned that culture on its head, then the internet started to actually take off and the dot com boom combined with way more broad market access and American dominance caused the economy to fucking explode and the culture became increasingly care-free and hedonist in a way not really seen since the late 60s, with a lot of trends intentionally even taking influence from then. The decade ended with Americans objectively more prosperous than they ever had been with talk of "the end of history", "the sole world hyperpower", "a post-racial society", and other starry-eyed views like that. There was also this undercurrent of dread though like everything was falling into a dull routine that media was increasingly reflecting at the time with growing concerns about the role of technology and what the internet might actually do to society. Then 9/11 happened and that was the end of all that.

But yes, cartoons that are outdated. Bart's entire attitude feels kind of quaint today, but when the show first premiered in 1989 he was legitimately seen as a hugely controversial character and the show sometimes took influence from that.

It's one of my favorite movies but in hindsight, the Extreme Sports craze was very late 90s

>>149434006
EU regulations are gonna make this a reality pretty soon. mandate compatibility with floppies and 9 track tape, too

>>149438933
Also somewhat in-line with the conversation at hand, this futurama gag was poking fun at the 2000 election, where people often joked that Gore and Bush weren't really all that different and that the Democrats and Republicans had basically the same platform. That's sure changed fast.

>>149438775
he's also an upper middle class Friscan. wages are really high there (and cost of living is absurd to compensate)

>>149436747
This always bugged the piss out of me because even at the time I knew they were pretty distinct. I think most Baby Boomers just didn't want to remember a lot of the actual stuff from the 70s, it was pretty gnarly.

>>149436240
no, they were based on the silver age Super Friends cartoon version of him. basically all superhero parodies for 30+ years (and honestly even now) were just riffing on that show because every kid who grew up in the 70s and 80s saw it.

>>149438250
nah I went to a multiracial 'inner city' school and there definitely were white fuckheads there too. one kid in my middle school would stab other kids with pencils.
generally the black kids would be the ones who would just sucker punch you and steal your shoes or something, the white kids were the ones who would bring knives and threaten to kill you

>>149439004
I do find it pretty funny tht the 70's doesn't really have a stereotypical image to it like 60's hippies and 80's disco besides earth tones and like vietnam I guess
50's you got idealized golden age america and 90's you got grunge and general anti-establishment
70's is a bit of a hole

>>149435549
it's propaganda that blames the wrong people or is based on outdated urban myths that have since been discredited, and does it in the most insufferable way imaginable.

to use your poaching example, 99% of poaching done in the modern day is by tribal Africans to sell ivory to the Chinese for "traditional medicine" because it's the only way they can make money for their shithole mud hut village, white guys in pith helmets trophy hunting with 4 bore rifles hadn't been a thing for 40 years even when the show was airing.

>>149438976
yeah, by 2004 Bush was "literally Hitler" to the Left and Seth McFarlane made an entire show basically to serve as a total dressing-down of neoconservative politics. and lest we forget Li'l Bush.

>>149439125
uh. disco and kung fu?

>>149439161
disco is more associated with 80's right
got me on kung fu though, that shit really was huge

>>149439175
The 80s was really more when disco started its rapid decline. The 70s were its heyday. When I think of the 80s musically, I think of heavy metal, nuwave, and pop.

>>149439175
No, disco's extremely associated with the 70s. Synthpop is the musical style most associated with the 80s.

>>149431236
>>149435549
The part that's probably held up the worst is the overpopulation episode, considering that the developed world was already below the replacement rate at the time and birth rates have fucking cratered outside of it to the point that countries like fucking Thailand are panicking to find ways to raise them.

>>149439400
Thailand deserves to have an aged population due to how often people sell their own children to prostitution there

>>149435549
God damn I love Gi

>>149439400
Yeah, Turkey now has a lower birth rate than most of Europe, Mexico fell below America's 2 years ago, Chile is comparable to South Korea, a lot of Sub-Saharan Africa's halved in just the last decade, it's wild. We got it like totally wrong, the real danger is that there are going to be way too many old people and not enough workers to support them.

>>149439511
they made her a lesbian in the recent comic reboot

>>149433932
Every season of South Park is dated because they always reference current events, from the 90s to today.

>>149436053
>>149436152
>>149436211
>>149437600
>>149438102
I've never heard of this my whole life. Tell me about it.

>>149438934
It’s because kids don’t go outside any more

>>149439525
Nothing a hearty dose of corrective rape cannot fix.

>>149435549
Why aren’t we allowed to have cute asians (not SEA brown) in our cartoons now?

>>149439175
Not at all. By 1980 disco was in harsh decline, as a popular movement it’s almost entirely in the seventies.

>>149438775
I don't want to imagine how fucked people will be another 30 years from now inflation wise. 6 figure salary probably wouldn't be enough to own a car, let alone a house.

>>149432823
He played Edward Scissorhands.

>>149438906
Still showed up from time to time.

>>149439288
>>149439365
>>149439745
My guess is that >>149439175 is European. Europeans, especially Italians, didn't want disco to die when White Americans abandoned it,so they turned it into Hi-NRG and Italo-disco. If it wasn't for Black Americans turning disco into boogie, house, and to a lesser extent techno (early techno has Euro synthpop and American electro influences on top of house and disco), Europeans would have likely kept the disco genre alive deep into the early 90s. The last remnants of European disco are in Eurobeat.

>>149439691
A man probably thinks the same way about you anon.

>>149433966
Neither the Indian doctor nor the Chinese guy were ethnic caricatures. Their funny accents served to elevate their wackiness. The doctor didn't make your typical shitting street joke. The Chinese guy didn't deny Taiwan (he may have ran over s Taiwanese tho)
If anything, Courage was woke as fuck.
>the furry lesbians episode
Now WHY these two wouldn't work nowadays is simple: Times change. Foreigners have been living in the US for years now. 3 whole generations at least. Funny accents die as the children of immigrants lose their respective mother tongues.
A kid from 20 years ago hears the funny voices and thinks of someone's dad, or the guy across the street. A kid nowadays hears this and it sounds little more than a racist caricature.

>>149431594

>BBF
>A million, unlabeled glass buttons
>The entire computer was one whole giant unit
>Female robot avatar

Square glass/plastic buttons were so fucking based. They should have never gone away. I don't care how dirty and gross they all eventually got.

>>149440202
>The doctor didn't make your typical shitting street joke.
Street shitting and Indians weren't associated with each other among the masses until the late 10's, a convenience store or gas station or maybe some joke about being stingy would've been the typical to negative stereotypes. The mostly positive ones lumped them in with the smart asian /hardworking immigrant stereotype or something regarding Hinduism or Buddhism and other new age hippy, surface level understanding of India. As for the Chinese guy, he was just meant to be a rude Chinese guy with a heavy accent.

Not /co/ but Nathan Barley is a time capsule while also being a prophecy of what was to come

>is able to afford to live in an NYC apartment on a minimum wage budget
Try that shit nowadays and the most you'll get is a Nike shoebox

>>149440527
you can do it if you share that 2 bedroom apartment with about 8 more people

>>149436255
You and your hooligan classmates ruined a good thing those teachers had. Probably made their jobs more miserable since they no longer had that event to look forward to.

>>149432883
Kek

>>149440527
By my calculations, in order to buy a house (NOT rent an apartment) with my current salary as a secretary in a mid-sized real estate firm it would take approximately 346 months. And that timespan grows longer every week.

>>149439099
Middle school for me was in Texas, so it was mostly white kids. Some cases it really just depends on who the majority is. For that school it was white kids doing stupid shit. Went to a HS in SC, mostly black kids, and yeah, they wee the majority doing stupid shit. Finished HS in Vegas, multiracial (leaning a bit toward hispanics and whites) and in that it was mostly blacks and whites.

>>149438853
>ywn go back to a time when almost everything was about extreme sports
What a time, Tony Hawk, motorbiking, snowboarding, the X-Games, surfing.

>>149440066
Fuck, that takes me back, watched this through high school. The last episode ending where the first one started was just perfect.

>>149440668
That's true, yeah. My class was pretty terrible to our teachers. They were these two old boomers. I called one of them fat once when we were in class and he didn't say anything back. He was fat too.

>>149441233
>28 years
That's like three decades.

>>149435374
This. Even the 2000s was overall consistent contrary to popular belief.

>>149439812
He also played Jack Sparrow, but you don't see any pirate shit in it.

>>149440066
eh, mostly the ragecomics faces specifically.

>>149441233
as in, considering the amount of money you can put away each month after expenses?
or just 346 straights months of wages? because if so, holy shit.
all this just to live in a rat infested shithole?

>>149432237
poor soundwave

>>149438775
At his age I didn't even have a job and still lived with my parents. Not through lack of trying, the job market was just that bad.

>>149432883
lol

>>149439175
in america disco died very specifically on 12 July 1979. it peaked in popularity in 77-78.

>>149431265
why did MMORPGs die off? I remember that WoW was HUGE in like 2008. you'd figure that they'd still be popular now that everyone is staring at the screen all day long even more today

>>149443818
FF14 is still big.
it's mostly because normalfags didn't like having to pay a subscription for server access to one game, so they got displaced by F2P games which evolved towards shooters because they were more immediately engaging.

>>149443873
also probably because normies all transitioned to smartphones and tablets around 2012

>>149443818
They didn’t so much die off rather the market stabilized
After WoW got big there was a huge gold rush for companies to try to get in on that action, even people wanting to be the “WoW Killer”
The ones that figured out to be profitable stayed but most of these MMOs failed to make real money so investors moved onto other ventures

>>149443818
>why did MMORPGs die off?
MMOs thrived on the idea that you could be online and play the same game with your friends and multiple random strangers at the same time, basically being a massive chatroom with a game attached.
As the novelty of being able to talk to strangers online has waned, it's only natural that MMOs would lose relevancy, and had to focus more on the actual gaming aspects to compete, so it's a harder market to survive in now.
The MMOs that are still relevant switched more into being games with a chatroom attached.

>>149436747
What in the FUCK was Jimmy Page wearing

>>149443884
RPGs are more conducive to a touch screen interface than a shooter is.

>>149431150 (OP)
>''Oh, well, let me take this disk up to the Enterprise and see if Captain Kirk can decrypt it''
It's bizarre to remember DVDs were seen as an expensive piece technology back in the day

>>149431189
He's not scrolling blankly on this phone

>>149443977
Watching early South Park and seeing the kids excited for Korn and talking about how much Nirvana kicks ass is always kind of a whiplash for me. Like "Oh yeah this show is actually THAT old where kids were into that stuff when it started."

>>149438775
I'd agree but I work in yuppie college town and I hear this shit all the time.

>>149439153
Because Republicans fucked up with Iraq. It gave Dems a weak spot to exploit, like how Gamergate/Tumblr became the left's weakness for Reps to exploit.

>>149431189
He has a picture of a girl and not an anime femboy.

>>149444098
The Korn episode still makes me laugh with their song about being less perceptive being fucking "Falling Away From Me".

>>149443818
it died off in 2013

>>149431150 (OP)
characters watching TV

>>149431265
I still remember EverQuest.

>>149444231
same with Mass Effect, Guild Wars, Shadowrun and Star Wars KotOR

>>149431150 (OP)
test

>>149444098
Which is funny because grunge was dead in 1997

>>149444284
but it's nu metal, not grunge, you retard

>>149444284
As a movement yes but its popularity kept strong really until the end of the decade. Kind of like how psychedelia was dead by 1969 but people still listened to it well into the 70s.

>>149442912
>as in, considering the amount of money you can put away each month after expenses?
Correct.

>all this just to live in a rat infested shithole?
No, to own a house like my parents did.

>>149444304
I was referring to the Nirvana part, not Korn

>>149444322
sorry, my mistake

>>149432083
everyone

>>149431216
I kinda wish they did, felt my onlder Samsung Galaxy in my hands compared to my current phone was a massive contrast and I wish I could hold my phone in one hand with my small hands like I used to.

>>149431363
Open your mouth

>>149444178
except they didn't. the left openly lied about Iraq during the runup for the 04 election purely to try and drum up some support and people STILL parrot those lies.

>>149432016
https://youtu.be/pdQiSGb4Luw

>>149438933
>>149438976
I've always considered cartoons from both 90s and 2000s to be very chill. Really loved both decades having adult animated shows that take twisted potshots on American ideology and society

>>149444454
>it's chill when fifth columnists propagandise the youth into hating their homeland and countrymen

>>149444466
No, silly little cartoons and puppet shows won't make the country collapse and splinter, dumbass

>>149444466
and don't forget when both 90s and 2000s made fun of presidents Clinton and W Bush, respectively, as well as Nixon and Reagan, and a whole lot of other political figures and celebrities without being biased about their ideologies unlike 2014 onward in which the media have to be biased with their political ideology

>>149444478
With how much people seem to build their world view on shit like Star Wars and Harry Potter, I honestly don't blame him for thinking that.

>>149444478
>appeal to triviality

>>149444497
eh, the GOP definitely got more of it than the DNC. one of the most infamous and influential presidential ad campaigns was for the 1964 election when the LBJ campaign openly argued that Goldwater would start the nuclear holocaust if he was elected, and Goldwater's entire legacy in the modern day is basically "crypto fascist who wanted to nuke Vietnam" because of it. Nixon and Reagan and Bush Jr were all routinely called Nazi fascist neoHitlers during their presidencies. Clinton committed perjury in court and only escaped impeachment because the senate didn't want to put the country in a constitutional crisis if he was, but media basically treated him like a Chad for it.

>>149432016
I was too young at the time to call someone via one of those collect services, how exactly did those work? You pay extra on top of what the phone line were charging? If so, for what?

>>149444595
they billed your phone company and then at the end of the month that money was tacked onto your phone bill, like a long distance call.
>for what
the "privilege" of talking to a recording or a vocal impersonator pretending to be the celebrity in question, basically phone sex lines for adolescent girls. It was a massive scam and doesn't exist anymore as a business model for a reason.

>>149431189
Kids his age now wouldn't be using computers to communicate with other kids, they'd use their smartphones instead

>>149431189
Kids haven't existed ever since Obummer declared them illegal in 2014, now you have to legally give birth to a teenager.

>>149443977
>you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villian

>>149444638
Should have clarified, I meant stuff like 1-800-Collect and the like

>>149438739
Soundwave is a cassette player, and his li'l minions are cassettes.

>>149444744
my answer stays the same. your phone calls aren't encrypted, the phone company knows what numbers you call and for how long. the collect call business bills your phone company, and the phone company hands the bill off to you at the end of the month.

>>149444744
The purpose of a collect call is to bill the person receiving the call instead of the one making it. Some common use cases were someone calling from a payphone when they don't have change, or college students calling their parents over long distance. I believe 1-800-COLLECT, CALL-ATT, et. al. offered this service at a discounted rate.

>>149432237
Hasbro's biggest struggle is giving him a modern alt mode while keeping his cassette gimmick

>>149431150 (OP)

>>149444203
>Complainig that there's nothing on.

>>149445162
>scrawny
he was still a chubster when he was still the ecodarling of libs back then before chudding out, right?

>>149445247
he had a bunch of surgeries

>>149443818
In the case of WoW, it starts off slowly. They played their hand too early and in the first two expansions introduced two big, huge lore characters in Illidan the Betrayer and Arthas the Lich King, and had us(at the time) kill them. After that, where do you go? They remade the world, removing old content for new and updated bits without trying to preserve the old stuff. The third expansion introduced a raid finder, so you don't need friends to find raids but could just que for it. This continued into the Chinese Panda expansion where they reworked the talent trees and how raiding worked as a whole, Time Traveling Orcs expansion had such severe content droughts the fan base was leaving by the millions, literally. They pulled out all the stops for the Big Alien Hell Expansion, and then we fight a War, we travel to the spirit world to fight the never before seen or mentioned Lord of the Dead, several lore character were screwed with or fucked over and I don't even know this new one. Dragonland? Don't know, don't care.
WoW keeps retconning lore, screwing with mechanics that worked in the past, changing things to make it PC and friendly(one quest involving a Warlock mind controlling his assistant was downplayed to 'shes pretending she's mine controlled so he doesn't get his feelings hurt' instead of showing his moral grayness), and more.
Doesn't help that people like Blizzard are scummy, greedy gits, that took them ages to implement Vanilla servers... Only to make them update a few expansions behind the current one.
It sucks.

>>149445162
I do not know who this is.

>>149445385
Elon musk back when he was the left's messiah

>>149445385
Elon Musk.
until 2023 he was basically Reddit Jesus.

The reason so many cartoons are slop is that a lot of the classic types of episode plots just don't exist anymore.

>>149445811
Yep. Kids don't fucking do anything anymore. They don't go outside. They don't play with toys. They don't play video games. They just watch youtube videos of people doing those things. It's surreal.

Is class president a thing?
Do kids care about them at all? Cartoon always do at least one episode about it.

>>149445162
Simpsons was old enough to have fucking Bob Hope guest star

>>149446031
>Is class president a thing?
Yes.
>Do kids care about them at all?
No, and I think that's meant to be part of the joke. Not sure I'd say it's particularly funny, but still.

>>149439125
If you look back at the TV shows of the 70’s it was kind of a slog with “socially conscious” content getting big. You can still see through lines between Norman Queer and today’s rainbow casting

>>149446031
I ran for class president in grade school. Although we called it class prime minister because I live in Canada. Five people ran and I came in third. The top 2 winners got to be the class prime minister. For some reason, the teacher said out loud that they usually want one of them to be a boy and one of them to be a girl. And that this election turned out so nicely because the top 2 spots were won by a boy and a girl.

>>149446031
Those episodes are just a way to do a kid friendly politics episode without pissing off the parents watching along with them

>>149432214

the Buffalo characters never appeared again only for a blink and you miss cameo in the final song of the show.

>>149434115
Up until about a week ago they did

>>149435630
There was also the creepy pedo gym teacher

Cartoons REALLY don't do Star Wars parodies anymore with how much its fallen from its previous popularity.

>>149448118
It's actually crazy that Star Wars was more popular in the years with no movies between Episode 3 and 7, than it was during the sequels.

>>149434115
Summer camp is great for kids, especially bean (boy) scout camp
Don't send your kids to co-ed summer camps because hormones always ruin summer camp experiences like >>149436255

And even if co-ed camp doesn't devolve into fighting over mates the adults have to supervise those kids 24/7 to stop them from literally mating so there's pretty much no adventure to be had.

>>149431594
ive started to see save symbols replaced with flash drives here and there. I wish floppys came back tho

>>149443904
>After WoW got big there was a huge gold rush for companies to try to get in on that action, even people wanting to be the “WoW Killer”
>mfw even Family Guy tried to have its own mmo (it was as shitty as you could imagine)

>>149445335
>and I don't even know this new one. Dragonland? Don't know, don't care.
Dragonflight already ended kek, and it was a big bunch of faggy nothing. Current expansion is The War Within and I must give credit to blizzard, they managed to make an Agartha-esque setting fucking suck ass

>>149434115
I went to a christian summer camp around 20 or so years ago. It fucking sucked because the majority of kids were assholes. Never went again.

>>149432425
do you even believe this

>>149448627
johnny (x2)
yes papa
telling lies
no papa

>>149446002
Unironically what can you do? So many age old plots are dead because kids don't relate to them anymore
>Kids are barely taught how to read now
>They don't really play with toys anymore after turning 5
>They don't watch cartoons or movies anymore, just youtube shorts
>They don't use computers
>They don't go outside anymore unless it's to the store or the park sometimes

>>149448639
>instant reaction is to sing the song to block all intrusive thoughts
i see

>>149438775
it was before the dot com crash and corporate still hired and promoted white men
if you were in andy's position you would see so many people your age around you getting rich and just feel like shit that you aren't there

>>149448651
But think about all the cool new plots they can do instead.
Like them doing fentanyl.
Or drinking bleach for a tiktok trend.
Or stabbing a school mate because they have no impulse control.
A whole world of new wonderful possibilities.

>>149448689
>Durr generic pale stale male white guys are oppressed
lol, fries in the bag lilbro

>>149448714
if anything im saying it was much easier for mediocre white men to get paid
Jim is barely more functional than Andy and had it made. even admitting his job was stupid

but yes, affirmative action, dei, and h1b1 weren't major factors mediocre white men had to deal with
but i guess its okay as long as we get mediocre brown men instead. this proves something

>>149443818
TF2 (2007) marked the beginning of a slowly transition that ended up with mobile gaming

>>149448118
Not even the prequels get parodied either, really, other than maybe a one off Jar Jar parody. And nobody gives a shit about the sequels enough to parody them. They're not movies, they're soulless, vapid corporate slop.

>>149448824
>And nobody gives a shit about the sequels enough to parody them. They're not movies, they're soulless, vapid corporate slop.
meanwhile the internet is filled with prequel memes in comparison to original and sequel memes

>>149448824
>Not even the prequels get parodied either, really, other than maybe a one off Jar Jar parody.
KND gave us Droidekas.

>>149448824
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwu2XYZHdw

>>149439613
In the 20th century after WW2, there was a movement to integrate Jewishness into the children of Ashkenazis in the North East. Summer camps were used to bond Jews to their culture and community. It's also a joke that a lot of the camp counselors are young adults returning from their birthright, hyping Israel to the kids.

When Jews got jobs in media, they brought along the summer camp plot to entertainment. It made millions of American kids think they were missing out, when really it's a tiny subset of the population actually going to sleepaway camps. Stuff like Camp Lazlo and the Parent Trap (with bows and arrows, canoes, the outfits) is straight out of Jewish camp culture.

>>149444428
You're defending Bush? Yes Saddam was bad, but trying to reconstruct Iraq was easier said than done.

>>149448944
....Summer camp was an invention in the early 1920s when most people lived in the inner cities in downtown. They sent their kids off to camps in the summer to partly get them out of the city where the kids had little to do and get them out into the fresh air countryside for actual physical activity.

No the universe is not always qanon retard shit.

>>149443818
There are only so many MMO players out there and the population is only large enough to keep a single game alive. Which is why only one subscription MMO was popular at a time, they all migrated from one to the next. And there is a time limit to them too. After about 2 years the game is played out, the economy is wrecked, everyone has done everything and all their alts are decked out in epic level shit so new players are ten times more left out and quit pretty quickly. Everyone needs the new world experience.

>>149431150 (OP)
Any episode with the WTC getting destroyed or plane terrorists, expecially if it released before 9/11
>Stickin’ Around had one
>The Tick had one
>Even The Wacky World of Tex Avery had one (insane that literal shit predicted one of the world’s biggest tragedies)

>>149449085
>qanon retard
the american jews having their own institutions and clubs, especially for children is le qanon schizo conspiracy? NTA but you crayon eating flyover state rethuglican retard are going to be VERY surprised to find they don't go to pastor billy bob's inbred church like you, and have their own religion and go to synagogue, I'm sure you'll scream and cry about Jews and Judaism being a seperate thing from evangelicals is an evil lie, huh, bubba?

>>149443818
>>149443904
>>149443919
>>149449137
It's a mix of different things

>Not that many people will pay to play a game like that so the population is always limited
>Other online games kept taking a chunk of the MMO population like League of Legends, Rocket League, Fallout 76, etc.
>Turns out more people just want something they can p9ick up and play on a whim than something they are required to be dedicated to.

>>149448867
>Droidekas were supposed to be this heavily-shielded, elite droid model that can mow down anything without plot armor
>These guys just (honor) rolled around
kek

>>149449180
So what you’re saying is, one of Do-It-Cheap’s worst shows tried to warn us?

>>149449180
Its called predictive programming. Thought alot of people on here would know that by now.

>>149432083
My highschool did one. The fag around campus did this horribly cringy hula dance because he wanted attention for being a fag on stage.

If he's still gay and alive I hope he isn't a huge faggot anymore.

>>149438740
youd be surprised at how accurate that actually is

>>149448118

Is beacuse Disney owns them and would get in legal troubles

>>149439812
>we have to make a reference to 30 year old movie just so people know we're making a reference to Johnny Depp, whose name is on the poster.
>It's totally got nothing to do with relevant events and celebrity drama

>>149449654
>>we have to make a reference to 30 year old movie just so people know we're making a reference to Johnny Depp, whose name is on the poster.
>>It's totally got nothing to do with relevant events and celebrity drama
Milennials do this unironically tho

>>149431265
always a kino plotline

>>149449879
No they fucking don't.

>>149449187
>last point
True, I don't wanna hafta grind for hours on end

>>149438933
>but when the show first premiered in 1989 he was legitimately seen as a hugely controversial character and the show sometimes took influence from that.
Can't find the clip, but there was someone in politics at the time that said something along the lines of "We don't want our families to be like the Simpsons", and it's funny looking back on that and seeing even crazier animated families that came after the Simpsons.
Also, we will never have another "Do the Bartman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ycjcQHoaw

>>149443977
>>149444736
The PS2 was a thing by this point, did they bring that up in the episode? Hell, that was one of the reasons the PS2 was so dam successful, it was a gaming machine AND a media player.

>>149448867
The whole snowday episode was a Star Wars parody, and I love it.
>Use the soup....

>>149451012
They still used parody stand-ins back then, like the Okama Gamesphere.

>>149451058
>parody stand-ins back then, like the Okama Gamesphere.
SOVL before it was lazy hacks

>>149448280
>Patsy wanted Lazlo...
>BADLY
Must be the monkey charm.

>>149446002
>>149448651
As a guy with a 15 year old niece, kids her age DO want to go places to hangout, like Youth Centers and the like, it's just that these places are so few and far in between the places themselves and the kids in relation to where they lived. I chalk it up to malls just dying, because growing up, my sister (niece's mom) hung out there all the time with her friends.

>>149448280
>And even if co-ed camp doesn't devolve into fighting over mates the adults have to supervise those kids 24/7 to stop them from literally mating so there's pretty much no adventure to be had.
While not a camp experience exactly, a sort of overnight experience we were forced to go through in my high school had students sneak off to fuck. Not that it was anything unique for that school, some students got caught in the bathroom during school hours and one of my classmates (barely even knew her) got pregnant in the middle of the year.

>>149431150 (OP)
2000s cartoons making fun of anime.

>>149433945
I wouldn't call this show "good" but they put pedobear on cartoonnetwork and I have to give them props for that

>>149451322
>Besides South Park and Simpsons, Pokemon outlived all those cartoons that were taking shots at it and called it a passing fad

>>149451514
>masterpieces that were perfect throughout and ended so audiences wanted more
vs
>crapanese sludge pumped out that everyone agrees should have stopped being made 30 years ago.

>>149448451
I haven't touched WoW since SoD. It was nice being a true shockadin. I protected Hillsbrad to the point the Horde had to assemble a small party to keep us away.

>>149449965
Huh, I forgot about that one
that was actually a pretty fun episode

>>149450954
George H.W. Bush said it. That's why he moves into the Simpson's neighborhood in an episode and has a feud with Homer.

>>149451514
>Pokemon outlived all those cartoons that were taking shots at it and called it a passing fad
not just Pokemon, but even One Piece as of 2025
>1,136 total episodes of One Piece
>790 total episodes of Simpsons

>>149451614
It feels crazy to me that the time that I quit, in early Legion is about to be the halfway point of the game's lifespan.
I didn't join until TBC so I never had nostalgia enough to play Classic, and besides for up to half a year after I quit, my dreams were nothing but WoW, with me constantly still doing dailys and grinding on an endless loop, and I sure as fuck don't want to do that again. It actually severely fucked with my sleep schedule since my brain would stay in work mode the whole night, instead of going into rest mode.
In hindsight it's kind of scary how much that shit had ingrained itself into my brain patterns.

>>149451716
It was mostly Pokémon, Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon that got clowned on by american cartoons in the early 2000's, and all of them resisted the test of time

>>149446031

I always saw these episodes as way for the creators to bitch about politics

>>149432214

My favorite part is that /pol/tards who browse /mlp/ always defend the episode with "Buh Buh Buh they hired a native person to consult"

>>149431973
>>149432012
>>149432124
Same discord tranny faggot

>>149432214
it has been ages since I watched that episode and I remember nothing from it, why was it controversial again?

>>149440039
I'm american just young (relatively)
I understand the replies and was aware that discos was in the 70's as well but I feel like I'm going crazy, isn't 80's typically very disco heavy in pretty much all references now? Guess it's just anachronistic revisionism, huh.
>>149443757
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
glad you mentioned this, this is nuts lol

>>149435336
Love that show. As a handicap alpha bitch she was ridiculously cute

>>149438501
This is the experience of literally everyone I've ever known that went to a public school with a large black population.
So yeah, shitholes.

>>149443818
Surprised no one mentioned the general rise of social media and internet accessibility taking away a big part of the unique social aspect novelty from mmos
might be one of the bigger blows

>>149451185
This. I had to explain to my mother in law that when I was a teenager we hung out at the LIBRARY. And we were always on our best behavior because we wanted to keep hanging out there. But one day the powers that be decided that we weren't allowed to hang out there anymore.
We actually spent a week blaming one another until we all figured out one by one that it was *everywhere* that had become hostile to us. Not just us personally, but us as in anyone between the ages of like 13-17. Eventually we took to hanging out at the 7-11 but that invited a lot of fucked up stuff to happen because fuckin weirdos hang out at 7-11 after dark.
So eventually we just escaped into our computers and that was that, and there has never been a place for teenagers to hang out since.

>>149431216
The $300 dollars episode when Hermes' kid invests his last dollar in anazon stock and is called is risk taker

>>149451563
>masterpieces that were perfect throughout and ended so audiences wanted more
I'm not 100% but I'm certain Simpsons started being shitty way before Pokemon did

>>149452603
>At one point, wow added fucking twitter integration (and a selfie toy)
Now that aged well...

>>149445162
this shit was pretty surreal back then with how much dick sucking there was
can't imagine how much everyone involved regrets it, I'm sure they've made a bunch of angry tweets/blueskys about it
i never paid much attention to him so it was a real shock to see how much the tides turned on him

>>149452681
I was one of the first wave of pokémon fans in the west and I gave up on the anime on Unova

>>149452749
I guess I think of Pokemon as more of a multimedia thing. I played the games and the cards more than I watched the show.
Even then, when was Unova compared to when people generally consider "Zombie simpsons" to have become a thing? I know there's that chart of the ratings of each simpsons episodes and after a certain point they're basically all negative.

>>149452758
I remember when Unova was airing most fans agreed that it was ass compared to everything that came before it and that Kalos was considered a huge improvement after it until it had a GoT-tier ending

>>149452749
>>149452758
haven't watched but I'm not surprised to hear you stopped since from what I've seen unova was the first time they made ash way dumber for plot convenience
I remember dp anime still being okay (movies weren't really worth watching starting I think with the manaphy one? maybe not the giratina/shaymin one was cool)

>>149439565
yea but they really, really, fucked up with episodes like this

you'd think they would have learned to not listen to mainstream sources/las vegas but then again I bet Matt and Trey still never watched Inception yet

The audacity of them not doing any eps of 2024. the fact they never gonna touch on the "Venezuelan" Jokers that took over those apartments in Colorado and them losing all the eps off Paramount + is total schadenfreude to me

>>149452529
>>149443757
>>149440039
Tbh the 80s still had funky/danceable music even though it wasn't called "disco" necessarily. I think zoomers use "disco" as a catch-all now.

>>149452347
>/pol/tards who browse /mlp/
/mlpol/ still lives!!

>>149434115
I was in the scouts and we went camping

>>149451514
They were probably peeved about Pokemon revitalizing the toy cartoon as if they didn't just escape the deluge of crap that was 80s animation.

>>149434115
Religious camps and Specialized camps (fat, diabetes T1, etc). There are secular sleepaway camps but its pretty much all Jews, at least from what I've seen. I feel like this may contribute to their frequent appearances in media. I went to a T1 Diabetes camp but that was for like 10 days. Personally would not send a young kid away for that long, seems like a good way to get fucked up.

>>149432883
>not png
One job

>>149431216
to be fair they started the fad of making watches that function as phones but most sensible people don't want them

>>149434115
You did hear about that summer camp that got flooded last week didn't you?

>>149431886
Ignore fags you are correct

>>149438775
Mission Hill makes me physically ill. 90's culture such an alien world and there will never be anything like it again. It is hard to process how much worse the world has become.

>>149443818
About 9 years ago, there was a period where everyone and their mama was putting out an MMO. And, predictably, the vast majority of them went free to play in a year and then died off from lack of interest. SWTOR and ESO are the exceptions because they fixed themselves quick after a disasterous launch. SWTOR is on life support though what with the Disney buyout and not having a dedicated bioware team anymore.

>>149453798
I feel the opposite, I wouldn't want to live in that time period at all. It's this weird transition between the status quo of the 80 and early 90s and new millenium. Even in Mission Hill you can see through Kevin how rapidly the world is changing what with the advent of the internet.

>>149453827
I hope they put out an offline mode, I hate how limited it is if you don't pay for it monthly

>>149453858
I can appreciate that, though I feel like it might be better than a stagnation and decline that almost seems permanent. I am 30, and the world for the last decade has been interesting, but far from pleasant outside of things that are funny but ultimately not very pleasant.

>>149438775
It still rings true to us 20 year olds now no matter when this was made

just wait until 4 years where you'll have to find a job after you get fired, layed off, rejected, or even framed for sexual harassment and bigotry

>>149436747
Bullshit. I watched Godzilla vs Hedorah. I know damn well what the sixties were like.

>>149438103

>>149436255
Staple it how? Like all the way through, just the sides, foreskin, etc? Give us a technical breakdown.

>>149454210
That movie was early 70s technically.

>>149432799
>>149432852

I want to say comic/tv/sci-fi/whatever cons being a relatively niche event by and for the nerds obsessed with that subject matter and being there without being a megafan made you look like a freak. Cynical as it is to say, cons are too accessible and are little more than an excuse for merch tables and instagram cosplay plugs. I remember attending a con in 2012 run out of the parking garage basement of a hotel and thinking it was too mainstream. If only i knew how much i would miss it.

>>149432545
I love that the lore for this show is that Robot eventually grew up to be a robot overlord and took over the world to enact revenge on all he endured in school lol

>>149438775
I'm 25 and in his exact same situation. Dozens of interviews in my field and zero Fucking jobs.

>>149453883
You can do all eight original stories as f2p, the campaigns in the expansions go from meh to HOLY SHIT END THE DAMN MONGOLORIAN STORYLINE ALREADY

Any show where the parents are together and not divorced

>>149454539
I'm sorry for your loss

>>149448280
this still happens regardless of it being co-ed or not, boys and girls will fool around with each other even if it is gay

>>149452642
Yeah, lotta places are hostile to kids, either one group of kids does something stupid and the place of business bans ALL kids, or they outright ban them with no reason. The fucking DQ near my library has a sign that kids under 16 can't enter without an adult. Like what the fuck? At least make it a rule like Burger King where the kids have to buy something off the menu. Luckily, said library near it hasn't banned kids, so you act right, go ahead and read all the manga you want.

>>149448885
to be fair, this video aged pretty well itself.

>>149452811
They mad Ash dumber so Iris' jokes could land (her tick was calling Ash a kid, despite them being the same age). Pikachu was also made weaker because of Zekrom, so weak that he (Pikachu) lost to a NEW trainer who JUST got his starter Pokemon.

>>149452057
Kind of feel for the Western shows. Aside from CN, Nick and Disney, any other would be showrunner had to look towards Saturday morning blocks like Fox Kids, KidsWB and the like. Was going alright, but then Pokemon hits the scene, becomes a fucking BANG, and the companies running these blocks realize that it's cheaper to just license shows to fill up their blocks instead of paying animators.
Reminder that when FoxKids transformed into FoxBox, only ONE animated show was made in the states (TMNT 2003), everything else was either from Canada (Cramp Twins), Europe (Funky Cops, Winx Club) or Japan (all the anime).
I really don't blame them for seething, they knew what was coming.

>Anime parody episode
>Pokémon is a fad
>DBZ is mindless violence
>Sailor Moon is for perverts and pedophiles
I'm glad this trend died out when cartoons started being made by kids who grew up on anime. Most cartoons were made by xenophobic boomers.

>>149455828
The most recent Sailor Moon joke that comes to mind is this one from Penn Zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Q10ecey5g

>>149455828
Some of those boomers and Xers also grew up on anime, notably Speed Racer. Genndy has a whole episode of Dexter's Lab parodying it.

>>149455828

>>149442193
>Laugh along as kids preform their "goofiest" stand-up comedy!
Who thought anyone wanted this as a "bonus"?

>>149432237
>>149445133
Don’t forget Megatron.

>>149438266
Politics got ugly when the Boomers became adults.

>>149455828
>DBZ is mindless violence
this is correct
>Sailor Moon is for perverts and pedophiles *and women

>>149434115
Its a rich kid thing since parents don't understand paying thousands to send their kid away unless they are loners or the parents are rich
Plus kids aren't as interested because of iPads raising them so they aren't as social and being without internet sounds scary to them

>>149451716
One Piece never got clowned on in western media though cause its mainstream popularity was only exclusive to Japan until very recently. Only within the last five years and the Netflix series did One Piece reached the normie appeal. Also number of episodes doesn’t mean shit cause The Simpsons is still the longer running show by an entire decade.

>>149452836
>losing all the eps off Paramount +
?

>>149455185

>>149431216
If they had stayed as solely a communication device I think it could be basically an earring at the moment

>>149431150 (OP)
All the Nazis and muh white supremacy boogeyman in western media look as dated as the satanic panic and the red scare. Considering Jews are now dianllt accepting the left and non-whites hate them more than the right wing and white conservatives.

>>149454294
>>149452836
>>149456955
All the pro Muslim and Islam is peaceful propaganda In cartoons and comics feels more dated than BLM propaganda.

>>149456719
>greentexts you can read without the words

Attendants filling up your gas
>inb4 someone from New Jersey corrects me

>>149457013
Someone from NJ here. That guy’s too white.

Episodes where the family goes to church, and really any episode that focuses on church.

I've been trying to get back in to going buty my faith really is burnt out and it seems like only the mega faithful and people with severe mental issues only care now.

>>149435609
>I only acknowledge four Star Wars movie
>The Duggler

Any 2010s or even early 2020s plots and themes that lived and died with that era? We’re getting backwash from the BLM privlage era but I haven’t seen many new cartoon go all in that direction

>>149457154
the big bang theory is a very early 2010s cartoon

>>149444563
The Hunter S. Thompson approach to politics going mainstream has been a detriment to discussions on the topic for far too long.

>>149457183
Hating Nixon so much that he fucked up political talk forever in the 2000s?

>>149457013
>>149457120
Yeah, usually it's some Indian or Haitian guy filling your gas these days.

>>149457198
Yeah. Now the blanket insults for every politician you don't like is "Nazi" or "Commie".

>>149456680
lawsuit between paramount and warner bros. warner bros had a deal with matt and trey to have south park and a couple new seasons be on hbo max exclusively for a couple of years. matt and trey secretly make another deal with paramount + too make new “specials” but not “episodes” exclusively for their platform. this angered warner since they thought they were paying for new episodes but realized that all effort to make new episodes were instead to create “specials” for paramount. it also makes sense since the newest season has like way less episodes than it normally does.
tldr; idk if im right but do a google search about it to be sure

>>149450954
>"We need Americans to be more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons."
>"Hey, we're like the Waltons. We're waiting for the Depression to end, too."

>>149457013
>>149457120
>>149457221
The NJ forced filling thing is so crazy to me
I remember reading a while back that lobbyists for it defended it entirely on make-work basis lol what a crock of shit

>the clothing
>winding up your car
>car is called a runabout
everything else somewhat holds up, but this specific scene kinda stands out

>>149455641
There's a Burger King not far from my house that's across the street from a high school. Those kids get so psychotic after classes are over that BK has to lock the dining room for two hours on school days, so no customers can dine in. If you're not using drive-thru or a food delivery app during that time, they essentially tell you to fuck off.

>>149457271
Was this seen as deliberately outdated even then? This is a cartoon that parodies the early 1900s from a 1940 perspective

>>149455828
In fairness, look at when most of those parodies were made. Those were the biggest animes publicly known in the US and anime was still very niche and trying to shake off the blood and boobs stereotypes. Anyone who would have been old enough to work on those shows mostly weren't the types or had time to do deep research to make more more nuanced references. Some of us thought it was special they even got noticed, like when internet culture started being referenced in TV showed. It all got ruined, of course, but there you go.
>>149457271
The Dover boys was made in 1942, how many runabouts were still around, then?

>>149457328
>>149457401
oh ye, good point. i didn't actually think it through

>>149452057
>>149455808
It's mainly because much like video games, anime in both mid-90s and 2000s was considered a niche for the outsiders, and when the mainstream anime like Pokemon, DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sailor Moon and Digimon were popular, they were still made fun of

>>149457226
There used to be a time up until the 2010s where media were free to make fun of both political parties without compromising themselves about their own identity

>>149457487
I also need to add that when the media made of politicians, it used to be hilarious

>>149431265
During the late-90s to the 2000s, people believed Lara Croft was the biggest video game character that would take off more than other properties like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat or Halo, but it turned to be a fad

>>149457514
>people believed Lara Croft was the biggest video game character that would take off more
I'm sure many were hoping for her to be "taking off" in a different context.

Anything where the plot could be quickly resolved by a text message or looking it up on a phone.

>>149457578
not in the sense after 2007

>>149456536
Just make him a Warthog! You get to keep the fusion cannon and he's a flyer now.

>>149448207
The sequels were THAT bad. Disney Wars is so shit that it completely killed people's interest in the IP and knocked it off its long-lasting pop culture juggernaut pedestal. The only Star Wars thing that's managed to keep anyone's interest has been Mandalorian and that's mostly because of the aggressive merchandising with baby Yoda. Even that didn't really last because the last season was so bad it turned people off.

>>149457701
and now they're trying to turn it into a movie, long after being relevant and long after they milked the franchise with bad single season tv shows

>>149457278
Honestly not surprised. While I do feel for the kids' plight, at the same time they're at the age when they need to hold each other accountable. My job is near a middle school and last year when school let out, it was crazy. Kids buying (or stealing) water guns, spraying each other just outside the store, hitting guests in the crossfire, playing with carts, overall unruly. This year? Much calmer.

>>149455984
most normalfags aren't even aware the Speed Racer is an anime, for the time period when it was broadcasted it wasn't seen as any different for your average Hanna Barbera shit

>>149458027
>from your

fixed

>>149457487
meanwhile in the last decade no one in mainstream media made fun of Biden despite his dementia making him the easiest president to make fun of in history just because hollywood is obsessed with sucking democrat cock now

>>149457701
Disney's playing the long con. The Sequels were there master plan to reboot Star Wars so they can quietly erase Lucas' original ideas. The fact that the sequels were so poorly recieved only means that they're waiting for nostalgia to kick in, like with the prequels, so they can promote Rey and Finn as everyone's favorite characters.

I don't understand why people are acting like MMOs are dead, LOTRO, STO, DDO, EverQuest and EverQuest II are still releasing expansions.

>>149456970

>>149451514
It's honestly astonishing in hindsight just how much western networks underestimated anime. Then when DBZ and Pokemon took off, they tried slandering it, calling it smut, a fad. Now 30 years later Demon Slayer is one of the highest grossing animated films ever while shit made in America cougheliocough is being passed over due to aggressive disinterest

>>149458082
>western networks
More like American networks. When DBZ and Pokémon took off in the US, anime was already basically mainstream in several European countries like France and especially Italy

>>149456970
What kind of bizarro world did you come from? American media never stopped shitting on muslims.

>>149458108
I think since animation has always been more of a mix of domestic and foreign works in Europe, the networks just treated anime like any other licensed shows.
Anime is less of a "threat" when you already show dozen of American shows too.

>>149454466
Do you think he kept her as a prized trophy in his collection

>>149432943
Why was the show even called that to begin with?

>>149458177
He upgraded her prosthetics and made her a proper cyborg.

>>149448118
>>149448207
>>149457701
>>149457728
It's honestly kind of shocking how badly those movies screwed up the franchise. Lots of people hated the prequels, but they still made bank at the box office, and had monstrous merchandise sales to more than justify them being made. Force Awakens made a shitton of money at the box office and from merchandise, but the rest of the movies have just crashed and burned from there. I don't think kids even care about anything Star Wars related these days except Baby Yoda, if that.

>>149458055
Are there kids now who are gonna be nostalgic for the sequels in a decade? Seems like they mostly ignored Star Wars in favor of the MCU and internet stuff.

>>149458423
You know, with something like Transfomers even when the current series is trash that's not enough to kill the interest in the franchise because TF is a franchise that is always reinventing itself, so there's always the chance that the next series can be good after the current series is left behind in the past. That doesn't apply to Star Wars because the shitstain that Disney left behind with the prequel trilogy will stay there forever influencing the next installments of the SW franchise, so it makes more sense that lifelong SW fans don't feel like they want to support it anymore. Pic unrelated btw

>>149458478
>the shitstain that Disney left behind with the prequel trilogy
That was Lucas's shitstain, not Disney's.

>>149458491
oh fuck I meant sequel

>>149458122
>American media never stopped shitting on muslims.
Nigga what are you smoking? Islam is a religion more protected than Judaism in American media.

>>149454466
Based.

>>149439516
>danger
The danger of old people will die at a reasonable age instead of running the world into the ground with them? The narrative changed is all, and it changed because rich fucks are losing money, or afraid of it. We're still way overpopulated, and the fact that the birth rate is falling is proof of that. When the mortality rate starts climbing, and the birth rate is steady, then you can doompost about global birthrates.
They're the bastards that caused this mess in the first place. Reap what you sow.

>>149458566
Why though? You’d think jewish-owned media would be more critical

>>149458691
jews are much more anti-christian than they are anti-muslim

>>149454413
I use to watch adult swim when I was like 8 and I never appreciated shows like this and athf

>>149458055
It's not gonna work. The only people who still even remotely give a shit about Star Wars are 40+ years old. Even Disney as a whole can't grab the youth. Disney's biggest fanatics are all over 30 now.

>>149458705
If you thought they were funny, that's you appreciating it. Harvey Birdman always made me laugh. It, Aqua Teens and Sealab were my favorite shows on Adult Swim. I never got into Space Ghost and Home Movies, but now I've got a fondness for them too.

>>149447446
>“For your own good, I am gonna get you wet Jones, one way or another…”
This man needs to be arrested for attempting to get a robot, who’s supposed to be programmed as a 12 year old wet

>>149448824
Gumball released an episode riffing on Star Wars as a franchise mere months before The Last Jedi (and I think that is a very important point, this was released after Force Awakens and Rogue One has reignited the franchise but before the downwards trajectory started with The Last Jedi and Solo).

>>149458690
>We're still way overpopulated
Overpopulation is a local issue that typically manifests as famine. Which parts of the world are having more trouble from obesity than from famine, do you think?

>>149458702
They think they’ll destroy each other?

>>149458844
Famine’s a joke, the whole world over is more obese than it is starving

>>149458690
India and China are overpopulated. The rest of the world is fine.

>>149431189
the episode itself turned into a human and started going on dates

>>149455208
>boys and girls will fool around with each other
Yes, that's the point.
Fool around with the same sex as much as you want. It won't turn your parents into grandparents.
That's why the camp counselors barely need to supervise a single-sex camp.

>>149458925
>the whole world over
As I said, it's a local issue. Most of the world has more trouble from obesity than from starvation, but some places do have starving people. Do you know where those places are?

>>149449494
>CFC emissions are a problem because evil industrialists build refrigerator factories using CFC refrigerant, then destroy the completed refrigerators so that the refrigerant leaks into the environment

>>149431150 (OP)
Any show with asshole protagonists

>>149458913
Jews are mostly indifferent towards muslims but they have a huge hateboner against christians. Google "tzoah rotachat" to find out why.

>>149458050
>despite his dementia making him the easiest president to make fun of in history
No, that's still Trump, who is a living cartoon character who regularly says and does outrageous things. But the thing is, to make fun of Trump, you'd have to actually point out what he says/does, and use that as the basis of a joke. Repeating "orange man bad" does not constitute a joke, and everyone going that route is why political humor regarding Trump is really bad despite the unprecedented opportunity.

>>149458393
So the Poltergeist 2 braces scene combined with the Superman 3 transformation scene?

>>149458055
>>149458748
It will work to some extent. Even really dogshit things will ellicit nostalgia in some and when those kids who grew up with them reach youtube essay making age, there will be those "Were the sequelst THAT bad really?", "The brilliance of Rian Johnson" "The unrepentant ferocity of Rey Skywalker" "[Sequel Character] being [Quality] for [Amount of Time]" and the like. See the bad sonic 3d sonic games for example.
That said, they simply won't ever have the level of nostalgia as the og trilogy given star wars was pretty quiet for a long time after return of the jedi came out, to the point where it was a pretty big deal when the thrawn trilogy was a thing and its popularity pushed lucas towards making new movies, meanwhile the prequels was the first big star wars content in years and, while the movies were divisive, it was the first time star wars had a such a big return, and it went away from the big screen after Revenge, so, like the first trilogy, theres an absence makes the heart grows fonder thing going on. Also the games and toys around the prequel time were pretty damn good, while sequel era has been dire. The proliferation and dumping of endless star wars media since the sequels have come out has really oversaturated thing and taken all of the mystique and uniqueness of star wars out. Disney proper has the same issue, disney animated films coming out used to be a big deal for decades but they make so much now, it's not as special

>>149453798
i like watching this stuff just to remember how anti-consumerist youth culture was back in the 90s and even early 2000s. zoomers don't understand the moral dilemma of "selling out" or that basically everybody had an aversion to it pre-social media.

>>149459812
get that bag fr fr
I refuse to use the word content, unbelievably soulless

>>149458060
we're not saying MMOs are dead, anon. We're aware that the genre is alive and kicking

>>149459471
>>149458691
>>149458702
Mind you anti-Christian and yet pro-Muslim propaganda is mostly an American and British thing done by American and British Jewish producers. French media is oddly respectful towards Christianity despite France being so atheistic.

>>149431150 (OP)
Not exactly what you mean OP but it's interesting how this has become inverted since smartphones. People who are alone now are more likely to drain their battery faster from doomscrolling social media videos or playing games all day.

>>149457154
>We’re getting backwash from the BLM privlage era but I haven’t seen many new cartoon go all in that direction
BLM bullshit made HBO watchmen and Tom King Rorshach feel more dated than the original watchmen.

>>149431903
>do I look like I know what a webp is?

>>149460262
Would the media dropout BLM so fast if black Americans and BLM media didn’t march against Israel when Hamas attacked?

>>149460284
Honestly. Gaza shit was the moment where Hollywood turned on woke culture. It’s the moment where all the anti-white propaganda backfired on the Jews.

>>149452493
Lol

>>149457271
The period it's parodying, the 1890s (The Gay 90s), cars were pretty rare and seen as more of a plaything for the rich elite than anything anyone had, mainly because Horses were still the thing.

It wasn't until after the Model T and investments into road infrastructure, that cars become a staple transport of Humanity.

>>149455828
>>DBZ is mindless violence
is this not correct? that's the main reason why dbz is popular in brown countries.

>>149460248
>character needs to be at a computer to get an email
>character doesn't know something and needs to physically go to a computer to look it up
>character can't locate someone and doesn't first try calling him or her (with another scene explaining why his or her phone got dropped into a swimming pool)
omnipresent phones mediating human interaction are killing drama
time to stop setting fiction in current day earth until someone figures out how to free us from these pocket demons

>>149457013
Oregon does it too. During my driver's ed lessons they showed a video showing how "dangerous" it was to fill up your own gas, and every time it was someone smoking at a gas station but they never mentioned that part. Niggers tried to scare us into not filling our own tank.

>>149431150 (OP)
References to baby boomer sitcoms? I've seen parodies of Green Acres for 20 years without knowing about the original show. The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island were still being referenced in cartoons in the 2010s. When will the global war on terror get parodied and references as much as Vietnam?

>>149448280
Why did they want to rape the boys so badly?

>>149455828
>Anime starts making waves on cable
>Boomer writers all go "UGH, look at those uncomfy, unwholesome chingchong cartoons. They are no match for scrimblo bimblo and his hilarious adventures!" in true Dobsonian fashion
>Halfway through the 2000's and these fuckers were desperately apeing it because, as it turns out, kids would rather watch Ash jobbing in another league than scrimblo bimblo making a parody of Goodfellas with pigeons
>Cue millennial "writers", whose only saving grace is going "look at my ebin anime referencino" (is the same basic bitch anime the boomers were crying about)
It has truly been a roundabout path...

>>149460821
>anime characters just minding their own business
>Western cartoons attack them for no reason other than to assert dominance
Dobson is truly a unhinged individual that I'd be scared to be alone with.

>>149460821
>adult swim starts making rick and morty anime/weeb shorts
>millennials writing actual rick and morty hate it
>millennials write what might be the only episode where rick physically assaults a human woman as their way of shitting on anime
>adult swim hires japs to make an entire season of unironic rick and morty anime
>the anime sucks

>>149448714
Hush, nigger.

>>149456612
Funnily enough that is mostly true in the manga, in the anime specially the 4kidz or whatever the fuck version aired on USA, it had a ton of filler and the fights were at best 1 or 2 episodes while the big bad fights could take up to 10 to 20 atleast from saiyan up to the end of cell saga because for the Buu both manga and anime went more to the slice of life style up until the supreme kai introduction in wich it returned to be mostly action.

>>149460917
the "western cartoons" are his OCs because he is too narcissistic to use cultural icons like Mickey, Bugs Bunny and Popeye

>>149431464
also that being the only Shakespeare play they ever do.
jimmy neutron is the only kids show that immediately comes to mind that did a different one (macbeth). i know the simpsons did hamlet, and i'm pretty sure a different show did othello of all things.

>>149460821
Game Freak should create a legendary trio based on the animaniacs just so salt the wound