Shows you loved as a kid that STILL hold up
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I still watch the older Looney Tunes and they still make me laugh.
That would be a show that they could easily reboot given the low budget they had, though the rights are tangled up. It was an independent Canadian show before Nickelodeon essentially scooped it up and made the green ooze their trademark. The original creators eventually tried making another similar show that didn't last very long.
Same with Sesame Street from the '70s. It still holds up, too. There was a kind of dual focus, with lot of humor aimed at parents, some sharp parody and really clever, innovative and sometimes slightly anarchic films and animation. I don't know for sure but it seemed like something was lost when Henson got focused on The Muppet Show. At any rate, as the show moved into the Elmo era, it may have been watchable for little kids, but I know I wouldn't have liked it as much, even at the target age.
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I still laugh at the Beany and Cecil cartoons from the early '60s. They were full of topical references that were obviously aimed at an adult or at least adolescent audience. And the puns -- dear Lord, the puns!
"Tear-a-Long, the Dotted Lion." "No Bikini Atoll." "Secondhand Dodge City." "The Phantom of the Horse Opera."
"Tear-a-Long, the Dotted Lion." "No Bikini Atoll." "Secondhand Dodge City." "The Phantom of the Horse Opera."
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When I went back to watch Knight Rider, I was pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up.
There are a few bad episodes per season, but young Hasselhoff has a charming quality that helps gloss over the weak parts and the fantastic incidental music keeps the momentum up.
There are a few bad episodes per season, but young Hasselhoff has a charming quality that helps gloss over the weak parts and the fantastic incidental music keeps the momentum up.
I still frequently watch reruns of Friends, which my 15 year old daughter watches, as does our 18 year old Brazilian exchange student.
I still enjoy reruns of Barney Miller, Head of the Class, My Two Dads.
For that matter, my daughters 13 and 15 have discovered on Netflix, That 70s Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Full House (when they were younger), The Office, Gilmore Girls, and Glee. So it seems that those old shows are still holding up.
I still enjoy reruns of Barney Miller, Head of the Class, My Two Dads.
For that matter, my daughters 13 and 15 have discovered on Netflix, That 70s Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Full House (when they were younger), The Office, Gilmore Girls, and Glee. So it seems that those old shows are still holding up.
I watched a lot of Disney cartoons like Ducktales and Talespin which are still great. But my favorite was the sadly short lived Buzz Lightyear series. It had a great cast of main and recurring voice actors mostly consisting of comedians and sci-fi veterans ranging from Stephen Furst to Adam Carolla. It's a lot of fun for sci-fi fans. It's just unfortunate that Disney hasn't released it for sale.
Gotta disagree a bit here.
Recently did a re-watch on the first two Star Blazers series. First one I think holds up okay, the second one was pretty painful in parts - especially when Venture got the major hots for Starsha.
think the recent remakes will probably hold up a lot better down the track.
RGB was a cartoon I loved just as much as the ones I mentioned, but man, I rewatched over 80 episodes as an adult, just waiting for it to "Get good again like I remembered it" and it literally never did. That's when I realized I was wasting my time.
So, I can't say it really holds up at all for me. The first season especially, I found to be extremely bad.
The follow-up series that no one much knows or cares about, "Extreme Ghostbusters", was one I watched in middle school, and it's really good as an adult. The series that no one gives any credit is actually one of the most interesting ones, both writing, character, and even concept wise. Too bad it never built to anything though, but I'd put it bounds ahead of the old cartoon, to be honest. And I was surprised by how well it held up.
Maybe I should've mentioned it in my first post.
I was just thinking about what makes a show feel dated. A lot of them revolve around situations most people face daily no mattrer what decade you live in. Does it all come down to technology? Like in a sitcom from the 90s when you see someone at work, there's never a computer on their desk.Watching it now it's really hard to relate to being at a desk job without a computer.
A friend of mine made the mistake of buying a complete box set of ELEKTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL because she'd loved it as a kid. She only made it through a couple of episodes before conceding that nostalgia only went so far.
Oh yeah, doing that is a recipe for disaster 9 times out of 10. Same with buying a show you've never heard of and buy on blind faith.
I almost did the same thing with the Real Ghostbusters myself, but thankfully I just watched a bit first before dropping nearly 100 bucks.
I have it on good authority that a number of alien invasions and temptations to destroy this largely ridiculous planet were averted when they saw episodes of Mister Rogers and the work of Jim Henson.
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