Kim Possible was fantastic. I almost mentioned it earlier, but it's been off the air for a few years.
Best Cartoon in quite some time?
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Phineas and Ferb is a great little series, as is Archer. There was a fairly enjoyable one a few years back, the name escapes me, it was an Asian girl in America that was a hereditary demon fighter. Kindof a Buffy ripoff, but it did it so well it was easy to forgive.
I'm going to have to check this new My Little Pony show, I've been reading a disturbing amount of good things about it.
I'm going to have to check this new My Little Pony show, I've been reading a disturbing amount of good things about it.
Yeah, I miss that show, Kim Possible's borderline retro for me.
Kid vs. Kat is genius.
Juniper Lee is what you're thinking of, I'm pretty sure.
The new MLP show is pretty cute, although personally I don't quite understand all the acclaim it's getting.
"Kim Possible" helped pull me threw some tough times both mentality and physically while I was recovering. I found it to be an intelligent cartoon that really could be watched by multiple demographics and I was not at all embarrassed to be watching it. It kind of sucks that there are no box set DVD's because I'd buy them in a second.
I believe there are box sets, but you need to buy them from Disney directly.
That's it.
Also looking forward to the new Airbender series, the original should rank up there with one of the best animated series in a long time.
When I started this I had in mind cartoons suitable for children-I think a few people missed that point. I've seen the new Scooby and its pretty good. Kim Possible was ok but I prefer Ben 10. Not watching MLP-don't care how good it is. I got saturated with the original back when and I'm not sure I could face it again. I've tried Adventure Time-sorry, can't stand it. Kid vs Kat is in the same area as Johnny Test-amusing but hardly brilliant, IMO. The other show that has me cracking up these days is The Penguins of Madagascar-although often superficially stupid, there's often clever jokes that whoosh right over my son's head-but stick to me.
Roland Deschain
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I've seen a lot of cartoons but I love South Park, and though I'm a manly man I must admit, I shed a few tears after seeing the mid season finale. That montage with the Stevie Nicks song, it always gets me, just even thinking about it makes me feel sad in addition to wanting some kind of resolution to the events in the show.
^Now, that's definitely not a cartoon for children. Nor for many adults.
I haven't seen it, but they must be HUGELY popular. I've been to Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando for the past four weekends (for Star Wars Weekends), and those two have by far the longest line of people waiting for photo ops. Moreso even than the Star Wars or Disney characters. The character suits are adorable. They dance a lot.
Roland Deschain
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Oh I didn't know that it was kids cartoons specifically. In that case I nominate Ren and Stimpy 1990-1992 era.
Good grief, I wouldn't call Ren and Stimpy suitable for young children either. But then, shows made for young children today are far more loaded with offensive and rude content than they were when I was a child, so I guess standards change.
Awesome show. I love just about everything that Cosmo says. About half the folks associated with this show are on my Facebook friends list.
Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Batman: The Animated Series... I loved those.
Excellenece at it's best.
I find it hard to imagine the show was designed with anyone else in mind. I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I recall it basically being a very puerile show, in every sense of that word.
South Park is probably a bit more of a twelve year old show than an eight year old, though.
I guess I'm a product of a generation in which children's programming was expected to be clean and wholesome and positive, and anything crass or vulgar or mean-spirited was reserved for older audiences. Heck, I was an adult when Ren & Stimpy premiered and I still couldn't stand to look at it. I will never understand the appeal of deliberately ugly animation.