The 20s club

[Tribbles]

We were so fortunate to have some great kid shows growing up weren't we? Not only the ones you mentioned, but we also had X-Men (The Animated Series), Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, a little show I loved called Hystaria!, and so many other funny and awesome shows. The cartoons now (And as a disclaimer I don't watch them since they don't look appealing) don't measure up to the ones we had in the late 80's/90's.

I totally agree with you! How do kids live without Disney Afternoon, Fox Kids or One Saturday Morning? Do major networks even have such programming blocks anymore?

Doug rocks.

However, you're right on with the superhero toons. I had X-Men and the incredible animated Batman series. Mark Hamill was a great Joker.

X-Men was one I didn't watch much when I was a kid, for some reason, but I definitely made a point to never miss BTAS or Spider-Man. Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy are LEGENDS. On that note, I just watched the recently released Batman and Superman: Apocalypse. Conroy does Batman's voice. It was pretty good!

 

[Warp Coil]

Re: classic cartoons. As a 90's kid, I was all about Darkwing Duck, Batman: The Animated Series (favorite show of all time), Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers, Tiny Toons, and Animaniacs. Among others, of course. The 20s set has some awesome cartoons to call their own!

I was born in '81 so I had the pleasure of watching some of the great cartoons from the '80s as well as some from the early '90s. I definitely enjoyed the block of DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck and Tail Spin. I watched the early episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. Loved Tiny Toons. But I also grew up with Transformers (G1), He-Man, The Real Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

[Emher]

I dunno 20s have kinda sucked most of the time.

Sure I'm not bullied like I was troughout most of my teens, but I've been barely surviving and keeping my home up until this spring, had a education into a market that was small when I started in Sweden and now nearly nonexistant, I really have no real social life since I have to work a lot, which of course leads to me being lonely and without much time and energy to remedy that...and so on really.

I'm 26 and I can't fucking wait to grow up. 18's supposed to be when you come of age. Sometimes it seems like 45 is the real number. I just want to travel a bit, buy my Camaro, and find a nice, smart, curvy and sexually liberated girl and live life dang it!

 

[Warped9]

I'm 26 and I can't fucking wait to grow up. 18's supposed to be when you come of age. Sometimes it seems like 45 is the real number.

Truth is I didn't start to feel like a real adult until I hit about 38 or so. Even now I can often still feel like a kid inside. The real acknowledgement often comes from how other people perceive you because you now look like a mature adult and what you might have to say can carry some weight because of experience.

 

[Snaploud]

I'm 26 and would probably write something more in-depth if I didn't have a grad paper to work on...

 

[Canadave]

I'm 26 and would probably write something more in-depth if I didn't have a grad paper to work on...

I'm 23 and I have a 30-page paper due in less than a month, so, naturally, I do a lot of writing on here.

 

[watermelony2k]

I'm 20 and I just got out of a sick round of team fortress 2.

 

[Arrqh]

I'm 28. I apparently have more then one grey hair, though I cannot verify this.

My parents were quite anti-cartoon when I was growing up. I am aware of most of the things I am supposed to have watched, but most of them I have never actually seen to any real degree and thus I have no sentimental attachment to them. It's quite depressing.

 

[Joshua Howard]

I'm 23. I'm dead broke, so I can't do much except hang around the house, which I prefer anyway. I'm about to graduate, and hope I can find some kind of adult employment. Getting sick of struggling to pay the bills every month.

other than that, I live with my girlfriend.Nothing exciting, but my life is okay.

I know how the whole broke and hanging around the house thing goes. Take right now, for example. I got off work, and I'm sitting at home here. It's 5 PM, and I don't have anything to do until my next shift at 4:30 tomorrow evening. I could go drive somewhere, or go do something, but everything costs money. In a way it makes better sense to just sit around on here, hang out in my dark house at my office desk, and rewatch Star Wars and Star Trek.

If these are the best years of my life, I am seriously fucked!

LOL! Well, remember... and this has taken me a while to realize... the best time of your life should always be right now. The "best days" aren't really ahead of us, or behind us. There will always be new things that are wonderful, and boring things, and new problems; but if you spend too much time thinking about "one day" then you miss out on all the magic of the moment.

As for myself, I'm 22, and I feel like I've reached stable adulthood. I feel well-adjusted, and I don't feel insecure as I did in my teenage and younger adult years. I know what I want to do with my life, and I enjoy things the way they are.

I do have obstacles. There are business issues that cause problems and occasional stress; but overall, my life is good. I was raised in a very isolated way - homeschooled by a dysfunctional and very protective mother - and then she went kind of insane, and so my early adulthood is overshadowed by my obligation to take care of my mother who has declining mental health.

At 22, I still have never had any friends my age or a girlfriend. When you have your crazy mother living at your house, it isn't really condusive to dating. I like being around people, but my social network (or lack of one) is one of my biggest things that I need to work on. I often wish I could just skip the drama of being early 20's and just have my stable job, wife, and maybe kids. I relate better to the 30+ crowd, because I think the maturity that comes with having that extra life experience is appealing, and less nerve-racking.

 

[TheBrew]

I'm at the upper-half of my 20s. My early 20s sucked; I was either sick or broke or both. Now I just get sore more easily, but everything else is better. Of course, you can tell I am getting old when 10PM is late for me.

 

[Robert DeSoto]

If these are the best years of my life, I am seriously fucked!

LOL! Well, remember... and this has taken me a while to realize... the best time of your life should always be right now. The "best days" aren't really ahead of us, or behind us. There will always be new things that are wonderful, and boring things, and new problems; but if you spend too much time thinking about "one day" then you miss out on all the magic of the moment.

Well put, Joshua. I used to be poor and bum around the house like you, but I never had the kind of problems you have with your mother. I respect the fact that you know what your obstacles are and you don't let them hold you down. There's a lot of negative stuff on this board with ppl depressed with their lives. It's good to see someone who can hold his head up even when things aren't going his way. Not something that everyone can do.

 

[Alex1939]

GET OFF MY LAWN!

 

[Listener4]

I'm 27. Hoping these are not the best years of my life.