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« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2008, 06:24:07 PM »

Revealing my age: my kids are grown and out of the house now. But they (mostly) had pretty good taste in cartoons and TV shows, shows that were really well written, a lot better than most network sitcoms. Doug, Rugrats, Garfield, Kablam!, Rocko's Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold were all shows they loved that I enjoyed watching over their shoulders. I think almost all of that was Nickolodeon. Our TV spent a lot of time on Nick, and then later on Nick at Night as my younger daughter rediscovered *my* past. Daria and "Beavis and Butthead" on MTV when they got older. I loved Daria, hated B & B though I was tricked into a laugh sometimes.


Ah, I miss Rocko's Modern Life and the Adventures of Pete and Pete also...
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« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2008, 06:53:32 PM »

Happy-I don't think it was the Beetle Borgs themselves....I disliked so much as it was the idiotic blue guy....the comic relief thing....gave me the willies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XdoMP23EKE

....ugh....nah my memory has been kind....after seeing that clip it all seems yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew....insufferable!

If you don't mind, how old were you when you watched it?  I was young then, probably like, 10ish or so, so Flabber (the blue guys name), fit right in with me then.  But, I was a kid.  Nowadays, I would say yeah, he was pretty annoying. 

I more or less liked the monsters more, the Frankenstein, the WOlf man, etc. who lived in the house with him.

Power Rangers was the better show of those live action/Japanese transfers that happened at the time.  Especially the first 5-6 years, when it was an overall plot that held the seasons together.  Nowadays each season is self contained, which detracts from it becoming a phenomenon again, I feel. 


Well...I was 35. I'm 46 now.  My kids were 5 and 3. They liked the VR Troopers too. The one with the dog. And the very irritating theme song..."WE ARE! WE ARE VR VR VR !!!" ACK! the horror...the horror...
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« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2008, 08:24:49 PM »

Happy-I don't think it was the Beetle Borgs themselves....I disliked so much as it was the idiotic blue guy....the comic relief thing....gave me the willies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XdoMP23EKE

....ugh....nah my memory has been kind....after seeing that clip it all seems yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew....insufferable!

If you don't mind, how old were you when you watched it?  I was young then, probably like, 10ish or so, so Flabber (the blue guys name), fit right in with me then.  But, I was a kid.  Nowadays, I would say yeah, he was pretty annoying. 

I more or less liked the monsters more, the Frankenstein, the WOlf man, etc. who lived in the house with him.

Power Rangers was the better show of those live action/Japanese transfers that happened at the time.  Especially the first 5-6 years, when it was an overall plot that held the seasons together.  Nowadays each season is self contained, which detracts from it becoming a phenomenon again, I feel. 


Well...I was 35. I'm 46 now.  My kids were 5 and 3. They liked the VR Troopers too. The one with the dog. And the very irritating theme song..."WE ARE! WE ARE VR VR VR !!!" ACK! the horror...the horror...

VR Troopers had a dog?  I didn't like that show as much, although the video game was excellent.  I know Masked Rider had a thing called Ferbie, which was played by Verne Troyer.

Revealing my age: my kids are grown and out of the house now. But they (mostly) had pretty good taste in cartoons and TV shows, shows that were really well written, a lot better than most network sitcoms. Doug, Rugrats, Garfield, Kablam!, Rocko's Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold were all shows they loved that I enjoyed watching over their shoulders. I think almost all of that was Nickolodeon. Our TV spent a lot of time on Nick, and then later on Nick at Night as my younger daughter rediscovered *my* past. Daria and "Beavis and Butthead" on MTV when they got older. I loved Daria, hated B & B though I was tricked into a laugh sometimes.


Nickelodeon was a very good network for a long time.  I spent many a days watching: Ren and Stimpy, Clarissa Explains it All, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Space Cases, Doug, Rugrats, and All That, amongst others. 

Shame it's kinda gone downhill, save for a couple of shows.
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« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2008, 09:21:21 PM »

Not a parent myself (though I'm 25 years old), but I babysat until August 1997 for two different groups of kids - one group was 3 boys, ages (in 1997) 11, 10, and 8.  We watched alot of Kids WB and Fox Kids - they were Power Ranger fanatics (which I loathed - I was 12 in 1995 when I started watching them, and they were obsessed with it!), but we also watched the Superman cartoon that started in 1996 on WB (the one with Tim Daly - which was the only way I liked Superman back then (and the way I still do now), and not b/c it was Tim Daly's voice - I loved the animation), Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain (which I watched at home as well), and usually, I could entice them to watch Nickelodeon cartoons after Fox Kids and Kids WB was over.

The other kids I sat for were a brother and sister, in 1996, they were 10 and 11 years old.  These kids were my favorites, because they LOVED The Simpsons, and we watched it when I was there on weeknights (they lived a few houses down from me, and I watched them on weeknights from 5 until about 8 or 9 a few nights a week during school, and then from about 10 am until 4 or 5 during the summer) - they were old enough to be alone during the day, but their mom wanted someone who could hang out with them - at night, I just watched TV and did homework with them. (during school).  They were alot of fun - we always watched The Simpsons together in the boy's bedroom.  We also watched Rocko's Modern Life on Nickelodeon.

As a child of the 80s and 90s myself, having been born in 1982, I watched ALOT of cartoons.  I watched Nickelodeon until I was almost 15 years old (my brother did too - we are twins and really liked Rocko's Modern Life), but Nick was still showing GUTS and Legends of the Hidden Temple until 1997 - shows we watched a few years ago on digital cable as twenty-somethings, usually together.

My mom said while much of the stuff we liked was non-threatening and not annoying as kids, I remember her cringing every time "Legend of Zelda" was on - which was every Friday instead of Super Mario Bros., because she HATED Link.  She also did not like The Smurfs (which we weren't big on) and My Little Pony.

Our cartoon choices were not as bad as our sitcom choices - she still hates Perfect Strangers, which we loved as kids.
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« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2008, 11:12:48 PM »


I don't have kids, but if I did, I think I'd try to steer them towards cartoons I like.  In addition to all the ones already mentioned that are cool (TMNT, Batman, etc), I'd try to get him to watch Avatar the Last AirBender, watched a few eps of that and that is a pretty freaking GOOD show, for anyone, not just kids.  Been toying around with the idea of getting the DVDs on my Netflix cue so I can watch the whole story in order. 

(That's the only drawback, the series is one huge story, so it's kind of hard to pick it up in the middle.)

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« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2008, 05:50:03 AM »

I watch the Family Guy and my son will ocassionally come in the room.  He's two so he doesn't understand a lot of what is going on in the show.  Still, he'll laugh at a few things.  Usually the stuff I'm laughing at.  As he gets a full vocabulary, I don't think I'll be watching the show with him around. 
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« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2008, 07:15:47 AM »

I watch the Family Guy and my son will ocassionally come in the room.  He's two so he doesn't understand a lot of what is going on in the show.  Still, he'll laugh at a few things.  Usually the stuff I'm laughing at.  As he gets a full vocabulary, I don't think I'll be watching the show with him around. 

Trust me, take my advice and don't let him watch a whole lot of the History Channel when he gets a few more years on him. Teachers tend not to like it when a kid starts calling others communists on the playground...geez, of all the notes I've got sent home, that will always be my favorite... BounceGiggle
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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2008, 07:49:45 AM »

Im not a parent BUT,

Ben 10 kicks ass.
Flapjack is an effing riot.
Courage the Cowardly Dog is great.
Billy and Mandy is hilarious.
Spoungebob is cool, and Fairly odd parants is funny.

Other than that, i have to turn to dvds and internet downloads to watch good cartoons that I grew up with like Rocko's Modern Life.
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« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2008, 08:26:12 AM »

Not a parent myself (though I'm 25 years old), but I babysat until August 1997 for two different groups of kids - one group was 3 boys, ages (in 1997) 11, 10, and 8.  We watched alot of Kids WB and Fox Kids - they were Power Ranger fanatics (which I loathed - I was 12 in 1995 when I started watching them, and they were obsessed with it!), but we also watched the Superman cartoon that started in 1996 on WB (the one with Tim Daly - which was the only way I liked Superman back then (and the way I still do now), and not b/c it was Tim Daly's voice - I loved the animation), Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain (which I watched at home as well), and usually, I could entice them to watch Nickelodeon cartoons after Fox Kids and Kids WB was over.

The other kids I sat for were a brother and sister, in 1996, they were 10 and 11 years old.  These kids were my favorites, because they LOVED The Simpsons, and we watched it when I was there on weeknights (they lived a few houses down from me, and I watched them on weeknights from 5 until about 8 or 9 a few nights a week during school, and then from about 10 am until 4 or 5 during the summer) - they were old enough to be alone during the day, but their mom wanted someone who could hang out with them - at night, I just watched TV and did homework with them. (during school).  They were alot of fun - we always watched The Simpsons together in the boy's bedroom.  We also watched Rocko's Modern Life on Nickelodeon.

As a child of the 80s and 90s myself, having been born in 1982, I watched ALOT of cartoons.  I watched Nickelodeon until I was almost 15 years old (my brother did too - we are twins and really liked Rocko's Modern Life), but Nick was still showing GUTS and Legends of the Hidden Temple until 1997 - shows we watched a few years ago on digital cable as twenty-somethings, usually together.

My mom said while much of the stuff we liked was non-threatening and not annoying as kids, I remember her cringing every time "Legend of Zelda" was on - which was every Friday instead of Super Mario Bros., because she HATED Link.  She also did not like The Smurfs (which we weren't big on) and My Little Pony.

Our cartoon choices were not as bad as our sitcom choices - she still hates Perfect Strangers, which we loved as kids.
Pinky and The Brain was such a wonderful show.  I think there were a lot of jokes on it that worked for adults as well.  Same with Rocko's Modern Life, in fact.  Lots of smart humor and double entendre.
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« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2008, 11:06:15 PM »

My mom likes Family Guy, especially Stewie (she also had a soft spot for Montgomery Burns on The Simpsons - why, I have NO IDEA!).  The funny thing is how many 50-somethings like it.  The accounting supervisor at my job watches it almost every night, and says she laughs pretty hard at some of the weirder, more bizarre jokes.

I worked for a video store until May 2005, and a parent with a nine-year old son asked me if Family Guy was OK for her kid...I told her no, because even though alot of the jokes would go over her kid's head, alot of it is just not appropriate for younger kids (nudity, Quagmire, yadda yadda).  I was 16 when I started watching in 1999, and for some reason, my brother and I understood all of the jokes, including the esoteric references.

My parents never really had to worry about what me and my brother watched, though we've always had this habit of quoting every movie we watched, even the inappropriate lines, and not really knowing what we were talking about (The "ribbed for her pleasure" line in Wayne's World comes to mind - it just sounded funny when I was nine, but I figured out the reference when I was 11 and watching the movie with a friend).
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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2008, 08:27:16 AM »

My mom likes Family Guy, especially Stewie (she also had a soft spot for Montgomery Burns on The Simpsons - why, I have NO IDEA!).  The funny thing is how many 50-somethings like it.  The accounting supervisor at my job watches it almost every night, and says she laughs pretty hard at some of the weirder, more bizarre jokes.

I worked for a video store until May 2005, and a parent with a nine-year old son asked me if Family Guy was OK for her kid...I told her no, because even though alot of the jokes would go over her kid's head, alot of it is just not appropriate for younger kids (nudity, Quagmire, yadda yadda).  I was 16 when I started watching in 1999, and for some reason, my brother and I understood all of the jokes, including the esoteric references.

My parents never really had to worry about what me and my brother watched, though we've always had this habit of quoting every movie we watched, even the inappropriate lines, and not really knowing what we were talking about (The "ribbed for her pleasure" line in Wayne's World comes to mind - it just sounded funny when I was nine, but I figured out the reference when I was 11 and watching the movie with a friend).
Montgomery Burns is hilarious.  Who wouldn't love that character?  Hell, it's my mom's favorite character.
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« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2008, 08:34:22 AM »

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« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2008, 10:18:30 PM »

My mom likes Family Guy, especially Stewie (she also had a soft spot for Montgomery Burns on The Simpsons - why, I have NO IDEA!).  The funny thing is how many 50-somethings like it.  The accounting supervisor at my job watches it almost every night, and says she laughs pretty hard at some of the weirder, more bizarre jokes.

I worked for a video store until May 2005, and a parent with a nine-year old son asked me if Family Guy was OK for her kid...I told her no, because even though alot of the jokes would go over her kid's head, alot of it is just not appropriate for younger kids (nudity, Quagmire, yadda yadda).  I was 16 when I started watching in 1999, and for some reason, my brother and I understood all of the jokes, including the esoteric references.

My parents never really had to worry about what me and my brother watched, though we've always had this habit of quoting every movie we watched, even the inappropriate lines, and not really knowing what we were talking about (The "ribbed for her pleasure" line in Wayne's World comes to mind - it just sounded funny when I was nine, but I figured out the reference when I was 11 and watching the movie with a friend).
Montgomery Burns is hilarious.  Who wouldn't love that character?  Hell, it's my mom's favorite character.

My mom likes his dumb quotes - me and my brother do the "Smithers, I really like this iced cream," quote alot.
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« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2008, 08:24:05 AM »

My mom likes Family Guy, especially Stewie (she also had a soft spot for Montgomery Burns on The Simpsons - why, I have NO IDEA!).  The funny thing is how many 50-somethings like it.  The accounting supervisor at my job watches it almost every night, and says she laughs pretty hard at some of the weirder, more bizarre jokes.

I worked for a video store until May 2005, and a parent with a nine-year old son asked me if Family Guy was OK for her kid...I told her no, because even though alot of the jokes would go over her kid's head, alot of it is just not appropriate for younger kids (nudity, Quagmire, yadda yadda).  I was 16 when I started watching in 1999, and for some reason, my brother and I understood all of the jokes, including the esoteric references.

My parents never really had to worry about what me and my brother watched, though we've always had this habit of quoting every movie we watched, even the inappropriate lines, and not really knowing what we were talking about (The "ribbed for her pleasure" line in Wayne's World comes to mind - it just sounded funny when I was nine, but I figured out the reference when I was 11 and watching the movie with a friend).
Montgomery Burns is hilarious.  Who wouldn't love that character?  Hell, it's my mom's favorite character.

My mom likes his dumb quotes - me and my brother do the "Smithers, I really like this iced cream," quote alot.
I love a lot of the characters on The Simpsons, but lately the focus of my favorite characters have shifted from the Simpson family to the other people, such as Burns, Ralphie, Martin, etc.
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« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2008, 03:56:20 PM »

I like "Fairly Oddparents", I think that one's hilarious, and I quote it often, and we watch some Spongebob. OTHERWISE, I'm all about Metalocalypse, and I love Venture Bros and Squidbillies. My all-time favorite though is "Sealab 2021" (Not the ORIGINAL Sealab 2020, hated that one). Metalocalypse has some VERY good music, if you don't take it too seriously, as it doesn't that itself too seriously. They have a song caller "Murmaider", and it's totally Deth Metal, but all in all, , it's about MERMAIDS, or at least MURDERING, and being murdered BY Mermaids.

If anyone is interested in checking out Sealab 2021, I would for starters suggest the episodes "Craptastic Voyage", "Dearly Beloved Seed", "Feast of Alvis", "Der Dieb", "Shrabster", "Monkey Banana Raffle", "Neptunati", or "Moby Sick". For Metalocalypse, check out "Dethclown" or "The Metalocalypse Has Begun" aka "It has Begun".
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