R.I.P. Cartoon Network 1992-2007

[a. non]

The House of Hanna-Barbera, the Wonder of Warner, the Magnificence of MGM, has officially died.

Beethoven. They are airing fucking Beethoven this weekend. I knew the network was dying, but i held out for a sliver of hope that they would return to what made it great. When they aired School of Rock, my heart fell. This travisty, this mockery, is the last nail in the coffin of a once-great network. I grew up with Cartoon Network, learning to appreciate IMVHO the superiority of animated storytelling over that of live action.

Granted there are still a few gems (plus they still air Tom & Jerry), but this is not the same network i could stay tuned to all day long and not care what was on other networks. No more Bugs Bunny, no more Droopy, no more Yogi Bear...Not even Boomerang's been spared. They do not air Loony Tunes at all any more.

My all time favorite series on CN was Toonheads, a documentary series presenting the context in which characters were made, spotlighted directors and animators, even discussing forgotten (Bosko) and forbidden (war shorts) cartoons. It used to air recently on Boomerang, but now it's gone too.

Also, going on 2 months, they stopped airing closed captions. I use captions because my hearing is not that sharp anymore, and it helps me understand the show better, and they just...stopped airing captions. Even on stuff that i've watched captioned for years don't have them. Some shows still have the closed caption emblem in the corner, but nothing scrolling at the bottom. There has to be a legal consequence for that.

I'll always remember Cartoon Network the way it was at its peak. This sad clone can't take those memories.

Cartoon Network is dead. Long live Cartoon Network. :(

[Night Swordsman]

I too find CN to be more empty and less fun as of late,but remember...these things run in cycles. It will either get better,or it will turn into MTV and have very little to do with what it was supposed to be about,and spin off CN2,and you might get what made you love it in the first place.:rolleyes:


But Beethoven?? That network really is going to the dogs.

[Crowley]

I think it died when some genius decided to replace adult swim with Saved By the Bell reruns for a while there...

[Night Swordsman]

I think it died when some genius decided to replace adult swim with Saved By the Bell reruns for a while there...

I am so pleased i missed that! :)

[AmyLoPan]

I heard about that and thought it was a joke!

[heystacy]

I think it died when some genius decided to replace adult swim with Saved By the Bell reruns for a while there...

Yes. That was so disgustingly bad. Saved By The Bell? Someone wanted to push away the Adult Swim viewers, and lower some ratings, perhaps.

[Charles RB]

I was in Dallas last year and, out of boredom, watched Cartoon Network at the hotel quite a bit.

They seemed to only have five shows and two episodes of each, and repeated the same ones over and over. There's been decades of cartoons! What's keeping them restrained to two sodding episodes My Gym Partner's A Monkey?

[rummblestrips]

I don't get CA as I'm up here in the great white north, but everytime I came to the US while attending a con, I always watched adult swim. Are you telling me it's gone??!?!

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

At least I still have The Venture Bros. to look forward to, if nothing else...

[heystacy]

I don't get CA as I'm up here in the great white north, but everytime I came to the US while attending a con, I always watched adult swim. Are you telling me it's gone??!?!

Adult Swim is back, but at one point I thought it was some joke that Saved By The Bell was put on in its place. I really did think it was a prank. Somebody let the "crazy uncle" do the programming.

Venture Bros. and Robot Chicken still play. I never seem to be watching CN as much as I used to.

[LittleCanaryMin]

Yes I know. Sadness, I used to love watching JLA/JLU on there, but yeah they've completely gone and died now. I remember when Cow & Chicken were on, Dexter's Laboratory. Okay... tmi, but *sigh* yeah I remember when they played all the cool cartoons and yeah they sometimes play Tom & Jerry but its not the same anymore.

[Evan Waters]

FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS is still awesome. I'm growing to like CAMP LAZLO and MY GYM PARTNER'S A MONKEY as well.

[Citizen V]

Cartoon Network has a huge ego now.This is why when they air anime,they air their own nonsence around it.Because no one would watch it,they also think they are so smart.They get away with a few things,like taking Adult Swim off the air for a April Fool`s joke..or airing Ghost In The Shell with fart noises in the background.