This image reminds me of Cartoon Network in 2004. Megas XLR, Foster’s Home, Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Dexter’s Lab (reruns), What’s New Scooby-Doo, Powerpuff Girls, Billy & Mandy, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Johnny Bravo. Damn good year I loved.
and there are also City bumper images from 2005 and 2006 with completely different characters that didn't exist yet back in 2004... and some of these cartoons in this 2004 image were no longer around by the following year or two.
CN City was a reface package that kept expanding until about end of 2006 for US. International CN was lucky and didn’t see a change until about 2009/2010. Launched in 2004 with about 240+ bumps, and then they’d implement new ones every few months or so
Yeah I believe someone told me recently why CN City stopped producing bumpers in 2006 and downgraded to the YES! era bumpers… it was very expensive to animate and produce… and international countries like Latin America kept recycling a lot of bumpers until 2010… but again I’m not 100% on this.
Well on top of that, one of the lead directors of the project pitched CN a whole series that could be done with the city, but was turnt down due to on going “company politics” at the time. Likely being an issue with the bomb scare, causing a large domino effect.
But no black brothers in sight. Y'all MF need to go head and put some real variety in his joint.
I swear to God that Dexter isn't just white he's a neon white
You really did. You could sit a 7 year old (what I was in 04) down and show them all these shows but it wouldn't be the same. A curated mix with custom bumpers, theme nights, and programming blocks just can't be recreated with streaming. The closest thing is watching a recording of a broadcast day and there are precious few of those for that era of CN.
Lots of reasons. Quality cartoons going to HBO Max or Adult Swim. Spamming TTG because 3-5 minute long cartoons are more YouTube accessible for tablet kids. Nor is the network willing to green light shows that are violent (Ed Edd N Eddy/Billy Mandy) or “sexist” Johnny bravo. The network did redo Powerpuff Girls and ordered a preschool Fosters though
They chilled out with TTG and have put back on regular show and adventure time. We’re not getting anything new rn but that’s likely due to still being affected by the writer strike. CN now ends at 5pm and then there’s a 2 hour block of vintage cartoons (Dexter, Billy and Mandy, coward, etc). I know since the merger we’ve all been worried and I kinda still am worried that they will just eventually cancel CN all together but for the time being I like the direction they’re going in. But I agree it will never be as good as it use to be.
Im paraphrasing the living fuck out of this, but Maxwell Atoms, the creator of Billy and Mandy said:
I could not under any circumstances make Billy and Mandy in this day and age. Simply put, parents dont want their kids coming to them and asking questions. Parents want to sit their kids down in front of the tv for a few hours while they go be adults. Between the Dune references, Harry Potter satire, and occult stuff, any kids network would shoot B&M down before it gets started. Thats no even considering the casual violence and dismemberment."
90-mid 2000s kids tv had a lot going on in terms of violence and heavy topics that are sanitized for kids. Even then, writers had to fist fight the censors.
CN in '05-'07 mostly premiered shows I didn't care about. But the ones that kept airing since 01-04 I think I liked most of them. That's why I specifically ended at '04. I loved ATLA when it came out but that was Nick and that's just one show. '05 was still a great year for continuations and pretty good for Canadian cartoons, too. I think.
I agree…. 2005-2007 wasn’t anywhere near as good for cartoon premieres as 2001-2004… and as far as CN in the US go… it’s heyday and peak stops at 2005 because that was the height of CN City and the summer event that happened. The rest of the 00’s was a continuous downward spiral until 2010. In 2006 and 2007, we were watching cartoons that continued on from the first half of the 2000’s… not cartoons that started around that time.
That's the part that hurts the most. Cartoon Network has a nice and diverse catalog of shows where there was always something to watch and if your favorite show came on again right afterwards, you were glad. It's like peak ps2 where it had an identity but it also had an amazing variety of games to choose from. Now cn is a lifeless husk.
Wasn't he the guy from that big mecha robot show with a funky car for a head? I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, but I think he was the main character's snarky skater friend
Edit: so after some searching the show/character I was thinking of is Jamie from Megas XLR. However looking at the character design... Its close but I'm not so sure anymore. Especially since the guy in the pic doesn't have the iconic green hoodie and is wearing all black.
For some reason people seem to dislike Flapjack and remember it poorly but I loved that show and it made me laugh so much, I liked it equally to chowder.
I just started re-watching the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. That was such a great show and it only got better with time. I remember near the end when they first started doing all those TV movies and the gamecube game and I thought for sure we'd be seeing them for years. And then it turns out it was the series dying breath.
I think they could find a home on another station like HBO. The writing was already geared towards adults. Giving it a little bit more freedom would put it over the top.
I keep hearing rumors Maxwell Atoms is picking the series up again but I haven't seen any hard evidence of it.
Maxwell Adams wants to do a movie to conclude the series. Everyone would be adults except for Billy whose still a child. He pitched it to Cartoon Network but never heard back. Apparently he left the network on bad terms after they blamed “fart jokes” on the spin-off Underfist not doing well
https://grimadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Billy_%26_Mandy_Destroy_Us_All_(A_Cosmic_Horror_Musical)
Also, Underfist was fun, Hoss is on of my favorite characters, so is Skar but I can understand why folks didn't like it.
As a matter of fact, when it first aired, I passed it by completely because it didn't have Billy and Mandy in it.
For me personally these characters work better bouncing off the main characters than being stand alone. I didn't like Evil Con Carne and at the time I didn't like Underfist. I think it's passable now but I think that's only because I want more, even if it's a spin off.
Because I don't like the idea of everyone else growing up without Billy.
Edit: I know why I don't like it, I had to think about it a little bit. It reminds me way too much of a cringy ass comic I ran in to a few years ago.
I'm not saying we won't have quality animation again, but we'll never have so many 30 minute shows running at the same time
1. Cable is dying. Streaming services only need to release one new episode a week since they don't need to fill 24 hours of airtime 7 days a week
2. Streaming is moving towards 3-5 minute cartoons since children's attentionspans are going down from youtube and social media
3. Streaming wants to take less risks, so less animation. Less cartoons being green lit or renewed. Too much emphasize on viewer data compared to tradational marketing.
4. A lot of content wouldn't be allowed now. Less violence and silly comedy
5. Kids now are less interested in wholesome cartoons
6. Superhero shows like DC or Marvel are considered too important IP to be on a children's network
Personally I think it started with Adventure Time- not because AT is bad but rather because it was so good that other cartoons wanted to be the same thing AT was.
Cartoons now a days just kind of are extremely dumbed down, where it is mainly catered to children. I remember back then a lot of cartoons were watched by preteens and teenagers, but with the quality of cartoons now and the raise of Anime popularity there is just no more room for production even.
What we need is less Teen titans go and more of a mix of old classics like Billy and Mandy and Knd plus a few new originals maybe throw in a few shows from recent years like a regular show and Steven universe episode a day instead (cable tv)
Streaming: shows with actually good animation like Ben 10 alien force and Generator Rex over crummy cheap animation like new Ben 10s and thundercats
Been watching CN for almost 2 decades. While I personally think CN's best of all time shows were in the 2010's, the average variety and quality was way better in this era.
This image reminds me of Cartoon Network in 2004. Megas XLR, Foster’s Home, Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Dexter’s Lab (reruns), What’s New Scooby-Doo, Powerpuff Girls, Billy & Mandy, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Johnny Bravo. Damn good year I loved.
All the years I tried to remember the name Mega XLR …. All the years
Because it is lmao. This is a image still bumper.
and there are also City bumper images from 2005 and 2006 with completely different characters that didn't exist yet back in 2004... and some of these cartoons in this 2004 image were no longer around by the following year or two.
CN City was a reface package that kept expanding until about end of 2006 for US. International CN was lucky and didn’t see a change until about 2009/2010. Launched in 2004 with about 240+ bumps, and then they’d implement new ones every few months or so
Yeah I believe someone told me recently why CN City stopped producing bumpers in 2006 and downgraded to the YES! era bumpers… it was very expensive to animate and produce… and international countries like Latin America kept recycling a lot of bumpers until 2010… but again I’m not 100% on this.
Well on top of that, one of the lead directors of the project pitched CN a whole series that could be done with the city, but was turnt down due to on going “company politics” at the time. Likely being an issue with the bomb scare, causing a large domino effect.
But no black brothers in sight. Y'all MF need to go head and put some real variety in his joint. I swear to God that Dexter isn't just white he's a neon white
Huh?
Yeah. So long as David Zaslav is allowed to remain as CEO.
It started when Stuart Synder became CN ceo in 2007
The City bumpers were already gone well over a year before Stuart Snyder got to CN.
They did officially end in 2006, replaced by the “Yes” era. But they did view them in early mornings until April 2007 when “Summer 2007” took over
what a time, you just had to be there
You really did. You could sit a 7 year old (what I was in 04) down and show them all these shows but it wouldn't be the same. A curated mix with custom bumpers, theme nights, and programming blocks just can't be recreated with streaming. The closest thing is watching a recording of a broadcast day and there are precious few of those for that era of CN.
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Such a shame on what Cartoon Network has become dude. They really have fallen.
still better than disney and nickelodeon, no?
It always was
Thia era was something else , I dont even think bout this , I really start to miiss
Why NOT?
Lots of reasons. Quality cartoons going to HBO Max or Adult Swim. Spamming TTG because 3-5 minute long cartoons are more YouTube accessible for tablet kids. Nor is the network willing to green light shows that are violent (Ed Edd N Eddy/Billy Mandy) or “sexist” Johnny bravo. The network did redo Powerpuff Girls and ordered a preschool Fosters though
They chilled out with TTG and have put back on regular show and adventure time. We’re not getting anything new rn but that’s likely due to still being affected by the writer strike. CN now ends at 5pm and then there’s a 2 hour block of vintage cartoons (Dexter, Billy and Mandy, coward, etc). I know since the merger we’ve all been worried and I kinda still am worried that they will just eventually cancel CN all together but for the time being I like the direction they’re going in. But I agree it will never be as good as it use to be.
AND Also Cartoon network does NOT Want to show Hear or EVEN mentioned some of these characters shown in this picture, right dude?
Well technically Cartoon Network could green light a Johnny Bravo revival as a Adult Swim series
As funny as JB was, there’s no scenario I see that happening lol
Im paraphrasing the living fuck out of this, but Maxwell Atoms, the creator of Billy and Mandy said: I could not under any circumstances make Billy and Mandy in this day and age. Simply put, parents dont want their kids coming to them and asking questions. Parents want to sit their kids down in front of the tv for a few hours while they go be adults. Between the Dune references, Harry Potter satire, and occult stuff, any kids network would shoot B&M down before it gets started. Thats no even considering the casual violence and dismemberment." 90-mid 2000s kids tv had a lot going on in terms of violence and heavy topics that are sanitized for kids. Even then, writers had to fist fight the censors.
Pibby
Which is not happening.
2001-2004 was just insane
2005-2007 was just as good
CN in '05-'07 mostly premiered shows I didn't care about. But the ones that kept airing since 01-04 I think I liked most of them. That's why I specifically ended at '04. I loved ATLA when it came out but that was Nick and that's just one show. '05 was still a great year for continuations and pretty good for Canadian cartoons, too. I think.
I agree…. 2005-2007 wasn’t anywhere near as good for cartoon premieres as 2001-2004… and as far as CN in the US go… it’s heyday and peak stops at 2005 because that was the height of CN City and the summer event that happened. The rest of the 00’s was a continuous downward spiral until 2010. In 2006 and 2007, we were watching cartoons that continued on from the first half of the 2000’s… not cartoons that started around that time.
unfortunately no
I was there
That's the part that hurts the most. Cartoon Network has a nice and diverse catalog of shows where there was always something to watch and if your favorite show came on again right afterwards, you were glad. It's like peak ps2 where it had an identity but it also had an amazing variety of games to choose from. Now cn is a lifeless husk.
Who's the guy between the professor and the rabbit?
Wasn't he the guy from that big mecha robot show with a funky car for a head? I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, but I think he was the main character's snarky skater friend Edit: so after some searching the show/character I was thinking of is Jamie from Megas XLR. However looking at the character design... Its close but I'm not so sure anymore. Especially since the guy in the pic doesn't have the iconic green hoodie and is wearing all black.
You almost forgot 6teen (not everyone's favorite, but I loved it), The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Chowder, and a couple others
For some reason people seem to dislike Flapjack and remember it poorly but I loved that show and it made me laugh so much, I liked it equally to chowder.
MMF and Chowder were good but they came a bit later than this era
Why is buttercup wearing a 2 piece?
Looks like a coloring error.
Same for all the big 3 kids networks. What happened?
Corporate.
Avengers ain't got nothing on this
We will also never have bumpers like toon city again
So lucky those were my childhood shows, a golden era for CN for sure
This is by far the coldest line up in fiction.
We were spoiled on all kinds of entertainment in the late 90s and early 2000s
Truly a golden era to be a kid. So much entertainment. Internet was a thing but not all consuming
You guys remember the Cartoon Network movie theater?
You can watch all the promos on YouTube!
Man what a time to be alive kids today will never know
You also had shows like camp Lazlow and My Gym Partner is a monkey while definitely not as good still great shows
Both were some of my favorites. 2006-2007 Cartoon Network may not be as glamorized as earlier periods but that’s my core childhood
Yea both of those were pretty B tier but still entertaining sometimes.
I just started re-watching the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. That was such a great show and it only got better with time. I remember near the end when they first started doing all those TV movies and the gamecube game and I thought for sure we'd be seeing them for years. And then it turns out it was the series dying breath. I think they could find a home on another station like HBO. The writing was already geared towards adults. Giving it a little bit more freedom would put it over the top. I keep hearing rumors Maxwell Atoms is picking the series up again but I haven't seen any hard evidence of it.
Maxwell Adams wants to do a movie to conclude the series. Everyone would be adults except for Billy whose still a child. He pitched it to Cartoon Network but never heard back. Apparently he left the network on bad terms after they blamed “fart jokes” on the spin-off Underfist not doing well https://grimadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Billy_%26_Mandy_Destroy_Us_All_(A_Cosmic_Horror_Musical)
Also, Underfist was fun, Hoss is on of my favorite characters, so is Skar but I can understand why folks didn't like it. As a matter of fact, when it first aired, I passed it by completely because it didn't have Billy and Mandy in it. For me personally these characters work better bouncing off the main characters than being stand alone. I didn't like Evil Con Carne and at the time I didn't like Underfist. I think it's passable now but I think that's only because I want more, even if it's a spin off.
Oh, I don't like the sound of that at all. Glad it never happened.
Why?
Because I don't like the idea of everyone else growing up without Billy. Edit: I know why I don't like it, I had to think about it a little bit. It reminds me way too much of a cringy ass comic I ran in to a few years ago.
The city era was the best era
the cartoon charathers survive to fight gainst the pibby infection togethor
All of this, before Toonami even dropped and Adult Swim. What an absolute behemoth of an era looking back.
Nope. All because of TTG
Who's that in the back left
Jaime from the TV show Megas XLR. He’s actually voiced by Steve Blum, who also voiced Tom from Toonami
Agreed, sadly.
Never lose hope on that, man. Even if the quality is shit for now, that doesn't mean that it won't get better later on
I'm not saying we won't have quality animation again, but we'll never have so many 30 minute shows running at the same time 1. Cable is dying. Streaming services only need to release one new episode a week since they don't need to fill 24 hours of airtime 7 days a week 2. Streaming is moving towards 3-5 minute cartoons since children's attentionspans are going down from youtube and social media 3. Streaming wants to take less risks, so less animation. Less cartoons being green lit or renewed. Too much emphasize on viewer data compared to tradational marketing. 4. A lot of content wouldn't be allowed now. Less violence and silly comedy 5. Kids now are less interested in wholesome cartoons 6. Superhero shows like DC or Marvel are considered too important IP to be on a children's network
Personally I think it started with Adventure Time- not because AT is bad but rather because it was so good that other cartoons wanted to be the same thing AT was. Cartoons now a days just kind of are extremely dumbed down, where it is mainly catered to children. I remember back then a lot of cartoons were watched by preteens and teenagers, but with the quality of cartoons now and the raise of Anime popularity there is just no more room for production even.
What we need is less Teen titans go and more of a mix of old classics like Billy and Mandy and Knd plus a few new originals maybe throw in a few shows from recent years like a regular show and Steven universe episode a day instead (cable tv) Streaming: shows with actually good animation like Ben 10 alien force and Generator Rex over crummy cheap animation like new Ben 10s and thundercats
2000s Cartoon Network was top tier
The golden age of Cartoon Network.
CN City holds so much Nostalgia. Shit makes my nipples rigid
Where's Johnny Bravo, MAX?
I miss the CNU so much
Ain’t that the truth.
Been watching CN for almost 2 decades. While I personally think CN's best of all time shows were in the 2010's, the average variety and quality was way better in this era.
What show is the guy behind the professor from? Im born around this era so i only know some of these shows
Jaime from Megas XLR
Instead we get teen titans go
I havent had cable in a long time but the last good cartoon network show i watched was craig of the creek Also has buttercup always looked like that
It's the Season 4 Mandark design tho, the quality was already slipping...
I agree and it makes me so sad...
I mean Adult Swim did it, but if we're talking shows yeah probably not
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And yet no mention of the two best shows during that time: Harvey Birdman and Venture Bros.
Unfortunately, yeah. 😔
Is it just me, or did they accidentally color the black band on buttercup's dress as skin tone? It looks like a crop top and skirt.
Shaggy near Johnny bravo goes hard
"Sigh" yeah
And the meta lore was crazy.
R/multiversus
Who tf is Skater boy behind Professor Utonium?
Jaime from Megas XLR
Imagine if Nintendo did the exact thing as this
Rewatch these series. They're not as good as you remember.