As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? Or do you only watch mature shows?
As spawners of demons, me and my wife have frequently discussed how people not watching shows and movies targeted at children are missing a whole genre of awesome stuff!
Adventurer Time, Ducktales (new version), Avatar the last airbender, Kipo, She-Ra and the list goes on and on…
Edit: Lego movies, arguably Lego Batman is the best batman movie.
There is a ton of stuff and a lot of it has been made so that it is enjoyable for kids but all the subtle adult stuff snuck in is just chefs kiss 😅
Yes, I just finished watching all of Phineas and Ferb with my 32-yo daughter. Also Hey Arnold until it got taken off whatever we were watching it on. But of course nothing beats SpongeBob.
I watch adult cartoons now, rick and morty, south park, simpsons, bojack horseman etc etc.
I do still love kids cartoons but exclusively the ones I enjoyed growing up. Some are no good because I’m not a child any more, some survive on pure nostalgia and some are actually enjoyable. I havent given any modern kids cartoons a chance, because I’m not the target audience and I have no nostalgia attached.
I do watch tiny kids cartoons as a parent, but Bluey is pretty much the only one I can actually enjoy sometimes.
I do like Spongebob!
Oh, sure, although mostly older stuff (The Real Ghostbusters, Freakazoid, Sonic Sat-AM, Digimon Adventure 02 specifically, Batman The Animated Series, etc). Nostalgia is certainly a factor, but I enjoy animation and especially appreciating the work that goes into creating a cartoon. Helpfully, a lot of the shows I grew up with in the late 80s and through the 90s were only sort of intended for children and were made by people who loved art and animation and wanted shows they could enjoy, and not just slop intended to sell toys (not that I don’t watch The Masters of the Universe on occasion. What a goofy fucking show. I watched it a lot as a kid and always said I hated it, but obviously I didn’t. Today, an Orko figurine lives by my computer). TRGB slips after the first two seasons, but the others I enjoy wholly. Eh, there’s others I like too but only watch piecemeal and on occasion, like Dexter’s Laboratory and Power Puff Girls. I need to find Pinky and the Brain to rewatch. I wonder if I would enjoy rewatching Inspector Gadget?
Newer stuff not so much. I mean I like animation a lot as an art, but also, I am very picky when it comes to style, so most newer programming for any age is right out.
I definitely watch some content meant for children, because much of that content works with multiple age ranges. For example, Ponyo. That shit makes me cry like a bitch. Fantastic film.
yes. i watched 4 or 5 episodes of Earthworm Jim yesterday. i rewatch Gravity Falls once a year or so. spongebob, pinky and the brain, and many others are all in my lineup
Oh man, I gotta rewatch some Earthworm Jim! That shit was funny.
Like Saturday morning cartoons then no, I tried watching some old cartoons I grew up on like chip and dales recently on Disney+ and it made me realize how much they simplified the plots and dialogues for the kids, it was too boring for me. I do watch adult animation though and sadly so many people still think anything animated is just cartons for kids because of companies like Disney and Hana Barbera pushing that dynamic for all these years
I bought every episode of darkwing duck because it was on sale and I definitely see where I got my love of puns from
An adult is a kid with bills to pay.
…and on the plus side, can buy booze!
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I still watch them, Some kids cartoons are timeless and some its like a completely new show from an adult perspective.
There is a terrible misconception that there must be a point at which you stop enjoying things because it is improper, but at a certain point fuck the haters and enjoy the ride because none of us get out alive.
Depends on the show…some of them, no it’s not because it’s improper it’s because they are super annoying to watch as an adult. I’m thinking stuff like team Umizoomi, Dougie and such.
Stuff for early teens is typically ok, like Steven universe or teen titans or adventure time. But when you go down to shows for the under 7 crowd…yeah the shows are horrible.
And if someone still enjoys those “horrible” shows at 87, it’s okay for them to watch them. That’s the point.
Not as much, mainly because there’s an unwritten rule with watching cartoons you grew up with. That being, don’t watch some cartoons if you want to preserve the memory of how fond of the cartoon you were as a kid. Because not all cartoons are going to land the same as an adult than it did as a kid. So, there’s some shows I avoid myself to not have that feeling. There’s others like the old Transformers stuff I’d watch because that was a little before my time and I heard it was good, as well as the other series.
But revisiting things like old Nick cartoons or even a lot of Saturday morning level of cartoons because, I enjoyed those more as a kid than I probably do as an adult.
don’t watch some cartoons if you want to preserve the memory of how fond of the cartoon you were as a kid
I think the best shows are the ones that are just as good as an adult. Avatar the Last Airbender, Gravity Falls, Spongebob before the first movie, Owl House, Phineas and Ferb, and plenty others. If anything, rewatching them as an adult helps you get jokes that went over your head as a kid. Some of those I only watched as an adult, and they were still good.
I will forever love Looney Tunes. It’s a classic.
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A good show is a good show. Doesn’t matter the style or the intended demographic.
“still watch”? i never stopped.
That’s what it means to still [do something]
And it’s the top comment. I’m dying 😂🤣
