Jacky shan being the biggest for me, found almost all episodes and binged in a few days. I realized the show is actually very formulaic. Bad guys want to collect a number of artifacts, the good guys tries to collect them all before the bad guys and succeeded but then the bad guys get all the artifacts in the end and the good guys have to stop them. This was plot for season 1,3,4,5,6 and with 2 having the most episode but are all filler. I also watche 50 Code Lyoko but got bored, there almost 100 episodes
Obviously those shows weren’t meant to be binged but even then they are repetitive, however with jacky shan i have nostalgia and its still special to me
I watched Batman: The Animated Series recently. Obviously still very good, I think everyone agrees with that. I don’t think I appreciated the uniqueness of art deco Gotham when I was little.
I also watched a few episodes of Animaniacs a while ago, and I definitely did not pick up on some of the jokes in that show when it was first on. :P
“Fingerprints?”
Cut to an animaniac holding a timid looking purple clad rock star.
“No, thanks.” -Dot
Samurai jack
The art etc is awesome
Yeah there are artistic scenes in samurai Jack that wow me even all this time later. Great show.
Inspector Gadget. Ooof. Did not age well
Mysterious cities of gold and Real Ghostbusters 👌👌
Edit: to clarify, i mean the don adams cartoon series of Gadget.
Re inspector gadget - why not?
I was probably a bit harsh - it’s not designed for an adult mind in any way shape or form, which is fair enough.
Ah so there’s no dated no-nos, just that’s it’s better to leave in your child brain rather than revisit?
PS: what dou think about a lemmy community for talking about cartoons both old and new
Samurai Jack. Still awesome.
I ended up rewatching a few episodes of Thundercats some years ago and it was… not great. Can’t remember too many specifics (I think for one thing the dialog was pretty bad) but it definitely wasn’t really appealing as an adult.
Thundercats! Not great, for sure, but I remember that the same weaknesses were still there in the 80s
Snarf was always insufferable. My idiot brother and I hated Snarf. Why was he not humanoid like the other Thundercats? Why was he a ripoff of Lost-In-Space’s Doctor Smith? Why did he have weird crocodilian qualities? “snarf snarf”
Liono was just one dimensionally dumb. Kit and Kat were clearly there for the littler kids to relate to.
Tigra and Panthro were solid dudes. Cheetara and Pumyra were the closest thing to making me question my sexuality at a tender age. Mumm-ra was great - he had a nice pyramid and flying wrappers. Mumm-ra’s henchmen have probably aged the worst.
Well, transformers holds up better than GI Joe, which holds up better than he-man, and that was the holy trinity back then.
But, the older cartoons held up better than any of those. The old Hanna Barberra, Warner brothers, and Disney stuff works as well on average as it did then. They were awesome back in the eighties, and they’re still awesome.
I’ve rewatched DBZ and it’s still great. Although there really is a lot of filler. I think watching on demand really highlights how much there is. Kai version was nice in its own way.
I’ve been rewatching Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost, and they hold up (if they were ever funny for you to begin with)!
Pinky and the Brain.
Loved it then and still do.
I’ve been watching Hercules: The Legendary journeys from the 90s, and I watched them a ton as a kid, too. Love most episodes still even tho Kevin Sorbo is now a shitmonkey. They honestly had really positive messages, and it’s just campy enough for the costumes and ancient animation to still be fun.
That’s not a cartoon, is it?
Oh true. My bad, was thinking in context of old shows and forgot the topic.
For my kids cartoon, would probably be Static Shock. The animation is way tougher than I remember, but it was still really fun!
Gundam Wing was a trip. I think it’s meant to be a drama about child soldiers set against a mecha backdrop (like a lot of Gundam), but you really have to fill in the gaps yourself when it comes to character motivations. Even with that, the dubbed dialogue is so hamfisted it’s a hilarious watch.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog
- Gargoyles
- InuYasha
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- The Powerpuff Girls
- Serial Experiments Lain
- The Weekenders
- The Ripping Friends
- The Proud Family
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Fillmore!
- Dave the Barbarian
Some of these might be hard to find. They all hold up IMO. See for yourself.
Appreciate the list, but I think the assignment was how do they hold up rewatching them as an adult…
Well, if I’m listing them, I think they hold up. Not sure why I would list stuff that doesn’t hold up, right?
If interested, you can decide how well it holds up for yourself. :b I think all of them are good. I guess I missed part 2 of the task, but really, I can’t objectively determine that for anyone.
Also I saw a ton of other people who just listed a show and said it’s fun or cool or something, without saying how well it holds up, so I thought it would be fine.
The only one I’ve re-watched and I didn’t feel held up as good as it did when being a kid in the 90’s myself was Doug. I’m sure a junior high kid would still like it, but it doesn’t hit the same for an adult. But it’s also the only one I used to watch growing up that was strictly for and about a junior high school aged kid.
I grew up in the late 2000s, honestly I think most of my childhood entertainment was just fine. The most notable thing is iCarly, and I recently watched Quinton Reviews’ series on it - it holds up better than I thought, but I realized the moment he named as most fans losing interest was the same time I stopped watching it lol.
Other than that there’s Danny Phantom which I watched again and was pretty fun, except for the classic kid show thing of spelling absolutely everything out for you and leaving nothing to be assumed or figured out from context.
When I was in middle school, I fell in love with MLP:FiM (the one that started in 2010). I mean that show is famous for amassing a lot of adult men and women as fans. This one’s the most intriguing to me - I rewatch episodes when I feel like it, and it certainly did start as a kid show (a very good kid’s show), but as it progressed they tried to integrate more action moments to keep their older audience. On the actual content though, I love the way it teaches lessons and I find that sometimes they’re lessons I’ve forgotten. I honestly think more adults, outside of the context of having kids, should engage with kids media like this. I’m biased - I’m a bit of an age regressor, but I mean when you look around there’s so many adults that have forgotten or never learned the essential lessons that media like MLP:FiM or recently Bluey lays out in an easy-to-understand way.
