As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new?

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I watch plenty of animated stuff but not specifically kids stuff. Movies I would, shows not so much.

  Books, though? Some of the best written and most interesting books I’ve read as an adult were labeled as YA books.

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I bought every episode of darkwing duck because it was on sale and I definitely see where I got my love of puns from

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• ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love old stuff except for bluey witch is great

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• gravitywell@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still watch them, Some kids cartoons are timeless and some its like a completely new show from an adult perspective.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure. All the stuff the kids watched. Pixar, Dreamworks, and others. Not so much the episodic cartoons, but I’ve seen quite a few of those, too.

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• garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does Thunderbirds count?

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love good animation, so I keep up with the latest films, most of which are for kids, but that’s okay.

  I also still love old Looney Tunes shorts.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yes, both.

  I love Star Wars animated series in particular.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• nimble@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. I watch the Spiderman cartoons from the late 60’s, Spongebob Squarepants and Rik and Morty (although I suspect that is more for adults).

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have VLC streaming Toonami Aftermath on my second monitor at work, pretty much 24/7. It’s always fun to look over and see the weird shit that is playing. I’ve seen commercials for PS1 games, toys that don’t exist anymore, etc… And if I work late, they usually play DBZ Abridged on Wednesday evenings. That was a particularly funny discovery, because my coworker saw DBZ on my monitor, and mentioned that they never got into it. I turned the volume up just in time for us to hear Vegeta complain about getting hit in the dick.

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re damn right I watch X-Men and Dragonball-Z!

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• boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Over the Garden Wall. Wish there was than once season.

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• billbasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bob’s Burgers is great!

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  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is, but I doubt it was ever targeted at kids, Archer too

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    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lmao, kids have little interest in Bob’s Burgers. It’s too slow paced and the content goes over kids heads.

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• FarraigePlaisteach@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve tried but they* don’t hit the way they used to. And they’re a bit louder than I remember.

  \* The Real Ghostbusters & TMNT. Both from the 80s/90s.

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.

  A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.

  I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible on other mediums.

  But I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. I’ve been collecting animation cels for twenty something years!

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That's the Headmasters one between S2, the movie, and S3, right?

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.

      The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.

      The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the humans that become the heads for giant robots.

      Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!

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• Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want children’s television shows sometimes because when I was a kid I was basically deprived of this joy. We didn’t have cable until I was basically already a teenager and even then my dad had this obnoxious habit of shaming me for it if I ever dared to watch the cable weed were literally paying for.

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• sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a spawner 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…

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• spidertrolled@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dont watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of the stuff taking itself seriously tends to suck. There are a few absolute gems, but most of everything else is like, petty, or bullshit, or garbage in some other way. There was this wave of reality-show fever when it feels like every damned TV show had to shoehorn some contrived petty drama that sidetracked from the interesting stuff and i got so fed up and checked out of the medium. It absolutely felt like every channel was doing it, inescapable.

  Except for stupid cartoons. There’s something about a show not taking itself seriously that makes it perfect. And the serious kids media wasn’t made to cash in petty, mean spirited bullshit, its made as a reminder of some important lesson that we should not forget to pass on to the next generation. Yeah i prefer cartoons.

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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve stopped for a while, like ten years at least, but picked them up again since covid.

  • Invincible
  • The Hollow
  • She-Ra
  • Pantheon
  • Glitch Techs
  • Scavengers Reign - holy shit
  • Jentry Chau
  • Bluey - thanks kids
  • The Last Kids on Earth

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• Blubber28@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The vast majority of things I watch are intended for mature audiences, yes. Movies and series created for kids specifically just don’t entertain me, with a handful of exceptions. Shrek is love, Shrek is life, of course. I also really enjoyed a cartoon called Final Space, which I suspect is targeted for young teens but it’s pretty good! Despite being canceled :(. If anything has a Disney/Pixar label on it I avoid it like the plague though, it’s usually a cringefest for me.

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• Monster96@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only ever eatch cartoons, everything sucks so cartoons make everything better. So much so that I even want my own cartoon. I’ve been developing a pitch document that I’d like to pitch to a company that I’ve been talking to.

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• xikufrancesc@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cuando ahora veo algo que disfrutaba mucho como niño, lloro.

  When I now see something I really enjoyed as a child, I cry.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i do when they are good, there’s a lot of trash out there but also so much good animation.

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• tomcatt360@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Danny Phantom and Code Lyoko

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• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m watching Big City Greens as I type this. That show is so damn good. Surprised even 4 seasons in it still keeps the quality up.

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• HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like watching Checkered Past. I love all the 90s and early 2000s cartoons. My favorite is Angry Beavers.

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