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It has been waaaaaaaaaay too long since I did one of these.
For this feature I really dug deep to find a show that I am sure everyone watched religiously as a kid. The show I chose was incredibly fun to watch and (not surprisingly) still holds up today. Not only were the characters interesting and dynamic, the writing was excellent. These are things that modern-day cartoons are severely lacking in, which just further supports the notion that growing up in the 90's was better than growing up in any other decade.
So what cartoon did I chose? Just look below.
That's right, Hey Arnold!
To this day I have yet to find anyone that did not like this show (more likely they have not seen it, and in that case I feel bad for their deprived childhood). I can't do this show any justice by talking about it, so if you have some time to kill definitely check out the link I posted (and then watch several more when you remember how good this show is). I promise 'Best Cartoons VI will come soon. Cheers!
I think enough time has passed since our last look at old-school cartoons (which you can read up on here) that we can look at another one. After wasting (worth it) at least 30 minutes on YouTube trying to find which cartoon I would write about, I settled on two. The first one will be Disney's Filmore, and the second one will be Doug.
The premise of Filmore is simple enough: A middle school is treated like real life (think CSI for kids) with ace hall-monitor Filmore in charge of preventing students from various 'criminal offenses' (handing out test answers, sabotaging pep rallies, stealing school projects). Of course, it is never that easy. Filmore has to find a balance between justice and what the politics of the school dictate (the politicians being the principal and the "chief" of the student police). Look, I could talk on and on about how great this show was, but if you clicked the video above ask yourself this: How can a show be bad with an intro like that? The best part is that You Tube has the episodes, so they are not difficult to watch from time to time and get that great feeling of being a kid again. You know, before words such as: tutorial, mid-term, lecture slides, and professor ever existed. Anyways, the show is always watchable and I know that if you watched it as a kid you will have a blast watching it again. If you were unlucky enough not to have seen this, I guarantee you will appreciate the intelligent way in which kids cartoons used to be made. It goes without say that if this came back on TV with new episodes, I would watch.
I almost forgot how good this show was until I watched a few episodes again. Instead of telling you what the show is about, I will let you figure that out from the opening intro. Again, if you did not watch this as a kid, its not too late to see what you missed out on. Anyways, check back often for more nostalgia such as this. Also we have a twitter account! Follow us @MillenniumSandE. cheers!
This post is not meant to be a list of the best cartoons or even a comparison of them, rather it is meant to pay tribute to some of the cartoons we all grew up with. I'm only going to post one cartoon tonight, and will probably add to this feature whenever I feel like it. Without further ado, the cartoon I have chosen is: Disney's Recess. Come on, we all grew up with this one and we all loved it; as a matter of fact I re-watched some episodes to refresh my memory and guess what? They are still watchable (unlike most of the garbage cartoon networks are putting up these days). My favorite episode has to be 'economics of recess' for several reasons. First it is a T.J. episode. T.J. was just a boss, he was the crew leader, enjoyed pranking anyone and everyone, and was probably the most interesting character on the show. Second, a popular set of stickers is the new playground 'currency' and being sick for a week T.J. has none and has to find a way to cope. I don't know what to talk about first; remember when Pokemon cards were all the rage? This episode basically made these popular "cards" as a means to do anything at school. Need a ball to play basketball? 2 stickers. Need to use the water fountain? 1 sticker. Talk to the king of the playground? 4 sticker. (Yes, they had a 'king' I mean, if you have not gone to watch an episode of this what the hell are you waiting for?). So our hero T.J. starts at the very bottom and starts doing grunt work. He starts collecting stickers at the water fountain and getting paid to do it by the guy who did not want to waste an entire recess doing this, and he collects a small amount of stickers. Once he gets a bit of a profit, he starts recruiting people to do this for him and so on. You can see where this is going, eventually he basically owns the playground! I think the appeal of this show was how much funner (and longer) they made recess seem and that as kids, we all wished it would be like that. I am going to leave you with the episode I just described, for old times sake.
