Old cartoons -

[Kari Kamiya]

This has been used still. (I don't remember the episode this happened in, it was in the first two seasons.)

"Hey, Kraang! The one who is called your mother wears the boots that are made for combat!”

 

[sasazuka]

There's also a Russian Snow Queen animated movie from 1957.

There's a weird scene near the end where Russian Santa Claus shows some troll creature the high tech Soviet wonderland of the future including colour television. (I know colour TV was already out in some limited capacity in the west but the Soviet Union didn't begin broadcasting in colour until 1967, a decade after this movie was released.)

 

[Dom Cruise]

I find it strange looking back on my '90s childhood and how many old cartoons I saw, everything from the 1940s through the 1980s.

Old cartoons were just a natural part of the TV landscape, but I have to wonder if any kids today are watching any cartoons that aren't contemporary.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

but I have to wonder if any kids today are watching any cartoons that aren't contemporary.

I sure hope so, given that modern day cartoons are absolute bullshit.

 

[no_mad_johnny]

I was brought up on classic woody woodpecker, looney tunes and hanna barbera. Visual gag comedy just doesn't get old.

The 90s and early 2000s had great cartoons as well. Way too many great looking cartoons that knew how to make character design without looking too generic or God forbid, appealing to furry/troon bait.

I actually have a soft spot for early cartoon CGI (Jakers) and 2D animation that resembles hand drawn illustrations (Rupert and pretty much anything by Maurice Sendak).

I hope to collect all of that on DVD one of these days.

Are the early seasons of Simpsons (before the jump to digital animation) considered officially old now? Those were great.

 

[sasazuka]

I find it strange looking back on my '90s childhood and how many old cartoons I saw, everything from the 1940s through the 1980s.

Old cartoons were just a natural part of the TV landscape, but I have to wonder if any kids today are watching any cartoons that aren't contemporary.

I remember not being particularly aware whether a cartoon (or any other TV show that was in colour) was old or new until I was at least 5 years old. I doubt it's much different for little kids today although you do have the weirdness of TV cartoons up to the mid-2000s having been animated for a different aspect ratio so I don't know if little kids would wonder why those black bars are on the side of the screen for some cartoons but not others (and, if they're watching on a really big screen, why the black sidebar cartoons look fuzzier than cartoons that fill the whole screen).

Do broadcasters, ugh, crop 4:3 aspect ratio cartoons for widescreen the way some broadcasters/streaming services do with older Simpsons episodes?

 

[BrunoMattei]

maybe I didn't watch enough cartoons in the 80s and 90s but I literally can not think of a single time in my life I've ever heard anybody in any circumstance say "Your mother wears high-heeled shoes!"
combat boots, sure

I remember an episode of Ninja Turtles where Bebop said that. It was the episode where him and another Turtle were stuck in hell or some volcano world.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I remember not being particularly aware whether a cartoon (or any other TV show that was in colour) was old or new until I was at least 5 years old.

That's the way it was for me as well, when I would see a Bug Bunny cartoon when I was really little I didn't think of it as old, it was just a cartoon, I even remember watching stuff like the original Johnny Quest and the Hanna Barbera Godzilla cartoon at 3 years old circa 1993 and not really realizing they were old.

A little later I did pick up whenever Looney Tunes would have cultural references that I was seeing something old, but even then you have no real point of reference for how long decades are when you're a kid, you know it's the past, but you don't really realize how long ago the past is.

And beyond cartoons I saw tons of 1970s and 1980s movies as a kid in the 1990s.

So it's just kinda weird how culturally my 1990s childhood was really a smorgasbord of various things from the prior few decades, guess that's why I've always had a love of retro culture.

 

[The Last Stand]

A little later I did pick up whenever Looney Tunes would have cultural references that I was seeing something old, but even then you have no real point of reference for how long decades are when you're a kid, you know it's the past, but you don't really realize how long ago the past is.

I see why non topical cartoons avoid using references. They'll get dated quickly. Another reason why Trump bad references don't work well in media.

There's one Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is on vacation but ends up in the Arctic. There's a gag where Bugs learns that the days are six months long. Then he says he doesn't have to go to work until July 1952.

That line gets omitted from reruns.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

Another reason why Trump bad references don't work well in media

I can't wait for the time to arrive when all this woke bullshit is outdated and people can look back and see the shit shows for what they really are, without their biases clouding their judgement. It will be glorious.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I can't wait for the time to arrive when all this woke bullshit is outdated and people can look back and see the shit shows for what they really are, without their biases clouding their judgement. It will be glorious.

Imagine how befuddling the Trump era of media is going to be to people decades into the future.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

They weren't much more than glorified toy commercials, but I still have a soft spot for the 80s cartoons I watched as a kid. Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, TMNT...

The Pirates of Dark Water I still somewhat enjoy just for how damn creative it was in regards to world building.

 

[sasazuka]

That's the way it was for me as well, when I would see a Bug Bunny cartoon when I was really little I didn't think of it as old, it was just a cartoon, I even remember watching stuff like the original Johnny Quest and the Hanna Barbera Godzilla cartoon at 3 years old circa 1993 and not really realizing they were old.

I think the first cartoons that registered in my mind as being "old" were the Harvey cartoons, especially the ones that ended with a "follow the bouncing ball" singalongs. I wouldn't say it was the cartoons themselves that made them seem ancient but rather that the film to videotape telecine process wasn't nearly as well done as Warner's transfers of post-war Looney Tunes shorts. The Harvey cartoons always ended up looking washed out and blurry and the audio on the songs got distorted. I suppose there's the possibility that it might not have been the telecine, it could be that Warner just had better-preserved film stock to work with compared to whomever did the syndication for the Harvey shorts.

Outside of animation, possibly the first show where I began to notice a "new episode" vs "old rerun" divide was Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, since some of the already decade-plus old episodes that were still airing when I was a kid had the end pan over the model houses end with the house with the NET logo while the newer PBS-era episodes didn't have that. There was also the different ending songs with "Tomorrow" (older) vs. "It's Such a Good Feeling" (newer) and occasionally both and the episodes from the period where the electrified Trolley model wasn't used to get to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and instead Mr. Rogers just laid out miniatures of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe set pieces on the kitchen table.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

They're technically old. The 90's was like 30 years ago. We're all getting on.

I used to disagree with that, but I've seen a few "antique" stores dedicated to toys from the 80's-90's, so basically all of that junk that I just tossed out from my basement.

 

[jell0]

I miss 90's claymation. Was a very weird style and had some of the best gems from that period. My personal Favorite: