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ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 02:35 PM
Seems to be ridiculously poor nowadays!
As a student i consider myself to be quite a connoisseur and tv(terrestrial and digital) just seems loaded with garbage. Balamory is crap(ok its aimed at the really young) but the quality of the cartoons is shocking. I also really dislike the way they have remade all the classics like transformers(hate it in CG) and the teenage mutant ninja turtles. Most of the new cartoons are toss as well. I also have a particular type of disdain reserved for the new 'kids-dramas'.....Tracey Beaker.....My Parents Are Aliens.....BAH. :smt013
Whats wrong with all the classic Hanna-Barbera etc....Stuff like Topcat, Yogi Bear, Wacky Races, Thundercats.
Then you have all the original Warner Bros Bugs-Bunny/Elmer Fudd/Daffy Duck/Road Runner/Wiley Coyote.
Whilst it could be argued that i should get off the sofa and seek employment, i prefer to ponder the important issues in life :cool:
stop wasting time and find me a new avatar instead. i'm bored of my white boot now.
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 02:38 PM
stop wasting time and find me a new avatar instead. i'm bored of my white boot now.
Ssssh...i am pretending to revise to ease my conscience :)
Hey I grew up with finger bob.
Ssssh...i am pretending to revise to ease my conscience :)
revising's overrated
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 02:44 PM
revising's overrated
As i said in th TV thread :cool:
Im not really one for revision but i have to have a scant knowledge to base my ramblings on.
I only went to one accts. lecture as well which makes things interesting.
Apparently my attendance record of 3% is the worst for years :D
neilfab
21-08-07, 02:48 PM
Has anybody watched Night Garden? A genuinely scary kids programme, its not supposed to be but it scares the bejabers out of me:(. Just the name give me the shivers :shaking:, sounds like a Stephen King novel.
Packa Wacka, Iggle Piggle what is going on.
As i said in th TV thread :cool:
Im not really one for revision but i have to have a scant knowledge to base my ramblings on.
I only went to one accts. lecture as well which makes things interesting.
Apparently my attendance record of 3% is the worst for years :D
i was fairly good with attendance of lectures at uni. slept through a vast proportion of them though.
accounts is just adding up anyway. how much revision can that require?
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 02:56 PM
i was fairly good with attendance of lectures at uni. slept through a vast proportion of them though.
accounts is just adding up anyway. how much revision can that require?
2 Essay questions so it must need some.
Anyhow stop derailing my thread with your belligerent replies ;)
Anyhow stop derailing my thread with your belligerent replies ;)
you love it
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 03:04 PM
you love it
Possibly :p
It is diverting attention from the serious matter that is the decline of childrens TV.
Pedro68
21-08-07, 03:15 PM
Hey I grew up with finger bob.
Me too ... and "Mary, Mungo and Midge". But my favourite of all time has to be Road Runner (vs Wylie Coyote) :D Timeless classic :D
ASM is right, childrens TV is complete tosh these days ;)
It all started going downhill when the Blue Peter garden was vandalised :smt045
C'mon, how many of you also had a crush on Jennifer Ellis? (Sophie Ellis Bextor's mum to those of you too young to remember!)
Just me then? :oops: LOL
I'll get me coat :rolleyes:
SoulKiss
21-08-07, 03:23 PM
Me too ... and "Mary, Mungo and Midge". But my favourite of all time has to be Road Runner (vs Wylie Coyote) :D Timeless classic :D
ASM is right, childrens TV is complete tosh these days ;)
It all started going downhill when the Blue Peter garden was vandalised :smt045
C'mon, how many of you also had a crush on Jennifer Ellis? (Sophie Ellis Bextor's mum to those of you too young to remember!)
Just me then? :oops: LOL
I'll get me coat :rolleyes:
Queue the "mother-daughter 3-some" fantasists..........
C'mon, how many of you also had a crush on Jennifer Ellis? (Sophie Ellis Bextor's mum to those of you too young to remember!)
Just me then? :oops: LOL
I'll get me coat :rolleyes:
JANET Ellis. And no, I don't remember having a crush on her. I did think she was v cool and brave doing all the skydiving though.
Pedro68
21-08-07, 03:29 PM
JANET Ellis. And no, I don't remember having a crush on her. I did think she was v cool and brave doing all the skydiving though.
:oops: musta been thinking 'bout Jennifer EllisON :p
Thanks for correcting my faltering memory ;)
Pete
I have got two young children and although they're not really allowed to watch telly very often when they do I have to watch the absolute c**p that they are watching, try Lazy Town for example - very creepy, on the edge of something very sinister.................Night Garden - WTF, Bratz the list goes on. It's all pony!
The other day I was flicking through the channels and stumbled into BBC2 which had Top Cat on which I proceeded to watch followed by The Munsters (the original one not the rubbish colour one). I enforced this viewing on my kids and my six year old keeps asking me when she can watch the Munsters again.
Bring back the classics!!!:smt013
stop wasting time and find me a new avatar instead. i'm bored of my white boot now.
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v nice hovis, but any reason why i should use that as my avatar?
maybe i should have a "my next avatar" competition...
gettin2dizzy
21-08-07, 03:46 PM
Hey I grew up with finger bob.
was this your uncles invention? :|
glsuk1970
21-08-07, 03:47 PM
My eldest is 10 years old and if I let her, she'd spend her whole day and most of the night watching tat on the tv. When I've had the misfortune to be in room when she's watching it I've got to say that it's pretty poor. Can't say I've seen any kids cartoons recently though.
I watched Knight Rider a while ago on one of the Sky channels and it still rocks!
fizzwheel
21-08-07, 03:52 PM
Hey I grew up with finger bob.
Aye me an all, it were called Fingermouse in my day though...
Childrens TV is cack nowadays, its to loud and to much shouting...
I bring you these classics as well...
Mr Benn
Bagpuss
Chigley
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Ivor the Engine
Bring em back :cool:
Oh eck I sound like me dad, I must be getting old
was this your uncles invention? :|
oh dear oh dear!
fizzwheel
21-08-07, 03:53 PM
and "Mary, Mungo and Midge".
Awh man I missed that of my list, I used to love that.
Oh and + 1 on the Janet Ellis thing :smt100
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 04:01 PM
Lazy Town
I can't believe i didnt add that to my hate list...and you are right it is pretty sinister. The dodgy French/Dutch(his accent changes) good guy in blue hopping everywhere like a frog on speed.
Also the bad guy who's name eludes me is definitely a kiddy fiddler.
Try Avatar, the legend of Aang on Saturday mornings on citv. best kids cartoon since Cities of Gold.
Also: Star Racers, think it's by the same folks.
What you have to remember is that you are remembering the select few cartoons from your entire childhood that were great, and basing your assumptions on how you remember they were.
You were a lot younger then and are, I would assume, much more mature now with different tastes. If you still want some animated joy allow me to suggest looking to japan for inspiration...
ASM-Forever
21-08-07, 04:22 PM
Try Avatar, the legend of Aang on Saturday mornings on citv. best kids cartoon since Cities of Gold.
Also: Star Racers, think it's by the same folks.
What you have to remember is that you are remembering the select few cartoons from your entire childhood that were great, and basing your assumptions on how you remember they were.
You were a lot younger then and are, I would assume, much more mature now with different tastes. If you still want some animated joy allow me to suggest looking to japan for inspiration...
Here is where your argument falls apart.....i am pretty sure i am less mature now than i was in my late teens. :(
I knew someone would say that...
Ok, maybe not mature (but if you speak to someone in their late teens you would probably feel older than them, right?) but you have had more life experience and aren't as liable to be taken in by 1 dimensional characters and simple morality plays which much of kids telly offers.
fizzwheel
21-08-07, 04:36 PM
aren't as liable to be taken in by 1 dimensional characters and simple morality plays which much of kids telly offers.
But most of the 70's TV shows that I mentioned above were like that, but they didnt try and pretend to be anything else and told simple story withour relying on bangs, and fancy graphics and shouting etc etc.
Oh I missed another one off my list,
Jamie and the Magic Torch, best ever Rock TV Childrens theme tune.
FACT !
But most of the 70's TV shows that I mentioned above were like that, but they didnt try and pretend to be anything else and told simple story withour relying on bangs, and fancy graphics and shouting etc etc.
Oh I missed another one off my list,
Jamie and the Magic Torch, best ever Rock TV Childrens theme tune.
FACT !
Yep, and I refer you to my earlier point that we were all much younger then.
I've watched Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, He-Man, Mask and a few others in the recent past, and other than nostalgia value, they have very little going for them more than some of the current toons do.
Notice that I say SOME of the current toons. Yes, some are a wunch of bank, but the rose tinted view of "everything was better" is in a lot of cases rubbish
I remember every year when I was a kid being 364 days of uninterrupted sunshine, with one white christmas, but it ain't the truth! :D
I'm not saying there weren't great cartoons when we were kids, but i am saying there's still some good ones now.
Oh, and by the way, my name is Jaime.
And my torch is, indeed, magic...
I'm not saying there weren't great cartoons when we were kids, but i am saying there's still some good ones now.
Part of the problem is though that you have to search through a ton of channels to find them - greater number of channels, greater choice - but also much more 'filler' and harder to find the gems.
Regualr scheduling seems to have gone to the dogs a bit too. :roll:
yeah i have noticed sunday kids tv is now cr*p, we use to have things like captain planet, duck tales.the fraggles. thundercats and he-man.
oh i use to love count duculea, dogtanion as well. they just dont have things like that nowadays.
fizzwheel
21-08-07, 06:33 PM
Oh, and by the way, my name is Jaime.
And my torch is, indeed, magic...
Have you got a pet dog called wordsworth...
I know what you mean, but I've got the Bagpuss episodes and have watched them again as a growed up and I still love them.
I've re-watched all the Mr Benns again and some of camberwick green and I love those to.
IMHO they are just simple stories, and they are really well told to, I've just not found anything of the current era that I like as much. I had a spell of being addicted to Yu-Gi-Oh and there was another one about Dragon Masters or something to do with Power Bands that the name escapes me off that I liked to.
I liked some of the modern day japanese feature length animated films, My Neighbour Totoro was really good and there was another one that the name also escapes me of, It was Princess Monoke I think.. I really liked that to.
Have you got a pet dog called wordsworth...
I know what you mean, but I've got the Bagpuss episodes and have watched them again as a growed up and I still love them.
I've re-watched all the Mr Benns again and some of camberwick green and I love those to.
IMHO they are just simple stories, and they are really well told to, I've just not found anything of the current era that I like as much. I had a spell of being addicted to Yu-Gi-Oh Yep, Love Yu-Gi-Oh and there was another one about Dragon Masters or something to do with Power Bands that the name escapes me off that I liked to. Possibly Dragon Ball Z?
I liked some of the modern day japanese feature length animated films, My Neighbour Totoro was really good and there was another one that the name also escapes me of, It was Princess Monoke I think.. I really liked that to. Both from Studio Ghibli: Well worth investigating their back catalogue: Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porko Rosso and others
Still say best of the bunch at the moment is Avatar. i think it's coming back this weekend, so give it a go.
...and there was another one about Dragon Masters or something to do with Power Bands that the name escapes me off that I liked too.
Actually it's not Dragon Ball, is it? It's something where the bad guy is called Zodiac Master and has the Shadow Dragon as his right hand woman...
A hasty Interweb search tells me it's called Legend of the Dragon.
Also in defence of modern cartoons: Dexters Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and the new Captain Scarlet.
yeah i have noticed sunday kids tv is now cr*p, we use to have things like captain planet, duck tales.the fraggles.
The fraggles now that was great telly!!
Can anyone name all of the different types of creatures?
There were fraggles - medium sized.
There were dozers - small sized.
So what were the large ones called?
The fraggles now that was great telly!!
Can anyone name all of the different types of creatures?
There were fraggles - medium sized.
There were dozers - small sized.
So what were the large ones called?
Gorgs
what was the cartoon called with 5 or 6 kids & they all had there own spaceships?
portreekid
21-08-07, 11:44 PM
Awh man I missed that of my list, I used to love that.
Oh and + 1 on the Janet Ellis thing :smt100
I found Mary Mungo and Midge on Youtube a few weeks ago,......... in my defence it was late at night and I was REALLY bored.
Hectors House was somewhat disturbing to revisit.
Have to look and see if any Banana Splits or even "Why Don't You?" on there too.
God I'm getting old.
northwind
22-08-07, 01:30 AM
I'll tell you what was brilliant in recent kids TV- the Rottentrolls. Mental, properly mental, but incredibly funny too. You know you're onto a good thing when you see episode titles like "Commander Harris Loses It" or "Full Metal Jim-Jams"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1G3s5U0yY
The theme tune cracks me up... Martin Clunes deadpanning this ridiculous script, and Merlin's bunny rabbit, total genius. Like Fraggle Rock on acid.
I've caught a couple of episodes of the Lilo and Stitch cartoon, that's alright too- the film was just superb, a total joy, and the series is occasionally not too far off, really manages to hit the "adults and kids" audience. I just saw one tonight actually, and it came up to what looked like the He-Man style moral- "I think it's better to be yourself" says Lilo. "Making stuff up is too much hard work".
Really, what you have to remember is that kids TV was rubbish when we watched it, just that we only had tiny brains at the time. Also, we've forgotten the really bad stuff- nobody but me remembers Jase and the Wheeled Warriors or Pole Position, frinstance.
Pedro68
22-08-07, 08:23 AM
I found Mary Mungo and Midge on Youtube a few weeks ago,......... in my defence it was late at night and I was REALLY bored.
Hectors House was somewhat disturbing to revisit.
Have to look and see if any Banana Splits or even "Why Don't You?" on there too.
God I'm getting old.
Maaaaannnnn, I would NEVER be THAT bored :D LOL
I remember the Banana Splits and "Why Don't You?" - GREAT!
Saturday morning TV was good too ... Tiswas/Swap-Shop :)
Happy Days!
Probably giving me age away here but I can remember the woodentops, with spotty dog, mr Benn (apparently gay ) bagpuss, the herbs and of course camberwell green, chigley and the mighty trumpton, which was of course immortilised by half man half buiscit in there ditty 'the trumpton riots' ooh mrs hunnyman, you minx you.
The gorgs - that's it. Phew!
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