Strawberry Shortcake is fucking awesome · 8:14am Feb 11th, 2013
And no, I'm not talking about all the new garbage.
I'm talking about the turn of the century stuff, when it was awesome.
I don't know why, but I got sitting down and watching this, and the show just gives me a good feeling in the pit of my stomach, kind of like drinking hot tea on a cold day.
The old cartoons are all the best. What happened to the new ones? Why are they so bad (excluding ponies) I mean seriously, what the fuck happened to Scooby Doo? Now Dafney wants Freddy's cock more and Velma is Dating shaggy! Now Scooby is like some soft of four-legged fifth wheel.
Fosters got nuked because nobody had any imagination.
Thomas the Tank Engine was butchered so badly that I don't even know how to explain it.
Stupidity is society's trend. Idiocy is what is trending. I know they only seem like cartoons, but if your kid grows up on a two-hour daily diet of Spongebob, something in the mushy, developing brain is going to bruise. It's like dropping a peach on the kitchen floor, picking it up, brushing it off, and going, "Oh, it's not going to taste any different". And it won't, because it does not matter if a brain is stupid or not, it'll still taste just the same as Einstein.
Let's get back to our topic here. If kids (mostly in America) are watching all of this bullshit garbage nonsense, it's going to shape their brains in that direction.
I'm just going to use my own school as an example. When I joined as a freshman, all the seniors were the coolest people ever. The band was fucking awesome and theater group contained, like, thirty amazing, talented actors.
Sophomore year... some of them went away, but it was still pretty awesome.
Junior year... The band is destroyed, all the cool people having graduated. The theater arts group is a joke. I'm looking towards the freshmen, hopefully for something good, but they're all just a bunch of moronic dipshits minus a select few! Two years separates the awesome from the not-awesome. I mean, I've heard the phrase "dumber by the decade" but this is dumber by the year, or dumber by the month. I can sit in the back of class, and the average conversation I hear is from the sluts at table nine talking about the two guys they haven't fucked and the best way to get rid of gonorrhea without letting your parents knowing that they bent over for the entire football team.
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Wow. I got a little off-topic there.
So, yeah, things suck a lot more now than they did then. I remember one time when I was eight and my dad's VW Jetta busted down on the side of a freeway, and three people stopped to help him, and for the next six hours, they sat around on the side of the freeway over smalltalk and drank beer.
Now if you ever find yourself on the side of the road you'd be lucky if someone spared the time to flick a cigarette at you.
I know these feels.
I think we need to address your school actually. Fuck Strawberry Short Cake, your school is straight up fucked up.
Yeah. Only several cartoons nowadays are good.
816731 There's hardly any electives or CTE courses because all of the teachers are busy teaching credit recapture classes.
The kids who succeed are the minority.
I would vouch for Gravity Falls as a smarter cartoon these days.
And I don't know about that school, but I think mine suffered something similar. It's a lot of cascading effects coalescing on the youth of the generation. Media, education, and the status quo all kind of squish together in a Lovecraftian mess. Sometimes I worry that this is just perspective talking, because I always hated the older generations blasting my own. Don't want to be that guy, you know?
fireman sam was also ruined :( and i concur it seems we are at that age when new things just aren't our cup of tea
they even fucked up 'bananas in pyjamas' here in Australia. maybe not a cartoon, but it was a large part of my childhood. now it's gone and replaced by shit.
I love Spongebob. Hell, you can probably tell from my avatar and name. But everything after 2007 is shit. Just literal shit. I can't watch it with feeling the urge to beat my head with a tire iron. Goddamn, what happened with the world? The only hope left is MLP and Gravity Falls.
I seriously, seriously wonder how people can like all this new crap that passes for cartoons these days. They used to have clever, even somewhat dark comedy that actually made me laugh, but now it's a bunch of stupid jokes and terrible plots. I mean, Care Bears was bad before, but now it's CGI, and the new name is "Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot." And if Spongebob (both the character and the show) gets any stupider, I think it will defy physics.
The only good cartoons I know of that are on today is Friendship is Magic and Gravity Falls. I haven't watched Gravity Falls yet, but I'd like to at some point. Cartoons have been evolving backwards in terms of quality since the new millenium.
Seriously, Care-a-Lot?!
-Plyxe
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It's not just cartoons. A bunch of products are becoming less and less in terms of quality.
Why?
Capitalism.
Capitalism promotes getting stuff for the best price. With this mentality, big companies are creating products that can earn them a bunch of customers without hurting their pocketbook. Then, in a few years, it breaks down, and so they buy it again... and then the companies create even lower quality products and the cycle continues.
Are people aware there is a show out there called adventure time, which is fucking awesome?
and all this American talk is confusing me, sophomore? the fuck?
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Freshman = grade 9
Sophomore = grade 10
Junior = grade 11
Senior = grade 12
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Is grade equal to year here in England? and we go up to year 13, suck it.
817237 haha! One year smarter than Americans you are!
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We are known to have a better education system, and i just proved it in one sentence it seems!
Indeed in general everything nowadays is crappy and does not last long, there are exceptions but the general statement stands.
Sorren your school sounds like mine. And no, that's not a good thing.
Since it's about midnight, I have nothing constructive to say, other than that people are stupid, and will probably always be stupid. Maybe more stupid now than they were fifty years ago, but every generation has their idiots. And hey, if we have more idiots than previous generations, I'd say we won something. One of those awards like 'Best Porn Director' where, yeah, you won, but are you really proud of it? I don't think so. And hey, if you are, then you have no shame and should be ashamed of that.
But yeah, ponies.