I listened to Daffy Duck's Rhapsody on my iPod today. :x From the '50s, sung by Mel Blanc himself, it's sooooo gooood aaahhh. ;o; Youtube it. I LOVE IT.
Yeah, I'm glad you're getting into the older toons, that's been my thing for approximately the past year and it's just...really fun to learn about them, and of course watch them, and see that they still continue to be just as funny and relevant today. Ahhhh I wanna go on a Looney Tunes watching stint again, I used to watch it like everyday. XD But yeah I'M GLAD YOU'RE GETTING INTO IT cuz I was like BAWWW I HAVE NOBODY TO SHARE MY WARNER BROS LOVE WITH, POOK ONLY LOVES DISNEY :'( but now I can express my love freely.
Also, the animation is horrible (it is a rather laughable story of low budgets and sending animation off to Mexico), but I veryyyy much suggest Rocky and Bullwinkle if you haven't checked that out a lot yet. It's seriously one of the best old cartoons there is. *___* The characters are SO GOOD, and the humor, and the satire, and aaahhh I am consistently entertained by it.
...History of Animation sounds so fun, seriously. XD
I'll have to check Daffy's Rhapsody out! It sounds fab.
As for Disney vs. other animation, I think I attached myself to Disney/ Pixar for the past four years because the content appealed to MAH NEEDS for structure and ironically, now I'm seeking experimentation in my life and Warner Bros and other studios are MUCH more 'experimental'... (Disney is experimental but in a very constructive, wholesome way.) Looney Tunes are LOONEY and completely different so that's kind of why I wasn't into them until right now. It's like, I have to be in certain stages or moods to get into certain series or whatever and now is just magically LOONEY TUNES TIME!!!
As for Rocky and Bullwinkle I remember very little about the series but I'm sure we'll cover it in my class and I'm kind of trying to follow animation through time with my teacher so that I can experience it... sort of in order? So a few weeks from now is when we'll get into Hanna Barbara and others, and honestly I just want to watch ALL OF THESE TOONS ALL AT ONCE but that is impossible of course.
But yeah I'm going to be binging on toons for the next few months and even when the class is over, I'm determined to become an authority on all different types of animation and studios and LOONEY TUNES IS ONLY THE BEGINNING! <333
PS I wish you were in my class with me because wow I really dislike the kids at my school. Really. REALLY. All a bunch of know it alls who interrupt the teacher and blabber on trying to prove their toon knowledge. JEEZ, we all know stuff about toons, obviously! But no one knows everything and we are there to be SCHOOLED so sit back and enjoy the watch people!
You and I would just be the two goons in the back going "YEAAAAAH CARTOONS ARE FUNNY SLSGSWZGSFDGSZREG"
I grew up watching WB and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. While I still have a nostalgic soft spot for the old HB 'toons, I now find myself appalled by the cookie-cutter sameness of some of them. Scooby-doo, Jabberjaw, and Speed Buggy? All the same thing, right down to the character types that make up the "teams" on each show and the kind of "plots" the episodes used. And the limited animation is just... Dude. We were hard up for entertainment in the 70s. XD
Yeaaaaah. Animation went through a tough time after the real golden age ended. Then it came back with a vengeance... and now it's rather hit or miss. I believe now is a great time for animated films, but kind of mediocre for cartoons. Well, REALLY POOR for NEW cartoons created in the last five years. 10 years ago good toons were still coming out the tube and now... now we have really poor filler.
70's cartoons, despite their flaws, are still cute and fun. XD I view them as a stepping stone for 80's animation which was a step for 90's animation which is my favorite, because those are the toons I watched as a kid.
This is all really fun to think about. The way animation/ media in general reflects society. So much was going on in the 70's that animation kind of went by the wayside. But now, despite a lot going on, it's thriving because people want to put their kids in front of the TV and leave them there... expecting the boob tube to raise their kids for them.
But now, despite a lot going on, it's thriving because people want to put their kids in front of the TV and leave them there... expecting the boob tube to raise their kids for them.
That's nothing new, actually. I remember hearing pundits lamenting the use of the TV as a babysitter when /I/ was a kid. And when /my/ kid was a kid. It's probably been going on since TV was invented. XD
There used to be a lot more live-action shows for kids. My cousins and I used to watch tons of them on Saturday morning: The Secrets of Isis (where my icon comes from), Shazam!, Ark II, Jason of Star Command, those insane Sid and Mary Kroft (Croft? ) shows like LIdville, Land of the Lost, etc., etc. Basically, 70s Sat. morning TV was on crack. Big time. Oh, and the Monkees. We were big fans of the Monkees, though I think that was reruns from the late 60s, since they were the Beatles Lite. lol Saturday mornings were the only time we got new cartoons (Drak Pack was a favorite of mine). Weekday mornings, really early because I remember watching them before the sun came up while waiting for the school bus, we had reruns of older cartoons (usually Looney Tunes or Rocky and BUllwinkle or The Pink Panther). Weekday afternoons we had Voltron and Battle of the Planets (both American dubs of Japanese anime, very badly chopped up -- 4kids has nothing on Sandy Frank! -- though we loved them at the time).
THe 80s cartoon explosion was great! I was in my teens (and then late teens) by then. Fell in love with shows like Transformers, TMNT (for the sheer insanity, plus I already liked the comics), The Real Ghostbusters, etc. I especially liked shows like RGB that didn't talk down to their audience (the syndicated episodes were better about that than the original 13 for ABC) and had in-jokes for older viewers.
I listened to Daffy Duck's Rhapsody on my iPod today. :x From the '50s, sung by Mel Blanc himself, it's sooooo gooood aaahhh. ;o; Youtube it. I LOVE IT.
Yeah, I'm glad you're getting into the older toons, that's been my thing for approximately the past year and it's just...really fun to learn about them, and of course watch them, and see that they still continue to be just as funny and relevant today. Ahhhh I wanna go on a Looney Tunes watching stint again, I used to watch it like everyday. XD But yeah I'M GLAD YOU'RE GETTING INTO IT cuz I was like BAWWW I HAVE NOBODY TO SHARE MY WARNER BROS LOVE WITH, POOK ONLY LOVES DISNEY :'( but now I can express my love freely.
Also, the animation is horrible (it is a rather laughable story of low budgets and sending animation off to Mexico), but I veryyyy much suggest Rocky and Bullwinkle if you haven't checked that out a lot yet. It's seriously one of the best old cartoons there is. *___* The characters are SO GOOD, and the humor, and the satire, and aaahhh I am consistently entertained by it.
...History of Animation sounds so fun, seriously. XD
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As for Disney vs. other animation, I think I attached myself to Disney/ Pixar for the past four years because the content appealed to MAH NEEDS for structure and ironically, now I'm seeking experimentation in my life and Warner Bros and other studios are MUCH more 'experimental'... (Disney is experimental but in a very constructive, wholesome way.) Looney Tunes are LOONEY and completely different so that's kind of why I wasn't into them until right now. It's like, I have to be in certain stages or moods to get into certain series or whatever and now is just magically LOONEY TUNES TIME!!!
As for Rocky and Bullwinkle I remember very little about the series but I'm sure we'll cover it in my class and I'm kind of trying to follow animation through time with my teacher so that I can experience it... sort of in order? So a few weeks from now is when we'll get into Hanna Barbara and others, and honestly I just want to watch ALL OF THESE TOONS ALL AT ONCE but that is impossible of course.
But yeah I'm going to be binging on toons for the next few months and even when the class is over, I'm determined to become an authority on all different types of animation and studios and LOONEY TUNES IS ONLY THE BEGINNING! <333
PS I wish you were in my class with me because wow I really dislike the kids at my school. Really. REALLY. All a bunch of know it alls who interrupt the teacher and blabber on trying to prove their toon knowledge. JEEZ, we all know stuff about toons, obviously! But no one knows everything and we are there to be SCHOOLED so sit back and enjoy the watch people!
You and I would just be the two goons in the back going "YEAAAAAH CARTOONS ARE FUNNY SLSGSWZGSFDGSZREG"
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70's cartoons, despite their flaws, are still cute and fun. XD I view them as a stepping stone for 80's animation which was a step for 90's animation which is my favorite, because those are the toons I watched as a kid.
This is all really fun to think about. The way animation/ media in general reflects society. So much was going on in the 70's that animation kind of went by the wayside. But now, despite a lot going on, it's thriving because people want to put their kids in front of the TV and leave them there... expecting the boob tube to raise their kids for them.
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thriving because people want to put their kids in front of the TV and
leave them there... expecting the boob tube to raise their kids for them.
That's nothing new, actually. I remember hearing pundits lamenting the use of the TV as a babysitter when /I/ was a kid. And when /my/ kid was a kid. It's probably been going on since TV was invented. XD
There used to be a lot more live-action shows for kids. My cousins and I used to watch tons of them on Saturday morning: The Secrets of Isis (where my icon comes from), Shazam!, Ark II, Jason of Star Command, those insane Sid and Mary Kroft (Croft? ) shows like LIdville, Land of the Lost, etc., etc. Basically, 70s Sat. morning TV was on crack. Big time. Oh, and the Monkees. We were big fans of the Monkees, though I think that was reruns from the late 60s, since they were the Beatles Lite. lol Saturday mornings were the only time we got new cartoons (Drak Pack was a favorite of mine). Weekday mornings, really early because I remember watching them before the sun came up while waiting for the school bus, we had reruns of older cartoons (usually Looney Tunes or Rocky and BUllwinkle or The Pink Panther). Weekday afternoons we had Voltron and Battle of the Planets (both American dubs of Japanese anime, very badly chopped up -- 4kids has nothing on Sandy Frank! -- though we loved them at the time).
THe 80s cartoon explosion was great! I was in my teens (and then late teens) by then. Fell in love with shows like Transformers, TMNT (for the sheer insanity, plus I already liked the comics), The Real Ghostbusters, etc. I especially liked shows like RGB that didn't talk down to their audience (the syndicated episodes were better about that than the original 13 for ABC) and had in-jokes for older viewers.
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