Jacky shan being the biggest for me, found almost all episodes and binged in a few days. I realized the show is actually very formulaic. Bad guys want to collect a number of artifacts, the good guys tries to collect them all before the bad guys and succeeded but then the bad guys get all the artifacts in the end and the good guys have to stop them. This was plot for season 1,3,4,5,6 and with 2 having the most episode but are all filler. I also watche 50 Code Lyoko but got bored, there almost 100 episodes

Obviously those shows weren’t meant to be binged but even then they are repetitive, however with jacky shan i have nostalgia and its still special to me

  • tuckerm@supermeter.social
    30·
    4 months ago

    I watched Batman: The Animated Series recently. Obviously still very good, I think everyone agrees with that. I don’t think I appreciated the uniqueness of art deco Gotham when I was little.

    I also watched a few episodes of Animaniacs a while ago, and I definitely did not pick up on some of the jokes in that show when it was first on. :P

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
    161·
    4 months ago

    I ended up rewatching a few episodes of Thundercats some years ago and it was… not great. Can’t remember too many specifics (I think for one thing the dialog was pretty bad) but it definitely wasn’t really appealing as an adult.

    • ArtieShaw@fedia.io
      11·
      4 months ago

      Thundercats! Not great, for sure, but I remember that the same weaknesses were still there in the 80s

      Snarf was always insufferable. My idiot brother and I hated Snarf. Why was he not humanoid like the other Thundercats? Why was he a ripoff of Lost-In-Space’s Doctor Smith? Why did he have weird crocodilian qualities? “snarf snarf”

      Liono was just one dimensionally dumb. Kit and Kat were clearly there for the littler kids to relate to.

      Tigra and Panthro were solid dudes. Cheetara and Pumyra were the closest thing to making me question my sexuality at a tender age. Mumm-ra was great - he had a nice pyramid and flying wrappers. Mumm-ra’s henchmen have probably aged the worst.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    162·
    4 months ago

    Inspector Gadget. Ooof. Did not age well

    Mysterious cities of gold and Real Ghostbusters 👌👌

    Edit: to clarify, i mean the don adams cartoon series of Gadget.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    Well, transformers holds up better than GI Joe, which holds up better than he-man, and that was the holy trinity back then.

    But, the older cartoons held up better than any of those. The old Hanna Barberra, Warner brothers, and Disney stuff works as well on average as it did then. They were awesome back in the eighties, and they’re still awesome.

  • Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    Well… I was maybe 18-19 when Butthead and Butthead came out, and 22 when Southpark came out… I’m 49… and I still love them both and watch all of them. I’m not up to date in the Simpsons which DOES go back to when I was in high school. Family Guy was early college too. All of them reference life I knew growing up and yes I feel the nostalgia watching them.

    For me to comment on cartoons of my youngest childhood… Scooby Doo… Smurfs? Those are absolutely formulatic. Nowhere near the plots that toed the line as more “modern” cartoons.

    Now I’m thinking of all the Adult Swim shows and getting a little teary eyed. 🥹

  • Aku@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I’ve rewatched DBZ and it’s still great. Although there really is a lot of filler. I think watching on demand really highlights how much there is. Kai version was nice in its own way.

  • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    Two years ago when I had cable there was a channel that showed old He-Man episodes. They came on around midnight so I would stay up to watch. The animation style is looser and very experimental, which I remembered, but I really enjoy how rough and non-commercial it is. Reminds me of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon in its fantasy style.

    The only catch was it was in Spanish but I don’t think it lost much. Plus since the dialogue is simple, I could practice deciphering. All and all was fun to watch again.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      The animation style is looser and very experimental, which I remembered, but I really enjoy how rough and non-commercial it is.

      I get what you’re saying and I agree, but it’s kind of funny because the cartoon was literally created to promote sales of the toy. They still had creative freedom though because the toy didn’t start with a backstory

      • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Really? I mean I know they did that in the 80’s but this was a wild bet in 1983 when it aired…

        The Mattel company released the first wave of the Masters of the Universe toyline in 1982. After the Federal Communications Commission relaxed its ban on toy-based children’s programming, Mattel decided to commission a cartoon to promote their toyline.

        Holy shit. I was such a dopey kid.

  • FarFarAway@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I used to watch David the Gnome when I was young. When I went back and watched it as an adult it was the slowest moving thing I had seen in a while. I was amazed I had that kind of attention span as a kid.

  • Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been rewatching Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost, and they hold up (if they were ever funny for you to begin with)!

  • minibyte@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I think my comedic tastes have changed. I used to love Family Guy, Ren and Stimpy, and American Dad but can’t do it anymore.

    For me, it’s the classics that holds true: Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo.