Destroy, Ruin, Destroy.
To be read in an old-man voice: Back when I was just a snot-nosed kid, there was a new cable channel called MTV (as in MUSIC Television) that showed music videos for such awesomeness as Blondie's "Rapture," Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio," and of course The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." Decades later, finding a music video on MTV is a Herculean task, because the network is polluted with college kids trying to get into each others' pants.
The Cartoon Network is headed in the same depressing direction.
The Cartoon Network (or CN, as the brand managers would like you to say) just renewed Destroy Build Destroy, the first of the network's live-action programs to be given a second season. Which means it looks like "CN Real" (I throw up a little in my mouth every time I say that) is sticking around.
R.I.P. Cartoon Network. Time of death, August 20, 4:56 p.m.
The once-mighty channel has been ill for sometime, with programming quality declining greatly in the last few years -- especially since new president Stuart Snyder took over in 2007. The death sentence was the introduction of CN Real (blrmmph!), an attempt to bring reality television to The Cartoon Network. I repeat, CARTOON Network.
Gone are the days of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. Now we have quiz shows on roller coasters, pint-sized Ghost Hunters, and a Survivor rip off.
"It's a little sad," Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls and one of animation's leading figures, told The Los Angeles Times. "Cartoon Network had something really unique." McCracken recently left his position at Cartoon Network after 17 years on the job.
To borrow from Buggles frontman Trevor Horn, reality killed the animation star.
Hey guys, Blame Adult Swim and Aqua teen hunger force for the death of all that is good. In 2007, Jim Samples, One of Ted Turner's(Founder of Cartoon Network, Tru TV, TNT, and CNN) good friends kept up on grim adventures of billy and mandy, tonami, and the other good shows UNTILL, on janurary 31, 2007, after seperating adult swim from Cartoon Network as a seperate channel, To Promote the new Aqua teen hunger force movie that was coming out, they placed LED lights around boston in the shape of ATHF's Ignignokt Giving the finger. Scaring the *** out of Jim, He took his family and moved out of boston, leaving Cartoon Network behind. Steve Snyder took over and started importing CANADIAN shows from Teletoon, and started using live-action. The Devices Looked Like Mini-Explosives which were removed by boston police...... ADULT SWIM OVERKILLED CARTOON NETWORK!moreless
Plan_ Become a rich doctor and businessman and buy out CNs rights and bring back kids next door
The shear amount of bull*** that they have on "CN" now is absolutely ridiculous. Where did the good animation go? Also, it is supposed to be CARTOON Network not some reality teeny pop star *** that you see on modern Nickelodeon, and that is exactly where I see it going.
same for adult swim
I totally agree with this, ever since they have been putting on all of these new stupid shows on CN its been getting really lame. I don't know if you guys remember the old days were cartoons were just fun to watch, were as to now its just blown me away. I don't know what kind of crowd they are trying to catch, but it looks like they have failed miserably. "cartoonnetwork" really needs to change
they did the same thing with 'adult swim'. going from anime and mature cartoons, to Tim and Eric and other live-action shows. i really didn't care then, but now that I look at it I should be concerned! I knew "CN" was heading for a breakdown when they stopped showing Loony Toons, Cartoon Cartoons, and Toonami. Honestly, do these new "toons" even compare to the old classics?
What happened to good shows like Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, and the likes of Time Squad? They all went to Retirement Hell, where they were tortured by marathons of Johnny Test and DBD...
Wat ever happened to loony tunes, naruto, one pice,and all those other good stuff CN sucks now. Now all i have to watch is myth busters and some other stuff like that
They shoulDa stayed With toonami
Greed is the problem with Stuart Snyder. He needs to be gone now.
To another comment,someone needs to murder that stupid Stuart Snyder.Live-Action shows don;t belong on CN.
Oh, and instead of cursing out the people who run the network using horrible grammar on a website, why doesn't anyone see it fit to schedule a meeting with a Cartoon Network executive and 1) have them tell you why they felt they needed to end most of their original shows 2) ask them why they added reality and live action shows to their lineup and what the benefits are of doing so 3) give them your opinion of their new shows and any suggestions that would help them make the programming more enjoyable (all of this in a polite way, of course)?
Who knows? Maybe Cartoon Network will drop "Cartoon" from their name and just be called "The Network" from now on, seeing as adding live-action shows to their lineup goes against the channel's very name.
CN real sucks. and the new prez is too stupid to see no one wants reality shows on CARTOON NETWORK!!
And samurai Jack. That was awesome. What ever happen to that?
i also forgot Tonami. I miss that so much. I was so upset when i saw the last showing of tonami. i still do not understand how that one guy got replaced by robots????
I loved Cartoon Network in the 90's and early 2000's. I miss all the classics like Courage the Cowardly Dog, EDD,ED,EDDY,Cartoon Cartoon Fridays(this was when cartoon characters hosted on Fridays ), and the Old Adult Swim. Now Cartoon Network has been bogged down with this reality TV crap. It is the most stupid *** I have ever seen. I saw my younger brother watching this *** and I asked him if he liked it. He goes "yes its pretty cool" and I go "are you F***ing kidding me this *** is gay I miss the good old classic violent 1990's cartoons. Long live cartoon Network Died(to me) 2007. F**K YOU Stuart Snyder. You ruined my most favorite channel in my childhood.
CN real is a way for the new company prez to make a quick buck b4 the company folds in about 10 years. Most of the new cartoons since 2005 have been crap with the exception of a few like ben 10, camp lazlo and yes i like chowder lol. Boomerang isnt even as good as it was originally you rarely see any 90's cartoons just alot of old hanna-barber (not knockin it they just get boring after a while). If cartoon network goes back to showing alot of its classic cartoons like cow & chicken mixed with the new and throw some of the animes with more adult content into adult swim i wud definately start watching again. I say get rid of CN real and go back to wat your name implies a network that shows cartoons. I think wat happened is they saw disney make money with shows like hanna montanna and tried to hop on the band wagon... but they have failed. They need to do a census to see what the viewers want not wats gonna put a little extra money in their already stuffed pockets. jus my opinionmoreless
I hate CN real, it makes my cartoons turn into debug mode, where they cause havoc to our entertainment. and debug mode means more havoc caused in cartoon channels. the squirrel scouts on camp lazlo are my favorite characters on tv! they are smart, and very beautiful than the bean scouts. i'd rather have a camp lazlo squirrel scout spinoff one day. i would submit that show's idea to cartoon network. those squirrel scouts are my favorites. we do hate CN real for alot of reasons why those cartoons are dead.
The best of Cartoon Network (RIP) was Toonami and the old adult swim. The was the best place for Japan-a-mation. But the death spasms were obvious whith the introduction of suck crappy shows as "Tim and Eric Awesome Job"! These show may be a pathetic outlet for creativity, but they don't belong on Cartoon Network, besides that... Tim & Eric couldn't suck any more because they are trying their best at sucking already. I had no idea something could suck so...
oh my god i hate cn real soooo much i want to punch the president in the face, first, cartoon cartoon, then toonami, now everything!dont they realize that cartoons ARE cartoons and ARENT real?!
They're giving dude what would happen and destroy build destroy a third season! Starting tonight! Holy hell, why, cartoon network, why? It sucks!
I miss all the good shows like KND, Courage, Ed Edd and Eddy, Billy and Mandy, and Loony Tunes.
Thank god Nick is still sorta good but we have to kill ICarly. Disney is pure evil. Specialized stations are dissapearing, the only station staying true is Comedy Central. Nick is close but has to drop Teen Nick
At least we still have internet.
hey guys, guess what, Cartoon Network announced that 2 hour-long live-action dramas called Natural History and Tower Prepped is going to air soon.Guess Snyder never learned his lesson.
I don't watch Cartoon Network anymore because of that o-0; I grew up to Dextor's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Doo, Speed Racer, Roadrunner(Poor Coyote!), Bugs Bunny, and all of that great stuff. (I'm only 17 but I remember all of those) I liked Adult Swim when it had decent anime compared to the junk now, that and I liked Toonami before it went poof. I don't mind shows like Chowder or Flapjack, I don't watch them but at least they're animated and Cartoony compared to that Ghost show and that other one. I enjoy cartoons and will watch them with my cousin(s) when they come over but the stuff on now is nothing like it used to be and not in a good way either. I miss the old Cartoon Network, I never watched Disney, but its losing what made it great.
Here's something random. I remember when they played the Iron Giant on there all day and there was nothing on or anything to do. I can't watch that movie anymore o-0;moreless
lol at pic of dsd i could so imagine him doin that and his head blows up
Sadly this seems to be the trend these days. MTV has abandoned Music Videos, VH1 should be renamed to Ghetto Trash TV, Sci-Fi Channel is abandoning its core audience to air ECW and fake ghost hunting shows, and now Cartoon Network appears to giving up on cartoons. The rebranding of the Sci-Fi channel was the straw that broke our household's back. The channels are increasingly becoming less and less specialized, soon it will be difficult to discern which channel is which. We grew tired of having to pay monthly for music videos when MTV never plays them or for Science fiction programing which is disappearing from the Sci-Fi Channel (sorry I refuse to use the new name). Our subscription recently ended with Dish we elected not to renew, we no longer wanted to pay for 200+ channels when we only watched 20 or so. We're now getting our programs from Netflix, I-Tunes, Hulu, DVD, and trading media with friends.
People have to realize that complaining on boards like this accomplishes NOTHING, the only way the corporate suits will ever hear you is to stop sending them your money. I would say to just unsubscribe to channels you object to, but the cable and satellite companies are unwiling to move to an ala carte system.moreless
for the record i was born in 93'i cant say if it was me maturing or cartoon network changing, but around that time when they had their entire makeover i remember myself drifting away from cartoons and child oriented television. i always thought as a child that when i was a father id have a higher tolerance for the cartoons and other tv my child would possibly watch but considering i can hardly tolerate the stuff at all right now it makes me wonder if its a generation thing. also this whole thing reminds me of movies and what they once were, like dirty harry a cop who sometimes took the law into his own hands with his high caliber pistol, and that's all it ever was, but now the movies have all this dramatic plot twists and back stories im not saying its a totally bad thing but people get bored and want new material, but for children its different, they're only children for so long then they grow up so they're going to get bored of cartoons regardlessmoreless
It's not dead yet. If they go into 99% live action, it's completely screwed and mutilated in the grave. Disney was going to go that far until the princess and frog thing which will be released this year (2009). At least Nick still has Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents.
Eh, screw Toonami. The anime they showed on that thing was mediocre, anything of any real value would have NEVER ended up on there simply because of the intense levels of weirdness/violence. Some of it was ok, but most of it paled miserably when compared to works that were better suited to channels like HBO or Showtime. Heck, they should have just given Toonami a channel. I liked watching that stuff as much as most, but it got annoying when I could have been watching something else that USED to be on. And why all of the hate for Flapjack and Chowder o.0??? Those two shows have similar levels of insanity as many of the cartoons from "back in the day" (saying that, at 25, makes me feel so, so, so old). You know, stuff like Rocko's Modern Life (R.I.P.). Speaking of Rocko, Lazlo is pretty awesome, too :) Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends is also another one of the newer ones I'm fond of. They should mix em all up, really, the old and the new. I miss Sheep in the Big City. I wasn't a fan of it at first, but by the time it grew on me "OOPS, sorry, cancelled XD!!!" Old, and new-ish is good, but they should come up with new shows. New shows that aren't just copy-cats of Disney's gutter trash (Walt would kill himself, I think, if he knew what's become of his company). That cartoon based off of reality tv can grtfo, though. I can't stand watching the "REAL" reality tv, why would I want to watch it animated with fart jokes? The live action programing should follow out the exit: this is the Cartoon Network, not the abomination that the Disney Channel became, nor it's newly-converted clone, Nickelodeon (Live shows used to be so good on there...sigh). And, please, no more marathons of the older shows. They used to throw Scooby on ALL OF THE TIME...and, now, sadly, I can't really sit through the show without getting the urge to change the channel. I still resent them for that to this day. True, I could have changed the channel, but it's not just that...there would be nothing else on during the day and I'd flip to the ol' Cartoon Network and..."oh...scooby's on...again...and it's that episode I saw a week ago...yay." I think the most important point of all of this is...Cartoon Network has been a shaky network for the last decade, and it's finally falling apart...it's soul is slowly being devoured by whatever it was that took Disney so long ago. You childhood? Not coming back, not in this poor economy. They're doing what movies, television, and the music industry learned to do at the beginning of the millenium...churn out crap that's garanteed to please the simple-minded masses (a.k.a. the mass majority of consumers). It's always been about money, but instead of trying to define what makes money, it's now about placing safe bets. Unless art becomes an option again, you'll never see the wide variety of awesomeness you had a taste of again.moreless
this is a horible idea that must have been created by a corprate bean counter. if you think your reality shows are that strong the you should merge with another chanel and leave this one alone instead of piggy backing on their ratings to make your shows a hit just because the kids dont change the chanel dosnt mean they like it. my son is autistic and at the age of 5 he barely spoke 20 words and the dr.'s couldnt find a way to reach him, until we got cartoon network as a default station watching the bright colored characters not only helped him to speak but it has been an invaluable tool for his social skills after discussing this with othere parents they went home and tried it out over 90% found it was succesful. this reason alone should discourage any changes to the station format.moreless
Sounds YTV to me. I dun' have Cartoon Network.
I HATE CN for what they did. I was OK maybe when they ended Toonnami... wait. No I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THAT!!!! *Sigh* What are they thinking? Does anybody know? It's a cartoon show!! Bring back the old. Screw the new except for Flapjack and Fosters. I really liked that stuff. What are they thinking? Can anyone fix this?
RIP Cartoon Network. A once amazing channel now unwatchable!
Nadsafs: :shock: Please tell me you're joking......
Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, MTV, and VH1 have now been dumbed down for the "new generation." These "new generation" have no idea what good TV is. Go back to the days of Rocko, Ren & Stimpy, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Angry Beavers, Flintstones, Jetsons, Courage, Dexter, Family Double Dare, Legends/Hidden Temple, Ahh! Real Monsters, and many others. Plus go back when MTV showed actual music videos and not crappy reality shows that are not real whatsoever! Go back to those shows and then talk to me. I feel bad for kids that have to grow up in this age.
[BAAAAAAAWWW]All the kids channels are dimminishing in quality. I even remember when The Disney Channel was watchable... I havnt watched Nick in ages. All they have on there is iCawee...[/BAAAAAAAAWW]
They need a channel for all the old classic shows like dexters lab and shows not shown in cartoon ntwork anymore. I know they have boomerang but i dont half the shows they put on that channel and Dexters lab and ppg hardly get enough airtime. Also Looney toones are absoloutely never on as far as i know, they gotta air that to its a classic.
The following comment is taken from this blog: http://jdpsthoughts.blogspot.com/So what does it matter? What's the point? The point is, we're losing our childhoods. Yes, we all grow up; yes, we all change; yes, the same thing happened to our parents, and our grandparents. But we're different. We have something they didn't: power. Power given to us by this great behemoth known as the Internet. Friends, Romans, countrymen-and-women, I have a suggestion. I call for a boycott of Cartoon Network. For some reason Stuart Snyder and Cartoon Network want to shove sub-par, hideous, and live programming down the next generations throats. I say we stop them. Don't let your kids watch it, your siblings watch it, your cousins, your neighbors kids, anyone else you can think of. Don't watch it yourself. And use the what is possibly the greatest and saddest thing on the internet: YouTube. Watch the classic cartoons there. Shows like Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and of your favorites. Vote them up and let them rise to the top! Maybe, just maybe we can win back our childhoods and share them with the next generation.moreless
While Cartoon Network may have began to decay with the loss of Toonami and quality cartoons, I feel the true turning point had to be either the actor-hosted "Fridays", or the atrocity of a movie "Re-animated" and it's spin-off series "Out of Jimmy's Head"
R.I.P CARTOON NETWORK
Don't know about you guys, but I suspect that anyone here in support of this change is either Stuart Snyder himself or one of his lapdogs. Here are the contributing factors to Cartoon Network's downfall as I see them: 1. changing Cartoon Cartoon Fridays into Fridays with live-action people running it; 2. cutting Toonami down from three hours into two; 3. putting Toonami on for four hours on Saturday only and replacing the weekday line-up with Miguuzi; 4. cutting Saturday Toonami in half; 5. eliminating Toonami entirely; 6. introducing trash like Chowder, Flapjack, and all those cartoon teen pseudo-reality shows and ditching the timeless good stuff that we've all grown up with. Well as you can see, anime was the biggest reason I watched the network, now I only watch it for new episodes of Bleach and syndicated reruns of shows like Family Guy on Adult Swim, that's about it. Not only is it wrong to have live-action anything on Cartoon Network, because that's going against the meaning of the network in the first place, but calling it CN Real is a total contradiction. Anyone got contact info for Wile E. Coyote? I'd like to hire him to take care of Snyder for us.moreless
Thank God. Hearing people talk about how hilarious Flapjack and Chowder were and listening to kids genuinely ask, "What's Scooby-Doo?" was beginning to make me think I was the only one who could see Cartoon Network for the crap it was turning into.
I stopped even tuning in to CN sometime between when Kids' WB stopped airing on weekday mornings (different channel, I am aware.) and the point where Toonami switched into Toonami Jetstream with TOM 4. I wasn't a huge fan of Disney Channel, so when I was younger I pretty much only watched Cartoon Network. It's.. sad, seeing it following such a horrible trend.
i think your wrong talking about the new cartoonetwork like this. the shows they have on there now are far better than those that were on there before.
they are killing cartoon network as Bubbles would say....
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!. Luckky they had a ppg marathon ; ; i'm 24 and I still watched it. Ima ppg fan 4 life :) watched it since it "what a cartoon" show debute. yes the one where fuzzy lumpkin made a meat jam and bubble pig tail was turn into a drumstick and she goes nuts.