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Title: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 13 December 2007, 06:44:21 He-Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvAOQdDWvro&feature=related)
More He-Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Y-e13EqK0&feature=related) Transformers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zss5lSV-bis) I felt this was necessary. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Orange Devil on 13 December 2007, 06:48:49 Yeah I do.
And I hated it. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Edgecrusher on 13 December 2007, 07:03:15 Fraggle Rock was really good at that too, not to mention it's incredibly complex social structures and mock-ecological systems.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Speed Racer on 13 December 2007, 07:09:09 Fraggle Rock was really good at that too, not to mention it's incredibly complex social structures and mock-ecological systems. Holy crap, yeah. Jim Henson's ideas behind that show were absolutely mind-blowing. He set out to create a show that would teach kids about the crazy world around them and show them the effects of some actions, and in the end encourage and show peaceful solutions. In the end, he hoped that the kids that watched the show would one day use what they had learned from Fraggle Rock when they became world leaders and make the world a better place. Crazy-ass stuff. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: BlackMcJack on 13 December 2007, 09:26:51 I always remember Bill Nye and Beakman's World, those and Mr. Wizard are the reason I love science and Learning.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: White Shadow on 13 December 2007, 10:41:53 Two words:
Captain Planet. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Sub Tank on 13 December 2007, 11:16:04 WHEEL OF MORALITY TURN TURN TURN, TELL US THE LESSON THAT WE SHOULD LEARN.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Xero on 13 December 2007, 11:20:39 Animaniacs FTW.
*Sings the songs about the countries* Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 13 December 2007, 19:33:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSKyWSvNgg
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Orange Devil on 13 December 2007, 21:24:18 Two words: If you ever learned anything from Captain Planet something was probably wrong with you. Mikero: Okay, I will admit, the sonic ones ROCK. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: guitaristjoe on 13 December 2007, 23:26:24 I think that many old cartoons did not even try to do this.
Tom and Jerry. Senseless animal violence(not that I didn't/don't like it) that really would not be accepted nowadays. Captain Planet= GAY. How in the hell could they pass off "love" as an element?!?! And why did the one that had the power of love have to be a seemingly homosexual indian american(politically correct enough?)? Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ASR on 13 December 2007, 23:44:43 http://www.fenslerfilm.com/PSAS.htm
G I JOEEEEEEEEEEEE Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 14 December 2007, 00:03:28 Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Panda on 14 December 2007, 02:02:17 Sonic Sez.*shudder* Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ChaosVortex on 14 December 2007, 02:24:27 Screw you guys. Captain Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog, and even Power Rangers was KICKASS.
... although, I really don't to watch any of them ever again, but they were awesome. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Chron on 14 December 2007, 21:58:16 I used to love this stuff when I was a kid. It never felt too much like I was being taught.
Usually it was just something nice and pertinent tacked on to the end of the show. Personally, one of the best examples of this was Mighty Max. The whole show was based on running around through portals, and they would inevitably show up in a wide variety of countries. At the end of the show there would be an interesting detail about a prominently featured country. It was like social studies, only with portals. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: CM on 15 December 2007, 02:57:07 I sure don't.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 15 December 2007, 03:51:58 That's because you fail and don't know what good cartoons are.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: CM on 15 December 2007, 03:56:29 No I've watched plenty of cartoon in my life and I havn't learned a damn thing from them. Oh and next time you wanna try to be funny, just don't.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Aeon on 15 December 2007, 04:06:54 I never really understood why after the Thundercats made something that made them think on how to be better "people" they started to laugh, I mean, they weren't actually funny. =/
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ChaosVortex on 15 December 2007, 04:21:51 What?
That sentence doesn't compute. I think you need to get some sleep. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 15 December 2007, 05:16:55 No I've watched plenty of cartoon in my life and I havn't learned a damn thing from them. Oh and next time you wanna try to be funny, just don't. Oooooh!~ You don't think I'm funny, do you? So, you've watched plenty of 'cartoon' and you 'havn't' learned anything, eh? Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: CM on 15 December 2007, 09:48:37 That's right, I said it.
Yes there could have been an s there, and I'm sure you're pulling at straws with my grammer but can you stop being such a douche? Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Kamon on 15 December 2007, 13:36:55 Screw you guys. Captain Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog, and even Power Rangers was KICKASS.The only one of thise I'd watch is Sonic the Hedgehog, maybe AoStH, but definately not Sonic Underground. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ChaosVortex on 15 December 2007, 16:19:27 I was only really thinking about The Adventures of Sonic.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Aeon on 15 December 2007, 16:58:42 What? Remember that after every episode, they had another mini-adventure (Or explained what good they did, don't remember) in which they tried to teach you to be a better person (Or cat or wtfever), and afterwards laughed like idiots for no reason? I found their laughs to be pretty stupid. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 15 December 2007, 23:16:16 That's right, I said it. Maybe, maybe not. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 16 December 2007, 02:27:22 Captain Planet= GAY. That rocked the house. And it wasn't love, it was heart. And yeah, Heart was stupid AND idiotic at the same time, but ##### that 'cause the show was dope in spite of that. Two more words: Late. I used to love this stuff when I was a kid. It never felt too much like I was being taught. I agree. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Lunchebox on 19 December 2007, 00:08:19 I used to love this stuff when I was a kid. It never felt too much like I was being taught. Now you're thinking with portals. I remember Dinosaurs, mainly the last episode was just completely out of left-field, and incredibly creepy. It's the one where the dad becomes the head of a factory or something, and his company razes the trees, and creates a #####-load of smog, causing acid rain and whatever. Also it gets real hot, and they try to fix it by blowing up a bomb in the sky, which causes clouds to block the sun all around the world. And they all freeze to death. It was a message on how we shouldn't be #####in' up the planet. It's been years since I've seen it, but I think that's what happened. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 19 December 2007, 00:13:34 If that's true, I'm glad I missed that episode. Somehow "I'm the baby, gotta love me" would have been less funny (not that it really was funny...) from that point on.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Edgecrusher on 19 December 2007, 00:19:14 That whole show was laced with content and thinly veiled messages like that. Most members of this board were too young at the time to catch a lot of it.
It's amazing when you go back and watch it. It's almost like watching a different show. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 19 December 2007, 00:22:22 I might do that. I was definitely too young to notice.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 19 December 2007, 01:08:31 Was Dinosaurs the show featuring the bastard child of a T-Rex and John Goodmen?
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Slugkid on 19 December 2007, 01:37:14 If this dinosaurs is the cartoon I think, I only remember one episode where the dad gets a job in a TV company, and all the programs are dumb and one of the dinosaurs forgets how to breathe...And that's all I remember about it.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ASR on 19 December 2007, 02:21:15 It's not a cartoon.
I was really young, too, I wanna' go and rewatch it. It just recently came out on DVD. Like, within the last two months, if I remember. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 19 December 2007, 08:11:32 You do remember.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ASR on 20 December 2007, 00:21:20 I've been known to be wrong or remember things that never happened... which are the same thing in this case, but shaddupiduncare.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Lunchebox on 21 December 2007, 01:59:27 It was like a puppet/costumed show.
It was awesome. I gotta find that DVD.... Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 21 December 2007, 02:05:05 It was the show with the T-Rex/John Goodmen thing, right?
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Lunchebox on 21 December 2007, 02:13:23 The baby? I guess...?
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Johncarllos on 21 December 2007, 02:25:54 No, the man.
Also, I have the original episodes on tape. I love the one where they find that plant in the woods, and get hooked on it, because it's an addictive hallucinogen. Then they lose their jobs and stuff and the moral is not to do drugs. According to my sister, it's hilarious if you watch it while you're tokin' the reefer. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Captain Sanoguchi on 21 December 2007, 02:50:33 Okay, was every single episode about their jobs?
'Cause that's all I ever hear you guys talk about when the subject is Dinosaurs, their jobs. Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: Mikero on 21 December 2007, 04:32:20 The show is basically Family Matters but with a dino cast.
Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lesso Post by: Winged Warrior on 22 December 2007, 22:31:07 My old roomie watched "Suber Mario Brother's 3" (the DVD box set)
One of the episodes concluded like this. cutei-pie whining that she's not getting enough to bowser. Bowser taking the flying ship to America, and landing it near the white house. Cutiepie taking one of the wands, and transporting the white house under the ocean.\ MARIO AND LUIGI CLAIMING THEY HAVE TO SAVE AMERICA! Mario getting in a frog suit the "Do the frog song" (don't ask) Mario arriving at the submerged whitehouse, Fixing the plumbing, and all the water shooting out the windows, though pipes, To the surface, Over the water, then landing in it's old spot. Cutie pie was pissed, of course, and threw a tantrum, then Mario teleported cutie-pie, via wand, to her home at bowser's caste. Finally, as the good Samaritan he was, Mario then flew the flying ship to bowser's and parked it in his roof. Mario did all of this with a Brooklyn accent. Why have I seen no new cartoons trying to save America? Title: Re: Remember when Cartoons would actually try and teach you important life lessons? Post by: ASR on 22 December 2007, 23:08:41 'Cuz it's unpossible to save America at this point.
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