Dude/dudette, Pepper Ann was WONDERFUL! I can't even remember an exact episode plot but I definitely remember how the show made me feel! The characters in it felt like real people with big personalities! Also pretty cool to learn it was the first animated "Disney" (re: ABC, but still considered Disney) show made by a woman.
That and Recess to me were the king and queen of the One Saturday Morning (I saw the Recess movie in theaters and I think my parent loved it as much as I did haha)
Agreed, them, Doug and Filmore ruled my Saturday mornings(it was actually many years before I knew Doug was originally a Nick show and since the Disney incarnation was my), until I discovered Kids WB at least.
Fun fact-same here! I think I saw Doug reairing on Nickelodeon at some point in the late 90s and was a bit confused (scratch that, I DO remember it, assuming it's not a Mandela effect heh). Because I associated it with Disney, it being on the One Saturday Mornings and all. I also got one of the Gameboy games as a gift, I think it was rebranded as "Disney's Doug" by then.
darkrage6, no worries! I do have some sympathy for them-they were big into conservative church culture at this time and they fell for a LOT of the propaganda that was spewed out in that circle. Everything and everyone of the "world" was a tool of the devil, donchaknow? They weren't IBLP thankfully-we were allowed Disney, some Cartoon Network/Nick shows (when we were out), and fantasy/scifi books. And there were enough quality family films and series around that I wasn't completely deprived of a childhood/tween/teen hood
My dad is Catholic and my is a Christian Scientist(to be clear she's not one of those CS's who is anti-modern medicine thankfully but I do remember when I did get sick as a kid she'd call some CS guy on the phone for comfort or something like that) and my dad has said some ignorant shit at times in recent years(he's repeated some Drumpf GOP nonsense unfortunately) but fortunately my mom is always there to correct him and put him in his place, though he wasn't too bad growing up(He did make some comments about Kirby Right Back at Ya being too weird or something like that but that was it)my parents were too smart for most of that propaganda nonsense though not all of their friends were, I remember two of my parents friends were on the whole "Harry Potter is satanic!" bandwagon and wouldn't let their kids read it(though considering JKR's own bigoted beliefs in recent years I wonder if that convinced them to change their tune on her like it did for other conservatives who ridiculed and demonized those books in the 2000s).
I hope your parents got out of that church, my dad got most of his ignorant beliefs from the likes of Faux News(as there was a bar he used to frequent with my grandfather that played that crap and Newsmax so I suspect that's where his ignorant beliefs first came from as he did vote for Obama the first time and was pretty happy about it, though I don't know who he voted for the last two presidential elections and i'd rather not know frankly).
I'm glad there was at least some sanity with your parents-mine weren't the absolute worst, and they definitely had some "agree to disagree" or "reconsider" points. And a relative of mine made a similar comment about Digimon-I remember how he just stared at the TV flabbergasted, commented he would give those characters haircuts, and proceeded to ask "What the heck is going on???!!!! Do you get any of this???" I'm sure he was thinking of how much better his "American cartoons" were too.
Yeah, I think part of the reasons my parents were so especially suspicious of "anime" (and foreign entertainment in general) was because they were unconsciously xenophobic in their own way, and fed that way by the conservative American church. Foreigners didn't have anything valuable to offer because they weren't Christian, everything outside the USA was just poverty, poverty, poverty, and MORE poverty. And degradation! (we were obviously shielded from ACTUAL facts and statistics outside of propagandized ones) Foreigners weren't Christian or conservative like us and that could have been a danger to a younger, impressionable me. Foreign entertainment acknowledged direct human beliefs, feelings, provided a different point of view, was frank on issues, was honest about human experiences, etc. How DARE they???!!!!! One of my few outlets (besides web forums) was the local paper (s). Thankfully, my parents DID let me consume these products, and for a while they were my only outlet to an outside world.
Sadly, my parents kind of never did? I mean, they definitely loosened up over the years and have become much more flexible in their views (I got taken to a Harry Potter exhibition, for example). But there's a stone edge there that I'm not sure can ever be smoothed out.
Agreed, them, Doug and Filmore ruled my Saturday mornings(it was actually many years before I knew Doug was originally a Nick show and since the Disney incarnation was my), until I discovered Kids WB at least.
Recess I always liked but Pepper Ann was one of those shows I watched a lot as a kid but didn't remember a whole lot about so I definitely appreciated it more as an adult when rewatching it last year, also rewatched Doug and was glad to finally be able to see all the episodes of it and the Nick original and it was a good experience.
This year i'm planning to finally watch all of Rugrats(i've actually seen the spin-off All Grown Up more then the original as it was more interesting to me honestly)there's a bunch of episodes i've not seen in ages and many I never saw so that should be interesting.
Also planning to catch up on Pokemon, i'm about to start Johto Journeys and i've not seen those episodes or the rest of the 4Kids run since I was a teen so this oughta be good.
Also catching up on Dragon Ball Z, that's something i've been doing on and off for the past several years(with how long the series is it helps to take breaks especially when the only official way to see the original Funimation dub without the shitty alterations in the Orange Box set is to get all of the single DVDs/VHS tapes and some of those are kinda pricey now)but Toriyama's death gave me the kick in the ass I needed to get back on the horse and i'm determined to finish it this year or at least get a good chunk of the way through.
Rugrats would be quite a haul! I've heard comments that it was basically Spongebob or PowerPuff Girls level of merchandise and pop culture fever pre Spongebob/PPG! I was recently rewatching the second movie, a big favorite of mine (I also rented the game back in the day). Never seen Rugrats Go Wild-I was attune to critic opinions by them and the overall reception of it didn't seem great. Do you also plan to watch those weird "Tales from the Crib," that spin off Angelica series, stuff like that?
I would also love to rewatch all of Pokemon from the beginning-I've watched nearly all the movies but the series? Nah.
Rugrats Go Wild is pretty solid and definitely worth watching, though might be kinda awkward now with Bruce Willis health issues(as he voiced Spike in the movie). Yeah I definitely do plan to check out Tales from the Crib at some point, had no idea it even existed until Mr Enter did a video on it.
Pokemon series is worth checking out though the quality kinda drops off once 4Kids exits the picture and The Pokemon Company started doing their own in-house dub which had not-very-good voice-acting at first and they replaced way more of the original soundtrack then 4Kids ever did.
There's actually a lot of Pokemon movies I haven't seen as I prefer to be familiar with the season of the show that the films were released in, the most recent film in the series I saw was the Genesect one and I barely remember anything about it, since then i've vowed to not watch any films past that one until I catch up to that point in the series as I feel they'll stick with me better that way.
Agreed, them, Doug and Filmore ruled my Saturday mornings(it was actually many years before I knew Doug was originally a Nick show and since the Disney incarnation was my), until I discovered Kids WB at least.
Fun fact-same here! I think I saw Doug reairing on Nickelodeon at some point in the late 90s and was a bit confused (scratch that, I DO remember it, assuming it's not a Mandela effect heh). Because I associated it with Disney, it being on the One Saturday Mornings and all. I also got one of the Gameboy games as a gift, I think it was rebranded as "Disney's Doug" by then.
Yeah it was originally as "Brand Spanking New Doug" and then "Disney's Doug", I had no idea there were even games for it.
Rugrats would be quite a haul! I've heard comments that it was basically Spongebob or PowerPuff Girls level of merchandise and pop culture fever pre Spongebob/PPG! I was recently rewatching the second movie, a big favorite of mine (I also rented the game back in the day). Never seen Rugrats Go Wild-I was attune to critic opinions by them and the overall reception of it didn't seem great. Do you also plan to watch those weird "Tales from the Crib," that spin off Angelica series, stuff like that?
I would also love to rewatch all of Pokemon from the beginning-I've watched nearly all the movies but the series? Nah.
Rugrats Go Wild is pretty solid and definitely worth watching, though might be kinda awkward now with Bruce Willis health issues(as he voiced Spike in the movie). Yeah I definitely do plan to check out Tales from the Crib at some point, had no idea it even existed until Mr Enter did a video on it.
Pokemon series is worth checking out though the quality kinda drops off once 4Kids exits the picture and The Pokemon Company started doing their own in-house dub which had not-very-good voice-acting at first and they replaced way more of the original soundtrack then 4Kids ever did.
There's actually a lot of Pokemon movies I haven't seen as I prefer to be familiar with the season of the show that the films were released in, the most recent film in the series I saw was the Genesect one and I barely remember anything about it, since then i've vowed to not watch any films past that one until I catch up to that point in the series as I feel they'll stick with me better that way.
To be honest In my opinion the actually dub started to have a rise in quality around XY (people has been voicing these characters for a couple years at this point) but then I’m a sucker for Kalos and even if some in this situation say it picked up by Black and White,half of the lines are “YOUR SUCH A KID-“ ((No hate to Unova fans,the games were good,and the anime was alright,it’s just BW anime Iris was VERY annoying,Thank god Journeys salvaged the character and made them…a character…with like growth and stuff.)
Rugrats Go Wild is pretty solid and definitely worth watching, though might be kinda awkward now with Bruce Willis health issues(as he voiced Spike in the movie). Yeah I definitely do plan to check out Tales from the Crib at some point, had no idea it even existed until Mr Enter did a video on it.
Pokemon series is worth checking out though the quality kinda drops off once 4Kids exits the picture and The Pokemon Company started doing their own in-house dub which had not-very-good voice-acting at first and they replaced way more of the original soundtrack then 4Kids ever did.
There's actually a lot of Pokemon movies I haven't seen as I prefer to be familiar with the season of the show that the films were released in, the most recent film in the series I saw was the Genesect one and I barely remember anything about it, since then i've vowed to not watch any films past that one until I catch up to that point in the series as I feel they'll stick with me better that way.
To be honest In my opinion the actually dub started to have a rise in quality around XY (people has been voicing these characters for a couple years at this point) but then I’m a sucker for Kalos and even if some in this situation say it picked up by Black and White,half of the lines are “YOUR SUCH A KID-“ ((No hate to Unova fans,the games were good,and the anime was alright,it’s just BW anime Iris was VERY annoying,Thank god Journeys salvaged the character and made them…a character…with like growth and stuff.)
I can’t speak for most of the movies though.
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duckiguess, I'm actually a BIG Kalos fan myself, funny enough! I just really like the characters and arcs and animation of that season, even if the characters and dialogue do fall into the reused tropish stuff. I was working a very tiring and confusing job but one of the few things that got me up in the dark mornings to get ready for work was that Pokemon would air at 6:30 AM every day on the dot! I would also watch the new episodes on Saturday mornings haha (along with Sonic Boom).
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I caught up on my childhood by finally finishing the live-action Grinch movie, I saw about two-thirds of it at a friend of my parents house(I think we had to leave before I could finish it or something like that) and I remember being kinda restless and bored during it as it wasn't what I was expecting but watching it now as an adult I can definitely appreciate it a whole lot more(especially with how forgettable and unremarkable the Illumination film is).
I caught up on my childhood by finally finishing the live-action Grinch movie, I saw about two-thirds of it at a friend of my parents house(I think we had to leave before I could finish it or something like that) and I remember being kinda restless and bored during it as it wasn't what I was expecting but watching it now as an adult I can definitely appreciate it a whole lot more(especially with how forgettable and unremarkable the Illumination film is).
Ok.
There are two types of people.
You either HATE the live action Grinch or Call it your favorite Christmas movie of all time.
duckiguess, I'm actually a BIG Kalos fan myself, funny enough! I just really like the characters and arcs and animation of that season, even if the characters and dialogue do fall into the reused tropish stuff. I was working a very tiring and confusing job but one of the few things that got me up in the dark mornings to get ready for work was that Pokemon would air at 6:30 AM every day on the dot! I would also watch the new episodes on Saturday mornings haha (along with Sonic Boom).
This is why CN needs good oursourced shows again.
and heres some out of context videos of these masterpieces to appreciate them.
To be honest In my opinion the actually dub started to have a rise in quality around XY (people has been voicing these characters for a couple years at this point) but then I’m a sucker for Kalos and even if some in this situation say it picked up by Black and White,half of the lines are “YOUR SUCH A KID-“ ((No hate to Unova fans,the games were good,and the anime was alright,it’s just BW anime Iris was VERY annoying,Thank god Journeys salvaged the character and made them…a character…with like growth and stuff.)
So I used to check out demo and preview folders on old CD computer games. With emulators and LPs, I have finally been able to play/watch some of these games from my childhood that I only saw a snippet.
One that fascinated me was Stay Tooned!
I played through it and I felt like a piece of me became complete. This game is batshit crazy and a bit underrated.
I caught up on my childhood by finally finishing the live-action Grinch movie, I saw about two-thirds of it at a friend of my parents house(I think we had to leave before I could finish it or something like that) and I remember being kinda restless and bored during it as it wasn't what I was expecting but watching it now as an adult I can definitely appreciate it a whole lot more(especially with how forgettable and unremarkable the Illumination film is).
Ok.
There are two types of people.
You either HATE the live action Grinch or Call it your favorite Christmas movie of all time.
Im apart of the latter.
I'm actually kind of in the middle, I enjoy it but I wouldn't call it my favorite Christmas film(As it does have some pacing issues in the first two acts IMO, I can see why I got kinda bored and restless watching it as a kid).
You either HATE the live action Grinch or Call it your favorite Christmas movie of all time.
Im apart of the latter.
I'm actually kind of in the middle, I enjoy it but I wouldn't call it my favorite Christmas film(As it does have some pacing issues in the first two acts IMO, I can see why I got kinda bored and restless watching it as a kid).
To be fair it makes less since due to several cut scenes.
