Youthful Fun Turns To Adult Disappointment - TV

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:55 am

Here is where I profusely thank my mom for not letting me watch a lot of cartoon shows when I was a little kid.

Why?

("why are you thanking her?", not "why did she do that?")

Accer · Post by **Accer** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:10 am

Because I now have no feeling of having wasted my childhood in front of the boob tube. Not to mention excellent reading skills.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:35 am

So, ever since books came into my schooling, I've been reading quite "above my level". I also watched a lot of cartoons, and played video games. Does this mean that if I'd done neither of the two, I would have been reading actually college-level or higher books by the end of elementary school?

RadicalDreamer · Post by **RadicalDreamer** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:41 am

Indeed. In kindergarden, I loved both Power Rangers and Roald Dahl.

Accer · Post by **Accer** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:25 am

Yes, it was the same for me (well, not Power Rangers, but there was other stuff. She-Ra). Did you get the impression that I didn't watch tv at all?

I never said anything like that.

Rather, there are a couple of shows that people here have listed as being brain-rotting crap, and I remember wanting to watch those shows once upon a time. Mom did not let me, however, because they were brain-rotting crap.

SF, I think you were reading WAAAAY too much into that statement. Stop going all Deacon.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:41 am

Ow.

Haha, alright, that's fair enough.

Ow.

I'm sorry.

Accer · Post by **Accer** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:28 am

I’ll take a moment now to preemptively apologize to Deacon, since even Deacon doesn’t “go all Deacon” so much anymore. (You've been verbed!)

Back on topic, I've been wanting to watch Fraggle Rock again. I used to LOVE that show, and I hear it was, in fact, extremely good. I hope my expectations haven't become too high, now.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:35 am

Accer, the closest you'd come would be "adverbed" or "adjectived"

Tomoro · Post by **Tomoro** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:10 am

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="433789"]And after a googling - OMG, thank you, Tomoro.[/quote]

Eh? For what?

flamechocobo · Post by **flamechocobo** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:20 am

[quote="Deacon";p="434075"]Accer, the closest you'd come would be "adverbed" or "adjectived"

[/quote]
I think it would be adverbed... Because in the statement "I just went Deacon," "Deacon" is describing the verb, "went."

(Yay for boredom.)

TheTallest · Post by **TheTallest** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:00 pm

Yay to Fraggle Rock.
I always wondered what that weird plastic looking scafolding stuff tasted like.

AzraeL · Post by **AzraeL** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:15 pm

first: the tallest, harvey birdman isnt a kids show. i didnt even know what mind-taking involved when i was 4.

and to add to the list of kids crap which i used to think was awesome, but now am left thoroughly disapointed:

anything disney.
samurai pizza cats.

most of the things already mentioned

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:34 pm

The Adventures of Birdman was a kids show back in the day. That horrible old 70's era superhero crap (a la original Space Ghost, etc). Harvey Birdman is a recent adaptation of the old Birdman characters (including evil villains) made for Adult Swim. "Biiiiiiiiiiiiirdman!" He got his powers from the sun, without which he was weak and hardly "super" at all. He had a "solar shield" that he could manifest out of thin air as long as he was in direct sunlight, etc.

Cartoon Network got the rights to all the old Hanna Barbara stuff, which is why they can do that kind of thing. Apparently a couple of people with the job of going through all this stuff ended up being bored one day and writing this whole new theme song for a non-existant show about Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. One of the programming directors ended up hearing it and loved it so much that he decided they should make a show about it just so they could use the theme song. So they took the Birdman characters and just swapped everything all around, where "the Commissioner" type guy (the one with the eye patch) was the senior partner at this law firm, and Birdman was "Harvey Birdman", including Avenger, his eagle, Boy Wonder (or whatever his name was), the villains were the prosecutors, etc...

Great stuff.

BillyBlaze · Post by **BillyBlaze** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:48 pm

I'm so glad this doesn't happen with video games or the other half of my childhood would have been as much of a waste as this half was.

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:15 am

Recently, Madman has been licensing retro series (Astro Boy and whatnot) and so a friend of mine who used to watch Astro Boy when he was young picked up a few volumes. I however never saw it, so when I came to watch it (PC Powerplay had the 1st episode on the DVD) I was disappointed. It was so full of plot holes, the characters were disgustingly cute, and I just didn't get it at all.

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