Battle of the 90's cartoons

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During the 90's, there were four prominent "groups" of childrens TV cartoons that most kids could discern between: The Disney cartoons (Disney Afternoon shows like Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and Duck Tales), The WB cartoons (like Animaniacs and Batman: TAS), the Cartoon Network Cartoons ("Cartoon Cartoon's" Like Cow and Chicken and The Powerpuff Girls) and the Nickelodeon cartoons (like Cat-Dog and Ren and Stimpy). And my question is simply: which ones of these do you like best?

Here is my own list (starting with the one i like the least)

4 Nickelodeon. I was never a very big fan of Nickelodeon's original animated programming, even as a kid. Many of their shows, like Doug and Hey Arnold, have just always seemed a bit slow and dull to me. And im not fond of their usuall animation style either; it often looks kinda "gross" somehow with it's squigly lines (i am thinking for instance of shows such as Real Monsters, Rockos Modern Life and at least the earlier seasons of Rugrats).

3 Disney. The Disney cartoons of the 90's seem to have been more solely intended for children than many of their subversive contemporaries. There is hardly any hidden "adult humor" to be found in these shows, and most of the them aren't straight up comedies anyway, but rather mixtures of comedy and adventure. Light-heardted adventure that really isn't that exciting for most people over 12, that is. So yeah, even though i absolutely loved most of these shows as a kid, they mostly aren't that much of a blast to re.wtach as an adult (with the exception of Gargoyles of course, which sticks out as a 90's Disney cartoon that was indeed aimed at an adult audience). But despite this, most of these shows were well-plotted, well-acted, well-paced and very well animated. Overall, you can tell that there was a lot of genuine effort put into these childrens cartoons.

2 WB. Most WB cartoons of the 90's were throw-backs to the style and content of the golden age: that is, wacky, violent comedys with plenty of adult humor thrown in. And, well, i like most of these shows, and i really don't have much more to say about that.

1 Cartoon Network. Hands down. These cartoons are every bit entertaining to watch as a grown up as there were to watch as a kid. Especially Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls have among the best writing and direction of any cartoons ever. They just feel so fresh and fun, and also have a wonderfully slick and stylish look.
 
1. Disney. Hands down. Even watching 'em now I still appreciate them. They were just plain fun and looked nice to boot.

2. WB. Loved Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, and their superhero cartoons still hold up well.

3. Nickelodeon: The only one I watched was Doug, which I really liked, though unlike the above, I never feel the urge to watch this one again. I didn't care for the rest because I hated gross-out humor.

4. Cartoon Network. I didn't even watch any of their original cartoons. I'm actually not really one for straight-up comedies, as it turns out, so these never really appealed to me.
 
I have a hard time deciding. I watched almost nothing but Disney cartoons in my early childhood (early to mid '90s). In 1998 I became a huge Rugrat fan and watch everything on Nick religiously. CN has always been something I watched every now and then during the '90's.
 
1. Disney no contest for me really. I loved the Gummi Bears, Goof Troop CADRR(Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers) Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck and last but not least the 101 Dalmatians the series.

2. WB I loved Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. I think those were the main reasons I loved this channel.

3. Nickealodeon: What can I say I loved a lot of these cartoons. I always watched Hey Arnold, Doug, Angry Beavers, etc. But I tended to like the real shows better. Are you afraid of the Dark, Kenan and Kel, ALL That, Etc.

4. Cartoon Network: Maybe it's just because I never really had this channel growing up. But from what I have seen it wasn't so bad. Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, and Powerpuff girls were actually pretty good.
 
1. Nickelodeon: I can't think of a 90s Nicktoon that I hate or even dislike. From Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, KaBLaM!, Hey Arnold!, Angry Beavers, CatDog, and SpongeBob, there's just so many great creator-driven cartoons that define my childhood.

2. Cartoon Network: The Cartoon Cartoons didn't start until '96, but Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd, n' Eddy, Powerpuff Girls, and Courage the Cowardly Dog are some of my favorite cartoons of the '90s and all time.

3. WB: I remember Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Batman: TAS, and Histeria fondly, but maybe it's just the fact that they ran on a block and not a 24-hour channel that I don't remember them as well, until some of them aired on CN or Nick.

4. Disney: I hardly watched this block and most of its shows that I'm aware of I watched for the first time on Toon Disney. But I did enjoy Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Gargoyles, and Doug, as well as most of the movie spin-offs, but I just didn't enjoy them as much because I was older when I really watched them for the first time.
 
Cartoon Network: I'll always have a special place in my heart for the Cartoon-Cartoons. I don't think that anyone was happier than me when Cartoon Network finally stopped being just The Hanna-Barbera Reruns Channel and began showing original programming. I didn't enjoy every Cartoon-Cartoon, mind you (shows like Mike, Lu & Og, Billy & Mandy, Time Squad and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? I couldn't get into) but the good ones worked, and being more of a fan of comedy than action, they were right up my alley. I enjoyed the 90's Cartoon-Cartoons, but I don't think that CN should just run them nonstop until the end of time like others seem to; I'd like to see some new and original cartoons on CN in the same tradition of the Cartoon-Cartoons that are just as good.

WB: Loved Tiny Toons, Freakazoid! and Animaniacs, and the superhero shows except for The Zeta Project and much of Static Shock. With Warner Bros., the good ones were excellent and even the bad ones weren't total disappointments, except for Histeria! and The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, neitehr of which ever did anything for me.

Disney: I enjoyed the Disney Afternoon shows, some more than others (Rescue Rangers and Shnookums and Meat never really pulled me in), and I could get some enjoyment out of some of the Disney Channel originals up to and around Kim Possible; the rest never did much for me. The only One Saturday Morning show I found above average was Pepper Ann.

Nickelodeon: Honestly, the only so-called classic Nicktoons I really liked were Rocko's Modern Life (which I consider to be the single best thing Nick has ever put on ever), The Angry Beavers and Kablam! Ren & Stimpy was just too out-there for me, the Klasky-Csupo shows never appealed to me (though I did admire how most of them were about human beings, not animals or monsters) and I'm generally more into the surreal and zany as opposed to "animated reality" so I wasn't into the likes of Doug and Hey, Arnold!. Some of the current Nicktoons like SpongeBob and Penguins of Madagascar I get a laugh out of whenever I can catch them.
 
I enjoyed shows from all four of these, so I'm not even going to bother to rank them. But since Darkwing Duck and Spongebob are two of my favorite kids cartoons of all time, Disney and Nick would obviously come before CN and WB.
 
what about FOXKIDS? Beastwars was one of my favriote Toons,

But out of the options I'd say CN comes 1st then Disney Then WB,Then Nick.

Overall the 90's was just Awsome! IMPO that is.:sweat:
 
Well, i am talking about original programming here, and wasn't Fox Kids lineup mostly compiled of previously existing cartoons? That's how it was here in Sweden anyway, so i've always assumed it to have been the case in the US as well...
 
i was young when the cartoons were in their twilight so thinking about which ones were where is tricky.

#1 cartoon network: eds, dexter, power puff, johnny bravo, 2 stupid dogs, and samurai jack (he had the cartoon cartoon bump on after the credits it counts) made for the best lineup the only show i did not like was cow and chicken and sheep in the big city. their new shows interested me and i enjoyed them.

#2 WB/FOX: first off my affialites were weird i did not get WB for a long time and batman came on RIGHT after power rangers which were definitely on fox. WB had pokemon when it first came to america, pinky and the brain, static shock, batman beyond and xmen evolution, and superman. i really liked the week day programming for WB, and the saturday programming for fox. they worked so well together and were big parts of my childhood.

#3 disney: a very close #3 they had dark wing duck, bonkers, house of mouse, bugs bunny and tweety, talespin, reccess, gargoyles, and a host of other shows that were really cool to watch. the problem was that i was soo young when DDW, and talespin were out that i just scraped the surface of their awesomeness. gargoyles was on at like 730 or 8 and was almost impossible to see, and big and reccess were replayed/preempted so much their affect was minimal. though they played a crucial part in my budding love of cartoons.

#4nickelodeon: never really saw their shows, did not really know they had them for the longest time they are in the gutter by a long ways for me.

disney started me with animation, WB/fox brought me cool action adventure, and cartoon network had the best comedy lineup ever. that is the way it goes.
 
Ooh, 90's cartoons... :D

I definitely watched Nickelodeon the most. I would watch Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, CatDog, Rocket Power, Rocko's Modern Life, Wild Thornberrys, Doug, Ren&Stimpy, etc etc all the time.

I watched Cartoon Network quite a bit, but not as much as Nick. Cow&Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo... I also watched Toonami quite a bit, mostly Sailor Moon (and then Cardcaptors after 2000).

I didn't really watch WB or Disney (or even Fox) cartoons as a kid. Sure, I watched Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs, but I watched those when they were on CN and / or Nick. The only Disney cartoon I regularly watched was Goof Troop. I honestly didn't watch WB until they started airing Pokemon (and then Yu-Gi-Oh and Cardcaptors after 2000).
 
It's wasn't until the 2000's that there were any Disney cartoons that I enjoyed. I've never really been a fan of Nickelodeon cartoons. And I didn't have Cartoon Network until the year 2004. So for me, this is easy. The WB cartoons. I loved Tiny Toons, Batman:TAS/TNBA, Superman:TAS, Batman Beyond, and Pokemon.
 
4. Nickelodeon: I may be in the minority here but I never really found the majority of nicktoons all that special. Probably because I didn't get cable until mid 1999, but the only four I really liked were Hey Arnold and early Spongebob, As told by Ginger and especially Avatar.

3. Disney: Never really saw much if the 90's disney toons manily because i was a slave to KidsWB. Looking back and re-watching them on Toon Disney a lot of them don't really hold up and some i wondered why I even bothered watching at all such as Bonkers. It wasn't until Disney Channel in the early 2000's I really started getting in to Disney stuff

2. Cartoon Network: I loved everything about this network, the bumpers, the blocks, everything. I loved johnny bravo, looney tunes, powerpuff girls, time squad, megas xlr, toonami. The network also introduced me to anime such as cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, and full metal alchmeist.

1. Warner Bros: They'll always be a special place in my heart of WB toons because those are the ones I remember most. What Disney was to feature animation in the 90's WB was to televison animation. Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons and such are all classics. And who can forget looney tunes.
 
Just as a bit of trivia, i can tell you that The Disney Afternoon is actually still airing on Swedish Television, one the same time and channel as it has since the early 90's, and the format of the block hasnt changed a bit since then: two episodes of Disneys various animated TV shows, and a classic animated short in between.

What shows are being featured on the block keeps changeing from season to season, but in recent years, it seems to have become a trend that the first show to air on the block is one of Disneys classic 90's cartoons (at the moment, its The Gummi Bears, and before that it was Goof Troop), then the classic short, and then one of the modern day Disney Channel shows (at the moment it's Phineas and Ferb, and before that it was Kim Possible). I really like this set up, because the three catoons featured on the block stems from three very different eras in the history of Disney animation. So in that one hour, i get a dose of "cartoons from before i was born", "cartoons from when i was a kid" and "cartoons of today", which is pretty neat.
 
Wasn't Disney Channel still a premium channel during the 90's? Or at least I'm pretty sure that it was still a premium channel in the beginning of the 90's.
 
I had no Idea Disney was a premium channel in the 90's I guess I was lucky to have it then, I don't know what I would have done if I didn't had Gargoyles or Ducktales to watch, 2 of disney's best toons IMPO.
 
:^: Again, The Disney Afternoon simultaneously ran in syndication, so folks who didn't have Disney Channel during that time (like me) could still see those shows.
 
1. Disney- The Disney Afternoon was AWESOME! DuckTales is perhaps my favorite toon of the 90's. I loved Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, and Gargoyles as well. Bonkers was about the Disney Afternoon show that I disliked. Everything else ranged from good to excellent.

2. WB- I was a big fan of Batman: TAS, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Pinky & The Brain. While they aren't on the same level as the original Looney Tunes, they were awesome nonetheless.

3. Nickelodeon- Ren & Stimpy, Doug, and Rocko's Modern Life were awesome.

4. Cartoon Network- Other than Johnny Bravo, I wasn't a big fan of their original toons.
 
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