Cartoons of today: will they ever be classics? (2008 edition)

Both of those shows have been over for years now, and were never hugely popular even when they were running, so neither of them are destined to attain 'classic' status.

People will remember Mega Man 10 years from now, but for his games, not that short-lived cartoon show.

And Samurai Pizza Cats just isn't that popular. Never was.

Some anime that are more likely to attain 'classic' status would be Doraemon, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball/Z, the Gundam series and of course Pokemon.
 
"Mike, Lu and Og is a classic cartoon." There, I said it with a straight face. I actually like this show. Has a nice simplistic charm to it. :)
 
When it comes to American cartoons I'd say Ren and Stimpy, Dexter's Lab, PPG, and possibly Chowder, and WAC! if you count it as a cartoon. There's more without a doubt, but those are the ones right off of my head. All of those series kinda brought back good cartoons IMO. After the animation slump of the 80's, Ren and Stimpy did something wild by returning to oddball humor of classics shorts. WAC! touched on this in an even better way, by returning the power to the artists like with H-B in the 50's, and the best outcome of WAC was Dexter's Lab and PPG, both of which pretty much have iconic status now when it comes to cartoons. And Chowder, to me, is the best cartoons on CN in a few years, and it's so unique and already so popular, it's bound to become classic.

Oh, and Spongebob, the pre-movie episodes of course.
 
I agree with most of those, except for Chowder. Chowder is simply to recent and so we can we only speculate as to how much staying power the show has. And even now, it's popular, but not ground breakingly popular. Chowder has not attained SpongeBob level popularity. It may one day, but it hasn't happened yet.
 
I know, I'm just extrapulating. You have to think of Spongebob's first season, was it that popular?? And was it as popular as Chowder's first season was?? And then I just went with that. But I think Chowder has the ability to become iconic.

Oh, and I forgot Rugrats. It was down in it's last years, but it's still remembered by kids.
 
Compared to the sewage it's paired up with on CN, I think it's very likely.

On the subject of CN, does anyone think Ed, Edd, and Eddy will ever be remembered as a classic?
 
Wait, I thought the thread was focused on American television animation :sweat:(specifically the 00's), with the only foriegn shows being metioned the ones that have become substantally mainstream or popular in the US (Pokemon for the 90s, for example).

Movies like Snow White and Bambi I've seen been called classics all the time, most of Disney's stuff, actually. But Sleeping Beauty is definately on the lower-end of the list when I hear people talking about classic Disney movies. And I rarely hear about many other animated films of the past being considered classics unless it stirred up some big controversy like Friz the Cat. I think anything by Disney is automatically considered classic by the public just from association with the company, which itself is seen as classic.

It just seems if we go by quality, we may as well list everything, since I'm sure there's groups out there devoted to proclaiming any show as the "best thing since sliced bread" with detailed ten-page essays explaining why (myself included). Where as with popularity, it's a more accurate way to see just which shows will be talked about for decades to come (by people outside of the fanbase, I mean) It may leave "good" shows out, but a lot of "good" shows are left behind in the dust (Roswell Conspiracies, for example, which I never see get brought up during "classic" 90s show discussions...) Influence and quality can help its popularity, but a show could be a work of art fit for Da Vinci himself and if only 5 people watch it, it wont have much in the way of being recognized as classic if no one's heard of it.

Good ratings for Avatar perhaps, but for the other stuff that runs on Nick, not quite as good (and definately not as consistent as their other shows, and in reruns) Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad number by any stretch of the means and I'm not saying it bombed, CN would kill for those numbers I'm sure, but it's nothing spectacular compared to what we're used to on Nick. Avatar seems more like a cult hit than a classic to me, like Gargoyles (devoted small cult following, but not much mainstream appeal or recognition)
 
I may be reaching but by judging by recent ratings reports Total Drama Island may achieve "classic" status. It has been the highest rated CN show and has broken into the top ten in the 9-14 demo, being alongside a plethora of Disney Channel programming.
 
Take another look at the thread title my friend...

"Cartoons of today: will they ever be classics? (2008 edition)"

The whole point is to talk about today's cartoons that we think will be considered classics in the future.
 
DG does have a point; whether we like certain shows or not, a show that's only in its' first season as well as a show which only made a single season in total can't really be considered 'classic' until (or unless) they survive the test of time. If people are still talking about Mike, Lu & Og or Spectacular Spider-Man 10 or 15 years from now, then maybe they can be called classics.
 
But Algea's right, that is the point of the thread - predicting which cartoons will be talked about a decade from now (well, and looking back at what we thought five years ago)

So it's fine if someone wants to point to Spectacular Spider-Man as a classic-to-be. My only request is that they explain why they think it's a classic.
 
Like I said in a previous post, it's a lot more impressive considering that the show hasn't aired since November 2007. I mean unless you had the DVDs or recorded the episode, the previous 11 episodes wouldn't be fresh in the minds of the target audience.
 
I don't. Camp Lazlo has ended, and it was never a huge hit to begin with. Do you truly think that people will still be talking about Camp Lazlo 10-15 years from now? At the most, it will probably be a discussion opener like "Hey, does anybody remember this show that used to air on Cartoon Network called Camp Lazlo?
 
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