Cartoons You Only Saw Cause of a Sibling

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Are there any cartoons you've watched as a result of a sibling being into it? I'm talking about a cartoon you most likely wouldn't have watched on your own.

I have a pre-teen sister. She has tricked me into watching all these live-action Disney tween shows. But I won't get into that. That's not what this thread is about.

But over the years I have watched a bunch of cartoons I probably wouldn't have seen if it wasn't for her. Stuff like Blue's Clues, Dora, Dragon Tales, Kenny the Shark, and Grossology to name a few. Three of those were a few year back, of course.
 
i don't have younger siblings. i have cousins and babysit random kids due to home daycare.

i saw a lot of things on PBSKids. like Curious George, and Cyberchase.

Disney it would be My Friends Tigger and Pooh. it's a pretty cute show.
 
I guess my brother started watching Ed Edd n Eddy and I watched it too and I liked it, but that was years and years ago. Also my brother had me watch Robot Chicken once. Its kind of funny.
 
I probably never would have seen so much of The Super Mario Brothers Super Show!, the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or the original Pokemon if it weren't for my younger brother, who was a staunch devotee of all 3 fads at the time. And if not for him, I'd have never seen Arthur at all.

Now that he's older (he's 22 now), he's introduced me to a lot of anime that I'd probably never see or even know about otherwise.
 
My sister was into "Sailor Moon" for, like, three weeks in 2001. This was during a time when I was already into one anime ("Pok?mon") and I figured it couldn't hurt to broaden my horizons. Didn't change the fact that it was girly as all hell, though.
 
My older sister was a big fan of "Ren & Stimpy," "Rocko's Modern Life," and "Beavis & Butt-Head" when they were still running. I was 6 at the time and became a fan of those shows because of her.
 
I remember when Daria was still on MTV, my older sister was a big fan of it and got me to watch it with her. I remember watching the new episodes with her every Friday night and staying up all night watching the repeats they'd put on afterwards, even of the new episode we already saw that night. Even when The N showed it with terrible edits, we'd watch it as much as we could.

Nowadays, I don't think she'd watch it again, mainly since she never really was big on cartoons, even as a kid(along with Rugrats, Daria was one of the only cartoons I can think of that she got out of her way to watch). Lately, however, I've been catching it, and now I'm able to enjoy it on my own. Looking at the show now, I can't believe all I missed as a kid, and now it's one of my favorite series of all time, which is at least one thing I can be thankful of her for.
 
My brother got me into Spongebob Squarepants (as a result of his girlfriend moving in, as she was a fan who never missed it). I gradually began to see it more and more when I would be in the room, and eventually I became a fan as well. I don't watch on a regular basis, but now I'm not so prone to quickly change the channel when I see it and will watch it for awhile. :)
 
I'd say the Land Before Time movies. Watched 'em with my sister. She also got me into Pok?mon, which at the time I didn't realize was actually on TV too (all we ever watched was the tapes, and I don't think I ever touched the WB).

In a similar vein, my cousins are the ones who got me into Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and countless other 1990s cartoons.
 
It's funny how everytime we do one of these threads people mis-understand the question. The question was cartoons you would have ignored hadn't it been for a sibling. All the cartoons mentioned are ones you guys would have watched regardless of a sibling. I mean, sure, a sibling may have introduced you to the cartoon but you would have eventually found it and watched it.
 
So...you're basically saying that everyone on this forum has watched those shows? :confused: Because I haven't watched any of the ones mentioned in those posts (except for a few episodes of SpongeBob and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy).
 
I didn't misunderstand the question at all. Keep in mind that not everyone on this forum is the same age, nor do we all have the same tastes in shows. It's a tad presumptuous to assume that we're all your age and have the exact same tastes in cartoons that you do.

I was 21 in 1987 and not all that interested in TMNT (I saw the week-long pilot and just said "eh", figuring I'd never sit through it again, but then the series came out around the same time my kid brother starting getting into cartoons, and he fell in love with TMNT. And since I was watching him in the afternoons at the time...)
 
As others have said, that's not true at all.

I would never have watched Spongebob on my own, and in fact I never even did until my brother started watching it. I knew what it was but I never watched it (I was almost 21 when it first started), brushing it aside as just another stupid 'toon for little kids. I paid it no attention at all until my brother became a fan and started showing me little bits and pieces he thought were funny.
 
You should have mentioned that. This was TMNT, a huge cartoon at the time. If you don't explain yourself there's going to be miscommunication.



Those cartoons were all popular with the demographic that frequents this board. So unless people explain themselves, like Silverstar just did, then the responses are head scratchers.
 
I didn't even speak English when I was 6 (Japanese is my native language) and we were living in Japan at the time. My older sister had an American friend who had tapes of Ren & Stimpy and Rocko (the ones Sony Wonder put out) and she let her borrow it. I don't remember how we saw Beavis and Butt-Head first, but I know it was my sister who introduced it to me.

I know I was hooked even though I didn't understand a word of it.
 
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