Do you feel sad that all the cartoons/shows you watched as a kid are now over?

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I was just thinking about all the shows I watched throughout my kid and my teen years, and what makes me sad is the realization that they've all over, and some have been over for years.

While its obvious most shows don't last beyond 7 seasons, (even if they have other incarnations later on), it still makes me feel somewhat sad that everything I liked when I was younger has either ended or was canceled a long time ago.

I'll of course always have my DVDs to rewatch the shows I liked whenever I want, but everytime you get to that "last season" or "last episode," you always come to the realization, "this is it, they didn't make any more after this one."

Looking back over the last 20 years from the late 80's till now, it really puts into perspective how all the shows we loved when we were younger are now over. Does anyone else feel this way?
 
Honestly, no.

Thanks to cable and satellite, many of the shows that were on when I was a kid I've gotten to see again, if not on TV, on video or DVD, and I have to say that many of these shows did not age well, and then there are some old shows that I thought were garbage when they were new. Plus, there's always the chance that an old series can be remade or come back nostalgically.

Times moves forward. Shows end. Producers, directors, voice actors and writers all move on. Eventually, they either retire or they die. There's nothing you can do about it, so I think that it's best not to dwell on the things that you can't change. You can't live in the past.

I'm not happy that I can't see Looney Tunes on TV anymore, but we do have the Looney Tunes Golden Collections DVDs, plus, WB is planning a new series with the LT/MM characters, so there's that. Overall, I try to look forward, not back. I don't allow myself to become time warped into one era. I try to adapt. Yesterday is in the past. There's only today and tomorrow.
 
I know that I am not. A lot of the shows that I was a hardcore fan of when I was a kid such as Rugrats and Magic School Bus, I quit watching as often before they ended. Also many of the shows that I liked during my preschool years (such as My Little Ponies) were old reruns when I started watching it.
 
:^: This.

In all honesty, the only cartoon that I miss from my childhood (FTR, I was already an adult when Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Disney Afternoon, Toonami, Miguzi, the Nicktoons and Cartoon-Cartoons started up) is Looney Tunes, and I can always just buy the Golden Collections if I want to see those.

I first got Cartoon Network back in 1995, and for the first few months, it was a blast seeing all of those old shows again for the first time in literally years...but after a month or 2, the novelty wore off quick. Aside from the WB and MGM shorts, a great deal of those cartoons really didn't age well. And a portion of them weren't great to begin with.

So I tend to write much of the stuff from my childhood off as coming to me in the right place at the right time. I savor the memories, but I don't let them define me. I've moved on, I'll continue to move on, and I have no regrets.
 
It's kinda hard to miss them when most of them, well, sucked. Seriously...how many of the cartoons you saw growing up actually hold up? Probably 3-5% of them.

Had you asked WHICH shows you miss then that would be a different story.
 
That's a very good point. I also miss the glory days of Charlie Brown, aka Peanuts, but Charles Schultz, Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez are all dead. The only way for them to work on Peanuts again would have to involve holding a seance of some kind or voodoo, and I personally don't think that I'd want to see someone else to attempt to imitate Schultz's style and fail miserably at it. Then I look back on the last crop of Peanuts specials that were made before Schultz's death and even they paled in comparison to the earlier specials, so again, I have to say, no.
 
I'm gonna say no, I'm not really sad that my childhood cartoons are gone for mainly 3 reasons:

1. Really all my childhood cartoons are out on dvd now. The childhood cartoons that I think of are the original He-Man, Transformers, G.I.Joe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. As well as Thundercats, Silverhawks, and The Simpsons. I'm still able to watch these if I want to.

2. I honestly feel like as I've gotten older, possibly better versions of my childhood cartoons have come out. I feel like the 2002 He-Man cartoon was better than the original He-man cartoon. I think the 2003 TMNT cartoon was better than original TMNT cartoon. Beast Wars/Machines filled my desire for more Transformers. And I really liked G.I.Joe Resolute. Whether I'd say it was better than original G.I.Joe, I'm still debating.

3. Today, I'm still getting new cartoons that I enjoy now that I didn't really have to enjoy as a child. I'm really enjoying the Star Wars:Clone Wars cartoon. The DC Universe movies have started to really get on a roll. And there's cartoons like Family Guy and South Park that weren't around when I was a child.
 
I don't miss them, mostly because there are various outlets to watch them again or because they ended on a good note. There's a few that never got an ending or were cancelled too early, but there isn't much anyone can do after the shows been over for more than a decade or so.

The thing I do miss is that feeling of bliss you had as a kid. Back then you didn't have to worry about a job, making ends meet, or how to survive through the day. All you had to do was go to school and then spend the rest of the time relaxing in a comfortable environment. I didn't really realize this until I started college and was living away from my family.
 
No. Especially not in the age of DVD when they really don't go away and I can watch them whenever I want.

Besides the really good ones often come back, repackaged for new kids. Scooby Doo, one of my favorite shows as a kid, has been around for 40 years and I'm eagerly awaiting the latest version.
 
I'm going to join the "No" pile, if only due to the fact that I can watch those shows on DVD if I saved up enough money for them, and the fact that if one show finishes it's run, I can find a new one to take it's place to watch on TV. Life goes on, I'm not pausing it due to a show that I like got canceled, I just remember all the good times I had while watching.
 
Less the shows themselves and more the context, really. I mean, I can watch them all online and such, but there's just something that doesn't feel right about the lack of an actual programming block, or the toys on the shelves, or the ads on TV.

...Frankly, I was actually very satisfied when the intro to Brutal Legend pretty much gave the finger to the "you can't live in the past" clich
 
Not really. Like everyone's been saying, most of the things you like as a kid you grow out of (Rugrats, Rocket Power, Pokemon) and what you don't will be on TV and DVD eventually. All things end eventually, you just have to accept it.
 
Hmm, well, "The Simpsons" a cartoon that debuted when I was around Jimbo and Dolph's age (my teens) is still on the air, when I'm about the same age as Marge (as cited in the early episodes)... :-p

But still, think the Simpsons itself is proof that quantity does not equal quality, and thus glad that favorites from childhood/teen years (DuckTales, Tiny Toon Adventures, etc.) didn't run into the ground.

Looney Tunes, on the other hand, I think it's beyond pathetic that they're not on American television anywhere, despite having been on TV since my parents' childhoods and proving it has multi-generation appeal... especially given the (excessive number of) cable channels the Time-Warner conglomerate owns. If they can find room for Tom and Jerry (an old-time cartoon with a more rigid format than Bugs and Daffy's shorts), they could spare up a half-hour a day for the LT gang (sure we'll survive with one fewer rerun of "Pokemon"/"Ben 10").

-B.
 
I think I'm the first person to say yes, if only because my favorite cartoon growing up, Jackie Chan Adventures, never got a proper DVD release.
Also, despite the fact I never really grew up with it, I still wanna see more Freakazoid.
 
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