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

I do get a little sad or depressed when a series I enjoy gets cancelled or finishes up, but usually a great new show helps me to get over the loss of an old favorite. I don't get depressed about really old shows that I loved years ago getting cancelled, but I more or less become relieved knowing that most are available on DVD for me to own forever.

I will get depressed when Ben 10 is all over and no new episodes are being made with the franchise, but I am sure something new will help me forget the pain and take up it's mantle as my favorite show.
 
No, but I will give you a truly depressing scenario:

finding out that several of your generations big-name stars passed on.

One thing I keep telling people in my age group: "soon enough, we're gonna have to deal with major losses of the stars we grew up with; they're getting old, and their time is coming sooner than later. Our parents had to deal with it, and they're still currently dealing with it, and soon it'll be us."

I still think one of the biggest losses for our generation already happened: John Candy.

But, Nicholson is getting up there, so is Michael Keaton, Robin Williams, and several others. We already lost Patrick Swayze, George Carlin, Michael Jackson, and we're probably gonna hear more big names in time...
 
I hear ya. One of the things that truly makes one realize that time passes is when celebrities that you have always taken for granted passes on. However, i don't think it's quite time yet for us kids who were born in the 80's to be worried that the celebrities who "belongs to our generation", in the sense that they were at their most famous when we were kids, are now dying off. Most of the people who were at their peak in the 80's and early 90's are probably in their 50's or so by now, so most of them probably have a few decades left (Robin Williams being an example). The ones to be truly worried about are those that achieved their fame in the 60's and 70's (and of course those that did so even earlier than that, but the vast majority of them are already gone).

Among those you mentioned, Jack Nicholson and is certainly one of these people. Other truly famous celebrities (movie stars or otherwise) that i think a lot of people don't even realize just how old they have gotten, namely that they are well over 70, and thus could die of natural causes any time, are Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Shirley Temple and Stan Lee (Stan Lee is 86!:eek:).

And then there are a lot of celebrities that are in their 60's now, that could very well die sometime during the next decade. I have a feeling that the next decade and the beginning of the second next are going to feel almost like one long celebrity funeral, since it appears to me that most of the worlds truly iconic figures (each of will cause massive attention when they pass) are about this age. Some examples are: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Martin Scorsese, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Lucas and Steven Hawking.
 
Cyber should also keep in mind that at the end of the day, it's cartoons we're talking about. Sure, we're passionate about them, but they're simply entertainment for the masses and as such, isn't a big deal whether a child knows what smurf is or not.

If they really care that much, maybe one day they'll seek it out on their own, and discover these classics for themselves. Maybe they'll even be the future regulars of this site.
 
Actually, I believe all the seasons of Jackie Chan Adventures are available on iTunes...I think. I know season 1 is, but yeah...I hope that helps though. I noticed too, that whatever shows you're looking for on DVD and aren't available, some of them are on iTunes instead, like Danny Phantom. I don't think all episodes of DP were released on DVD, but all episodes from all 3 seasons are available on iTunes, including the movies/specials.

I kinda and kinda don't miss the shows I used to watch....I'm not saying I grew out of them or that I hate them or anything like that, it's because I got all of my favorite cartoons on DVD or burned onto blank DVD's. Ya, I miss the times when they would announce new episodes to air and whatnot....but after Alien Force and Pokemon Galactic Battles are done airing, I think I'm gonna quit looking for new cartoons to watch. I might, MIGHT look into Ben 10: Evolutions next year, I don't know for sure.
 
Plus, in fairness, many shows we grew up with were even dated by the time we got to them.

I remember watching classic Looney Tunes as a child, and wondering why none of the characters were playing video games, and every freakin' thing took place on a farm or something like that.

Now do bear in mind this was merely 40-50 years after most of these shorts had originally been done. It's now 60-70 years later; might be a bit dated to a lot of viewers. A lot of the shorts also feature parodies of celebrities that are mostly now deceased, and haven't been popular for about 40 years....do consider that.

Fine, then I'm one of the few humans alive who enjoyed Loonatics Unleashed...
 
I'm really surprised that so many people are saying know. I haven't had a chance to grow up and watch a lot of my favorite cartoons end like a lot of you have, but there are a ton of classics that I watch today and wish that they had gone on longer. As said before, not a lot of cartoons got a chance to last and many of them were great. And when I was younger, I never really realized that a show had been cancelled. Today, I imagine that I'll be really disappointed when Spongebob and TDI end for example.
 
Here is how i see it: Every generation of children have a their own brand new, cartoon characters that become popular among that particular generation of kids, and are then promptly forgotten by the next generation. There is nothing strange about that, and there is no reason to complain about the fact that later generations dont know about such "flavor of the decade"-cartoons from our own childhood years.

However, throughout the history of animation, there have been a few cartoon characters that have managed to stay popular over several decades, finding new audiences among many generations of children. Think for instance about Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker or Popeye. These characters initially became popular among in the 20's, 30's and 40's. The kids of that era knew and loved these characters, and so did the kids of the 50's, 60's, 70's 80's and 90's. And i find it quite sad that these characters have, only in the last ten to fifteen years or so, fallen out of relevance and are (with a few exceptions, such as Mickey) unknown among the newest generation of kids. And the reason why this is sad is because, due to these characters being well known among people of pretty much all other age groups (20 year olds as well as 45 year olds as well as 80 year olds), they belong to our societies public consciousness, they are characters that we can all recognize and reference, regardless of whether we grew up during WWII or after the fall of the Berlin wall. That is, we all, with the sole exception of kids who have grown up in the last 10 years or so. And i just find it sad that these cultural icons who have survived throughout so many different eras are now starting to "die out".
 
Am I sad that all the cartoons/shows I watched as a kid are now over? No. Alright, I do miss seeing Looney Tunes on TELEVISION on a daily basis, but if I were to be weepy and sad about the shows that I used to like that are no longer on the air, I'd be a blubbering mess of a man.

I'm old. I haven't been a kid in over 20 years.
 
As others have mentioned, kids would have at least heard of them if they have Boomerang. Considering that Cartoon Network airs the original Tom and Jerry series, DTV movies for Tom and Jerry and movies for Looney Tunes, I'm sure kids know of those characters.



It probably also helps that they still air some of the older series and movies on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

As both Silverstar and Blackstar have said, new things are being done with both Tom and Jerry and Looney Tune characters. They aren't being completely ignored simply because they're older characters.
 
Yes, I kinda feel sad that show's like Ed, Edd, N Eddy are ending but at the same time kinda feel happy that those show's dont drag on for Ten, Fifteen, or more seasons.

But I REALLY feel sad when a show is canceled because:
A: they need to make room for a show on a certain block and dont just Expand the block or put the show in another block (I.E. King Of The Hill)
B: it's been put in a death slot (I.E. Sit Down Shut Up)
 
Worth noting...a lot of times, these cartoons were aired for kids as "filler", as other shows hadn't done so well, and they needed a quick substitute. Many times over, these were also on network channels, as opposed to Cable. Take note that Network channels really don't cater to childrens' blocs anymore.

Many of these characters were--notably--more popular in a time when people either went to the theater or watched TV for the majority of their entertainment; these too are slowly going the way of the dodo, and in terms of theaters, you don't often see animated shorts in them anymore...it's sort of a thing of the past( and in fairness our generation barely saw them in theaters at all).

It's sort of the same way back in the day, many characters were extremely popular in the world of literature, but only certain ones survived....when they were brought over to movies, radio shows, and tv shows.

If Warner Bros thinks their characters are marketable in other places than the aforementioned ones, they won't die out. Much the same with Mickey, Uncle Scrooge, Tom & Jerry, etc..
 
Not really.

A lot of the cartoons I watched when I was young I don't like anymore, and others can be watched online.

If the Simpsons are any indication, some cartoons should just end and not get run into the ground.
 
But you know who are completely ignored largely because they're older characters?

The Hanna-Barbera characters that aren't Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, and Tom and Jerry.

There hasn't been an regular animated series from Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros. that doesn't parody or homage characters like Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Top Cat, Dastardly and Muttley, Snooper and Blabber, Secret Squirrel, and other comedic characters since 1995. Aside from the Williams Street comedic makeovers, there hasn't been a serious version of the adventure/Super Adventures characters like The Herculoids, Space Ghost, Mightor, Birdman, The Galaxy Trio, Teen Force, and others since 1982. Jonny Quest hasn't been featured in anything new since 1997.

Nearly everything involving Hanna-Barbera characters in recent years only had The Flintstones (they're still selling cereal and vitamins, though they haven't had a new production since 2001), Tom and Jerry, and Scooby-Doo. Everybody else is swept under rug and largely unacknowledged by an entire generation of viewers.

Which makes me wonder who exactly is the upcoming live-action Yogi Bear aimed towards?
 
You know, I would like to see what a modern day take on The Galaxy Trio would be like. Corny as those shorts were, I always thought that those characters were kind of cool. Space Ghost and The Herculoids each got a revival on H-B's Space Stars (1981), so why was The Galaxy Trio left behind in the star dust?
 
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