Does Anyone Watch KEWLopolis on CBS?

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Kunmui

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I know there's a viewer or two out there (besides me). I can hear you breathing amid the crickets chirping.

Anyway, the show's been on for at least a month, and already changes are planned for November (unless I haven't been reading the TZ posts lately).
Sabrina: The Animated Series and Trollz are out as of November 3 (though on the channel I watch, they'll be out on Nov. 4), and being replaced with a couple of somethings called Sushi Pack and Dino Squad.

I'm starting to wonder if eventually, the mostly girl-themed KEWLopolis will be over-run with boy-themed shows the way girl-themed shows like Bratz, Winx Club and Mew Mew were driven out of 4Kids TV Land.

Your comments please?
 
I tried to watch Care Bears, but it's nowhere near the last series. It's decent enough, but I just can't seem to get into it.
 
A lot of these series aren't even in production. They are reruns of old epsiodes from the 2000's such as Sabrina and Strawberry. The Care Bears are new, this I know.
 
Sabrina's been around since '99 when ABC and UPN shared the series between Saturdays and Weekdays. For some reason after the series left ABC, the show's intro was cut down to nothing. It was originally far longer.
 
First of all, let me make something clear. The main reason I do watch this is because it isn't the 3-hour PSA for healthy living that last year's "Secret Slumber Party" was (healthy living is important, yes, however trust me when I say that it's a long story). Otherwise, I wouldn't be giving it the time of day.

Anyway, I am able to watch the new Care Bear series (BTW, if you expect it to be like the 80's version, you will be disappointed). I don't watch Strawberry Shortcake, but only because it: 1) doesn't start from the beginning, and 2) it shows episodes at random. I would rather get the DVDs first. Otherwise I would be watching this.

Cake and Horseland are out of the question for me because they were part of last year's "3-hour PSA for healthy living" as I mentioned. Besides which, Horseland (which I don't consider to be "preschool" by any means) focuses too much on "educational value". Sabrina? That's a different story. Trollz doesn't start at the beginning, plus it will eventually be replaced, so there's no point. Otherwise, I would watch that one as well.

I also adore the "tinpo" segments. They are accompanied by (get this) 8-bit "NES style" music. I actually think that's pretty cool (or rather "KEWL").

So yeah. That's how what I think of KEWLopolis in a nutshell.
 
I just heard about this lineup earlier this weekend. I thought that it was kind of odd that they're spelling cool as kewl. I'm not sure if people do that anymore, but I am no way an expert on social slang. Anyway, most of the lineup I saw in the commerical were for repeats of shows that haven't had new episodes in a long time. The new Carebears series is still in production and I think Horseland is still new too. I actually thought that this was something completely new since they were adveristing their premier for Novemeber third.
 
Cake and Horseland aren't about "healthy living" at all. Cake is a "how to" show that blends a weekly plot with how to make homemade crafts and stuff. Horseland is more or less the same as Sabrina (An overall plot that has a "moral" in each episode)
 
I don't watch CBS on Saturday mornings, but I like the name of the block KEWLopolis. I watched the season premere, because I was curious how the new Care Bears would be like.

Like Mandouga, it is not like the old 80's CB shows at all. The Care Bear cousins are gone, maybe that Robot Chicken parody is canon, maybe the CB did kill the CBC. Serious, what happened? I guess when they decided to revive the Care Bears, the CBC weren't popular in their research, so they gone. In other words, the Scrappy Doo of the Care Bears. The value of the 1980's are different from today. You try to push the Reagon era lessons today, it comes off of being whimpy and lame.
 
I saw two episodes of Cake, and I found it to be a decent show. I do have plans to check out Sushi Pack and Dino Squad, when they premiere on November 3.
 
Well, at the risk of sounding sexist, girl's cartoons are usually just cutesy or vapid girly fair. They don't interrest me in the least because A) I'm a boy, and B ) they aren't anything. They're not even a show. They're a half hour televised T-shirt. Not saying they're all terrible. There are things like Pepper Ann and Kim Possible that happily break out of stereotypes and become shows that appeal to both boys and girls. The characters aren't vapid and always boy crazy. They are almost real people...with a thick black outline.

It's all about gender roles. I hate having cartoons being distinguished as "boy" or "girl." I mean, there are female fans of Transformers, GI Joe and TMNT. Somehow, by cartoons just have more crossover appeal.

But back to KEWLopolis. It's pathetic. one new show and a museum of bad DIC girl show reruns. As bad as I hear it was, they can't find anywhere to put Gadget and the Gadgetinis on US television. I hate DIC animation. I really do. They had such good stuff in the 80's and early 90's. But after that, they had a staccato flow of a couple good shows, and then mindless garbage like the Mary kate and Ashley cartoon.

Something tells me "Dino Squad" is nothing more than a cash grab at Dino King. Like Trollz was nothing but a cash grab at Winx Club.
 
That's not the point. These two shows were part of the initial "deception" (which is actually a subjective term here; it's being used in place of a better one). If Dance Revolution were returning, I wouldn't be watching that show, either. Anyhow, like I said, it's a long story, and now that the "Secret Slumber Party" is behind us, there's really no point in telling it. We're at "KEWLopolis" now, and that's what's important here.

I think it's too early in regards to the Care Bear Cousins. Oh sure, they don't appear now, but they may appear in future episodes; you never know. I mean, you've been told never to jump to conclusions, right. Another thing "zoombie", you should know better to think that any form of parody (especially adult-oriented parody) would be considered canon. No offense, but I didn't find that funny in the slightest, even if you weren't trying to be funny.

As for Sushi Pack and Dino Squad, I would say they should replace Cake and Horseland, but as they say, "be careful what you wish for"; those might not be any better. Speaking of Dino Squad, DrTooth, Dinosaur King is an anime that existed prior to the American(?)-produced Dino Squad, so DS can't be a "cash grab" at DK.
 
And who watchwes Horseland?

Oh wait. I know...
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