How do you feel when you find yourself losing interest in a show you once liked?

Agreed. I actually used to like the show when I was younger, and when I lost interest, I assumed it was because the newer episodes were of lesser quality. Later, I realized that all of the episodes were pretty awful.
 
I realized a long while back I'm not into South Park anymore, which is a shame, because two or so years ago, it was my absolute favorite show/cartoon/anything. I had hats of the characters, I was saving money to buy the DVDs, and every Wednesday there was a new episode, my friend would either sleep over and watch it with me or come to my house the day afterwards and watch the recording.

Over the time, I've discovered a lot more cartoons and my sense of quality/taste has changed. What I used to think was hilarious in South Park now only causes me to chuckle, if that.

There are still good episodes of course, like ImaginationLand, most of the Season 7 to 9 episodes, but I can't find myself re-watching them and enjoying them as much as I used to (Especially since I know all the jokes at this point). I'm probably a season or two behind on the series.

Same thing happened with American Dad, except I wasn't as into it as South Park.

Oddly enough, shows that haven't had any new material, such as Invader ZIM, I've gotten tired of, but Xiaolin Showdown has no new material, and I've been of fan of that show for nearly 5 years now. In fact, I got more into it when I re-watched most of the series recently (My interest didn't grow back when I re-watched Invader ZIM that much).
 
I started losing interest in Family Guy, to the point I can't really watch it and Seth McFarlane's other shows anymore. Like another poster said, it's best to just let it go when something like that happens.
 
There's some real good stuff in the first 3 seasons and movie equaivelents of them, IMO, but afterwards, the show just started sucking big time. Some redeeming features (ex: the characters of May and Harley and whatnot) just aren't enough to make up for all the boring repetitveness and how blatantly one-dimensional Ash, Brock, and Team Rocket have become.



I personally liked the manga version better, as there were only two card games (Yugi vs. Bakura and Yugi vs. Atem)

In the anime, they made the monster battles card games without having any cards by adding in "Ancient Egyptian duel discs/life points system", which is just ridiculous, even by Yu-Gi-Oh! standards. :sweat:
 
I just take a break from it. I once lost interest in Ren & Stimpy, and took a good long, two year break from it. Now that's literally ALL I've been watching lately, with a few very brief exceptions here and there (for some reason, I keep putting on "Weiner Barons", of all things).
As for shows I'll probably NEVER get back into, Fairly Oddparents comes to mind...It's a shame that the voice of Rocko went on to work on this junk. It's the type of cartoon that shouts "Please, LAUGH AT US! SCREAMING MAKES THE JOKES FUNNIER! LAUGH AT US!!!!".
 
Don't worry, you're not alone. The new 'Thomas and Friends' stuff is intolerable crap (even my two-year-old, train fan brother won't watch it), but the old episodes were genuinely good.
 
I loved Tiny Toons back in the day, but the very thing I loved about it 20 years ago (wow, up-to-the-minute pop culture references instead of the WWII-era celeb caricatures from the old Looney Tunes shorts!) is, ironically, why I've resisted revisiting the series on DVD. :shrug: Something tells me that gags about Tim Burton's Batman and Rosanne such will not have aged particularly well.
 
Count me in as another fan of old Thomas. I've still got some tapes lying around my home, and my little sis also got into it recently (through new episodes) so she's inherited my old Thomas stuff. I did watch some recent ones though because they brought back one of my favorites who had disappeared after one season.

As for the original topic question, I find that I usually start to forget about the show and start missing premieres if I lose interest. I normally just stop watching one day and will not pick it up until I hear something major has happened or its close to ending. Either way, I rarely if ever completely drop a show because I no longer care for it. Once I come back to it, I will usually watch important episodes and skip some filler if it starts boring me.
 
Back when I first bought the original Transformers cartoon on DVD, I used to watch the episodes all the time, basking in the nostalgia.


I haven't touched those sets in years though, and have no real inclination to. The only thing I'm really inclined to watch again is the movie, because it had some really nice animation.


Conversely, Beast Wars/Beast Machines has yet to lose my interest. I can always find enjoyment in watching an episode now and then.
 
This is the case with most 80's cartoons i used to loveas a kid. Of course, now i realize that most ofthem were hardly good to begin with. One 80's cartoon however that actually did have some quality in it but that i for some reason still doesn't get much entertainment out of is The Real Ghostbusters. It's like, i can look at it and go "that's a really clever joke" or "that's some awsome character design" but even so i dont feel very involved in the story.
 
This happens to me with lots of cartoons that I used to like as a child but I can't re-watch today for the life of me, stuff like Smurfs I used to adore as a young child but today is pretty unwatchable. Anything that was made for the really young I just can get into or watch with the same feelings I had for it when I was a kid, I can still watch lot's of shows from my childhood like the original TMNT, Mario + Zelda and others, but Muppet Babies is another show that would be hard for me to sit through these days.
 
I used to like Ben 10 and even bought all the dvds for it; now i'd like to get rid of them somehow... I even bought the entire dvd set for the DCAU, but I have yet to lose interest in them and I hope that will never happen...

I also used to like the spielberg shows (TTA, Pinky and the brain, etc.) and actually really got back into them a few years ago. Now they don't look so good to me for some reason... good thing i didn't get the dvds....
 
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