This Decade Lacked. . .

This decade lacked a lot but heres some of my pet peeves...


This decade lacked Smart sitcomes...I mean its amazing how Dumb sitcoms are in Y2k compared to the 80's and 90's

- Less Varity in US animation I mean Whered all the Comic Video game. movie and toy shows that past decades had in abundance go?

-Quality Entartainment! Shows this Decade have Rarly hade the Entertainment Quality of shows of the past..I mean I find my self Easily Watching Andy Griffith & MASH reruns over most modern Live action shows.

-Genaric acting, Although there our some shows with good acting still, alot of TV Shows seem half-hearted

-less voices it seems like theres less VA's in cartoons then there was in the past...Ecspecially in Anime!

and finally

-Heart..They only care about the Ratings..Givin Ratings have always been important,,,But It seems this Decade Ratings have Killed many a decent show and caused the OVerairing of Half-baked shows (cough Johhnny test, cough,).
 
I can think of a few cartoons based on celebraties that came out this decade. I am actually kind of surprised that they wasn't more cartoons based on live action movies.

They have always only cared about ratings
 
I think that there was a Ace Ventura animated series too back in the 90s. I remember seeing some of the episodes every now and then.

I also don't see why it is a bad thing that there haven't been too many cartoons based on live-action movies or celebrities. Most were kind of poor in quality anyway. There are other shows that kids today can look back and laugh at, both in the good and bad sense of the term, depending on their particular tastes in shows as well.
 
This decade lacked a breakout hit. No new cartoons of the era have had such an impact as Spongebob, Pokemon, or even older cartoons like Animaniacs or Dexter. Sure, this decade has brought us some good cartoons like Chowder, but none have put up consistent big numbers quite like the hits of the '90s.
 
There were plenty of comic-based US cartoons this decade. X-Men Evolution, Static Shock, Zeta Project, Justice League/Unlimited, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Batman, Legion of Superheroes, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Spectacular Spider-Man, and probably a few more.

I do agree with you on the video game part, since the majority of video game shows (there were quite a lot this decade) were from Japan, same with most of the toy shows.
 
Spongebob started in 1999, but the show's glory days were in the 2000's, as was/is the bulk of it's run and the height of it's popularity. I'd classify Spongebob as a 2000's show, easily.
 
Now who's splitting hairs? :p

The OP is talking shows which were specifically built around a living celebrity or were animated versions of an established live-action movie, TV show or property. Hammerman wasn't a spinoff of anything, it was just a cartoon built around MC Hammer. Hulk Hogan's Rock & Wrestling was likewise not a spinoff, but rather just an animated series built around then popular WWF wrestlers. Same deal with The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang and Laverne & Shirley in the Army; neither were spinoffs, but both were animated shows built around live actors and the shows in which they appeared.

The common bond found in those shows is that they are built around one specific live actor or live-action production. Megas XLR and Total Drama Island simply do not fit this category; a show based on a particular genre of entertainment is not the same as a show based on a specific actor, show or movie. TDI and Megas are genre-based shows, not property-based shows.

But hey. It's obvious that I'm not going to change your mind, and you're not going to change mine, so rather than indulge in a circular discussion that goes nowhere, let's just agree to disagree.
 
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