Is adulthood realizing that a lot of the cartoons you loved as a kid don't hold up?

Is adulthood realizing that a lot of the cartoons you loved as a kid don't hold up?

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Adulthood is growing out of consuming cartoons and comics but shit posting about them instead

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A lot of them don't at all.
I was rewatching some old nicktoons just to have something on and noticing how shallow and clumsy a lot of the writing was. Even for the shows that are considered great, like Teenage Robot.

Not saying they're necessarily "bad" but I feel like my sensibilities have been more fine tuned as I've gotten older, and the broader spread of things I liked as a kid don't really do it for me so much. Plus I turned into a sucker for continuity and a lot of shows deliberately lack it because lacking continuity means sillier gags and less weight in the plot.

>Even for the shows that are considered great, like Teenage Robot.
I thought that the Zig Forumsnsensus was that, while it has a great artstyle, the show is other wise good-to-average

You're probably right. What are some oldies that people say still hold up real well? Hey Arnold? Hey Arnold was really good but my unironic opinion was that it was stifled by not being a show with a heavier drama focus.

In some cases yes, in other cases no. I went back and watched Courage the Cowardly Dog last year for the first time since I was a kid and it was a blast.

Pretty much this.

Yeah, sad but true.
Luckily Edd,Ed&Eddy, Jhonny Bravo, Dextars lab, and megus xlr hold up fine. Others... eeeehhh not really.
Its pretty sad that. However, appreciate that you've grown enough that you can recognize good written from pander dribble and continue to grow.

Also
This but still kinda sad desu.
Only do it to troll people, and but do trannies get salty.

Sometimes, yes. There are some cartoons I still find enjoyable, but I have also realized that a lot of them were only fun when I was a kid. I don't hate them or think they're bad, it's just they don't appeal to me as an adult.

Cartoons are mostly a niche nostalgia thing I enjoy occasionally.

Nick shows are surprisingly meh-bad on an adult watch. At least CN shows hold up enough that I wounldent feel like I am damaging my kids by showing them the drivel.

Teenhood/adolescence is when you realize they aren’t as good as you remember. Adulthood is when you stop giving a shit and watch them anyways for the comfiness.

Adulthood is more about knowing how they are made, the process, and the horrible conditions they deal with to get even 1 season done. Magic of seeing it was gone knowing some people got screwed over, soured the mood and magic.

I don't think it's that the cartoons themselves don't hold up, as much as it's that my tastes have changed. I look for different things in cartoons now - deeper stories, more nuanced humour (I'm not one of those "Rick and Morty requires high IQ" fags - I'm talking about comparing something like Darkwing Duck to Venture Bros); I'm more conscious of animation quality, etc.

My main jams as a kid were He-Man, She-Ra, Transformers, Ghostbusters, TMNT, and Beetlejuice. Of those, TMNT is the only one I can still enjoy, as it's humour is far more self aware - It's more inline with Adam West Batman. Beetlejuice is still watchable in small doses before the pun overload kicks in.

Most of the cartoons I watched as a teen hold up to me: Batman TAS, Gargoyles, The Tick- but by that point in life I was far pickier with what I watched.

It's interesting rewatching a series 30 years later. I found on my recent rewatch of He-Man and She-Ra that She-Ra was the far superior show for overall story/setting. When watching He-Man, I was quickly at a point of just waiting for Skeletor to be back in screen, as he absolutely stole that show.

Anytime someone says the Teen Titans cartoon is good, I assume they either haven't watched it in like 10 years or just have incredibly low standards

While I'm more aware of its flaws as an adult, I still think it's an excellent show

No, adulthood means recognizing that they were never meant for adults but loving them anyway.

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Adulthood is not wasting thought on stupid shit like cartoons

Adulthood is getting out of your moms basement,
get a job, have sex and kids.

Childhood:
Ugh this cartoon sucks, the political message is wrong, the animation is bad, the jokes aren't funny, it's too mean, the characters are ugly...
Childhood:
Ha ha this cartoon is funny, I fucking love cartoons!

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If you're lucky you'll find some stuff that still does, by the same token be glad you've matured to where you know crap when you see it.

In other words? Enjoy the fine wine, ignore the cheap beer.

>Adulthood is getting out of your moms basement,
>get a job, have sex and kids.

Oh WOW a 'living in the basement' joke! That is still as fresh as when Shatner did it in 1986, but I bet you came up with it by yourself!

That is not to say that the series targeted at adults are by default good, let alone good by dint of being target at adults alone. 90% of anything, even the most popular stuff, is just shit. That was true 20 years ago, and it's true still today.

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it holds up fine when you realize the target audience are 10 year olds.
it's a different product from the DCAU shows.

you just had shit taste

Amen

The likes of Pigeon Man or Parents' Day hold up magnificently to this day, think several episodes do if not to such heights. Later on they focused more on comedy than emotion and I think it was still good just differently so.

I only watched a few episodes of Avatar The Last Airbender as a kid and watching it properly as an adult it's incredible just how polished it is.

They're not wrong, though. Adulthood is moving out of your mom's basement and into a broom closet sized apartment that you need two to three day jobs to pay for.

Absolutely agreed on Beetlejuice. I watched the whole series again and the earlier episodes were much better before they started going overboard with the "Beetlejuice loses x body part" and the pun episodes. Also the more Lydia was in the better it typically was.

Adulthood is knowing what to do, when to do it, and committing to getting it done, all on your own. This can include watching cartoons, if you so choose. Being grown up comes with choices like that. Use your adulthood responsibly anons!

A lot of Nick shows are like that. Cartoon Network holds up extremely well, however.

I actually enjoy more cartoons today than I did as kid. Not sure if it's my taste or how cartoons were made. Though nothing was as bad as the late 90s and early 00s. I hated cartoons of that era save for a few exceptions maybe and most also looked like ass.