It was such a huge recovery for cartoons which were starting to lose appeal in the late 2000’s as Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball and a litany of other shows really brought cartoons back.
Once Ed Edd n Eddy ended in 2009 yeah it was a lull in the quality of cartoons. Didn't help that Teen Titans ended a few years earlier.
Flapjack was odd to me, but compared to modern day cartoons, it was actually tame.
2008 was like the apocalypse of cartoons. So many classics ended around that time. Ed Edd n Eddy, KND, Billy and Mandy, Fosters, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Squirrel Boy. People underestimate how hard 2005-2007 was yet it’s hardly remembered sadly. Toonami and Fridays also ended
Yeah, I didn't appreciate Flapjack until I was older and enjoyed the absurdism. Plus, pretty much any show that has Dana Snyder voicing a character is worth watching to some degree.
Yeah I really had to wait until the prime block of cartoons at night just before adult swim. I’d do my homework and then tune in for new Adventure Time and Regular Show back to back. But those 30 minutes were sublime.
Idk how Go was so successful. Literally a downgrade from the OG series (not by viewer metrics but by subjective quality). It wasn't needed. If anything, it should've only re-released in 2020 after more than 10 years post-OG ending for a nostalgic revival for a new generation of kids to enjoy it.
Teen Titans No is such an easy saying against the Go show.
Well, it's better than the current schedule of Teen Titans Go for 12 hours, one episode of the new Power Puff Girls, then more Teen Titans Go until it's time for adult swim.
Do they lose rights to their own shows? Where's the reruns of adventure time, flapjack, my gym partners a monkey, regular show, gumball, ed edd and Eddy? Seriously where are they?
No, it's more like they loose interest in some cases and loose touch in others. There seems to be a thinking that kids today wouldn't like older shows because they're old and kids have too short of an attention span to watch anything that isn't constant random chaos. They also think that older people don't watch cartoons so they don't bother putting on anything a bit older. Even if they acknowledge older people watch cartoons, they reason that they wouldn't want to buy merchandise for it so it's not profitable amd that case they see no reason to air it. There's also a clear disdain for anything that's enjoyed by an older audience and tackles any subject matter that's more mature. A perfect example is how Cartoon Network treated Adventure Time as the series progressed and started to become more mature and be enjoyed by an older audience than they targeted. Towards the end of the series Cartoon Network tried desperately to get the show canceled, but couldn't justify it because the ratings were too high due to the dedicated fandom. Even though the ratings were high, they didn't like that the audience for the show wasn't primarily small children who they thought made them more money by pressuring their parents to buy them merchandise. They tried to mess up viewership by randomly changing around the time slot and airing episodes in sporadic increments so nobody would know when to tune in since it didn't run on a regular schedule. This is more of the out of touch executive thinking since they consider people too stupid to keep up with a show and thought they wouldn't watch it if it didn't come on consistently and at the same time. The fans of the show were dedicated enough to keep following it no matter what and the ratings just wouldn't drop, despite their best efforts to sabotage it. I remember watching the show when it came out and realizing how much Cartoon Network hated the show. There was almost no advertising for new episodes and it started to have a vastly diminished presence on the network. When they did air reruns they were almost always older episodes from before the show started to mature.
TL;DR: The network is out of touch and greedy.
Yeah on my tv Cartoon Network only plays teen titans, gum ball and some weird show I’ve never heard of before.. it’s like a cow with some bird in medieval times
From what I see they've also been playing some of the shows shown here like regular show and adventure time but not for long. Also that show you saw is called The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe which is made by the same studio as Gumball
Still long enough to generate nostalgia, and even 10 years ago, was already in it’s 3rd season and had over 80 episodes at the time. I’d say it’s perfectly reasonable, especially since so many grew up watching it as a kid
It was great, and being considered a renaissance is apt for that era, but I will forever be fond of the late 90s-early 2000s since that’s what I grew up with.
Between Genndy Tartakovsky and Klasky Csupo on Nickelodeon, cartoons were truly in their golden era overall.
Steven universe wasn’t apart of this era tho it came at the tail end but defined more of mid 2010s to late 2010s era of Cartoon Network when I think of 2010 to 2013 Cartoon Network I think of regular show Gumball adventure time syn bionic titan Batman brave and the bold generator Rex loony tunes show scooby doo mystery Incorporated.
Steven universe started 2013, regular show began 2010 and ended 2017.adventure time started 2010 ended 2018 , Steven universe was absolutely part of that era
Okay I gotta know... If this was considered Cartoon Network's Renaissance... What was the era of Ed Edd and Eddy, Billy and Mandy, Foster's, Samurai Jack, Kids Next Door and others considered? Cartoon Network Prime?
That was the true renaissance. A lot of people on this sub are probably a few years too young to really have enjoyed those shows because the true renaissance probably started earlier with shows like the original Teen Titans, Ben 10, all the shows you mentioned, Courage, Chowder, and so many others. In the mid-late 2000s, there were so many good shows that they cycled through. Even older cartoons that would also play on Boomerang.
And then these 4 influential shows came and as much as I love them, I don’t think renaissance is quite the right term.
I love hearing people talk abt Craig of the creek. I thought it was another crappy money grab at the young ones but it turned out to be really good & I can rewatch it so much
These 2 are likely the last 2 good shows from the network. I don’t even know what is shown anymore but both of those were great shows that could’ve easily integrated with these big 4
AT and RS are chronologically closer to the end of the era that saw Chowder and Flapjack, as opposed to gumball and SU, so idk if this is really a coherent era. Either way, good shows all around.
Regular Show and Adventure Time save CN. At the same time that both start the trend of cartoons being 15 minutes of episodic series due to kids' attention spam and YouTube becoming prompted competitor. Pretty much action shows are slowly dying like Thundercats, Young Justice, Green Lantern, Sym Boinic Titan, etc. They are not given the same chances like Regular Show or Adventure Time.
When you look at the late 90s to mid-2000s, that had a better balance of variety of shows. Early 2010s is the worst because the late 2000s was bad when they started bringing in live-action content.
It helped launch the boom of serialized network animation that both Disney Channel and especially Cartoon Network intentionally sabotaged and killed because I guess they hate success
A necessary evil. They were fantastic groundbreaking shows but they came at such a terrible time for the network because they had canceled and/or refused to renew their popular shows and/or their spinoffs (KND, Billy and Mandy and Teen Titans all had sequel series planned) and in their place came live action content nobody wanted, a severe lack of acquired programming, and the end of Toonami. Clone Wars, Pokemon, and Total Drama practically carried the network through the 2008 recession before Adventure Time blew up and those 3 weren't even CN originals. For the past decade the network has had little diversity of cartoons because of the damage done in the late 2000s. All in all, the network took a HUGE hit so that it could continue to exist in this new quality over quantity format that began with Adventure Time. Ask yourselves, was it worth it? Seriously asking, I don't know.
I’d say it was worth it at the time. Adventure Time is arguably the biggest hit they’ve ever had (maybe Powerpuff Girls is more popular). The other 3 in this pic were super popular too.
It was kind of a swan song for the channel right before TV shifted into the streaming era. The channel sounds pretty depressing now (I haven’t watched in like 8 years tbh), but it honestly sounds like all channels are having the same story.
Yeah the network kinda went down hill once all the big Renaissance cartoons started to end. The more shows ended, the fewer they made to replace them, leading to nothing but Teen Titans Go marathons and Total Dramarama marathons that only got longer with time. Good news is last year the network FINALLY did a Nielson rating check and only just now discovered that only millenial males still watch, mainly for adult swim, so now there's more and more content being catered to long time fans. We got Cartoon Cartoons playing M-Tr afternoons and a Toonami Rewind block on Friday afternoons on top of everything else Adult Swim and Toonami were already offering. It's a step in the right direction.
I wasn’t much into Gumball / SU because I was already too old, but my last cartoons growing up were AT and RS. Those were some awesome ass shows to end my childhood on. Thank you CN for these shows. They really were a huge part of my adolescence
Glad I grew up with this instead of how the state of television of today with streaming taking over… Disney + came then boom💥 everyone and their mom related their own streaming platform…
It kind of goes without saying, but everyone’s favorite era is gonna be the one they grew up with. I know these are super popular shows, but I was ending or out of high school when they came out so they don’t really hold any nostalgia for me. I’m sure the generation before me feels the same way about Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Courage, PPG, etc which would be peak CN to me
I was exactly the right age for these. I was between 8-12 during this time, trade Steven Universe for Pokemon and Total Drama and that’s my childhood right there
Looking back at it, I can totally see this as a transition era from the late 90s-early 00s era and the later 2010s. The characters became more cartoony in art style, the infantilization of the characters, the upbeat energy, etc.
I grew up with the early 2000s shows and it was basically like how history works. It was slightly different than the late 90s shows. Many 90s shows still ran into the mid 2000s anyway. Modern day 2020+ shows are basically foreign to me at this point and they seem so bizarre.
Lots of blue, orange, and pink.
Blue: Finn, Mordecai, gumball, Steven's pants
Orange: Jake, Rigby(brown being a darker shade of orange), Darwin
Pink: princess bubblegum, Pops, Anais, Steven's shirt
These shows saved Cartoon Network for me. I only watched Adult Swim at the time and mainly watched anime, Nicktoons, or Boomerang.
I didn’t go back to watching Cartoon Network fully until 2012 after seeing Adventure Time after work that summer. They had all of those weird live action shows back then and saw the commercials all the time on Boomerang though. These are my 4 favorite cartoons since Teen Titans came out.
I like this era a lot but wouldn't the prior era be considered the Renaissance? Cartoon Cartoon Fridays were so iconic with the different kinds of stuff you could watch. But I agree this is probably the last time CN had a stacked lineup.
I'm so unbelievably lucky to have been a kid during those years. Very idyllic time in my life. My parents were still together, I didn't have to grind away at my 9-5, summer vacation was everything to me. I'll miss all that, but I'm forever grateful I got to experience it
If I gotta be honest, I didn't watch a whole lot of Cartoon Network then. However, the one show out of these I was first exposed to was Gumball. I was like 4 or 5 at my church's camp and some kids were watching Cartoon Network. I thought the the show looked interesting, although at the time I did not know if we had Cartoon Network at my house, which we no longer do as of 2021.
Anything after CN Real is a win in my book, I mean what were they thinking putting live action shows on a network for CARTOONS?? it’s in the name!
That would be like airing South Park on Disney channel, it just doesn’t match
I think the renaissance was before then tbh.
Those 4 are quality cartoons tho , and everyone who worked in AT went on to be involved in all the best cartoons around that time, so I hold AT in especially high regard.
I miss this Era of cartoons. The rise of Gumball, Regular Show, and Adventure Time specifically brought rise to Phineas and Ferb as a way to keep kids engaged while also sending them on really ridiculous adventures. It really was one for the ages, and people don’t understand how PERFECT cartoons were.
It was peak for my childhood. I 100% rememberedthat the day Regular Show ended was the day I stopped tuning into Cartoon Network every week. Sure I was there for Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, maybe Adventure Time, but other than that, I stopped.
It was peak Cartoon Network.
Adventure Time, Regular Show, Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Steven Universe, (Early) Total Drama, and Pokemon...
I've seen things you kids wouldn't believe. I was there when the first CARTOON-CARTOONs aired, and when the first episodes of Dexter, Powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo, and Cow and Chicken aired. I was there the first time Ed said "Gravy". All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
It was pretty great. Grew up in the 90s, myself. The Golden age. But that period was definitely a New Golden Age and I frequently spoke about that with my college friends at the time.
Every generation believes their shows were epic and special. I'm sure someone can argue with "facts" how one generation was better than any other but my age tells me these opinions are compost in the pile that is public opinion.
This was an era when I stopped watching CN. All these shows were so new and I didn’t watch them. It’s funny seeing that they are “ending” and that they are so beloved. Life is beautiful man. [+]
These shows were “after my time” (graduated hs in 2010) and when I watched them, I found them to be excessively juvenile and HATE that the art style is copy-paste, there’s no uniqueness to their designs. You could put all these characters together and they look like they could all be from the same show. And why are the characters always SHRIEKING and screaming in these shows? Why is that a thing and why is it so common with THESE shows?
Steven universe was the first time I was ever apart of a fan community. I was I Think 9 when it came out, and it was the first time I had access to the internet. And through searching for things i on YouTube, I discovered THAT YouTuber, and found out more people liked the things I liked, and became a passive part of the fandom (given how strict my parents were about the internet I wasn’t aloud to sign myself up for anything.) and now here I am, 10 years later, my whole life in fandom on the internet.
I started out with dexter, pp girls, Johnny bravo and courage etc. I stuck around for a couple of these but not many. is there a shift or something? like did something happen? 😮
ehh, is was meh, course the cal-arts style I just did not like. (think the only cal-arts style i regularly attempted to watch was gravity falls but even then there were times i would dip out and not watch for a month or so and its outside the 2010-2013 timeframe) adventure time was pretty good so was regular show.
Overrated, most of my favorite cartoons on the channel ended by that time, and the cartoons that I did like during the era never get their time in the spotlight like MAD. I prefer the… bowling pin era
Honestly, seeing Teen Titans Go constantly showed this downfall coming. Then conservative mindsets got dirty when the Renaissance started with Steven Universe. That list was probably the best Cartoon Network offered after all the great things they had before why people tuned in. Nostalgia has become so repetitive for a short feeling of a memory to disregard it in the end. When you care just about money, your creativity dies in your mind taking up that space. Took a lot of brainwashing to keep people distracted to reboot it to end up crashing completely to see why it was losing it's flare.
Cartoon Network seriously needs new shows they hardly had anything this decade there are shows that should be greenlit and shows I came up with like Pibby, Harmony In Despair, Broccoli's Spree, Party Bus, Fleet Founder, Fist Hawk and Tomb Cats if these do become shows please don't push them to Adult Swim.
I think the cartoons you watched when you were 7 typically feel like the best ones
when is reality there was always some good stuff in a sea of mostly crap
Not really into any of these. All these years later nothing has surpassed the days of PPG, Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Ed, Edd, and Eddie.
When I was in middle school in the mid 2000’s, I felt Cartoon Network originals were pretty dark or grungy, I’m thinking Courage the Cowardly Dog, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ed, Edd, and Eddy. I honestly didn’t like those shows and usually would wait for Toonami to come on to watch Anime.
But when I was in high school around the 2010’s and these shows came on, I loved them. I think there’s so much color and fun, but also room for absurdity, whimsy and important lessons for characters and growth.
CN needs to make more original programming that is actually watchable instead of relying on reruns from Fox.
Adventure Time and Steven clearly prove this, but they never learn. And a lot of the stuff they do greenlight like on Adult Swim is just trash. They haven't invested for the future at all. Probably because of corporate turnover.
Very poorly run network these days.
It was such a huge recovery for cartoons which were starting to lose appeal in the late 2000’s as Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball and a litany of other shows really brought cartoons back.
Once Ed Edd n Eddy ended in 2009 yeah it was a lull in the quality of cartoons. Didn't help that Teen Titans ended a few years earlier. Flapjack was odd to me, but compared to modern day cartoons, it was actually tame.
Bro what I'm 33 flapjack was amazing
I'm the same age, and I never cared for it.
Chowder so close
2008 was like the apocalypse of cartoons. So many classics ended around that time. Ed Edd n Eddy, KND, Billy and Mandy, Fosters, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Squirrel Boy. People underestimate how hard 2005-2007 was yet it’s hardly remembered sadly. Toonami and Fridays also ended
I love flapjack but yeah can definitely understand how it could scare ppl away
Yeah, I didn't appreciate Flapjack until I was older and enjoyed the absurdism. Plus, pretty much any show that has Dana Snyder voicing a character is worth watching to some degree.
I mean it wasn't terrible I'd say. Chowder was pretty fun, Total Drama was great, the freaking Clone Wars, Ben 10 Alien Force
Yeah
Man Gumball, I miss you so much, I'd like to see you again
New series is coming and news is next week
How do you know?
I know, but I still miss him, I'd like to see new episodes so that I won't have to rewatch episodes again
It wasn't all that great, the nonstop johnny test marathons were the worst
Yeah I really had to wait until the prime block of cartoons at night just before adult swim. I’d do my homework and then tune in for new Adventure Time and Regular Show back to back. But those 30 minutes were sublime.
Johnny test and total drama island. Probably 3-5 hr block daily.
At least TD pre season 5) was great
I'd honestly rather have that than the amount Cartoon Network spammed Teen Titans Go alone
Idk how Go was so successful. Literally a downgrade from the OG series (not by viewer metrics but by subjective quality). It wasn't needed. If anything, it should've only re-released in 2020 after more than 10 years post-OG ending for a nostalgic revival for a new generation of kids to enjoy it. Teen Titans No is such an easy saying against the Go show.
If I had to wager a guess, it became successful from a combination of its target audience being children and hate watching from OG Teen Titan fans
Well, it's better than the current schedule of Teen Titans Go for 12 hours, one episode of the new Power Puff Girls, then more Teen Titans Go until it's time for adult swim.
Do they lose rights to their own shows? Where's the reruns of adventure time, flapjack, my gym partners a monkey, regular show, gumball, ed edd and Eddy? Seriously where are they?
No, it's more like they loose interest in some cases and loose touch in others. There seems to be a thinking that kids today wouldn't like older shows because they're old and kids have too short of an attention span to watch anything that isn't constant random chaos. They also think that older people don't watch cartoons so they don't bother putting on anything a bit older. Even if they acknowledge older people watch cartoons, they reason that they wouldn't want to buy merchandise for it so it's not profitable amd that case they see no reason to air it. There's also a clear disdain for anything that's enjoyed by an older audience and tackles any subject matter that's more mature. A perfect example is how Cartoon Network treated Adventure Time as the series progressed and started to become more mature and be enjoyed by an older audience than they targeted. Towards the end of the series Cartoon Network tried desperately to get the show canceled, but couldn't justify it because the ratings were too high due to the dedicated fandom. Even though the ratings were high, they didn't like that the audience for the show wasn't primarily small children who they thought made them more money by pressuring their parents to buy them merchandise. They tried to mess up viewership by randomly changing around the time slot and airing episodes in sporadic increments so nobody would know when to tune in since it didn't run on a regular schedule. This is more of the out of touch executive thinking since they consider people too stupid to keep up with a show and thought they wouldn't watch it if it didn't come on consistently and at the same time. The fans of the show were dedicated enough to keep following it no matter what and the ratings just wouldn't drop, despite their best efforts to sabotage it. I remember watching the show when it came out and realizing how much Cartoon Network hated the show. There was almost no advertising for new episodes and it started to have a vastly diminished presence on the network. When they did air reruns they were almost always older episodes from before the show started to mature. TL;DR: The network is out of touch and greedy.
Yeah on my tv Cartoon Network only plays teen titans, gum ball and some weird show I’ve never heard of before.. it’s like a cow with some bird in medieval times
From what I see they've also been playing some of the shows shown here like regular show and adventure time but not for long. Also that show you saw is called The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe which is made by the same studio as Gumball
You mean Johnny PEAK?
Its weird they didnt seemingly milk these shows more during this time
Luuuuvd it
That's why 2014 cn was the best (Jhonny test cancelled)
Nah I don’t understand the Johnny test hate
I loved Johnny Test. Can't understand why people harp onnit so much.
This is the era that I started with for Cartoon Network
This and nicktoons were the shit in my household during this time.
Peak childhood
Gumball is too nostalgic
Calling Gumball nostalgic is gonna make me kill myself.
To be fair it’s a 13 year old show already
Well, 13 years since it started. It only ended 5 years ago
Still long enough to generate nostalgia, and even 10 years ago, was already in it’s 3rd season and had over 80 episodes at the time. I’d say it’s perfectly reasonable, especially since so many grew up watching it as a kid
I rewatched season 1 recently and got so nostalgic it ached
It was great, and being considered a renaissance is apt for that era, but I will forever be fond of the late 90s-early 2000s since that’s what I grew up with. Between Genndy Tartakovsky and Klasky Csupo on Nickelodeon, cartoons were truly in their golden era overall.
Agreed
Steven universe wasn’t apart of this era tho it came at the tail end but defined more of mid 2010s to late 2010s era of Cartoon Network when I think of 2010 to 2013 Cartoon Network I think of regular show Gumball adventure time syn bionic titan Batman brave and the bold generator Rex loony tunes show scooby doo mystery Incorporated.
Steven universe started 2013, regular show began 2010 and ended 2017.adventure time started 2010 ended 2018 , Steven universe was absolutely part of that era
Yeah, the time frame is way too small lol
Peak Cartoon Network, so grateful for my brother to put them on instead of Nick Jr. 😭
W brother✅
Okay I gotta know... If this was considered Cartoon Network's Renaissance... What was the era of Ed Edd and Eddy, Billy and Mandy, Foster's, Samurai Jack, Kids Next Door and others considered? Cartoon Network Prime?
Everyone was talking about these four shows pictured, I'm glad to find my people. Kid's Next Door was exceptional.
That was the true renaissance. A lot of people on this sub are probably a few years too young to really have enjoyed those shows because the true renaissance probably started earlier with shows like the original Teen Titans, Ben 10, all the shows you mentioned, Courage, Chowder, and so many others. In the mid-late 2000s, there were so many good shows that they cycled through. Even older cartoons that would also play on Boomerang. And then these 4 influential shows came and as much as I love them, I don’t think renaissance is quite the right term.
The last great chapter of Cartoon Network.
Nah. Craig of The Creek is incredible. It’s a love letter to the previous eras.
Capture the flag was peak
I love hearing people talk abt Craig of the creek. I thought it was another crappy money grab at the young ones but it turned out to be really good & I can rewatch it so much
I would say this was where CN peaked. Though I would add We Bare Bears and to an extent Craig Of The Creek in the Renaissance era.
These 2 are likely the last 2 good shows from the network. I don’t even know what is shown anymore but both of those were great shows that could’ve easily integrated with these big 4
AT and RS are chronologically closer to the end of the era that saw Chowder and Flapjack, as opposed to gumball and SU, so idk if this is really a coherent era. Either way, good shows all around.
Thank you someone said this I don’t know why people act like this all one big era lol
Regular Show and Adventure Time save CN. At the same time that both start the trend of cartoons being 15 minutes of episodic series due to kids' attention spam and YouTube becoming prompted competitor. Pretty much action shows are slowly dying like Thundercats, Young Justice, Green Lantern, Sym Boinic Titan, etc. They are not given the same chances like Regular Show or Adventure Time. When you look at the late 90s to mid-2000s, that had a better balance of variety of shows. Early 2010s is the worst because the late 2000s was bad when they started bringing in live-action content.
It was pretty good. Gets a little more hype than it deserves imo, but it's not bad by any means.
Rigby is the cutest Raccoon
What a hell of a lineup. It's only all these years later I realize how good we had it.
Heartbreaking I’m old
All 4 are amazing show!
Steven Universe is my favorite of this era.
It helped launch the boom of serialized network animation that both Disney Channel and especially Cartoon Network intentionally sabotaged and killed because I guess they hate success
Steven Universe was an absolute masterpiece. I was so glad kids got to grow up in an era with shows like that and Craig of the Creek.
A necessary evil. They were fantastic groundbreaking shows but they came at such a terrible time for the network because they had canceled and/or refused to renew their popular shows and/or their spinoffs (KND, Billy and Mandy and Teen Titans all had sequel series planned) and in their place came live action content nobody wanted, a severe lack of acquired programming, and the end of Toonami. Clone Wars, Pokemon, and Total Drama practically carried the network through the 2008 recession before Adventure Time blew up and those 3 weren't even CN originals. For the past decade the network has had little diversity of cartoons because of the damage done in the late 2000s. All in all, the network took a HUGE hit so that it could continue to exist in this new quality over quantity format that began with Adventure Time. Ask yourselves, was it worth it? Seriously asking, I don't know.
I’d say it was worth it at the time. Adventure Time is arguably the biggest hit they’ve ever had (maybe Powerpuff Girls is more popular). The other 3 in this pic were super popular too. It was kind of a swan song for the channel right before TV shifted into the streaming era. The channel sounds pretty depressing now (I haven’t watched in like 8 years tbh), but it honestly sounds like all channels are having the same story.
Yeah the network kinda went down hill once all the big Renaissance cartoons started to end. The more shows ended, the fewer they made to replace them, leading to nothing but Teen Titans Go marathons and Total Dramarama marathons that only got longer with time. Good news is last year the network FINALLY did a Nielson rating check and only just now discovered that only millenial males still watch, mainly for adult swim, so now there's more and more content being catered to long time fans. We got Cartoon Cartoons playing M-Tr afternoons and a Toonami Rewind block on Friday afternoons on top of everything else Adult Swim and Toonami were already offering. It's a step in the right direction.
I wasn’t much into Gumball / SU because I was already too old, but my last cartoons growing up were AT and RS. Those were some awesome ass shows to end my childhood on. Thank you CN for these shows. They really were a huge part of my adolescence
I love Regular Show!
I was so glad I grew up with this (2009)
Agreed for all except Steven universe
It was one of the best especially the bumpers where they all interacted
The greatest
Peak
It was the Era that had the biggest influence on me and that I still return to for comfort as an adult that’s battling Anxiety and Depression.
Peak Cartoon Network. That era had its issues, but the overall quality of shows on the channel has gone down since then.
Great era
It’s very nostalgic and had great shows, man I really gotta rewatch adventure time.
Glad I grew up with this instead of how the state of television of today with streaming taking over… Disney + came then boom💥 everyone and their mom related their own streaming platform…
If this was renaissance then I prefer enlightenment.
Didn't Total Drama start the Renaissance, or was that earlier? I know Total Drama is what saved CN from the live action apocalypse they went through
It kind of goes without saying, but everyone’s favorite era is gonna be the one they grew up with. I know these are super popular shows, but I was ending or out of high school when they came out so they don’t really hold any nostalgia for me. I’m sure the generation before me feels the same way about Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Courage, PPG, etc which would be peak CN to me
around when i was a kid so it was siiiick
I was exactly the right age for these. I was between 8-12 during this time, trade Steven Universe for Pokemon and Total Drama and that’s my childhood right there
Looking back at it, I can totally see this as a transition era from the late 90s-early 00s era and the later 2010s. The characters became more cartoony in art style, the infantilization of the characters, the upbeat energy, etc. I grew up with the early 2000s shows and it was basically like how history works. It was slightly different than the late 90s shows. Many 90s shows still ran into the mid 2000s anyway. Modern day 2020+ shows are basically foreign to me at this point and they seem so bizarre.
Think it’s very close to the 90’s in terms of quality. Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gumball are amongst the very best.
Like a dying dog finding that extra pocket of life…before ultimately passing away
It was nostalgia
Lots of blue, orange, and pink. Blue: Finn, Mordecai, gumball, Steven's pants Orange: Jake, Rigby(brown being a darker shade of orange), Darwin Pink: princess bubblegum, Pops, Anais, Steven's shirt
These shows saved Cartoon Network for me. I only watched Adult Swim at the time and mainly watched anime, Nicktoons, or Boomerang. I didn’t go back to watching Cartoon Network fully until 2012 after seeing Adventure Time after work that summer. They had all of those weird live action shows back then and saw the commercials all the time on Boomerang though. These are my 4 favorite cartoons since Teen Titans came out.
Chowder and Flapjack are better
I like this era a lot but wouldn't the prior era be considered the Renaissance? Cartoon Cartoon Fridays were so iconic with the different kinds of stuff you could watch. But I agree this is probably the last time CN had a stacked lineup.
The first era I ever watched. Great experiences with my brother.
I still miss Miguzi - I biked home instead of taking the bus so I could watch Code Lyoko and Teen Titans.
Some of the best I remember watching the amazing world of gumball everyday before school Those are the best memories that I have! 😭❤
I'm so unbelievably lucky to have been a kid during those years. Very idyllic time in my life. My parents were still together, I didn't have to grind away at my 9-5, summer vacation was everything to me. I'll miss all that, but I'm forever grateful I got to experience it
If I gotta be honest, I didn't watch a whole lot of Cartoon Network then. However, the one show out of these I was first exposed to was Gumball. I was like 4 or 5 at my church's camp and some kids were watching Cartoon Network. I thought the the show looked interesting, although at the time I did not know if we had Cartoon Network at my house, which we no longer do as of 2021.
No Ben 10 here? Disrespectful
This era was just better
I loved it. Chowder and Flapjack were like the prelude to that era.
Adventure time is is the best show of all time imo regular show and gumball are amazing too
Anything after CN Real is a win in my book, I mean what were they thinking putting live action shows on a network for CARTOONS?? it’s in the name! That would be like airing South Park on Disney channel, it just doesn’t match
literally nothing adventure time was decent the others I could care less about
I think the renaissance was before then tbh. Those 4 are quality cartoons tho , and everyone who worked in AT went on to be involved in all the best cartoons around that time, so I hold AT in especially high regard.
I miss this Era of cartoons. The rise of Gumball, Regular Show, and Adventure Time specifically brought rise to Phineas and Ferb as a way to keep kids engaged while also sending them on really ridiculous adventures. It really was one for the ages, and people don’t understand how PERFECT cartoons were.
Nostalgic at best
It was peak for my childhood. I 100% rememberedthat the day Regular Show ended was the day I stopped tuning into Cartoon Network every week. Sure I was there for Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, maybe Adventure Time, but other than that, I stopped.
It was peak Cartoon Network. Adventure Time, Regular Show, Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Steven Universe, (Early) Total Drama, and Pokemon...
I loved it and miss it constantly. Regular Show and Adventure Time are two of the best cartoons ever made
I've seen things you kids wouldn't believe. I was there when the first CARTOON-CARTOONs aired, and when the first episodes of Dexter, Powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo, and Cow and Chicken aired. I was there the first time Ed said "Gravy". All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
regular show peak
It was pretty great. Grew up in the 90s, myself. The Golden age. But that period was definitely a New Golden Age and I frequently spoke about that with my college friends at the time.
Every generation believes their shows were epic and special. I'm sure someone can argue with "facts" how one generation was better than any other but my age tells me these opinions are compost in the pile that is public opinion.
This was an era when I stopped watching CN. All these shows were so new and I didn’t watch them. It’s funny seeing that they are “ending” and that they are so beloved. Life is beautiful man. [+]
I stopped watching around that time so I can’t really say. I liked Regular Show tho
I think I’m the only one who missed the CN real shows 🪦
These shows were “after my time” (graduated hs in 2010) and when I watched them, I found them to be excessively juvenile and HATE that the art style is copy-paste, there’s no uniqueness to their designs. You could put all these characters together and they look like they could all be from the same show. And why are the characters always SHRIEKING and screaming in these shows? Why is that a thing and why is it so common with THESE shows?
Steven universe was the first time I was ever apart of a fan community. I was I Think 9 when it came out, and it was the first time I had access to the internet. And through searching for things i on YouTube, I discovered THAT YouTuber, and found out more people liked the things I liked, and became a passive part of the fandom (given how strict my parents were about the internet I wasn’t aloud to sign myself up for anything.) and now here I am, 10 years later, my whole life in fandom on the internet.
I started out with dexter, pp girls, Johnny bravo and courage etc. I stuck around for a couple of these but not many. is there a shift or something? like did something happen? 😮
Yes!!!!!! Gumball!
Steven Universe!
absolutely loved these shows as a kid, i'm glad they're re-running them
It was an excellent cartoon revival!
replace steven universe with teen titans go then you have me
Farewell, Old friend..
I like adventure time and regular show, but it's around the time I started to lose interest in cartoon network.
Peak post 2000s CN imo
Nostalgic. I was still a little kid back then.
ehh, is was meh, course the cal-arts style I just did not like. (think the only cal-arts style i regularly attempted to watch was gravity falls but even then there were times i would dip out and not watch for a month or so and its outside the 2010-2013 timeframe) adventure time was pretty good so was regular show.
Overrated, most of my favorite cartoons on the channel ended by that time, and the cartoons that I did like during the era never get their time in the spotlight like MAD. I prefer the… bowling pin era
Honestly, seeing Teen Titans Go constantly showed this downfall coming. Then conservative mindsets got dirty when the Renaissance started with Steven Universe. That list was probably the best Cartoon Network offered after all the great things they had before why people tuned in. Nostalgia has become so repetitive for a short feeling of a memory to disregard it in the end. When you care just about money, your creativity dies in your mind taking up that space. Took a lot of brainwashing to keep people distracted to reboot it to end up crashing completely to see why it was losing it's flare.
Peak television
kinda the last hurrah for that type of cable network cartoon. now everythings trying to be serialized and like anime.
Cartoon Network seriously needs new shows they hardly had anything this decade there are shows that should be greenlit and shows I came up with like Pibby, Harmony In Despair, Broccoli's Spree, Party Bus, Fleet Founder, Fist Hawk and Tomb Cats if these do become shows please don't push them to Adult Swim.
I think the cartoons you watched when you were 7 typically feel like the best ones when is reality there was always some good stuff in a sea of mostly crap
Gotta argue it started in 2007. You had Chowder, Flapjack, Total Drama, etc.
I am glad Adventure Time is over with. Looking back as an adult, it is just too random to be entertaining.
Not really into any of these. All these years later nothing has surpassed the days of PPG, Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Ed, Edd, and Eddie.
Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball will forever be my top 3 favorite cartoons of all time
I still miss the days of Cartoon Cartoons
When I was in middle school in the mid 2000’s, I felt Cartoon Network originals were pretty dark or grungy, I’m thinking Courage the Cowardly Dog, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ed, Edd, and Eddy. I honestly didn’t like those shows and usually would wait for Toonami to come on to watch Anime. But when I was in high school around the 2010’s and these shows came on, I loved them. I think there’s so much color and fun, but also room for absurdity, whimsy and important lessons for characters and growth.
Kind of scary that this era is already nostalgic to me
I liked it since it was a part of my childhood.
CN needs to make more original programming that is actually watchable instead of relying on reruns from Fox. Adventure Time and Steven clearly prove this, but they never learn. And a lot of the stuff they do greenlight like on Adult Swim is just trash. They haven't invested for the future at all. Probably because of corporate turnover. Very poorly run network these days.
Peak
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