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Except that’s absolutely not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies
https://wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-that-seem-ridiculous-now/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_AuthorityAnyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can’t really be free doesn’t remember what it was actually like before.
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn’t know it existed.
lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.
Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?
People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.
Probably because it ran on Sat nights not Sat mornings.
aaannddd you know what else im gonna do?
Im gonna hit ya…
…aaaanddd youre gonna fall down…
Lol. 90s cartoons were something else.
…aaaand I’mmm gonnnnna laauughfff
SPACE ……… MADNESS!
Oh, my beloved ice cream bar…
…how I love to lick your creamy center!
And your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering!
You’re not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper… boiled football leather… DOG BREATH!
Ren: “You know Stimpy. Your wealth of ignorance astounds me.”
Stimpy: "Well they don’t call me stupid for nothin’ "
The 90’s were a special time that we didn’t fully appreciate until they were gone.
I loved the 90s, hit em at the right age
Because kids love gross-out humor? Lmao
Nearly every 4-10 y.o. I’ve known in my lifetime had “fart,” “poop,” “butt,” and “booger” as their top most said words of the day. The remainder was yammering about their favorite TV shows and books/toys. And bugs. And rocks.
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbours dog?
LOG!
*from Blammo™!
Have you seen the price jump for LOG! lately? And people complain about gas prices…
I used to watch this on MuchMusic, it was so disturbing and funny
my car
It fits on your back, it’s great for a snack
Its log log log!
Its loooog, its loooog, its big its heavy its wood!
It’s looog, it’s looog!
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Things like this are why I like Lemmy people.
Log, from Blammo!
[ending jingle]
Ah. The good ol days when “cartoons are for kids”. I think South Park finally shattered that illusion.
The Flintstones was originally run at prime time for adults and their families. This wasn’t broken by South Park. Even the Simpsons did it before South Park did it
I think it aired at 9pm on Saturdays, though?
Yeah, it wasn’t a Saturday morning cartoon. It was on MTV in the evenings.
That was the reboot. The original aired on Nickelodeon, but a more “adult” version was made for MTV after the initial got canceled.
I didn’t see a time slot in the Wikipedia article. I was just going off of memory. My memory is telling me that it was late afternoon when nicktoons started and proper evening when ren n stimpy came on.
The younger generations simply aren’t going to understand the concept that there were specific times when your shows came on, and if you didn’t stop everything and turn it on immediately you might miss the first ten minutes.
Oh, and if you missed an episode? Tough, it might be a year or more before the next rerun…
Yeah, it was all ages stuff most of the day Saturday (I think for a time Nick Jr was a midday block on Nickelodeon), then Nicktoons, then SNICK which was for tweens and teens starting at like 7:30 or 8PM, after little ones usually go to bed during the school year.
Ren & Stimpy was on at 9PM for sure.
It was ok lol. My dad was the one to put me on Ren and Stimpy. It gave me a huge love and appreciation for cartoons and animation in general.
The animators of Ren and Stimpy felt like they put a lot of love in that show. Their enjoyment of their job shines through.
Ren and Stimpy is my favorite Nickelodeon show.
And what do you want to drink, Kowalski?
MEAT!
Don’t forget about toast!
I met Bob Camp once in Atlantic city. He told me very many strange things about his life as an animator but when I told him that those close-ups haunt me in my dreams he simply laughed and said “Yeah! We call 'em Gross-Ups! It was our favorite thing to make!”
I was lucky enough to buy some animation cells from him when he came to our local con.
The gross up close up. It’s one of my favorite techniques.
You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.
