If You Could "Fix" Cartoon Network

Originally Posted by SonicTheLegend

6:Air Avatar and Code Lyoko at times when people who do(There are believe it or not fans of these shows) like them are AWAKE. Cmon people it's not true anime to be sure, but both actually had good and well written characters.

._.

I miss Code Lyoko...

I'd get rid of:
1. Flapjack
2. Chowder
3. Stoked
4. 6teen
5. Total Drama Action, Total Drama Island
6. Batman: The Brave and The Bold
7. Chaotic
8. Yu-Gi-Oh
9. The Secret Saturdays
10. Ben 10.

Yeah.

Originally Posted by VictorZamora

I'd get rid of:
1. Flapjack
2. Chowder
3. Stoked
4. 6teen
5. Total Drama Action, Total Drama Island
6. Batman: The Brave and The Bold
7. Chaotic
8. Yu-Gi-Oh
9. The Secret Saturdays
10. Ben 10.

Yeah.

So you want to make CN ten times worse or something?

There is no fixing it. I guess if I were to try, I would get rid of pretty much every show, move them all to that boomerang channel, and change the name from Cartoon Network so that it can have a fresh start.
I don't really like anything on that channel, so for me to fix it would be to give it a complete overhaul. I'm not really sure what shows I would have on it at the moment though.

Here is what I would do to make Cartoon Network good again.

1. I would bring back (CCF)Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. I don't know what it was but when I was younger I couldn't wait for Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. It gave me a good feeling inside and I liked watching all my favorite cartoons back to back. The only diffrence about this version of CCF is there will be a hotline where kids and adults can call and request for a certain cartoon to be played. The highest cartoons in demand will be shown the most.

2. Bring back an after school hours anime line up show. It will be very simular to Toonami and it will show a line up of good anime such as:

Street Fighter series( I think would be a great addition to add to CN)

InuYasha

DeathNote

Naruto

Bleach

Eureka 7

Tenchi

Those are just to name a few.

3. I would have something on CN called (BW)Boomerang weekend or maybe it would be named diffrently. With BW I would show all the old school cartoons that some of us and our parents grew up with all weekend long, every weekend. Some shows would include:

Courage the coward dog

Fosters

Dexter's Lab

Cow and Chicken

I am Weasel

Ed, Edd and Eddy

Looney Toons

Scooby Doo

Tiny Toons

Freakazoid

Flintstones

Johnny Bravo

Samurai Jack

Tom and Jerry

Power Puff Girls

Teen Titans

And more!

4. I would show a good cartoon movie every Sunday night about 7 or 8pm to end Boomerang Weekend.

5 .I would get rid of the whole repeat the first 3 hours lineup with Adult Swim. The first few hours of Adult Swim will be for the comedic shows and the last few hours usually where they repeat the line up will be uncensored/unedited anime shows.

6. Besides adding everything I just listed above I would get rid of the following shows:

6Teen

Stroked

Total Drama Island

Clone Wars(They need to just give the Star Wars trilogy a rest already. Shows like this just ruins it for me)

Secret Saturdays


After getting rid of those FAIL shows that pretty much raps everything up. If this were to happen CN would be awsome again.

They need to regularly run Batman: The Animated Series.

Or it's succesor, the Batman, which was really good, actually.

The clone wars show is okay. Half of the episodes are about Anikan Skywalker, and are terrible, but, the ones by guest directors and writers are amazing.

Originally Posted by Big One

So you want to make CN ten times worse or something?

Nope, I'd improve it like that.

BOBOBO-BO-BOBO!!
ONE PIECE!!

Originally Posted by dimentio

ONE PIECE!!

Only in its original form, or a with new, uncensored dub on adult swim. 4kids made One Piece totally lame, and I never even watched the show that much to know that. All I know is, from what I've heard, the Japanese version had a lot of mature content and gave off a better vibe when you watched it. 4kids basically dumbed it down to fit the mind of a seven year old. Not only that, but whenever I tried watching it on Cartoon Network when it aired on Toonami a few years back, the voice overs were extremely childish, and unrealistic. I tried watching the Japanese dub a while back, and it was WAY better, and had normal voices. Plus, the Japanese version didn't have a pathetic rap opening theme song to destroy the franchise. So, it's either in Japanese, a new dub, or hell no.

Come on guys. You all sound like old farts.

"BACK IN MY DAY CARTOON NETWORK WAS GOOD. IT AIRED AMAZING SHOWS THAT THAT RETARDED SHOW WITH THE BRAIN WHO HAD THE BODY OF A BEAR."

Playing reruns of old shows you used to like isn't the way to make Cartoon Network better.

Instead...

1.) Kick Adult Swim out the door. I know what you're thinking. "But 8bit, Adult Swim is hilarious, and is the only reason I watch Cartoon Network anymore! Why would you want to get rid of it?"

My answer: Because they need their own network. Turner owns a bunch of stations. Just convert one of the shttier ones to the Adult Swim station. I mean, seriously, **** Turner Classic Movies. Does anyone under the age of 70 ever watch that channel? Replace TCM with AS.

2.) Get rid of Bleach and all the other ****ty animus. Seriously. I think that might be AS's department, but still. Bleach is ****ing terrible.

3.) Bring back Toonami with NEW animus, and also, make Toonami a regular 'show'. What I mean by this is that they should actually get writers and artists to make a Toonami show which takes place in between each showing of a normal show. So, if we have, say, a 2.5 hour block for Toonami, it would run something like this:

10 minutes: Toonami show part 1
30 minutes: show 1
30 minutes: show 2
10 minutes: Toonami show part 2
30 minutes: show 3
30 minutes: show 4
10 minutes: Toonami show part 3

4.) Commission Pendleton Ward to do an Adventure Time cartoon.

5.) Commission Genndy Tartakovsky to do a whole new show. (Creator of Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Dexters Lab, and a few more...)

6.) Bring back the midnight run. Use it to rerun old animu shows. Run it for two hours.

7.) Bring back The Cartoon Cartoon Show. For anyone who doesn't remember The Cartoon Cartoon Show was a show which showcased short pilots for cartoons.

8.) Try to get Lemminy Snicket to write a show. I'm not particularly interested in his series of books, but as evidenced by his musical career, he's a great children's comedy writer.

9.) Create an indie cartoon show. A one hour show where people send in 30 second to 10 minute shorts, and cartoon network airs the best ones. This would be similar to TCCS, except that the length of the toons would be vary, and the shows would be sent in by amateurs, and cartoon network would pick the best ones to air. This could also be used for recruiting.

10.) Get They Might be Giants to write a new show.

11.) Dedicate 5 hours a day to Gen Y retro toons. (Dexter, Powerpuff Girls, Courage, etc...)

12.) Dedicate 3 hours a day to Ye Olde retro cartoons. (Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, etc...)

13.) Keep Flapjack.

14.) Keep Chowder.

15.) Get rid of all live action stuff. This includes the stupid live action hosts they have for some segments. If possible, this should include ads, though that's not really a requirement.

16.) Have an All-Stars show. This doesn't need much plot, so writing it shouldn't be difficult, but basically, each episode would have 3 or 4 one on one fights between different characters from different cartoon network shows. An easy and interesting way to eat up a time slot.

17.) Ask Disney/Marvel and DC to each do a new show, or shows.

18.) So long as Disney is in the boat, try to get PIXAR to do a series.

19.) Find out what the **** happened to Mainframe Entertainment. Yes, they did Reboot and Beast Wars. Apparently they're doing Barbie movies and pre-rendered cutscenes for the Ghostbusters game now. JESUS WHAT HAPPENED!?

20.) A video game review show with animated hosts. Make it X-play for children, but make it like X-play was back when it was called Extended Play, and it was awesome. In fact, try to get the two hosts to do the character voices.

Originally Posted by Guy Above Me

InuYasha

Naruto

Bleach

No.

^I don't think Adult swim needs to be moved, it's fine where it's at. There aren't that many good shows on Adult Swim for a whole diffrent network. I would say the bread and butter for Adult Swim right now is probably Family Guy and a select few other shows.

InuYasha is not a bad show at all...

Okay, honestly I haven't watched a single episode of Naruto. I personally don't like it but it is a show that the younger kids enjoy. CN needs more veiwers, it will mostly get children viewers and children love Naruto. It reminds me of how much I loved DBZ growing up.


Maybe Bleach isn't all that great... you know.. with all the talking stuffed animals and complete silliness but there were really great action packed moments at times.

To me anything that is similar in style to Naruto should be considered Anime-EX(EX meaning the one exception being it not being made in jappan) or something. Instead of just "a crappy imitation of the good stuff!" or other usual comments. Because if you ask me, Avatar, Code Lyoko, and IGPX are all awesome shows with believable charries and decent ammounts of action when things get a little too slow.

I am actually plotting a Naruto story myself, because not only was Naruto my first anime but the folks didn't get mad about me watching it! As for the story, hmm it may be reasonable or worth it to submit it to Shonen Jump as material as a new season or even just a feature length movie. It's original enough in legend and backstory, that the involvement of naruto just seems to fit for this one. I've had some people tell me to make it a re-write so it's original, but I've done that before with two stories. Not gonna happen with this one.

Oh and HM, should I put more det's on what I'd like to be done for my sig request, or is that fine?

On Topic: Just because a show doesn't constantly have people dieing, and showing critical wounds doesn't make it a kiddie show. Avatar: The last airbender actually has some pretty iawesome moments that are close to teen rated. No other nick show does that, and none of the other shows have a how should I put this...a PLOT! XD

To me, what makes a show a "kiddie" show (ages 13 and under) is when there's no serious moments, no tearjerking "arguments" between the main characters, no action that involves killing or even actually hurting them. (Avatar: The Last Airbender actually has quite a few "close calls", and some of them in particular were pretty brutal. Like having a lightning bolt shot through your shoulderblade. They showed Azula doing that to an OLD man!) and stuff that just plain makes no sense at all. It's okay sometimes, like in avatar it seems the characters sometimes are talking to the viewer. But when it's so constant that there's no plot, like spongebob. THAT makes it a "kiddie" show. Even if it's still hilarious! lol

Originally Posted by Happy Mask

^I don't think Adult swim needs to be moved, it's fine where it's at. There aren't that many good shows on Adult Swim for a whole diffrent network. I would say the bread and butter for Adult Swim right now is probably Family Guy and a select few other shows.

Family Guy is probably one of the weakest shows on Adult Swim, where the strongest are Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, King of the Hill, ATHF, and The Venture Bros.

If they had their own network they could air all of these shows, as well as some good, new animus, and whatever else they fancy. Hell, since they're owned by the same company, they could replay episodes of Dexter and Samurai Jack, since that's a big portion of their viewer base.

InuYasha is not a bad show at all...

Sure, bro.

Okay, honestly I haven't watched a single episode of Naruto. I personally don't like it but it is a show that the younger kids enjoy. CN needs more veiwers, it will mostly get children viewers and children love Naruto. It reminds me of how much I loved DBZ growing up.

DBZ wasn't nearly as weeaboo as Naruto.

Maybe Bleach isn't all that great... you know.. with all the talking stuffed animals and complete silliness but there were really great action packed moments at times.

And the terrible art, dubs, plot, and characters.

Originally Posted by MetroidMaster

But when it's so constant that there's no plot, like spongebob. THAT makes it a "kiddie" show. Even if it's still hilarious! lol

Shows like Tim and Eric have far less plot than spongebob. I wouldn't consider it child level.

But anyway, they should not be making 'kids shows' in the same way that Nintendo should not be making 'kids games'. They should be making shows which can be enjoyed by anyone, including children. (Just as Mario or Pokemon can be enjoyed by anyone.)

Some of these 'kids shows' are works of art because they're able to achieve something like this, and I'm not blathering about nostalgia. Recent shows- Adventure Time, Flapjack, and Chowder are all awesome shows.

Originally Posted by MetroidMaster

if you ask me, Avatar, Code Lyoko, and IGPX are all awesome shows

yes musn't forget IPGX. that rocked.

Originally Posted by Happy Mask

3. I would have something on CN called (BW)Boomerang weekend or maybe it would be named diffrently. With BW I would show all the old school cartoons that some of us and our parents grew up with all weekend long, every weekend. Some shows would include:

Courage the coward dog

Fosters

Dexter's Lab

Cow and Chicken

I am Weasel

Ed, Edd and Eddy

Looney Toons

Scooby Doo

Tiny Toons

Freakazoid

Flintstones

Johnny Bravo

Samurai Jack

Tom and Jerry

Power Puff Girls

Teen Titans

And more!

I remember all of those! I feel so old and I'm only 12!

Originally Posted by 8bit

2.) Get rid of Bleach and all the other ****ty animus. Seriously. I think that might be AS's department, but still. Bleach is ****ing terrible.

Fullmetal Alchemist and Cowboy Bebop are what you consider "****ty anime"?

And no they won't remove Bleach. It's one of their most popular shows right now. Plus they shouldn't, because it's my only way of watching it. Bleach may not be the best, but I still like to watch it.

Take it off of Adult Swim and the furthest legal released episode here will be something around 91... That's like 50 episodes behind what it is on Adult Swim, which is already 100 episodes behind Japan.

I may not like Bleach all of that much... But at least it's not Naruto that's on instead.

yes musn't forget IPGX. that rocked.

YAY Another fan! :3 lol First off, I don't remember many of the names, cause I haven't seen it in like forever. T-T but second, did you ever crush on anyone? I did lol. First it was the girl with the cat, then his(Takashi or something wasn't it? sister, lol I settled on the french girl Fontene (not sure if that's spelled right) after season two though.

I watched that show and how the "old" IGPX models looked in the flashbacks and something struck me as odd. I noticed that the older models looked a lot like that rocket car that broke the sound barrier! That means if some1 invested enough money and time into it those mechs could actually happen. ^_^ Well obviously not now of course with the economy and all, but I'm thinking more like 20020 or something. I sooooo want one of those for my birthday this friday XD

I'd bring back Johnny Bravi, Ed Edd and Eddy, Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly dog. And of course Batman the Animated series.

Originally Posted by Happy Mask

2. Bring back an after school hours anime line up show. It will be very simular to Toonami and it will show a line up of good anime such as:

Street Fighter series( I think would be a great addition to add to CN)

InuYasha

DeathNote

Naruto

Bleach

Eureka 7

Tenchi

Those are just to name a few.

...seriously. Getting DeathNote on Cartoon Network is a horrible idea. It belongs in Adult Swim.

I'd personally like them to start the Naruto Shippuuden series, New Episodes of Justice League Unlimited, New Episodes of Teen Titans, Cancel the upcoming new "Super Hero Squad" (plus I thought Nickelodeon was doing all the Marvel cartoons...), New Episodes of the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, New Episodes of Samurai Jack, New Episodes of Storm Hawks, and New Episodes of Xiaolin Showdown. Introduce some anime again, and not just once a week on Fridays (like Trigun).

-BGS