[Cartoon Network]'s 20th Anniversary: Nostalgia To The Max

LegendofLink

There doesn't seem to be a thread discussing this yet, so this seems appropriate.

20 years ago today, Cartoon Network was launched. It has had its ups and downs, but it is certainly a huge part of many of our childhoods. In celebration of this event, Cartoon Network has put out some awesome promotional videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxctv3Un5s&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ToedGaNN65g

And an amazing picture with so many shows in it that I'm being reminded of cartoons that I forgot even existed:



Let the nostalgia commence!

Sweeney Tom

Between Foster's replays, Adventure Time's 100th episode, and new season of Regular Show starting with a half-hour episode, today is a perfect day to watch Cartoon Network.

I'm An Elk; Shoot Me

God did I love SWAT Kats.

wirehead26

Let's hope CN keeps making, you know CARTOONS and not more live action shit. Even if one of them had Andrew WK hosting.

Mortal Sky

Williams Street was the best thing to happen to this channel.

Tallahasseeriel

Good.

Now where are my Dexter's Lab Reruns?

Because FUCK Johnny Test.

simulacrum

Uriel wrote: »

Good.

Now where are my Dexter's Lab Reruns?

Because FUCK Johnny Test.

This.

Kuribo's Shoe

Is that 20th anniversary image a poster I can buy

It is amazing

Sweeney Tom

Uriel wrote: »

Good.

Now where are my Dexter's Lab Reruns?

Because FUCK Johnny Test.

There was one earlier today.

Tallahasseeriel

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

Good.

Now where are my Dexter's Lab Reruns?

Because FUCK Johnny Test.

There was one earlier today.

And I missed it?

FUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Dexter's Lab and PPG were my favorite cartoons.

LegendofLink

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

Is that 20th anniversary image a poster I can buy

It is amazing

I did some poking around, and apparently they were handed out at San Diego Comic Con. You can probably snag one on ebay.

Sweeney Tom

Uriel wrote: »

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

Good.

Now where are my Dexter's Lab Reruns?

Because FUCK Johnny Test.

There was one earlier today.

And I missed it?

FUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Dexter's Lab and PPG were my favorite cartoons.

There's a Powerpuff Girls rerun in 9 minutes.

Brolo

One of the suckiest things about Canada is that we didn't get Cartoon Network properly during its heyday.

wirehead26

Dammit we are never going to see that rated R Dexter's Lab episode and that makes me sad.

UnbreakableVow

I don't really like what happened to the channel in recent years

But Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Space Ghost Coast to Coast/Cartoon Planet...all fantastic stuff

I need to replace my SGC2C DVDs, someone borrowed them in high school and then mysteriously moved to New York, the bastard

UnbreakableVow

Sweeney are you lying

I just turned on Cartoon Network and there's a timer in the corner counting down to a Regular Show special ugh

I guess timezones and all that

Sweeney Tom

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Sweeney are you lying

I just turned on Cartoon Network and there's a timer in the corner counting down to a Regular Show special ugh

I guess timezones and all that

Is Foster's on right now?

If so, up next is a Powerpuff Girls rerun

Two episodes, one of which is the one with MoJeesha

I'm EST so

Mysst

I feel privileged to have Samurai Jack DVDs is all I know

Centipede Damascus

Vow here thinks he's too good for Regular Show

UnbreakableVow

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Sweeney are you lying

I just turned on Cartoon Network and there's a timer in the corner counting down to a Regular Show special ugh

I guess timezones and all that

Is Foster's on right now?

If so, up next is a Powerpuff Girls rerun

Two episodes, one of which is the one with MoJeesha

I'm EST so

I don't know what Foster's is, so

UnbreakableVow

Wooo Sweeney was not lying

Ah that timer was five hours

That's a bit excessive but okay

Mysst

Foster's is the cartoon that brought 'pissed off' to stay at home mothers everywhere

Naphtali

wirehead26 wrote: »

Dammit we are never going to see that rated R Dexter's Lab episode and that makes me sad.

wait what?

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Vow here thinks he's too good for Regular Show

or adventure time

Sweeney Tom

Naphtali wrote: »

wirehead26 wrote: »

Dammit we are never going to see that rated R Dexter's Lab episode and that makes me sad.

wait what?

The panel for Dexter was with a special guest being Genndy who delighted us with some oncoming specials and such. He then hinted that he also wanted to show us something ‘truly special’ at the end.
Nearing the end, a girl from CN stood up and announced that everyone under 18 needed to stand up and would be given something special but had to leave. The kids filed out as the adults kind of looked at each other with a big ? over our heads. Genndy kept grinning.
After all the kids were shooed, Genndy looked at the remaining 20-30 of us and said “We made something special as an inhouse project to show only at CN parties and the like…I loved it soo much you guys are gonna get a treat…Dexter’s Rude Removal”
The girl then stood in front of us and warned us with bodily harm if she caught any of us taping anything or even remembering hard. She was pretty much imagining it getting out there and torpedoeing CN with lawsuits. “I want you people to know this will NEVER be made public…so count yourself extremely lucky”. Finally Genndy shooed her away.
Title screen: Dexter’s Rude Removal. Dexter is mooning us and Dee Dee is flipping us the bird. Oh boy!
Plot: Dexter has decided that rudeness is preventing him from becoming the perfect child and has constructed a ‘Rude Extractor’ to separate his bad mojo. Dee Dee of course shows up at the wrong possible time and wreaks havoc. Dexter manages to tackle her, directly into the Rude Beam…
Dee Dee and Dexter separate from each other, spawning a evil twin of themselves and knocking out their good halves. Both look at their good selves and immediately begin to curse each other, their surroundings and trash the place. ***k this ***k that…you are a ***king idiot…who the ***k you calling a ***king idiot, you ***king idiot?
Mom calls “Dexter…Dee Dee….LUNCH!
“AW ***t…I AM ***kING STARVED!” They tear out of the lab and blunder their way through the house, wrecking stuff and cursing up a blue streak.
Just within earshot of mom, they stop cursing as they drop into their seat, and start shoveling food noisily with belches and farts. Mom pauses and turns asking how their food is. Dexter belches and exclaims
“Aw ***king hell mom, this ***t is ***kin great!”
to which Dee Dee counters
“Shut the ***k up you ***thead…you can’t ***king curse in front of ***king Mom!”
and they both begin to literally curse the ***t out of each other. This exchange manages to make Mom faint and they really go at it (Seriously, Dee Dee called Dexter a Skull***king Douchebag one time).
Eventually, Dexter and DeeDee wake up and manage to trap the cursing twins back in the lab and eradicate them (To the scream of ***k OFF, YOU ***kIN NERD from the evil sides). They leave the lab as Dexter declares that ‘Lucky we got them in time…ah well no harm done’.
Rounding the corner, they find Mom standing there menancingly with a big bar of soap as she screams “DEXTER AND DEE DEE…GET OVER HERE”. The black circle closes over Dexter as he looks at the audience and goes “Oh ***k!”
The End
Needless to say, all of us were in complete hysterics. Both my friend and I were tearing up from laughing so hard. Just hearing Dee Dee’s high pitched voice sailor talking makes it proabably the most wanted cartoon to see.

wirehead26

Sweeney beat me to it. I'm almost 100 percent positive that the Adventure Time crew will do something similiar down the road.

Naphtali

holy shit

Mortal Sky

Regular Show was like that at first, of course.

JayKaos

wirehead26 wrote: »

Sweeney beat me to it. I'm almost 100 percent positive that the Adventure Time crew will do something similiar down the road.

Just picture any episode featuring LSP, and replace "lump" with "fuck" and it'd probably be ten times worse.

Mortal Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y894QNtX0VA

This is what I was getting at re: Regular Show, for the unfamiliar.

Owenashi

How good is Sym-Bionic Titan? I ask because I wasn't able to catch it the first time it aired and now have a second chance what with it being added to Toonami's lineup.

Sweeney Tom

It's pretty good.

Indie Winter

I thought it was pretty good

very nice action

the plot did seem to muddle along but they got cancelled halfway through the first season so they didn't really give it time to bloom

Centipede Damascus

Owenashi wrote: »

How good is Sym-Bionic Titan? I ask because I wasn't able to catch it the first time it aired and now have a second chance what with it being added to Toonami's lineup.

it's a giant robot action cartoon made by the guy who made Samurai Jack

it's pretty good

Bucketman

Although there was this...which was weird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U008nGT0eww&feature=related

I really liked that show though and its super sad that it ended how it did

DouglasDanger

what happened, or maybe didn't happen to sym-bionic-titan is a travesty

Shorty

I really need to get the rest of Foster's on dvd

TheySlashThem

I think I might be nostalgia'ed out

BusterK

$10 says this devolves into an Anime thread and is prematurely locked

UnbreakableVow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a3Ja-dvtUc

Tonkka

Ed, Edd, and Eddy forever.

Barcardi

youtube really shut down all the space ghost knifen around and flipmode clips, i need to find those again.

but there is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1AYM3lgoUI&feature=related

oh dear god a spanish version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8vltsIdwY

basta!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZh2CChdqsc&feature=relmfu