Why do cartoons suck nowadays?

Phineas and Ferb is pretty good.

Even Ren and Stimpy.

Gnome wrote:

Scooby Doo

Mr. Mgoo

Underdog

Captain Caveman...

So many old school cartoons are timeless.

Have you tried to sit through the crap little kids have to watch nowadays?

Is it that cartoon artists rely on technology?

I think the current My Little Pony is pretty good (a lot of the fans are nuts, but plenty of other fanbases are also nuts). Adventure Time is supposed to be good too, but I haven't watched it.

Lots of good recent animated movies, too. Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, The Lego Movie, etc.

Adventure Time is phenomenal, here's a New Yorker article about it http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/04/21/140421crte_television_nussbaum?currentPage=all

Adult oriented cartoons don't count (my example of Ren & Stimpy is wrong).

Disney doesen't count either.

What are some good cartoons nowadays that little kids watch every day.

the reviver wrote:

I think the current My Little Pony is pretty good

If you watch My little pony, you are gay. period.

Adventure Time possibly doesn't suck (full episodes on YouTube indicate). possible epilleptic fits from watching all those lightning fast edits though.

What about the brilliant Bugs Bunny

My kids like Spongebob, but I find it annoying. They also like Phineas and Ferb, which is really well written. Good characters. Good lines.

They don't. You just out grew them.

Gnome wrote:

Scooby Doo

Mr. Mgoo

Underdog

Captain Caveman...

So many old school cartoons are timeless.

Have you tried to sit through the crap little kids have to watch nowadays?

Is it that cartoon artists rely on technology?

You forgot the Pink Panter. Pink Phink is the best episode in cartoon history. I can still watch the old version of The Pink Panter and be in tears from laughter.

Blitzplay wrote:

Gnome wrote:

Scooby Doo

Mr. Mgoo

Underdog

Captain Caveman...

So many old school cartoons are timeless.

Have you tried to sit through the crap little kids have to watch nowadays?

Is it that cartoon artists rely on technology?

You forgot the Pink Panter. Pink Phink is the best episode in cartoon history. I can still watch the old version of The Pink Panter and be in tears from laughter.

For me, the best episode in cartoon history is Wacky Delly, from Rocko's Modern Life. Or maybe one of several Futurama episodes (The Sting, Luck of the Fryrish, The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings).

Regular Show is the greatest cartoon EVER!

Gnome wrote:

Even Ren and Stimpy.

cartoon boy wrote:

Regular Show is the greatest cartoon EVER!

Please dont roast my existence but I watched Regualar show as a young teenager and can still hapily watch an episode today as a young adult. Honestly a really good show. Like a toned down Rick and Morty if you will.

Gnome wrote:

Scooby Doo

Mr. Mgoo

Underdog

Captain Caveman...

So many old school cartoons are timeless.

Have you tried to sit through the crap little kids have to watch nowadays?

Is it that cartoon artists rely on technology?

Politically correct culture.

Cow and Chicken and Ren and Stimpy would be viewed as obscene by today's standards.

Ed, Edd, and Eddy would be seen as hustlers.

Johnny Bravo and Pepe Le Pew would be seen as rapists.

Gnome wrote:

Even Ren and Stimpy.

"even?" OP did not mention one good cartoon. Scooby Doo was the best of Hanna Barbera's cheap mass produced barely-animated garbage. Only Kasem's presence made it half decent.

Best cartoons:

1) Tom and Jerry. Beautiful underlying physics, kinetic to potential energy and back again. Hits the brain like real-world objects do.

2) Warner Bros, but only Road Runner and a very few of the voiced characters.

3) 2 Stupid Dogs. Remembered to be funny! Rare since 1990.

4) He-Man and Masters of the Universe. Filmation ruled the comic-book-animation genre while it existed. Understood the basic stupidity and campiness and made the most of it, like Batman did before it.

5) Beavis and Butthead

6) Ren and Stimpy (pending DQ because creator now alleged to be a perv in real life too)

7) Pink Panther

Worst:

1) Simpsons and anything else by Matt Groening. Retire please, Matt. Rapid fire dialogue is cheap and forgettable, like Robin Williams.

2) Family Guy

3) Flintstones. Poisoned the entire Hanna Barbera brand, if it weren't already crap.

4) Stock DC/Marvel superhero stuff. Hack, uncreative writers go away, die penniless please.

Gnome wrote:

Scooby Doo

Mr. Mgoo

Underdog

Captain Caveman...

So many old school cartoons are timeless.

Have you tried to sit through the crap little kids have to watch nowadays?

Is it that cartoon artists rely on technology?

You just have nostalgia for the crap you use to watch as a dumb kid.

We bare bears is good. Scooby doo is still on. Your not 8 anymore.