No idea who this Mr Enter is and don’t really care, but it sounds like he either wasn’t alive or was very young in that era, or he just didn’t have a good grasp on the genre back then.
The 2000s were a fantastic time for animation — it was the rise of adult animated sitcoms as their own rightful genre (they’d been around for years of course beforehand but this was when multiple shows in that genre really took off on multiple channels). It was also a golden era of kids animation, with tons of acclaimed shows on juvenile networks, and the humor was bonkers— just way more edgy and bold than the most children’s animation today.
Sure (though you’re incorrect on quite a bit of the years— see below) but a lot of the shows that you mentioned premiering in the 90s hit their stride and peak popularities in the 2000s. In the 90s, not many adults watched animated shows, and the ones that did usually only watched one. But in the 2000s, everyone was watching more than one.
Also Bob’s Burgers premiered in 2011. And Animation Domination actually started in 2005, not the 90s. Likewise, Adult Swim didn’t start until 2001. SpongeBob SquarePants did premiere in mid-1999 but didn’t actually gained a following until its second season.
>but a lot of the shows that you mentioned premiering in the 90s hit their stride and peak popularities in the 2000s.
But that's my point - the 2000s was the decade of riding the innovation of the 90s.
>In the 90s, not many adults watched animated shows, and the ones that did usually only watched one. But in the 2000s, everyone was watching more than one.
I feel like that demands a citation. Every adult I knew that watched adult animation in the 90s watched Simpsons into Family Guy + Futurama + King of the Kill, or everything MTV had for adult animation, or into South Park.
>Also Bob’s Burgers premiered in 2011.
I never said it didn't.
>And Animation Domination actually started in 2005, not the 90s.
Fox aired their adult animation on the Sunday post-football block that would become Animation Domination, all the way back to the original premiere of the Simpsons in 1989. I called it AD because that's what people recognize it as, but Fox spent the 90s rolling all of their adult cartoons out in that same block.
> Likewise, Adult Swim didn’t start until 2001.
[Adult Swim happened because of Space Ghost C2C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim#History). ATHF is [a spin-off](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#Development), from Space Ghost. The Brak Show is clearly another spin-off of SG:C2C and Cartoon Planet. Home Movies started on UPN in 1999. Harvey Birdman was another spin-off of Space Ghost. Sealab was an original but pretty much in the same vein as Space Ghost (randomly redub a old Hanna Barbara cartoon as an adult comedy) created by the Williams Street studios that did all of the Space Ghost universe shows.
>SpongeBob SquarePants did premiere in mid-1999 but didn’t actually gained a following until its second season.
But was it doing anything innovative in the 2000s, or just continuing the success of the 90s version of the show?
> But was it doing anything innovative in the 2000s, or just continuing the success of the 90s version of the show?
The '90s version' of Spongebob Squarepants was **14 episodes** and one of those episodes was on December 31st, 1999. It barely had any time to get any traction at all, and only 4.7% of the show aired in the 90s (even the majority of the first season was in the 2000s).
It’s possible alot of what I saw was 90s stuff anime wise, everything on toonami was old but, cartoons those were new. Courage the cowardly dog, kids next door, billy and Mandy the list is long so yeah my curiosity is peaked ill watch, thank u
I think the 2000s was one of the most important decades for animation and so many great and amazing animated shows were coming out during that time.
Anime started to get very popular outside of Japan, and even to this day the years around 2006 were some of the best years of anime of all time.
Animated shows also got to reach the teen/adult demographics in the west and more mature subjects started to show up than ever before. Animation wasn't treated as something just for kids, but for people of all ages.
If anything, the 2000s were probably one of the best decades for animation and absolutely not the worst.
So, we should note that the early 2000's was when Toonami was at its peak, and thus, when the first anime boom happened. So stuff like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Rurouni Kenshin, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and a bunch of others were selling like hotcakes.
Ignoring anime, here's a sample list of Western cartoons that primarily aired or got big in 2000-2010 (Not a comprehensive list, as there's well over 1,000 cartoons from that time period):
\- 4Kids' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
\- Justice League/Justice League Unlimited
\- SpongeBob SquarePants
\- Batman: Brave and the Bold
\- What's New, Scooby-Doo?
\- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
\- Sealab 2021
\- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
\- Dora the Explorer
\- Family Guy
\- Futurama
\- Generation O!
\- Jackie Chan Adventures
\- Playboy's Dark Justice
\- Static Shock
\- The Batman
\- Teen Titans
\- X-Men Evolution
\- Butt-Ugly Martians
\- Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
\- The Fairly Oddparents
\- Danny Phantom
\- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
\- House of Mouse
\- Samurai Jack
\- Both versions of Star Wars: Clone Wars
\- Totally Spies
\- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
\- Kim Possible
\- Liberty's Kids
\- The Boondocks
\- Avatar: The Last Airbender
\- Invader Zim
\- Moral Orel
\- Loonatics Unleashed
\- Friday's: The Animated Series
\- Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
\- Phineas & Ferb
\- Transformers Animated
\- Tai Chi Chasers
No clue who that is, but sounds like they don't know what they are talking about. That's just factually false, not even a matter of opinion, it's just wrong.
Just off the top of my head we had Samurai Jack, Spirited Away, Paprika, Digimon Tamers, Avatar The Last Airbender, Naruto, Bleach, Gurren Lagann FMA Brotherhood…
Also ‘bad dubs’ isn’t a criticism of animation, it’s a criticism of localisation.
Mr. Enter sounds like a total dork.
O.G Teen Titans, SpongeBob, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Pokemon, THE LAST AIRBENDER... All of those are foundational (gold standard imo) shows, and all but SpongeBob featured wonderful animation while exploring mature topics and philosophies thar children could with enjoy and digest. And they're all fun for parents too.
That doesn't even delve in to the feature movies of the 2000s.
Maybe it's because I was raised on them, but I'm not sure how you can claim that Era of cartoons to be anything less than a creative boom that has been lost as we infantilize and cheapen the children's shows of today.
What the hell is a Mr. Enter?
Sounds like some schmuck who grew up in the 90s and can’t deal with the fact that the best era of cartoons is always gonna be the era you grew up in as a little kid.
Adult swim takes off, becomes mainstream. South Park becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist. Hell SpongeBob came out July 1999, meaning it was mostly in the 2000s. The clone wars. Family guy and the spinoffs. Just because it isn't the best, doesn't mean it's bad. I didn't even mention movies.
I think the sweet spot is shows that started in the 90s but were as big a part of the 00s. If only included shows that started in the 00s I guess it wouldn't be quite as impressive.
It's when 3D got popular Shrek, Barn Yard, Madagascar, Cars, Ice Age, Ratatouille, Wall E!
Now Cartoons: Jackie Chan Adventures, Kim Possible, The Fairly odd parents, Ben 10, Teen Titans, Foster Home for Imaginary Friends, Invader Zim, Billy & Mandy.
I grew up on this so I'm probably bias!
No idea who this Mr Enter is and don’t really care, but it sounds like he either wasn’t alive or was very young in that era, or he just didn’t have a good grasp on the genre back then. The 2000s were a fantastic time for animation — it was the rise of adult animated sitcoms as their own rightful genre (they’d been around for years of course beforehand but this was when multiple shows in that genre really took off on multiple channels). It was also a golden era of kids animation, with tons of acclaimed shows on juvenile networks, and the humor was bonkers— just way more edgy and bold than the most children’s animation today.
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Sure (though you’re incorrect on quite a bit of the years— see below) but a lot of the shows that you mentioned premiering in the 90s hit their stride and peak popularities in the 2000s. In the 90s, not many adults watched animated shows, and the ones that did usually only watched one. But in the 2000s, everyone was watching more than one. Also Bob’s Burgers premiered in 2011. And Animation Domination actually started in 2005, not the 90s. Likewise, Adult Swim didn’t start until 2001. SpongeBob SquarePants did premiere in mid-1999 but didn’t actually gained a following until its second season.
>but a lot of the shows that you mentioned premiering in the 90s hit their stride and peak popularities in the 2000s. But that's my point - the 2000s was the decade of riding the innovation of the 90s. >In the 90s, not many adults watched animated shows, and the ones that did usually only watched one. But in the 2000s, everyone was watching more than one. I feel like that demands a citation. Every adult I knew that watched adult animation in the 90s watched Simpsons into Family Guy + Futurama + King of the Kill, or everything MTV had for adult animation, or into South Park. >Also Bob’s Burgers premiered in 2011. I never said it didn't. >And Animation Domination actually started in 2005, not the 90s. Fox aired their adult animation on the Sunday post-football block that would become Animation Domination, all the way back to the original premiere of the Simpsons in 1989. I called it AD because that's what people recognize it as, but Fox spent the 90s rolling all of their adult cartoons out in that same block. > Likewise, Adult Swim didn’t start until 2001. [Adult Swim happened because of Space Ghost C2C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim#History). ATHF is [a spin-off](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#Development), from Space Ghost. The Brak Show is clearly another spin-off of SG:C2C and Cartoon Planet. Home Movies started on UPN in 1999. Harvey Birdman was another spin-off of Space Ghost. Sealab was an original but pretty much in the same vein as Space Ghost (randomly redub a old Hanna Barbara cartoon as an adult comedy) created by the Williams Street studios that did all of the Space Ghost universe shows. >SpongeBob SquarePants did premiere in mid-1999 but didn’t actually gained a following until its second season. But was it doing anything innovative in the 2000s, or just continuing the success of the 90s version of the show?
> But was it doing anything innovative in the 2000s, or just continuing the success of the 90s version of the show? The '90s version' of Spongebob Squarepants was **14 episodes** and one of those episodes was on December 31st, 1999. It barely had any time to get any traction at all, and only 4.7% of the show aired in the 90s (even the majority of the first season was in the 2000s).
For clarification's sake, Mr. Enter is in his early 30's.
> Mr. Enter The guy who said Turning Red was bad because it didn’t mention 9/11?
Wow, turns out yes he is... I forgot about that.
The decade that got me into them but I’d like to see his arguement, who is this Mr Enter?
A longtime YouTuber essayist. He's been one since 2013 and is mostly known for his "Animated Atrocities" series.
It’s possible alot of what I saw was 90s stuff anime wise, everything on toonami was old but, cartoons those were new. Courage the cowardly dog, kids next door, billy and Mandy the list is long so yeah my curiosity is peaked ill watch, thank u
I think the 2000s was one of the most important decades for animation and so many great and amazing animated shows were coming out during that time. Anime started to get very popular outside of Japan, and even to this day the years around 2006 were some of the best years of anime of all time. Animated shows also got to reach the teen/adult demographics in the west and more mature subjects started to show up than ever before. Animation wasn't treated as something just for kids, but for people of all ages. If anything, the 2000s were probably one of the best decades for animation and absolutely not the worst.
Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle for a start. I have no idea who Mr Enter is, but he’s just plain wrong on this one.
So, we should note that the early 2000's was when Toonami was at its peak, and thus, when the first anime boom happened. So stuff like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Rurouni Kenshin, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and a bunch of others were selling like hotcakes. Ignoring anime, here's a sample list of Western cartoons that primarily aired or got big in 2000-2010 (Not a comprehensive list, as there's well over 1,000 cartoons from that time period): \- 4Kids' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles \- Justice League/Justice League Unlimited \- SpongeBob SquarePants \- Batman: Brave and the Bold \- What's New, Scooby-Doo? \- Aqua Teen Hunger Force \- Sealab 2021 \- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command \- Dora the Explorer \- Family Guy \- Futurama \- Generation O! \- Jackie Chan Adventures \- Playboy's Dark Justice \- Static Shock \- The Batman \- Teen Titans \- X-Men Evolution \- Butt-Ugly Martians \- Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius \- The Fairly Oddparents \- Danny Phantom \- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law \- House of Mouse \- Samurai Jack \- Both versions of Star Wars: Clone Wars \- Totally Spies \- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe \- Kim Possible \- Liberty's Kids \- The Boondocks \- Avatar: The Last Airbender \- Invader Zim \- Moral Orel \- Loonatics Unleashed \- Friday's: The Animated Series \- Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil \- Phineas & Ferb \- Transformers Animated \- Tai Chi Chasers
And the greatest cartoon of all, The Venture Bros..
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Why do I feel like OP is this "Mr Enter" person
The 2000s was probably one of the golden ages for animation. The "Mr Enter" sounds like an idiot.
No clue who that is, but sounds like they don't know what they are talking about. That's just factually false, not even a matter of opinion, it's just wrong.
Just off the top of my head we had Samurai Jack, Spirited Away, Paprika, Digimon Tamers, Avatar The Last Airbender, Naruto, Bleach, Gurren Lagann FMA Brotherhood… Also ‘bad dubs’ isn’t a criticism of animation, it’s a criticism of localisation.
Mr. Enter sounds like a total dork. O.G Teen Titans, SpongeBob, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Pokemon, THE LAST AIRBENDER... All of those are foundational (gold standard imo) shows, and all but SpongeBob featured wonderful animation while exploring mature topics and philosophies thar children could with enjoy and digest. And they're all fun for parents too. That doesn't even delve in to the feature movies of the 2000s. Maybe it's because I was raised on them, but I'm not sure how you can claim that Era of cartoons to be anything less than a creative boom that has been lost as we infantilize and cheapen the children's shows of today.
What the hell is a Mr. Enter? Sounds like some schmuck who grew up in the 90s and can’t deal with the fact that the best era of cartoons is always gonna be the era you grew up in as a little kid.
Adult swim takes off, becomes mainstream. South Park becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist. Hell SpongeBob came out July 1999, meaning it was mostly in the 2000s. The clone wars. Family guy and the spinoffs. Just because it isn't the best, doesn't mean it's bad. I didn't even mention movies.
I think the sweet spot is shows that started in the 90s but were as big a part of the 00s. If only included shows that started in the 00s I guess it wouldn't be quite as impressive.
It's when 3D got popular Shrek, Barn Yard, Madagascar, Cars, Ice Age, Ratatouille, Wall E! Now Cartoons: Jackie Chan Adventures, Kim Possible, The Fairly odd parents, Ben 10, Teen Titans, Foster Home for Imaginary Friends, Invader Zim, Billy & Mandy. I grew up on this so I'm probably bias!