1. The Flintstones and Top Cat are the only Hanna-Barbara TV shows that I love from the '50's through '80's. I didn't think they had consistently good shows until Cartoon Network started up in the '90's. Everything else? Well... I watched them when I was younger... Once...
2. I think Tiny Toon Adventures is superior to Animaniacs. Where as Animaniacs felt like it was more focused on pop-culture, Tiny Toon Adventures felt like it was a love letter to the classic Looney Tunes, and a lot of the humor was more character and plot-driven. It had a touch of pop culture to it, but so did the classic Looney Tunes. However, unlike Animaniacs, it wasn't DEPENDENT on pop culture. Tiny Toon Adventures also knew how to hilarious lampoon the cliches of cartoons, which as a cartoon fan, hit home for me. I like Animaniacs and all, but if you ask me to pick, Tiny Toon Adventures is definitely the superior show.
3. I think that The Nostalgia Critic has been going downhill since he came back. The only reviews I can say match the magic of the original are the reviews of Son of the Mask, The Cat in the Hat, Disney Afternoon, and the commercial specials (my favorite videos that he does). I think he would be in better shape if he would keep reviewing nostalgic stuff and focus more on caroony jokes and less on cutaway gags.
4. I can't think of any Pixar movie that I've sat down, watched and said, "I enjoyed that" ever since I became an adult.
5. I'm sticking with The Simpsons until the bitter end.
6. I think My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is actually getting better. Since when did bronies become so negative and angry toward the show... Oh, right, Twilight's wings... Seriously, did wings skin your pets? Get over it!
7. I think that if The Hub continued to grow, it could have been big competition for the Big Three networks. It had an early '90's Nickelodeon feel to it, and I feel it had more variety than Cartoon Network, Nick, and Disney Channel have now.
8. Looking back, I actually think WCW was in better shape than WWF during the Monday Night Wars. Sure, they did some stupid things, but at the same time, they had better talent, better matches, and felt more like a wrestling company that WWF during the Attitude Era did. Where as WWF felt more like what you would get if Jerry Springer and Howard Stern teamed up to run a wrestling show, WCW felt more like a 'rasslin show. If it wasn't for poor management and AOL taking over, I think WCW would still be on today. But, then again. Maybe it's good that companies that WCW and ECW went out of business. They ended before they could grow stale and run out of ideas, kind of like WWE now. To quote The Dark Knight, "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
9. I liked Tim Burton's Dark Shadows... Johnny Depp is funny.
10. I think modern sitcoms are... What's the word? Awful. I feel as though the characters are all stereotypes and caricatures, and they're too over-the-top. After watching The Big Bang Theory, I'm kind of shocked there isn't an uprising of nerds to take it off of the air for misrepresenting them. Going to an art school, I'm surrounded by nerds, and NONE of them are as annoying as Sheldon is. I'm for over-the-top comedy, but modern sitcoms are going about it wrong. I like over-the-top plots, not over-the-top acting. I prefer classic sitcoms that knew exactly how to mix absurd comedy with down-to-Earth settings and characters. To be honest, the most recent sitcom I can say that I enjoy is That '70's Show because that show knows that it's the characters that gets laughs, not constant pop cultural references.
11. A majority of the world is religious, so this is still an unpopular opinion. I feel as though religion is still big because people are just afraid to die. Sure, if worshiping an invisible guy who has no evidence to support his existence is a good excuse to live forever, than it makes sense that people would believe it, no matter how far-fetched their religion sounds. Yes, death is a scary thing, but the more you think about it, the more it sounds peaceful and wonderful. I'm sure deep down, nobody lives forever. There's got to be a time when you just let down and let it come, becoming one with the Earth, and your loved ones keeping your memories intact. What happens when you die? Does it look like I would know? But, I think that it's just like being born in reverse. You don't remember your birth, so you don't remember it being good or bad. You won't remember your death, so it probably won't be that bad either.
12. I'm beating a dead horse, but CGI is becoming more and more tiring. Every single studio that makes CGI animated films all look the same, and I'm sure a village idiot who doesn't know anything about animated films would probably have a hard time telling movies belong to different studios if you were to show him posters from Pixar, Dreamworks, Blue Sky, and Sony Animation films all at once. In 2D animation, everything has it's own style that indistinguishable from each other, even when cartoons are copying somebody else's style. I wouldn't mind if I got at least one studio that produces hand drawn films. Heck, it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't care if they made bad hand drawn films, I just want to SEE them. With Hayao Miyazaki retiring, Studio Ghibli closing, and Ralph Bakshi's Last Days of Coney Island having troubled production, we're really in desperate need for somebody to keep hand drawn animation going in the mainstream.
Well, that's it for now. I've got plenty of other opinions that I still have bruises from, so stay there and await the next time I present them.














