Back then, I didn't really seem to mind CN Real, but now, I feel so bad. I really can't believe Cartoon Network was trying to be its main rivals Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.
@@_mango_ Same for me, Tom and Jerry, Pokémon (up until Gen 4) and also Billy & Mandy. Boomerang Latin America sucks ass. From 2009 to 2014 it was filled with purely "girly" live action shows, and nowadays it is filled with "rejected" shows, like My Knight and Me. Apparently there is this latin american channel called Tooncast which airs nothing but the good old shows. Sadly its not available in my country as far as I know.
I was born on December 11th of 1992 and Cartoon Network was launched October 1st of that same year. The Cartoon Network TV channel is couple months and ten days older than me.
@Sai :l, to be honest and clear, I'm 26 and please, don't insult my animations (if you are), please?😐. Be respectful, others out there are not professional either so I'm not the only one who doesn't have much good drawings.😐 Surely, I didn't have much art experiences but, I do this to gain ability and to do best.😐
@Sai :l, it's okay.🙂👍 Not all adults have good talents and we cannot assume that they're good on this or that and I am doing the best I can for my channel.🙂 The more I do this, the better I can do in the future.🙂👍
Does anyone remember hole in the wall? Or how about the one where you had to answer questions while on a rollercoaster? Also, there was Tower Prep, the one show with the museum that's also a school, Bobby says, and the Othersiders.
Well guess what.... the live action shows are coming back. It’s gonna be a combo of 2007-2009 CN and 2016-2019 CN. Meaning live action shows, low variety in shows, the horrible new boomerang, losing the right to pokemon are all coming together
Looking back, I think I actually remember that feel from CN before CN Real. It's definitely something I miss and will never get back again, but thanks anyway for helping me remember.
You are SO right, I would ALWAYS change the channel once the CNreal block time was on, I just found them so boring, and even at 10-11 I hated scripted reality shows. I would switch to nick or Disney until it was over. I do remember them suddenly stopping it but I didn’t think much of it cause it was always changing when I was growing up, even the bloopers and stuff was always changing.
Remember the old CN With the two guys dressed as the cartoon network logo The C and the N Peppermint farms remember Peppermint farms also remembers the time you told that five bucks from your parents wallet But peppermint farms won't keep it to peppermint farms self Maybe if you go out and buy some of these weird shape stall cookies we can just keep this to our selves Because remember Peppermint farms always remembers Always
"Live Action Network" wouldn't roll off the tongue the same way Cartoon Network would. Plus, if there were to be a logo around that, the words "Live Action", which have 10 letters, wouldn't complement the 7-letter word "Network" the same way as the 7-letter word "Cartoon" would.
I think the main reason CN can't go back to how it used to be is mainly due to the fact that, for some reason, Hanna-Barbara filed a lawsuit against the network. Which in turn (to my knowledge) led to all of the HB programs to be pulled off CN. Even now with Boomerang, a channel that once advertised that those programs would be seen there, no longer shows them. Even after all these years, why hasn't the lawsuit been resolved
@@DMcElrathbey04 I can't really answer that; I heard about this supposed lawsuit thing, years ago and I didn't believe in it then. In any case; by now, the network should be allowed to show its classics on TV again like they did before
@@Aego384 If CN made shows that were sitcoms like Drake & Josh, Austin & Ally, or ICarly, then CN Real would've been good. The CN Real shows were just about solving boring mysteries & game shows. At least Out of Jimmy's Head was similar to those sitcoms since it was about solving everyday life problems
Can you do a video on Flapjack? It's a show I don't see get talked about enough. Just how weird and creepy it could get as well as how a lot of the writers on that show went on to make some of the best animated shows of the 2010s.
Honestly yeah, Flapjack was very unique and I personally loved how disturbing it was for a kid's show. Really would leave the taste of older cartoons in your mouth.
@@florida_mane6267 Lmao I hope so, Courage is great too (I personally was late to both and watched it at a mentally mature age, but still I think I would have loved both shows as a kid. My mom would be so concerned tho xD)
CN real sucked. As a child I loved cartoons and I still do of course. But I had 0 enjoyment when my step brother would come over and change boomerang to cartoon Network... Without cartoons.
I think we would have lost classic feeling of the CN era, even without a "CN Real" type show. Mainly because of the internet. We now can see behind the curtain because of Twitter, Tumblr, TH-cam, etc. It'd be super hard to maintain, not impossible, but still really hard.
For me; live action media works best with TV/Film Dramas, Comedies (sometimes,) horror-themed shows and game shows. But to put live action material on children/family networks where the viewers prefer to watch cartoons...that's a dumb idea. I mean...look at Nick today, it's only success (and I use the term loosely) is Henry Danger and even there the comedy is garbage. I understand that animation is expensive. But as the saying goes; sometimes, you need to spend money to MAKE money
Ok, I agree 100% with you. The old CN days used to make me feel like if I was a part of something much bigger. It used to have an ideal. Now, I think it's interesting to say that in my country (Brazil), the CN Real was never released. I mean, I remember Re-Animated and that's all. I guess they just gave up on the idea before it got too terrible for us to forget. Anyway, congratulations for the great content. Hope you guys can make more videos like this!
My earliest memory of cn is probably 2001-ish so I've watched it for almost the last 20 years and I'll say it's definitely changed a lot and as of the past 2 years I haven't really watched it at all
The only good things to come out of CN Real were Tower Prep (created by Paul Dini of Batman: the Animated Series) and Unnatural History; despite good ratings, both shows only lasted one season.
One of the bumpers from CN that I remember was the Power Puff Girls getting knocked onto a real life back patio, dusting themselves off, apologizing to the homeowner, then zipping off to continue the fight. Things like that did differentiate the channel back then, and it's a shame that kids don't have that stuff now. Great video as always!
It was weird noticing that transition when I was a kid. Cartoon City was always a cool thing to watch in between the blocks, Miguzi was weird but helped me appreciate European animation (namely Code Lyoko) and Toonami helped me get into anime later on in my life. Even around 2004-2006 when they changed up their block with that Summer Flower with the eye and later on the winter flower you could see the changes were starting to happen, but everything was still staying afloat. Having lived through the time of CN Real, I still had faith in Cartoon Network and later on they finally delivered. They brought in Adventure Time and Regular Show and it was kind of like a weird transition into adulthood as I was just making it into high school, but it was always there for me. While I wasn't always the biggest fan of Cartoon Network, it played a big part in my life as a kid and even now as I've grown up and made other friends in the cartoon community.
I will never forgive Cartoon Network for cancelling Tower Prep after only one season (and leaving it on a cliff hanger!) because it was too popular with girls(?)
It’s already ruined when they rebooted teen titans go, the new Ben 10, and the new power puff girls. I had no problem with Destroy Build Destroy. I actually liked that one hated hole in the wall
Even as a small child I could tell there was something off about CN. As soon as CN City was gone, the vibe changed and it never came back. Also, the channel is called Cartoon Network. Why would you ever want to take the CARTOON part away? This is the only channel required to be animation focused. I did watch Destroy Build Destroy though. I thought the explosions were cool.
@@yesikanarvaez5027 That's definitely a thing that's been ongoing for a while. That said, there has definitely been a resurgence in animation as well in these recent, with some interesing new coming to the network, as well as some old or ongoing ones that were airing on Disney XD.
And now we have dumbed down teen Titans and Ben 10, only show I watch ok Cartoon Network is Steven universe, thankfully they haven't tried to ruin that too
I'm not a huge fan if Steven universe but it's fairly good in my opinion. Thow I agree that they have ruined ben 10 and teen titans. I wasn't a fan of omniverse but loved the other three and now I prefer omniverse to the reboot that absolutely sucks
No joke, a couple years ago a random thought popped into my head about the live action shows Cartoon Network that aired from 2007-2013 and how they were so unpopular. I remember watching most of them as they aired and decided to try and find/rewatch some of them. To say that I was disappointed/they didn't hold up would be an understatement! Most of these shows I still found bad/hated more than I did as a kid, but I will admit I still enjoyed 2 of them; Tower Prep and 1 other live action show (I won't say which series since it is more of a guilty pleasure to me than genuinely good and I want to keep you guys guessing as to which other show I liked). I enjoyed Tower Prep when it was on and I did enjoy watching it again. I won't spoil too much in case you didn't watch it, but rewatching it I got a Gravity Falls like vibe in how there was a mystery plot of each episode as well as 1 building up over the whole show, but the season ended on a cliffhanger (which I personally hate when shows do this) and it got cancelled before finishing the story (imagine if Gravity Falls got cancelled after season 1 well to me that happened here). I also enjoyed the concept of the show, the 4 main characters were all interesting, the occasional fight/chase scenes were good, and I was sad when it cancelled, because I felt it had real potential for another season. To me, this was the ONLY live action show Cartoon Network did that would have been better if it had been a cartoon instead of live action. I think part of the problem (asides from toy sales issue since that is common with the channel) was that there was so much criticism for the live action era of Cartoon Network (which they deserved) that this actually good show got overlooked/hate it didn't deserve. And if it had been a cartoon that had come out during this era of bad/boring live action shows it might have gotten higher ratings than it did. If you want to know what the best thing that came out of Cartoon Network from it's live action days, to me Tower Prep was it, and while it wasn't a perfect show, I enjoyed it and recommend that if you can find it give it a watch yourself.
Just wait for some Gen X-er waiting to go on about how CN stopped being about old cartoon reruns and how it slowly became the Scooby-Doo network in the mid-90's before the original programming really took off. Still, the real blame has to be the 2005 era of Disney's tween-coms. Sure, Nick always had live action shows along side the cartoons, but this was when they started to compete with their own animated programming by greenlighting unfunny, gimmicky schticky shows. Seems like CN didn't give too much care and effort into their new animated shows before that block happened. Sure, Camp Lazlo has its fans, but does anyone remember Squirrel Boy? And I swear that "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" was CN trying to sabotage its animated programming. Chowder was supposed to be the savior of the network, but they found a way to screw that up. Then they brought in Johnny Test because the show was cheap to acquire due to the production moving completely to Canada and getting that Canadian tax credit for production. Until Adventure Time, they really were lost as to how to compete as a kid's network when it never was supposed to BE a kid's network. I mean, what kid would have wanted to watch old 1970's HB cartoon reruns at midnight back when it started?
One of my classmates was actually si's sportskid of the year and got to go on hall of game with drew brees. SI came to our school and did her cover reveal and we all got a free copy. Ive still got mine today
I remember when my brother and I would always get mad when we turned on the TV and switched to Cartoon Network and there would be some live action show on, and he would scream, “Why the hell is there live action on CARTOON Network, C A R T O O N Network!” We would get so angry about it 😂😂😂
I think one of the things that really killed the 90s to early 2000s era of Cartoon Network is the shutdown of their MMORPG, FusionFall. This game was everything a Cartoon Network fan could ask for, it was CN City on steroids, a fully explorable world with actual immersion and a story in which every early (and newer) era character plays a role in. I was fairly late to it but I still loved it to bits, so when it shut down I felt like a part of my childhood died. Luckily it's back thanks to the efforts of a team of individual game devs, and they're even adding to it with FusionFall Legacy. I have hope for the channel's future, but the execs need to listen to their audience to bring the channel back to its former glory.
A thing that doesn't evolve dies, a network needs to make mistakes so it can learn to be better, and we appreciate the work it takes to make something better
New cartoon network shows seem to prioritize random humor above everything else now. Even when old shows like Teen titans and Powerpuff girls get revamped they are changed so that they are more about being silly nonstop.
I actually remember liking a few of those live action shows, like "Dude What Would Happen," "Destroy Build Destroy," "Tower Prep," and "Unnatural History" and wanting more seasons of those shows.
I think you’re being too generous. Cartoon Network really started dying in late 04-early 05 once all the 90’s shows ceased production. While you had newer shows like Ed Edd N Eddy and Billy and Mandy to carry the Network, after the debut of Fosters came some truly awful shows (camp lazlo, squirrel boy, etc). The final nail in the coffin of course was Re-animated and out of Jimmy’s head
Keep it up tom!! Remember how you first started out with hate in the channel, but you kept on go no matter what they say. Look at you now tom, look how you changed from your first video and now.
Cartoon Network was so important to me. My older step brother and I wouldn't be as close without it. We started to like each other during one summer. We stayed up really late and watched Teen Titans. Without Cartoon Network we may not have a brotherly relationship
The past 10 years has literally been a Destroy Build Destroy episode but this time they're Destroying Building and Destroying Cartoon Network. This was their master plan. Plot twist, the Host of CN Real and DBD was behind all of this all along and this was his series finale. The finale of finales. After Steven Universe and Gumball end, he's gonna come out of the rubble and reveal himself.
1. I don't remember CN invading Nick. 2. I forgot that Fried Dynamite, and Bobbe' Says existed. 3. CN has came a long way since CN real, and I forward to what they will do in the future.
Some examples of Cartoons that were cancelled for a variety of reasons during the CN Real Era included the likes of the following: _Generator Rex:_ slowly pushed into an early morning timeslot to drive down support for the show. _Sym-Bionic Titan:_ Written off as a loss in taxes because Cartoon Network demanded for a toy line tie-in for a show that was made by Gennedy Tartakovsky (You know: the legendary animator behind such works as _Primal_ and _Samurai Jack._ The mentor to both Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust: Two animation giants that were responsible for creating a large number of Cartoon Networks' earliest successes with the Cartoon Cartoons). _Ben 10:_ Following the successful Season 2 of _Alien Force,_ Cartoon Network decided to try and revert the 15-year old Bens' Personality to be a mirror of that of his cocky 10-year old self: rendering all of the character development he had went through in the Original Series and first two Seasons of Alien Force completely pointless; and that its stigma would follow him throughout the rest of _Ultimate Alien_ (Actually Seasons 4-5 of Alien Force), and _Omniverse_ which like _Generator Rex_ before was quietly moved to an early Sunday schedule bloc to essentially die. And lastly _Star Wars: The Clone Wars:_ this one wasn't on Cartoon Networks' fault, this was actually on Disney who after purchasing the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas decided to pull the plug on Dave Filonis' magnum opus: not wanting to bother moving the show to their own programming bloc or letting Dave complete it: not until nearly a decade later when after a near-endless string of terrible decisions made by a talentless, brain-dead Coffee Girl who had 0 writing talent or storytelling capability despite having worked directly underneath both Lucas *and* Spielberg (who personally I believe she just snuck into the credits office to graffiti her name into the roles of "Producer" and "Executive Producer" to quietly ride the coattails of success) which resulted in Star Wars actually LOSING Money in every conceivable way imaginable did Disney relent and allow for Dave to complete The Clone Wars at long last and bring it back again. Compared to that damn Coffee Girl, the CN Real Era is rather tame. At least he was able to be removed from his position in Cartoon Network: the same however cannot be said for "Krazy Coffee Girl Kathleen Kennedy" due to how Disney is basically sheltering the Coffee Girl for what is becoming more and more like actual War Crimes done to both Star Wars and Disney as a whole because they are terrified of the proverbial backlash due to her being a woman in power, despite the fact that EVIDENCE supports the claims that she has absolutely zero raw talent and ability when it comes to being a leader of Lucasfilm; and their attempts at trying to deflect criticisms are causing more and more money and future customers to be lost in what we all know as SUNK COST FALLACY.
Live action never belonged on CN at all, even if the shows were good I still would've hated them, Cartoon Network is for CARTOON'S dammit, if Snyder didn't bring that shit on the network and didn't cancel Toonami for no fucking reason at all I would've liked him a lot more, I'm glad Miller stopped that bullshit immediately, one of the only things she's done right.
I remember cn real, its was one of the most disappointing era on Cartoon Network. I always remember going to my grandparent's house and always turn on Cartoon Network and I was always waiting on the goods and the CN City Bumpers but NOPE, just Trash Game Show and Trash Bumpers.
Nice video! I just looked up CN Real because I had a showerthought about it. I don't think I watched it. I just remember the ads. Like you said, it was bargain bin versions of original reality shows. Thank god they didn't have Kardashian or Lil Tay type stuff, at least.
Can I just say its super nice to hear someone say SOMETHING positive about Reanimated, like most people hate it because if what followed but the movie was still charming to me as a kid only because being able to see cartoons come to life seemed cool 😭 Also your angle on CN Real is just refreshing, Ill never forget how down and tired it made me to see like zero cartoons in my tv guide but it did change the landscape and personally I think it made cartoonnetwork open to ANY RISK.. like any change to pick them back up, Adventure Time n Regular Show were hardball risks I dont think we wouldve gotten if CN Real didnt put them in a corner 😭🤙🏾
So do you remember when Steven was look threw pictures he saw white diamond and blue diamond and yellow diamond standing together in a picture and a purple rock in the background. In change your mind the last scene show Steven,Perl,Garnet and Amethyst siting together on the beach and in the background you can see a purple figure in the background. If you go back where Steven was looking then the pictures after the picture with the purple rock the next picture has pink diamond in it. So maybe pink diamond was made out of that rock.Also that could mean in the last scene of change you mind it might be hinting of a new diamond !!
I think the reasons for why I draw and want to become an animator is because of Cartoon Network it used to be (in my opinion) one of the greatest channels ever as a kid. I was basically married to that channel. After the live-action shows started showing up that's around the time I eventually stopped watching it, I had stopped drawing as well but I think it also made me realize that I had a long way to go to get to my dream so I gave up on it for awhile. I got into my little pony and got back into drawing and I also got into Steven Universe Lauren Faust and Rebecca Sugar were what got me to want to become an animator again.😊
honestly dude what would happen and destroy build destroy is basically mythbusters and a couple of real tv shows in a nutshell but they weren't bad...and that guy was alright
It would of worked though if they just made a separate channel specifically for live action with all the different cn real programs while still keeping the Cartoon Network brand
Live action... live action never changes...
You work fast, n*gga.
Justin Y. Yeah
And im not late yeet
Justin Y. I legit see you comment in almost every video I watch😂🤔
Join us justin
Back then, I didn't really seem to mind CN Real, but now, I feel so bad. I really can't believe Cartoon Network was trying to be its main rivals Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.
+Brandon Roberts you're right. It's true.
@Brandon Roberts Really, if the wanted to do this sort of stuff, they should have done it in a different channel altogether.
ssj Hero123 god. I can’t imagine being 8 during the dark ages of CN
Cartoon Network really should relaunch CN City. Preferably as a block similar to NickSplat.
CN City should've stayed forever.
Remember when boomerang was good I used to watch it bc it had cartoon planet and showed old cn shows during 2008/9
Jooksnso Djsocknxao same. Tom and Jerry and Pokémon was the shit
@@_mango_ Same for me, Tom and Jerry, Pokémon (up until Gen 4) and also Billy & Mandy.
Boomerang Latin America sucks ass. From 2009 to 2014 it was filled with purely "girly" live action shows, and nowadays it is filled with "rejected" shows, like My Knight and Me.
Apparently there is this latin american channel called Tooncast which airs nothing but the good old shows. Sadly its not available in my country as far as I know.
Watching CN City with CN’s current shows would be so cool!
I remember the old days of Cartoon Network between 2000 and 2010. Between my second semester 1st grade and second semester 11th grade of high school.
Yup
I was born on December 11th of 1992 and Cartoon Network was launched October 1st of that same year. The Cartoon Network TV channel is couple months and ten days older than me.
@Sai :l, to be honest and clear, I'm 26 and please, don't insult my animations (if you are), please?😐. Be respectful, others out there are not professional either so I'm not the only one who doesn't have much good drawings.😐 Surely, I didn't have much art experiences but, I do this to gain ability and to do best.😐
@Sai :l, and don't embarrass me please.😐
@Sai :l, it's okay.🙂👍 Not all adults have good talents and we cannot assume that they're good on this or that and I am doing the best I can for my channel.🙂 The more I do this, the better I can do in the future.🙂👍
Does anyone remember hole in the wall? Or how about the one where you had to answer questions while on a rollercoaster? Also, there was Tower Prep, the one show with the museum that's also a school, Bobby says, and the Othersiders.
Brainrush? Yeah, I remember
Tower Prep and Unnatural History were the best!!!
Andres Torres OMG!!! I LOVED UNNATURAL HISTORY!!! Forgot about it until you mentioned it!!
WeegeeSlayer I WANT TOWER PREP BACK ... they were going to escape
Ok i loved tower prep and i miss it so much
Stuart Snyder: Live-action shows?
Cartoon Network : But DUDE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
Snyder: Exactly!!
Toonami:I hate you snyder you killed me and cn shows that were good
Miguzi:me too I hate you snyder
tsusksa the animator Erin and Tom showing their hate
At least Toonami came back.
What happened was not good.
NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t want to remember the DARK AGE
Well guess what.... the live action shows are coming back. It’s gonna be a combo of 2007-2009 CN and 2016-2019 CN. Meaning live action shows, low variety in shows, the horrible new boomerang, losing the right to pokemon are all coming together
Looking back, I think I actually remember that feel from CN before CN Real. It's definitely something I miss and will never get back again, but thanks anyway for helping me remember.
Live-action “Destroy Bulid Destroyed” the Cartoon Network, if you get my drift...
I get it
the world's most awesome variety channel cool
Ekim ϟ Ok, that’s clever.
you tried
I found more of an appeal to Mythbusters than that.
The opening to this video explains why I love this YT channel 😂👌
Honestly!!! Love you guys @theroundtable
You are SO right, I would ALWAYS change the channel once the CNreal block time was on, I just found them so boring, and even at 10-11 I hated scripted reality shows. I would switch to nick or Disney until it was over. I do remember them suddenly stopping it but I didn’t think much of it cause it was always changing when I was growing up, even the bloopers and stuff was always changing.
Remember the old CN
With the two guys dressed as the cartoon network logo
The C and the N
Peppermint farms remember
Peppermint farms also remembers the time you told that five bucks from your parents wallet
But peppermint farms won't keep it to peppermint farms self
Maybe if you go out and buy some of these weird shape stall cookies we can just keep this to our selves
Because remember
Peppermint farms always remembers
Always
Pepperidge Farm* xD
Someone back then should have told Snyder "It's CARTOON Network, not live-action network"
I think snyder want live action cause he was focusing on older audiences
If it was Live Action Network. Then it would’ve been Nickelodeon
"Live Action Network" wouldn't roll off the tongue the same way Cartoon Network would. Plus, if there were to be a logo around that, the words "Live Action", which have 10 letters, wouldn't complement the 7-letter word "Network" the same way as the 7-letter word "Cartoon" would.
Dude what would happen, out of Jimmy's head, destroy build destroy.
The horror. The horror ;-;
It's ok man, they're all dead now...and never coming back *Pats on back*
Level Up, The Incredible Crew, Bobb'e Says
Hi Roundtable! Have a great 2019!
Miss Cartoon Network City. I really loved how the other Cartoons interacted with each other
Good morning Tom
Cartoon Network needs to find it's soul again and stop being so corporate.
Doubt it man.
Tbh they should straight out downgrade to 2003 and all us 20+ year olds will be watching it 😁
Cartoon Network Has Been On A Downward Spiral
"Well the chart says..."
I think the main reason CN can't go back to how it used to be is mainly due to the fact that, for some reason, Hanna-Barbara filed a lawsuit against the network.
Which in turn (to my knowledge) led to all of the HB programs to be pulled off CN. Even now with Boomerang, a channel that once advertised that those programs would be seen there, no longer shows them.
Even after all these years, why hasn't the lawsuit been resolved
source
@@DMcElrathbey04 I can't really answer that; I heard about this supposed lawsuit thing, years ago and I didn't believe in it then.
In any case; by now, the network should be allowed to show its classics on TV again like they did before
@@sadlobster1 oh ok
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
Leave the live action shows to Disney channel and Nickelodeon.
Yeah, those two did things right with them: iCarly for example.
@@Aego384 If CN made shows that were sitcoms like Drake & Josh, Austin & Ally, or ICarly, then CN Real would've been good. The CN Real shows were just about solving boring mysteries & game shows. At least Out of Jimmy's Head was similar to those sitcoms since it was about solving everyday life problems
@ssj Hero123 I'm not even sure if kids enjoy watching game shows. Even the ones on Nickelodeon
Can you do a video on Flapjack? It's a show I don't see get talked about enough. Just how weird and creepy it could get as well as how a lot of the writers on that show went on to make some of the best animated shows of the 2010s.
Honestly yeah, Flapjack was very unique and I personally loved how disturbing it was for a kid's show. Really would leave the taste of older cartoons in your mouth.
It probably should, many people who worked on that show were able to have successful shows as well.
@@selinnazsur2328 you just know in 5 years zoomers will talk about Flapjack the way millennials talk about Courage The Cowardly Dog now.
@@florida_mane6267 Lmao I hope so, Courage is great too
(I personally was late to both and watched it at a mentally mature age, but still I think I would have loved both shows as a kid. My mom would be so concerned tho xD)
@@selinnazsur2328 I remember my mom hated me watching Flapjack so I had to sneak watch episodes lol
jesus you pulled these live action shows out of my repressed memory
Wow. Didn’t even realize this was when I stopped watching CN. Sad
Snickelodeon is the site you need it's classic Nick
CN real sucked. As a child I loved cartoons and I still do of course. But I had 0 enjoyment when my step brother would come over and change boomerang to cartoon Network... Without cartoons.
The impact of the 2008 Writers Guild strike was & still is far reaching.
I think we would have lost classic feeling of the CN era, even without a "CN Real" type show. Mainly because of the internet. We now can see behind the curtain because of Twitter, Tumblr, TH-cam, etc. It'd be super hard to maintain, not impossible, but still really hard.
For me; live action media works best with TV/Film Dramas, Comedies (sometimes,) horror-themed shows and game shows.
But to put live action material on children/family networks where the viewers prefer to watch cartoons...that's a dumb idea. I mean...look at Nick today, it's only success (and I use the term loosely) is Henry Danger and even there the comedy is garbage.
I understand that animation is expensive. But as the saying goes; sometimes, you need to spend money to MAKE money
Ok, I agree 100% with you. The old CN days used to make me feel like if I was a part of something much bigger. It used to have an ideal. Now, I think it's interesting to say that in my country (Brazil), the CN Real was never released. I mean, I remember Re-Animated and that's all. I guess they just gave up on the idea before it got too terrible for us to forget. Anyway, congratulations for the great content. Hope you guys can make more videos like this!
I really liked your perspective on the matter of CN real. I look forward to seeing more content from you that's insightful and engaging.
This hits home
My earliest memory of cn is probably 2001-ish so I've watched it for almost the last 20 years and I'll say it's definitely changed a lot and as of the past 2 years I haven't really watched it at all
They came back hard asf when they made adventure time
I love your background music. The tone it sets is perfect.
The only good things to come out of CN Real were Tower Prep (created by Paul Dini of Batman: the Animated Series) and Unnatural History; despite good ratings, both shows only lasted one season.
Aren't we glad Star vs the Forces of Evil is on Disney instead of CN?
What do you mean
I'm not sure where you are going with that comment.
That show isn't even good
Uncle Waluigi it is
One of the bumpers from CN that I remember was the Power Puff Girls getting knocked onto a real life back patio, dusting themselves off, apologizing to the homeowner, then zipping off to continue the fight. Things like that did differentiate the channel back then, and it's a shame that kids don't have that stuff now.
Great video as always!
Oofidy. I remember this... Friggin Level UP and dude what would happen. Like shit wtf were they thinking?
cosmic mew2 level up wasn’t that bad
It was weird noticing that transition when I was a kid. Cartoon City was always a cool thing to watch in between the blocks, Miguzi was weird but helped me appreciate European animation (namely Code Lyoko) and Toonami helped me get into anime later on in my life. Even around 2004-2006 when they changed up their block with that Summer Flower with the eye and later on the winter flower you could see the changes were starting to happen, but everything was still staying afloat. Having lived through the time of CN Real, I still had faith in Cartoon Network and later on they finally delivered. They brought in Adventure Time and Regular Show and it was kind of like a weird transition into adulthood as I was just making it into high school, but it was always there for me. While I wasn't always the biggest fan of Cartoon Network, it played a big part in my life as a kid and even now as I've grown up and made other friends in the cartoon community.
I will never forgive Cartoon Network for cancelling Tower Prep after only one season (and leaving it on a cliff hanger!) because it was too popular with girls(?)
It’s already ruined when they rebooted teen titans go, the new Ben 10, and the new power puff girls. I had no problem with Destroy Build Destroy. I actually liked that one hated hole in the wall
Exactly. I agree so much about that.
This month, Sesame Street ruined Cartoon Network with a special simulcast in every WarnerMedia owned network.
"he looks like me if I were 10 times more attractive" 😂😂
Even as a small child I could tell there was something off about CN. As soon as CN City was gone, the vibe changed and it never came back. Also, the channel is called Cartoon Network. Why would you ever want to take the CARTOON part away? This is the only channel required to be animation focused.
I did watch Destroy Build Destroy though. I thought the explosions were cool.
I love Tom
Like what they did with the original Disney Channel?
What happened
@@varietyhub2948 They made Disney Channel only for reality kid to pretten shows
@@yesikanarvaez5027 That's definitely a thing that's been ongoing for a while. That said, there has definitely been a resurgence in animation as well in these recent, with some interesing new coming to the network, as well as some old or ongoing ones that were airing on Disney XD.
@@yesikanarvaez5027 what was it before
Bad news people the live action shows are coming back to CN
And now we have dumbed down teen Titans and Ben 10, only show I watch ok Cartoon Network is Steven universe, thankfully they haven't tried to ruin that too
I could never get into Steven Universe, feels like too colorful or too kiddie. It's a weird nitpick I know.
I'm not a huge fan if Steven universe but it's fairly good in my opinion. Thow I agree that they have ruined ben 10 and teen titans. I wasn't a fan of omniverse but loved the other three and now I prefer omniverse to the reboot that absolutely sucks
No joke, a couple years ago a random thought popped into my head about the live action shows Cartoon Network that aired from 2007-2013 and how they were so unpopular. I remember watching most of them as they aired and decided to try and find/rewatch some of them. To say that I was disappointed/they didn't hold up would be an understatement! Most of these shows I still found bad/hated more than I did as a kid, but I will admit I still enjoyed 2 of them; Tower Prep and 1 other live action show (I won't say which series since it is more of a guilty pleasure to me than genuinely good and I want to keep you guys guessing as to which other show I liked). I enjoyed Tower Prep when it was on and I did enjoy watching it again. I won't spoil too much in case you didn't watch it, but rewatching it I got a Gravity Falls like vibe in how there was a mystery plot of each episode as well as 1 building up over the whole show, but the season ended on a cliffhanger (which I personally hate when shows do this) and it got cancelled before finishing the story (imagine if Gravity Falls got cancelled after season 1 well to me that happened here). I also enjoyed the concept of the show, the 4 main characters were all interesting, the occasional fight/chase scenes were good, and I was sad when it cancelled, because I felt it had real potential for another season. To me, this was the ONLY live action show Cartoon Network did that would have been better if it had been a cartoon instead of live action. I think part of the problem (asides from toy sales issue since that is common with the channel) was that there was so much criticism for the live action era of Cartoon Network (which they deserved) that this actually good show got overlooked/hate it didn't deserve. And if it had been a cartoon that had come out during this era of bad/boring live action shows it might have gotten higher ratings than it did. If you want to know what the best thing that came out of Cartoon Network from it's live action days, to me Tower Prep was it, and while it wasn't a perfect show, I enjoyed it and recommend that if you can find it give it a watch yourself.
Just wait for some Gen X-er waiting to go on about how CN stopped being about old cartoon reruns and how it slowly became the Scooby-Doo network in the mid-90's before the original programming really took off.
Still, the real blame has to be the 2005 era of Disney's tween-coms. Sure, Nick always had live action shows along side the cartoons, but this was when they started to compete with their own animated programming by greenlighting unfunny, gimmicky schticky shows. Seems like CN didn't give too much care and effort into their new animated shows before that block happened. Sure, Camp Lazlo has its fans, but does anyone remember Squirrel Boy? And I swear that "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" was CN trying to sabotage its animated programming. Chowder was supposed to be the savior of the network, but they found a way to screw that up. Then they brought in Johnny Test because the show was cheap to acquire due to the production moving completely to Canada and getting that Canadian tax credit for production. Until Adventure Time, they really were lost as to how to compete as a kid's network when it never was supposed to BE a kid's network.
I mean, what kid would have wanted to watch old 1970's HB cartoon reruns at midnight back when it started?
Let's hope that people like those on The Roundtable will continue to exist and even influence cartoons in a way that is just the way that they should.
What they did to BOOMARANG was criminal aswell ngl
One of my classmates was actually si's sportskid of the year and got to go on hall of game with drew brees. SI came to our school and did her cover reveal and we all got a free copy. Ive still got mine today
I remember when my brother and I would always get mad when we turned on the TV and switched to Cartoon Network and there would be some live action show on, and he would scream, “Why the hell is there live action on CARTOON Network, C A R T O O N Network!” We would get so angry about it 😂😂😂
Great video guys tell tom hes a cool bean!
I think one of the things that really killed the 90s to early 2000s era of Cartoon Network is the shutdown of their MMORPG, FusionFall. This game was everything a Cartoon Network fan could ask for, it was CN City on steroids, a fully explorable world with actual immersion and a story in which every early (and newer) era character plays a role in. I was fairly late to it but I still loved it to bits, so when it shut down I felt like a part of my childhood died. Luckily it's back thanks to the efforts of a team of individual game devs, and they're even adding to it with FusionFall Legacy. I have hope for the channel's future, but the execs need to listen to their audience to bring the channel back to its former glory.
live action... ON THE CARTOON NETWORK
A thing that doesn't evolve dies, a network needs to make mistakes so it can learn to be better, and we appreciate the work it takes to make something better
Any one remember incredible crew?
How can I forget?
yes
I liked incredible crew
Me.
I hated that show
So, is Grim supposed to be weeping over the death of CN in the thumbnail?
Dude, i think I had a weird one sided rivalry with the fried dynamite kid too.
DUDE YOUR THE BEST !
New cartoon network shows seem to prioritize random humor above everything else now. Even when old shows like Teen titans and Powerpuff girls get revamped they are changed so that they are more about being silly nonstop.
These didn't even make it abroad, I live in Mexico and we never got any of these shows or blocks, good for us
I actually remember liking a few of those live action shows, like "Dude What Would Happen," "Destroy Build Destroy," "Tower Prep," and "Unnatural History" and wanting more seasons of those shows.
The best video I have seen from you guys phenomenal Cartoon Network history has been always my interest
I like that in the graphic as time goes on both get "not good" which is probably a error but pretty funny when you think of it
I think you’re being too generous. Cartoon Network really started dying in late 04-early 05 once all the 90’s shows ceased production. While you had newer shows like Ed Edd N Eddy and Billy and Mandy to carry the Network, after the debut of Fosters came some truly awful shows (camp lazlo, squirrel boy, etc). The final nail in the coffin of course was Re-animated and out of Jimmy’s head
TOM I YOU ARE THE BEST MAN ! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS !
Thank God my television was downgraded back then 😂, I never saw any of the live action
Why would some people say that they don't miss the old cartoon Network
You should talk about what happened to classic cartoons and non-Cartoon Network property.
Keep it up tom!! Remember how you first started out with hate in the channel, but you kept on go no matter what they say. Look at you now tom, look how you changed from your first video and now.
Dude what will happen and destroy build destroy were fun to watch.
I just wish they could have kept CN city.
I actually LOVED the story-based live-action shows Tower Prep and Unnatural History. I wish that they would have been picked up by other networks.
Cartoon Network was so important to me. My older step brother and I wouldn't be as close without it. We started to like each other during one summer. We stayed up really late and watched Teen Titans. Without Cartoon Network we may not have a brotherly relationship
Ben 10 Alien Force is what kept me going back in that dark time.
There's one more live action content on Cartoon Network, which was the Sesame Street: Elmo's Play Date special.
Oh my gosh I remember hole in the wall and destroy build destroy. That stuff is stuffed way down in my repressed memories, oooof.
The past 10 years has literally been a Destroy Build Destroy episode but this time they're Destroying Building and Destroying Cartoon Network. This was their master plan. Plot twist, the Host of CN Real and DBD was behind all of this all along and this was his series finale. The finale of finales. After Steven Universe and Gumball end, he's gonna come out of the rubble and reveal himself.
*ITS TIME TO DESTROY BUILD DESTROY* cartoon network!
I didn’t mind CN Real I actually enjoyed some shows I just think it wasn’t the smartest business move.
1. I don't remember CN invading Nick.
2. I forgot that Fried Dynamite, and Bobbe' Says existed.
3. CN has came a long way since CN real, and I forward to what they will do in the future.
I still think that Tower Prep is one of the best shows Cartoon Network ever made
Tom always talks to us so let's take a break and talk to him.
Some examples of Cartoons that were cancelled for a variety of reasons during the CN Real Era included the likes of the following:
_Generator Rex:_ slowly pushed into an early morning timeslot to drive down support for the show.
_Sym-Bionic Titan:_ Written off as a loss in taxes because Cartoon Network demanded for a toy line tie-in for a show that was made by Gennedy Tartakovsky (You know: the legendary animator behind such works as _Primal_ and _Samurai Jack._ The mentor to both Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust: Two animation giants that were responsible for creating a large number of Cartoon Networks' earliest successes with the Cartoon Cartoons).
_Ben 10:_ Following the successful Season 2 of _Alien Force,_ Cartoon Network decided to try and revert the 15-year old Bens' Personality to be a mirror of that of his cocky 10-year old self: rendering all of the character development he had went through in the Original Series and first two Seasons of Alien Force completely pointless; and that its stigma would follow him throughout the rest of _Ultimate Alien_ (Actually Seasons 4-5 of Alien Force), and _Omniverse_ which like _Generator Rex_ before was quietly moved to an early Sunday schedule bloc to essentially die.
And lastly _Star Wars: The Clone Wars:_ this one wasn't on Cartoon Networks' fault, this was actually on Disney who after purchasing the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas decided to pull the plug on Dave Filonis' magnum opus: not wanting to bother moving the show to their own programming bloc or letting Dave complete it: not until nearly a decade later when after a near-endless string of terrible decisions made by a talentless, brain-dead Coffee Girl who had 0 writing talent or storytelling capability despite having worked directly underneath both Lucas *and* Spielberg (who personally I believe she just snuck into the credits office to graffiti her name into the roles of "Producer" and "Executive Producer" to quietly ride the coattails of success) which resulted in Star Wars actually LOSING Money in every conceivable way imaginable did Disney relent and allow for Dave to complete The Clone Wars at long last and bring it back again.
Compared to that damn Coffee Girl, the CN Real Era is rather tame. At least he was able to be removed from his position in Cartoon Network: the same however cannot be said for "Krazy Coffee Girl Kathleen Kennedy" due to how Disney is basically sheltering the Coffee Girl for what is becoming more and more like actual War Crimes done to both Star Wars and Disney as a whole because they are terrified of the proverbial backlash due to her being a woman in power, despite the fact that EVIDENCE supports the claims that she has absolutely zero raw talent and ability when it comes to being a leader of Lucasfilm; and their attempts at trying to deflect criticisms are causing more and more money and future customers to be lost in what we all know as SUNK COST FALLACY.
Live action never belonged on CN at all, even if the shows were good I still would've hated them, Cartoon Network is for CARTOON'S dammit, if Snyder didn't bring that shit on the network and didn't cancel Toonami for no fucking reason at all I would've liked him a lot more, I'm glad Miller stopped that bullshit immediately, one of the only things she's done right.
I remember cn real, its was one of the most disappointing era on Cartoon Network. I always remember going to my grandparent's house and always turn on Cartoon Network and I was always waiting on the goods and the CN City Bumpers but NOPE, just Trash Game Show and Trash Bumpers.
Nice video! I just looked up CN Real because I had a showerthought about it.
I don't think I watched it. I just remember the ads. Like you said, it was bargain bin versions of original reality shows. Thank god they didn't have Kardashian or Lil Tay type stuff, at least.
Can I just say its super nice to hear someone say SOMETHING positive about Reanimated, like most people hate it because if what followed but the movie was still charming to me as a kid only because being able to see cartoons come to life seemed cool 😭
Also your angle on CN Real is just refreshing, Ill never forget how down and tired it made me to see like zero cartoons in my tv guide but it did change the landscape and personally I think it made cartoonnetwork open to ANY RISK.. like any change to pick them back up, Adventure Time n Regular Show were hardball risks I dont think we wouldve gotten if CN Real didnt put them in a corner 😭🤙🏾
So do you remember when Steven was look threw pictures he saw white diamond and blue diamond and yellow diamond standing together in a picture and a purple rock in the background. In change your mind the last scene show Steven,Perl,Garnet and Amethyst siting together on the beach and in the background you can see a purple figure in the background. If you go back where Steven was looking then the pictures after the picture with the purple rock the next picture has pink diamond in it. So maybe pink diamond was made out of that rock.Also that could mean in the last scene of change you mind it might be hinting of a new diamond !!
I think the reasons for why I draw and want to become an animator is because of Cartoon Network it used to be (in my opinion) one of the greatest channels ever as a kid. I was basically married to that channel. After the live-action shows started showing up that's around the time I eventually stopped watching it, I had stopped drawing as well but I think it also made me realize that I had a long way to go to get to my dream so I gave up on it for awhile. I got into my little pony and got back into drawing and I also got into Steven Universe Lauren Faust and Rebecca Sugar were what got me to want to become an animator again.😊
They only reason they began airing live action shows because they wanted to compete with Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Fox.
I still remember the old content when me and my bro watch so many cartoon now we only watch steven univers,craig of the creek and we bare bares
Okay... that Hives song was a lowkey bop though... a low, low key lol
Putting live action shows on Cartoon Network is like putting soap operas on Comedy Central!
2009 may not have been good for CN for some, but I actually loved the CN Real show The Othersiders. Anyone agree ??
ah yes, live action shows, exactly what people want to see when they tune into the CARTOON network
honestly dude what would happen and destroy build destroy is basically mythbusters and a couple of real tv shows in a nutshell but they weren't bad...and that guy was alright
Just do one thing. REEEE-RUUUUUNS. YOU GOT THAT CHRISTINA MILLER??
It's CARTOON network, not Live Action network.
It would of worked though if they just made a separate channel specifically for live action with all the different cn real programs while still keeping the Cartoon Network brand