Monkey! Monkey!

Building upon Paul moving and nostalgic post on Courage the Cowardly Dog (my number two favorite show by the way) I feel that it's almost necessary to post something on other childhood favorites inspired by Cartoon Networks branch off channel Boomerang.

It's about 9:46 pm right now, and a segment,which most of us can remember from probably one of your most treasured cartoons, known as Monkey. The Monkey shorts probably made Dexter's Lab what it was, but let us not look completely into just the Monkey shorts themselves, but the cartoons and kid shows themselves. We had a an amazing line up from the top three kids channels at the time (four if you count PBS)

Cartoon Network Shows: Power Puff Girls, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Dexter's Laboratory, Cartoon Cartoon Top Five, Sailor Moon, the entire Toonamie line up, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, Ed Edd and Eddy, The Grim Adventures Of Billy and Mandy

Nickelodeon Shows: KAH-BLAM!, Ren and Stimpy, As Told By Ginger, The Wild Thornberries, HEY ARNOLD!, Doug, Rockos Modern Life, Rugrats, Rocket Power, Cat Dog, OH YEAH! Cartoons, All That, The Amanda Show, Double Dare, Chalk Zone, Blues Clues, Guts (and Global Guts), Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Clarissa Explains it All, Pete & Pete, Angry Beavers... I think i got the majority of the Nick Shows...

Disney Shows: Tale Spin, Dark Wing Duck, Gargoyles, Kim Possible, The Proud Family.... If you remember any more Disney Shows please feel free to add them.

and of course, your friend and mine, PBS with shows like: Wishbone and Aurthur.

Looking back on all these great nostalgic shows from our past makes me wonder whats really happening to cartoons of now-a-days. For example, back in the glory days of cartoons (aka Costal and Weisbacks day) cats could get hit in the face with an iron, iron board, broom, rake, brick, and any other object that was blunt and very convenient. In our day, we have cartoons with a similar tone but yet it seems almost dumbed down and the violence was cut in half. I'm not dissing the cartoon industry of the 90's, oh god no, but what happened after Blues Clues came out?

It was right about the time Blues Clues was in it's second season when more and more "educational" cartoon shows crashed our fun-fest, sat us down, and made us watch the Discovery Channel and take notes while watching it. Now it's hard to find today's "Tom and Jerry" or even today's "Power Puff Girls" because Networks like Disney, Cartoon Network, PBS, and Nickelodeon are afraid of what the kids might be watching or to what the parents might think about what their kids might be watching. God only knows what poor child will receive an iron to the head due to his idiot friend thinking he's going to come back to life because he saw it in a CARTOON.

FEAR NOT THOUGH, A HERO HAS EMERGED FROM THE CARTOON DEPRESSION. HIS NAME?

Flap Jack

This rascally young fellow is just the "ump" the cartoon world needs in order to get back to the glory days of Dexter's Lab or the Powerpuff Girls. His bright and hilarious antics all for the quest of candy while accompanied by a while and a sloth-like-pirate make cartoons worth watching again.

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

Please enjoy the puntastic laughter that will ensue during and after you view this video