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17 years ago
Nostalgia is fun to indulge in in this age of the Internet. You can find things that otherwise might have been lost forever.
Chief amongst these are old cartoon shows. Where once they may have been forgotten, they can now live on forever in digital format, and if you're really lucky, in good quality.
One of the great mysteries of TV is of how good shows die off, especially if they didn't go through any decline in quality. (Whereas many sitcoms have lived on long past the point where the humor started to fade) The answer really is simple. TV is paid for by advertising, usually targeted to the demographic that most commonly watches that particular channel. Children's network shows need to appeal to children, essentially, so one reason that shows like Animaniacs get pulled is ironically because of their broad appeal to both children and adults with multiple layers of humor that you may not fully appreciate until much later in life.
Thankfully the internet preserves these cultural treasures, although finding them in a 'standalone' format not attached to a youtube video is hard. I managed to locate a download of Yakko's World (sadly I forget the URL :( ), but for Wakko's America I had to result to some dull trickery: simply recording the 'Stereo Mix' with any decent free audio recording software will spit out an MP3 of whatever sound is being played by your computer at the moment. A lot like how some people may have made cassettes from songs on old videos by playing the videos and recording that sound ;)
I really feel sorry for people growing up now. They missed what I feel was really a golden age of animation, when animators weren't afraid to go beyond crude humor that complete morons can understand.
Chief amongst these are old cartoon shows. Where once they may have been forgotten, they can now live on forever in digital format, and if you're really lucky, in good quality.
One of the great mysteries of TV is of how good shows die off, especially if they didn't go through any decline in quality. (Whereas many sitcoms have lived on long past the point where the humor started to fade) The answer really is simple. TV is paid for by advertising, usually targeted to the demographic that most commonly watches that particular channel. Children's network shows need to appeal to children, essentially, so one reason that shows like Animaniacs get pulled is ironically because of their broad appeal to both children and adults with multiple layers of humor that you may not fully appreciate until much later in life.
Thankfully the internet preserves these cultural treasures, although finding them in a 'standalone' format not attached to a youtube video is hard. I managed to locate a download of Yakko's World (sadly I forget the URL :( ), but for Wakko's America I had to result to some dull trickery: simply recording the 'Stereo Mix' with any decent free audio recording software will spit out an MP3 of whatever sound is being played by your computer at the moment. A lot like how some people may have made cassettes from songs on old videos by playing the videos and recording that sound ;)
I really feel sorry for people growing up now. They missed what I feel was really a golden age of animation, when animators weren't afraid to go beyond crude humor that complete morons can understand.
