Ah, Nickelodeon and other networks....good memories. Furvert goodness. *wags and rarfs* X3

So THAT explains why I am so messed up! Here I thought it was something in the water. *goes back to my Care Bear porn collection*

You mean perverts. And no, most cartoons didn't. The internet did.

I know what I'd meant...an why ya gotta turn this inta a debate... it's called 'joking'... look inta it!

acaulty the internet did nothing, since the creators back then got away with alot of stuff without the help of the internet *looks at rocky's and Ren and stimpy*

The shows didn't have anything to do with it. The cartoons didn't do anything either. 90% of those 'adult' references flew over my head because I was a kid.

Except a good portion of those shows were meant for MTV back then, before Nick/CN/ect bought them without scanning the ideas beforehand. That ren and stimpy thing at the end? Was featured on an show after it was done on Nick, geared towards creators who could not get everything 100% past the FCC back then , and for a show that at least pushed it 50% (the dvd was uncensored and had some things that turned my family off greatly)

Also Rock'y modern life (also meant for MTV) had sexual jokes (as shown), gay/lesbian characters, and basically things that would make parents scream today if shown during afternoon hours. we didn't create them, the creator did to slam the FCC.

Rpcko's Modern Life...

...was on Nick, not MTV.

was originally supposed to be on MTV before Nick bought it, it even had that MTV vibe to it

So true. So true ^^

MOST of these ought to be on e621

Also Fantasia's Centaurs and Dance of the Hours

I wish cartoons would do this these days (though tuff puppy got away with alot of stuff)

I only watched TP for a few episodes when it first showed up...
What sort of stuff did the show get away with?

Bondage, *some* sexual jokes here and there (mostly geared towards situations where Dudley when hes caught/talking to Kitty), one or two LGBT characters (not in a bad light, but in the background), ect

basically it has a 90s felling with it

Yeah, growing up in the 80s, the cartoons were SOOOOOO much better, not really PC at all. Looking back, Pretty much everything was Anthro, there were a lot of bondage scenes, and it seemed that everything was trying to eat another thing, or capture them to drain something out of them. So....no wonder I'm a Furry, and I like the idea of being tied up an used...huh.

Rocko's modern life is a really good water mark to see the change when cartoons started to be a little more regulated. The restaurant was changed from Chokey Chicken to Chewy Chicken in its 4th and final season, the more in your face sexual innuendos were toned down.

Ren an Stimpy was shown in its true form back in like 2004 or something on Spike TV, where they were allowed to just go ahead with all the more raunchy shit they had to cut out for NICK.

If anything Invader ZIM was the last show to really get away with more dark side of stuff, but after the producers of a lot of the other shows that were very popular at the time, ganged up on the Nick executives about how disturbing Zim was to audiences that were watching things like Spongbob (even though, there are a few more adult jokes in that show too) they got the show canned.

#23 makes my day.

I have a theory about TV shows turning people furry. Personally, I think they just plant the seeds, and people just, go from there pretty much.