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Fudgin' Doug, man.
8 years ago
Apparently today is the birthday of the (erm, fictional) star of the bland side-dish of Nicktoons:
http://dougfunniesjournal.tumblr.co.....-last-birthday
To be honest, I believe Rocko's Modern Life to be the only Nicktoon that really holds up. This might be a crackpot-level sort of opinion, but for one point in favor of that: to this day
hammytoy has been having fun with that property. Anyhow, Ren & Stimpy is more historically significant, but it suffered from overexposure, and too many reruns even when it was first on the air. Please note I mean no disrespect to the tie-in material 
mkaz did for that (especially as seen here; it's a heartwarming story I shared with my sister and my cousin, who both liked R&S overall more than I did).
Years later, I used to watch Spanish-dubbed "¡Oy Arnold!" on Univision, along with Dragonball Z and Batman Beyond. All of those helped me with my Spanish at least a tiny bit*. I recorded some episodes onto VHS back in the day, in NTSC format, so it was compatible with Japanese video cassette decks. I was able to share those (and English dubs, of course) with some of my colleagues and students in Japan as a novelty in the pre-You Tube days.
I shouldn't let myself off without admitting with shame that there was a span of time when I liked Doug. That time didn't last too long, though, and when Disney bought the IP to 'spank' it and make 'new' seasons of the thing I remember being all "Uu-WHY?"
Yeah, there's that; there's also my Hey Arnold! story above... but within that whole "slice of life"** kids-in-school sub-genre of cartoons, the only one I look back on really fondly was the non-Nicktoon Pepper Ann. Not to be confused with this PA, and if anybody does confuse the original PA with Fido Dido, then that is... perfectly understandable!
Anyhow, anyone who made it to the bottom, thanks for sticking with my discursive little journal entry here!
* Only recently have I even tried getting any good at Spanish, and I am still really low-level... though have at least been able to talk to people while out-and-about a couple of times. I'm ambitious enough to be tackling Portuguese, too, and honestly have been having more fun with that. Sim, eu gostu da língua, mos augumas coisas são difíciu.
** though what Battenberg Cake-style sociological qualifiers should be thrown onto that? "Upper-ish-middle-class WEIRD?" Might make some Bay Area out-there leftists and rightists happy with that one.
echos~ has heard me go on about this before, so props to her 'far as that goes.
Also, a reminder that
auradeva is offering speed paints and streams
and
sailoranna will soon be moving from StarFox offers to another "wall".
http://dougfunniesjournal.tumblr.co.....-last-birthday
To be honest, I believe Rocko's Modern Life to be the only Nicktoon that really holds up. This might be a crackpot-level sort of opinion, but for one point in favor of that: to this day
hammytoy has been having fun with that property. Anyhow, Ren & Stimpy is more historically significant, but it suffered from overexposure, and too many reruns even when it was first on the air. Please note I mean no disrespect to the tie-in material 
mkaz did for that (especially as seen here; it's a heartwarming story I shared with my sister and my cousin, who both liked R&S overall more than I did).Years later, I used to watch Spanish-dubbed "¡Oy Arnold!" on Univision, along with Dragonball Z and Batman Beyond. All of those helped me with my Spanish at least a tiny bit*. I recorded some episodes onto VHS back in the day, in NTSC format, so it was compatible with Japanese video cassette decks. I was able to share those (and English dubs, of course) with some of my colleagues and students in Japan as a novelty in the pre-You Tube days.
I shouldn't let myself off without admitting with shame that there was a span of time when I liked Doug. That time didn't last too long, though, and when Disney bought the IP to 'spank' it and make 'new' seasons of the thing I remember being all "Uu-WHY?"
Yeah, there's that; there's also my Hey Arnold! story above... but within that whole "slice of life"** kids-in-school sub-genre of cartoons, the only one I look back on really fondly was the non-Nicktoon Pepper Ann. Not to be confused with this PA, and if anybody does confuse the original PA with Fido Dido, then that is... perfectly understandable!
Anyhow, anyone who made it to the bottom, thanks for sticking with my discursive little journal entry here!
* Only recently have I even tried getting any good at Spanish, and I am still really low-level... though have at least been able to talk to people while out-and-about a couple of times. I'm ambitious enough to be tackling Portuguese, too, and honestly have been having more fun with that. Sim, eu gostu da língua, mos augumas coisas são difíciu.
** though what Battenberg Cake-style sociological qualifiers should be thrown onto that? "Upper-ish-middle-class WEIRD?" Might make some Bay Area out-there leftists and rightists happy with that one.
echos~ has heard me go on about this before, so props to her 'far as that goes.Also, a reminder that
auradeva is offering speed paints and streamsand
sailoranna will soon be moving from StarFox offers to another "wall".
What was it about the new staff that made the show "fall apart" later, though?
* to think that dates the anecdote, now... shades of Beavis and Butt-head.
Yeah, whatever the actual numbers were like, I remember a pattern emerging, and my sister saw it together with me...
first week, about this time of year: *both of us really rolling on the floor laughing*
a few weeks later: "What, reruns already? Well, at least this episode was funny..."
the week after that: "What? No!"