90s Nickelodeon Vs 90s cartoon network

[darryl]

For Nickelodeon you got:

All that
Kenan and kel
Rugrats
Hey arnold
Catdog
Rocket power
Blues clues

For Cartoon Network You got:

Samurai Jack
Courage The Cowardly Dog
Powerpuff girls
Dexters laboratory
Johnny Bravo
Scooby Doo

And More I can't think of right now. I didn't include Disney channel because tbh I don't think they hit thier stride until the early 2000s

 

[Neuromancer]

Cartoon Network

 

[B...]

I loved & watched both but if I had to pick just one... Nick

 

[Seven1986]

Nick

 

[MartyMcFly]

Nick and it’s not even close. You’re leaving a lot out of that Nickelodeon lineup homie

Doug
Ren and stimpy
Are you afraid of the dark
You can’t do that on television
Guts
Double dare
Nick arcade
Salute your shorts
Hey dude
Ahh real monsters
Alex Mack
Roundhouse
Clarissa explains it all
Eureka’s castle
Weinerville
David the gnome
Wild and crazy kids

I mean lol Nickelodeon was a fukking monster in that decade. Cartoon Network for most of that decade was mostly reruns of older cartoons. Which I loved and wish they still did that but Nickelodeon had shyt on lock like irv and gene gotty

 

[Norrin Radd]

Nickelodeon, but it's hella close.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Nickelodeon, but it's hella close.

See I don’t think it’s close at all. But I’m willing to hear arguments as to why it is

 

[Norrin Radd]

See I don’t think it’s close at all. But I’m willing to hear arguments as to why it is

It's close for me, I should've added. I grew up watching both pretty equally.

 

[StatUS]

Nick, by a long shot in the 90s.

Cartoon Network didn't hit its stride until the early 2000s. But once it did it started shytting on Nick.

 

[Tasha And]

Live Action stuff plus cartoons overpowers Cartoon Network by a longshot. Snick was my shyt.

And while Disney channel wasn't an everyday channel for me like CN was, I fukked with Disney Channel on weekend evenings over CN just for those Disney Channel original movies.

 

[MartyMcFly]

It's close for me, I should've added. I grew up watching both pretty equally.

I did too but it may be an age thing. I got Cartoon Network when I was in fourth grade in 95 so I’d already had at least 5 or 6 years with nick but it feels like Cartoon Network for most of that decade was just airing bugs bunny cartoons with “cartoon cartoon” spliced in. That’s where you get Johnny bravo and dexters lab and ed Ed and eddy. But that was like a small slice of their programming which was all vault shows like secret squirrel and the flintstones and scooby

 

[Battle Beast]

Cartoon Network I enjoyed more Nick was good too in the 90’s though and they had some pretty solid innovative shyt.

 

[Threnody]

lol@ 90s cartoon network shyt was reruns of old shyt until 1998 when those 'cartoon cartoons' came out like Dexter/Cow and Chicken

Nick >>>>>>>>> CN in the 90s

CN >>>>>>>>> Nick in the 2000s tho

 

[MartyMcFly]

lol@ 90s cartoon network shyt was reruns of old shyt until 1998 when those 'cartoon cartoons' came out like Dexter/Cow and Chicken

Nick >>>>>>>>> CN in the 90s

CN >>>>>>>>> Nick in the 2000s tho

Yeah nick in the 90s vs Cartoon Network of the 2000s is more of a contest. This is basically asking us to pick between SNICK and two stupid dogs

 

[Tasha And]

I did too but it may be an age thing. I got Cartoon Network when I was in fourth grade in 95 so I’d already had at least 5 or 6 years with nick but it feels like Cartoon Network for most of that decade was just airing bugs bunny cartoons with “cartoon cartoon” spliced in. That’s where you get Johnny bravo and dexters lab and ed Ed and eddy. But that was like a small slice of their programming which was all vault shows like secret squirrel and the flintstones and scooby

Yeah. CN in the 90s was a lot of Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Flintstones, Birdman (not ), Space Ghost (before Coast to Coast) Scooby Doo, Johnny Quest (the original one) and then very late came the Cartoon Cartoon shorts, which eventually became actual shows and then Toonami. I even used to watch the Gary Coleman Cartoon, the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon, and Two Stupid Dogs late at night. I loved all of that shyt, including the old cartoons (I'm glad I grew up with them unlike a lot of kids these days). But the comparison isn't really fair imo when you look at everything as a whole.

Nick more than held their own with cartoons, only really losing when it came to action stuff, but for kids ranging from 5-13, Nick had so much variety that it was a must-watch channel for damn near every kid I knew from grade school to middle school.

From Clarissa Explains it All for girls to Cousin Skeeter for brehs to Kablam or Adventures of Pete and Pete for weird kids.

It even had introductory shows for horror (Are You Afraid of the Dark) and Variety comedy (All That) that probably was a gateway for more mature shyt for most kids.

Nick, WB, Fox, and UPN was also a big reason why I felt reasonably represented on TV as a black kid - My, Brother and Me, even with one season was something I always watched on Nick.

And to top it off, Nick brought the shyt with their game shows - Guts (Mo) Wild and Crazy Kids, What Would You Do?, Legends of the Hidden Temple....and that list goes on for quite a while.

I fukked with both CN and Nick, but there was never a time during the 90s where I considered CN more valuable to me as a viewer. Nick was my primary channel during the day, then when it was 8 (that was when Nick at Nite started, and back then they would show shyt like I love Lucy) I would switch to CN for cartoons, or either MTV or ESPN or Fox (on Thursdays for Martin, Living Single, and New York Undercover) or ABC for TGIF.

Damn just got hit with that 90s nostalgia