90s Nickelodeon Vs 90s cartoon network

[Cartier Murphy]

Nick had a really good variety in the 90’s between cartoons, live action shows, and game shows.

Ren & Stimpy, Kablam!, Rugrats, CatDog, Double Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple, All That, Kenan and Kel etc.

CN made bigger strides in the 00’s but the 90’s were Nick’s

 

[MartyMcFly]

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 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

Yeah the shyt ain’t close. I love bugs bunny but he and the rest of the toon squad can’t compete with the fire Nickelodeon was pumping out that decade. Consistently. And that’s not including nick jr

 

[Coolin']

There's really no competition here; Nick was a beast in the 90's. While CN was still dope - especially Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd, Eddy - it held no candle to Nickelodeon. I hated Courage the Cowardly Dog, though. Oh wait, did that come out in the 00s? If so, then never mind lol

 

[BlackMajik]

Samurai Jack is not 90s

 

[TheGregReaper]

Nick by a landslide...

 

[darryl]

Yeah the shyt ain’t close. I love bugs bunny but he and the rest of the toon squad can’t compete with the fire Nickelodeon was pumping out that decade. Consistently. And that’s not including nick jr

Lol you are so right. Nick Jr is its own thing to

 

[Mike the Executioner]

So when do you guys think Nickelodeon fell off? Like, the point where it became unwatchable?

I think you can sometimes figure out when a network falls off when you go from watching 4-5 shows on it to one or two. It happened to me a few years ago (grew up on 2000s Nick) and the network's never been the same since.

 

[MartyMcFly]

So when do you guys think Nickelodeon fell off? Like, the point where it became unwatchable?

I think you can sometimes figure out when a network falls off when you go from watching 4-5 shows on it to one or two. It happened to me a few years ago (grew up on 2000s Nick) and the network's never been the same since.

Didn't fall off. We grew up breh. It's not for us anymore. Tastes change, times change. My goddaughter loves it. Everything moves on when you're no longer in the age demo for it. After a while, we're just not supposed to be watching

 

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[Deltron]

fukked w/ Nick more...the CN I grew up with was pretty much most of the shyt they have on boomerang now

 

[Nero Christ]

CN. They had DBZ

 

[TheGregReaper]

I wish Nick would turn that Splat block with all the old shows they show on Teen Nick every night into an app that streams all their old shyt on demand

I'd prolly even pay a few bucks for it like that Boomerang app

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Didn't fall off. We grew up breh. It's not for us anymore. Tastes change, times change. My goddaughter loves it. Everything moves on when you're no longer in the age demo for it. After a while, we're just not supposed to be watching

I understand, man. But when I see these animation reviewers on YouTube and people who used to work for the network (like Lisa Foiles) talk about how the network got worse, it makes me wonder if there was a serious decline that just goes beyond us getting older.

I never watched Gravity Falls or Steven Universe or any of these shows but I know a lot of older people are fans of them. I don't see that for any Nickelodeon shows (except maybe The Loud House).