most overplayeed cartoons on Cartoon Network

[Matthew Hunter]

Which Warner toons do you see WAY too often on CN? I have a list of the ones that have been overplayed recently:

"One Froggy Evening"
"A Corny Concerto"
"The Solid Tin Coyote"
"Shanghaied Shipmates"
"Birds of a Father"
"Daffy Duck Slept Here"
"Heir Conditioned"
"Leghorn Swoggled"
"Hare Trigger"

-anyone else notice an abundance of your favorite (or least favorite) cartoon on CN?
-Matthew

[grundle]

They play too many non-Speedy cartoons! (not the kind of answer you were looking for, but......)

They play too many of the post 64 Road Runners at the expense of not playing the earlier ones enough.

They play too many Robert McKimson cartoons on The Chuck Jones Show.

[PorkyandDaffy]

All of Chuck Jones' alleged "classics."

[hippety hopper]

Duck amuck-at least once a day.
Show biz bugs
Duck fire.

I'm so sick of these I want more old cartoons but CN UK thinks that kids don't want to watch the older stuff so they show all the newer ones.
Even on the Looney tunes show at 1:00 am they show really new ones(50s and 60's and maybe one 30s or 40's)

Thank god for Toonheads!

[Patrick McCart]

Too many of the same old Toonheads episodes!

CN needs to make more episodes since they have the rights to the entire WB library.

[daftchris]

Hare Trigger and A Hare Grows in Manhattan are two of my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons, but it had gotten to a point that when they came on Cartoon Network, I wouldn't even watch them because they'd been shown sooo much.
Not lately though.

Remember when CN played Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt seemingly every week?

Duck Amuck and One Froggy Evening are great cartoons that are completely ruined for me anymore.

[Jack]

I don't even crack a smile when "Duck Amuck" plays anymore. it may not be overplayed, but it's played more than most.


Jack:D

[Rob]

Any of the Tom and Jerrys with the duck...

[Nelson]

Here are some more OVERPLAYED cartoons on CN:

Freddie The Freshman
It's Got Me Again
The Invisable Mouse
The Blow Out
Duck Amuck
I love To Singa
Smile Darn Ya Smile
Any Chuck Jones Cartoon
You're To Careless With Your Kisses
The Millionare Cat
Wearin Of The Green

[PorkyandDaffy]

Any of the Tom and Jerrys with the duck...

I don't even watch T&J anymore when CN shows it. What's the point? They only show a handful of them, and they're played all the time.

[Jack]

from Nelson:
Any Chuck Jones Cartoon

I woundn't say ANY Chuck Jones cartoon, I want CN to show more of his 1943-1950 stuff. They rarely show that, and the more of it I see, the more I love that period... I think his later stuff is overplayed.

Most everything on LNB&W is overplayed since they don't utilize the whole LT and MM B&W library...

I like the duck, but for crying out loud CN, show some Mammy. Tom and Jerry are getting duller by the day. Or at least expand it to show some non Tom and Jerry cartoons. Utilize the whole MGM library! Maybe show some cartoons in letterbox format....




Jack:D

[Rob]

Agreed about Tom and Jerry. The whole show is growing a little stale.

There were some great Barney Bear cartoons from the '50s that would fit in nicely on T&J. Ever see COBS AND ROBBERS? I LOVE it! That's one of my all time favorite cartoons.

[JaGSQ]

I'm just disgusted that CN is turning into the next Mtv. Think about it: Give a channel the power to make it's own programs and the power to air almost whatever it wants whenever it wants.. which is going to be seen more, old school programs, or new shows? You guessed it!
But then again, if you watch all their commercials, isn't it interesting how they always talk about new stuff they're going to have, and yet they still show snippets of old characters with new voices promoting the channel and hardly air older cartoons?
Personally, I think this whole Cartoon Cartoon thing has gotten a little out of control. It was a cute idea for maybe Friday and an occassionally episode of something new here and there, but every time I turn the channel to CN, it's either The Powerpuff Girls, one of maybe 5 Ed, Edd, and Eddy cartoons, and always some premier cartoon which is basically a rip-off of a nickelodeon 'toon. I mean, I might enjoy it if they showed some new Johnny Bravo or Courage The Cowardly Dog now and then, but where are the older 'toons? You think a channel that has all these cartoon vaults and wastes time animating commercials with old characters in them would should some variety. Just wait until they get so many complaints they have to open up another channel because their's is full of their own stuff like Mtv2 (I can't picture a CN2, can you? I'd much rather get a CH1, myself.)

[hippety hopper]

CH1 would be a great idea.

The troble with The cartoon cartoons is they don't make enough of them so they have to show them over and over again.
I mean when the new Dexters lab episodes start I might watch them BUT the rest of the cartoon cartoon just get showed far to often.
On CN UK we still get showed Cow and chicken and I'am weasel.

[Sveven Dvorking]

The Little Orphan!


Okay, guys. Say I'm wrong all you want but it's it really is overplayed!

[Joe Tully]

Too many Chuck Jones Tom and Jerrys. Ugh. I'm with you, PorkyandDaffy. I've been trying to cut down on T&J for a while now. It's not worth the frustration, esp. when many of the best aren't shown.

[lislebartman]

I can't believe that "Tom Turk & Daffy" wasn't even mentioned! It's an okay cartoon, but it is somehow always being broadcast when I turn on my set!

[Sveven Dvorking]

they aired Holiday for Drumsticks more than they should have.

I find it strange how The Stupid Cupid is overplayed at all times of the year, when it is really a Valentine's Day cartoon.

[Mike]

>>Too many Chuck Jones Tom and Jerrys. Ugh. I'm with you, PorkyandDaffy. I've been trying to cut down on T&J for a while now. It's not worth the frustration, esp. when many of the best aren't shown. <<

No kidding. There's at least one, and sometimes two, Jones T&Js in each episode. Main problem with that: there just weren't enough Jones T&Js made to warrant that kind of exposure. Secondary problem: even enough of them were made so that CN wasn't repeating the same batch every two weeks, the cartoons themselves aren't very good. I think even Jones himself would balk at seeing his T&Js once a day, much less twice.

I almost never watch T&J on CN. There can't be more than 25-30 HB T&Js that CN hasn't found offensive in some way, and they're run over and over and over. About the only good thing that has arisen from the snooze-fest T&J has become is that the Gene Deitch cartoons are seen more often (I remember when the Deitch cartoons were treated as the red-headed stepchildren in the T&J family).

And as for overplayed cartoons, I can't believe no one has mentioned "Dixieland Droopy" yet. Between "Tex Avery Show," the late Sunday night Droopy show, and "Acme Hour," it seems like this cartoon is on all the time. How many times can you hear the sentence "You see, that flea, Pee-Wee, is me" before you become certifiably insane? Like the Tootsie Pop question, the world may never know.

Mike