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| 31137 | Animaniacs Producer Blames Pokemon for Kids WB Downfall | <blockquote rel="blueluigi" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Hi Dylan,</blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 253, 249);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Tom Ruegger is a director/producer and he's done a fair bit of writing in his career. And while his explanation was generalized, y</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ou have given us the insightful, well-thought out explanation that should have come from an industry insider like </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 249);">Tom Ruegger.</span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Seems to me that enough time has passed for people with Tom's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">experience to talk about what's happening within entertainment and what really happened to Saturday programming from the networks.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Cable and online media make cartoons available anytime. Broadcasting is "scheduled" entertainment, not as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">convenient but it affords a common viewing experience. We have lost that nationwide sharing that broadcasting creates with its limitations. </span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Looking forward to a favorite cartoon every Saturday morning felt like a "mini-Christmas" to me and I loved gathering with my friends later in the day to talk about what we all saw at the same time, yet each in our own homes.</span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now that its all gone . . . when will the guys who made it all happen come forward and explain why it all went away?</span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;">blueluigi wrote :</b></blockquote><blockquote rel="blueluigi" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><i> I kind of sat on this thread thinking about it a little bit.<div><br></div><div>As far as Pokemon causing the demise of Kids WB... that's pretty debatable. It did bring in an era of anime shows in American children's programming, and I think Yu-Gi-Oh further escalated that. However, I think there's a few other things that contributed to Kids WB's demise aside from just Pokemon.<br><br>Let's take a look at how the silver era really ended. We had Animaniacs. We had Pinky and the Brain. Those were all great shows. But what I also think contributed to this demise is corporate greed... or more specifically, Jamie Kellner. Yes, the same guy responsible for cancelling WCW took over as president of the WB Network, and he was the one that came up with the idea of retooling Pinky and the Brain... thus becoming Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain. Needless to say, the show was a recipe for disaster... and even the show's staff hated it, but they didn't have a choice because it was the network's decision... not the writers. Unsurprisingly, the show did poorly, and it got cancelled ending the silver era.<br><br>Aside from Pokemon, another show that aired that I thought was good was Jackie Chan Adventures. Wasn't too big on X-men Evolution. But in my personal opinion, I feel that Yu-Gi-Oh made Kids WB a lot less interesting to watch than it did before.<br><br>Last thing that I believe led to Kids WB's demise... the rise of cable TV. Once cable channels continued to rise, it gave kids less of a reason to watch Kids WB... and it doesn't help that both Kids WB and Cartoon Network were sharing programming at one point. Regardless, I think even if Pokemon didn't come along, it still would have been inevitable that Kids WB was going to go down under at some point or another.</div> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote><br> | eddstarr | Apr 19, 2016 |  |
| 31136 | The Café | I don't know, i guess not. But maybe the song was recorded before that. | Jrs1991 | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31135 | Your avatar. | Yep! | VillechaizeLove | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31134 | The Café | I thought he was in jail. | Mr Magic | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31133 | The Café | Ariana Grande's new single "Let Me Love You" is very good. I just wish that Lil' Wayne aka Lil' Lame wasn't on it. | Jrs1991 | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31132 | What song are you listening to? | Godsmack - Temptation | Jrs1991 | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31131 | Your avatar. | Cool. | Jrs1991 | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31130 | R.I.P. Doris Roberts | And one of the sons. | Jrs1991 | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31129 | R.I.P. Doris Roberts | Now both of Ray and Robert Barone's parents are dead. <img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavCry.gif"> | Mr Magic | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| 31128 | Your avatar. | <blockquote rel="Jrs1991"><b>Jrs1991 wrote :</b><br><i> <blockquote rel="VillechaizeLove"><b>VillechaizeLove wrote :</b><br><i><br> Just changed my avatar for the first time since joining <img src="/images/smilies/MavGrin.gif"><br> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Have you ever watched the movie "Forbidden Zone"? </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>I have! :D It's one of my fave movies. | VillechaizeLove | Apr 19, 2016 | |
