"It's crazy that the animation was that horrible." Just wait twenty years from now when future kids say the same thing about the cartoons they watched when they were kids.
Oh my god those teens ripped through Reboot. If they grew up when this show came out, this was advanced animation and super hard to make due to the limitations of computers in that era.
These kids needed to be told the history behind reboot before trying to put it down like that. I'm 35 and grew up with it. Even showed it to my son and he loves it, it was the very first CGI cartoon ever. And Canadian
Gargoyles was and still is a solid 10. Keith David absolutely crushed the role of Goliath. TV shows don't have this level of passion and intelligence anymore. Everything is so dumbed down and even then they spoon feed you the jokes and plot twists. None of the new shows make you think anymore. This show has multiple intertwined story lines running congruently throughout multiple seasons of the show. Then you have teen titans go and amazing world of gumball, acid trips without any thought or point to its plot 90% of the time.
Reboot needs more respect. Yeah it looks bad by today’s standards but that was unheard of to have a CG show at the time. And the plot (though it took some time to cook) was actually really good…
Gargoyles is an underappreciated gem. It had everything in it. Mythology, Shakespeare, a complicated romance between a gargoyle and a human, so many Star Trek alumni. Here's hoping the live action version is given justice and the appreciation it deserves.
Reboot deserves more respect than that xD. It was one of the first CGI animated shows on a tv budget. It walked so literally any of your favorite CGI cartoons could run xD
After school is more common in the 90s, Saturday morning was the default in the early 80s. Some of it is regional, too. I moved from the prairies to the west coast in the mid-80s and there were a lot of shows I had seen which my peers hadn't and vice versa.
@@Silverizaeltwo decades? More like 3 decades ago. Some of these cartoons are over 30 years old. I would know, I was born in 1979 and watched every single one of them.
When they all commented about Gargoyles looking scary, someone should have told them that the gargoyles were the good guys. There was nothing scary about them unless you were a bad guy.
These were not Saturday morning cartoons. They were weekday after school cartoons. X-Men was one of the Saturday Morning Cartoons. Also Conaan the Adventurer and Pirates of Dark Water
yeah when i saw that i was like no way anyone gets this, it was super niche.. pretty suure it only aired on toonami for its orignal run and that was it.
Could always weird them out with British kids shows like Bananaman, Dangermouse, SuperTed, SuperGran, Woof, The demon headmaster, the queens nose, and so on.
These kids should have been informed that Gargoyles was one of the most popular cartoons of the 90s. I know. I was there. I'm ashamed that parents today don't show kids today what cartoon kids watched in other eras. With all these streaming services that have all these shows from these decades, you'd think they would use their common sense and show them
Gargoyles was/is awesome. But it was not for kids under 7. There is a new comic book Gargoyles series, that is really good. Any Gargoyles fan should pick it up
In their defense. Saturday cartoons stopped airing before they were born. I remember watching with my son one Saturday and the next nothing. No warning,no nothing. Just done.
I have seen and still love Reboot. One of the many good moments is Enzo's birthday when Megabyte plays the guitar and after he is done gives Enzo the guitar. It is still a good show I have the complete collection on dvd.
Was kinda hoping they showed thundercats, oh well.😅 Looking at the stuff we used to watch and what they air now really makes me sad for this generation
I was pretty stressed as a kid on Saturday mornings. Between ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and USA I had to decide which cartoons I watched and which ones I missed. Tragic to a 10 year old.
I kept wanting to scream at Lucas.... . the team is called G.I.Joe, the blond guy who you kept calling G.I.Joe is the character Duke who is part of the team and serves as a field commander for the Joes.
Gargoyles was one of the all time best cartoons of the 80's and of course the TMNTs. I was also a big fan of Jem though. I'm surprised they didn't have Transformers or Duck Tales or Darkwing Duck .. they were classic 80s cartoons
It looks like terrible CGI (fair), but if they mentioned it was the first full CGI show ever made, they didn't mention it. It's a really good show and the later seasons are amazing.
First impressions suck. I doubt many who've watched Jem and the Holograms, or Gargoyles would have given them low points. Gargoyles was one of the best cartoons on TV in it's day. Reboot... remember that cartoons weren't in 3D back then. It was Reboot and Transformers: Beast Wars. That's it. You should stick these kids in front of a full episode of something like Count Duckula, Danger Mouse, or David the Gnome.
It may've been handy to tell them that ReBoot was the first ever CGI show in history. In fact, a historical fact about each one would've been handy. Season 3 was of that show was awesome.
Reboot does not get the kudos it deserves. REACT guys, this was THE prototypical 3D animated show. Yes, the animation style left a lot to be desired during the show's run, but it paved the way for 3D as a medium for Western animation in the 90s and 2000s.
These are the same kids that found *KISS* confusing. REBOOT was state of the art on a TV budget *and* it came out every week! These kids don't realize how good they have it.
Well, I want to see how they react to kids younger than them, to react to stuff they hold dear in the past. Pretty sure they will either be insulted or don't care.
They should probably have told them that it was made to try and counter the popularity of the Batman animated series on WB at the time. These kids didn't grow up in a time when Disney competed on content.
Turbo Teen, Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Inspector Gadget, Freakazoid, ThunderCats, Pinky and the Brain, Jetsons, Ren and Stimpy, The Tick, and many many other slightly less famous animated TV shows that flooded our TVs in the 80s and 90s! EDIT: Saber Rider and the Star Sherrifs! How could I forget that?!?
I came into the comments specifically to see if anybody else noticed that! Crazy! Even if they don't know the individual characters, it should be pretty obvious from the opening sequence that G.I. Joe was the name of the group, not a specific individual. I mean, technically there IS a specific character the squad was named for, as General Joseph Colton was the team's founder, but he never went by the name G.I. Joe, he just named the team after himself.
Sad they rated Jem only 4. It's such a cool show with originally composed songs every episode! We don't have such talents anymore in current kids' shows.
My little sis was obsessed w/Jem. She still has the original dolls/cassettes they came with & we both have the full series on dvd. I've got my 9yr old daughter to watch it.
Yep. lost gem. With the darkness, character development etc. It was something of the outer space even then. But you cannot get to know it from the intro only... or even one episode.
I'm kind of disappointed that the one kid kept calling Duke as GI Joe... like seriously... And i'm actually shocked that these kids took a while to actually learn that they were seeing ninja turtles, as there has been teenage mutant ninja turtles in just about every generation, if not more.
In the 80's and 90's we just cared if the cartoons were fun or good. We didn't break down or cared how the animations were. Everyone didn't have computers or internet .
Actually it had the best CGI setup for it's time and I watched later made CGI cartoons that were made years after Reboot but they still couldn't best Reboot.
First of all, how big were those bowls of cereal? 😱😱 'Reboot' wasnt a great show, but the reference to the technology used was terrible. They must remember that these shows werent made today. It was the first step that gives you the CGI you enjoy in todays shows... He-Man was an amazing show, it was worth watching for the lesson alone
Reboot was really a revolutionary show in terms of computer graphics. They started off like Toy Story and other animated movies started by painstakingly animating the mouths, but quickly wrote software that they could paste in the text of what they were saying and the software would animate the mouth for them. Later on in the show, they wrote software that would take the actor's voices and move the mouths to their performance. They also went on to pioneer some of the techniques uses in soft body animation still used today. It may not look that great, but they were really pushing the envelope on what could be done on a weekly TV show at the time.
Jem actually is another legacy cartoon from the Hanna barbera era that scooby doo is from. Basically kids solving mysteries or crimes with rock or pop in the background. It’s also directly descended from the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon with music being a big focus. The reboot movie unfortunately bombed bad.
We have 9 minutes of commercials per half hour these days on network TV. In the 80s and 90s and earlier, it was more like 5 minutes. Intros could be longer!
1 minute average for old cartoon, compared to 30 second ones or just title drops for today. That's nothing compared to 1 and a half minute anime intros.
HE-MAN: "That's Scary"...😂😂😂😂😂 80's kids say WAAAAT! Is it me or were cartoons and childrens 80s content alot more adult than todays children content. Violence everywhere and wick'd
This makes me wanna cry! The Best ones they just dismiss (Mighty Ducks, Animaniacs, Gargoyles) and the one everyone knows (TMNT) they have no idea on the names...though I question how the one knew She-Ra and not He-Man....Reboot was the only one I failed to know even if I recall seeing the three main characters.
I assume she knew She-Ra from the newer version. I could be wrong, of course. Out of these, the only one I didn't watch was The Magic School Bus, but then I was off trying to make money to go to college, then, too.
Jem's singer (starred on JEM) was recently the guest lead singer (as Jem?) in a GUNSHIP song (UK Synthwave group) - a love letter to the series - called Holographic Heart.
Those were, along with TaleSpin, DuckTales, Super Mario Super Show, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, and a host -overs- others, Weekday Afternoon cartoons, mostly after school
Also Ghostbusters. That was a very underrated show! It was the cartoon that already had the name, preventing it from being used for The Real Ghostbusters!
Reboot was actually cutting edge at the time it came out. Notice how it looks like most state of the art PS1 game (which came out a few years AFTER Reboot had ended BTW) even some of the better OC games at the time looked like Reboot. Later, Beast Wars came out and it was marginally better but improved with each new season.
The PS1 came out in Japan in '94, the same year ReBoot started. ReBoot ended in '01 which is actually at least a year after the PS2 was released in NA.
My ratings from when I was a child: - Animaniacs: 9/10 - TMNT: 8/10 - Mighty Ducks: 6/10 - CareBears: 7/10 (I had Lucky) - Magic School Bus: 8/10 - He-Man: 9/10 - Jem: 8/10 - ReBoot: 10/10 - Muppet Babies: 5/10 (I never liked it and just wanted it to go off for whatever was on after it) - Gargoyles: 10/10 - G.I. Joe: 9/10
I agree with ReBoot and Gargoyles. I give 1987's TMNT a 10/10. Love how every turtle voice actors did their own thing with the voice. Michelangelo and Raphael had the best attitudes. (They way they talked) Classy "hot-heat" and surfer dude. I love it.
17:25 "the lowest of the budget" it's funny. Wean reboot was starts, video games was still 2D. no PlayStation, no N64, no Sega saturn. it was a the highest budget animated show back then.
But they do call out that Donkey Kong Country, which came out the same year, was at least partially CGI, and looked better. but it was still a sidescroller (mainly), and MUCH more limited in scope, of course. (They said it came out the year before, but it didn't.) And then Toy Story comes out the next year, and blows everything else out of the water.
Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs were two of my favorites growing up, but Care Bears were a little before my time and Magic School Bus came later. I loved the Disney cartoons, but Mighty Ducks wasn't my cup of tea, I much preferred Darkwing for my superhero Duck.
@@Binx345me That would have made a little more sense, though getting them to watch one episode each from eleven different shows would have eaten up the better part of a day, and that's assuming you could get all these kids together to watch at the same time, which would be the most efficient way of going about it.
Take notes kids. Cartoons from the 80's and 90's (and early 2000's) were awesome compared to the "cartoons" they have these days (though there are a couple minor exceptions).
