Reliving Childhood With Watching a Cartoon Network Video

It isn’t only children that like watching Cartoon Network video clips. Anyone tech-savvy (so that’s most people under the age of 60, these days) can – and does – enjoy taking a trip down memory lane on a host of media streaming sites, including the Cartoon Network’s own home pages.

Cartoon Network runs a number of classic cartoons alongside more modern ones. So while no-one is going to be reliving his or her childhood with some of the latest crazes – Ben 10, for example, is incomprehensible to anyone older than 12 – there are plenty of opportunities for oldsters to enjoy episodes of Scooby Doo and Tom and Jerry.

 

Depending on your age, of course, different Cartoon Network video options will represent your childhood. The real old time classics like the above mentioned Scooby Doo, or Tom and Jerry, will appeal to anyone of any age: while Dexter’s Laboratory is now an old time classic for people aged between 25 and 30.

 

Tom and Jerry started life in the 1940s, ushering in a new decade with a new cartoon format: cheeky mouse, angry cat, japes aplenty. Tom and Jerry holds an equal record with Disney’s Silly Symphonies for the most Oscar awards won by a theatrical animated series, having netted an impressive seven Academy Awards for an Animated Short Film in the first 17 years of its life.

 

Scooby Doo, which came out of the same network as Tom and Jerry (the original Tom and Jerry was a Hanna-Barbera production), first appeared in 1969 and has been amusing generations ever since. The much loved central characters, Shaggy and Scooby, Daphne, Velma and Fred, net pop culture references in media as diverse as hip hop music and cult British TV sitcoms.

As a Cartoon Networks video clip, any episode from either mainstay is guaranteed to raise laughs and touch that special nostalgia that only cartoons can reach. The old format animation, properly drawn rather than computer generated, has a certain something impossible to replicate – and of course there’s that element of innocence we always associate with things that remind us of our childhoods.

 

Other Cartoon Network video clips that could now be classed as nostalgic would include Johnny Bravo (if he makes a welcome reappearance sometime soon, anyway!); Ren and Stimpy (now somewhat supplanted by shows like the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy); and Catdog. There are even a couple of classic non animated shows available as a Cartoon Network video – notably Mr  Bean, which has been hailed by many as a work of genuine genius: but which for most of us just means remembering the first time we saw Rowan Atkinson make a fool of himself at the dentists.

 

Some of the newer cartoons available as Cartoon Network videos also have an element of nostalgia to them – in that they are created or drawn by the same teams who did the shows we all loved when we were young. When the same anarchic humour is there, the same feel, then it is possible to rejuvenate yourself even through something new.

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