An adult is a kid with bills to pay.

There is a terrible misconception that there must be a point at which you stop enjoying things because it is improper, but at a certain point fuck the haters and enjoy the ride because none of us get out alive.

"still watch"? i never stopped.

Not sure. I often hear Bluey and Phineas & Ferb referred to as kids cartoons, but I find the humor surprisingly mature.

BLUEY!

A good show is a good show. Doesn’t matter the style or the intended demographic.

Excluding anime (which I watch regularly) the newest cartoon I watched was Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking to get back into cartoons.

But the best cartoon I’ve ever watched was avatar the last airbender. Not many rise to that level of quality so its unfair to set the bar there.

I will forever love Looney Tunes. It's a classic.

I still watch/watched a few as an adult and really enjoyed them.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Legend of Korra

The Dragon Prince

She-Ra (the new one)

Tron: Identity

My girlfriend and I watch My Little Pony while we eat dinner sometimes. I also occasionally put cartoons on as background noise, like SpongeBob, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed Edd and Eddy, etc.

My Plex homepage is pretty funny because the continue watching section is The Boys, My Little Pony, Better Call Saul, etc. Pretty big discrepancy there lol

Well, you'd have to define what a kids show is and what a mature show is.

@Vader it's all we really watch... life is real enough....

there is a sprinkling in some cheap reality tv like chopped or bar rescue... oh and some comedies... but nothing super serious.

bruh, I'm currently adding all my favourites to my NAS, then watching them in order.

Saturday mornings have been clutch now

Watching adventure time right now lol

I’m re-watching Gravity Falls right now

I watched The Owl House, if that counts! I feel I don't watch enough stuff to say what I do 'in general', lol

Fuck yeah. You can pry my cartoons out of my cold, dead fingers.

Yup. I also watch Power Rangers and Super Sentai.

As an adult, it's only sad dramas and dreary procedurals for me. No time for fun what with taxes, job, and housework. I'm afraid it's all very serious, adulting. I'm gonna sing the doom song.

I have kids, so yes, I watch kids' cartoons. Today it was DuckTales.

Without kids, I probably wouldn't watch any tv except what my wife wants to watch. I'd always rather be playing a video game.

Adventure Time and Avatar were good.

I definitely watch some content meant for children, because much of that content works with multiple age ranges. For example, Ponyo. That shit makes me cry like a bitch. Fantastic film.

Hell yeah I do. In fact, I prefer them to live action. You can do more, and it looks nicer. Real life is fucking ugly and full of limitations. Cartoons are not.

Invader zim is still fun, as is clone high. Or anything from Studio Ghibili

I watch plenty of animated stuff but not specifically kids stuff. Movies I would, shows not so much.

Books, though? Some of the best written and most interesting books I've read as an adult were labeled as YA books.

Never mind - looking through the comments at what is called kid cartoons, yes I do watch them.

I still rewatch some, from time to time. The latest and hottest: The Powerpuff Girls, Darkwing Duck, Dragonball and Sailor Moon.

Yes, but: I'm a parent.

I do like Spongebob!

Absolutely! Did you think I take the kids to Pixar movies because THEY want to see them?

As an adult with kids, yea. When I was single, no.

I just watched several episodes of He-Man from the 80s today

Oh yes, both.

I love Star Wars animated series in particular.

I love good animation, so I keep up with the latest films, most of which are for kids, but that's okay.

I also still love old Looney Tunes shorts.

Does Thunderbirds count?

Sure. All the stuff the kids watched. Pixar, Dreamworks, and others. Not so much the episodic cartoons, but I’ve seen quite a few of those, too.

I still watch them, Some kids cartoons are timeless and some its like a completely new show from an adult perspective.

Like Saturday morning cartoons then no, I tried watching some old cartoons I grew up on like chip and dales recently on Disney+ and it made me realize how much they simplified the plots and dialogues for the kids, it was too boring for me. I do watch adult animation though and sadly so many people still think anything animated is just cartons for kids because of companies like Disney and Hana Barbera pushing that dynamic for all these years

I have VLC streaming Toonami Aftermath on my second monitor at work, pretty much 24/7. It’s always fun to look over and see the weird shit that is playing. I’ve seen commercials for PS1 games, toys that don’t exist anymore, etc… And if I work late, they usually play DBZ Abridged on Wednesday evenings. That was a particularly funny discovery, because my coworker saw DBZ on my monitor, and mentioned that they never got into it. I turned the volume up just in time for us to hear Vegeta complain about getting hit in the dick.

Oh, sure, although mostly older stuff (The Real Ghostbusters, Freakazoid, Sonic Sat-AM, Digimon Adventure 02 specifically, Batman The Animated Series, etc). Nostalgia is certainly a factor, but I enjoy animation and especially appreciating the work that goes into creating a cartoon. Helpfully, a lot of the shows I grew up with in the late 80s and through the 90s were only sort of intended for children and were made by people who loved art and animation and wanted shows they could enjoy, and not just slop intended to sell toys (not that I don't watch The Masters of the Universe on occasion. What a goofy fucking show. I watched it a lot as a kid and always said I hated it, but obviously I didn't. Today, an Orko figurine lives by my computer). TRGB slips after the first two seasons, but the others I enjoy wholly. Eh, there's others I like too but only watch piecemeal and on occasion, like Dexter's Laboratory and Power Puff Girls. I need to find Pinky and the Brain to rewatch. I wonder if I would enjoy rewatching Inspector Gadget?

Newer stuff not so much. I mean I like animation a lot as an art, but also, I am very picky when it comes to style, so most newer programming for any age is right out.

Absolutely! I'm currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.

A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.

I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn't really feasible otherwise.

I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. But mostly I just love the medium - I even collected animation cels!

Over the Garden Wall. Wish there was than once season.

Yes. I watch the Spiderman cartoons from the late 60's, Spongebob Squarepants and Rik and Morty (although I suspect that is more for adults).

You're damn right I watch X-Men and Dragonball-Z!

I've tried but they* don't hit the way they used to. And they're a bit louder than I remember.

* The Real Ghostbusters & TMNT. Both from the 80s/90s.

Yes, I just finished watching all of Phineas and Ferb with my 32-yo daughter. Also Hey Arnold until it got taken off whatever we were watching it on. But of course nothing beats SpongeBob.

I watch adult cartoons now, rick and morty, south park, simpsons, bojack horseman etc etc.

I do still love kids cartoons but exclusively the ones I enjoyed growing up. Some are no good because I'm not a child any more, some survive on pure nostalgia and some are actually enjoyable. I havent given any modern kids cartoons a chance, because I'm not the target audience and I have no nostalgia attached.

I do watch tiny kids cartoons as a parent, but Bluey is pretty much the only one I can actually enjoy sometimes.

Danny Phantom and Code Lyoko

I only ever eatch cartoons, everything sucks so cartoons make everything better. So much so that I even want my own cartoon. I've been developing a pitch document that I'd like to pitch to a company that I've been talking to.

i do when they are good, there's a lot of trash out there but also so much good animation.

I watch adult animated shows, but I wouldn't call them mature.

I don't think it says that much about me order than my current media consumption doesn't really include ways to easily watch kids' cartoons.

Yes. I watch lots of kids cartoons. Both nostalgic ones from my childhood, like Digimon, and new ones like Sofia the First

I want children's television shows sometimes because when I was a kid I was basically deprived of this joy. We didn't have cable until I was basically already a teenager and even then my dad had this obnoxious habit of shaming me for it if I ever dared to watch the cable weed were literally paying for.

As spawners of demons, me and my wife have frequently discussed how people not watching shows and movies targeted at children are missing a whole genre of awesome stuff!

Adventurer Time, Ducktales (new version), Avatar the last airbender, Kipo, She-Ra and the list goes on and on…

Edit: Lego movies, arguably Lego Batman is the best batman movie.

There is a ton of stuff and a lot of it has been made so that it is enjoyable for kids but all the subtle adult stuff snuck in is just chefs kiss 😅

I like watching Checkered Past. I love all the 90s and early 2000s cartoons. My favorite is Angry Beavers.

Almost never… animated stuff doesn’t draw me in the way it used to. I kinda wish it did. But it also feels like it isn’t for me. Oddly, I did watch fluffy paradise from beginning to end in a single sitting. But that was the first in a few years.

I'm watching Big City Greens as I type this. That show is so damn good. Surprised even 4 seasons in it still keeps the quality up.

Cuando ahora veo algo que disfrutaba mucho como niño, lloro.

When I now see something I really enjoyed as a child, I cry.

I've stopped for a while, like ten years at least, but picked them up again since covid.

• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
• Invincible
• The Hollow
• She-Ra
• Pantheon
• Glitch Techs
• Scavengers Reign - holy shit
• Jentry Chau
• Bluey - thanks kids
• The Last Kids on Earth

I dont watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of the stuff taking itself seriously tends to suck. There are a few absolute gems, but most of everything else is like, petty, or bullshit, or garbage in some other way. There was this wave of reality-show fever when it feels like every damned TV show had to shoehorn some contrived petty drama that sidetracked from the interesting stuff and i got so fed up and checked out of the medium. It absolutely felt like every channel was doing it, inescapable.

Except for stupid cartoons. There's something about a show not taking itself seriously that makes it perfect. And the serious kids media wasn't made to cash in petty, mean spirited bullshit, its made as a reminder of some important lesson that we should not forget to pass on to the next generation. Yeah i prefer cartoons.

The vast majority of things I watch are intended for mature audiences, yes. Movies and series created for kids specifically just don't entertain me, with a handful of exceptions. Shrek is love, Shrek is life, of course. I also really enjoyed a cartoon called Final Space, which I suspect is targeted for young teens but it's pretty good! Despite being canceled :(. If anything has a Disney/Pixar label on it I avoid it like the plague though, it's usually a cringefest for me.

Bob’s Burgers is great!