I don't know if it has been addressed before or something, but I think I'm not the only one getting this vibe from TV shows.
Cartoons seem to be getting worse each year. Maybe it's me growing out of it, but that won't explain how I like some new stuff and yet dislike SO much more.
It seems as if right now, everything has to be done in flash (Johnny Test, I'm looking at you) and has to be a copy of the Doraemon/Dexter's Lab formula (You know, anything can happen), like in Fairly OddParents.
I'll take Johnny Test as an example again. The first season of that show is incredible, I'd even go as far as say that it would fit nicely between shows like Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken and other Cartoon Cartoons. Then the switch to flash. It's like they magically lost all writing and comedic timing ability. The storylines stopped being interesting, twists became unsurprising and then I realized that at least 50% of cartoons have that "Anything can happen! LOL RANDOMSITY!" feel to it, it just feels stagnating.
Flash animation can be done right and look impressive (Foster's or El Tigre), but these days it looks like a cheap way to cut corners on animation (TOTAL DRAMA FUCKING ISLAND). Seriously, characters in TDI are horribly stiff manequinns whose only fluidity lies in that shitty "bobbing" when characters move that is somehow REQUIRED whenever you make a cartoon in Flash. It's like Macromedia make you sign a blood pact with them that forces you to do that!
While I'm on a hate-o-rade rant about current day cartoons, a little kid who lives in the neighborhood approached me while I let my cat out for a while, and started talking and stuff he then asked me "Have you seen kid vs kat, it's about mr cat who tried to get coo...p"
Kid vs Kat is fine, although too much lame slapstick for my taste, but, golly, it made me think. These kids are gonna grow up watching shit like TDI or Mighty B!
Only good shows I've seen lately with at least some sort of soul or quality are Chowder, Flapjack, Ben 10 (although it's being milked like a slut cow), El Tigre (cansuled lol), Secret Saturdays (The guys behind this clearly put their hearts into this, as the animation is quite good and the action scenes are cool sometimes), Wayside (this has to be one of the most creative toons I've seen in a long time, and it's based on a series of books!). And some others I haven't mentioned right now because I'm dead tired.

Anybody else feeling rage induced at today's cartoons?

(PD: My Gym Partner's a Monkey deserves all the hate it can possibly get)

I figured as much, BG, sorry.

On another note: I live in south america, and since that fanboy and chumchum show seems new, it won't get here for a while. They JUST now premiered Jimmy Two Shoes, which I have yet to watch.

Maybe I gave flash animation too much flak. Like I said, it can be done right, but when it's used badly, characters look real stiff, like I said in TDI.
Compare it to Animaniacs, the characters were incredibly animated, they moved, stretched, etc.
And because cartoons from previous eras had some problems, it doesn't really excuse the problems of today's.
But then again, there's the question of style...

"What has Porky done!?"
I think I'm the only one who really didn't like Looney Toons. I was born WELL way after that era, and looking back on it, I honestly can't see the greatness of it. And add on top that since I live in South America, a lot of the jokes (political and cultural) went over my head due to being of a different time period, and of a different country. And translation. You always miss something when translating, and I bet Looney Toons wasn't an exception.
I am le sad
(Also, was the intro to Foster's redone in some way or enhanced? Because in that Youtube video, I notice there's some different stuff, like the way Mac runs up the stairs)

I actually know that. I just wanted to put that Mother 3 line somewhere.