The Good Days of Toon Disney

There was a time when I was about nine when I met a magical place called Toon Disney...

There is a place called Toon Disney.
It's only on premium cable.
But the picture above, is not the one I love.
It's the one we see today.
But let's take a look on it's heyday.
Since it got it like it was - yesterday...

Toon Disney's Golden Ages (according to my experience)

Another done day of school, so much work, like a mad clerck.
Then my father picks me up (I didn't take the bus xD) to show me a big surpirse.
We're at our local cable company and he said "We're switching to premium cable, son!".
I was SOOOOOO exicted.
When we came back home, I was excited than ever before!
I was flipping through the channels, the I saw something ATRACTIVE, something ingenuis, something inovative, something inspriational. It was...

TOON DISNEY!

It became my favorite channel of all time! It had classic Disney shows like Pepper Ann and such! It was almost a trip to memory lane! And I like, almost watched it through the WHOOOLE night on New Year's Eve 2003! 2004 came and Toon Disney was still goin' strong, but one thing that was unimportant to me came on Valentine's Day.

It was Jetix, or as they say it: "JEH-TICKSSS!"

The nightly block was good, but had too much Power Rangers in my opinion. Now, here is a treat. The Toon Disney schedule as of early 2004!

Toon Disney Today

Toon Disney is no longer my favorite channel anymore. It has animated crap from Disney Channel and the Jetix block is now 14-17 hours a day! It shows only a FEW classic shows and those are Recess, TaleSpin, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The Tick, and Pinky and The Brain. Those are good, but I WANT Pepper Ann, DuckTales, Hercules, 101 Dalmations, Teacher's Pet, Teamo Supremo, Disney's Doug (yeah I'm a fan of the new one), Garfield & Friends, Lloyd In Space, Timon & Pumbaa, and the DOUBLE FEATURE MOVIE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

We must send a message to Disney-ABC Television Group that simply says "BRING BACK THE GOLDEN YEARS OF TOON DISNEY!"

A Little Memorial:

Toon Disney: 1998-2006
Your golden years must rest in peace for now...

Comments

Teamo Supremo sucks. And so does Disney's Doug.

I miss Bump in the night being on toon disney

Never liked Toon Disney. They only had 5 shows I like. Pepper Ann, Doug (the newer version) and all that shit sucked ass.

childofthe1970s, you......... ah forget it, I'm getting tired of doing this.

Toon Disney was never good. They played the theatrical shorts in their edited form. I never cared for the Disney tv cartoons.

Besides, shows like Pepper Ann and Doug (Disney version) aren't that old, nor they are "classics".

To be honest, I think Toon Disney wasn't all that great. They did air the Disney Afternoon shows but after they took them off (or started editing them) and made room for the One Saturday Morning shows, I stopped watching.

And I don't recall seeing any advertisement claiming Toon Disney to be a "retro" network. It's for Disney cartoons IN GENERAL, not just the old ones. If so, they would also be playing the theatrical shorts from 1928-1966 as well along with the classic animated films.

Unfortunately, they would have to take off the old shows to make room for the new ones, that's how every network works! If you don't like it, then don't watch it. We aren't even in the target audience anymore, so why waste your time complaining about something you can't change. Yes, Jetix is eating Toon Disney alive, but we can't do anything about it.

Besides some of these cartoons are on DVD already (Chip n Dale RR, Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles and Tale Spin). Since all of these shows were re-ran dozens and dozens of times since 1998 (and earlier) you had dozens of chances to tape them and since if you didn't, then it's too late.

I don't like the changes on Toon Disney now, but it must happen. Networks rely on old shows when they first start up because it's cheaper to run and the network has no money yet. When they have established, then they can start making original shows. I hate it when it happens, but it must.

This is nothing more than another "Cartoons suck now" article.

Besides most of the cartoons you mentioned were not that great. They are the reason why I started watching stuff like Married With Children and the Simpsons.

Dear author of this article: Enough complaining about how much Toon Disney sucking now. These networks you all crave for so desperately (Toon Disney, Nickelodeon (1990s-present), Cartoon Network) are the cause of the death of Saturday Morning cartoons.

I always loved Pepper Ann. They showed it again a while back(like last February) and it's still really funny. Disney's version of Doug wasn't very good, and it was confusing for me as a ten year old. But Toon Disney recently brought back Superman, Batman, and Pinky and the f**king brain! But I don't hate on Toon Disney now, you can't just show the same cartoons over and over again. I mean, they've gotta put new things out there if they want their ratings to stay up. But yeah, it would be awesome if they'd show the older cartoons more often. Oh well.

To inform you all:

I don't care about Nickelodeon anymore. Cartoon Network I wish would go back to the way it was back in the late 90's / early 2000's. Same with Toon Disney.

To Saradomin: Toon Disney was made to be a channel for retro Disney shows.

Things change, for better or for worse. I used to be upset about channels changing, and while there is some sadness within me still, I know that things must and will change.

Anyway, we have quite a few of these articles already, and while your passion is to be admired, it's a little hard to read articles like this now.

And I don't really consider Toon Disney retro. Even in it's heyday (before Jetix) it still aired a lot of shows that were just made in the early 2000s. Retro to me is anything older than 1996-1997. Which is ten years.

It can be difficult to support an article, since the Internet is victim to a lot of assholes and jerks that otherwise feel superior behind the computer. It's hard sometimes but alas if you feel that someone is insulting you for any reason then there is no need to get to know the person.

So despite some flaws in your article (a little more detail would be nice), I give it a thumbs up.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, someone make a fucking retro channel for christ sakes. There is a reason for Nick at Nite and TV Land. Who cares if they aren't bringing in money like the more current shows, there are people out there just like me who want a lot of this often forgotten shows back in the lineup. We don't have to dream it's the 80s all over again, we can just watch them in our spare time. 30 mins isn't 10 hours people. Get the facts straight.

We have enough articles complaining how much Nickelodeon/Toon Disney/Cartoon Network sucks now. Get over it. Change happens whether we like it or not. As long as kids like this stuff, they will keep airing it. These channels aren't looking into our demographic, so they don't care if we watch or not. The only reason why YOU think it sucks is because you outgrew it.

I don't care if we're getting too many of these articles! Thumbs up for the passion!

Not very long, and is 1998-2006 really Retro?