What was the worst year for cartoons?

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Are you only talking new releases? Because in 07 we could still watch stuff online which means practically everything was available.

2011 or 2012 I think

79 A.D. Nothing but porn, and not one single cape comic.

2009 maybe.

but user, you listed 2 positives

2007 was the worst year for every medium in general

That was when I stopped watching TV because internet. Did I dodge a major bullet?

Legitimately, the 1960s and 1970s. Limited animation on TV was the norm with Hanna Barbera, and Disney almost went bankrupt.
Very few quality animated features were made during the 60s and 70s.

No, you just took the whole cartridge.

did you choose that year specifically because that's when mount Vesuvius erupted

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2004 was a great year, it had the premiere of awesome shows like Foster's, Megas XLR, and Dave the Barbarian

True, a lot of old shows ended, but they couldn't have gone on forever

2007 was fine year in animation with some exception *cough*The Nutshack*cough*.

2006

Nothing good that year, it was so bland

I want to say 08 or 09 were pretty lackluster, I can't remember jack shit from then.

Weekenders lasted 4 years?

Half of the image is shit.

2005 because it spawned the abomination that was Johnny test

this.
the world still had to wait another year before the greatest cartoon of all time premiered.

2013

The back to back cancellations of:

YJ
GLTAS
Motorcity
Tron Uprising
Clone Wars
Avengers: EMH

Except technology. Never forget Steve Jobs.

Also not canceled, but ended at the same time:

Scooby Mystery Inc

Rocket Power, Rugrats, Johnny Bravo, Thornberries, and Samurai Jack were all shit, quite frankly.

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2007 felt awesome at the time but held the seeds of shit going south. This is especially the case for vidya.

Hip-hop is exempt, 2005-2007 was the fucking worst in that regard.

Don't tell me you didn't enjoy Laffy Taffy middle school dances

2007 started off with the Boston Bomb Scare, which signaled one of the first death knells for CN after the acting Operating Officer was shitcanned and replaced with this shitheel. You can thank him for every disastrous decision made in the subsequent seven years, to include CN Real, the death of Toonami, and the CalArts invasion.

My bet is in a year in the mid 80's

Calarts is good

Definately 07-08. It was a period where you could actually argue that cartoons could have very well died if they hadn't picked up in 08 and 09.

Failing that, 60's and 70's and a lot of the 80's were trash for tv animation.

2007 is certainly the worst in recent history, but I'm sure if you go back to Hanna Barbera days you can find darker times.

>calarts
>literally none of the cartoons referenced with this phrase were created by calarts grads
>meanwhile Gennedy and Mccracken went went there

2007 was the end of everything. From the internet to video games to culture in general. It's the iphones fault.

I think some year in the 60s or 70s was worse for cartoons. Golden age animation was brilliant but the decades after it, most of the cartoons were shit.

Scooby Doo and all that horribly cheap limited animation bollocks.

I liked Scooby Doo...

Catdog going away was a mercy