will Super RTL ever get the appreciation it deserves?
it is one the most influential channel in all of german media. while RTL II was filled with anime garbage, Super RTL brought shows like spongebob, the fairly oddparents, the powerpuff girls, and many other 2000s classics to germany for the first time, while at the same time showing classic 70s and 80s programming such as the pink panther, wickie, lucky luke, tintin, charlie brown, looney tunes, and tom and jerry, stuff that hadn't ran on german television for over 8 years before Super RTL was created.
yet it is often overlooked because in recent years its gone to utter shit
Aside from Nickelodeon Super RTL was my go- to channel whenever wanting to watch cartoons. But I never got behind the whole Toggo stuff they are still trying to push.
Leo Ward
Super RTL was always the core RTL idea. Broadcasting series. For kids, family and classicer. Before RTL splitted there were regular kids programm and many series. But than Kika came along, so RTL positioned RTL 2 as young/hip and Super RTL as a family channel.
And i think they could sell ads block better and more ad space.
I saw there was a channel tan thread, do they have a Supper RTL tan? Or other german channel tans?
Chase King
Toggo is just A child friendly imprint for parents. And to get a theme going for internet. You dont like it or get it, but you know it and got at least a clue whats it about.
Josiah Young
weird, nick and super rtl were also my go-to channels for cartoons
I don't think there is a superRTL tan
Samuel Brooks
>is one the most influential channel in all of german media >RTL II was filled with anime garbage Don't be stupid. Even if you don't like anime, you can't deny that both were influential. While Super RTL brought many western cartoons to germany, RTL2 brought many anime shows. The latter was the Toonami of Germany in it's prime (Anime @ RTL2 and whatever it was called in the early 2000s). What made it especially great was the quality of german dubs they were broadcasting. I couldn't believe how much care went into them, once I started watching anime with subs years later.
I still don't get it. A mention of Super RTL alone was enough for me to know what the channel is all about. Then again, I watched it before Toggo became a thing.
Caleb Rivera
It still hasn`t really been successful, hence they are still trying to push it, naming the website after it etc. I think that's because the name simplyy sounds like ass.
I was there when the channel was introduced, when they ran those ads of a TV driving to a Super RTL gas station and fueling itself up with it. >dat old jingle "Ich hab Lust auf Fernsehen, Lust auf Super RRTLLLL"
Cooper Green
>Toggo It just means = Super RTL kids time, family friendly Its like a label. Not really more to it. The rest is just trying to get a forum/community like binding.
>no tan Maybe we should get some german channel tans than. Lol
Anthony Wright
1995 - 2009 were its golden years, then it all went downhill when they stopped airing spongebob and began forcing toggo down peoples throats
people seem to be uploading footage of this channel on youtube, so that's nice I guess
visiting super RTL's website through archive.org has made me remember a lot of movies I didn't remember watching as a kid
the feels man, the feels
Elijah Cruz
How's that channel doing these days? I've stopped watching TV about a decade ago. I've been watching a lot of Super RTL as a kid. RTL II two when it was still showing anime in the afternon RTL II now is... I don't even know how to describe it but it's depressing. Does the same go for Super?
Kevin Evans
what happened to super rtl is beyond depressing, dude
Elijah Garcia
>tfw one day the RTL2 afternoon segment was simply gone Hold me guys, that was really depressing...
I haven't watched it for about a decade now. W-what happened?
look at the cartoons, besides looney tunes, everything else is obscure crap
Noah Sanders
Pro Sieben was the best channel in the 90s. They had BTAS,Real Ghostbusters and Simpsons. Rtl 2 had anime. RTL and Sat1 the best saturday morning cartoons.
I can't remember that Super RTL had any good shows.
Lucas Stewart
The obscure crap they air is pretty decent, it is just lesser known. And they treat the stuff they air really well. They are doing really well right now, even without the big names.
Joseph Nguyen
>everything else is obscure crap Why are you on Sup Forums? You dont really have a clue, do you? They aim for the 6-10 year olds and have a family friendly programm. If you are a parent, you know that you can let them watch these series without regret that something you dont want them to watch will air. Its less obscure in stories nor is it too violent. Thats what Toggo is all about a sigil for parents they can let their kids watch this.
Ritter hoch 3 is at the moment a hit with kids. Dragons is well known and sparked a new dragon intererssest in kids. Alvin is kinda retro, but family friendly, but parents know that series. Bugs Bunny a classiker and parents know that too and let their kids watch that. The Cats in Boots is thanks to Shrek and fables known too, not a hit but kids like to watch. Mr. Bean is all age and still loved in germany. Parents will approve that and kids will watch it for entertainment Dinotux is the sleeper hit with kids from 5-8, they make good money with toys and books. Ok, 5 Freunde is not a hit, but with the beloved audiobooks "???" its ok in the programm. Camp Sumpfgrund is more obscure filler like Oddbots. But Ninjago or lego series are beloved and a hit in germany in kids.
Its only dpressing for edgy teens, thats all, but thats not what Toggo stands for.
Hunter Morgan
I think it's depressing for him because this is so different from the super rtl we're used to from the mid-90s to late-10s
Nicholas Long
I agree, shows like this are really overdone and cliche, I'd rather let my child watch something good instead of something that's been overdone, despite it being entertaining.
Super RTL needs to start airing that old child-friendly-but-also-for-adults quality content we know and love, because after all, Super RTL is ""für die ganze familie".
If I'm correct, they own the rights to Peanuts, Thomas the Tank Engine, Madeline, Angela Anaconda, and several more nice family friendly shows.
The stuff they air right now (with a few exceptions) are pretty outlandish for the channel.
Jaxson Ross
I remember watching Nadia: Legend of Blue Water, a fucking Gainax anime, on RTL II. Also those obscure as fuck animes based on classic literature like Little Women, Robin Hood, the Musketeer one where Aramis was a hot chick ect. Then there was that one about that girl and her whale which I can't remember the name of. Oh and the Oz one. I didn't even realize those were anime shows until much much later.
James Cooper
Weird that they didn't have Extreme Ghostbusters. That was on Sat 1 with Men in Black and the Godzilla cartoon.
Heh anyone of you remember when Vox was airing animes in it's friday night programme? That's where I saw stuff like Plastic Little and fucking Kite for the first time.
Carter Sanders
>mfw they aired Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0
Bentley Roberts
They also aired Advent Children once I think.
Jackson Evans
Ok, i got carried away a little bit. But it was just that the series are not this obscure. And you can criticise that their animation is aimed towards young kids, for parents that want to entertain their kids while doing their stuff and its kinda optimized the ads for targetgroup that buys most of the toys. But its made with good shows and in a way its rather win-win for both.
Ayden Phillips
You mean Tico and the Seven Seas. It's also part of the World's Masterpiece Theater project. That project deserves it's own thread on Sup Forums by the way.
Colton Diaz
I see why they made a label for it.
>Also those obscure as fuck animes based on classic literature like Little Women, Robin Hood, the Musketeer one where Aramis was a hot chick ect. Damn, I remember those. Back then, I didn't know they were anime. I thought they were obscure cartoons instead.
>Then there was that one about that girl and her whale which I can't remember the name of. I remember that one too, but I completely forgot what it's title was. It was fun.
>Heh anyone of you remember when Vox was airing animes in it's friday night programme? I do. It was nice.
Would you agree that a Super RTL chan would be like a B-Movie Jack Slater? Retro with a little bit naive family friendly attitude?
Noah Taylor
>Fucking Moomins was an anime Holy crap.
Ian Edwards
Thanks user.
ikr That was my reaction too when I found out about it.
Parker Walker
Sat1 was always more a movie license show.
That was the beginning of anime, the programm directors had no idea what it was all about. It seemed they bought series with looking on an excel list with ratings and price. They bought well known series and than more niche shows. Guess the stars were expensive and than they decided to buy cheap series as time filler.
Jonathan Mitchell
Not German, but I used to go on holiday in Mainz with my parents years back. Super RTL/Toggo was my introduction to Spongebob, Fillmore!, The Weekenders, Jimmy Neutron, etc.
Matthew Evans
Hilarious considering how great that niche stuff was. Sailor Moon was probably the least niche show they had at that time and that still shits all over a lot of modern shows.
Eli Cooper
This thread takes me back
Sebastian Rivera
Wasnt it on monday first? And yes, that was a good start, i watched escaflown, street fighter alpha. Didnt they aired fist of the northstar too?
Bentley White
I am from Poland and from 1998 Super RTL was next to RTL II, English Cartoon Network my favorite tv station. I learned a lot just y watching this cartoons and thanks to them I watched many cartoons that haven't been seen in Poland before. I remember saying my friends what will be in next Pokemon episodes for example.
I also remember RL had great silly Porn programs
Isaiah Edwards
Wasn't there also that show about those two sisters searching for their parents and had to dogde a criminal syndicate at the same time that was hunting their family? Oh and SuperRTL had Rosalie Erdbeer or how it was called in German again. That was also anime.
Anthony Allen
Thats cool. I bet you couldnt wait till holidays? That was before nick and disney made their own channels and stopped cooperation with rtl.
James Baker
I think only a single episode. And that must have been when it was still part of Vox's cultural programm where they showed a bunch of first episodes of various animes subbed. I know back then I had my first exposure of drawn tits. Never looked back.
Gabriel King
Or things like Mila Superstar. I dont think its this famous in anime, but ask any german being a kid or teen in that time knows this series and will use it as a joke reference if someone says mila, fujiama or related stuff. Or Kikckers, have the feeling only japan and germany know this series.
Nicholas Lee
I think they had a cooperation with AOGC at that time, thats why they had a good selection. But cant remember they only showed one episodes. I know they showed All episodes of Escaflown and Streetfighter alpha. Maybe if it was a stand alone episode they did it? Fist of the Northstar was more like a movie series.
Grayson Collins
Me too, user.
I had the same experience as you did. I'm from Slovenia and I grew up watching these channels. Our channels also had cartoon segments, but they simply couldn't compete with shows that Super RTL, RTL2 and Cartoon Network were broadcasting. They only had a few popular shows and that was it. Over the years they started broadcasting more shows though. The dubbing was sub par and it still remains today. But the company who dubbed redeemed itself in a way. In the early 2000s, they started subbing some shows. The Magic School Bus was one of them for example. Years later, I noticed that they were still doing it, but only shows that were aimed at early teens and teens got subbed.
>I learned a lot just y watching this cartoons and thanks to them I watched many cartoons that haven't been seen in Poland before. The same thing happened here. I know lots of people who learned german and english from watching these channels. It happened to me too. What's interesting to me is that many of us knew how to speak german before we knew how to write or read anything in german.
Cameron Smith
Britfag here, had a weird obsession with all the foreign TV I could get when dumb reruns were playing on all the kids channels so I'd watch this shit, mainly to be amused at german openings for shows I knew and to watch weird shit like Hallo Kurt. Only German TV (Pro Seiben iirc) got the Mega Man show (with the boss ass techno opening) so I digged that also.
SNES games were given way the fuck more advertising, I remember commercials for Terranigma even. And there'd be dumb shows I'd watch to be tripped out by like the Hugo phone in game show.
These days it's all about KiKa and all night Bernd loops. Now I know a little more German I find it pretty hilarious.
Lucas Cox
RTL2 and Pro Sieben went more teen and scripted reality. The cartooons are now on Kika, Super RTL, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
Brayden Anderson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is probably the best adaptation of Oz to date. It even features the Ozma storyline.
Ian Butler
And on Pro7 Maxx and Comedy Central. CC and Super RTL are the only channels which focus mainly on Cartoons. The others also focus on (children) sitcoms, which sell pretty well here thanks to the influence of KiKa.
Jeremiah Wilson
>Tom & Jerry Guess what: like every country in Europe, you (presumably) had UK Cartoon Network. Which aires most of the same stuff (let's not even get into your local Nickelodeon).
And let me tell you: I used to hate new years day as a child because CN would show NOTHING but Tom & Jerry ALL. FUCKING. DAY. I was sick and tired of Tom & Jerry by the time I was nine years old. The day I came home from school on Sepptember 21 1999 and DESPERATELY searched for anything good on TV because CN was showing fucking Tom & Jerry again was the day I first discovered RTL II.
Colton Stewart
In the late 90s, Super RTL was the best. RTLII became the best in the early 200s, because of the animes.
Jack Perez
>Pro7 Maxx and Comedy Central But are they accessible through cable? I thought thats only watchable through satelite or some tv bundles.
Zachary Roberts
90s in germany most channels got their cartoons though UK service, thats why we got the Turtles withtout nunchuks too.
Gavin Wright
You mean Mila, who can laught like the sun over the Fuji-yama? Mila, who can do what she wants and what noone did before?
Ian Scott
You get them over cable for free.
Hudson Brooks
Ok, thx. Thought you get it only through some bundles or this for free.
Lol, the anime daughter of Chuck Norris
Elijah Parker
Is this like amerifats who for some reason give a fuck about what some network some cartoon just happened to air on like 30 years ago?
Ryder Powell
I guess. The thing is this channel is a dedicated cartoon channel that had a great all day lineup during the 90s and early 2000s. It was the place to go, if you wanted to watch good cartoons.
John Morales
More like someone got nostalgic with tv programm.
Samuel Sanchez
>Back when Dirk Bach spoke in Oggy and the Cockroaches
Ian Parker
Does anyone remember this show? Used to really like it and I've heard it was mainly unknown in the USA. Also I'm pretty sure the Cure did the theme song.
Jacob Kelly
Oh god this
You only know what you had when it's gone... They started airing the episodes unnarrated and it's missing SOOO much.
Joshua Brooks
That looks awfully familiar. German name?
Aiden Price
I think it was Die Drachenjäger or something equally generic.
Jayden Bell
Man, why did they ever turn off English Cartoon Network? I loved that channel.
Joseph Smith
>filename I'm a retard. But yeah I have vague memories of this, although nothing specific.
Nathaniel Cooper
remember watching cartoons on KabelEins, RTL and ProSieben on saturday mornings?
Jaxson Sanchez
>watching cartoons with your brother >eating breakfast your grandma made in front of the tv >having fuck all else to do I miss it.
Anthony Cox
>watching Ranma 1/2 on RTL2 after school because the opening had a titty in it >watching the show just in general hoping it's an episode with titties in it good times, seeing lewd stuff in stuff aimed at children blew my mind at the time.
Tyler Nelson
That show is probably responsible for a lot of trap fetishes.
Jaxson Mitchell
>then it all went downhill when they stopped airing spongebob and began forcing toggo down peoples throats Dunno but I recently saw them airing Looney Tunes a few days ago.
>masturbating to teletext with a finger on the button that made it go away in case anyone came in
>staying up past midnight and watching the glorious phone sex adverts on Sport1
>later on finding out there are channels that play the phone sex adverts 24/7
>that one fucking Drawn Together episode where Clara and Foxxy become strippers oh my god
Man, masturbation will never be as fun as it was when I were a kid.
Oh yeah, also that episode of Drawn Together where Wooldoor learns to masturbate is the very thing that taught me about masturbation. I remember just kind of trying it after the episode explained it a bit and ever since it's been downhill.
Thinking back Drawn Together taught me most of the things I later heard about in Sex ED in school, I wonder if the writers know that their jokes that basically were "hey look how wacky it is that we have a bit that's just actuall sexual education" actually taught me (and probably other young kids too) valuable information.
Ayden Scott
DT isn't even that old, fucking underageb&
Ryder Jenkins
I'm 19, it's not that young.
Joshua Rodriguez
>teletext >shitty phone sex adverts Why did you bring those memories back?
Angel Roberts
>>later on finding out there are channels that play the phone sex adverts 24/7 THERE ARE?
I remember those too, there were straight up soft core pornos that were really fucking slow (something like 12 minute kissing scenes before the action even begun) but also comedy porn movies that were more explicit.
I only remember the one where all the characters were secret agents that were fighting/fucking for a drug that made people uncontrollably horny and in the end the main heroine threw it in the water supply and as the credits rolled there was a news reel reporting on people having orgies in the streets which ended with the newscaster being dragged under the table by female colleagues.
I watched it again when I was older (though it was still years ago) after randomly coming across it on TV and they movie actually was pretty fun in a so-bad-it's-good way, the terribly acted low budget fight scenes really had a charm to them. I wish I could remember the movies name though.
Caleb Allen
>making a VHS of those, hiding it in our room >dem various movies but especially >the Schulmädchen- Report movies
Good times. We also found a hardcore porn movie and a magazine in our parents' bedroom. But the self recorded one was still watched more, proof that erotic will always be better than almost mechanic fucking in close up.
>I couldn't believe how much care went into them, once I started watching anime with subs years later. I never appreciated German dubs until I exposed myself to some of the shit English people get served. I swear, half of all English dubs are done by complete amateurs and maybe Steve Blum.
Leo Cruz
Non-german here, would you krauts say that german cartoons/anime had overall good dubs?
I listened to some on youtube and they really just sounded angry to me, but I would like to hear the opinions of people who actually understand it.
Ayden Scott
RTL2 for anime in the afternoon, Super RTL for your general cartoon needs in the early evening and Kabel1 and/or Sat1 for comfy Saturday morning cartoons.
Logan Perez
Most of them HELL YEAH!
The first time I listened to many English dubs Icould not believe how much less fitting those sound. Our dubs are typically top notch.
Nicholas James
>Hold me guys, that was really depressing... It's ok, they replaced them with all your favourite, obscure soaps. Thanks, you made me relive it, too. now I also need someone to hold me.
Logan Howard
Don't forget Nickelodeon pre- first closure.
Luis Murphy
I don't think we had Nickelodeon back then.
Parker Gutierrez
>Sport1 You mean DSF?
Cooper Kelly
Hell yeah we did, until mid 1998, that was a sad announcement.
Jaxson Morgan
Who /secretly-stayed-up-late-to-watch-weird-anime-on-MTV-and-VIVA2/ here?
Ayden Young
>german >angry
I want this fucking retarded meme to end
Sebastian Green
Super RTL helped make the abomination that was What's with Andy? season 3. And for that it deserves much hate.
Jordan Gonzalez
No need to do it secretly. We had a TV in our room and our parents did not really care as long as this did not affect our school results. Then we could sty up pretty much as long as we wanted.
