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[@RebelTaxi]

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[@alexdelosreyes7052]

When’s the Halloween videos coming up real soon. I hope review something anything that is a list of underrated survival horror games during sixth generation of game console or perhaps a review Monster Allergy instead

[@AdahnFlorence]

Man I have to say this is an all timer right here for one of your best vids, it's really an absolute treat to hear you talk about something so affectionately and that really made this particular episode so bittersweet.

[@garrettnewell]

Thanks for the video. 👍

[@Rocketman1292]

Another great vid, takes me back. Hope you do midnight society next.

[@shitbag1465]

I can’t stop farting

[@comixproviderftw_02]

A 30 minute and 30 second video for the 30th anniversary of Cartoon Network. Well played.

[@RebelTaxi]

Oh damn. Didn't intend that

[@comixproviderftw_02]

@@RebelTaxi It may not be intentional, it’s still pretty impressive.

[@EmceeProphIt]

@@RebelTaxi Great work as always dude! Have a great night. :D

[@ImmaLittlePip]

@@RebelTaxi Well you may not have intended it But your editing did

[@A.M.intheAM]

Hey, you do the New Legacy edits

[@terrance6814]

Amy Lee's heartfelt song about missing Cartoon Network holds an entirely different meaning now, it gets sadder as the years go on. I miss when TV had personality.

[@KyleShiflet13666]

Same here

[@nathanielmiller3304]

My cartoon network..where did you go😪

[@LiveLaughLovecraft]

⁠​⁠@@nathanielmiller3304newer cartoons were still good. Adventure Time, Regular Show, Chowder, Steven Universe, Gumball etc.

[@skoar8321]

@@LiveLaughLovecraft we agree, but realize that's like 4 years ago the last last of these concluded

[@BugsyFoga]

No better way to celebrate Cartoon Network’s 30th anniversary than by looking back one of its most memorable blocks out there.

[@diegopinon5275]

The timing of this video is really unfortunate. Cartoon Network had a bunch of layoffs and is being merged with WB Animation. Cartoon Network as we know it is over

[@pr9334]

@@diegopinon5275 Stop spreading misinformation, idiot.

[@burntoast4269]

Yeah I agree

[@greendaleforever]

@@diegopinon5275 it's been over for 15 years...

[@Skornish]

@@diegopinon5275 Says who?

[@UndeadPorcupine]

I wasn't expecting a segment about the singer from Evanescence singing about cartoons to hit me in the feels like that, but life is surprising sometimes.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

That plus all the other talk about the live action segments actually hit me pretty hard. I actually didn't like the live action segments very much and to be honest found them pretty cringe but hearing that behind the scenes stuff and how people went on to do this and that actually really warmed my heart. Hearing the family like feeling people had for each other and the friendships they made while working there is truly a beautiful thing. I feel like that truly was an end of an era and something that's probably long gone especially with the current situation and even before that with productions moving to LA.

[@chayden153]

Right?!

[@username-mk4qv]

It’s those cheesy or sometimes cringey or even irritating things that you realize mean so much to you when you lose someone. Like, yeah it was a cheesy song but so sweet how she talked about Robby and how much he loved it, and how much he meant to her. But yeah, totally not the feels I expected when I clicked on this video.

[@spoofersdomain9185]

I mean it was also dedicated to her late brother, so it takes on a different feel after his passing.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@spoofersdomain9185 It's beautifully ironic because even though I can understand why it has great personal meaning (and even more so now) to her it also has great personal meaning to the rest of us because it's just another reminder of something that we've collectively lost. I mean as hokey and cheesy as the song is (she said so herself) it does encapsulate a time gone by and a channel really essentially dead if right now just in deep deep decline. Looking back it really was a song that perfectly captures my feelings of Cartoon Network is a channel these days. Technically dead but not really gone, but definitely dead on the inside so to speak.

[@Mswordx23]

Rolf saying the words "capitalist propaganda" made my brain do several double takes.

[@shelbyspeaks3287]

I know right? that was such a 2020's joke i couldn't tell if it was edited or not... 😂

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Rolf left communist occupied Europe once his family became enemies of the state It was the only way

[@kodybuffettwilson]

@@shelbyspeaks3287 I think the joke was supposed to be that his parents immigrated to the USA from the Soviet Union.

[@NetoKruzer]

@@kodybuffettwilson Wasn´t he like from the former Yugoslavia (after the you know what)....

[@Aflay1]

@@kodybuffettwilson That's what I was about to say. He's at least dutch or something.

[@zachthemaniac3284]

I didn’t expect the lead singer of Evanescence singing about missing Cartoon Network to make my heart ache but here we are

[@KyleShiflet13666]

Yeah I got emotional cause I thought about watching CARTOON NETWORK as a kid with my Nanny and PawPaw and knowing that sadly they've passed on hit me hard

[@jacksonbell3458]

I remember as a kid I mustered up the courage to send an email to CN Fridays to tell them how much I enjoyed their shows and hosts, and actually got a response thanking me for being a loyal fan.

[@ashleyshim2078]

Awww

[@a.rustici1972]

Wholesome 👍

[@DarkManX16]

W

[@PeiceofNick]

Fun Fact: CN actually livestreamed all their old programs as part of their recent anniversary complete with some of the old 90s bumpers and everything.

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

“Bro, you’re not a sigma male, you just have poor management skills” - Pan Pizza (2022)

[@OniLordMiki]

*poor

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

* *time* management

[@lizardlord4k]

Honestly this is what I felt was missing from Cartoon Network and television for years and I miss it dearly. It wasn't just Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, damn near all of CN's blocks felt like an event, Toonami, Maguzi, Cartoon Theater, the various different marathons throughout the year, the Holiday Block Party, the Holiday Rush. I know they didn't always have winners, but the block itself felt so damn special. Ironically the only "block" that stil has some of that same magic is Adult Swim, which frankly functions more like its own network at this point. I miss those days dearly waiting for those blocks after a long week at school, I didn't give a shit if they were re-runs or not, they felt new to me. Maybe we can't have it back, but not a day goes by when I don't wish we could.

[@Dave102693]

Agreed

[@chepeman22810]

It felt like we were more connected, i know that sounds cheesy but maybe phones and social media fucked everything up

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@chepeman22810 There's no doubt in my mind that social media and phones have indeed fucked us all up. All I wanted as a kid was the kind of access I get so easily now to pretty much anything and yet it feels so empty and meaningless and hollow now. It's not special or unique or s reason to go to a certain place at a certain time.

[@8RIGHTS]

all these broadcast companies need to do is start a channel or livestream that plays all their broadcast archives from the 70s/80s to 2010s. surely, they have almost every minute of broadcast time saved. imagine a nick, disney and cartoon network stream just playing old tv reruns, commercials and all i would buy the shit out of any subscription doing this

[@joeydavis793]

You nailed it. It always felt like an event. It was a communal experience too. Watching it at your friends house or talking about it after the weekend was over. Something to look forward to. Ugh, I miss it If you wanted to watch it, you had to be there! It wasn’t just at your disposal on streaming. Idk, it was just a more pure time.

[@occulttooner]

Finally made it into the fan art segment, my highest honor

[@rennythespaceguy7285]

An honour you've definitely earned, I really like your style man!

[@PeterGriffin11]

Congratulations

[@AlexThe1Menace]

Tooner my man

[@Darkstar9513]

Man that Amy Lee song hits different now that Cartoon Network is a hollow shell of it's former self. We really did grow up in the golden era of animation. The 90s and 2000s were special and that greatness will never be replicated ever again. Even though the world sucks now at least we have fond memories of the good old days.

[@אלוןשיינפלד]

The world always sucked, you just grew up and started noticing it

[@fridaynightnicktoons6885]

@@אלוןשיינפלד whenever someone talks about better times there’s a baseless edgy douche saying the world isn’t different at all even after decades. Lmfao touch grass

[@אלוןשיינפלד]

@that guy over there i never said it didn't change I just said that you grew up to see the bad parts of it

[@STKHub]

​@@אלוןשיינפלדThis is cope. Lol. Many kids knew things were bad in the world, but there was something genuinely unique about that era.

[@אלוןשיינפלד]

@@STKHub just like every era. do you really think this era doesn't have anything unique in it? stop being such depressive doomers believing everything in the world is terrible just because its the present. do you think this era doesn't have anything unique in it? people will be saying the same nonsense about memes or whatever 30 years from now. things change all the time but they but does that mean they become worse?

[@Deaniac25]

28:25 I know Pan was working on this video well past the day, but it made me all the happier that Cartoon Network _did_ had a KZbin livestream for their 30th anniversary, not only with old and new originals, but also with archived Groovies and City bumpers interspersed throughout! That format did help the day feel like an event, and I hope it's not the last time CN does something like that. (As of this comment, it's still being looped on their channel and probably will for the rest of October, so it's not too late yet.)

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Sadly, given the current circumstances at Cartoon Network I don't have very high hopes. I honestly would be surprised if it continues as a channel for too much longer. I know that's awful to say and it is but it is the truth and unfortunately the future is going to have a lot less Cartoon Network, Nick and Disney.

[@chasformer3091]

Cartoon Cartoon Fridays for me was a reward for going to school. It was like television and these cartoons were saying to me/us "You had a rough, stressful, and exhausting 5 days. Here's something to make you feel better."

[@thegroove14]

Nothing beats the feeling of laying down on the couch at 7pm on a Friday night and watching brand new episodes of Ed Edd n Eddy and Codename KND.

[@KittyChibiWaifu]

I love the Ed, Edd Eddy era for its originality/all the bangers we got from that line-up, but KND/Courage era was on a whole another level because we got to choose essentially what got picked via voting/views during that segment where we got to choose our new cartoons. It was really something else. KND didn't even win, but bc it was so popular/quality, they ended up adding it to the line-up a long with a few others that didn't make the cut. I also love them experimenting with the website with the games/flash cartoons and the 'sticker/myspace' like profiles we could make back when teen titans (og) was first starting out. It really will never get to that peak tier of quality anymore.

[@B727X]

At least E E and E

[@B727X]

@e off yourself douchebag. I can tell nobody likes you at elementary school

[@PumpkinLuck]

After working for Adult Swim and having a deep love for both CN and Adult Swim, it will always sadden me that we no longer do these things. I can remember working on Adult Swim bumper content and loving every minute of it. I will miss the days of CCF and program blocks alike. I feel like live streaming could be a way to revive the program style blocks but with it being so diverse on viewership ratings would be small in comparison to the old days. Gets me emotional just thinking about what could have been if CN and other networks had continued these blocks. My days working for Williams Street, Time Warner, and Adult Swim was some of my most fondly remembered years.

[@gregthehedgehog0956]

I can only imagine how fun that was!

[@RAAM855]

You guys made many terrible and abusive filled days of middle school into joys when I came home and finally was able to turn on Meguzi and laugh and be happy after 8 hours of bullying. Thank you so much.

[@chocodoeeyes]

Only Pan could unlock that plethora of memories the 2000’s provided, CC Fridays was my religion growing up, made me excited for the weekend every time ❤

[@rennythespaceguy7285]

Yeah, that's his schtick. The day he eventually stops uploading will be a sad one

[@chocodoeeyes]

@@rennythespaceguy7285 Agreed, he’s like the living embodiment of 90’s/2000’s nostalgia lol

[@donalds980]

I mean it’s basically what he built his entire channel around

[@RedSupernova64]

Man, this retrospective hits so hard in so many ways for me. Cartoon Cartoon Fridays will always be peak Cartoon Network for me.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

The last couple years have been like watching a very old family pet kind of stumble around, you know what's going to happen it's inevitable and yet as it starts happening the emotional impact is undeniable and terrible. Watching the situation with CN has been unpleasant to say the least.

[@thefreelancequeen]

This is one of my favorite videos Pan’s made, it’s a perfect mix of comedy and genuine retrospective of a part of cartoon history. I’ve watched it quite a few times over and over. It’s nice to see a piece of CN history I barely missed due to being way too young or living internationally during the time Fridays was happening talked about in such detail from someone who was there for it.

[@Inspiration_Date]

Nzinga actually left CN Fridays to work for The Weather Channel. I was watching TWC a couple years after she left and noticed she was an anchor on there. It took me by surprise.

[@DigiRangerScott]

And now she’s with Disney, hosting On The Red Carpet and was just named the new cohost of the D23 Inside Disney podcast!

[@mrcuccob6386]

@@DigiRangerScott The fact that the two original hosts are doing so well for themselves now is extremely cool dude.

[@michaeldavisnj88]

I've enjoyed watching The Weather Channel around the same period I was viewing Cartoon Network mostly during the late 90's and early 2000's. They're not even really what they used to be. I just use their website and app now.

[@MM-xn6tn]

It's so weird/amazing how characters like Double D, Johnny Bravo, IR Baboon, and Eustace Bagg can have so much chemistry in bumpers that usually only last a few minutes.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

Man this hurts my heart but it was inevitable, glad I was able to witness some of its best moments including Toonami and Adult Swim

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

@@Bellitchi our memories will live forever and thankfully people have archived old recordings from those days so that's nice

[@c.a.whodat]

Cartoon Network isn’t dead :/

[@yotsubafanfan]

I'll never forget the experience of being on Tumblr as JJBA was on first run on Toonami. A lot of us went in blind and the reactions were fantastic. The finale of season 4 remains one of my favorite moments.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

@@yotsubafanfan I got to experience One Punch Man, and I tuned in every Saturday too

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@c.a.whodat Yeah but it basically is. It's been clinging on for years and if you look at the numbers they're real, real bad. Compared to adult swim yeah it's essentially and for all intents and purposes dead. They just had a mass layoff of CN staff and the future of the channel is looking to say the least dire. I wouldn't be surprised if CN as we know it simply dies and is replaced by adult swim instead.

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Such a shame that Cartoon Network has fallen due to the combination of capitol greed and mismanagement, however I will always hold those precious memories of my childhood watching those memorable cartoon shows close to my heart

[@Woobuggy848]

Right? They will always be my childhood, next to nickelodeon & disney channel.

[@RogueBeatsARG]

at least HBO has a lot of them

[@prixe12]

@@RogueBeatsARG Oh buddy I got some terrible news for you, ever heard of a tax write off?

[@andresespinosa6517]

CN isn’t shut down.

[@RogueBeatsARG]

@@andresespinosa6517 but modern CN is crap

[@RoboKingdom]

Remembering all this and having the news about CN being "shut down" just gives me a sense of loss. I now that we probably will never have an Era like this again, and I'm proud to have been around to experience it. I owe my childhood to CN, Toonami, and even Nick and Disney. To see these legends change for the new generation was strange, but I also understood that they weren't gonna stick with us. I just hope the kids that are at the end of the line for these channels appreciate the foundation that was laid for them and give the channels are proper send off. Stay Gold Cartoon Fridays

[@andresespinosa6517]

CN isn’t shut down.

[@RoboKingdom]

@@andresespinosa6517 that's why I put quotes on it.

[@andresespinosa6517]

@@RoboKingdom Ah. Knew that was the intention. Good.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@andresespinosa6517 It's not shut down but CN studios has merged with WB studios and there's been mass layoffs at CN. I'm honestly curious how much longer the channel will exist or if it will simply get moved over to streaming and maybe the channel space will be taken by adult swim.

[@jase276]

@@andresespinosa6517 It may as well be, it hasn't produced anything of worth for like a decade.

[@Jonathanest90s]

God I miss Friday Nights like this as a kid.

[@AJ-xc4qe]

It always sucked when I was just starting elementary school and I wasn't allowed to stay up late to watch CCF all the way through despite it being the weekend!

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Same here Saturday morning cartoons and Friday night cartoons were just magical

[@Astrothunder_]

@@AJ-xc4qe damn, I was never allowed to stay up past 9 during weekdays but Fridays and Saturdays were anything goes! That’s why I loved CCF and Toonami because I normally missed a lot of shows throughout the week.

[@Jonathanest90s]

@@AJ-xc4qe I know that feeling.

[@Jonathanest90s]

@@ImmaLittlePip oh yeah

[@quantumharmonizer3514]

That Amy Lee song hits different these days where streaming services rule the roost and it feels like most shows big and small are in a constant state of flux between different platforms.

[@michaelstrong5383]

I'm around the same age as Cartoon Network, and I remember the feeling of heading home after school, wait for Cartoon Cartoon Fridays to start, and watch all the new episodes of my favorite shows. It was such a great way to start the weekend.

[@ColonelSanders17]

I think I'm about the same age as you, remember looking forward to watching the CCF. It was great watching it with my younger brother. When I heard the jingles it was such a rush of memories.

[@unkono]

It was a great way of coping with my divorced parents

[@underdogtv2855]

Thats a feeling i will never feel again unfortunately .

[@spaceman022]

Born in 91 here.pretty damn good times

[@ColonelSanders17]

@@spaceman022 '92 for me. It's crazy how things have changed. A feel like a relic somethimes.

[@ShadyDoorags]

A lot of this hits my nostalgia so hard. Some of those songs can instantly pull me back into that magical moment of no school tomorrow, staying up late and eating junk food.

[@hope-cat4894]

This, the cartoon city, and seeing all the characters sitting in a movie theater when new films were airing was the best. 😭

[@geeeltee]

It’s weird, because I started growing up with CN after the Cartoon Cartoon era ended (2008+), yet this video still got me all kinds of emotional. I remember so vividly watching Adventure Times first airing. Even though how kids experience media today is so different, the bond they’ll create with shows they watch will last forever.

[@Karmy.]

I started watching not long before you (around 2006 or so) but yeah same here, so much nostalgia for the mid to late 2000s CN even if it was in a decline and I remember watching Adventure Time's premiere though I didn't really watch much after that

[@robertharris6092]

Its annoying how all these bumpers and other presentations from cartoon network are gone and almost none have been recorded. It was really something else. I recomend looking up the CN city bumbers/era.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Everything after 2008 is pretty much where the deep declines at CN really started to show. The death of toonami, and pretty much cancellation of a ton of shows was the big start to one of the worst eras ever. We got CN real, and even though we got some decent shows like Regular Show and Adventure Time it's been pretty much downhill all the way until now.

[@B727X]

This was basically like 10 adventure times they were so good

[@mart5610]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu yeah even though there was Flapjack and Chowder CN just was heading in a different direction than couple years before. Little did I know things would get worse soon. and they changed the logo in 2010 and the network just isn't the same

[@TDIfan10]

My friend in college had a few nights of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays saved to burnt DVDs from her childhood. It was a lot of fun sitting through them as an adult. I agree it’s really not feasible to host nights like that on TV anymore. But it would be great if CN or other channels were to just upload videos consisting of an entire night’s worth of premieres! I’d gladly watch something like that. Adult Swim recently uploaded part of their April’s Fools Day night and it was a blast getting to watch that online.

[@Fallingwithstyle1995]

I recommend the CN 30th anniversary stream as well! Has classic bumpers mixed in throughout. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6CalIChe5x3gtk

[@toadfan64]

It’s amazing CN doesn’t try something like this with how far the channel has fallen these days. Nothing to lose at this point.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@toadfan64 The problem is if you seen the numbers the channel is pretty much on life support waiting for them to pull the plug. Adult swim has something like 10 times the ratings of the main channel which is both sad for CN but also sad for adult swim because even at its peak it's still only like a million. Whereas CN is lucky to get 200,000 peak.

[@DeathFlame500]

I’m jealous you got to experience that again because your friend saved those memories

[@supermarioplushes2517]

@@Fallingwithstyle1995 holy crap, it’s the voice actor form inanimate insanity, but I do agree. It feels like studios and channels don’t put any sort of effort anymore into their TV broadcast, they probably only see tv now as an efficient way of making money of advertisers.

[@Rada_Rada138]

I have such fond memories of cartoon network. With the news of what's going down now, it makes me realize I'm older and the world that once surrounded me no longer exists. But seeing love letters like this bring the vibes back. Thanks for another great video pan 💜

[@gat0rcrazzi]

This was definitely one of those niche 2000s things from my childhood I hold onto and remember looking forward to every Friday as a kid. Definitely a very special video for me, thanks for this.

[@Enclavefakesoldier]

I'm in tears right now. I consider CCF the golden age of cartoon network. There were so much charm and energy put into every week. You don't get that nowadays. Coming home from school and waiting for fridays felt like it made the week worth going through. We saw history in the making. We saw an end to an era. Hail to the king Cartoon cartoon fridays. We will never forget how much you enriched our childhoods.

[@Oni_Manga_Land]

I wish streaming services would offer "Cable Mode" where it would jumble shows and play them at random, in a marathon so that you can just watch things at happenstance. Geez dude did you knock this one out of the park. Great video (also I too thought Robin had his arm around Starfire).

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

Genuinely surprised this hasn’t become a thing. Sometimes I don’t wanna binge an entire series, but it’s also tedious to jump from one series to another and manually pick a new episode. It’s why I mainly stick with KZbin. I can either make my own playlist or shuffle an existing one (but image a streaming service with like an entire Christmas playlist that’d let you filter shows in/out by series, live action, cartoon, and time period! I doubt I’d leave any streaming app with that feature).

[@Dave102693]

Or just be like Pluto TV and make various live streams and call then channels.

[@Code7Unltd]

Most free OTT providers (and a few paid services) operate one or more ad-supported livestreams that are more than readily available. Plex has 'em, Roku features them, Samsung provides their own channel list for their own TVs and phones... The only valid factor live OTT provides right now seems to be combatting choice paralysis. I'm sure most that use VoD experienced this at least once.

[@robertharris6092]

Ypu need to copywrite that shit right now and license it to a streaming service.

[@Oni_Manga_Land]

@@robertharris6092 I'd have to know to make it first. I'd rather chuck that idea out there so we can have it. Probably gonna kick myself for it, but ah well.

[@LPTV84]

It's ironic how CN's marketing for its original shows would downplay nostalgia, and yet here we are, nostalgic for this very era and its channel block. Incredible.

[@DDSForbbiden]

I'm from latin america, and honestly, Cartoon Cartoons was one of the best parts of the weekend. I remember they would show new episodes on cartoons fridays, and repeat them on saturday morning and sunday afternooms. And then on monday we would all talk about them on school. Dang, am getting old

[@bluelan9393]

Oh yeah! I was wondering about that because I remember that cartoon cartoon never got called cartoon viernes here because it aired more times. I don't remember the live host either. Anyway, I always love them.

[@JadedWarlock]

Just hearing the 2000s intro song sent me on a nostalgia trip so hard, I thought I was in 2001 and just got done with my homework from school so I can watch the block with my siblings. I miss my siblings. I miss watching a show with a person physically with me. I miss the old CN and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.

[@moonbug7252]

7:14 Paul Williams also wrote the score and lyrics for the classic 1976 movie Bugsy Malone, as well as contributing to the song "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. It's incredible that a composer also ended up voice acting for Batman the Animated Series.

[@Aflay1]

I never thought a silly song like that would hit so damn hard. Evanescence was ahead of her time. We were all like "Why she miss Cartoon Network, it's still here" how foolish we were 😰

[@pastalovinporcupine6806]

Cartoon Network was literally my childhood, can you imagine not having the dvds of your favorite shows and your only option is get a streaming service to watch it, never actually owning it, sounds awful

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

There is always the extra legal option...

[@josephcalabrese6337]

Not to mention what happens when a show becomes a tax-write off.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@josephcalabrese6337 Yep, we're seeing the effects of that right now. Luckily the internet does what it does best and archives best it can. It's only going to get worse from here.

[@Elonyx.studios]

Thats the reality most kids are growing up with nowadays

[@jase276]

@@Elonyx.studios Another generation or two and kids/people won't own anything anymore. Paying premiums to rent media. That's why I collect as much physical copies as I can and take good care of them

[@ndm13]

Thank you for validating what I always suspected: summer 2005 was peak Cartoon Network

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Oh it definitely was. Just the mere fact that was the year Cartoon Network/toonami got Naruto I think made it the last truly great year for the channel. Before Juniper Lee was canceled because Disney took one look at it and said that's a little too close to Jake Long.

[@angrybeaver4995]

*Factual.* 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

How can "Summer 2005" be the peak of Cartoon Network when Toonami was pushed to Saturday nights during this era? "Peak Cartoon Network" feels like it should be 2001 or 2002, when Adult Swim was brand new and Toonami was airing on weekday afternoons. But I can kinda get behind what John Doe said below, that it was "the last truly great year". I think it all slowly slipped away from 2007 to 2009. The final "Ed, Edd n Eddy" in November 2009 serves as my "stopping point" for Cartoon Network.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@Theonetruewonderfly I mean what I was going for was their last great moment before things went downhill really fast. I guess I should have said that was a turning point year. Things happened over the next couple years that would change the channel completely forever. 2008 toonami was canceled. And somewhere around that same time they started CN real. And they canceled a ton of other shows around that same time as well. Again, it got bad really fast. And even though it's had some UPS in the roughly decade since it's been pretty bad. Mostly bad to be honest.

[@ndm13]

Good points. The CN City era has always been my favorite, and summer '05 really felt like the end cap of it all. A literal celebration of what made that era great. For the record, I consider Adult Swim and Toonani separately, and feel like they each had their own peaks and valleys independently of the main channel. But if you lump them together I definitely see the argument for moving the peak earlier.

[@daymonharris8696]

Man, I was not around during the hay-day of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, i mean i was but i was pretty young. But vividly remember the rebranded Fridays block during the CN City Era. Good times and i miss them alot.

[@saevusbrutum2796]

We really where the last TV generation. Kids won't know the excitement of waiting for a episode to air again or the vibe from bumpers

[@Lampent12]

Damn, that percussion in the Cartoon cartoon segment is so good! It's still the first thing I think of when I think of Cartoon Network as a whole.

[@Spark-Gold]

I remember as a kid when Nzinga Blake (the black woman host) had to leave Friday Nights, the male host actually kissed her good-bye but it wasn't a friend kiss, it was played off romantically (his head was upstagging hers so the kiss was probably simulated but still). As a kid, you know you're not supposed to ship people just because one is a boy and the other a girl even though a lot of us secretly do anyways, so it actually blew my mind when it happened because I didn't expect a kid's block to actively promote kids to ship two adult actors especially when it's out of nowhere during a character sendoff of all things

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Things were interesting during that period of on Cartoon Network. I sadly didn't really have access at that time so my experience was fairly limited but I'm glad I got a little here and there because it was kind of amazing. I honestly didn't think I was going to miss all of that as much as I do.

[@powpowouchy5]

I don’t remember her having a proper send off. I just remember the new lady kind of appearing later. i wonder if theres a clip of that

[@Elonyx.studios]

I dont remember this happening at all. Could it be possible you're miss-remembering or having it mixed up with something else? If someone can track down a clip of this id like to know cuz maybe Im the one misremembering it.

[@emperorfaiz]

I definitely miss the early years of CN. Got my first satellite TV service in 2004 and because I don't live in USA, all the bumpers stuff was a few years later for me to watch. The "cartoon in real-life" era was the best. The early 2010's was the last time I was really invested with CN because I was reaching to my adulthood. It's not the same anymore. Good time...

[@RebelTaxi]

Oh dang thanks!

[@emperorfaiz]

@@RebelTaxi You're welcome. Keep up the good work, dude.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@emperorfaiz Yep, watching the channel go down has not been pleasant. It's fallen so far from it's peak and in general is practically unrecognizable.

[@emperorfaiz]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Lol, I missed the part where that's my problem.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@emperorfaiz Never said it was. It's just the sad reality. But I too am over it.

[@jordanmaldonado9418]

I actually was on an episode of Fridays! I just recorded it to my laptop this week lol. My brother and I were on the episode featuring the movie ROBOTS! It was super fun and actually helped push me toward my dream of working in television production!

[@HulksterHogan]

Some company really needs to bring back retro TV, imagine streaming complete TV blocks along with appropriate time period commercials.

[@jase276]

It's called Boomerang

[@king_big_pp]

What exactly are you watching? The same thing you watched when you were a little kid? That's kind of dumb.

[@Garethsmod]

MeTV is pretty close to old Television, they have Saturday morning cartoons and other events like Svenghoolie which is like a Friday night horror show.

[@plapin3538]

@@jase276 nope boomerang sold out too

[@CinnamonToastKing]

Hearing that Friday intro sent a thermonuclear wave of nostalgia through my body. I think almost experienced time travel at how hard it hit me back. I was a kid again if not only for a moment!

[@efjable]

That song hits so differently now. "Cartoon network, i miss your soul" Sure streaming services are great and all but they get pricey, even when watching those old shows on said services, it just isnt the same.

[@chiefr9627]

I'll never get tired of your videos man. The editing just has so much personal flair, and your narration isn't just breaking something down. Your sharing your memories but blending it so well with so much new info that wouldn't have been readily available or as memorable when we were children. These are a work of art and I can't thank you enough for the entertainment and the feelings that resurface.

[@KyleShiflet13666]

I was a Cartoon Network loyalist as a kid and a teen. I occasionally watched Nickelodeon but was never truly loyal, mostly because of Cartoon Cartoon Friday also hearing that song made me tear up thinking about my childhood watching CARTOON NETWORK with my Nanny and PawPaw and knowing that they've sadly passed on

[@emilyhogan4973]

I remember watching that first year of Fridays, it felt like a fever dream in hindsight and I had to look up clips just to make sure it actually happened.

[@psychochiken4111]

Just after it's 30th birthday, Cartoon Network gets absorbed into Warner Bros. End of an era, but thank you for this wonderful flashback to my youth, Rebeltaxi! You're absolutely right, you just had to be there to appreciate it.

[@andresespinosa6517]

CN isn’t shut down.

[@Dave102693]

@@andresespinosa6517 it’s animation studio, or at least it’s name, Is.

[@IammeoramI]

Damn, this is some crazy good presentation. I always like to be reminded of your showmanship.

[@Doppity]

Man. Nothing beats sitting down on the couch with a plate of pizza just soaking in hours of cartoons.

[@silverliningreviews882]

Just finished this video and I gotta say man this is probably my new favorite video of yours. It brought me back to my childhood just as I’m starting a new chapter in my life. I felt so good watching it and it got me emotional so thank you Pan 🙏

[@supermarioplushes2517]

It feels like studios and channels don’t put any sort of effort anymore, they probably only see tv now as an efficient way of making money of advertising. It’s kind of weird, Disney channel is the last network I expected to actually be pumping out new shows and actually be putting effort in

[@GamerSlyRatchet1]

RIP Coolio. Also, didn’t know Tommy was Beard Hunter. Nice.

[@JamesLawner]

Where I grew up, we didn’t have Fridays on Cartoon Network or any specific programming block like Toonami or anything else, but I do appreciate the nostalgic factor of this. Also, Amy Lee’s Cartoon Network song really hits different in the 2020’s 😭

[@mrmickeyrich]

At least you get to see what it was like in this video. The block was fun when I grew up, but there is some cool stuff that I missed on this video, like that Amy Lee song. And I bet a lot of people will be singing Amy Lee’s “I miss you Cartoon Network” as a point of reference because of this awesome video.

[@countdooku7152]

Man I still remember watching the premieres of Class of 3000 and Camp Lazlo on Fridays.

[@chayden153]

Same!!! I remember seeing the premieres of Puffy Ami Yumi, Juniper Lee, and KND.

[@NDUWUISI]

One of the best feelings in the world was back in the year 2000 coming home from school and watching Toonami 4-7pm and then having it lead into Cartoon Cartoon Fridays plus knowing there would be Saturday Morning Cartoons on multiple channels the next morning I watched too much TV growing up 😅 Thank you for making this video 🙏🏾

[@angrybeaver4995]

I always say that sweet spot in the late 90s/early 2000s as kids viewing cable and free-over-the-air tv at that time was having Saturday morning cartoons like Kids WB, FOX Kids and Disney's One Saturday Morning at the same time. When 12 noon hit, you'd just switch over to Cartoon Network, Nick or the Disney Channel afterwards 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@dalematulonis9]

Toonami at that time literally introduced a whole generation of young people to the world of Anime! The big Anime Boom of the early 2000s was such a wonderful time to be alive!!

[@CJMoody]

Also, I'd love to see Amy Lee perform that song during an Evanescence concert soon in Cartoon Network's memory, as well as her little brother's.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Oh yeah, Robbie's dead, Gamer Moment.

[@Akispark]

The presentation of CCFs just gave it all a magic feel. We need cartoon/anime streaming services to start doing premiere livestreams with their characters giving a show like this

[@VisualVoluem]

Man it's crazy how this video made me remember a lot of stuff I thought I forgot. I remember cartoon cartoon Friday's and all the fun songs and I even have fond memories of the Era with the boring red background. At the beginning of this video I was like "damn I forgot about most of this" but eventually it literally just came rushing back. It's so crazy to think how different tv is now, I don't even have cable in my room anymore! But to remember how it used to be like this is just so fun....dude I really miss this stuff.

[@cmndrkool321]

I have a recorded VHS tape of some of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. It was the premiere of the Powerpuff Girls episode that debuted Princess Morbucks.

[@jrickducking6685]

Nothing beat watching new episode or movies with your friends or siblings on a Friday night with no care of the world We took our childhood for granite

[@_Astrum]

28:43 You really hit the nail on the head with this. I've been going out of my way to collect old media from my childhood, a lot of it featured on CN and Adult Swim, and I've discovered that it is difficult to recreate the full experience. It's like some people say, "you don't miss the content, you miss how you felt back then". Thanks for exploring this topic. Bumpers and network "atmosphere" like this really hit me with nostalgia, and I love to see people preserve it.

[@Woobuggy848]

Happy birthday Cartoon Network, if only this year was good for ya. Feel sorry for the company…😔😔

[@pinkkmatcha]

All good things must come to an end. Nothing is constant. Change is part of life. Perfect choice for the outro with that accoustic performance, Pan.

[@sonikku956]

Damn, this made me tear up up a bit. Happy 30th anniversary Cartoon Network.

[@Pikmin442]

As a kid i dont think i ever watched much of CCF i was on friday night nicktoons, but later when CCF rebranded i watched it a lot. It was a perfect way to start the weekend, coming home and renting a game or movie, ordering pizza, and watching fridays on CN. I do wish we could go back to those times but television is evolving and we can only have those memories to take us back a bit.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I never thought the decline would be so severe and so quick. And unfortunately with CN it only got worse and worse. I'm glad I have my memories but it's so sad to see the channel fall so hard. Streaming is the future (at least for now) and TV has become basically a vacant wasteland of nothing but cheap reality shows and reruns. No one would believe me if I told them how it used to be and no one would believe me then just how bad it would be now.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Man this brought me back Glad you made this video after recent news 2022 is a dark time for animation

[@TheTerminatorChris]

I've lived through those years, the best time to be alive on a Friday. Even have my VCR recording every KND shows. The intro is such iconic that it represents my childhood, soda and chips at the ready for brand new shows.

[@TheCartoonGamer8000]

If I was American and grew up watching this, I would be screaming about the awesomeness that was Cartoon Cartoon Fridays till my dying day, and maybe even after that.

[@TheApacheNinja]

Pan , I've been a fan of your content since you first covered the Steven Universe pilot, and I have to say that this is your greatest video to date. You captured everything about this era so perfectly. CCF was a massive part of mine and many others' childhoods and I think this video is a perfect time capsule of that era and what it means to so many people. You video quality has only gotten better over the years and you deserve so much more recognition

[@Obi_Con]

Super sad that I grew up with the later eras of CN, right when the charm and show of it all was fading

[@emperorfaiz]

I'm sorry for you.

[@blindedjourneyman]

You have my sympathy.

[@eblu_]

hey, we managed. Chowder and Flapjack were good. I never saw Ben 10 but I know that it carried the network for a while. I guess Johnny Test was there too but it was mostly just there to fill time

[@Obi_Con]

@@eblu_ Yeah, Chowder, Flapjack, Reruns of other greats like Fosters, Billy and Mandy, ect ect, all that was so good. Ben 10 was pretty good from what I remember, haven't seen an episode in years but I liked it when I was younger.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

There's a reason why after about 2008 the channel saw a significant downward spiral. It would take way way too long to go into it but basically the guy in charge that helped make the channel what it was, who created things like toonami, adult swim etc was essentially forced to step down after an infamous incident in Boston. That would lead to a new guy coming in canceling a bunch of shows, canceling toonami and creating CN real. The fact they went from their absolute peak around 2005 or the last time things were truly good at least to the mess just a few years later is remarkable but it's all about who was in charge.

[@mayayamato7351]

fried dynamite unlocked buried, primal memories. thats some of the most lolrandom word combinations that really epitomized that era.

[@bumbum9898]

Summer of 2007 and how CN changed will always stick with me. It all culminated with entering middle school and shifting to mostly using the internet. A real roller coaster looking back. Shame things had to go the way they did, for better or worse. I'll never forget that first and only time tuning in for Fridays to find it wasn't airing.

[@1kendall766]

Man you gave me some good memories on fridays & when you was mentioning some of the interesting info on the live action fridays & hearing evanescence's amy lee sing about cartoon network, that got me a little teary eyed. Plus you were on the ball when you bought up CN branding with the red backgrounds with recycled animation & just air their new eps of their programming during the week. Glad your still around doing awesome content been a fan since 2011. Thanks for the content Rebeltaxi, Thank you Cartoon Network for the good & bad moments & long live CCF & Fridays.

[@lightspaceman5064]

I think streaming services should give you the ability to create your own block. Set up your own episode lists and autoplay them. [AS] and CN could play new or old bumps between them. They should at least try to bring that magic back for a new generation.

[@DevoHeart32]

Man, some of the lyrics of that song hit me in the heart and are relevant to me now. Cartoon Network back then was my childhood and such a special time in my young life that I will always cherish.

[@Karmy.]

I just turned 22 a few weeks ago (Y2K baby here) and I'm actually starting to cry now, especially after hearing that song, thinking about how much better life was back when I was in elementary school and how carefree it all felt and not realizing just how good I had it back then

[@MoonGhostDoodles]

10:00 It’s interesting this is even reflected on WB and Nick’s platform fighters. In Multiversus the crossover banter is embraced and pushed for, while in Nick Brawl the devs wanted the voice actors to do that but Nick insisted to keep the characters “pure” with no crossover lines.

[@theotherjared9824]

I've said this for a long time, companies should transition tv channels into livestreams. A 24/7 stream of curated content that can be found elsewhere, but with the advantage of exclusive premieres and live events.

[@jadenbryant9283]

Maybe even have a TV host of sort in-between

[@kitkat9716]

The presentation of this one was amazing

[@Phono_Wizard]

Great vid, Pan. I always get fuzzy feelings whenever I think of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. This was a good tribute to that show.

[@garlandstrife]

5:26 this makes no sense. If WB bought Turner Broadcasting Systems, why would they charge them a licensing fee if they were part of the same company? Can anyone enlighten me on this?

[@crispitycrunchy]

I very much hope that someday we get something of this style again. Whether it be through live-streaming or the resurgence of proper television, I just want programming blocks to come back in some way.

[@mart5610]

Good days of coming home from school to watch Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Billy and Mandy, My Gym Partner's A Monkey. and the city

[@unknownsoldier6731]

I don’t give a shit what nobody says, gym partner was decent and was actually funny 😂😂

[@mart5610]

@@unknownsoldier6731 Same I remember that show being so popular on CN when I was a kid. It's so funny still to this day. I love that frog school principal lol and Jake the spider monkey. Show had some really funny designs

[@warpvector]

This guy really has a way of making me feel nostalgically depressed for stuff I never heard of.

[@8RIGHTS]

i wish they just did livestreams of past broadcasts. imagine watching every broadcast from 2000-2012 from each of the big 3. heck even kids wb and disney one too, id watch the shit out of all of these!

[@kartoonfanatic]

Have no memory of the claymation skits but I came on late and do remember live action hosted Fridays more than the cartoon cartoon hosted Fridays. (And I distinctly remember Amy Lee’s guest star appearance after all these years. Her voice is so pretty and the sentimental connection makes up for the song being kinda cheesy. But a lot of those grooves were pretty cheesy.) gotta appreciate the added effort and budget to do new bumpers every Friday. You hit the nail on the head as far as why the extra thought and effort of Fridays stands out in so many of our heads. Even in this age of cable when ‘anything goes’, CN and Adult Swim actually embodied this. Such fanfare for at most 2 new episode premiers a week. The insider jokes and crossover dialog. It makes a kid feel like they mattered and what they watched mattered.

[@LegendStormcrow]

I hadn't realized that the gameshows and what not were CCF. Also, Dexter digs rap. He even break dances.

[@MissAshley42]

Damn, Pan. You _killed_ it here. As an old, I can't say I have the same nostalgia as you, but you conveyed yours here so successfully that I feel like I just spent 30 minutes in your shoes.

[@Big-Image]

28:09 Cartoon Network is sort of already doing this in the form of the CN 30th Cartooniversary Livestream, as it's not only airing episodes of old shows, but also bumpers.

[@luqhakim5711]

yknow it always felt odd to me how Fridays apparently aired in prime time (or night time) for many of you out there. Where im from, its like 2pm. I was a dumb kid who didnt know better at the time (never accessed internet yet) but i kinda picked up on the scheduling. Also, the weirdest thing to me after watching this vid is realising that block had a talk show segment and shit.. i never saw any of that. It was the fridays intro bumper and on to the cartoons. It truly was a fascinating time to be a kid back then, pan is right.. you truly had to BE there to experience it. Something that will never be recreated again. The feeling of coming back home, throwing the bag to the side and already ready in front of the tv to watch new episodes that were teased throughout the week... man! What a time to be alive. With streaming now being commonplace, it sure is easy to be updated when new eps come out, anime for example. But that feeling i mentioned, it truly is something you cant do again. And its sad how much CN went down ever since. Granted, i managed to jump ship early, Malaysia never really did have those live tv shows ones.. I remember the last things i watched in 2010 was chowder and ben 10 ultimate alien, and thats it. I moved on to anime in my teens

[@pentilex4338]

I don't get why streaming services don't make more of an event of premieres. That would be so awesome

[@Geek306]

13:57 the forgotten 4th player Discovery Kids