Nickelodeon in General

My only fear is that some young kids are going to assume and pass this off as a "Sanjay and Craig" or "Gumball" copy and not give it a chance.

The voices they got for the boys are uncannily similar to their best-known V As. Arnold still sounds like Arnold.

So far, looking good. It looks like Arnold and co need to win their trip to San Lorenzo, which I guess will make up the first part.

And all the characters up there and in the video...the Pigeon Man, Stoop Kid, that weird kid who stole Arnold's baseball for no reason...they even remembered Coach Wittenberg had a son!

edited 21st Jul '17 1:29:48 PM by kablammin45

The sneak peak for Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie has dropped, captures the original and the replacement voices are quite good.

Big Patty seems like an odd choice because Arnold didn't really have much to do with any of her 4 focus episodes, also Tucker suddenly exists again.

edited 21st Jul '17 1:30:26 PM by BigMadDraco

I'm feeling twinges of nostalgia watching this. Fuck, I need to rewatch this sometime.

If you've got a subscription, the whole series is up on Hulu. I rewatched it when I found out The Jungle Movie was actually happening. Still holds up really well.

edited 21st Jul '17 1:36:04 PM by BigMadDraco

No subscription unfortunately.

Nick seems to have made the case very well as to why we should want to have reboots of the old shows.

The Hey Arnold trailer seems to keep the original visual style, character design, and as much of the voice actors as possible. This could be good as well.

Gosh, this is such a crowning moment of heartwarming due to how many lives he's touched, and it's a good call back to all the characters we have encountered in the series. I mean Ruth who stopped appearing after the first season is there and they remembered Hyunh's daughter. And I like how they invoked a lot of Mythology Gag when it came to characters like Harold, because as people noted he was at first a one dimensional bully until he got some good Character Development.

Alright, I am seriously loving these sneak peeks, especially Rocko's.

Did anyone notice the call backs to the intro in the Rocko's Modern Life peek? Does anyone love them as much as I do?

I know with Cartoon Network, their reboots can be hit or miss. Nick seems to have the opposite thing where their reboots seem to capture the tone and feel of the original. I think it has to do with the fact that the original creators are making these instead of some neophytes.

It helps that one is a show that was made to comment on modern life, so is by nature transferable to a new era and the other is a project the creator has wanted to do for years. It also helps that both were shows that didn't overstay their welcomes the first time around.

Yeah, the reboots like Samurai Jack are just small things to wrap up some lingering questions.

It also helps that they're not being brought back as part of a cynical, soulless scheme to milk more money out of people's nostalgia.

Well, they kind of are, but they're trying to give you, the nostalgic viewer, the show as you remember it, and not the sort of thing that Cartoon Network's been doing lately.

It's more sincerity in this kind of nostalgia trip than Cartoon Network is doing. The Jungle Movie like with Samurai Jack's fifth season is giving the conclusion everyone was asking for.

Moral of the story: always pander to the fanbase and abuse the shit out of nostalgia by giving fans the show they want.

To think this whole revival of Nick shows atarted with that 90s Is All That block on Teen Nick. Now all we need is the series finale of Angry Beavers to be animated and another season of El Tigre, My Life As A Teenage Robot and Catscratch.

I understand wanting an Angry Beavers finale, and we already are getting an Invader ZIM movie finale, but why more Cat Scratch?

Dino Spa-MO-ney!! :D I loved saying that name.

I still don't want a Rugrats reboot.

We got a Rugrats sequel series already.

I heard they were bringing it back in comic form.

The better question is why not?

Anyway, I agree that we don't need any more Rugrats. The series is good enough as is.

It was kind of bland even for its time.

Now a Real Monsters reboot, on the other hand...

Usually, I hear Doug being the one that gets the "bland" accusation thrown at it. Rugrats is nowhere near that level.

Even as a fan of both shows, I will agree that I don't think Doug or Rugrats need a reboot. (Especially the former.)

I think an Aaahh! Real Monsters could hold a new TV movie, but maybe not an entire new series.

I wouldn't want a Rugrats revival simply because it seems clear that the writing staff were running short on ideas when it was cancelled the second time to the point that they switched to a three short format because they couldn't sustain 11 minute episodes anymore. We can contrast this to Rocko's Modern Life which is almost universally agreed to have gone out on top and was built to comment on modern life anyway, Hey Arnold, which was deliberately setting up for this movie (though it get a feeling from interviews that Bartlett wants to use The Jungle Movie as a pilot as well), and Invader Zim which was cut short just as the elemetents for an ongoing plot were getting laid out (Tak's ship, the resisty, etc.).