Father of the Year makes working Angry Birds birthday cake

@Raiki: This has to be the fastest blue'd comment in Joystiq history. Four comments in and bam. They should give you a medal or something.

@Raiki

More than anything, we got Batman: The Animated Series. The bar was set 21 years ago, and The Disney Channel has been rolling under it like a tired fat kid since.

@Raiki

You forgot to add Freakazoid, Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain.

@Raiki

Don't forget Spiderman the animated series, ren & stimpy, gargoyles.
Yea.. The bars set alot higher than that..

@Mister Darcy B:TAS was 21 years ago?? Christ I feel old.

@(Unverified) Actually, the Spiderman show was terrible.

@antaydos

Mister Darcy needs to take 1st grade math again

B:TAS was 1992, he's thinking of the first Burton movie, which was in 1989

@Mister Darcy

I can't believe no one mentioned The Tick

@Raiki Sorry, dude, Angry Beavers wasn't that good. It's nostalgia talking. It's pretty repetitive and the characters are paper-thin. Of course, the same could be said of Pinky and the Brain, but that show survives on incredible wit and great supporting characters and situations. Angry Beavers, not so much.

@Aerothorn I'm going to get downvoted SO FAST.

@(Unverified)
Disney afternoons: Darkwing Duck, DuckTales and TailSpin!

@(Unverified) I'm late to the party, but what about Doug? Ninja Turtles? Dragon Ball /Z? Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? The Wonder Years?

@Raiki
The original TMNT, Loony Tunes (Road Runner!), Ren & Stimpy... Every generation will say that the new generation of [insert media here] is crap, because back in my day, [insert list of old favorites] was better.

@Raiki

Reboot. Nuff said.

@romevi - Every time someone mentions The Wonder Years, I cry a single tear because it isn't available on DVD. I watched every single episode when it aired again in the later nineties (I was too young to watch the original airing).

I agree with the rest of you; Kids today have it bad for TV content compared to us 20 somethings. All the Disney shows, everything on Toonami and Adult Swim, Batman: TAS, etc. I flip by Nickelodeon or Disney today and the cartoons are awful, not to mention pandering.

@GooberMagoo
It took THIS MANY COMMENTS on a VIDEOGAME NEWS WEBSITE for someone to mention the very first fully CG cartoon? wow.....

@BananaBoat if you still want to watch the wonder years it is on HUB www.hubworld.com

@BananaBoat
i think you're lucky to even find an animated show for kids on modern TV. they've gotten so low-budget, that it ends up costing a lot less to just produce an endless stream of shitty kids gameshows and lousy sitcoms like Hanna Montana, Zack and Cody, etc., etc. even Cartoon Network is guilty of this! i'm 29 and when i flip through those channels it depresses me. i remember when the Disney Channel was a premium cable channel (like HBO) and it played only amazing content like animated feature films and classic disney animated shorts... sigh.

@(Unverified) - Thank you. I'll check it out later tonight. Do they have all of the episodes, or just some of them?

@laser beams - Some of the cartoons are more offensive than the live action shows they put on. The CG is absolutely terrible, and the voice acting is atrocious. Shows like Gundam Wing and DBZ can still be watched and enjoyed. In ten or fifteen years time though, kids are going to look back at the cartoons they had watched, and wonder what the hell was wrong with the animators.

@Raiki - I have every one of you beat by a mile.

I witnessed the golden years of MTV (1981-1992) and Nickelodeon (1982-1987).

Lets see what else did I grow up with... GI Joe, Transformers, Voltron, Dangermouse, You Can't Do That On Television, Pinwheel (If you can't sing the theme, then you just suck, and that's life..) Belle & Sebastian, Inspector Gadget, He-Man (She-Ra for the ladies...), and thunder... Thunder... THUNDERCATS!

And Saturday mornings ended with American Bandstand! Now get off my lawn! :)

@Walter White -They replayed all of those cartoons during our childhood years as well. I watched Voltron, Robotech, Thundercats, He-Man, GI Joe, and all of the other eighties cartoons, in the nineties, as if they were brand new (they still made the toys for all of them as well, so we didn't know those shows were old). The made-in-the nineties cartoons really did a number on them though. The eighties saw bastardized anime stuffed into an American cartoon box, often with poor results. By the nineties, we were getting the real versions, straight from the source and unfiltered (if not uncensored at that point, for the most part).

I'll admit that we missed most of what made MTV amazing (though we did get a few years of that) but we definitely had a leg up, I'd say. That is speaking only of children's programming of course (I'm not prepared to have an eighties vs nineties adult content argument).

I was going to say that we also had Reading Rainbow, and that we won by default, but then I googled and realized that Reading Rainbow had been on since the early eighties. How we (as a country) let Reading Rainbow die after twenty five years is beyond me. The darn thing was on nearly as long as Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and we couldn't keep it going? Shameful.

@BananaBoat - Oh, I remember the acid trip that was PBS in the late 70's and early 80's.

I can't seem to wipe the memories of The Electric Company (I only watched for Spider Man) and The Letter People from my brain.

@Ryan P except it found its way to Joystiq which means the guy lives and breathes video games like the rest of us.

@Jack Kevorkian
I saw this on Geekologie the other day.

@Leetninja muffin The cake is a lie! Haha fooled you!

@(Unverified) Holy **** you watch that? That is scary

Ahh well played, well a muffin a day keeps raging girlfriends at bay

@Leetninja muffin Yes but a muffin a day... Will make you fat.

@VeeDeeVee

I'm glad you have a great dad but you sound really pretentious. This cake is awesome and probably made the kids birthday.

@VeeDeeVee
"I've never eaten a cake made by non-pro family members or ones that haven't cost me £100+"
Holy eff. Way to sound like an asshole.

@VeeDeeVee douchebag alert!

@VeeDeeVee Your comment is worse than 45% of my comments. I've saved it for posterity.

@VeeDeeVee Jerk
My mother made me a brown "Dark Vader" cake for my 8th birthday in '86.
Uh mom, it's Darth...and his helmet is black. Still though, yum.

@VeeDeeVee

You father also raised a douchbag son

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@VeeDeeVee

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@VeeDeeVee

douchetool