1990's Cartoon Survivor (Do-Over)

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Kill: Hey! Arnold
Kill: Simpsons

Hey Arnold is still here, and is still the last show I had no personal fondness for.

The Simpsons, because I am helping to reclaim Simpsons kill votes as something that doesn't deserve death threats!
 
Kill: Rocko
Kill: Powerpuff Girls
Save: Animaniacs

Sorry, I have just watched the first 50 episodes of this show and I will finish it. Finished Freakazoid before it. Next is most likely Tiny Toons. All the series I loved but always only saw single episodes of.

Also, those shows are even more funny as an adult since I now get all of them jokes :-P

edit: in the 90s, I was in my teens so it's propably natural those shows gel'd so well with me.
 
Kill: Powerpuff Girls
Kill: Rocko's Modern Life

Not quite sure how PPG made it this far but whatever. Rocko was great but doesn't stand up to what remains on the list.
 
Kill: Hey Arnold!
Kill: Rocko's Modern Life

Personally I think that Hey Arnold should have died avoid time ago. I mean how is it not possible that Reboot isn't in the top 5? Smfh.
As for Rocko, I don't have anythig personal against it, I just didn't watch it that much as a kid as opposed PPG and Animaniacs.
 
Throwing my save in there (for reals, this time):

Save Hey Arnold

I find it to be genuinely better, more varied, more interesting, and funnier than the Power Puff Girls, which basically boiled down to a handful of semi-memorable episodes and a fun premise. PPG is more repetitive than something like Arnold, and Hey Arnold had a better cast of characters worth exploring.
 
Kill: Animaniacs.

One kill only this time. Annoying characters, never liked it much. I want to see this gone before any of the other remaining shows.


The Simpsons going before top 2 would really invalidate so much of this list...

I'm genuinely disturbed by the number of kill votes it has already received this round.
 
The Simpsons going before top 2 would really invalidate so much of this list...

Simpsons not winning the top slot would invalidate the list, but I think politics and personal vendetta kind of hampered the voting anyway. I'd like to see a system where after people vote they can't go back and change their vote to sacrifice a different show to save one of their shows. I know I'm guilty of doing it and a majority of the PMs I got were to change a vote to save another show.
 
Simpsons not winning the top slot would invalidate the list, but I think politics and personal vendetta kind of hampered the voting anyway. I'd like to see a system where after people vote they can't go back and change their vote to sacrifice a different show to save one of their shows. I know I'm guilty of doing it and a majority of the PMs I got were to change a vote to save another show.

The problem there is that everyone would wait until the last minute to vote. Unanimous voting is the way to go, I think, to nix all of that, but I do love the "drama..." but, man, Gaf needs to show some taste here.

Don't kill the Simpsons. Seriously.
 
Christ, where did all these Rocko kills come from?! I know I haven't participated here at all but I can't just let this slide!

Kill: Hey! Arnold
If Arnold must die to save Rocko, then so be it.
Kill: Animaniacs
Always liked Tiny Toons more than this.

Save: Rocko's Modern Life

As long as Rocko gets to top 5 I'm good.
 
Kill: Rocko's Modern life
Kill: Animaniacs

Save: Hey Arnold

I don't really care about the placement of the next few spaces as all the shows appealed to me in different ways and it's hard to put one show over another. Rocko might be the one I like the least however. I'd at least like to see it go before Hey Arnold, but I don't really care either way
 
The problem there is that everyone would wait until the last minute to vote. Unanimous voting is the way to go, I think, to nix all of that, but I do love the "drama..." but, man, Gaf needs to show some taste here.

Don't kill the Simpsons. Seriously.

I love the Simpsons, but they will fall before the Batman!
 
Wow!........This round was close.
It really came down to the wire this round. It came down to one kill vote and one save vote.
The show that is leaving the island by a margin of one vote is:

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Animaniacs!
With 20 kills and 1 save. A great show by any means and I am sorry to see it go.

Rest of the votes(Formally Top 5!)
  1. Rocko's Modern Life with 21 kills and 3 saves.
  2. Hey! Arnold with 22 kills and 6 saves
  3. Powerpuff Girls with 13 kills and 1 save
  4. The Simpsons with 5.
  5. Batman: The Animated Series with only 1 kill.


YOUR TOP 5 CARTOONS OF THE 1990s!
  • Rocko's Modern Life!

  • Batman: The Animated Series!

  • The Simpsons!

  • The Powerpuff Girls!

  • Hey! Arnold

I have another question for you this round now that we're so close to the end. Actually two questions. Actually several.
1. What worked in this competition? What didn't work? What was your favorite part of the contest? your least favorite if you have one? What'd you improve on for next time we do this? Let me know what you think. It'll only help more for next time.

2. What would've been your personal top 5? Your top 10? Maybe even top 20? List them out. What would've made it onto your list? Feel free to include shows not listed here.

Thank you guys so much!

Voting for the top 5 round is now open.
 
Kill: Rocko's Modern Life
Kill: Hey Arnold

The two shows that I think look the oddest in this list, but at 5 this is becoming more meaningless.
 
Kill: The Powerpuff Girls
Kill: Hey Arnold

i don't really have anything against either of these shows, but Rocko's Modern Life is better as far as the kids' comedy cartoons go.
 
Lining up for predictable ending...

Kill: Hey! Arnold...because it should be dead
Kill: The Simpsons, I think Batman should take it

Go Rocko!!!
 
Kill: Rocko
Kill: TBD

Rocko isn't a top 3 show, so why not?

A lot of really great shows got wrecked early on and would probably have been better in the top 5, but that's the nature of survivor (as opposed to a straight vote). I think the format itself is fine, but the next one needs to not last an entire month probably.
 
kill: rocko's modern life
kill: the powerpuff girls

this is a really good top five. the only thing different from my top five would be king of the hill in place of the powerpuff girls.

i don't really have anything against anything in the top five. rocko's modern life is a funny show, and i thought the powerpuff girls was clever. they're just not top 2 material, so they have to go.
 
Kill: Hey! Arnold - most ppl here will say that Top 5 is what they honestly think this show is worth and that they wouldn't mind if it goes this round, but fuck them anyway. Get rid of this shit.
Save: Whatever Hey! Arnold savers vote to kill.
 
kill: The Powerpuff Girls
kill: Rocko's Modern Life

both are good shows but not my top three. Arnold, Simpsons and Batman should make it.
 
Kill: Hey! Arnold - most ppl here will say that Top 5 is what they honestly think this show is worth and that they wouldn't mind if it goes this round, but fuck them anyway. Get rid of this shit.
Save: Whatever Hey! Arnold savers vote to kill.

i just love that arnold is a top five show, not just because it is, but because of the reactions.
 
1. What worked in this competition? What didn't work? What was your favorite part of the contest? your least favorite if you have one? What'd you improve on for next time we do this? Let me know what you think. It'll only help more for next time.

2. What would've been your personal top 5? Your top 10? Maybe even top 20? List them out. What would've made it onto your list? Feel free to include shows not listed here.
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Seriously, No one wants to answer these questions? Everyone thinks that this competition was perfect as is? OK
/s
 
Wow!........This round was close.
It really came down to the wire this round. It came down to one kill vote and one save vote.
The show that is leaving the island by a margin of one vote is:

Animaniacs!

lol
okay, I didn't expect this but it's a pleasant surprise. PPG and Rocko are in the top 5, my work here is done. Good job, Gaf!

uh .... kill: Hey! Arnold

this is the only show left that I'm still willing to vote out (that is, until the great Batman v Simpsons battle begins)
 
Seriously, No one wants to answer these questions? Everyone thinks that this competition was perfect as is? OK
/s

I answered it a bit.

1. A month is too long. There were a lot of shows on that initial list that had no chance of going anywhere and that lived only due to other shows fighting each other. Maybe get the list trimmed down before next time?

2. Allowing double kills probably hurt more than it helped. It made things real contentious early on when people double killed shows just to do it and other people responded by double killing whatever show that person had saved (which brought about the Angry Beavers/Ren and Stimpy feud). If you think that's good for the thread (in terms of creating drama/getting people interested) then I digress

That's about it, honestly.
 
2. Allowing double kills probably hurt more than it helped. It made things real contentious early on when people double killed shows just to do it and other people responded by double killing whatever show that person had saved (which brought about the Angry Beavers/Ren and Stimpy feud). If you think that's good for the thread (in terms of creating drama/getting people interested) then I digress

I agree with this part, I mentioned this earlier in the thread. Use the top 10 rules (no double kills) but allow one save every round. The rest is fine
 
Through absolutely no credit of its own. Like people are saying, "joke's over."

It should've gone out with Ed, Edd, and Eddy, another grossly overrated show.

ed, edd, and eddy really wasn't a bad show, nor should it have gone out early maybe not top 20 material, but not down with captain planet. i can definitely agree to angry beavers and ren and stimpy though.

i've written extensively about what i like about the show, and why i think it's good. there have been just a few retorts, most of them being single-sentences like 'i didn't like the animation'. if it really grinds your gears, then actually challenge me. animaniacs and dexter died specifically due to a lack of people articulating why they liked those shows and convincing others to keep them around. it was easy to kill them when there was no reason to defend them.

arnold deserved to live because it has a passionate fanbase and that's what this vote is all about. it's not a joke. people genuinely enjoy it, even if you don't.
 
Now it's time for me to start voting off shows I actually liked (except Rocko).

Kill: Rocko's Modern Life
Kill: Powerpuff Girls

As much as I liked PPG, it had its bad and good episodes.

I usually put up a dirty joke from a new cartoon I'm voting off, but I found a whole clip for PPG. I was going to post the scene from the episode "Candy is Dandy" where the girls ate the candy and got really relaxed, but holy crap at this compilation I saw while searching for the episode. Even the first joke.

Professor: "I'm the Professor."
Bubbles: "Yeah, he made us in his laboratory by accident."
Professor: "Well, what can I say."
Girl: "Don't worry Professor, I was an accident too."
XD
 
Kill: Hey Arnold! Show wasn't bad, but I only watched it if it was already on.
Kill: Rocko ^

Save: TBD, I'll probably save a show this time.
 
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