What kid in the early 90s gave a shit about James Bond?
james bond movies were still on tv all the time
>>150602989You'd be surprised, zoomer. A young boy training to be a spy, going on weekly adventures against legally distinct villains? Hell yeah we wanted that. What do you want in a cartoon? To whine and cry so hard that you win the argument?
>>150602989All the kids did, you fucking pleb.
>>150602989Every kid knew who James Bond was even before Goldeneye. The name was synonymous with a suave adult male and secret agents.
>>150602989Five Bond films rolled out between 1980 and 1989. This series rolled out in 91 as noted by >>150603380 kids then were very aware of him. What was strange about this show was more the Bond jr aspect of it. The show would have done better if it was just a straight Bond animated series or just a Teenage Spy OC series, as it was no one really wanted it, which is likely why it faded to obscurity.
>>150602989The opening by itself was so quintessentially 90s, even kids who didn't know James Bond got hooked.
>>150603400>What was strange about this show was more the Bond jr aspect of itYeah. No kid wants to watch a show with "jr." in the title. Everything about the poster in OP's pic looks great, and then you see the "jr." in the title, and every kid is going to think it's for "babies."
also slot-filler shows in between the heavy hitters that people actually wanted to watch were very common in and of themselves, they were part of a healthy programme lineup and their demise is one of the many reasons television fell out of relevance>>150603400you could make a cartoon for pennies so there was a lot of adapting and reimagining shit and seeing what stuck
>>150602989LatinAmerican anon here, and this series was my first James Bond experience, but even so I knew who James Bond was.Though, on a funny side note, for quite a while I thought the show was about a teenage James Bond rather than son (actually nephew). It was a mix of watching the show in LA Spanish, the intro not being dubbed, missing the first episode and thinking "Jr." could also be used for younger versions of characters.
>>150602989Tell me you weren't actually alive in the 90s without telling me you weren't actually alive in the 90s.
>>150603489>then you see the "jr." in the title, and every kid is going to think it's for "babies."Nick jr and stuff didn't exist back then.
>>150603489I think it's simpler than that and they just don't want to see Bonds kid. They rather see bond himself. >>150603498It was cheaper but not that cheap, it was more of what is happening now with indie animation and a lot of bamboozlment going on to get things funded. The whole industry has always been idiots all the way up and down getting tricked and lied too to waste money on the next big thing.
>>150603500>while I thought the show was about a teenage James Bond rather than son (actually nephew)I thought the exact same thing myself, I think it was how they presented the kid, he isn't trying to be his own person, he's just Bond's personality but as a teenager.
What os it with zoomzooms (and, to be fair, late Millennials as well) and straight up rejecting every piece of media before the year 2000?I mean, I kind of get how someone who grew up in the era of on-demand streaming couldn't wrap their head around watching whatever's airing on tv and therefore becoming familiar with many classics/cult classics, but why are they so convinced media older that they are couldn't possibly be any good?
>>150603709It's mostly Twitterites who do thisI still remember when Jason was announced for Multiversus and all these twitter zoomzooms were acting super butthurt like "OMG who cares, he's so old" and then he turned out to be probably the most hyped post-launch character across all generations because of course he fucking was, he's an enduring horror icon who is ultimately far more popular than than "DC character who coincidentally has an upcoming movie" and "Character you watched on Cartoon Network growing up"
>>150603709They're raised on a constant stream of new content thanks to stream platform originals and Youtube videos. Anything older than even five years gets hit with "unc" or whatever because their peers and favorite streamers only talk about new things. To enjoy older stuff would require them actually seeking that out independently.
>>150603709To be fair to the OP, they're not shitting on James Bond, they're questioning whether or not children back in the day would be familiar with James Bond since his movies are clearly aimed at adults and most parents would not want their kids to see them.I'm more baffled by the Rambo animated series. I can at least see the logic behind Robocop.
>>150603709>>150603769>>150603792>>150603932Where are you even getting this? No one under 35 is talking about this stuff nor has anything to say about it. They are doing what most Millennials did with the vast majority of media from the 70s and prior and just ignore it, because it wasn't their time of being alive. Same idea here. They have no feelings to any of this, it's just stuff their dads grew up with. You have to actually been alive around the time it came out to hold any feelings for it, good or bad.
>>150603709They are brainwashed by ideals that irrationally hate all past traditions of a better era
>>150602989He thought against the Thalmor?
>>150602989>Who gave a shit about a timeless movie franchise Really showcasing what a zoomtard you are there
>>150602989Their parents watched loads of James Bond all the time so the thought was this is something for the kids to enjoy too.
>>150602989In 91 most kids just watched what was on Saturday Mornings and Weekday afternoons. There was not a huge amount of variety and after a couple hours cartoons were done for the day.
>>150603709Also things like Spongebob and Teen Titans being on for decades made them believe that any show that only had 2-3 seasons was a complete failure.
>>150602989This is just another one of those many many other 2rd rate style shows they would stick in between the bigger more important stuff like TMNT and Alvin and the Chipmunks for a year or two. Shows like Mighty Max, Highlander, Action Man, Biker Mice from Mars etc were all in that same boat. Or they came on around 6-7AM on Saturday mornings before the bigger more popular stuff started which was usually around 8.
>>150603932Children in the early 90s would be since their parents were young in the era of James Bond being the big popular summer action flick of two decades and very likely watched them all a lot at home on VHS or when TBS was replaying them. Also remember this was the era of most households only having one tv for everyone to share so most kids watched stuff in the livingroom too. No going to their rooms and remaining there all day and night in their own little media bubble. They saw what their parents were watching all the time.
Pro tip: You can’t call your kid James Bond Jr. if James Bond Sr. Is his uncle.
>>150605184This, basically. Kids used to unironically have exposure to way more variety in media than they do today. back in the 80s and 90s, we were often stuck watching reruns of our parents cartoons, or other shows a movies intended for adults of a different generation (I was fond of MacGyver and Get Smart, myself). People who grew up in the era of dedicated cable networks with 24/7 childrens' programming cannot comprehend it, and that goes quadruple for kids today who are basically going to live in an AI media bubble that never stops regurgitating the same shit to them.
>>150603400I feel like an actual James Bond animated series could have flown really well in the late 90s after Goldeneye (both the movie and the game) revitalized the Bond franchise.
>>150602989Literally every britbong kid. All the vBond films were constantly on TV. GoldenEye came out in cinemas in the mid 90's and then there was the insanely good N64 game. Nobody I knew ever heard about James Bond Jnr though. I only knew about it as a random video game and thought it was a knock off.
>>150604816I'm starting to think it's like when the baby boomers in the 90s swore up and down kids were slaves to tv and didn't critically think, ended up being the highest consumer of TV, but still believe it's kid kids getting "brain rot" watching tv all the time. Most active users on dating apps and social media are people over 30 at a near 4 to 1 ratio, even tictok's user base is by majority older people. So you get these clowns that just assume "kids" are on these places because that's what they did with no clear reality that most youth don't use wide spread social media. I can only imagine what social norms zoomers judge the youth are doing that is actually themselves consuming it all the time.
>>150605534And despite being PG with the violence and raciness, they were very nearly all-ages movies. Corgi did toys of Bond vehicles among others.
>>150606278Bond movies had that graceful, acceptable level of promiscuity and bloodshed that all but the most pearl-clutching of parents were okay with in the 80s and 90s. The way parents saw it back then is that sex and violence were simply a part of the world, and it was pointless to try and completely insulate your child from them.Hilariously, my friend had a super strict mother who was always taking away privileges as punishment for fighting with his sister. But it never really dawned on mom that no matter how many TV shows and video games she banned, her kids kept fighting. She was just a shitty parent, lol.
>>150602989And you're not questioning why we got Conan, Robocop, Rambo, or Chuck Norris as cartoons?
>>150603792My niece listens to michael jackson, evanesence, and watches Naruto. Not shippuden, OG Naruto.My nephew likes everything sonic and tom&jerry. That's not the problem. The problem is new stuff is made by nep babies and propogandists.
Only boomers care about James Bore
>>150602989I love every rated R franchise getting goofy 90s cartoons
