MILLENNIUM SLAPSTICK APPRECIATION THREADI'd like to have a thread saluting the 1998-2012 slapstick cartoon style popularized by Kids WB and Toon Disney.
To be precise, many shows between 1997 and 1999 experimented with the reinnasance "90s" style in different ways. While cel animation was still dominant at the time, the DIP(digital ink and paint) process would go from an experimental oddity to a valuable alternative to celluloid sheets.
>>154216284Another thing to point out is that this is when the 11 minute format became standard.NOTE: many of these cartoons fit more on either the "Thick-Line/UPA" style or somewhere completely different.Whereas Nickelodeon aired 11-minute cartoons from the get-go, Cartoon Network started with 7 minute cartoons. Disney, on the other hand, would make 22-minute episodes with full-length stories.Starting with The Powerpuff Girls in 1998, Cartoon Network would switch to an 11-minute, two-segment format. Many of the older cartoons would struggle here (Dexter's Laboratory being the worst offender, dragging out jokes for minutes on end), but newcomers like Ed, Edd n Eddy or Courage would fare off better.When Disney took their stab at pure slapstick(Raw Toonage, Shnookums and Meat), they used a 7-minute format. Timon & Pumbaa would change that in 1995, with future series like Nightmare Ned and 101 Dalmatians taking on the newer format.I'd assume smaller animation companies/networks (i assume) would follow similar trajectories. switching from 7 to 11 minutes around the late 1990s.
>>154216127This is the pink panther nowFeel old yet?
No this thread is bad
>>154216462Most of the defining cartoons of this era DO, however, come from either Warner Bros Animation.Warner Bros:>Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries(1995-2002)>Histeria(1998-2000)>Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain(1998-1999)>Duck Dodgers(2003-2005)>Krypto the Superdog(2005-2006)>Tom and Jerry Tales(2006-2008)>The Looney Tunes Show(2011-2014)That's mostly because this style had become most associated with Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry. Other non-WB examples would include:>Sam and Max(1997-2000)>Space Goofs(1997-2006)>Patrol 03(1997-1998)>Oggy and the Cockroaches(1998-)>House of Mouse(2001-2003)>The Proud Family(2001-2007)>Drawn Together(2004-2007, one of the few examples of the "millennium slapstick" style in adult animation)>Geronimo Stilton(2009-2017)>Pink Panther and Pals(2010)
>>154216612I feel you have to make a difference between stuff from the later half of the 2000s forward, I think there is a noticeable change of feel with stuff like the Tom and Jerry Tales, or Pink Panther compared to stuff from the 90s like Timon and Pumba.
>>154216660> Compared to stuff from the 90s like Timon and Pumba.Timon and Pumba was there as more of a historic predecessor. Most of these shows are from 2002-2008>>154216478>No this thread is badsorry about that
fuck i forgot to put spongebob here.
>>154216660>I feel you have to make a difference between stuff from the later half of the 2000s forward, I think there is a noticeable change of feel with stuff like the Tom and Jerry Tales, or Pink Panther compared to stuff from the 90s like Timon and Pumba.That's... kind of the point of calling it "millennium slapstick" in the first place.
>>154216127Does Space Goofs count as Millennial slapstick? It technically came out in 1997, but didn't get a second season until 2005!
>>154217119>Millennial*Millenium. (God I'm retarded.)
>>154217119It would be an early example.
>>154217119Millennium slapstick kind of started here. But I feel it was similar to Catdog in being a transitionary cartoon.
>>154218007That's absolutely true. By the time the 2nd season premiered, Big Star had already improved their animation skills working on APC previously. It's no wonder the animation in that season is so good.
>>154216127Honestly, I liked it better than the 90s Pink Panther show where he talked.
>>154217119Thanks for this bit of trivia, I alway wondered why this show lasted so long.
>>154219366Yeah, Xilam are weird like that. They've released Oggy seasons years apart from one another too.
>>154216462>(Dexter's Laboratory being the worst offender, dragging out jokes for minutes on end)You're talking about Savino right?
