What Made Nicktoons Network So Special?

One of my personal favorite channels has largely gone unnoticed or forgotten. Let's fix that!

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  • @scubasteve7439
    @scubasteve74393 жыл бұрын

    Watching invader zim on nicktoons at 4am in 2005 hits different

  • @ArtieArchives

    @ArtieArchives

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed lol

  • @jinglethewanderinghampoet
    @jinglethewanderinghampoet3 жыл бұрын

    I have a lot of nostalgia with this channel too!! I loved watching shows like Kappa Mikey, Wayside, and Random Cartoons, and I always thought the bumpers and those "how to draw X character" shorts were really neat.

  • @ikennakonkwo5939
    @ikennakonkwo59392 жыл бұрын

    You make excellent points. Nicktoons Network was a good part of my childhood. The more I watch these old commercials, the more I look back and still think of being in the basement at my old house spending time in the morning and in the afternoon on the channel. What needs to happen is to rename the nicktoons channel called “nicktoons nation”. Whenever a nicktoon comes on, they should make a nickelodeon logo of that character during an episode to add more creativity.

  • @TheRealMrTBA

    @TheRealMrTBA

    Жыл бұрын

    I've always thought of that, I remember drawing pictures of them. The Noods from CN inspired me to do this.

  • @greeneye2037
    @greeneye20373 жыл бұрын

    Making Fiends deserved more love.

  • @Kittenfox_55
    @Kittenfox_55 Жыл бұрын

    How something is advertised can go a long way. I miss when creative bumpers like Nicktoons Networks and CN city could thrive.

  • @bvogs58schannel90
    @bvogs58schannel903 жыл бұрын

    Loved the original Nicktoons Network back in the day. Not only did they air ALL of the OG Nicktoons that everyone loved 24/7, but they also had great original content as well as creative and stylish branding. It’s a damn shame that Nickelodeon went through that massive rebranding because Nicktoons Network felt like the perfect throwback channel for Nickelodeon fans

  • @justinarzola4584

    @justinarzola4584

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn't get Verizon cable until around 2008 which was when nicktoons rebranded to have more action shows and anime, I remember watching invader Zim, dbz Kai, and iron man armored adventures along with some of the catdog and some of the power rangers shows and avatar, it was a great era that sadly won't be replicated now that nicktoons is just a graveyard channel now.

  • @snbsixteen6stars201
    @snbsixteen6stars2013 жыл бұрын

    I really wish they got back on that creatieve energy

  • @snbsixteen6stars201

    @snbsixteen6stars201

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope they put it into the Paramount plus

  • @dylanlewis5113
    @dylanlewis51132 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons Network was the elusive channel of my childhood. I didn't have TV for large chunks of my childhood. At home, I only had VHS and later DVD. At my grandparents house (were I spent every weekend and most of the summer), they had Nicktoons Network. I loved it!

  • @IsabellaCataldo
    @IsabellaCataldo3 жыл бұрын

    Seeing you talk about things like this made me realize just how grateful I am that I grew up with expanded cable. I was introduced to so many great shows both old and new on these channels, not just Nicktoons Network and Boomerang, but also Toon Disney, HBO Family, Noggin, and Discovery Kids. The channels may be gone or heavily rebranded, but my fond memories will live on forever.

  • @BigNoobEnteraintment
    @BigNoobEnteraintment3 жыл бұрын

    This network defined my early childhood and it got me into staying up pass 12am just to watch all the programming

  • @lemonsgj
    @lemonsgj2 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons Network created my personality. From Yakkity Yak to Making Fiends. I resonated with everything too much. Even the bumpers

  • @macbarrpup2451
    @macbarrpup24513 жыл бұрын

    That thumbnail will surely give me nightmares.

  • @ScottPillgram20
    @ScottPillgram203 жыл бұрын

    Seeing those old "Three Headed Monster" bumpers hit like a truck. I love the aesthetic of that era of Nicktoons Network and it's always stuck with me since I grew up watching it. Kappa Mikey, Secret Show, Edgar & Allen, and The Presenters shorts were my favorites of the shows exclusive to it. Bums me out, though, that the late 2000s/early 2010s turned into more of a Nickelodeon 2 rather then it's own thing. Especially since, despite the motto being changed to "Not just cartoons, Nicktoons", they started putting non-Nicktoon shows like Power Rangers, kids animes like YuGiOh and Digimon, and live-action shows they'd either be airing on the main channel or TeeNick on the channel.

  • @Karmy.
    @Karmy.2 жыл бұрын

    All of those bumpers from the mid to late 2000s are nostalgic af I loved watching Edgar and Ellen in 2007 and my grandparents were the only relatives who had NN so I had my grandpa record the new episodes on his DVR and burn them to a DVD for me

  • @yotsubafanfan
    @yotsubafanfan2 жыл бұрын

    I loved Nick toons network as a kid. It was my introduction to shows that aired before I was born. Stuff like Pinky and the Brain, Kablam, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy show and other shows my older sister grew up with. It also had old seasons of SpongeBob, Fairly Odd parents and Rugrats. No arguing there But their originals were great too! I loved Kappa Mikey, Cat Scratch and Cornel and Burney. But Kappa Mikey was my favorite. In fact I owe a lot to it as Mikey was my partial introduction to anime.

  • @sustelsuk
    @sustelsuk3 жыл бұрын

    I love that channel, it was a hit in my middle and high school life

  • @JTHMsonicfan
    @JTHMsonicfan3 жыл бұрын

    What made Nicktoons Network special? I played cartoons besides Spongebob

  • @aresef
    @aresef3 жыл бұрын

    I slept big time on Nicktoons Network, sad to say. It's kinda like how ESPN2 had this identity as "The Deuce" until it basically became just another ESPN channel.

  • @BrockSamsonVB
    @BrockSamsonVB2 жыл бұрын

    The kid version of adult swim honestly lol love them both so much

  • @johndoherty487
    @johndoherty4873 жыл бұрын

    That was basically the same thing for me but with Boomerang. My family has Comcast which has Nicktoons Networks but not Boomerang. But everytime I visited my aunts cabin I watched Boomerang.

  • @incorrectzak3496
    @incorrectzak34963 жыл бұрын

    I love and find it fitting how the background music is from Attack of the Toybots, my personal favortie Nicktoons game for the sheer amount of crossovers it has, especially Stimpy, Rocko, GIR, and Jenny being playable characters

  • @derpdadouch3654
    @derpdadouch36543 жыл бұрын

    Kappa Mikey, Invader Zim, Catscratch, catdog, their block with 5 minutes shorts where adventure time would first show up. Great great memories.

  • @Sledge447
    @Sledge4473 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons is heavily underrated

  • @Orangebowl98
    @Orangebowl98 Жыл бұрын

    I may not have watched a lot of their original shows but I can never forget the times as a kid when I watched Nicktoons Network. The re-runs of regular Nickelodeon shows were always great for me and their creative bumpers and shorts had a lasting impact that I still look back with such fondness and HUGE nostalgia. I honestly couldn't agree more with what you said about what made it so great and their unfortunate demise with the rebranding in 2009

  • @littleyoyo8480
    @littleyoyo84803 жыл бұрын

    I grew up with Nicktoons (the rebranded one) and even though I didn't really mind the networks and what they were doing. today I learned the o-mazing ness of Nicktoons network. It kinda makes it to when I want to have grown up in the late '90s instead of the later '2000s.

  • @kingmo8789
    @kingmo87892 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons Network is great in creativity and imo 2009 Nicktoons rebrand is also great and at the same time, it's underapperated.

  • @cartycartoons5594
    @cartycartoons55943 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching reruns of ren and stimpy on nicktoons at midnight when I was a kid.

  • @Ranixo286
    @Ranixo286 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah this definitely hit different, embodying the 2000s papercraft edgy feel..I loved all the small time independent cartoons they showed in specials and just how kitschy it felt.

  • @AndroidSunner
    @AndroidSunner Жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons Network was like that forbidden fruit you weren't supposed to enjoy, yet you ate it anyway; I was relatively lucky, my parents didn't have it on their DirecTV Package back in 2008; but my Grandparents had literally every single channel on Charter, so i'd always put it and Boomerang on pretty much every time i visited. Also: that "it was waiting for me to watch while on a vacation" vibe hits hard too, because every single time i went to the cabins up the mountain, it was there; waiting for me.

  • @Azel98
    @Azel983 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons Network was The only Time Beside Regular Nickelodeon and Kids WB Where I got to watch the Rest of Ren and Stimpy,Animaniacs and Rocko's Modern Life and Catdog in the Early to Mid 2000's. The Three and Final Season of Danny Phantom and The Fourth and final Season of My Life as a Teenage Robot aired in 2008. And There were more Underrated Classic on the Channel like Yakkity Yak,Corneil and Bernie,Kaput and Zösky, Martin Mysteries,Speed Racer the Next Generation,Kappa Mikey,Three Delivery,Edgar and Ellen,Making Fiends (Ugh !) The Secret Show, The X's,Skyland,Catscratch and many more.

  • @georgehernandez9767
    @georgehernandez9767 Жыл бұрын

    I remember coming across this network when I was also on a family vacation. I was astounded and soon I got to to see it when I got back home. I love how you made a similarity to Boomerang and how it relied on old shows. I would record the shows on my DVR and enjoy the memories of Nickelodeon of the old times including some syndicated rerun programming like Animaniacs. I thank you for doing a segment on this!

  • @MilesTails101
    @MilesTails101 Жыл бұрын

    Bro this video took me down memory lane! Really appreciate the look back. That channel had some of the most inspirational blocks, promos, and shows i've ever seen in tv history. Really makes ya stop and think where have the times gone?

  • @christopheredwards788
    @christopheredwards7882 жыл бұрын

    Great memories seeing this. My god!

  • @VikingBoyBilly
    @VikingBoyBilly2 жыл бұрын

    I used to love nicktoons before it got the "graveyard" reputation

  • @AidenRKrone
    @AidenRKrone Жыл бұрын

    Nicktoons was my favorite cartoon channel, too. They had the best shows. On the cable package that my family had at the time, it was the only channel where I could watch _The Secret Show._

  • @isaiahnaegi645
    @isaiahnaegi6452 ай бұрын

    My family didn't have NN, but my grandparents did. Whenever we went over to visit, my siblings would watch that, HBO, Starz, Jetix in our freetime. I also like to headcanon that Nicktoon Network "Golden Era" was a response to CN City and Jetix and how big they were

  • @katlyn3248
    @katlyn32482 жыл бұрын

    Great video. NickToons Network was amazing growing up, sadly I could only watch it at my grandparents but that sort of made it even more special. I didnt see it decline, just from around 2006-2009. When I stayed over being able to watch cartoons at midnight and late into the morning felt so special and it introduced me to so many older shows like ren and stimpy, angry beavers, rockos modern life.

  • @jeremykrane4855
    @jeremykrane4855 Жыл бұрын

    we had a standard cable package, but my grandma's cable package had nicktoons as well, so i'd check out that channel whenever i'd visit

  • @nicktoonsnetwork2105
    @nicktoonsnetwork21053 ай бұрын

    Great video! I made my channel *because* of the nostalgia I had for this channel. It had that much of a staying power.

  • @AJPierson
    @AJPierson6 ай бұрын

    I have fond memories of watching Martin Mystery on Nicktoons.

  • @positiveproductions6699
    @positiveproductions66992 жыл бұрын

    If you haven't already done a retrospective on hey Arnold please consider doing that for the future because I remember watching reruns that show in the early 2000s and it was a really good show have you done a video on the cartoon Network CN city bumpers yet? Thanks

  • @autistic_baby_doll_mom_reb7898
    @autistic_baby_doll_mom_reb7898 Жыл бұрын

    I would wake up every morning to watch chalk zone, cornel and Bernie, secret show, and kappa Mikey every day before school in middle school. And anything I couldn't watch I would record it via dvr

  • @sonic23233
    @sonic232333 жыл бұрын

    The only nick channel that showed anime

  • @electricbaier8778
    @electricbaier8778 Жыл бұрын

    This makes me want to go back and watch Kaput and Zosky

  • @spongefan155
    @spongefan1553 жыл бұрын

    3:04 Guano. Costume. 4:51 4:54 5:18 There It Is 6:12 Companies Oversimplifing Their Logos 9:12 What's On It?

  • @digitaltailsmon4096
    @digitaltailsmon409610 ай бұрын

    Mentioning both Kappa Mikey and Speed Racer made my eyes go wide with memories so thanks for that!

  • @snbsixteen6stars201
    @snbsixteen6stars2013 жыл бұрын

    Its ider a treasure chest of all your favourite nicktoons, or a graveyard of broken dreams

  • @ikennakonkwo5939
    @ikennakonkwo59392 жыл бұрын

    Another thing that made nicktoons network special is that loud house, breadwinners, and fanboy and chum chum wasn’t existent at the time.

  • @okjeffy6581
    @okjeffy65813 жыл бұрын

    0:28 but the brain isn’t a Nick character

  • @BeezydaBaseGod
    @BeezydaBaseGod11 ай бұрын

    Kappa Mikey and Prometheus & Bob were my intro to Nicktoons in 2008. Right after Toonami died, more mature shows were what I needed

  • @zachmaddison8215
    @zachmaddison8215 Жыл бұрын

    I remember being obsessed with Nicktoons Network in the mid 2000s

  • @litten3578
    @litten35783 жыл бұрын

    the 2009-2014 nicktoons branding was fucking great what are you talking about

  • @goobusmcdoobus2
    @goobusmcdoobus26 ай бұрын

    Ever since that rebrand to Nicktoons Network in September 2005, the network found itself.

  • @TheIkranRider
    @TheIkranRider3 жыл бұрын

    This brings back memories of the FoxBox. How it changed rather quickly and became so corporate like 4kids TV is. I hope that if nBcktoons actually kicks the bucket maybe Nick and the rest of Paramount will too including MTV; they're all the same! By the way was it the same network that had Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball Z in it? By the way are you going to do a remake of your retrospective of Sonic X?

  • @theskyrax670

    @theskyrax670

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, Nicktoons fron 2010-2015 had Dragon Ball Z Kai and GT (a few of the first 13 movies and the bardock special as well), and Yu Gi Oh Zexal/Arc 5 (I think)

  • @wallowlight
    @wallowlight3 жыл бұрын

    kamp koral is a good show

  • @mightyfilm
    @mightyfilm3 жыл бұрын

    I only have Nicktoons because I have a weird cable package that has all the Nick networks for some reason. Now, I started getting cable like sometime in the last decade, but it was definitely after the slide into random marathons of certain shows, but it was at least when it was a variety of shows. They'd even run fun stuff during holidays in the beginning. Now it's just Spongebob or freaking Henry Danger and its even worse spinoffs, and an excuse to shove their TERRIBLE live action programming into the audiences' faces even harder. How do they not care about the sister network YET care enough to use it as a third outlet to bludgeon Side Hustle and garbage like that to make kids like it? That's what Nick basically is now. Shoving something terrible into the tweenage audience they desperately still cling to in their faces over and over and shout "DO YOU LIKE THIS NOW? DO YOU LIKE THIS NOW? DO YOU LIKE THIS NOW?!?!?!" Cable TV is dying a slow death, they can put on ANYTHING in the world on a channel almost no one gets because it doesn't or shouldn't matter. Though, this past Cinco de Mayo they did have a few episodes of El Tigre. At least it's something.

  • @747rabbit
    @747rabbit Жыл бұрын

    i fucking love this channel.

  • @chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031
    @chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031 Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, before Nickelodeon went down the shitter.

  • @dwainsimmons3447
    @dwainsimmons344710 ай бұрын

    I want the old logo back

  • @RadioLover102
    @RadioLover1022 жыл бұрын

    I loved the nicktoons network

  • @theposer
    @theposer2 жыл бұрын

    At least nicktoons aired dragon ball z

  • @xHaloxReviewerx117x
    @xHaloxReviewerx117x Жыл бұрын

    Real ones remember when nicktoons played dragon ball z kai and the movies!

  • @MichaelSar12IsBack
    @MichaelSar12IsBack Жыл бұрын

    They basically sucked all the fun out of Nicktoons Network. AND Boomerang. And, heck, out of every single channel that caters to kids. How come "reruns of cartoons that aren't airing anymore" channels have been phased out? Boomerang, Toon Disney, this... yeah, yeah, I know streaming services are a thing, but not everybody has or can afford them!

  • @debomb721
    @debomb7212 ай бұрын

    Angry beavers and ren and stimpy were so gas

  • @carlintaylor3229
    @carlintaylor32293 ай бұрын

    For me nick toons was cool to me around 2004 through 2011 ❤❤ Nickelodeon for comedy cartoons cartoon network for action shows Disney for live action ❤❤😊

  • @MultiSuperguy101
    @MultiSuperguy1012 жыл бұрын

    I personally liked Drake and Josh and iCarly. Those were the only 2 Nick sitcoms I liked. The Amanda Show was good too but yeah they definitely overdid it later with all the crappy sitcoms.

  • @angrybeaver4995
    @angrybeaver499521 күн бұрын

    lol I'm old enough to remember when Nicktoons Network was _Nicktoons TV_ in 2003. 😂😁🙂 When they aired older Nicktoons like Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy, and even imports like Cornell & Bernie, Kaput and Zasky. I know my peers remember the Squidward astrology bumpers in which some of them became lost media, right? 😂😁🙂

  • @TheNerdHolden
    @TheNerdHolden Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know where the Speed Racer TNG promo at 5:34 can be found? I haven't seen it and i don't believe the Speed Racer fandom has it archived

  • @cobaltbleu3046
    @cobaltbleu30462 жыл бұрын

    This makes me sad

  • @dreagonzalez6217
    @dreagonzalez621725 күн бұрын

    Me until 6:01: Yeah, you're so right!!! Me after 6:01: HEY!!! NAKED BROTHERS BAND WAS GOOD AND NAT WOLFF WAS AWESOME.

  • @MelloTheHero
    @MelloTheHeroАй бұрын

    Nicktoons could've just changed the logo and not the entire branding like the bumpers and Promos.

  • @okjeffy6581
    @okjeffy65813 жыл бұрын

    Nicktoon

  • @DupontandLowesWarrior
    @DupontandLowesWarrior3 жыл бұрын

    SpongeBob The King of Nicktoons Himself is What made Nicktoons Network so special

  • @Spacething7474

    @Spacething7474

    3 жыл бұрын

    How so? I do remember how little SpongeBob would air compared to other shows on Nicktoons during the early 2010's (especially 2010).

  • @Launchpad05

    @Launchpad05

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because he ruled with an iron fist, and not other Nicktoon is allowed to coexist with him.

  • @Wubster649
    @Wubster6492 жыл бұрын

    About that Nicktoons rebrand I’d had to disagree, CN Real was the worst branding. They took out cartoons from the Cartoon Network.

  • @Quartzer.

    @Quartzer.

    9 ай бұрын

    I feel like something should be noted CN Real was quickly gotten rid of outside of Destroy Build Destroy, Dude What Would Happen, and a few shows that were outside of the block even so by 2013 all of them were gone. Meanwhile Nicktoons has (arguably) gotten worse over the years (pretty much only airing shows from The Loud House and Spongebob universes (looking at the schedule anyways) Also CN Real wasn't a rebrand it was a block of programming (Should note I think it's fine to have your own opinion I was just explaining why I think CN Real wasn't the worse rebrand (Nicktoons isn't even my least favorite (mostly cause I never grew up with this branding) Boomerang is (thankfully they've started to get better)

  • @TheStarBot
    @TheStarBot3 жыл бұрын

    I swear, unless I'm missing something, you have some extreme bad timing when it comes to your video topics and when somebody else decided to the exact same topic First the Barnyard video, and now this

  • @albertrobinson4576

    @albertrobinson4576

    3 жыл бұрын

    What videos did the same?

  • @TheStarBot

    @TheStarBot

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@albertrobinson4576 The Wacky Deli did a video a whole week ago

  • @Brewart2012

    @Brewart2012

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wacky Delhi never made a Barnyard video

  • @TheStarBot

    @TheStarBot

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Brewart2012 I wasn't talking about Barnyard for Wacky, that was someone else lol

  • @Brewart2012

    @Brewart2012

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheStarBot who else did the barnyard video?

  • @chriseddie7176
    @chriseddie71762 жыл бұрын

    I AM VERY FOND OF THIS CHANNEL, IT'S SUCH A SHAME WHAT THIS CHANNEL HAD BECOME NOW.

  • @CDO735
    @CDO73524 күн бұрын

    You may say that Nicktoons sucked ever since 2009 but I think Nicktoons started sucking ever since 2016.

  • @YouaNumbahOneRacist
    @YouaNumbahOneRacist8 ай бұрын

    Nicktoons was alright, but did it have Blue Falcon and Dynomutt? Sing-alongs to the Banana Splits opening? All the old original music interstitials like Musical Evolution with the Pussycats, and Jabberjaw Ska? No? Advantage- Boomerang.