What prompted that, btw?

[conuly]

Well...

I may have been watching a few too many videos lately.

(It's frightening how many of those I actually remember by heart once the first notes are out there. And I didn't even watch that much TV growing up! Scooby Doo in the mornings, Smurfs on the weekends as some sort of weird Belgian pride thing (no, seriously, that's how it seemed to me at the time), TMNT because my mom thought it was terrific, and of course Gummi Bears if I was home in time, which I never was and deeply regretted.)

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[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

For $60, you can get a Roku box and stream loads of old kids' TV (and other kids' stuff.) It's $9 a month for unlimited streaming (and 1 DVD out at a time, unlimited.) It also streams Amazon Video.

If you want to see what they have to offer, http://instantwatcher.com is great - Netflix won't let you look unless you have an account. Oh and here's the Roku player on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Roku-N1050-SD-Player/dp/B002U6EWPG/

To answer your actual question, I favor Looney Toons collections, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Ren and Stimpy, Dangermouse, hmmm.... I'll see what else I can think of.

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

I mean, you can look at instantwatcher. It's Netflix that won't let you look. Ahem. If only I'd pony up for paid so I could edit my comments.

[conuly]

Comment editing is a nice bonus, but it doesn't really pay for itself, y'know?

And I prefer to have flesh and blood DVDs....

Well, you probably know what I mean, anyway.

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

I completely understand the desire for actual media vs a license to stream content. We own 200+ DVDs, 95% of them kid titles.

Of the shows I mentioned above, only Ren and Stimpy is streaming. The rest, we bought!

With paid I'd get all those userpics too, which is the real draw... Hmm.

[conuly]

Most people don't use all their icons, though. I know I sure don't.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I was around for the first run of the Smurfs but I stopped watching in mortal outrage when the Smurfette origin story ran.

(Seriously? The EVIL smurfette has short black hair but once she turns GOOD it's long and blonde? They just lost a brunette watcher, and if a ten-year-old can figure out that's wrong....)

[conuly]

Really? I don't recall this at all.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Here it is in comic-book form. (http://bluebuddies.com/help/smurfette_created_by_gargamel.htm)

The animated series changed virtually nothing about the story as you see it above. It aired as written.

See, the Moral Of The Story above seems to be that ugly people=bad and pretty people=good, with a couple sub-themes along the lines of Flat Shoes Aren't Pretty and Brunette=Ugly/Bad. Like I said, even when I was ten I knew there was something Wrong here.