The Pinnacle of Cartoon Network || A CN City Retrospective

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I've been a diehard fan of the Cartoon Network City era ever since I first laid my eyes on it in 2004. To me, this was the pinnacle of the network's existence and it has never quite been able to recapture the same energy and feeling ever since the network rebranded away from it in 2007. It's a shame too, as short lived as this era was it was hands down the best branding the network had ever had. I'm a fan of the Powerhouse era too, don't get me wrong, but in terms of bumpers, this was the best the channel ever had, and based on the responses I've seen online, the overwhelming majority of Cartoon Network fans seem to agree.
Well, I decided that I wanted to make an analytical retrospective video highlighting the genius, glory, and immersive wonder that the city was able to provide to kids watching the channel back in the day, as well as explain why I personally doubt the network will ever pull something like this off ever again. Sadly, times have changed quite a lot since the city era and given what I've observed of the network over the past decade, I strongly believe we will never see anything like this ever again--at least, from this network in particular.
Hopefully you'll tag along for the ride and find this video to be a comfy trip down memory lane! Maybe you're new to this era of CN and want to see what all the fuss is about! No matter your experience with the silver age of Cartoon Network, I hope you enjoy the video all the same. Thanks for watching, and please share this video around if you find it worthwhile!
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@summerjonz 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The studio that animated the city was the same one that animated both Happy Feet and The LEGO movie.

@uncleshrek3614 3 жыл бұрын

Aka Warner Bros

@kenyaholloway-reliford8213 2 жыл бұрын

Legend of the Guardians too

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

😌 I'm sooooooooo glad that i am born in 1998. I wouldn't know all these nostalgias and have such a beautiful childhood if it wasn't for my parents. 🤣 Sucks to be the 2010s kids ! 😐 No offense ! 😮‍💨 Harsh fact, but yes.

@treflosho 3 жыл бұрын

I *love* how CN City happened over a decade ago and there are STILL bumpers I haven't seen yet. 🤩

@sadlobster1 3 жыл бұрын

Like what

@marianojrivera8101 3 жыл бұрын

Same, i think i didn't see most of them because I was in school and I would be watching Miguzi or Toonami when I got home. And then ok Saturday it would air the best stuff but not everything

@TheBamaPrinceable 2 жыл бұрын

Many of the bumpers were exclusive to certain countries. Even some of the ones shared internationally had or lacked music that other nations lacked or had.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@nekonomicon2983 3 жыл бұрын

I never realized how important archiving things were until I saw these nostalgic bumpers again

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@michaelstrong5383 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who's a huge Cartoon Network fan for as long as I can remember, I've lived through its up's and downs, from the amazing Powerhouse era to...... *UGH* .......CN Real. But out of all these years, the City era was the network at its peak.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@shaunakpandharipande8942 2 жыл бұрын

@@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 You do realize the 2010s was literally the renaissance for Cartoon Network, right?

@fredbloxworth5272 3 жыл бұрын

The CN City era more or less has some of the most memorable bumpers that I've ever seen on any Network and it was just so fun seeing all of our favorite characters have small talk with each other and they even gave a feel as to what the early 2000s were like. It's quite sad that we'll more than likely never get anything of this quality again, but at the very least we can thank the people on the internet that search out for these old bumpers and upload them for people like you and me to watch again.

@zzz43344 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@liamstraughan 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@miguelescobedo5112 3 жыл бұрын

Man it's been so many years when someone finally does a retrospective on CN City and you did a great job on it Shadow Streak.

@AJ-xc4qe 3 жыл бұрын

Monsters Reviews and Vailkiskbum94 did videos on CN City

@nekonomicon2983 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Such an unforgettable era rarely gets talked about

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@jaytahoe Жыл бұрын

He sure did; this video was great. For a moment I felt like I was a happy teenager in 2004

@AJ-xc4qe 3 жыл бұрын

The sad truth is TV networks don't even care to be as creative with their promos or bumpers anymore. For that reason, this is partly why I prefer the old Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. Call me a nostalgiatard, but it's true. P.S. the Noods bumper era was underrated and should've lasted further than three years if Cartoon Network hadn't given up on cartoons during that time.

@regulardude313 3 жыл бұрын

I see nothing incorrect in your statement. Also the Noods bumpers deserve so much more love and appreciation, they were awesome.

@mftemi 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@greendecepticon6148 3 жыл бұрын

I agree cn is super lame now

@zzz43344 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah...

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@SimplySunky 3 жыл бұрын

Tbh, I didn't even know that CN City even existed in the 2000s until I found out about it in the mid-2010s. It's pretty impressive that CN managed to pull this off. You just don't know what you have til it's gone.

@Hulkzilla0 3 жыл бұрын

Ya'll remember that time Johnny Bravo and Velma dated, but then she chose her career over him? Good times.

@WeegeeSlayer123 3 жыл бұрын

Man I really wish they would bring CN City back. It doesn't have to be fully 3D, it could be 2D like how it was in Crossover Nexus.

@kjs257incpen3 3 жыл бұрын

www.change.org/p/cartoon-network-bring-back-cartoon-network-cn-city-and-cn-90-00s-show

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@theresacherco3503 3 жыл бұрын

I miss CN City it was part of everybody’s childhood

@isobelmiller7464 3 жыл бұрын

Not everybody's. Not everybody grew up during that time. Matter of fact, I was really young when that era came into play, and I didn't start watching CN until 2011.

@tanzinitetheterrible4910 3 жыл бұрын

@@isobelmiller7464 thank you!

@isobelmiller7464 3 жыл бұрын

@@tanzinitetheterrible4910 Why thank you? Is it because I debunked this person's generalization?

@shinyneko8136 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't have cable as a kid. The only kids channel...er... *block* that I had (Aside from a few others that we would catch the signal for occasionally, like TVO) was Kids CBC.

@theresacherco3503 3 жыл бұрын

@@shinyneko8136 wow that cool

@eatatjoes6751 3 жыл бұрын

I think what makes this era special, in particular, is that the shows and the environment they created for the characters to live in feels so fleshed out and natural - whereas if you stuck all of their modern shows together in the same format, something would feel off. Mainly because *there's nothing there anymore* besides Gumball and Teen Titans Go, so consequently, their character models and others just dragged out to fill space would be walking the streets.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

Also if it looks the same for too long people might get bored.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@mechajay3358 3 жыл бұрын

_What really the CN City Era so Special is that you got to feel like you were was a part of that world. It was really sad when they ended it. But at least the fans online are keeping it alive through archive them_

@kjs257incpen3 3 жыл бұрын

www.change.org/p/cartoon-network-bring-back-cartoon-network-cn-city-and-cn-90-00s-show

@ajastory 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a great dive into the CN of that era, amazing job! Even without audio, you can tell just how much work and effort went into all those bumpers by the visuals of the CG and gags of the characters, each one is like its own miniepisode of the City. Sadly, I think we’re reaching a point where marketing for content in general is starting to become part of social media. I’ll hear more about a show from their creators online than directly from the network. I think it would be really cool if someone makes a sort of expanded fanmade CN City with the new shows involved too. Otherwise, these old clips will always be gems for us that grew up watching them.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@MrBrandonStar 3 жыл бұрын

I remember cartoon city a perfect place where all my childhood tv shows lived

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@MrBrandonStar 2 жыл бұрын

@@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 I was born on 1996

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrBrandonStar 😁 Nice ! We're lucky Bro !

@MrBrandonStar 2 жыл бұрын

@@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 😂😂 yup

@FaultyTwo 3 жыл бұрын

I can't get over how they mixed 2d animations so well with 3d environments. It looks so lively. If this city was real, I would DEFINITELY had moved into it.

@kenyaholloway-reliford8213 2 жыл бұрын

The City Era is proof of how a change in branding SHOULD go about. Not too different that it's alienating, but unique and creative enough to set itself apart from the previous era.

@nekonomicon2983 3 жыл бұрын

The only time I remember being excited to see the ads along side the cartoon themselves

@operaanimelover369 3 жыл бұрын

I may have transitioned to a full-fledged anime fan as a 12-year-old boy, but CN City was the best thing that ever happened to Cartoon Network. Nowadays, looking back at this period as a 28-year-old man, I still consider CN City as the greatest highlight of what it was like to enjoy Cartoon Network.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@operaanimelover369 2 жыл бұрын

@@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 I totally feel you, friend. However, in the 2010s, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Amazing World of Gumball, Generator Rex, and Sym-Bionic Titan just to name a few great shows that Cartoon Network had.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@@operaanimelover369 True ! But, if we are born in 2010s, our childhood would be a total sorrow and boredom.

@operaanimelover369 2 жыл бұрын

@@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 Indeed, especially with Cartoon Network shilling Teen Titans Go.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@@operaanimelover369 😡 I feel excruciatingly dirty just by thinking of Teen Titans GO.

@sadlobster1 3 жыл бұрын

If CN City were to make a comeback, Titans Go would be somewhere in the alleyways. I also imagine Steven Universe's Beach City as not only part of this neighborhood but also part of a sort of beach getaway area. It could be the location for that Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort game the network had online back in the early 2000's

@gandalflotr2898 3 жыл бұрын

Or a city simulation game and a Lego theme

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@saltbaker8683 3 жыл бұрын

Other may remember this brief moment form Crossover Nexus the most but between you and me THIS was still the City I've grew up the most back In my childhood.

@brianlevine871 3 жыл бұрын

As I said before, the Powerhouse Era is still my personal favorite for CN, due to its inclusion both old and new material at the time. But CN City is a very close second with its massive environments, enjoyable character interactions, and creative bumpers with unique jingles. You did a great job analyzing what made CN City so memorable and why we'll more than likely never see something like this again. At least we have sites like KZfaq to keep these bumpers alive.

@SparkzEnt 3 жыл бұрын

The 2004 logo also is good. It took the checkerboard, and updates it for an nice appearence. It did help that they kept the same font from the classic checkerboard, Eagle

@MichaelOKeefe2009 2 жыл бұрын

The City Era of CN debuted perhaps one of my all time favorites: Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. In a nutshell: Sam Register loved the Teen Titans theme, asked Puffy AmiYumi to star in their own show and that's how we got Hi Hi.

@MichaelOKeefe2009 2 жыл бұрын

There was also Juniper Lee, another show I loved.

@carlbloke8797 3 жыл бұрын

The CN of today WISHES they can be this good and creative with promoting their shows like they were in the CN City and Powerhouse Era. It would’ve been a great way to celebrate CN’s 25th anniversary. If they did stuff like this more often, it could save their network.

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully Cartoon Network’s 30th anniversary will be good like the 20th anniversary one.

@sillygoose18282 3 жыл бұрын

And the live action Area dosent wish it just fails.

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

@@sillygoose18282 Yeah, I remember them heavily advertising the CN Real block.

@sadlobster1 3 жыл бұрын

Because of the current network "geniuses" pushing for so many reboots and having more of its programming be online than on TV, I fear they're actions will destroy CN forever and have it removed

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

@@sadlobster1 I know and WarnerMedia is laying off a ton of people right (especially in the Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and DC eras) and them announcing all of their movies coming out next year (which all look like shit) coming out both on HBO Max and theaters is going to make them lose a lot of money.

@mediafanatic.4730 3 жыл бұрын

Great Job on the video Shadow. This was a great trip down memory lane for me. I’m sad to say that I agree with you that there may not ever be anything like The City era ever again. Cartoon Network has started to put a lot of effort into shows going on HBO Max and that’s likely the future for them. The only way I see something like this again is if the made a Special to celebrate their history either if it airs on the Network or streams on HBO Max.

@austinmorrison6953 3 жыл бұрын

CN City truly was Cartoon Network at its peak. I am so glad I grew up around this era along with the older cartoon cartoons...CN needs to take a break, take a detailed look at their airing schedule, and start actually caring about their shows again.

@jahquestanderson9471 2 жыл бұрын

You never appreciate what you have until it's gone. The powerhouse era and cartoon network city era were the best.

@thebostonpowers42 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if some company decided to make an Open World Video Game about this city.

@chopper8209 3 жыл бұрын

The best CN crossover EVAR!!!!

@bismarsyauqie7885 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if CN made another CN city bumper with all clasic CN character with some New/Modern CN character For example a bumper where Courage and OG Bubbles got jumscared by Marceline Or where Steven and connie played snowball with Craig, Chelsea, and JP and alao with the Eds Or where Dexter and OG Blossom made some project with PB, Connie, and Peridott That will be awosomed to see

@zzz43344 3 жыл бұрын

Ngl, ALL of these sound super interesting!

@moxxiedemongamer3019 3 жыл бұрын

the Cartoon Network era of today wasn't as same was back in the early 2000's

@BakaTheStruggler 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that I got to experience this era in the best way possible for me. It was the winter of 2005, I was 12, just finishing 6th grade, and my family had just moved in to our brand new house and got a dual-DVR satellite package from DirecTV to record shows on two TVs from two different channels simultaneously, and since my room was next to the living room, I ended up getting the other DVR! Man, what a time to be a kid! I had the excitement of a brand new house, finally getting my own room after having to share only two rooms with my whole family previously when we lived with my Grandparents, and had the entire Spring and Summer to enjoy this awesome era of Cartoon Network as well as Toonami and Adult Swim while also being able to record almost as much as I wanted so I could binge whenever I wanted. How I miss those genuinely exciting and care-free days!

@DomtheDemonSlayer 2 жыл бұрын

Holy crap you were living the dream. Something about you talking about "winter of 2005" and dual-DVR satellite just feels so super 2000s nostalgic.

@ninjasanin500 3 жыл бұрын

Yo, seeing CN City in Crossover Nexus being all destroyed like that was very depressing. personally, i havent watched cartoon network since.... 2006?... Oof. But, yeah, i remember the city era fondly. they wont do anything like that again im sure but im actually ok with that seeing how new creativity doesnt seem to be very welcome now a days =T

@greeneye2037 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who was born in 2002, I've gotta say I'm kinda jealous I couldn't grow up with these bumpers.

@unknownsoldier6731 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who was born in 1998, this was a great time for this network

@MrAveregeguy68 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 01 you don’t remember these?

@dxtremecaliber 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAveregeguy68 same bro born in 01 i clearly remembered the transition from powerhouse era to city era i was like 2 or 3 years old back then i have a good memory even its a long time ago

@MrAveregeguy68 3 жыл бұрын

@@dxtremecaliber damn this might sound crazy but me too , I remember watching KND with the OG logo on the upper corner I don’t remember the bumpers much but I for surely Remember a pup named scooby , ed edd n eddy , dexter and knd

@dxtremecaliber 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAveregeguy68 i know of most of the bumpers also the then and now bumpers crazy right? i was like 2-3 years old back then the CN CITY era lasts until i was like 4-6 years old?

@Gale_Storm_ 3 жыл бұрын

I love the bumpers so freaking much. I still go back and watch them occasionally.

@kristofgriffin384 3 жыл бұрын

CN City is without a doubt my favorite era of Cartoon Network. The very idea of seeing all these different characters interact outside of their shows and live their everyday lives in a city is ingenious. I especially love the one where Samurai Jack and Johnny Bravo are doing their laundry and the one where Fred challenges Coop and Jamie to see whose vehicle is faster. It made these fictional characters feel more real and grounded. I remember back in the Fall of 2014 when I came home from one of my tutors. It was a Friday night, all of my homework was done, and I accidentally stumbled onto CN City compilations on KZfaq. Watching those bumpers was an amazing trip down memory lane, one that no words can ever describe. However, things would change when Cartoon Network got rid of it and made things feel bland and uninspired. I don't know how it was for other countries, but here in my country, CN City was replaced with an explosion of random, red arrows, confetti, pine trees, and white background. This was around the time they were airing shows like Secret Saturdays, Bakugan, Total Drama, Inside Jimmy's Head, Ben 10 Alien Force, Chowder, Batman Brave and the Bold, etc. Don't get me wrong, all of these shows have great nostalgic value to me. But the lack of CN City made things feel a bit hollow.

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

This is how it was for the States around that time:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et6ToMSBmd3HZ58.html Toonami ended around that time too but it was later brought back on Adult Swim in 2012. Toonami made a garbage Black Lives Matter message a couple of months over here in the states:m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNuGZ86LmbWzoH0.html Adult Swim has been doing some bad stuff like not paying Frylock’s voice actor (he is currently homeless right now) and banning episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The Boondocks for a dumb reason (I’m not joking, look it up). As of 2020, Cartoon Network has been mostly airing Teen Titans Go and Gumball, Cartoon Network will be airing the 2017 Wonder Woman (with a TV 14 DLV rating) on December 20. Cartoon Network’s future will be HBO Max.

@kristofgriffin384 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbolcato192 Actually, around here it was more like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK1ylsdnzNSunoU.html&ab_channel=JosephMama

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

@@kristofgriffin384 Oh nice but I like what we got better. Thank god you guys didn’t see that garbage Toonami Black Lives Matter message.

@kristofgriffin384 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbolcato192 Agreed. However, we never got Toonami. I'm Hungarian, but I live in Romania and Toonami was never part of Cartoon Network here. It would actually switch to Turner Classic Movies, instead. I remember when I was a kid, I caught glimpse of the scene from "American History X" where Edward Norton crushes a guy's skull, by stepping on it. My exposure to Anime was mostly through Animax, and on Weekends, Hungarian channels would air both cartoons and anime.

@Dave102693 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbolcato192 basically

@delphinebriand1554 3 жыл бұрын

CN City was the Golden Era of Cartoon Network, nothing can convince me otherwise

@agentshadow4460 3 жыл бұрын

Nope, the Powerhouse era was.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@omarshaikh5455 3 жыл бұрын

I knew it that Codename KND was part of the City Era. I did see Numbuh 1 and the rest of his sector in those bumpers, didn't I?

@Nolman0001 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I absolutely loved this era of Cartoon Network and I’m glad to see that so many other people look back on it fondly too! Fun fact: Cartoon Network City’s Main Street is actually based on a real life location, the FOX Studios Backlot in Sydney Australia! Animal Logic’s studio (where these bumpers were animated) is located on this backlot and the animators used the Main Street set as inspiration. If you do an image search for “FOX Studios Backlot Sydney” you will quickly see the resemblance of CN City. The architecture, the colors of the buildings and even the placement of the powerlines/ street lights look very close to how they appear in CN City. The road even has a slight curve to it, exactly as it does in the CN bumpers! I find it pretty cool to think that Cartoon Network City actually does kind of partly exist in the real world (just minus the characters of course)!

@aetreus88 Жыл бұрын

If ppl still had the attention span of atleast 5 years ago this would have so many more views. These are one of those introspective videos on a random subject that used to do so well on KZfaq. Not to take away from this very well put together piece. Thank you for this.

@therighteousboys446 3 жыл бұрын

I miss old CN but appreciate the new one

@JRRDOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

I love this CN City era it has variety of cartoon characters living in this one location. And that's Interesting and amazing. Strongly Amazing. :)

@zzz43344 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@jonathonellison7025 3 жыл бұрын

Extremely underrated, thank you for this

@j062 3 жыл бұрын

I was also 7 years old when this change happened. I find it weird that at such a young age you thought a network was going to suffer from a rebrand that looks extremely cool at a first glance. I immediately thought it was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. In my opinion it's still the best era.

@DeathRebel369 3 жыл бұрын

CN city n the summer festival, miguzi, fridays, jesus they can never get that back. To all that grew up during that time, U have some special memories

@moon45ben17 3 жыл бұрын

I forgot how great those bumpers Are

@justinl.994 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this well-thought-out video. I rediscovered CN City last summer via some compilation videos and remembered how cool and special it was back when it was airing. You made a lot of good points about why it can't return - biggest of all, money - but at least it's being archived so that it will not be restricted to fans’ memories.

@CaptainBZarre 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. While I feel Powerhouse was the better era overall, especially early on, City is certainly a close second in my book and did a lot right. I feel like a lot of the reasoning for why we won't get another era like this again is simply because of streaming taking priority and the new role TV has to fulfill as a result. I wouldn't quite say CN has entirely lost interest in preserving history, it's just their interests have changed over time and they're trying to do what works; a channel that would've thrived years ago could easily be done online today. I'm still a fan of CN and think they have a good output, but the bumpers were arguably part of what heightened the nostalgia for that time. I can completely understand why they wouldn't want to go forward with it though.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@naufrage0 2 жыл бұрын

This. Miguzi. Toonami. 2000s adult swim. Thank you so much 😭 it’s sad how much better you guys made the world feel. Edit: the gritty unpolished feel of it all was a huge part of the success. Something networks ignore when it comes to children programming. Today.

@alexthegryphon 3 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC ANALYSIS MY DUDE! I'm always so excited when other people on the internet talk about their love for the city cause it deserves to be remembered. I pretty much agree with just about every point you make, but I would like to point out not only did the Boston Bomb Scare drive Jim staples to resign, but not even a MONTH later the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike began, which many think likely acted as the major catalyst for the network to start pushing out so many reality-tv-ish live action shows, as you don't really need a lot of writers when making those.

@queenypie4543 3 жыл бұрын

To go into why CN is just the TTG and Gumball network, it basically just boils down to those shows getting the best ratings and thus CN pushes them ad nauseum, which ironically causes the network to continue to plummet in favorability. But CN isn't really going to make an effort because they're moving all their shows to a streaming service anyways. As for why they continue to bring on new shows and not actually push them? All I can guess is it's the sink-or-swim approach that far too many companies operate on when they no idea what they're doing. Essentially if you don't reach gumball or TTG status with basically no help, CN is just gonna let you sink (in this case, you're expected to swim an entire ocean).

@delix787 3 жыл бұрын

Cartoon Network truly felt like a hangout for us kids back in the day! 💙

@moussacamara909 3 жыл бұрын

The Cartoon Network logo on the thumbnail makes me so nostalgia

@dontemorgan1517 3 жыл бұрын

CN City, easily one of the best CN era of our time. It's so good and nostalgia and great way to explore the city with all your favorite cartoon characters share in the same universe which I wish modern CN would bring it back or have sonething simular to it but noooo we get a bland, lacked, and forgetten era that people stop looking at it and are disappointed.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@nicksullivan4994 2 жыл бұрын

I remember Cartoon Network’s CN City era!😂🤣😍❤️📺🎶

@NinjaGirlSakura1 3 жыл бұрын

Our generation has to do all we can to not let these great cartoons and characters be forgeotten.

@festivalmizikkreyoldemontr6628 2 жыл бұрын

@PBMawile 3 жыл бұрын

(I don't remember if it was about CN City) I do like the fact that CN City was kind of brought back in a O.K K.O Let's Be Heros special. I don't know how many people liked it, but I thought it was nice to see the city again. It was destroyed in the episode, sure, but it neat.

@roykoopa58 3 жыл бұрын

Does anybody remember Kids Next Door

@HackiePuffs 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video on a Monday cool surprise!! Also maybe I could learn a bit more about the past of this network finally 😅💙💖

@ppgfangirl-4974 3 жыл бұрын

This was blast from past. I miss this time.

@Gondarth 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I loved the City look. Don't get me wrong, the Powerhouse brand and the Casillas brand were great, but there was just so much personality with Toon City. Mixing the characters together was a genius idea.

@sadlobster1 3 жыл бұрын

The lack of passion for the network from those who lead it currently boggles my mind. Just because streaming's becoming the new "fad," it doesn't mean TV stations are all going to go black and die out one by one

@Next0gen0 3 жыл бұрын

Kind of hard to say pokemon used to be good back in my day. Because it hasn't changed. At all. (which is a major issue)

@ivywt 3 жыл бұрын

Old cartoon network was _golden_ 😭

@normanpopcultureboy8563 3 жыл бұрын

Well now it’s called the Bronze Age of Cartoon Network

@DigiRangerScott 3 жыл бұрын

What you labeled as Wee Baby Bears at the 18 minute mark was probably the mothership series, We Bare Bears. But still, it is a transition from the latter to the former

@Rugratkid 3 жыл бұрын

CN City is The Golden Age for me.

@thekita6774 3 жыл бұрын

I loved these bumpers as a kid. It was the closest thing to a multi crossover we could get a that time, besides the billy and mandy and kids next door crossover. Recently, I've been watching alot of the CN city bumpers along with the old boomerang bumpers on YT. Especially the groovies.

@commonsense5199 3 жыл бұрын

11 shows. Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart also don’t get any airtime nor reruns and it was announced for season 2. People on Twitter needs to make reply’s to CN recent tweets to legally paid and promote original shows. Ian Jones Quartey did come up with that idea for fans to help OK KO when CN not promoting his show.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

They really do need to bring back cartoon cartoon Fridays and air new episodes of all of their shows once a week.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Ralph It doesn't have to be cartoon cartoon Fridays. would just like one specific date I can look forward to. New episodes of eash show every Monday. New episodes of all your favorite shows every Wednesday.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Ralph No it wouldn't They can spam TTG and Gumball like they always do every other day of the week. Then every Friday has an afternoon of new episodes. One New TTG, one new Craig of the Creek, one new Apple and Onion, One new Ben 10, One new victor and Valentino.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Ralph They do have new Saturday mornings but you never know if it's going to be reruns or a new one.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Ralph Also they are the ones that control the schedule.

@TheNinjaTanuki 3 жыл бұрын

I just had 13 nostalgia trips from this vid. This is great and now im kinda sad.

@VictoryReviews 3 жыл бұрын

please release more content like this, this was such an awesome retrospective look into a bygone era. Keep up the great work

@TheDatabaseNetwork 3 жыл бұрын

23:09 Not gonna lie. I thought the video went into a un-skippable ad right there.

@Webshooters1 3 жыл бұрын

CN City era was the best era if you ask me. Just this idea of all these characters from varying designs and worlds living in one city and interacting with each other was just awesome and even the ones that didn't appear at least had a reference to them like "Fudd's Electronics". The music helped too. Growing up and watching the bumpers made me wish I lived in that world. While the Powerhouse era was classic CN City was arguably for me at least the channel at it's peak because once '07 came around the network started a decline that's only worsened and the Noods era was only saved by The Clone Wars for me.

@b2roger171 3 жыл бұрын

Old Cartoon network nostalgia :)

@dtlegacy2495 3 жыл бұрын

It would be nice if Cartoon Network brought back the NC city.

@deslardesslok 3 жыл бұрын

4 HOURS LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

@smokesterify 3 жыл бұрын

that OK KO special from a couple years back felt like it was trying to do something similar but unfortunately that vision didn't seem to be fully realized mostly because of the short runtime.

@lalaland2107 3 жыл бұрын

Cartoon Cartoon Fridays was fucking great!

@dontkootunes 2 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who not only love the City and Powerhouse bumpers, but also the Yes! bumpers?

@MrERJ1992 2 жыл бұрын

You and me both.

@InTheEnd75 3 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing video. So perfectly scripted and edited. I feel like I can watch it forever or rewatch it for enjoyment and to be informative.

@thatrandomredengine9430 3 жыл бұрын

7:23 oh look, it’s the one that inspired thousands of gay fan fictions.

@jaytahoe Жыл бұрын

Great video dude. This was a truly classic era and something like this will most likely never be seen again.

@KingOfAllDragoons 2 жыл бұрын

CN City era will always be the golden age in my book

@gamerguy6994 3 жыл бұрын

Of course I was getting into Cartoon Network when the last good era was ending. While the noods era was pretty entertaining. I’m sure child me would’ve have his mind blown to seen tom and jerry, courage, Ed Edd n Eddy in this big city, talking to other cartoons that while I wasn’t a big fan, still would’ve been enjoyable, and give me some understanding of their character without even viewing their cartoon.

@wwg2005 3 жыл бұрын

The President at the time Jim Samples wanted the network to look it's best and be it's best, that's what the new president Tom Ascheim wants to do too, plus CN is airing these non permanent transitional bumpers by bullpen Studios, and alot of the new content is coming out most likely next year.....so I have hope we might get something similar like the CN Hotel Bumpers they did in 2020.

@amesstarline5482 3 жыл бұрын

While I've not grown up with the City Era, it's epic seeing the characters from cartoons actually interact.

@civilbeast165 3 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to turn the fusion fall game into a show and put it on HBO MAX. We would get an even better CN City and have all CN characters go on adventures to save the planet from fuse and hang out and do other stuff in spare time. We’d get our cake and eat it too

@zzz43344 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting

@cecejamesable 2 жыл бұрын

Some one create a fusion fall and put it on the switch or any playable console, I'd gladly play the entire thing through.

@SharkVisionStudio 2 жыл бұрын

I think having reruns for kids that never seen these older shows would be cost effective. Especially since finding some of these old shows are so hard to find. I disagree that you feel no one would tune in since there are entire tv channels dedicated to old shows like MASH, Mama's family, ect. I believe its called me tv and they seem to do okay

@liambiniares3182 3 жыл бұрын

At least we saw the CN City return breifly in Crossover Nexus.

@quietrainydays 3 жыл бұрын

I hate to sound like a boomer but why can’t Cartoon Network still be like this? It doesn’t even have to have the old characters anymore, just the same concept but with the new shows and characters. Kids today would have loved it!

@quietrainydays 3 жыл бұрын

Like imagine Steven Universe, We Bare Bears and Craig of the Creek in these bumpers?

@greendecepticon6148 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@frontrowattheshitshow8849 3 жыл бұрын

I know it'll never happen, but I had a couple cool thoughts while watching your video! What if they could convince the old animators and writers from popular cartoons to make just one more new episode, and get like 12 of them in all. Then advertise a one-time event for a Saturday night and see all the views that come pouring in, indicating that a strong desire still exists for these cartoons. What if they partnered up with a streaming service, put all the CN city bumpers on there, and made new bumpers that fleshed out the city even more, making the city itself the show that people come to stream. From there they could branch out and introduce the viewers to new cartoons through the city. Either of these sound exciting?

@Kai-ik9of 3 жыл бұрын

As someone from mexico I missed this era its sad that it ended in 2010

@mftemi 3 жыл бұрын

I miss the good times of cn 😔

@DomtheDemonSlayer 2 жыл бұрын

This was the absolute best era in my opinion. I loved coming home from school and popping this on all the time.

@SteelSaiyan 3 жыл бұрын

I really don't understand why Cartoon network don't put there old shows on HBO max or a streaming service. They have over 100 shows. Even Disney plus put there old IP on there site and if they are popular they will reboot it like the proud family. Pretty dumb business practice when your TV show ratings are down.

@michaelbolcato192 3 жыл бұрын

They are rumors that a bunch of Cartoon Network shows will be coming to HBO Max next month (along with the third wave of Adult Swim shows).

@Dave102693 3 жыл бұрын

AT&T doesn't give a shit about anything that isn't HBO and WB, and has made it obvious over the years. To killing off DC comics to selling off Crunchyroll, to furthering downscaling CN and AS, it's obvious that HBO only matters to them, and they are paying lip service to everything else.

@Yipper64 3 жыл бұрын

12:00 couldnt really watch TV for a while after that era.

@ms_cartographer Жыл бұрын

A show based on the bumpers would be pretty cool.

@PKLuver944 3 жыл бұрын

HBO Max would be great...if it weren't restricted to the US.

@ScatterbrainPete 3 жыл бұрын

Have you read the news? It's expanding to other countries next year.

@PKLuver944 3 жыл бұрын

@@ScatterbrainPete That would be real nice!

@Tahkaullus01 3 жыл бұрын

I put Cartoon Network behind me at the right time: This time. The highest moment of the channel's history.

@peepeepoopooer 7 ай бұрын

I feel like this era gets more credit than it deserves. The City era is when most of the original cartoons from the late 90's and early 2000's were ending or getting cancelled. Compounded onto that, they were removing those shows from rotation in a piece meal style. Cartoon Cartoon originals in the city era, if memory serves me right, got a measly 1 hour block on weeknights near the end of 2005, and another block in early 2007 that came on at 9AM on the weekdays. This was also the era when they replaced Toonami with Miguzi on weekdays. I was in middle school when CN City was in its prime, so I was growing out of Cartoon Network during this time period. If I wasn't watching Viva La Bam or South Park, the only reason why I would tune to Cartoon Network was for Adult Swim.

@icecreamhero2375 3 жыл бұрын

4:06 That's because CN airs the episodes randomly instead of consistently and constantly switches around the dates. They should bring back Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. When I want to watch the Simpsons and Family Guy I know ah I got to wait till Sunday. Cartoon Network is like "We'll release them whenever."