Why was Canadian tv so kino in the 90s and early 2000s?
Why was Canadian tv so kino in the 90s and early 2000s?
Jaxon Wilson
Justin Diaz
Zachary King
John k.
Matthew King
Josiah Ward
Angel Reyes
Because someone higher up took the breaks off the family friendly requirements and there was a wealth of (light) horror shows, grotesque stuff, just generally strange shit being made constantly. Teletoon introduced it's late night Teen+ oriented programming where you got stuff like Cybersix, etc.
It was a perfect situation that made a lot of good shit get made.
Elijah Hughes
YTV was a part of the only happy era of my life.
Charles Wood
>What's that up there? Is that cheese?
Sebastian Cooper
Also, it was heavily subsidised, but we actually got some good stuff for once
Aiden Young
Yes that's true, the 90s was an era where arts grants from the government were massively boosted to try to foster more Canadian content.
Hence why damn near every cartoon of the era has a Government of Canada logo in the credits, they were all getting media grants.
Matthew Richardson
Anyone remember that horror short story show with the cockroaches in the dive diner? Pure kino.
Isaac Reyes
nvm this guy posted it already
Jace Walker
>horror short story show with the cockroaches
youtube.com
Freaky Stories.
Levi Richardson
Red shoe diaries
Caleb Fisher
No one could argue with Ed the Sock, so why even try?
Leo Myers
>Red shoe diaries
That was made by Playboy for Showtime. It might've been filmed in Vancouver since X-Files was also filmed there, but it's still a US show.
Ayden Sanchez
did canadians have Are You Afraid of the Dark? all the actors sounded like canadians but i was too young to know that
Blake Cooper
>Are You Afraid of the Dark
That was a Canadian show.
Cameron Hill
great show
Lucas Adams
Not only was AYAOTD a Canadian show, the oldest guy from the Midnight Society is a weatherman in Toronto
Brandon Thompson
This is now a ReBoot thread. Everyone else move on to different discussion.
Evan Garcia
He was also in that show Student Bodies. I always laughed when I saw him on some teen news show but look who's laughing now, he's a big famous TV guy and I'm just big.
Blake Taylor
Aiden Rodriguez
If you guys are in for a nostalgia trip, they're on YouTube.
Sebastian Martinez
It was a different time.
James Wood
Is The Zone still a thing?
Juan Bennett
I watched cybersix a lot... I could not tell you a single thing about it apart from that the protagonist dressed like a guy and taught high school or university during the day, and dressed in up as trinity at night and with her/his panther faught... something? And occasionally he/she confused her burly co-worker about his sexuality and sometimes he helped fight things but didn't know about the alter ego.
Easton Reyes
Yeah but it doesn't resemble anything like what it used to be.
Nolan Adams
>We'll be right back to you're regularly scheduled children's programming after these quick messages!
youtube.com
Hunter Price
Does it still have host?
Benjamin Reyes
I know some of you can hear this
Charles Evans
Used to watch teletoon and YTV in Canada from 1997-2002ish, pure kino.
David Gutierrez
hnnnnhhh my nostalgia just skyrocketed.
Benjamin White
Yeah but even Carlos is gone now. The only holdout left from what YTV used to be is the promo announcer, and he sounds like he's slowly losing his will to live.
Chase Gutierrez
Noah Scott
I still remember the commercial in your second link by heart and I haven't seen it in like 15 years
John Jackson
So what are the chances that the next generation has literally no soul? What do they think is nostalgic now?
Caleb Jackson
water
outta my way millennials
Nicholas Clark
Well they leave out a lot from the comic for a reason. She's an escaped experiment from a nazi scientist who steals her disguise from a prostitute.
Jonathan Barnes
Nobody will be better than based Phil.
Wyatt Clark
>DRAGON DRAGON BALL
>DRAGON BALL ZEEEEEE
So, how did you find out different countries had their own Dragon Ball Z opening?
Ryan Taylor
The boys are so handsome.
Jeremiah Perry
Wicked!
Jaxon Gray
youtube.com
youtube.com
The pain doesn't stop
Hunter Scott
>I miss watching crunch
>i miss when my life was better entirly
i really do miss the late 2000s i wish i didnt have to look back in sadness to this time always.
Wyatt Diaz
>watching that prime piece of ass explain the speed round rules to some minority kid with the tempo of an auctioneer
>watching them stare in petrified confusion as they didn't understand a fucking word
watching that show now it looks like an excuse to dump questionable materials on native kids
Cameron Davis
You called?
Christopher Nelson
not until someone told me the kirby cartoon was a bit more serious and story driven in japan
it.. technically is, but only just barely, and i was waaay more shocked at how retarded the US opening was in comparison
Brandon Mitchell
It always pissed me off that the stories were never even freaky
Brandon Peterson
i thought the kid who grew so big he filled the universe was rather existentially troubling
Angel Hill
>The episode where the explorer has earwigs laying eggs in his ear
All it takes is one of them being fucking freaky and it sticks with me for the rest of my life. They accomplished their mission.
Leo Clark
If I take his mask off will he die?
Lucas Foster
i guess this is because every generation thinks they're the best and everyone thinks they have the best claim to nostalgia, but i just can't fathom having nostalgia for the late 2000s. To me, that was an utterly garbage time in culture, the arts, and entertainment. That's probably what people older than me think of the late 90s or very early 2000s.
Jordan Ramirez
Dude what are you even talking about. Some of those episodes could get pretty scary.
>Story where the girl has spiders living in her hairdo
>Story where the couple drinks out of a wine cask until it's empty and they find out there was a guy's corpse inside the entire time
>The Hook story
>The story where an earwig lay eggs in a guy's skull
>The story where the escaped criminal accidentally eats a bunch of human organs
>The story where a guy gets his entire body stolen and wakes up as a severed head attached to a life support machine
>The haunted house story where a ghost makes blood pour out of family photos
>The story where some girls play around with a ouija board, summon some demonic spirit and it almost breaks through the front door and kills them
Hunter Allen
the only one i can remember was the one where some guy stayed at a motel and had a massage bed
except the massage was just because the mattress was full of fucking roaches which poured out of a hole and all over the bed at some point, kek
Gabriel Nelson
I feel the 90s are a good example of positive, happy and original television and media content in general.
Cold war just ended and you had this optimistic generation coming of age who went on to make some of the best shit when it came to television. It wasn't all the best but it was a little buffer zone between the negativity of the cold war era 1980's and the massive commercialization of the mid 2000's
Asher Martinez
reminder that 2004 began the decline and that 2007 was the end. Facebook, twitter, tumblr, Big Bang Theory, and "nerd" culture exploded in 2007/08 and we may never fully recover.
Gavin Anderson
right?
Daniel Davis
There is no chance for recovery period. The money is drying up both commercially and from the government. The Internet is replacing television more and more, especially for the youngest generations.