Woke up at 4:30 am(sadly due to work and its the f'ing weekend!!!) and was bombing around the channel guide.

I found me some original GI Joe(season 1 ep. 50, forgot how huge their seasons were) and Transformers.

It made me smile because I was having after school flash backs and the race to get home and watch them when I was younger..... Don't even get me started about the phone calls when new episodes made it on or a new season started.

Ahhh well, it was just kind of nice to see 

PS AND DAMN STRAIGHT I'M WATCHING IT 


Double PS: I know it was the Hasbro channel or whatever at one point, still a long time since I have seen them both together.

 

Yeah that's been pretty sweet even got my kid's into it .goes great with coffee   just FYI this thread will probably get moved to tf general discussion since it's not toy specific but some of us rarely leave this section so it's kinda nice sometimes   watching now  

 

transformers still holds up, but GI Joe is an abomination

 

GIJoe is a multiagency task force fighting a terrorist organization. Sounds pretty up-to-date to me.  

 

they fight ninjas armed with Excalibur
they save people who were stuck in restaurants that were shot into space
they are able to jump over laser blasts but knock out a bad guy with one punch
their enemy's leader is a clone of like 8 different people
they try to hypnotize the country using punk rock

 

Just like JSOC.  

 

Those all sound like things you'd need a special ops group to handle.

 

You forgot: "they fight for freedom wherever there's trouble."

Also, the beginning of the second miniseries starts with an armed military convoy getting ambushed by terrorists in the desert.

 

you find that hard to buy into... verse robots

- that transform
- that defy all laws of physics when it comes to energy and mass
- that randomly appear yet some are 'trapped here'
etc etc

 

I don't see the problem.  

 

Browsing through the guide, looks like they'll be back to the beginning with episode one on Tuesday, February 16th! Also a day or two before will be the Arise, Serpentor, Arise mini-series, one of the best!

 

I can accept more when there are large talking transforming robots than when it is just humans fighting each other

 

I think you just disproved your own point.  

 

Yeah man transformers is just as stupid. But we love it. Makes you look again at the live movies of both series.

 

Yep, I watch it before I go to work, its great! G.I. Joe's dialogue seems a lot cornier than The Transformers.

 

I've recorded the entire Transformers G1 series due to the fact my family was getting annoyed at me for always waking up so early in the morning just to watch it. Well I guess the bright side of recording the whole series is that I can watch any episode any time I want. As for GI Joe, I only watched it occasionally alongside Jem and the Holograms.

 

Teletoon Retro kind of burnt out, and was moribund for at least a year before it finally shuttered, though I still miss it. In its heyday, though, it was great for this kind of nostalgic binge watching.

 

me too.. problem is its taking up like 70% of my DVR all the time  

 

same here, watch it every morning. gijoe then transformers

 

I still enjoy them both, frequently goofy as they may be, and I think they come off a little less stilted or "talk-downy" than some kids cartoons (especially toy cartoons) from the same time.

Though I do miss "the Hub"'s heyday, with a lot of the great '90's cartoons too, like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Batman TAS and Batman Beyond. If they could've tucked Gargoyles, Freakazoid, and Beast Wars in there somehow, it would've been my whole 1990s on one channel.