Vic's Review

Twenty years ago yesterday (being 7 October 2016), THE greatest cartoon ever made (or one of them), began its run as a series on Nickelodeon. Especially in those days, we had shows about kids who strove for fame, shows with bad incidental music, or a combination of both. "Hey Arnold" had none of that; just a normal kid and his friends living in the big city with really kickin' urban jazz scores in the background. Sure there were some changes throughout the run such as upgrades in animation and voice talent changes but this show remained watchable throughout its time. There are many likable characters and relatable plots that make this show very memorable. Arnold was the voice of reason among his friends; a unique feature that sets this piece apart from other TV works. You may disagree but I thought the movie was pretty good as well. Too bad Nickelodeon treated the series like crap toward the end (ie. crappy time slots, episode burn-offs until 2004). I'm all for the Ju...

What is going on? Yes, I'm still alive. I'll just carry on even though no one is reading. Is anyone reading? After I posted my last post, I thought my newer post were NOTHING like my old post from the blog's earlier days. Something was missing. Part of it was that I felt like I wasn't having any fun. The post were just forced. It was something I had to do. During these past seven years, I underwent so much; family, extra-curricular organizations, writer's block, maturing, new technology, additional English/writing classes, changing of likings... I haven't forgotten about this blog. In fact, all this time I've been thinking about what to do next with it. Since I have access to the account, abandonment is not an option. Through these years, my likings have changed quite a bit. These new likings include discoveries of older shows/animation as well as more live-actions shows. I figured my reviewing Power Rangers episodes on this blog would be extremely unf...

Remember that post I put up around November 2006 talking about the new Simpsons opening. I didn't realize until tonight that they REALLY changed the opening when the show went completely in HD. I assume that live-action opening was just temporary and was NOT there to say as the old post says otherwise. The new, new opening is there to stay. Now we have the opportunity to remember when the old opening was on every new "Simpsons" episode. These days we have the new high-definition one to look forward to. They changed it to bring the opening into the 21st century. What do you think of HD "Simpsons"? Long live the "Simpsons"! Really remember the old opening R.I.P. 1989-2009 That's all for now!

First post of 2009. Sup ya'll! Yeah, I don't do this blog much anymore because I have this thing called a LIFE! I've been living it. I have work stuff and family to take care of. Anyway... Well, I was afraid this day would come now i'm finally doing it. Yesterday (don't ask me how it was because it didn't see it because I had no idea it was going to come on)other Foster's fans (other than me) said goodbye to Cartoon Network's hit series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends." The last few episodes were played. Like I said, I didn't see it. For me, I knew the series was ending soon I just didn't know when. Enough of that. The final episode was called "Goodbye to Bloo." I was really upset to find out I have missed it. Now it will take the next 100 years to find the episode anywhere. Since I haven't seen the episode yet, I will not review it now. I will when I see it in about 100 years. I'm sure, from what i've bee...

My first one in 2 years. From December 1-19th (I should have posted this but I was too busy) Cartoon Network was playing repeats of "iMucha Lucha!" Two each weekday. The bad news was they played it at unreasonable times. Those times where when I was at work and not able to watch it as much as I like. Once I started watching again, on days I get out of work early, they were playing the "Gigante" episodes. They're not as great as seasons 1-2 but they are better than nothing. Maybe CN decided to play it because they have nothing else to play. I wish I can see more reruns again. What a wonderful Christmas present/gift from a network I hardly ever watch anymore. OK, on with the real reason i'm posting this. I have to tell you I don't think I can keep up with blog anymore. Everything happens so fast now. Maybe that's why this was the shortest year this blog has ever had. I'll probably do more post in 2009 but there will be pretty few of them that year....

Some samples of what I do and watch on the internet these days Old Pizza Hut Commercial And Old Nintendo ad (claimed as the first) That's all for now!

Read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/business/media/25kidstv.html?_r=1 and maybe this might help as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Kids_TV I was never a big fan of 4Kids and I never watched it but the problem is, like I've been saying for a while here, I don't watch too much TV. There's nothing worth talking about. Hmm. Since about September 2007, on Saturday mornings, I would watch the programing on Spanish network Univision. I figure it would strengthen my Spanish speaking ability to help me with my job. About everything else on TV on SatAM is nothing but garbage. There are many reasons why certain networks stop showing cartoons where they were in the past. I'm just rambling on and on about nothing is on any more 'cause I need to put something on this blog. This is just news for people who liked 4Kids TV and need to hear news about it. See you later.

Right now I am posting the 100 th post of Vic's Review. This a milestone to this blog. Yeah, I haven't been as active in my account as I wanted to be but at least I made it to post 100 without any getting into trouble with Blogger. This is my second post using Microsoft Word 2007. It's pretty cool. If you want you should try it on your blog. All I watch these days during the week is Simpsons and Family Guy. They are also my Sunday Night Cartoons along with King of the Hill and American Dad. During my spare time, I watch old commercials from the internet. Other times I just find some stuff I haven't seen in years or haven't caught before and just watch those. Bad news for "King of the Hill" fans If you haven't heard already, FOX MIGHT finally pull the plug on its long-running animated series. The site http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/10/king_of_the_hill_canceled.php [dead link] as well as other sites announces KOTH's cancellation. This show has bee...

This is pretty awesome. I haven't been updating much because there is hardly anything to talk about these days. It seems like only yesterday I was ranting about "Nick's World Wide Day of Play" and how I think it's not the best idea. Now here we are 99 post later. The 100th one will come soon so stick around for that. Remember the times when I would talk about "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" almost all the time on here? These days I go on cartoonnetwork.com's schedule and it's no where to be seen on there. I read the show will be ending soon. I can't believe I'm gonna say this so here it goes: I think it's good that "Foster's" is ending. It had a good run. Every week, I look through the CN schedules for it and I never find any reruns-not even new episodes. I am not sure when the last episode will air but I hope it will be a really proper ending. Hopefully soon I will find out the exact date so we can watch it. O...

Welcome back everybody from a 2 year hiatus. I would have posted something sooner this year but there was something wrong with my posting thing. OK, so starting this year, prepare for a reformatting of this blog. I'm not watching many cartoons on tv anymore-they are all on the internet. So you'll see me post some stuff-heck maybe a couple of youtube clips. Just hopefully I'm be able to post more stuff while I can. Sorry for the long wait. I hope we can still be friends. I want to start 2008 with a fresh new start. Welcome back and enjoy! VMM PS If you have any questions about this post or any other post, you can still e-mail me.

My, time flies when you don't keep track of your blog. I swear to Wallace, I WILL have post 100 by this coming year. A reason, I might have said this before, I don't post much is partly because to me there has been nothing but garbage these past few months. Pretty much nothing has been going on since my last spectacular post (Which was when? Like last year or something). So all I have to say now is Happy New Year. Have a nice 2007. VMM signing off.

Firstly I have to tell you Happy Thanksgiving. This will be my first post on my Blogger beta account. I've been on blogger since '04 and I was known as fostersfan666. I loved it a whole lot. Now I have ot use my gawdy hotmail address. I've been using it since 11-10 and I am NOT enjoying it. We all have to move on sometimes, right? I finally got to see the lastst "Foster's" tv movie "Good Wilt Hunting" just now. "Good Wilt Hunting" is about when Wilt goes to find his creator to appoligise for ruining his basketball dream. The TV movie aired yesterday when I was out of town for the holiday. I finally got to see it tonight. This is what I thought about it. As a "Foster's" fan of 2 years (to me 2 years is a really long time), this show has lost some of its touch but not enough of it for me to just slip out. This movie was one of the things that gave the show some of its touch back. Of course, it featured Wilt, one of my all time ...

Seriously. I've been noticing this for quite some time. Of course, it was Tara who led to it's downfall. Back then, it was pretty much bumpers, creative skits, game time, and a lot more goodies. Now look-cruddy skits, annoying bumpers, gross kiddie games, and the worst part ever-time robbing musical guests. Every time a song is sung or the encore of a song I mute the TV. They don't belongs on Fridays. Heck, they don't even belong on Cartoon Network anyway. I think I'm more used to the first seasons of Fridays as opposed to today's Tara era. And I've been noticing that it's been ending earlier. Why? I'm sorry but these days I don't watch as much Friday night cartoons as much as I did-oh say-a year or two years ago. The bottom line: for me Fridays has offically Jumped the Shark. End of story!

That next month this blog will be back up and running with new news and reviews. I'll probably get back into the spirit of watching cartoons and rating them. And some of the information will be from Nick Magazine, the magazine i've been subscribing to for 13 years. So either expect a new post tomorrow or this coming Friday. Let's see what happens. This may not work but I'll do my best.

Vic here! I'm sorry for the lack of info last month. I've been noticing I haven't been watching as many cartoons as I used to. I think it started when I turned 20 during an out of state vacation. But I do have some things to tell you have I haven't mentioned on this blog before. I would end this blog but that, to me, would be a big negatory. I'm very bad at giving things away. So I'm just gonna do my best to update this blog when I get a chance. So just stay tuned and like I used to say: "Never stop loving your favorite shows". Well I gotta go now. I haven't given up completely on this blog. More updates later. VMM HAS SPOKEN!!!

Well, well, well, it seems like "someone's" coming into the campaign industry. I've been noticing, whenever I watch Cartoon Network, when a promo comes on, at the end, it has Bloo from Foster's... says "Cartoon Network." After that a banner under the CN logo shows up. After Bloo says "Cartoon Network," you hear Fred Fredburger(?) from Billy & Mandy say "Yes" in his usual annoying voice. I read someone say that on Boomerang they play long promos and they use that same "yes" with them. This might be a summer slogan. It probably might be used when the summer is over. If anyone wants any proof they can see here: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promos/summer2006/ [dead link] . Do you notice how Disney Channel and Nick don't use slogans anymore? Now look at CN with "Yes." Minus the voice of Fred Fredburger, it seems like one heck of a slogan, even though it's not much. There can be a lot worse things than th...

For the previous post, it was responding to the entry that it was linking to. I updated my SBC browser and when I have 2 windows opened at once and I minimize a window to see another one, it just comes up by itself and it won't let me edit the way I need to. And when I try to edit the post, It doesn't have the whole post. The previous post isn't complete, I don't know why. But, hopefully, i'll might find out. More news and rants later.

Well anyway, i'm here to put in my 2 cents for two replacement shows listed in the entry: "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island" and "Johnny Test." I found out what "Loonatics" was. It was terrible. "Coconut Fred" and "Johnny Test" were both very good. The saddest part is that, I'm not sure about the Test dude, but news that saddens me is that "Coconut Fred" is over. I found this out today that the last 4 episodes aired every Saturday in May. I didn't know that. Maybe WB will reair them the next 4 Saturdays. I know it might seem like a stupid, poorly animated to others but to me and other people, I really like it. 5 stars. It was a sad thing to hear that it's over. What about "Johnny Test"? Like "Coconut Fred," I didn't fall in love with it the first episode because I wasn't there. When I first saw it, I was laughing and I was begging for more. And, as you know, I have been ...

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If you watched the Simpsons tonight on FOX and has seen the opening, you may have noticed that it was live-actioned. That's right, that was the brand new opening to the the Simpsons and I betcha it's here to stay. I think it was taped in England. I can tell because 1) The first or second thing you see it the school. It looks like the schools they have in Great Britain. 2) Because of the way the real Simpsons are styled, they look like a typical English family. And 3) If you look closely that part when real Marge and real Maggie were driving, in America the steering wheel is on the left side, that steering is on the right side, the way most countires have their cars. Oh, and I forgot, 4) When they're in the driveway, those DO NOT look like American license plates. They look sort of British. And those are the reasons why I think the opening was taped in England. If you haven't seen it yet, see it in the next new episode, I'm not sure when. If you have, what's your...