User blog comment:WhitePinoy/What do you watch on TV nowadays/@comment-2047157-20120813002708

As far as what I watch on television these days... Nothing.

By that I mean that a couple years ago; my family discontinued our television service with DirectTV, mediocre economy and what not. The last cartoon of reputable quality I saw on TV was Samurai Jack, the episode where he tries to invade the lion-men hunters. A most satisfying way to go out with a bang, I didn't watch EEnE because my package at the time did not include CN (that and it wasn't on at the time), and Boomerang turned out to be a joke. Do not mistake me here, it is where I was reaquainted with Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo and a little later on, the Powerpuff Girls, along with all the other classics such as the Flintstones and such. However, they would only air the first couple of seasons of the Cartoon Cartoons, basically any post-2000 episodes were omitted from the airwaves.

After losing my primary source of animation-based entertainment, I was content with Fox's "Animation Domination" block my local Fox station would air on Sunday nights. Hell, as of this writing it is probably on right now. There was of course beautiful syndication, reruns of Law & Order, The Office and Thou Most Holy Seinfeld satisfied my need to watch "real" programming. Did I mention that I would watch an epsiode of The Big Bang Theory whenever possible?

And then I lost those, the television reception seems to have given up the ghost, leaving me only with my local PBS station (and even that dosn't come in half the time). NOVA and BBC News America are pretty much the only things that have me even turn the TV on now.

I heard of many significant events that happened fairly recently such as the resurrection of Toonami and Cartoon Planet. Cartoon Planet, oh how I missed you so, I would wake up at 5:00 AM just to watch the show, on school days mind you. Sadly I have not watched the program since the third grade, and from what Wikipedia informs me, it is but a farcry of what it used to be. Now it just seems like a glorified Cartoon Cartoon Top 5 without the numbers. Then again, I could be astronomically wrong, but it wouldn't matter to me anyway.

In short, I can no longer really express concern on what CN, Nickelodeon or whoever throw onto the airwaves, it's not because I have "grown out of" cartoons,--I will always respect the Cartoon Cartoons, the Nicktoons and whoever else warrants credit for the good times and great memories--it's because I can't watch them anyway.

By the way, a recent attempt to remedy my lack of internet gone awry allowed me to access Youtube and watch "Pop Goes the Ed", the first episode of EEnE I have seen in two years.