- Aw, Rugrats!
- Oh, I watched Arnold, yeah. - Hey Arnold!
- Classic, are you kidding me? Beavis and Butt-Head?
Heh, heh, hey Beavis.
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're gonna be showing you
a couple of '90s cartoon shows
that maybe your parent will be familiar with.
And we'll see what you think about it?
- Alright!
- Did you watch YouTube or something when you was a kid?
- There was no YouTube, yeah, there was,
I barely had the internet. I barely...
- You barely?
- I know Rolie Polie Olie, I know the Thornberrys,
Rugrats, okay. - I think we got this.
- Oh yeah. - You should know it.
- (Tommy) See Chuckie? This was easy!
(dog growls)
- I love the Rugrats,
I used to watch it with my oldest son,
that he's now gonna be 28.
I used to put it on for him all the time.
- Aw, Rugrats! (Tommy screams)
- This was huge back in the '90s.
- (Chuckie) Let's get out of here! - Yeah,
this is like really old, I wasn't able to watch it like this.
- (Susie) You can do it, Chuckie! Remember, it's just a slide!
- (Angelica) You can't do it, Chuckie. Remember...
- She was evil. - I know, she was...
- Angelica. - Kinda really bad.
- I don't remember specific, this episode, but it just brought back
the movie, like everything, you know? - I love the Rugrats.
- (Susie) You're on! - (Chuckie) Dog, I'm a big brave dog.
- I love when they were in their imaginary mind,
how they all spoke, but then when the parents came, nothing.
- (Chuckie) I'm a big brave, I made it!
- See, he's so brave! It's just a slide!
(both laugh)
- They even made a movie. - Really?
- Yeah, they made a movie. I think they went to France?
- (Chuckie) You sure this will work, Tommy?
- (Tommy) It's gotta work! Yehaw!
(Spike barks)
- It's kinda weird, seeing like little babies talk like that.
They're like ugh. - Right?
- It's kinda like weird.
- Now when you look at real little babies in real life,
they're all, what are they thinking?
(Tommy yells)
- (laughs) That was like a horsey, like no saddle!
- I got into watching Rugrats when I was smaller
because of her, 'cause we used to buy all the movies,
and then have like movie nights and watch them all.
- (FBE) That was the '90s cartoon show, Rugrats.
And this popular cartoon show actually premiered on August 11, 1991.
- Oh, okay.
- (FBE) And it was the second Nicktoon or cartoon on Nickelodeon.
- (both) Wow.
- It's a little different than what they have now, right?
- Yeah. - A little bit?
- The shows that I watch are more, like we're gonna have to
save the world today, by hitting this one button.
I'm scared, no!
- (Butt-Head) If like, we ring the doorbell, and then we run away.
- Oh my God, classic! Are you kidding me?
Beavis and Butt-Head. Heh, heh, hey Beavis.
- I love Beavis and Butt-Head.
- You know this, do you know this?
- (Beavis) We tricked him.
- I did not watch this show. I just know how it looks.
I don't know what this show is called!
- You don't? - No!
- (Butt-Head) He's probably like uh, there's nobody here.
I wonder who did that?
- Oh my God. (laughs)
- Like, I know he looked at them.
- He's probably gonna think it's dumb. (laughs)
- Yeah, I don't like it.
- (soldier) Are you kids on dope? That grenade's gonna blow!
- This was only on MTV, late at night,
because the context of this was like adult content
in a comedy humor for cartoon.
(explosion echoes)
- (Butt-Head) Whoa, that was cool! Heh, heh, heh.
- That is not cool! - (soldier) That was kinda cool.
- That's not cool!
- (woman) You, what's your name?
- Ew, what the heck? Why, "what's your name?"
- Come here little boy.
- (Sydney) Oh.
- (Butt-Head) I love you. - Ew, what?
Oh, I, ew! - This is awesome!
- I don't like that!
- (Butt-Head) I saw her first, bunghole, heh.
(Marco laughs)
- (woman) Now listen, you just keep quiet and play dumb.
- (Beavis) What does that mean? - (woman) Let's go!
(Marco laughs)
- No? - No.
- Yeah, I think that's over the top for him.
These guys would come on at night, because it was,
the kids should be sleeping already at that time,
and the content was a little bit adulty.
This, when it came out, was classic.
I mean, everybody used to act out Beavis and Butt-Head.
- (FBE) So that was Beavis and Butt-Head,
which is a cartoon that's tailored more of the adult audience.
So it aired on MTV for seven seasons
from 1993 to 1997, and was really popular among critics.
Why do you think that a lot of people liked the show?
- 'Cause it was different from a lot of like kid shows.
- Yeah, it was kinda edgy, kind of, you know,
bordered the line.
- I don't know, it's just not my type.
- You know what it is?
I'm more a rebellion person, I always was,
and he is not so much.
So you know, I'm more like dun-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh!
- (both) Excellent! (guitar riff)
- And he's like oh, we should go do something nice!
- The stuff that they said was so off the wall,
and no one had done that kinda humor
like that before in a cartoon.
Now there's so much diversity in everything you watch
on all different platforms, you just have to do
extremely stupid things to shock people any more.
This one, this was a playful way to kinda do that.
- (Arnold) But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
- Oh, I watched Arnold, yeah. - Hey Arnold!
- Oh my God. Oh ugh, her unibrow!
- (Arnold) So bright, that...
- (Rhonda) Hi Gerald. Hi Arnold.
- Hey Arnold! Hey Arnold! was the name,
yep, we used to watch this one too.
- (Gerald) Well, I don't know. Let me see.
Sorry, this party is for geeks. - I know this cartoon.
- (laughs) The kid with the nose!
- (Helga) Perhaps you're on the other list?
- How is everybody's head shaped like so differently?
I love the animation that way!
- For some reason, all these '90s cartoons
always had a little girl as a villain.
- (Harold) Well, where is he?
- There's always the bully kid. - (Helga) He'll be here.
- (Eugene) There he is!
- (Arnold) Before you do...
- Look at football head, isn't that what you called him?
- Yeah! (laughs)
Oh my gosh, I remember all of this!
- (Arnold) I'm crazy, and you should never hit a crazy person.
- (Harold) If you're so crazy, prove it!
- (Arnold) Okay.
- ♪ One, two, three, ugh ♪ ♪ Watch me, hey ♪
- I don't, I've never... - You know what?
I just realized that Arnold use to, he had a kilt on!
- (FBE) That was Hey Arnold!, which aired on Nickelodeon
from 1996 to 2004, and the show centers around
a fourth grader named Arnold who lives with his grandparents
in an inner city tenant or apartment.
- Yes. - He was in fourth grade?
- So was I, I was like fourth grade, wow, okay.
- I feel like it was older.
- I never really realized what grade he was in.
- The content that they had back in the '80s and '90s,
there was always a bad guy, there was always a bully,
and then there was always someone trying to figure out
how to be the hero or to conquer the bully.
And the content now for these shows
have completely changed.
Do you think you ever watch shows where there's like a big bad bully guy
and he's always the big bad bully guy?
- Not so much.
- Everybody's kinda nice to each other, and...
- Yes. - Yeah, eh.
- Peace and love. - Peace and love.
- (Rocko) Giddy up!
- Aw, oh! Rock the something.
- Rocko's Modern Life. - Yeah!
- I don't think I know this one.
Oh, it's something to do with a chicken?
- (Rocko) Well tomorrow's the big day, eh?
- (Filburt) Yeah. - (Rocko) Walk me to my car?
- I like it, it looks like funky, I like the way...
- It looks like CatDog. - Yeah!
- (Rocko) Well gosh, I don't know. Uh, tradition?
- (Filburt) Well, okay.
- (group) Bachelor party! - (Filburt) Oh boy.
- Ah! (laughs) - (Filburt) Unhand me, ouch!
- (Heffer) Did you get the loot? - (Rocko) Yep, four dollars in cans.
Let's show this bachelor... - I like that accent.
- (laughs) Is that Australian? What is he?
- (Heffer) Purvis, the world's fattest rattlesnake!
- (laughs) Rattlesnake. - That's a nose.
- (Heffer) Flem Rock. What a sight!
- (newscaster) Flem Rock, once America's favorite...
- Dad would for sure be like "we're going to Flem Rock."
(both laugh)
Oh my gosh.
- (FBE) Our last cartoon for the day is Rocko's Modern Life.
The cartoon only was on TV for three years,
but it 2019, it came back to Netflix with a 45 minute special.
- Oh wow!
- I kinda just like real people, like Raven's Home
and Coop and Cami Ask the World.
- Those are things that he's watching now
that when his kids, when he has kids,
they're not gonna know what Raven's Home
and all that stuff is, 'cause they're gonna have their own thing.
So it's all a full cycle.
- (FBE) After seeing some popular '90s cartoons,
overall, what are your thoughts on these?
- They were all pretty awesome. - Yeah, they're awesome!
- I knew most, some of them, but some of 'em,
I like hadn't even watched at all.
- Some of them are interesting. Some of them I wouldn't watch.
Maybe if it was the only thing to watch on TV, I would watch.
- The way you put it, like if there's nothing else to watch,
in the world, then I would watch it.
- If those were the only cartoons, and I had no options,
I would watch them.
- It's kind of freaky to me that I'm, I've lived that long
that, you know, it's now retro.
But I think it's cool that they get to see that.
- (FBE) How do you think cartoons have evolved from these '90s favorites
to the cartoons that we kinda have nowadays.
- I would say for sure, technology-wise.
- Yeah. - For sure, more like,
this generation than the past generation.
- I think back then, they kinda looked more hand drawn.
Like something that you would doodle.
- Back then, that was what they knew.
If you compare with the technology now,
obviously, it's totally different, because now.
- If they make an episode of like whatever, the Hey Arnold! is,
and then make one now, it's gonna be a big difference
in the technology. - Oh yeah.
- Yeah, they don't have random shape heads.
They're like I'm just gonna do a random doodle.
Okay, now I'm gonna make this a cartoon!
- But I noticed, we were watching a show last night on Disney Channel,
and I was telling her dad in the car,
it, the format's completely different.
There was an episode where she had something on her face,
a mark on her face, and she went to this dance anyway,
and she owned it, and it's, the whole stucture
of these shows are changing a lot.
- I like the recent content. (laughs) More friendly to the kids.
Right now, the content is more regulated,
and two, as a parent, I like that way.
- Some of these, they were like on the edge of being like
kinda not acceptable, but now, I feel like,
a lot of people are like afraid to do that,
'cause like anyone will be like "oh, that's not good for kids"
or whatever, I think most of them are kinda like either really kid,
like kid, kid shows, or they're just like animated...
- Adult. - Yeah, adult, not for kids.
- (FBE) Finally, to end this episode, do you guys think
you will watch more cartoons together in the future?
- Yeah! (Sally laughs)
Yeah! - Yeah?
- Do it, do it, do it, do it! - Do it?
- I hope so. - I would...
- I'ma push it! - I would say eh,
but at the same time, we should have those special moments.
- Everything now is kinda like mediocre.
I just wanna keep watching our alien shows,
that's kinda cool. - I like finding...
I'm dying to find Bigfoot!
- I like to know what she's watching, honestly,
so I'll sit with her and watch a little bit
to see what's going on.
- I'm just trying to watch like on Disney+, Disney Originals.
Like literally, I don't have anything to watch,
so I'm like, I'll watch this!
- Yeah, because they have nothing to watch these days.
- Nothing! - Nothing.
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