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[Masterge77]

Stuart Snyder, the man well known for destroying Cartoon Network, known for his hatred of anime and creating the dreaded CN Real, has finnaly been fired from Turner Broadcasting

However, most people are saying that now he's gone, Toonami will come back. Ok, first of all, there's a reason why Toonami died, first was it's move to Saturday nights, which was because the soccer moms complained that it was "too violent", then in the fall of 2005 or 2006 (I can't remember exactly), a certain ninja anime started to steal the ratings of Toonamis other shows, eventually leading to Toonami being the last two hours before Adult Swim, consisting of two episodes of Naruto, and a rerun of both Ben 10 Alien Force and Samurai Jack, by then, the loveable moron named Stuart Snyder became the CEO of Cartoon Network, taking off all anime but the mon/card game animes on saturday mornings (Pokemon, Bakugan, and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds), followed by the invention of "Fried Dynamite", then folowed by the creation of the godawful abomination reffered to only as "CN Real". Now the ever hated executive has finnaly gotten the boot, and all the anitards are cheering "ZOMG TOONAMI IS COMING BACK LOL!!!!".

For one thing, Toonami is not coming back, mainly because Naruto and Dragonball Z (the anime that made Toonami itself) are currently airing on CNs rival networks Disney XD and Nicktoons Network, now we know that Toonami is not coming back, we are still unsure if anime itself is returning to Cartoon Network

Either way, everyone hated Stuart Snyder for what he has done, and we should all be glad that the man who killed CN is finnaly gone.......

[chief]

Don't get Cartoon Network here so... eh, not my concern really.

[Ratty Randnums]

Toonami was the shit when I was 11. By the time it died it was the same block in name only anyway. Still, I have Toonami to thank for causing my weeaboo phase to develop early and fade quickly and easily. The handful of shows I watched on it still make up the majority of anime I've bothered to watch after said phase ended. And most of them hold up pretty well (Gundam Wing has made me cringe on rewatches though)





I remember so many of these bumps so fondly, those in the case of Outlaw Star "Time to roll the dice" is the more time-resistant tagline. As apposed to "Wild West, Y2K Style." *sigh*

[ALIENwolve]

I don't give a shit what decision the make on their Toonami show. I only care that they drop the MTV strategy.

[Vlad Yvhv]

Now I know why Cartoon Network got so effed-up... And it's great they gave him the boot...

To those out of the loop: Toonami wasn't a show, but rather more of a programming block, like Adult Swim. And quite frankly, some of the shows that were featured on the Toonami block not kids shows. While I'm not sure they'll ever bring the block back, maybe they'll go back to airing some of the shows they've abandoned.

[Masterge77]

Yeah, Adult Swim wanted to become it's own channel, but the company would not let them due to prephiary demographic, next year, they're going to start at 9:00 PM

Also, it's called ADULT Swim, yet they still censor the shows no matter how hard the shows creators want them to be uncensored, up to the point where Robot Chicken attacked the FCC for laughs, claiming that vulgarity is supreme (they actually did that, I'm not lying)

[furrykef]

The FCC has zero jurisdiction over cable, though. Any censorship on AS is purely due to concern for their audience and, more importantly (for them), their advertisers. For some reason advertisers shy away from shows that are controversial. I don't know why, because I have never once associated an ad with the show or even the network that aired it, but go figure.

[Vlad Yvhv]

The FCC has zero jurisdiction over cable, though. Any censorship on AS is purely due to concern for their audience and, more importantly (for them), their advertisers. For some reason advertisers shy away from shows that are controversial. I don't know why, because I have never once associated an ad with the show or even the network that aired it, but go figure.

It's because of the soccer moms with nothing better to do than cause trouble. The same demographic who's always been a thorn in the side of horror and action movies.

[ALIENwolve]

The FCC has zero jurisdiction over cable, though. Any censorship on AS is purely due to concern for their audience and, more importantly (for them), their advertisers. For some reason advertisers shy away from shows that are controversial. I don't know why, because I have never once associated an ad with the show or even the network that aired it, but go figure.

It's because of the soccer moms with nothing better to do than cause trouble. The same demographic who's always been a thorn in the side of horror and action movies.

Those damn, nonspecific mothers!