The “Stardust era” was only just promos and bumpers specifically made for their new original stuff

The city bumps were comfy

>>152366579
The entire top row

>>152366579
Everything before 2001 was gold. Doesn't matter what year. Strong preference for 1998 though.

>>152366920
This. I flat out reject anything past city as some sort of death throes of the original Network's identity as a direct result of the bomb scare.

>>152366579
FALL IS JUST SOMETHING THAT GROWNUPS INVENTED
FALL IS JUST SOMETHING THAT GROWNUPS INVENTED
FALL IS JUST SOMETHING THAT GROWNUPS INVENTED

>>152366935
The 2000's were also good

>>152366579
DEFINITELY not 2022-2024

>>152367236
2015 -2026 feels like watching dementia set in an elderly relative

>>152367236
The past 4 years has been so utterly lazy and unmotivated in terms of aesthetic, I get that the CN brand is dead now but if they’re putting ads on the max streaming service couldn’t they make new better quality well put together bumps inbetween them? As a way to replace cable a bit

>>152366825
I agree

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>>152367468
Advertising in general has gotten lazy. Back then you'd get promos for individual 11-minute segments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbryPuXKbI

Corporate greed really ruins everything, huh?

Cn city had the best bumpers by far. It’s also my favorite era because we still got new episodes of ed edd n eddy, knd, billy and mandy mixed in with newer stuff like foster’s and teen titans. Powerhouse is a strong second place.

>>152366579
City.

>>152369599
basic bitch taste

Powerhouse. Many people ride or die for the city era because the bumpers are good, but forget that half the lineup was shit like Pet Alien and Baby Looney Tunes.
Powerhouse had cool bumpers, a wider variety of shows spanning many decades, cool blocks like Toonheads, Prime Time, CCF, and classic Toonami.
I like the city era too but there's only so much Krypto the Superdog and Tickle U I can take on a daily lineup.

>>152367088
yeah ikr

>>152368874
I miss this era...

>>152366579
What are their current bumpers in CN USA like these days? Here in LATAM it's literally just clips from The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball they added the CN logo to:
https://youtu.be/O5OSO4AemAs?si=gLLMr37nfa-xkYKP

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>>152366579
Checkerboard
>Me and my pals get no respect

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>>152366579
The era where instead of commercials they would play that Scooby-Doo boardgame promo things and they were always showing Cow and Chicken, Courage, and Ed, Edd, and Eddy

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>>152371736
>What does Scooby-Doo that we neglect?
>We be puttin' all our foes in check

>>152372496
>WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE WORLD
>WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE DAY

>>152366579
I was obsessed with the little paint guys from 2008-2010. Such a cool aesthetic.

>>152366952
Zoomers will call you stupid for this but it's just a fact. Both CN and Nickelodeon died after that era. MTV died. WB died. Fox died. It's like the entirety of television got so fucked by 2008 that everything has to suffer

>>152370167
Thank you, someone gets it. Powerhouse simply had the best overall package, plus I feel even its bumpers are better than City's with classics like the carpooling sketch and the PPG saving the Superfriends.

>>152366579
I would say Check It is a good cut off line. Everything before it, including some of the stuff from it as well, is solid and unfiltered CN magic, in different flavors. 2013 is pretty much the point where they took a massive nosedive, and everything they started airing became retarded, sterile and faggy.

>>152366579
City and Powerhouse

>>152366579
Definitely Powerhouse era.
Don't think anyone would go for anything past City era, unless they were born in the 21st century

>>152366579
>>152370167
100% this. CN city has by far the best bumpers, but the actually scheduling of shows was already trending downward and fast (CN was dogshit by the YES era). It was Baby Looney Toons, What's New ScoobyDoo (bleh), and KND on what seemed like repeat.

Checkerboard to Powerhouse was great depending on what you were into (older cartoons, or newer experimental stuff), but by the time Camp Lazlo appeared CN had almost hit rock bottom.

>>152366579
City, obviously, followed by Noods, then Check It 1.0/2.0, then Prefuse, and I guess you can throw Powerhouse in last place for a rounded top 5 tiles. Powerhouse and Noods actually had some creative overlap; I remember one of the reasons Har Har Tharsdays stuck with me is because the promo material reminded me a lot of that one Powerhouse promo where Dee Dee runs around in the black room.

>>152374032
CN City’s bumpers alone are enough to propel it to the top. If you don’t feel me on this one or need further explanation, I’m sorry to say you might never have been a kid.

>>152374088
>If you don’t feel me on this one or need further explanation
No explanation needed, it's clear as day to everyone you were a moronic child and still are.

>>152374098
You sure showed him.

>>152366920
This, but I don't mind the second row.

I LOVEd Cartoon Network!