>>153268452
The best channels in america were Nick, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Jetix and Discovery Kids. All the other cable channels (as in Nick GAS, Nicktoons, Boomerang and the Toon Disney side of Jetix) all were pointless or mostly pointless.

Nicktoons was literally just a recycle bin for 70% of the schedule.

>>153268452
I could download cartoons and shit off of Limewire back then, sure. But they would have taken forever to download, take up a ton of space on my hard drive, and they would have been in extremely poor quality.
We started getting Nicktoons, which turned into Nicktoons Network, because it was in the same cable package as other stuff I wanted to watch, so it ended up being a bonus, especially while Nick proper was actively turning into the SpongeBob and Dan Schneider sitcom channel.

I got to watch all the old cartoons they weren't running on Nick, and they also ran a bunch of French and Canadian cartoons, too. It's also where the unaired episodes of MLAATR ended up going.
Other than that, most of the Nicktoons Network original programming wasn't very good on average, the stuff that wasn't just a Canadian show being passed off as original, or a dubbed French cartoon, which is why it ended up there, I'm sure.

Which feels kind of backwards, doesn't it? If you had a really good show that wasn't going to do SpongeBob or Avatar numbers, and it costs more than the sitcoms did, why wouldn't you put it on the channel you had to upgrade your cable package for, and advertise the fuck out of it on regular Nickelodeon to get kids to beg their parents to upgrade?

>>153268452
Thank you Nicktoons for introducing me to Teenage Robot as a kid in 2008.

>>153268452
This network is probably what introduced me to MLAATR, so it wasn't pointless.

>>153269404
this channel got me into ATLA they would have multiple marathons

>>153268452
Wasn't Avatar completely on DVD at the time and online? Nicktoons was literally just a recycle bin channel. They had DBZ Kai for a time, but that show was being released on DVD during the time it was on Nicktoons and it was literally just reruns of DBZ, but less filler and remastered. It was basically the channel where shows went to die and where old shows stayed at.

>>153268452
the point was havin a good time on TV you fuckin faggot. not everybody had your fancy dvd's, nickelodeon didn't have room for old school shit no more, and not every show was on demand anymore in 2005. it especially wasn't online until like 10 years later. at least not legally.

if people like shows, they're willing to watch 'em again. it's that simple, you fuckin AIDS victim. you fuckin' failed abortion. WHY DO YOU THINK METV TOONS IS SO BIG RIGHT NOW?

>>153271330
Nicktoons Network was the only way you could watch a lot of French and Canadian cartoons at the time. In my experience, it was also pretty hard to get the complete series of most Nicktoons on DVD at the time. If it wasn't current like Avatar, they probably did one or two production runs that were probably limited in scope. And that was at best, for shit like Ren and Stimpy. There was no guarantee you could get all of something like KaBlam! or Kappa Mikey if you wanted it.

If you lived in a small town with a Wal-Mart 15 minutes away, and a Best Buy an hour or more away, you couldn't necessarily buy everything you wanted when it was available.
It was much easier to justify subscribing to a higher-tier cable package, getting all the benefits, plus getting to DVR shows so you could burn them to DVD or even record them to VHS tapes. (Which is exactly what I did. I still have boxes and boxes of tapes with cartoons and Science Channel programming recorded on them.)

For the price of two or three official DVDs a month, plus the negligible cost of the tapes or blank DVDs, you could have dozens of episodes of TV or movies, and the only downside would be needing to fast forward through commercials. The economics just made more sense.

>>153272607
Kappa Mikey wasn't exclusive to Nicktoons, very brief run on main Nick aside. I wasn't referring to shows like that. I was referring to shows like KaBlam and Angry Beavers where you could watch those shows on YouTube even back in 2006.

>>153268452
It was pretty great in 2005 when it had all the cancelled Nicktoons, a lot of the old stuff that used to be on Nick like Animaniacs, and a lot of experiments like Coeneil and Burny, and Kaput and Zotski.

I did used to leave it on when it became the 24 hour Dragonball channel around 2009 though, that was fun.

>>153273049
A 240p video with crushed audio on a shitty DSL connection was a much worse way to watch Angry Beavers than even a DVR recording to an SLP VHS tape. And even that got DMCA'd before long.

When I said it was the only way you could watch French and Canadian cartoons, I meant stuff like The Secret Show and Martin Mystery. On average, they weren't especially good, but they were at least something you hadn't seen before.