’90s cartoons you’ll appreciate way more as an adult

This may be a bit nostalgic, but manga 90s It just felt different. The crude, hand-drawn animation was a great fit for some of the wackiest concepts in kids’ programming. I don’t know if it just got old or if the new cartoons were actually worse, but there are a lot of people who stopped watching cartoons around the turn of the century. Still, we all fondly remember the cartoons we watched on Saturday mornings before. Play video games .

Best Children’s Media, Cartoons movie we all know that adults are forced to watch them alongside their kids and are more likely to make jokes that aren’t kid-friendly. There are also some shows where it feels like 90% of the jokes are aimed at adults. Sure, we loved these shows as kids, but rewatching them as adults helps us appreciate the more adult themes and jokes. If you haven’t seen these classics since the ’90s, now is the time to revisit them with fresh eyes.

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1 Modern Life of a Loco

I can relate so much

“Rocco’s Modern Life” feels like a show that was approved for airing on Nickelodeon because someone thought it was a show about anthropomorphic animals. The show was about adult life and adult worries, but it strayed into weird territory that must have gotten the quality control guy fired. There’s an ongoing subplot where Rocko’s neighbor, Mrs. Bighead, tries to have an affair with him, and there’s an episode where Rocko works at a phone sex center.

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2 Animaniacs

More than a wink and a nod

Animaniacs has some really great G-rated episodes. I still can’t get the Countries of the World song out of my head, but looking back I’m embarrassed at how I kept repeating the line “Hello, nurse!” without knowing what I was saying. Plus, there are a ton of celebrity cameos and jokes that kids just won’t get.

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3 Cowardly Dog, Courage

Existential horror…for kids

I’ve been fascinated by horror for decades, and I think it all comes down to Courage. A kid-oriented horror cartoon would have been a tough sell, and even tougher to pull off, but this show presents genuinely terrifying scenarios without pulling any punches, always lightening them up with slapstick and little jokes at the end that could easily be turned into a full-blown horror movie.

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Four Batman the Animated Series

The authentic Batman experience

For nearly everyone who experienced Batman: The Animated Series, it is the best representation of the Dark Knight ever put to the big screen. The show wasn’t afraid to take its stories and characters seriously, and while it toned down the violence on many occasions, it also had some very dark episodes where things just didn’t go so well at the end. Not only did it set a new standard for the Batman medium, it helped establish the legitimacy of comics as a way to tell serious stories.

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Five Futurama

Don’t be afraid to be smart

We’d watched Futurama as kids, from the same creators of The Simpsons, but we’d only pretended to understand most of what was going on. We loved the chatty robots and weird futuristic tech, but the best jokes required a bit more world-understanding: It satirized politics, science, economics, and a ton of pop culture tropes that resonated even more strongly as we got older.

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6 Ren and Stimpy

Extreme grotesque humor

As a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy and for once I think my parents were right. The show is a fever dream of animation and barely concealed sexual jokes. Aside from how lovable and goofy Stimpy is, the torture and abuse this cat(?) is put through at every turn makes me wonder how a kid could ever like any of it.

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