Nicktoons 30th Birthday
NOTE: This is a reissue from a blog post 5 years ago. On this day, Nickelodeon debuted their first three Nicktoons: Rugrats, Doug, and Ren and Stimpy. Each one had creative freedom and did whatever they wanted without restrictions of the shows like Hanna-Barbera of DIC. Nicktoons is of extreme importance as the cartoons would help bring back animation big time along side The Simpsons, Disney, and some WB shows. Gone would be shows like The Smurfs and was replaced by shows now deemed towards a general audience (even though they were also grabbing kids attention). Nickelodeon was just a mere kids channel for cable since the late 70's having to acquire licenses for other shows like Inspector Gadget. Once Looney Tunes went on the air, they knew they had a winner with their ratings and thought that they could create toons of their own because once the Looney Tunes license has ended...that's it (it ran for 11 years by the way). Each of the 3 shows was different. ...