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Posted: Jan 11 2011 12:08 am

Such a well made, very entertaining kids show from the early 2000's, i just recently bought the first season and i just love it. I used to watch it all the time when i was much younger and its still great. The action, the cinematics, its all their and awesome. Has any one else seen this amazing show? If you havent you should, even the opening theme is crazy badass

jack jack jack

Posted: Jan 11 2011 10:20 am

I have the entire series on my external hard drive. Excellent show.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 01:21 pm

Own all of it on dvd. Its fantastic.

What are your favorite episodes?

Posted: Jan 11 2011 04:30 pm

All of the Jack and the Scotsman episodes, the 300 spartans based episode, i also like Jack and the Gangsters because of the whole 50's future with robots and tommy guns, i thought that was a cool idea. Ive never really watched a show that i was sad when the episode ended

Posted: Jan 11 2011 04:49 pm

I also enjoyed this show. Actually, Cartoon Network was packed with great shows back then. Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Ed,Edd and Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cartoon Cartoon....shit.....the Toonami block before Adult Swim began running. All of it was good.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 05:07 pm

TheDrumWorkshop wrote:

I also enjoyed this show. Actually, Cartoon Network was packed with great shows back then. Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Ed,Edd and Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cartoon Cartoon....shit.....the Toonami block before Adult Swim began running. All of it was good.

I agree with most of what you said, but there were a few crappy shows that were on, namely Dragonball Z. I'm probably gonna get flak for saying that, but even back then, I found the show to be over the top but at the same time boring and incredibly slow placed, especially for a show that was marketed for teens. Aside form that show, most of the stuff was great. It introduced me to a lot of good anime, including Miyazaki, and it had some of my favorite shows on, like Megas XLR.

Sadly, the day came when the cartoons on this channel, as well as Nickelodeon, were replaced. Gone were clever, well written shows, changed out with crappy fart and cheap joke TV, or better yet, filler that was so obviously filler, it was insulting. I died a little bit inside when I saw that shows like Hey Arnold! and Dexter's Lab were being phased out by garbage like All Grown Up (think unfunny teenage Rugrats) and Naruto.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 05:58 pm

I can understand why you wouldn't like DBZ. I was a fan back when I was younger and never really noticed just how drawn out it was because I was always super excited to see what happened next. You absolutely nailed it on the head with your statement regarding how well written and clever older shows on both networks used to be. Shows today are too over the top.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 09:30 pm

Dexters Lab was also brilliant and both Samurai Jack and Dexters Lab were both created by Genndy Tartakovsky, both shows very different, but very very good. He also worked on Clone Wars which i havent watched, but im definatly a fan of his

Posted: Jan 11 2011 10:16 pm

I loved this show, the only thing I didn't like about it was how everything he fought was flesh and blood until he cut it in half, then it was a robot.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 11:41 pm

Black Zarak wrote:

I loved this show, the only thing I didn't like about it was how everything he fought was flesh and blood until he cut it in half, then it was a robot.

Damn censors, always having to make TV shows kiddie friendly. When Samurai Jack came out, most American children had already seen plenty of blood in whatever PS2 or Xbox (hell, even GameCube) games they had and had already killed God knows how many turtles, aliens, Nazis, evil wizards, and dragons so it still seems like a moot point for the network to have worked so hard in censoring the show.

On a related note, if memory serves right, there was some pretty disturbing and bloody fight scenes in DBZ (provided you could stay awake though all the (poorly written) internal monologuing to see the actual 15 seconds of fighting in a ... 23 minute long show, I think. So I still wonder why it could get away with this, but Samurai Jack couldn't.

Posted: Jan 11 2011 11:49 pm

Yeah I mean they didn't even need to have the fights be gory or anything; he could have chopped a guy's arm off, the guy could have screamed and then just held his sthirt sleave at the sever point for the rest of his screen time with no blood or anything. Or you know I really don't think cutting a swamp worm in half and having it bleed blue or green blood would have scarred kids that badly. I mean Clone Wars (the first series, not this CGI crapfest that's on now) was pretty much Samurai Jack in Star Wars and they had at least some blood, alien or otherwise, in that. Not to mention Grievous brutally slaughtering a whole mess of Jedi.

Posted: Jan 12 2011 01:02 am

They had censor issues, and the oil thing is not only a workaround but a sly way of giving them the middle finger.

There are episodes where Jack will fight what by all accounts are flesh and blood enemies until they are cut in half by him, to which they are revealed to be robots. But not before theres a slo-mo cam spray of "oil" that leaves him and the ground soaked.

Posted: Jan 12 2011 02:38 am

Yeah, I did notice the amount of robot gore was kinda of a mockery to the censorship issue.