Disney and I have a sort of love-hate relationship going on when it comes to its television.
I‘m from the mid-nineties generation of children. I grew up on the after-school and Saturday-morning Disney cartoons like Disney’s Recess and The Weekenders. To this day, I proudly admit that I watch those whenever I can. I‘ve got less opportunity to watch The Weekenders, but Recess comes on every day after school, so I watch it if I’m not working. Old school Disney rock on!
Lately I‘ve been less and less impressed with the average after-school shows they’ve been producing. Maybe I‘m just losing touch with today’s “cool” brand of pre-adolescents. Maybe I‘ve become too cerebral. But some shows I just can’t stand, like Jake Long: American Dragon. Then there are some shows like The Suite Life of Zack & Cody or That’s So Raven which I can’t help watching while simultaneously loathing and despising myself for watching them. The acting and writing’s just so terrible; the gags are just so … juvenile. I understand that this is children’s programming; maybe I‘m being too judgemental. But then when I compare these shows to what I watched as a kid (and still watch), there does seem to be a decline in the quality of the productions.
So what gives, Disney?! 
P.S. I enjoy Kim Possible, because it presents positive themes for kids in an extremely entertaining matter. But Kim and Ron dating? 
The show should have ended after So the Drama. I’m sceptical about this fourth season, although on average it hasn’t been terrible so far. Just okay…
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Dude, I still watch Recess and the Weekenders whenever I can, too 
/me mumbles something about still watching Kim Possible too
Anyway, yeah. I agree wholeheartedly. American Dragon: Jake Long, That’s So Raven, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Phil of the Future, and all of those. They’re just dumb.
Then there are some shows (not necessarily on Disney) that I occasionally watch because they‘re so funny they’re dumb. Like Spongebob.
I also remember some other Nick shows I loved, like Doug, Rocket Power, and those types of shows. Now there are shows like Drake and Josh, Ned’s Declassified, and that one with the younger Spears girl … can’t remember the name of it. I watch those (excluding the one with the younger Spears girl), but they’re just not the same as the old school shows.
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Good ol‘ Weekenders. I’m so happy I get off of school at 2:50 so I can watch it at 3
It use to be on at like.. 4 or something. I haven’t had a chance to watch Kim Possible, since the episode they started dating. Though I think its cute, I’ve always been a fan of that happening.
Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 7:34 PM