YouTube has always been a great way to waste time. I've spent hours sitting in front of my computer screen going through the viral videos, webseries, video blogs and other humorous clips all through the website. I mean where else can I watch a monkey drinking its own piss, stupid people jumping off roofs and listen to songs about vagina's?
Now when YouTube started getting popular, some people had the great idea to start uploading TV series and movies. Everyone would be able to enjoy these stories for free. Unfortunately anything that isn't a masturbating monkey is most likely copyrighted by some major studio or network and therefore cannot be put online for free without breaking copyright laws. Once the corporations realized that people would be able to watch their products for free YouTube quickly underwent a purge and a large amount of copyrighted videos were removed from the website. For some reason a lot of older and animated shows survived the purge. Personally I'm a nostalgia freak and I've managed to find a bunch of awesome mostly animated shows that I used to watch when I was a kid.
Here's my list of YouTube channels with awesome oldschool shows you may or may not have heard of:
1.Reboot
What's the first ever completely computer animated TV show? That's right ladies and gents, Reboot! Reboot made computers and the internet cool before computers and the internet were cool! Mainframe Entertainment, a Canadian (WIN!) company, created this show about sprites living inside a computer and fighting evil users and defending their world viruses that try to take over the system.
*This show could also be considered the first reality TV show, considering they put tiny cameras inside a computer, recorded it and made a show out of the footage.*
Reboot is pretty much amazing in all manners of the word. The first few seasons are kind of wacky and childish yet are packed with enough computer lingo and pop culture references to make even the grumpiest adult smile. The 3rd and 4th season are slightly darker, the characters are cooler the animation is smoother and everything is 10(binary) times more awesome! If you haven't watched Reboot yet in its entirety go now!... or at least once you've finished reading the rest of this entry.
This guys channel contains all the Reboot episodes and nothing else, they're also neatly arranged into playlists. Props to him. Give it a watch:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=y2ktm2&view=playlists
2.Gargoyles
I've only just recently restarted watching this show and it is great. Darker, smarter and more kickass than almost any other kids show in the 90's gargoyles set the bar. You'd never expect a show like this from Disney nowadays. That's right Gargoyles was produced by Disney!
Man Disney was so awesome in the 90's. We had awesome animated movies and great TV shows like Gargoyles, now we get High School Musical and Hannah Montana. What happened?
So the story is about monsters living in New York City that only come out at night to protect the innocent and defeat the bad guys. Kinda like Batman except there's 7 of them! They also struggle to fit in with the humans so its kinda like the Mutants in X-Men. Plus 3 of them are kinda wacky like the Ninja Turtles. So yeah Batman + X-Men + Ninja Turtles= Awesome! 'Nuff said!
More nicely arranged playlists:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nayrusavatar&view=playlists
3.Transformers
Wanna catch up on your Transformers stories before the next movie comes out? These guys have made it that much easier.
"tommyj666the2nd" is a brit with ,I'm pretty sure, the entire G1 and possibly G2 Transformers series.
"TheUltimateOne81" according to his channel is from Quebec, Canada! Representin'! He has the entirety of the "Beast Wars" and "Beast Machines" TV series. However neither of these channels have put their videos into playlists yet, so I added an alternate channel after theirs that has the videos playlisted. The channel with the playlist also take some videos from other users to make the TV show seasons more complete and navigation easier. Check em all out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tommyj666the2nd
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheUltimateOne81
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=spec7493&view=playlists
4.Power Rangers
Remember when there was only one Power Rangers series? Remember when it was so fucking awesome! When you'd wake up every Saturday morning and sit in front of your TV just waiting to find out what the next giant monster Rita Repulsa was gonna throw at the Power Rangers? Remember going crazy when Tommy, the Green Ranger, showed up and then the flippin' out when he eventualy became the White Ranger with the Fucking awesome White Tigerzord! I do! I remember renting "The Pagemaster" VHS just because it featured a 5 minute sneak peak at the Power Rangers movie! I remember when Ivan Ooze destroyed Zordon in the first movie so the ranger had to become fucking Ninja Rangers! Ninja Rangers FTW! Plus the Pink Ranger was mad hot!
So for anyone like me that loves the Rangers, this guys channel has all the episodes from the original series. He is also slowly uploading episodes from Power Rangers Zeo (The Second Series). Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=powerrangerguy&view=playlists
5.Shadowboro's Channel
I know this isn't an actual TV show. It doesn't really matter because this YouTube channel contains over 60 different animated shows from the 70s, 80's and 90's. From "Superfriends" to "Captain Planet" this guy has everything. He's been on Youtube for 2 years and has "Over 3000!!!!" videos and counting. Check his playlists out (look past the music videos):
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Shadowboro&view=playlists
Big props to Shadowboro.
Honorable Mentions:
Undergrads
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AA0292B05DE53DC4
Spider Man: The Animated Series
Awesome show, why couldn't SM3 have been more like this show.
(Without Venom driving a truck of course >_>)
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=palidanek&view=playlists
X-Men Evolution
Marvel have uploaded the first 2 seasons of this show and it works in Canada so that's sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=DmJMgpU45BE&s=1
Buffy: Animated Series
The entire 3 minutes and 30 seconds of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM
Batman and Superman Animated Series and Beast Wars again (Better Quality this time.)
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mycartoonshow&view=playlists
Clerks Animated Series
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=pmcd123&view=videos
There are probably a bunch of other YouTube channels with awesome TV shows that I haven't found yet. I'll just keep searching and hope for the best.
Notice: These videos were still on YouTube as of May 10th 09.
-BeaverMoose
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