What's /co/'s opinion on the 1970s

Mr Enter calls it the worst decade ever

second best decade for comics after the 80s

It's a good show.

Better music than it gets credit for, lousy cartoons, decent comics.

"It was a very dark time. Nobody was still doing theatrical animation except for Disney, but the animators were old and tired and it showed in their work."

-- John K

>>94255202
>>94255202
What's wrong with the cartoons

>>94255277
Are you fucking serious

>>94255277
Well, start by naming which cartoons from the 70s you can remember.

>>94255323
Scooby Doo
Jabberjaw
Laff A Lympics
The RobotnikStooges
Fraidy Cat
Star Trek The Animated Series
Fat Albert
Josie and The Pussycats
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch

>>94255277
The TV shows were just ripoffs of Scooby-Doo or horribly animated Filmation stuff, and the best Disney film from that decade was The Rescuers.

>>94255202
The only good thing about the 70's was the music. Well, that and the birth of the home computer and video games.

The 70's saw the first time political correctness became mainstream. Movies and TV became sleazier and began targeting the lowest common denominator. The economy was in shambles. Nobody trusted each other.

>>94255470
So basically 2015-present but longer?

>>94255536
>Before that, it was like the 80s
Oh god, we're sliding backward in time. Next decade we're gonna end up repeating the 60s. Shit, I'm not ready for that.

>>94255536
Kind of, but I'd say more like the Obama years. Obama is basically black Jimmy Carter with Nixon's paranoia. Liberal idealism somehow always leads to decadence and cynicism.

>>94255443
>no hong kong phooey

>>94255580
The early 60's were actually pretty alright. Just an extended 50's. Kennedy, for all his faults, was actually a pretty conservative and level-headed President. It wasn't until LBJ that things started to go wrong.

>>94255595
>Nixon's paranoia
No anon I'm pretty sure that's the current fella.

>>94255668
I'm not defending Trump, but Obama bugged the whole internet. He also used the IRS to attack his enemies.

>>94255451
At least they were better than stuff like Johnny Test and Teen Titans Go

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>>94255696
While I think I might be able to have a sensible and reasonable discussion with you because I don't fully disagree, I'm going to stop because I don't wanna get banned for this discussion. I got banned for explaining what the tea party was to someone before as it related to a family guy episode so I don't want to take any chances.

So how about that Scooby Doo? Was the series with Vincent Van Price in the 70s or was that later?

>>94255728
They really aren't. Johnny Test and TTG are cheap and annoying, but stuff like the Chan Clan was just irredeemably boring, and damn near every cartoon back then was exactly like that.

Star Trek: The Animated Series is the best cartoon of the era, and Return to the Planet of the Apes is underrated, but godawfully slow.

>>94255191
Therefore, it is the best decade by default

>>94255580
I honestly much rather have hippies than the current BLM/ANTIFA fuckfaces

>>94255536
So technically we are in the 70s, except with shit music and more shitty ideologies.

>>94255173
who gives a fuck what of he thinks?

There were a lot of economic and demographic reasons why the 70s was so poor for animation.

>>94255470
>The 70's saw the first time political correctness became mainstream.
>Movies and TV became sleazier and began targeting the lowest common denominator.
R-Really? I always had a glamorized view of the 70s (partially thanks to the music. I fucking love Barry White and the Fifth Dimension).
Maybe I should look a little bit more deeper?...

>>94257717
It didn't happen all at once, but the death of the Hayes Code really did a number on Hollywood.

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>>94255159
Fuckin' groovie

When did wacky races come out?

>>94257981
1968

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The only good cartoons from the 70s were from other countries.

>>94255580
>Not wanting all that free spirit 60s sex

>>94258667
>Implying we can go back to that when both the right and the left are getting uptight as all fuck about sex these days.

>>94255159
Some of the better fantasy groundwork came out of the 70s. Silver age insanity and muthafucken Heavy Metal started up in the 70s. I'd say it was a hell of a decade for all thing animation and comics.

>>94258667
>>94258784
The "Sexual Revolution" is the reason things are so messed up today.

>Women get "liberated"
>Act like their actions have no consequences
>Hit the wall
>Blame society
Etc...

>>94258862
70's was the Bronze Age, Heavy Metal isn't that great aside from a few covers, and the Sword and Sorcery revival of the 70's was pretty hit or miss.

>>94258667
Wanting stds and loose hairy roasties

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>>94255728
holy shit, am I the only one in /co/ who likes johnny test?

>>94258911
Heavy metal was incredibly influential in terms of their short stories. And I thought silver age led into the mid 70s. Sword and sorcery were hit or miss, much like any decade, but the hits were massive hits and can still be looked at in a positive light today. I forgot to mention some adult animations were starting up and that bloomed into pretty good movies later on.

I'm not gonna say it was a perfect decade and we need to go back, but if you honestly think the 70s didn't atleast bring forth some great comics and animations you are being cynical.

>>94255470
Hey, some of the best movies of all time were made in the 1970s. "The Last Movie", anybody?

A-anybody?

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>DC starts getting better story wise
>Marvel has an incredibly diverse line-up of titles
>Sid & Marty Krofft are at the top of their fucking game
>Same with Hanna-Barbera
>Space Disco starts coming into it's own overseas
>Muscians/Bands like Talking Heads, Blondie, Kate Bush, and Gary Numan get their start

I enjoy 80's and 90's pop culture more, but the 70's had a fuckload of things going for it

>>94259049
Frits the cat was pretty damn good.

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Early to mid 70s everything sucked, the US lost a war, the president was being impeached, a gas crisis hit and we had stagflation. Late 70s and early 80s things started to get back on track. (puck and new wave, some great movies, video games)

They could never make a show like Fat Albert today.

>>94261018
I think we're in the same or a similar rut to the early 1970s, but thanks to the excesses of the 1980s through 2000s, we've become a generation of people living in denial that times are as bad as they once were, or (perhaps worse) that times haven't changed at all.

>>94259049
I thought you meant The Last Picture Show

>>94259039
>Heavy metal was incredibly influential in terms of their short stories

"Influential" doesn't mean good, anon. Sure, they influenced a lot of trashy and pretentious European and British writers, but beyond that not much.

> I forgot to mention some adult animations were starting up and that bloomed into pretty good movies later on.

See above. Most "adult" animation of the day was just trash.

>>94259049
Sure, but a majority were made long before. The 70's was when Hollywood first started to become the open sewer pipe it is now.

>>94261204
That counts too. It's been a while since I've seen that film.

>>94259089
>Same with Hanna-Barbera

HB was the worst at this time. They hired anyone who could hold a pencil lead face down.

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>>94255159
It gave us Zambot 3 so it can't be too bad.

>>94258291
Toeizinger was terrible you dumb spic.