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Nickelodeon has just recently announced great news for fans who are in love with ‘90s cartoons.

“Hey Arnold” and “As Told by Ginger” will be revived at last, airing in 2017.

Both shows gave a perspective of the life of tweens and issues they deal with at school and at home. I feel like many of the cartoons of today are missing a lot of insight that the older cartoons had.

I don’t find a plot line in most of the shows that are on children programs now.

I have in fact watched some of the newer shows such as “The Regular Show,” and, for only a few moments, the Nickelodeon cartoon “Sanjay and Craig.”

Though “The Regular Show” was somewhat okay I wouldn’t be too keen on allowing young children to watch it. The characters are beyond lazy and in some cases sarcastic. Children do not need to be using them as an example.

“Sanjay and Craig,” was just a terrible show all together. The animation was so horrible I could barely sit through a minute of it. It’s possibly the reason Nickelodeon is reviving older shows.

I feel completely old when I start talking about classic ‘90s cartoons to the younger generation who don’t know any of them.

I’m probably biased, but some of the best cartoons came out of the ‘90s, with the exception of “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

Both “Hey Arnold” and “As Told by Ginger” are said to resume where they left off. However, the writers plan to adapt them to the current audience.

This is where I find the problem of reviving great shows. Producers want to change things like the design of the characters and try updating the show to current times.

I don’t agree with this method.

Yes, both shows have a lot of room to keep progressing. However, I don’t feel like they need to be changing a lot of the designs and storylines of something that is already good.

Though it might be a new show to some kids, the audience for both these shows is going to be people in their twenties who grew up watching these shows.

I remember when there were rumors of a reboot of the Cartoon Network series “The Powerpuff Girls.” I was so excited, but when the day came I was disappointed to find that the characters were drawn different, and they looked hideous. Obviously the reboot didn’t last long.

I would say one of the best reboots or spinoffs Nickelodeon did a good job on was taking “The Rugrats” series and making them tweens in the series “All Grown Up”.

I’m glad Nickelodeon has finally awakened and realized that what they’re showing today isn’t half as good as what they were showing twenty years ago.

I believe the older reboots could boost Nickeolodeon’s ratings, given that the reboots can live up to the original shows.