Cartoon Network didn't exist when I was watching Nickelodeon.
By the time Cartoon Network did exist, I was way too old to watch either (apart from Adult Swim).
But I'll take USA over either. Mainly for this:
https://youtu.be/H3sjItu_Ohg?t=106
sull56ivan2010 posted...
I think you have to look at it from a pre-1999 perspective a little on whether you like Hanna-Barbara style shows. Here's my hot take. I don't think Cartoon Network original content was good until the early 2000's when they started having stuff like Kids Next Door and Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
I'm kind of in the opposite boat. The old Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons were the only thing I ever really liked on Cartoon Network. When they split them all off to put them on Boomerang, I was way more likely to watch that than CN.
I did occasionally catch a few episodes of KND (it was fine), and I watched Justice League when they had it, but for the most part all their newer stuff was aimed too low for me to ever latch onto. As for Grim and Mandy, I always preferred Evil Con Carne and was kind of annoyed that it wasn't the one that caught on. Though to be fair, it's not as if I was hugely into either one. Like with KND, it was more a case that I'd occasionally catch an episode here or there.
The main appeal for me was always Adult Swim. Unfortunately, when they started running out of redubbed/remake Hanna-Barbera cartoons (like Sealab and Harvey Birdman), and Aqua Teens started getting played out (the jokes really started getting tired somewhere around season 4), I kind of lost interest. I don't think I've watched anything on the channel for like 10+ years now.
By the end the last few shows I was watching on it at all was stuff like Saul of the Molemen and NTSF:SD:SUV.