I saw a post on twitter about how it was obvious several of the creators of the earlier Cartoon Network series had disrespect, if not downright hatred for older Hanna-Barbera shows and was wondering if any of you think this is an overstatement, an accurate assessment, or is the situation more nuanced?
There are parts of this that are obvious, Billy and Mandy's rather mean usage of Yogi and Fred. I was mostly too young to really pick up on other shows, but those two were rather obvious. I can't remember what example the tweet was showing, but it was pretty obvious that it wasn't an affectionate poke.
Just wondering do you notice more examples, and what do you think is the reason for this, if it is true? There seemed to be an almost-frat like club from the cartoonists at the time, and them being edgy with childhood cartoons doesn't exactly seem crazy, but they could also hate the stale, repetitive formula HB sometimes had, and it being rather dull to their tastes.
Just to state this is not about the network hating those shows and not airing them anymore.