A Post From Endgame On Toonami’s death…

I got this from an inside source, but apparently, Ted Turner himself gave this eulogy at Toonami’s funeral:

All shows are not created equal. Some are born higher of budget, some with greater length, some are born into bad time slots, and others born lacking in quality and viewers. Both in birth and in programming block, in sheer scope of ratings, every show is inherently different! Yes, that is why networks discriminate against one another, which is why there is struggle, competition, and the unfaltering march of progress! INEQUALITY, is not wrong, EQUALITY is!

What of Toon Disney which made equality a right? Rabble politics by a popularity contest! Nickelodeon with its equal distribution of time slots? A network of lazy dullards! But not our beloved Cartoon Network! We fight, we compete, evolution is continuous! Cartoon Network alone moves forward, advancing steadily into the future. Even the death of my son Toonami demonstrates Cartoon Network’s unswerving commitment to ratings. We will fight on! We shall struggle, compete, plunder and dominate! And the end, the future shall be ours!

ALL HAIL CARTOON NETWORK!

at this point, my source tells me the entire room started chanting “ALL HAIL CARTOON NETWORK!“

using the death of a programming block to trash talk the enemy channels, eh? real classy of Turner…..

seriously, I know it hasn’t exactly been that great as of late, but I’m sure all of us here grew up on Toonami, it DID pretty much introduce us to anime (if Pokémon didn’t first), and….. well, now we won’t have much to really talk about on this board unless we decide to try to adopt Sci-Fi’s anime block or something…..

RIP Toonami
1997-2008