To be honest I think the only difference between what us children from the 80’s consider classics and the modern era is that we are older, more aware of how the entertainment industry works and we’ve got the internet to prove our conspiracy theories.

I’m pretty sure those from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 90’s and 00’s have a similar delusion that their time was the best.
Besides … everyone knows the 80’s where the best ever decade for music.
It was the birth of MTV (when that channel actually had music instead of crappy scripted reality shows).
Videoclips from that era still attempted to tell a story (Michael Jacksons’ being the most expensive and story-like).

@mage : I haven’t decided yet. I want the spider grots ’cause spiders are flockin’ scary, but the models themselves lack variety.
Might start with a troll herd and build from there.

There are a few ‘modern’ cartoons I kind of like.
Never quite got into the ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ hype, but a few episodes are fun.

Phineas & Ferb were interesting. Milo Murphy’s law isn’t too bad (and with Weird Al Yankovic being involved I do need to find the original version instead of the localized one).
Althoug best of the new breed has to be the reinvented Scooby Doo (‘Mystery Inc’), which added a lot of backstory to the gang and their reason for solving mysteries.

And then there’s a cartoon that somehow got past Disney’s happyness enforcement machines : Gravity Falls.
Two seasons filled with mystery and a story arc that has a good ending.
Definitely fun for grown ups as well as kids.

btw : no plague doctors … that’s more like Venetian Carnevale 😉
It’s more like Halloween, except with more emphasis on fun (clowns, pirates, cowboys, and unicorns, and all sorts of crazy stuff) and no horror.

Brexit was kind of a theme for a few groups :

A royal trying to lose a few pounds before Brexit :

Bye bye my love :