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Why must the only choices in childrens' television be brain-draining
Spongebob or 3D digitally animated educational shows like Dinosaur
Train? I say bring back shows like Johnny Quest, Batman, Spiderman,
X-Men, GI Joes, Transformers, Space Ghost, etc. Give 'em a face lift,
perhaps a touch of
modernity,
but NO 3D digital animation, and no
educational agenda. Kids do not need to be taught at every minute of
their lives. Sometimes they just need to be entertained.
Yeah yeah, MFD advocacy I guess...
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rant. Not that I disagree, mind. |
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I plan on buying or creating DVDs of Bugs. Cartoons without a good soundtrack are a travesty, and most cartoons on these days are either disgustingly horrid in quality or annoyance factor or too cutesy for words. |
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I agree with everything you just said, Ray. |
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I have 5 children, under 11 yrs old. I agree fully. They
are just kids. Why do half these new shows try to
pretend to teach them something (Dora), and the
other half try to melt their little brains (SpongeBob)? |
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They still play old cartoons right? I grew up watching 50 year old reruns of bugs bunny and the other good ones. |
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// They still play old cartoons right?//
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Not so much anymore, no. I grew up on
those same re-runs, but too many people
have blamed school shootings on them they
simply aren't playing those shows as often
these days. |
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Whereas i get that they shouldn't ram facts down viewers' throats, they would automatically be educational because the nature of reality is instructive. For instance, a child might learn animation tricks or how a gripping story works. I like the idea though. |
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My kids have recently been watching old Noggin the Nog videos. Classic 1970's animation with great stories and Oliver Postgate's beautiful narration. |
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That's good old-fashioned cartoonery if ever I saw it. Tis indeed a
fortunate lad wot grows up on Noggin the Nog. |
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Batfink. Whayever happened to Batfink? |
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Today's cartoons are made by adults to children.Old cartoons were made by children in adult bodies.
When the motivation is the money, art always lose. |
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Well the target audience is different, as well. Cartoons such as
Bugs Bunny were not originally intended for children, they were
made to entertain other adults and it just so happened kids
loved 'em. Now they're actually targeting them at children, and
they erroneously feel a need to dumb it down for them. Or so it
seems. |
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Personally, I don't think things have changed.
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I think they always made crap cartoons. Scooby Doo. Tom and Jerry. Popeye.
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They sometimes made good ones too, like Bugs Bunny.
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I also think that some cartoons today are also pretty good. Mighty Bees, Johnny Test, The Fairly Oddparents. |
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Popeye and Tom & Jerry were some of the good ones, in my
opinion. I also liked Fairly Odd Parents, along with Dexter's Lab,
but didn't that show end a few years ago? |
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I used to like Popeye and Tom and Jerry back when I was 7. If I look at them today though, I think they are terrible. |
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//didn't that show end a few years ago?// 2003. |
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Cartoon characters in the past used to smoke, drink
liquor,(Elmer Fudd), and were always trying to
murder each other. Cruella de Vil tried killing and
skinning puppies. Peter Pan was very sexist to
Wendy early in the movie.
If I talked the way any of these characters spoke,
even for a day, I would be sentenced to 5 yrs. at
least.
I say even Sponge Bob is a major improvement! |
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21, You make someone good father sometime. + |
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Cartoons used to be based on a simple algorithm: "if you're bad then somebody will drop an anvil on your head".
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Most of today's childrens' offerings seem to be mostly hypnotoad based. |
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@ Brian, Elmer Fudd was also portrayed as a bumbling moron,
and the antagonist of the story. Bugs Bunny made carrots seem
cool. When I was a child, I used to munch on carrots saying
'Eh... what's up up Doc?'. I'd say the show set a very healthy
example. Cruella DeVille was undisputably
a villain, and nowhere was it said the pups would be skinned
alive. Horace was going to club them to death with a chair leg,
and THEN Jasper was going to skin them, and these were
clearly
not characters the viewer was intended to emulate. Peter Pan
was uneducated and uncouth due to having no parents to teach
him right from wrong, and he learned the proper respect to
show Wendy, as did all the other Lost Boys. The film was about
the importance of having a mother figure in the family unit, and
Peter had the sense to see that his family (the Lost Boys)
needed
one.
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Thanks Bliss, it's tough sometimes. |
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I used to live near Oliver Postgate as a child. He was just over the other side of the woods, i think, but that sounds a little like a children's story so i might not remember it correctly. Him and James Bond. |
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