Old Cartoons
In just an hour or so of watching old cartoons on Boomerang (old meaning, 30's - 60's produced) I mentally tallied a few stark differences between the cartoons of now and those of old. On the Pink Panther I DVR'ed, there were about five scenes containing guns, including one fired at the Pink Panther's head at point blank range, rendering him grey-headed and exploded, one cigarette (smoked by the gunman), and some scant sexual references to can-can girls (by the Inspector), and even a suicidal duckling on an old Tom and Jerry I caught who attempted a self-gullotine with a giant ax on a string.
So the question is, then, how come we watched all this and there were few to no school shootings back then? Why did public violence seem to increase in an inverse relationship to the amount of violence that was fretted over and strained from kids' tv in the 80's and 90's? Now new cartoons are mostly a contest to see who's more badly drawn or the most insane. Where is Tipper Gore now, when we really need her to get Ed, Edd and Eddy and Invader Zim off the air???
I do like Pokemon though. Pikaaaaaaaaaaaaaaachuuuuuuuu! ;)
Comments
Anyway...
I think it's fine, Helga. Many's the time I want to tell a kid who's got someone bothering him "just one good punch to the face... one good hard one" but alas I can't.
Jigglypuff is my favorite, though, Violet. Although I suppose I wouldn't want to see those BIG GREEN EYES floating above me of a morning.
Small Wonder was in fact certifiably creeptified, Latty.
What's the best thing on it?
The Justice League. Horribile sixites animation. Horribile voice overs. HOrribile sories...ahhhhh yaaaaa... ;)
Steve~
I'm liking the Boomerang, too, Steve, despite its corrupting violence.
The best thing a parent can do for thier kids is be a good parent. Unfortunatly far too few of them these days seem to want to put in the effort.
ahhh for when life was simpler.