"Do you understand the cartoons our children are watching on T.V.?"
Feb 02 '07
The Bottom Line This is my response to a question asked over at MyLot inre: the cartoons fed to our kids here in the 21st Century.
First off--as what I'm sharing with you here originally came from MyLot, I don't think that it would be off-topic/inappropriate for me to invite you to join me there.
However, in order to make sure that there's not even a hint of TOS violations, I'm going to do this in a second-generation way by having you to copy and paste this url leading to a blog where you will find a link to MyLot and I'll get credited for referring you--and by credited, I mean getting paid in cash!
http://ajsownlot.blogspot.com/2007/02/nines-fine-but-id-like-more.html
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the discussion and parody poem below. It was my response to a question re: whether or not it was the writer's imagination that there was something very wrong with many of today's cartoons.
Don't even get me started!
Don't even get me started!
For starters, I wrote a poem about this sometime back, and I'm going to share it here. It's a parody of Bob Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll song. The original posting of it can be found here:
http://www.fanstory.com/displaystory.jsp?id=119722
Now, here's the poem...
Those Great Old Time Cartoon Shows
Just take a Looney Tune where Daffy's the star
And pop it into the old VCR.
Bring on Sylvester and cute Tweetie-Pie--
I'm gonna love them 'til the day I die!
Don't try to sell me on that anime
Where sex and violence seem to rule the day.
Bring me some Popeye and some Olive Oyl--
It's to that type of toon I wanna be loyal!
Bring on those great old time cartoon shows--
They soothe my soul like God only knows!
The nasty stuff I see these days really blows--
I want my great old time cartoon shows!
I do not want commercials posing as a show--
That's what it is and don't think I don't know!
Bring me some Donald and some Mickey, too--
They can run circles 'round that stuff that is new!
Where are Bullwinkle and Rocky these days?
Don't tell me that they've vanished in the haze.
P-p-p-porky Pig's a long-time friend,
So don't retire him 'cause you think he might offend.
Bring on those great old time cartoon shows--
They soothe my soul like God only knows!
The nasty stuff I see these days really blows--
I want my great old time cartoon shows!
I want some Yogi and some Boo-Boo, too;
Casper The Friendly Ghost and Scooby-Doo.
Where are The Flintstones--are they still around,
Or are they just too prehistoric to be found?
Let's hear old Bugsy asking, "Wot's up, Doc?",
Watch Q. Magoo drive on the sidewalk for a block.
When we compare the new cartoons to old,
One's made of cardboard and the other's solid gold!
Bring on those great old time cartoon shows--
They soothe my soul like God only knows!
The nasty stuff I see these days really blows--
I want my great old time cartoon shows!
Bring on those great old time cartoon shows--
They soothe my soul like God only knows!
The nasty stuff I see these days really blows--
I want my great old time cartoon shows!
Copyright 2006 by Ainsley Jo Phillips
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Here are some final notes on my feelings re: the so-called cartoons of today...
1. There are still some good ones out there--it's just that the market seems to be filled with that tired type of cartoon where all of the characters look quite a bit alike and the animation is terrible.
2. What the older cartoons had in the way of animation was full-body animation with a variety of poses and expressions. Today's cartoons pretty much have their animation limited to occasionally blinking their eyes and moving their mouths up and down in pretty much the same way.
3. It's been said that there are things tucked into these newer cartoons aimed at adults. It was the same with the older cartoons such as having this rooster who was singing to these hens and making them lay hundreds of eggs resemble Frank Sinatra. The hens, of course, were the swooning fans.
4. When watching some anime, I noticed how one of the little girls was dressed. She wasn't exactly dressed like a little girl but, instead reminded me of some of these women who dress up like little girls in Catholic school uniforms for kinky sex.
5. There's a difference, I think, between the kind of "violence" shown in an old-time cartoon and what is shown now. Now, it's like some kind of intense and explosive conflict going on--and it has a kind of darkness about it. Back then, it was more like slapstick--silly stuff such as Daffy Duck getting his feathers temporarily blown off by a firecracker or a growling, snarling bulldog chasing after Tom for going after Jerry.
6. Now, we had our serious cartoons where we watched them and didn't laugh while watching them, because they were meant to be a kiddie-level dramas--such as the heartopening story about The Ugly Duckling--but we didn't look as if we were being hypnotized while watching them. What I'm about to say might sound paranoid, but it's something about which to think:
Could it be that these so-called cartoons are grabbing the minds of our children and inserting some kind of subliminal message(s) in them? That might help to explain the rise in senseless, violent crimes committed by young people. Notice, if you will, the pictures they show of some of these kids, either if they're being tried as adults or else ARE young adults when the crime took place so that their pictures can be shown. Do you notice that kind of blank stare they give as if they've been hypnotized?
Some of these kids say that they were responding to the voice of the devil--but could it be that what they were actually responding to were subliminal voices fed into them by these cartoons, even years before they started engaging in violent crimes?
7. At the VERY least, these cartoons are poorly-animated, pathetically-unoriginal, and extremely-violent--not to mention serving as 30 minute commercials plugging overpriced junk. At the worst?...Who knows!?!...
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