FFA #20

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I haven't watched Saturday morning cartoons in years. When I got home from my mission, I worked or slept on Saturday mornings; When I got married and had TV, I had better things to do on a Saturday morning; and we haven't had TV reception for 3 last years. Well, I guess this is a well-timed FFA because we just started getting TV last month. But, I still hadn't watched Saturday morning cartoons so I got up this morning, watched as much as I could stand (about 7 1/2 minutes) and now I'm writing my post.

One thing I learned is that they have gotten very unoriginal and are ripping off what used to be good cartoons. Such as Strawberry Shortcake...
and Care Bears.They are also ripping off cartoons that should have been left to die in the 90s like Sonic the Hedgehog.

And making scary computer animated cartoons out of things that were never meant to be cartoons and come out, well, kind or creepy, like Animalia.

I don't know if cartoons have gotten stupid or I've gotten less stupid (though I'm skeptical about the second one). I guess with age comes an awareness that no matter how hard you try you will never look as good in florescent pink as Jem. The biggest mystery to me is how we regressed from the likes of Jem, She-ra, Diana the acrobat and Velma to The Bratz. Something is very, very wrong there.



How did we go from encouraging our daughters to be intelligent, capable women to dressing like prostitutes and being spoiled brats? The other really sad thing about Saturday morning cartoons is that the networks have completely given up on the really cool public service announcements that I used to love and have turned into pushers of terrible food and really dumb toys.



On another note, one of the best Cd's I've ever owned was a bunch of covers of Saturday morning cartoon theme songs. Blind Melon made a great cover of Three is the Magic Number. How do kids these days learn anything without School House Rocks?

I'm also very confused. I don't know if I was still half asleep when I turned the television on but I could have sworn there was a Hungry, Hungry Hippo commercial on that looked like it was 20 years old.

So, there are my half-coherent thoughts on Saturday morning cartoons. Writing this post made me want to wear pajamas all morning and eat Lucky Charms.