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Quote from: Solars Toy on December 05, 2013, 05:19:54 AM


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Hmm... so that's my problem.   

Personally, I blame those little thugs in Howdy Doody's Peanut Gallery...and Kukla, Fran & Ollie. Terrorists, I tell ya --- terrorists.

Most of the classic Warner Brother's cartoons weren't made for kids.  They were played at movie houses, often before the feature.  The Flintstones was a prime time TV show.  Cartoons just sort of gravitated into Saturday mornings and being thought of as "kid stuff."

Eventually, the classic cartoons got censored - for some reason.  Nowadays there is a lot of stuff made specifically for children, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.  Kids might like to watch that kind of incredibly dumbed-down stuff, but it's not good for what should be a developing brain to wallow in that crap.  Grownups can enjoy silliness, and children SHOULD have entertainment that's a little more advanced than they are.  After The Incredibles came out, pretty much everyone I know asked:  "Why don't they make more movies like that?"  Anything that parents and their kids can enjoy together is guaranteed box office gold, but most people in Hollywood avoid it like the plague.

When people say the word "adult" entertainment, people always think of pornography.  But that's really not adult; it's adolescent fantasy. That's the part that used to be left out of mass entertainment, but now it's what everything seems to revolve around.

Quote from: kopema on December 05, 2013, 08:58:19 AM
Most of the classic Warner Brother's cartoons weren't made for kids.  They were played at movie houses, often before the feature.  The Flintstones was a prime time TV show.  Cartoons just sort of gravitated into Saturday mornings and being thought of as "kid stuff."

Eventually, the classic cartoons got censored - for some reason.  Nowadays there is a lot of stuff made specifically for children, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.  Kids might like to watch that kind of incredibly dumbed-down stuff, but it's not good for what should be a developing brain to wallow in that crap.  Grownups can enjoy silliness, and children SHOULD have entertainment that's a little more advanced than they are.  After The Incredibles came out, pretty much everyone I know asked:  "Why don't they make more movies like that?"  Anything that parents and their kids can enjoy together is guaranteed box office gold, but most people in Hollywood avoid it like the plague.

When people say the word "adult" entertainment, people always think of pornography.  But that's really not adult; it's adolescent fantasy. That's the part that used to be left out of mass entertainment, but now it's what everything seems to revolve around.

I like many kinds of music, including classical, and I would have to say that my initial exposure to classical music came watching the old Warner Bros. cartoons. (To this day, I cannot hear certain passages of classical orchestration without seeing images of Bugs Bunny tormenting that fat conductor with the unruly shirtfront.  ) And you're right -- much of the humor, even many of the sight gags and much of the slapstick was geared to entertain adults.

The Flintstones -- a pretty obvious takeoff on the old Honeymooners -- was also geared somewhat toward an older audience, and there were also the Jetsons and Jonny Quest, although we're drifting somewhat downward in quality and sophistication. All were shown in "prime time," but as early as possible, back when prime time network programming began at 7:30 instead of today's 8:00.