What happened to cartoons and kids?

When I was a kid growing up in the 80’s and 90’s I grew up on Looney Tunes, Garfield, the Muppet Show (I know it wasn’t a cartoon). But what is this crap they show today? At least Looney Tunes often had a moral to the story and was even somewhat educational with the classical music that would play in the background. I always noticed the music because I played many of those songs for the 10 years I played violin so maybe I am the only one who really cares. But these cartoons today are just junk and I think many of them downright damaging the kids. God forbid a cartoon aires on television with characters like Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd running around shooting guns! “That just be too violent!” some parent would say, while letting their daughter dress like a whore at age 8 or their son listen to gangster rap music.

Don’t even get me started on how kids (especially the females) dress today…That’s a whole other post.

I thought a lot of shows like Teen Titans and Ultimate Spiderman etc were really violent.

All kids should watch Ren & Stimpy.

I, too, yearn for the days when Captain Planet showed me the evils of driving a car or producing goods in a factory! How would I have turned out if the Gummi Bears had not taught me the romantic simplicity of medieval peasant life? Plus, nobody conveyed the benefits of collectivism better than the Smurfs!

In all seriousness, even though today’s shows are lame by any standard, the amount of malevolent universe premises we were bombarded with as children is just stunning. Even He-Man struck me as quite the monarchist.