ZeroSpace posted: " What's your favorite cartoon? I don't watch cartoons now, unless I'm having the rare weed high or magic mushroom session and B finds a good cartoon for that end. But, I enjoy reflecting on the evolution of cartoons from the time I was a very young" ZeroSpace
I don't watch cartoons now, unless I'm having the rare weed high or magic mushroom session and B finds a good cartoon for that end.
But, I enjoy reflecting on the evolution of cartoons from the time I was a very young child to the point of pre-teen age. Because the nature of cartoons changed rapidly, and continued to evolve when my young nieces - between five and ten years younger than me - were still watching cartoons that I would catch glimpses of even though I was now in middle school and stopped watching.
When I was 4 and 5, I was obsessed with The Last Unicorn. It had only been released a few years prior. I remember watching it obsessively, I probably asked to watch it every day.
The Last Unicorn was beautiful and engaging, but this was definitely some heavy content for a very young child. We were being taught what was coming, really. The king was one depressed mother fucker. All the characters were sad. Seriously. But, absolutely gorgeous in terms of art and soundtrack.
It was emblematic of a lot of cartoons we were shown. HeMan and SheRa. Serious medieval shit. The artists were hippies. I can never forget that Snoopy special with a psychedelic scene. I have no idea what that scene was supposed to be about, but looking back clearly the Peanuts characters were tripping in the woods. Ha. If I knew the title, I'd find it and watch it again.
A lot of weird shit in the late 70's and early 80's. But, we didn't register it as "weird" because children that young cannot think that way yet. You just take everything you see at face value and you're writing a ton of new information on your brand new squishy hard drive.
I remember a lot of being perplexed, and a lot of learning. Vague memory of Jem and the Holograms. Shit like that.
Then came the late 80's, early 90's and you've got this new generation of cartoons. A little more worldly and sarcastic. Darkwing Duck. Tiny Toons. The Batman cartoon. Something with chipmunks. But not Alvin and the Chimpmunks, because that was it's own thing and I loved that too.
After school cartoons from when I was 11 and 12. I can remember watching for a good 3 hours after school, probably all the way until dinner time.
We did not get cable until I was like 15 and didn't watch cartoons at all, so some of these legacy cable cartoons from that time are things I missed out on.
But I know that children's cartoons continued to get more obnoxious. Child cartoon characters talking shit to adult cartoon characters. Stuff like that. Probably geared more toward the older child set. Basically teaching them to be little assholes. Ha.
There was also the iconic Disney movies. I was a child for The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast. All that shit, and we all loved it.
I can't imagine what cartoons are like now.
Weirdest cartoon ever was the bipolar cartoon frog. Man. No idea what Era that was, but that damned frog was bipolar. Obviously. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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