What cartoons are you against?
By tanniebabe78
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
United States
May 24, 2008 11:57am CST
I really am against my kids watching anything that is very violent (I think Danny Phantom is a little violent for a 5 year old) and anything that makes fun of less than smart or even too smart kids (Jimmy Neutron or Fairly Oddparents). Basically anything that teaches superiority or violence. What I don't get is they took off Bugs Bunny, but Danny Phantom is ok, because they shoot green goobers at each other, rather than rocketing off a cliff.
I guess this is why we don't have cable. I prefer PBS. At least they get education and learn how to treat others right. What is Nickelodeon thinking?
4 responses
@chrysz (1602)
• Philippines
25 May 08
Sponge bob is showing that violence is something funny. there are lots of cartoons that appears to be funny but they are indeed violent or violence is always a way of gaining justice. One example is Little Red Riding Hood in which the Granny was eaten by the wolf and the woodcutter cut the stomach of the wolf.
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
26 May 08
This is very true. Violence has always been cast in a funny light by cartoonists. It is another reason I love PBS.
@chrysz (1602)
• Philippines
26 May 08
We don't have PBS here in the Philippines so I'd rather let her wwatch Discovery and NAt Geo but we must be around when she sees it so we can explain things that makes her wonder. She's into Disney channel and Nickelodeon but most of the time, I don't want her watch NIck alone.
@rovian (1924)
• United States
24 May 08
I do not like a lot of the current airing cartoons, such as Spongebob, Faily Oddparents, Chowder, and others. I don't know but it seems like cartoonists do not want to try anymore so they create simple cartoons with very low IQ characters and not funny humor.
When I was a kid, Nickelodeon was different. It had shows like David the Gnome, and Mr. Wizard.
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
24 May 08
The degree of humor is subjective. Younger kids don't need much humor to get hooked. They just need stupid antics. I have watched Spongebob and actually felt my brain cells dying. No joke. I felt like my IQ dropped a few points. I admit we had our dumb shows (thinking Can't Do That On Television) but we weren't innundated with them like we are now.
@kaysue4 (951)
• United States
24 May 08
Geez, most of the new ones I don't want my boys watching. Let's see, Family Guy, Adult Swim, Simpsons, are just a few.
We don't have cable or it would be worst. Now my kids will sit and watch the older ones that we have on DVD and they are teenages now.
When they were little I would have them watch PBS also.
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
24 May 08
I agree. Cartoon programming is a mess these days. To be fair though, ones like Family Guy and the like aren't geared toward kids. Nickelodeon daytime cartoons are. Things like Spongebob and Fairly Oddparents. Both of those shows are stupid. And they teach that treating others badly is funny.
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
24 May 08
I really don't count the ones that are on prime time. After all the kids are in bed by then. Although if I remember right FX has them on rerun during a time they are awake, so I guess it would still apply.
I just don't get why our old cartoons are any more or less violent than todays. Seems to me they are the same, and they teach kids to misbehave as well as dumb them down.
