I like cartoons. I mean, who does not.
It is an era of innocence that only lasts about a decade where every story begins with 'Once upon a time ' and finishes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or classic characters like Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot dog Muttley, with that unmistakable bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's penchant for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME explosives, and Pepe Le Pew's ceaseless romantic advances towards anything with a pulse.
Come to think of it, those crafty artists were preparing us little ankle biters for life in (and beyond) the school grounds.
If you subtract the endearing characters, magical music and, naturally, the A.M. timeslot, you had an adult allegory of Food, Hate and Love that was spoon fed daily into captive brains with Captain Crunch, non-lite milk and that enchanting harmony of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I'm not sure which was more saccharine - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Weekend morning telly sure was a veritable Animal Farm. (And no, not the one I'm sure you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from cartoons - way before The Facts Of Life was first aired in the late 70's!
Then there was also that strange group of blue characters called The Smurfs who lived in a magical forest and ate miraculous fungi (or was that the creators of the show?). Let's bear in mind this was way before The Blue Man Group - and lots more interesting, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I believe here's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that is another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you are a big kid or a tiny kid, cartoons are always tons of fun.
It isn't relevant if you are watching them on TV or watching a professional cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or an inventive doodle can take us all back to that golden period of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
It is an era of innocence that only lasts about a decade where every story begins with 'Once upon a time ' and finishes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or classic characters like Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot dog Muttley, with that unmistakable bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's penchant for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME explosives, and Pepe Le Pew's ceaseless romantic advances towards anything with a pulse.
Come to think of it, those crafty artists were preparing us little ankle biters for life in (and beyond) the school grounds.
If you subtract the endearing characters, magical music and, naturally, the A.M. timeslot, you had an adult allegory of Food, Hate and Love that was spoon fed daily into captive brains with Captain Crunch, non-lite milk and that enchanting harmony of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I'm not sure which was more saccharine - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Weekend morning telly sure was a veritable Animal Farm. (And no, not the one I'm sure you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from cartoons - way before The Facts Of Life was first aired in the late 70's!
Then there was also that strange group of blue characters called The Smurfs who lived in a magical forest and ate miraculous fungi (or was that the creators of the show?). Let's bear in mind this was way before The Blue Man Group - and lots more interesting, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I believe here's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that is another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you are a big kid or a tiny kid, cartoons are always tons of fun.
It isn't relevant if you are watching them on TV or watching a professional cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or an inventive doodle can take us all back to that golden period of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
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