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    Cartoons used to be hillarious. Now they’re just… boring if you ask me. I stopped watching CN after Steven Universe started, that was the last straw, I just couldn’t watch any more of that BS.

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      Have you ever watched any of The Amazing World of Gumball?

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        OMG, I forgot about that one, lol 😂. Yeah, from these new shows, that is one is most defintely worth it, love Gumball ☺️.

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      Steven Universe started out seeming goofy, but turned out to be a fantastic coming of age story though; Genuinely one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Excellent world building and does a great job of handling complicated emotional topics without infantilizing the viewer.

      If you only saw the first couple of episodes, you should definitely give it a proper watch. If nothing else, give the song “Here Comes a Thought” a listen, I assure you it’s worth the time investment

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        I just don’t like it, too serious for my taste, not enough humor, and the little humor it does have, it’s borderline funny. The main reson I don’t like it is exactly that, it’s like a self help show. I wanna be entertained, not drown in depression elaborating emotions. My wife does that, I have enough of that in my life, don’t need a show to do that as well.

        Basically, I want humor in cartoons. IMO, they’re made to entertain, period. Some of the old shows may not have had adequate humor for children, granted (though I think it depends on the child, I’ve watched most of those shows while growing up and IMO they were all great), but that doesn’t mean they weren’t funny. They were hillarious. Cartoons nowadays are too serious, always mixing emotions and how to deal with them. My guess is that parrents noways wanna leave this educational aspect of the child to the TV too, so my guess is that kids watch these things cuz they don’t get any input from their parrents regarding these complicated subjects.

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          I can understand not liking it, given your explanation.

          My main thing is that I can’t really stand shows that have no substance - I’d much rather have shows that I can watch together with my 7yo and have things to call back to when we’re having our own disagreements and conversations.

          I can definitely see there being parents out there who would rather let the TV parent though, and shows like this one enabling them… but on the other hand, I also think that’s a positive for the shows. Bad parents are going to be bad parents, so at least in those cases a kid can at least find some kind of role model.

          Either way, different strokes and all that. Hope you’ve managed to find some good ones to watch these days!

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            My main thing is that I can’t really stand shows that have no substance - I’d much rather have shows that I can watch together with my 7yo and have things to call back to when we’re having our own disagreements and conversations.

            I do that with movies with my son, not cartoons. I want things with substance too, but not in cartoons and not too much of it (in cartoons I mean). Sure, a nice thought here and there, that’s OK, but elaborate digging into emotional subjects, that’s not for cartoons IMO.

            I can definitely see there being parents out there who would rather let the TV parent though, and shows like this one enabling them… but on the other hand, I also think that’s a positive for the shows. Bad parents are going to be bad parents, so at least in those cases a kid can at least find some kind of role model.

            That is true I guess… as much as I’d hate to admit it…

            Either way, different strokes and all that. Hope you’ve managed to find some good ones to watch these days!

            Not really, I kinda gave up… plus, I’m way too busy rasing the kid now, so I just watch Discovery Science to relax now. Kinda contradictory, I know, lol 😂.

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              I totally understand being too busy lol - I’ve barely watched anything besides the stuff that I watch with my kiddo ever since she was born, makes total sense

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                Yep, first time I watched a movie in… 🤔, oh about 4 years I guess, was this weekend… and I fell asleep half way through the movie 😒. What can I say, I was tired 🤷… I’m getting old I guess.

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                  I’m getting old I guess.

                  Yeah, I feel that too. I was nodding off last night sitting next to my wife while she played Zelda on our home theater. Crazy how parenting does that to us, eh?

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                    Yeah 😂. To be honest, it looks like simple things, like they ask simple questions and the answers are usually not that hard to answer, but the volume of the questions, OMG 😂. At the end of the day you’re just tired, mentally mostly, but still, you’re tired nonetheless.

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      I thought Rick & Morty was amazing for the first season and then I saw the man behind the curtain. They had no idea what they were doing, huh.

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        Yep, forgot about that one, Rick and Morty rocks, but no new episodes are being produced as far as I know. Gumball, Rick and Morty, they are most definitely worth it.

        It’s kinda like Beavis and Butthead for kids, lol 😂.

        Why do you think they had no idea what they’re doing?