Is there anything wrong with adults watching children's TV?

[templedog]

Cartoons now days try to absorb kids parents too for more $$$$ at the toy stores. So they sometimes throw jokes in there that only parents or older people can understand.

But yes, it is wrong to watch them alone....go read a book.

[Joe The Dude]

Anything that is not serious, and/or does not advance the whole of mankind, is evil, and therefore should be banned.






THINK OF THE CHILDREN!






:P (I'm kidding)

[SatStorm]

With the same logic, videogames are only for Kids too. And there was a time, some years ago, that our parents use to say that.
Do they dare to tell this today? No: They probably own a Wii or something themselfs now.

Anyway: I'm almost 35. I watch only 3 things on TV: Anime/Cartoons, Porn and Music Videos.
Never had a problem to watch those things with a girlfriend too (all ages included...). Most liked the idea in fact.

AFAIK, during the golden age of the American cartoons, back in the 30s and the 40s, cartoons wasn't made for Kids. Only Disney made cartoon for Kids. So blame Disney for the later situation.

The warner cartoons, the Fleisher studio cartoons, and the majority of Walter Lantz and the MGM cartoons from the late 30s/early-mid 40s, was all adult oriented. It was the 50s that killed the theatrical adult cartoons in USA but not on TV.
The 60s American cartoons for television, was something like illustrated radio, so they remained "adult oriented". It was animated sitcoms somehow.
But the late 60s and the 70s killed the adult cartoons totally and because of that period, we all raised today with the misconception of "Cartoons are just for Kids"

Beavis and Butthead and the Simpsons changed that during the 90s and the later South Park series manage to re-establish a "young semi-adult" market for the cartoons again. The semi adults of the 90s, are now 30somethings and are still watching them. So, we are the proof that the cartoons are not for kids.
But that wouldn't happen without the help of the silver age of cartoons, especially those from the Warners (Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain...) and the later attempts from Cartoon Network (Dexter's Laboratory, Johny Bravo, Cow & Chicken). For you in America, probably Ren & Stinky from Nickelodeon also must count. All those had hidden adult content and you can easily watch them as an adult.
Bob Square pants is a modern phenomenon that combines the need for our generation and our kids to watch cartoons together, in a TV that manage to ban Looney Toons, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, etc from the airwaves and replace them with crap. Have you all realised that there is almost a decade that we don't have access on those cartoons through regular TV worldwide?
DVDs with that material sell like cookies. I don't see kids buy them, only Adults! What that means? That those older cartoons indeed appeal to adults. Of course, it was made for adults the first place!

There is also the anime story: When the americans stopped during the 70s to create "adult" cartoons, the Japanese started! Anime created to fill that need.
I'm a great fan of Leiji Matsumoto (and I do some fansubbing on his work). His anime work dates from 1974 and you probably know the series "Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato)" which he co-created. Captain Harlock followed, Queen Millenia and Galaxy Express. Most of them never aired in USA, because of various reasons (including political ones). But they turned huge in Europe and especially France, Germany, Italy and - later - Spain.
Those that watched those anime cartoons during the 80s and 90s in Europe, today continues to watch anime, like Cowboy Beebop for example, or Ghost in a Shell. This is usual here in Europe, I don't know for USA.

The bottom line is, that for the Generation X and the Generation Next, Cartoons are like the Movies: Some are for Kids, some are for teens and some are for adults. The Baby Boomers seems to have the problem with the Cartoons, not us.

[HmNtr]

Ok, for the record, I am a father of four. I have an 18 year old boy, a 16 year old girl, a 2 year old boy and a one year old boy.

I love cartoons, and see nothing wrong with watching them even when my children are not around.

I love Family Guy, the Simpsons, Futurama, Yugioh, Digimon, Pokemon, Dragon Ball /Z/GT/AF, Wall-3, South Park, Dangermouse, Count Duckula, H and R Puff'N'Stuff, Justice league, Superman, Batman, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends (et. al.), Inuyasha, Yuyu Hakusho, Big-O, Tenchi Muyo, Robotech, Transformers, Go-Bots, Madagascar, Shrek, and tons of others...

Hell, I even did the whole Yugioh trading card game online and in tournaments, and then played on my free time with my nephews!

I don't see any problems with cartoons, especially with the way the animation is picking up, and looking more and more realistic these days!

I love watching Sesame Street with my kids, Curious George (I grew up reading those same stories myself!), and hell, I even saw the animated version of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and had to buy it for myself and am still waiting for my kids to enjoy it...heh heh heh!!!

Lord Smurf's avatar is of Poet Smurf, mine is of Cookie Monster, the moderator Yoda313's avatar is Leonardo from TMNT, Xylob the Destoyer's avatar is a combination of GI JOE and the Deceptacon's image from Transformers, and the list just keeps going on!

Think about it this way...out of the people who have replied to the message, has it ocurred to anyone that most people here in this forum have an anime or cartoon avatar?!

LMFAO! HOW IRONIC THAT WE, ARGUING ABOUT WHAT IS AND IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR ADULTS TO WATCH, ARE THE ONES WHO CREATE SUCH THINGS FOR CHILDREN TO WATCH, AND THEN DEBATE AMOUNGST OURSELVES ON WHETHER WE SHOULD WATCH THAT WHICH ANOTHER ADULT HAS CREATED?! HAHAHAH!!!

This was just too humorous to pass up!


HmNtr