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The Disappearance of Saturday Morning

Posted by timothy on from the where's-your-brain-slug dept.

Ant writes "Saturday morning no longer means kids in front of TV sets across the country, glued to the latest in hip cartoons. Why? Gerard Raiti investigates the death of an era." As a former Saturday morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.

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  1. Re:What about classic cartoons? by graveyhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    These cartoons were written for adult audiences. The early Tom & Jerry cartoons were the same way. In fact, they used to air these during USO shows for army troops abroad. That's why they are still funny, even when you watch them again as an adult. There are puns all kinds of other humor in there that I'm sure kids miss (I did).

    Anyways it seems to me like sometime in the early seventies, they started making them more kid-oriented (hence Scoobie-Doo, Flinstones, Jetsons, et.al.) and therefore not as all around entertaining.

    Anime, as you suggest, is the only thing that comes close because it doesn't pretend to be a product for kids.

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  2. Re:What about classic cartoons? by ChrisTower · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anime, as you suggest, is the only thing that comes close because it doesn't pretend to be a product for kids.

    That's a very common misconception. While the audience might be a bit older here in the states, most of the anime we get is targeted at middle school students in japan.

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