What Happened to Cartoons?

  Well have you ever wondered what happened to the old cartoon shows you used to watch when you were a kid and found it funny and now when you look back at it they just look stupid and boring? A good example of this would be SpongeBob; a cartoon in which everyone has seen some point in time. This cartoon for me was a lot of my childhood. I liked SpongeBob and Patrick because they were fun an childish so I actually felt a connection with them, but I hated Squidward because he was basically boring and lame (an adult). Now the show did have some not pg  and a little strange things like

and these I found funny when I was a child, but looking back on it I still kind of think it is a little funny, but not as funny as it once was. Another show that used to be every adults favorite cartoon when they were a kid was Tom and Jerry. That show was pretty cool to see when I was a child and even now (kinda). I remember waking up early in the morning to watch old episodes of it on cartoon network and just waiting to see how Jerry gets Tom into trouble and how much the writers can show them getting beaten up by each other. I enjoyed watching pianos fall on top of their heads and watching how many times their body gets distorted.

This show still holds up and will continue to be one of the best cartoons in history. Then there are some cartoons that just look and sound stupid like Uncle Grandpa. The one time I watched this show is when my younger cousin came over. The show has a big headed "thing" that keeps saying good morning and sounds like he has down syndrome. The real problem to me is not the fact that has down syndrome, but the fact that they put him in display and make him do stupid things for kids to laugh. This makes me feel like the people who made him just for cheap laughs at the expense of people who had down syndrome. Of course there could be other reasons they made him that way, but I mean common... you watch the show and you would clearly see what I'm talking about. Another gripe I have with this show is that the main character is called uncle grandpa... UNCLE GRANDPA. This to me is just plan weird and not funny at all. If you really don't see the problem with that then let me explain a little better. He has down syndrome because he was born through incest and there feeding this to kids. This show to me is just a bad idea and I really don't expect it to be on the air for long, but there have been other shows that many people think is horrible but lasted a fairly long time.

This brings me to my main point which is either we got older and the things that are funny to us as a child may not be funny to us now or the shows are just being poorly written and drawn. Also we seem to be in a more pg era of television were all the violence and "bad words" are being taken out or not allowed to be out on air. The shows that we once watched like Samurai Jack, Code name Kids Next Door, Hat Arnold, Cat Dog, and even older shows like Tom and Jerry seem to be as good as it gets in terms of cartoons. There are new cartoon shows that seem to be doing pretty good like Regular Show and Adventure Time. In Regular Show it is anything but that. The show even tried putting a twist on the so called rule of no cursing when the two main characters said something like" what the h" and" how are we going to fix this s?" ( might not be exactly the way they said it, but you get the point) The characters also say other things and the people who draw the characters draw them in a certain way to make teenagers and adults laugh as well while still leaving the kids unaware of what we are noticing. The other show Adventure Time takes seems to take place in a post apocalyptic world were everything seems to be distorted like the main princess who is made out of bubble gum and rules a kingdom where candy people live.


 So like I said before I don't really watch television all that often anymore so you may be a better judge then I am so I leave you with these questions
What cartoons do you like?
Do you even still watch cartoons? If not why?