The shows they have on television these days are absolute crap. Not only do they fail in promoting positive values, but they actually encourage poor behavior.
Did you know that Spongebob's only education is Boating School? He flips hamburgers for a living. He failed boating school, and he works in the underwater equivalent of McDonald's. And he lives alone. Has no wife or girlfriend whatsoever. This is the example that my kids are subjected to every day after school?
I wish they could watch the cartoons I did when I was growing up. When we listened to our parents. Before video games were so prevalent. When we used to go out and excercise once in a while. When there were good, old-fashioned, healthy cartoons like the Flintstones, whose characters maintained solid family relationships and worked hard for a living.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I Hate My Kids' Cartoons These Days
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I feel your pain, my friend. So few good, solid role models these days. All I can offer to you is to point your children toward music. And no, not the pop variety that have corrupted the likes of Brittany, but good, solid, easy listening music. Like, say, Yacht Rock. Stay smooth, Ortho. Stay smooth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U
Spongebob is at least creative and funny, AND underwater! Remember the Smurfs? I think that Spongebob's situtation as a single, chill, underwater, crabbie patty artist is much preferable to, say, hefty Smurf's lot in life with only one female around for the entire 99.9% male population of Smurfs to smurf. That is pretty smurfing sick if you ask me.
Fred Flinstone was a chauvinist, AND you shouldn't rely on TV to teach your kids values. That's what cults are for.
Venture Brothers teaches great values.
I would have fucked the shit out of Cheetara. And the chick from Speedbuggy. Mechanic chicks are hot.
DP
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