Cartoon's Today Suck

Now I'm sure alot of people going to look at this and think, 'why is Quint still watching cartoons.' You know what don't worry about it, forget you man. Cartoons are awesome, or at least they used to be. Maybe this is just the complaint of a little boy, but they have seriously changed. When I was a little kid cartoons were crude and delighted in the gross and unclean. Nickelodeon's logo was splattern of some kind of slime. It had a running theme of random gush of slime and the "sliming" of people. We had cartoons like Ren and Stimpy with intensely grotesque closeups, Rocko's Modern Life where Hefer would vomit up an internal organ, Aww Real Monster with Krum holding his eyeballs in his hands and an embrace of poor personal hygene. Now everything has become so clean and filtered with error. It is condescending to the children. The cartoons of my youth trusted us to be exposed to world of deviant behavior and socially unacceptable practices. Cartoon writers were like older boys who exposed us to that secret underground world of boyhood that would be inappropriate for our parents to have taught us about. This indecency was depicted in a way that did not leave you feeling unnerved. It actually comforted you to see this comical revelry in the filth and unpretentious. It was a relaxed yet imaginative attitude without requirement and a freedom of expression and ideas. They actually have show now about a bunch of d-bag teenagers in mall and all their whiny insignificant problems.

This new pattern is true for both the content of the cartoons as well as the quality of their artwork. With the advance of technology we have lost the artist's hand. Those imperfection and fluidity are what give the work a humanity, an existence. Now it's all computer animation and that 3D crap. You lose the unique quality and style of the artist. This is what makes cartoons special and individually significant.

The last cartoon I have seen that captures the aspects of the past and strongly recommend is an Adult Swim show, Robot Jail. It is somewhat crudely drawn and extraordinally imaginative. Every episode ends with a epic blood bath battle of some of the most insanely bizarre deaths.