I adore toons. I mean, who doesn't.
They represent an epoch of innocence that only lasts about 10 years where each and every story kicks off with 'Once upon a time ' and concludes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or hilarious characters in the vein of Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot hound Muttley, with that cheeky bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's gusto for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME bombs, and Pepe Le Pew's incessant sexual charges at anything with a heart beat.
Come to consider it, those creative illustrators were readying us tiny critters for life in (and beyond) the play ground.
If you subtract the endearing characters, magical music and, naturally, the A.M. timeslot, you had an adult allegory of Food, Hate and Love that was spoon fed daily into captive brains with Captain Crunch, non-lite milk and that enchanting harmony of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I am not sure which was more syrupy - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Saturday morning TV sure was a proper Animal Farm. (And no, not the one you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there were that unusual family of blue beings called The Smurfs who lived in an enchanting forest and ate magical shrooms (or was that the producers of the show?). Let's never forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a load more engaging, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I think that's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that's another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you're a big kid or a small kid, toons are always lots of fun.
It doesn't matter if you happen to be watching them on the telly or watching s skilled cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or a creative doodle can take us all back to that golden time of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
They represent an epoch of innocence that only lasts about 10 years where each and every story kicks off with 'Once upon a time ' and concludes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or hilarious characters in the vein of Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot hound Muttley, with that cheeky bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's gusto for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME bombs, and Pepe Le Pew's incessant sexual charges at anything with a heart beat.
Come to consider it, those creative illustrators were readying us tiny critters for life in (and beyond) the play ground.
If you subtract the endearing characters, magical music and, naturally, the A.M. timeslot, you had an adult allegory of Food, Hate and Love that was spoon fed daily into captive brains with Captain Crunch, non-lite milk and that enchanting harmony of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I am not sure which was more syrupy - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Saturday morning TV sure was a proper Animal Farm. (And no, not the one you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there were that unusual family of blue beings called The Smurfs who lived in an enchanting forest and ate magical shrooms (or was that the producers of the show?). Let's never forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a load more engaging, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I think that's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that's another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you're a big kid or a small kid, toons are always lots of fun.
It doesn't matter if you happen to be watching them on the telly or watching s skilled cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or a creative doodle can take us all back to that golden time of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
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