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Are today's cartoons too vulger for children to watch?

Today my english teacher read an interesting article to us.
It was an editorial from a concerned father who feels that cartoons today are becoming crude, distastful, and unsuitable for children. His main focus was Family Guy and The Simpson's. He stated that although the shows are writen to poke fun at society and be funny. he finds nothing funny about the story lines. he then focuses more on Family Guy stating that even the simpsons have grounding characters such as Marge and Lisa, Family Guy does not. He then begins to explain that children need an example that is possitive that they can go by. he feels that America is already facing the fact that we cannot tell the difference between acceptable and unacceptable entertainment. And that television is not helping by putting sitcoms with coruption, political incorrectness, vulgarity, and bad taste onto their programs. He feels that these shows should be pulled off the air. The author longs for the time that cartoons where tom and jerry and bugs bunny. the cartoons that where made for children but had a punchline or two for the adult viewers. They pleased both generations.
  • NO,
    the news is.
    23%  Voted for by grant, Stepherz804, pnktrky.
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  • the father picked the wrong shows
    the simpsons and Family Guy are geared towards an adult audience to whom enjoy the satirical nature of todays politics.

    if anyone notices, those two shows air late at night when kids are supposed to be in bed.

    if the father wishes to restate, he should go after spongebob and other such pointless cartoons geared towards kids.
    23%  Voted for by Kazrith, Weydon, Paradoxx.
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  • What?
    Maybe if, as Kazrith pointed out, shows like Spongebob and the like geared towards kids were cursing and showing rampant nudity and horror he has a right to complain. Aside from that, these aren't kids shows so why gripe about it?

    Since when were cartoons about good role models anyway? He longs for TOM AND JERRY? Tom and Jerry is ten times more violent than any cartoon on TV today (although still a barrel of laughs). I'll admit when I was a kid certain cartoons like Spider-Man and Batman had a fairly mild influence on my moral fiber. They were awesome and often did the right thing (in the face of somewhat mature themes and human struggles I may add, which is very different from older cartoons--superhero or otherwise), sometimes setting examples for situations in my life where I could be less selfish maybe. But I also watched Tom and Jerry swing hammers and shoot guns, Daffy Duck use poison, and a flood of racist undertones towards Asians and Native Americans without having any influence on me other than enhancing my sense of humor. Kids are not idiots that say "Colorful drawings do that? Me do that!"
    15%  Voted for by Weydon, bob2314.
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  • Since when were cartoons suppose to teach children?
    Since when were cartoons suppose to teach morals and how to live a good life? Sure a few out there (like nearly anything related to Disney, well, mostly their cartoon movies) might attempt to do that, but my point is, shouldn't children learn morals in other ways? Even with the cartoons mention above (which were aimed toward a mature audience, not kids), there are far more shows that are considered more vulgar and some of them even air during prime time. Should we just ban any show during that time that a child could possible see? Should we act like that real violence doesn't exist and shield them to the point where they would have a hard time handling actual violence? That even includes the news. Well ok, that kinda went beyond the scope of cartoons. Anyway...

    As for positive role models, start with the parents and then other real people out there. How can fictional people replace real people as far as role models? Wouldn't real life examples rather then fictional examples have a much greater effect? Surely I'm not the only one who sometimes act like parents want their TVs to babysit their kids a bit too much. They complain about their kids seeing something that they didn't want them to see or their children trying to act out what they saw on TV. Well, maybe if they actually took the time to teach kids morals themselves there wouldn't be such problems. I'm not saying to expose a five-year-old to all of life's major issues, but at the same time, trying to shield them from every little thing and act like that stuff doesn't exist also doesn't help, from what I see. However, parents usually want to blame everything and everyone but themselves. I better stop there before this turns even more into a rant about how I feel many parents are not doing a good job of teaching their kids.

    So the guy claims that children should have positive examples to go by, but longs for cartoons such as Tom and Jerry? What is there positive to learn about a cat and mouse who hate and try to kill each other? As for Bugs Bunny, better not even get started on how bad it would be to follow his behavior in real life. Those cartoons are pretty violent, even if done in a humorous way. Isn't the point of those cartoons for humor and nothing more? There is no way they could have ever been intended to teach positive examples of how to live a good life, just no way.

    So rather then wanting cartoons to teach positive examples, the parents (and that guy) should just do it themselves. That's what I really believe.
    15%  Voted for by Ievianty, Weydon.
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  • Not entirely true.
    Although i do feel that television producers need to choose their programs more carefully. they need to realize that not only adults are viewing their shows.

    But, I feel that he was selling children short. Children who are old enough to be interested in shows such as these are also old enough to tell the difference between what you can say and do, from what you can't say or do. Younger children are still too young to even realize what just happened.
    And, thats what they made adult swim for anyway. to put all the shows that are not suitable for children on late so that the viewing audience that they are not targeting are already tucked into their warm beds next to their teddy bear.
    Voted for by OnceUponABlueMoon.
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  • Yes
    I think some of them are, particularly the adult selection.
    Voted for by TeChNoWC.
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  • some are
    ...and some are okay. keep'em away from Adult Swim on Cartoon network at, midnights.
    While we are at it, the flash game websites on-line can be terrible for young children. Keep them away from E-baum and NewGrounds.com
    Voted for by frndofyaweh.
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