Today's topic: Should we bring back the Saturday morning cartoons from our childhood for a new generation to enjoy. (***Jason and I had discussed the topic and chose positions three days before this debate. If you would like us to debate a topic, email me at sbishop@gkbradio.com***)
Here are my thoughts... enjoy!
I remember waking up at six-o-clock in the morning on Saturday with the excitement of a child on Christmas. I would Run in to the kitchen to grab a box of cereal and then make a b-line to the living room… it started with the wacky-mad-cap shenanigans of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and ended in a triumphant spray of color, comedy, and Acme products courtesy of our friends at Warner Brother. Now when I turn on the TV on a Saturday morning I have my choice of golf, Reba, or Reba… that woman’s everywhere - but should we bring back the morning cartoons from my childhood for today’s generation to enjoy? No…
Children these days have it too good, with their complicated shoes, emo haircuts, and video game systems with more than 8-bit graphics.
They aren’t going to be satisfied with the 70’s style-thickly drawn lines of School House Rock… not unless the little girl singing about nouns and the conducter from Conjunction Junction happen to morph in to some Super Grammer Robot Karate Ranger Ninja that shoots punctuation marks out of it’s eyes. The Smurfs won’t be entertaining unless they are drawn Manga style with giant mouths and live in little pokemon balls. Scooby-Doo? Well, nobody liked Scooby Doo – and Scrappy Doo can just eat it… moving on.
This is the problem – if you bring back the classics from the 80’s, they won’t translate well and will have to be completely revamped to suit the jaded minds of today’s youth. Strawberry Shortcake will have to shout constantly like Dora the Explorer. Jem won’t seem outrageous, (truly, truly, truly outrageous) unless you can play along with her hokey songs ala Guitar Hero… (wait… Jem Guitar Hero… I’m copywriting that).
Didn’t they try to bring cartoons from the sixties and seventies back during the eighties?
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986)
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-90)
The New Archies (1987-88)
The New Scooby Doo Mysteries (1984-85)
New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show (1984) – already mentioned what an abomination that was!
Yeah, let’s go ahead and bring the Gummie Bears back, only this time the Gummie Bears will drive Transformer-like cars and live in another dimension! Yeah! How about Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats – if they produce new cartoons Heathcliff won’t live in a dump anymore – he’ll live at the Playboy Mansion... that will make it EDGIER!
Don’t even get me started on what the Thunder Cats would be like…
Children these days have it too good, with their complicated shoes, emo haircuts, and video game systems with more than 8-bit graphics.
They aren’t going to be satisfied with the 70’s style-thickly drawn lines of School House Rock… not unless the little girl singing about nouns and the conducter from Conjunction Junction happen to morph in to some Super Grammer Robot Karate Ranger Ninja that shoots punctuation marks out of it’s eyes. The Smurfs won’t be entertaining unless they are drawn Manga style with giant mouths and live in little pokemon balls. Scooby-Doo? Well, nobody liked Scooby Doo – and Scrappy Doo can just eat it… moving on.
This is the problem – if you bring back the classics from the 80’s, they won’t translate well and will have to be completely revamped to suit the jaded minds of today’s youth. Strawberry Shortcake will have to shout constantly like Dora the Explorer. Jem won’t seem outrageous, (truly, truly, truly outrageous) unless you can play along with her hokey songs ala Guitar Hero… (wait… Jem Guitar Hero… I’m copywriting that).
Didn’t they try to bring cartoons from the sixties and seventies back during the eighties?
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986)
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-90)
The New Archies (1987-88)
The New Scooby Doo Mysteries (1984-85)
New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show (1984) – already mentioned what an abomination that was!
Yeah, let’s go ahead and bring the Gummie Bears back, only this time the Gummie Bears will drive Transformer-like cars and live in another dimension! Yeah! How about Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats – if they produce new cartoons Heathcliff won’t live in a dump anymore – he’ll live at the Playboy Mansion... that will make it EDGIER!
Don’t even get me started on what the Thunder Cats would be like…
Some cartoons just shouldn’t be remade. They were great for their time, and are some of our most cherished memories. What we found funny and entertaining from our generation might not be what the new generation is looking for… Who knows, maybe in a few years, this generation will be reflecting fondly on their Saturday Mornings… I mean Reba is funny, and cute.
1 comment:
Nicely put ! I am 30 and miss the old sat. morning cartoons from my childhood. After reading your blog though you are 100% correct todays kids are way into gameing and text messaging than watching good wholesome cartoons !
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