Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bugged by Bugs

For Christmas we got a flat screen tv and a digital box. With all these modern conveniences what am I obsessed with? Teletoon Retro. The channel that shows all the old cartoons that I used to watch as a kid. Casper, Little Lulu, The Smurfs, Spiderman, The Flintstones, GI Joe (which insultingly the kids find beyond hysterical)... I'm in heaven.

I'll often just watch what's on for a few minutes and move on but I find I'm watching whole episodes of Bugs Bunny quite often. When I was a kid there was no worry about tv violence causing kids to act out. Every Saturday morning we'd watch the coyote blow himself up courtesy of Acme but it never made me or my friends want to construct an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to try to drop an anvil on the neighbour's cat. So it bugs me that the "violence" in the episodes are often cut shreds.

I understand that years ago these cartoons were the only things that children were watching so if they had dangerous dynamite related outbursts they were blamed first. But nowadays when my 14 and 11 year old boys have access to video games where they can correctly identify every type of tank that is plundering a completely innocent European village, I'm thinking that seeing Daffy Duck getting hit in the head by an umbrella isn't going to scar them for life.

That reminds me... I need to limit those boys from playing that Nazi Zombie game for a while. Henry is starting to develop a weird twitch in his left eyelid.

kxx

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