Things you like/hate about cartoons

[Tonya]

What do you like or hate about them?
I like toons because they make you laugh ! I can't think of anything that I hate about cartoons, exept for that some of them are quite violent now these days . I don't like violence....

[Cassini90125]

I don't like the increasing use of "gross-out" humor in a lot of the newer cartoons. It isn't necessary; look at Foster's, to take the obvious example. The show is funny and it doesn't rely on bodily functions for it's humor.

[Medikor]

I don't mind some violance in my cartoons but I can't handle bloodbaths and swearing just for the sake of swearing. The most violant cartoon I watch is Full Metal Alchemist but that show is very intellagent and heartwarming. The crudest cartoon I watch is The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy but that show has its momants and I can't get enough of Grey Delisle!
I'm very displeased with the direction that animated sitcoms like The Simpsons are takeing - drop the substance and love for the rude, crude and blood.

[Jabberwocky]

I hate when the animators get lazy and pan the image to make it look like a character is moving. Yaaa! I can run and jump with my limbs perfectly stiillllll!

[Imaginary Light]

I can't stand it when cartoons rely on toilet humor 95% of the time. Those shows should take a page from Craig McCracken's book and make a quality cartoon.

[some guy you dont know]

love cartoons. for the following reasons:

*theyre funny. no explaniation here.

*there usually unrealistic. i dont like realism in tv. i watch it for the reason alone that its not realistic.

*other stuff i cant think of right now.

why i dont like em:

*cant think of any reason why not right now. i dont have a problem with the violence, since thats more or less what ive grown up on anyways. OH YEAH, NOW I GOT ONE! the toilet humor. a little may be funny, but seriously not much more than maybe 6% of the show.

[Howard]

Reality is funny enough without the bodily functions to use in a cartoon!

[scary_dream]

I love cartoons because they're a great escape, among other reasons. I agree with everyone here, though, that the increase in toilet humor has been a detriment to many cartoons. I think if a cartoon uses nonstop jokes like that, they're SEVERELY cutting their audience to like, a third of what it could have been. It's like they're shooting themselves in the feet.

I like anime for the stories the various shows tell, but I don't like that a lot of the girls are drawn to fit teenage boys' fantasies - large breasts, tiny waists, long legs, and skimpy, skimpy clothes. I'm not just saying this because I'm a girl, either, because the anime guys ARE drawn muscular and handsome, but that's to be expected if they're going to be a hero - they fit into the "hero" persona. Plus, a real guy looking muscular like an anime guy is actually POSSIBLE. Most real girls will never be 5'9" with DD breasts and a 20" waist. SO unrealistic.

[fosters home fan]

likes: pretty much everything! Like I enjoy seeing blue blobs and robots that dress up like a dog!


dislikes:bad animation and toilet humor!Bleh It's just gross

[kageri]

The thing I hate most about the toilet humor thing is that the creators themselves are perpetuating the stereotypes of cartoons in general. Come on, guys! You make cartoons! Don't you want people to respect them?

[Voxxyn]

I hate it when cartoons meant to be children/family-friendly become overly absorbed in cynicism and irony, and thus the stories become upsetting and even cruel.

Sadly, as much as I love Foster's, it used to be very guilty of that--you probably already know which episodes I'm talking about. I'm glad that Season 4 was such a wonderful rebound after the show's magic was nearly ruined by the first half of Season 3. I hope that Season 5 will continue the current high, and that there will never again be another hurtful and meanspirited mess like "Imposter's Home".

Please don't single me out as "some treehugger who wants everything to be 100% happy", because I'm NOT. And please don't use Looney Tunes or any other kind of slapstick cartoon humor as rationale for such needless cruelty, because these are COMPLETELY different kinds of "pain" in completely different circumstances. In my opinion, the physical torture endured by the Looney Tunes gang is a more pleasant fate than the emotional and psychological malice in the worst episodes of Foster's.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

There's only one thing I hate about cartoons, and one thing only: Censorship. It needs to wander out into a street and get run over by a greyhound bus.....again and again and again and AGAIN! Seriously, I can't freaking stand censored toons.

Mostly in part with any use, mentioning, or related incidents to death or many of the several D words toons avoid. Death, dying, dead, die etc. Every time I watch Teen Titans, it bothers me when a character wants to die and instead she says "destroy me".

Or "you attempted you destroy us". Come on, this is pathetic. Disney's cartoons have featured people being impaled by sea ships, boiled in lava, strangled to death, and shown an actual version of Hell and the devil in the Hercules movie. If Disney can talk about death, I don't think it's too hard for others to do so.

It bothers me that cartoons are being tampered with just because people are afraid children might wake up one day and realize when you get hurt....YOU BLEED and you might also die. I'm not saying shove death all over in toons, but I don't think acting like it doesn't exist in cartoons is any better.

[Cassini90125]

Good point. During the entire Scooby-Doo series, over 300+ episodes, I recall them using the word "dead" just once. This on a show that dealt with ghosts, zombies, and other dead things every week? Give me a break.

[Voxxyn]

SpongeBob SquarePants uses "dead" and "kill" as an expression of speech in nearly every single episode. I find it interesting that a cutesy children's show like that can get away with such, yet it's somehow inappropiate for an action-packed and intense toon like Teen Titans.

[Howard]

SpongeBob SquarePants uses "dead" and "kill" as an expression of speech in nearly every single episode. I find it interesting that a cutesy children's show like that can get away with such, yet it's somehow inappropiate for an action-packed and intense toon like Teen Titans.

It is interesting what they consider appropriate, or inappropriate. That bit with Sponge Bob makes no lick of since to me; I don't get it. I am really starting to guage other cartoons off of Foster's in appropriate content. But remember - the US is an Orwellian society (which I hate).