New Generation of Cartoons ?

As I came home one evening and unlocked the door to my house, I hear kissing noises coming from the living room. Bewildered, I walked into the living room only to discover my ten-year-old brother watching the new Total Drama Island, a recent cartoon series on Cartoon Network. On the television screen, one can see two cartoon characters "making out". This cartoon is supposedly a "reality TV show", which makes no sense since cartoons are the exact opposite of reality.

I thought to myself, what ever happened to the good old cartoons?

Nowadays, every time I come home in the evening, I find my little brother watching cartoons like "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake", "Flapjack", "The Regular Show", and many other pointless Cartoon Network shows with no good story plot. From time to time, I'd join my brother and watch for awhile as I eat my dinner.

Most of these shows are a let down, due to the fact they are sometimes too melodramatic, the ending is predictable, and they spend half the time trying to be "funny", in a pointless way.


One particular show is "The Regular Show"(apparently they could not even think of a better name), which revolves around the life of a talking raccoon and some type of bird. In one episode, these two cartoon characters get into an argument and decide to resolve the problem with a simple game of rock-paper-scissors. I can honestly say I wasted five minutes of my life watching these two talking cartoon animals play rock-paper-scissors, with intense background music. After 100 times of getting a draw in rock-paper-scissors, for some miraculous reason, it created a whole in the universe and a gigantic monster came out and began to eat everybody and every thing. At the end, the two characters saved the world by overcoming their issues and finishing their game of rock-paper-scissors. This all happened in fifteen minutes..


I remember when I was little, I would wake up to watch The Powerpuff Girls, Tom and Jerry, or Rugrats. Even my parents would watch with me and we would all have a good laugh. Whereas, my parents do not watch cartoons with my little brother.

Although I do miss the old cartoons from my childhood and it pains me to see them fade away, maybe these new cartoons don't necessarily suck. Maybe the cartoon preferences of the children from the 90's and the children of the 21st century are just completely different, and I am growing up.