Cartoons aren't just for kids, sometimes they can be edgier, rawer, deeper, and more honest than any other kind of media. They might even predict our future.
Agreed and a great write up. I would just like to add the cartoons from the 60's: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody and Sherman and Bugs Bunny (the best opening line every when he popped up out the ground: ""I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!" and I learned about opera from the Bugs cartoons!) They were the first to write with parents that were watching.
Absolutely agree Kristin! && outside of the classics you mentioned, a more recent one that fits the bill for me has been Bojack Horseman. Oh & also, I loved Hey Arnold growing up; that one felt quite deep & subtly heavy on social critique as well
Agreed and a great write up. I would just like to add the cartoons from the 60's: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody and Sherman and Bugs Bunny (the best opening line every when he popped up out the ground: ""I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!" and I learned about opera from the Bugs cartoons!) They were the first to write with parents that were watching.
Thank you for reading! Love your examples too! Mine were simply the first ones that popped into my head.
Absolutely agree Kristin! && outside of the classics you mentioned, a more recent one that fits the bill for me has been Bojack Horseman. Oh & also, I loved Hey Arnold growing up; that one felt quite deep & subtly heavy on social critique as well