How T.Vs changed

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Professor Aiken
English 1101
19 October 2009

I remember sitting down when I was in elementary school after a long day of school and homework and watching cartoons. My favorites were Looney Toons, Tiny Toon Adventurers’, and Animaniacs. I made sure to be there before they came on so I wouldn’t miss a second of them. Back then the cartoons were simple. You had Bugs Bunny who would show up get into trouble and then get out of it. Then you had Babs and Buster Bunny who would show up and do the same thing but it would still be hilarious. The cartoons were violent but not in a need to censer your child way but in a way to laugh at. You had a couple of sexual innuendos but not many and the shows were always making fun of actors or the previous decade. My favorite scene would have to be when Bugs and Daffy would argue and daffy would end up messing up and getting shot however he didn’t die he just got mad and stalked off with no beak. It showed a less violent side of cartoons and of the world. Also there were the classic Disney shows like The Jersey and The Famous Jett Jackson. Those were the good old shows of the nineties. However as time passed things would change.
Now today when my brother comes home from school he watches a whole new set of shows. The generation that was born in the late Nineties didn’t get to see shows like the Smurfs and Tiny Toon adventures but now they have Phineas and Ferb and anime and other shows of those sorts. They also have a new modified Disney channel. They also have stronger and more obvious sexual innuendos and rougher violence. It’s not enough that the oldies are gone but now you have them trying to remake them. Shows like Batman and Superman are being remade and they look stupid and the dialogue is annoying. What children are being exposed to now is a worse influence from cartoons that are supposed to be funny and give them an essence of childhood. I hate that my brother is missing out on that classic, funny, and clean television. I guess I know how my parents feel.
What I’m trying to say is that television has changed quite a bit, although it’s not a complete horrible change. The shows are still funny and some of the newer comedy Is more logical then it was when I was a kid.Instead of hitting someone with an anveal out of nowhere they walk in the street and get hit by a bus. It seems to all fit. Now most shows are trying to teach a big life lesson. Shows did a few years ago but they were smaller and less common life lessons. There is also another very big thing that hasn’t changed. A large grouping of shows are still stupid and have no point. There are more now but I remember shows like Freakezoid and My Little Pony that just didn’t have a point in life. Now it’s shows like Chowder and Flap Jack that just shouldn’ t exist because they are the biggest insults to T.V. Don’t even get me started on reality T.V.
So television was great back in the day, and I still like it heck I love it, This essay has made me nostalgic for the old Television shows of the ninties. You just couldn’t go wrong with Bugs Bunny making people feel horrible about themselves. This is how my older cousins and parents must have felt when I was a kid, that I was missing out on great T.V. Altogh a lot ogf great shows did carry over from the eighties to the ninties. There is just a new group of kids on the block and they need to be made happy. In the end it’s all up to each person to decide when the shows were better. I’m just sayng it was in the ninties.