Something I have been thinking about lately....(Serious thread)

Personally,I'll watch/buy whatever appeals to me,regardless of the target audience,though I haven't had anyone make comments about me liking animation at my age (I'm 29,and turn 30 in June)...but then again,I tend to buy more series that have an adult target audience like South Park,Futurama,and The Simpsons,and general interest animation like Disney films(for some reason,noone ever seems to make a fuss over adults liking those),and I actually don't look my age (most people who don't know me seem to think I'm in my late teens)...
I say just watch whatever you enjoy,and ignore those people who feel they need to comment on it...they're the ones who need to grow up...
 
I don't remember off the top of my head, I was most likely watching Cartoon Network or possibly a box set of something I got into the store that day, but I think it was something on CN.
 
Animation's a medium, not a genre. It can be used to tell a story for younger kids, or a story for middle aged adults, or a story for teenagers, or anybody else. That's what drew me to it in the first place - the fact that it's so wonderfully versatile.

On the other hand, there is a girl I work with who's convinced animation is strictly a kids' affair. I talked to her the other night about how I'm applying for an internship at Pixar this summer, and apropos of nothing, she said "I'm sorry, but I'd never want to marry an anime artist who does stupid drawings of monsters and fish all day." (Her use of the word "anime" in reference to Pixar confounds me, and I don't know why she brought marriage into the conversation.) I tried to explain to her that Pixar's films are for everyone to enjoy, and that there's a depth of character to them that encouraged me to seek employment there in the first place, but she's one of those "I'm right and you're wrong" types, so it's kind of hopeless to try and change her mind.
 
I say this as more of a fact than opinion.

But I fail to see why watching children's programming is so wrong when many adult programs equally juvenile are praised by the same people who criticize a kids show for being juvenile. Fact is having a juvenile story with adult content (Family Guy in the post Season 3 episodes) added doesn't make the show into a work of art. I prefer children's programming because they don't try to hide the fact that they are childish.

And then there's the majority of reality programs that rely on contestants doing gross and embarassing things to win. How are any of those more sophisticated than the fart jokes on a Nicktoon or The Brain trying his 60th attempt at world domination?
 
Agreed. Take [adult swim]'s Aqua Teen Hunger Force. If you removed the language, blood, allusions to drugs and drinking and sexual references, the show could easily be a kids' show that runs on Cartoon Network.
 
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother a few months ago. She asked if I wanted to go to the movies and Coraline was the only good thing in theaters at the time, so I said I wouldn't mind seeing that. She then got confused and said that that was a cartoon. Then I asked her what she wanted to see and she told me Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I groaned and tried to assure her that Coraline was leagues better than that movie just by viewing the trailers alone.
 
No it couldn't, because ATHF heavily delves into the seedy side of human nature for many of its plotlines. Even if it lacked blood and swear words, it still wouldn't be a show for the kiddies, due to the execution of the material.

Whereas with something like The Brak Show, where the swearing feels tacked on (largely thanks to our knowing these characters from their SGC2C days, where swearing was absent up until 1999), losing it wouldn't change the overall tone of the program and it could easily air outside Adult Swim.
 
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