What Are The Signs Of A Cartoon Still Holding Up And So-Called "Aging Well"?

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ronnie s

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Hi, I'm a member of this board and I don't post here often, but I have a question that I've been wanting/meaning to ask for the longest now. I read the mention of some cartoons still holding up and having aged well while others haven't. That and this question has been bugging me for a while now: How does/would one know this for sure??? Because I can't see it. Are there some certain kinds of signs? What does one mean by that? How can one tell? What is it about them that makes them fall into one group, and some in the other? I just don't get that. Like at one time, when those who were little watched certain shows that used to be/seemed to be great suddenly aren't so anymore once the viewer grows up and has second thoughts looking back on that. Why is that and how does one know what makes for the perfect series that are still enjoyable? Thanks.
 
If you can watch a cartoon years later and still enjoy it without rolling your eyes or feeling embarrassed for liking it before, then it's aged well.
 
If it makes a movie every 3 months (Or the movie is played each weekday afternoon), It has a reincarnate almost every year, and it's name is Scooby Doo or Tom Jerry....

BUT, if you remember one of your favorite episodes from a show and watch it again and laugh so hard (Harder than you did when even first watched it) or get so excited about it that to others it not that serious. Basically it's in the eye of the beholder, because as I've noticed here even if a show was on it's A-game it will still get criticized or called inferior by others.
 
The way I feel is that if you still enjoy and have fun then it has held up well. However there is pretty much not anything that I personally feel has not aged well. Anything I like once typically always enjoy for some reason or another.
 
Well, that makes sense. I think that I should have plenty good taste when it comes to my favorite series, because there still are those that grab me. Thanks for clarifying this.
 
Basically, does the show survive the transition from "entertaining you when you were a wide-eyed child" to "entertaining you now that you're a skeptical adult"?
 
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