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The obits are out: Saturday-morning cartoons are dead!
The CW network terminated its last-gasp animated lineup of Cubix, Sonic X, Dragon Ball Z, Kai Digimon Fusion, and Yu-Gi-Oh last weekend, and generations of Boomers and Millennials moaned about it on a Reddit’s television forum. (Sign you have too much time on your hands: critiquing interpersonal relationships among the Flintstone family.)
Of course, this particular era was destined to end, given the cartoon qualities of real life in our century. Who is Vladimir Putin, if not a narrow-eyed bad guy out of the Boris-Natasha school?
And our beloved veep Joe Biden contributes enough malapropisms to make Elmer Fudd seem an elocutionist by comparison.
The self-lampooning jackasses of WWE are now evenly distributed amongst all professional sporting leagues, with J.R. Smith unlacing the NBA’s reputation, A-Rod commiting errors against competitive decency in MLB, and any number of end-zone dancing NFL jerks making Terrell Owens look like Knute Rockne by comparison.
Mike Ditka isn’t just a caricature anymore, he’s a cartoon of a caricature. And between Honey Boo Boo and the Real Housewives, you might tune in those lamented Flintstones for domestic advice.
Really, when the cartoons are running 24/7 on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, can you possibly sustain a lineup of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Road Runner? Absolutely not. The news is buggier, daffier, and more likely to drop an anvil.
But there is an upside: now you can munch cereal in front of the loony tube nearly any time, day or night, and watch the crazy antics of real people. The head-banging part: it’s no longer confined to Saturday morning, so the classic signoff never comes.
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