marc bloomfield wrote I don't think this is strictly true - if you're a lucky blighter, you'll have Cartoon Network, and can see the magic of Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, I Am Weasel and Dexter's Laboratory. They are wonderful! well, we have cable at home (ie. my folks have cable). Power Puff Girls are the best, Cow and Chicken have a good theme tune, but I don't particularly like it, Dexters lab is good too. BUT!! Its not as good as my childhood *goes into wistful rememberence of innocent years far behind her* for two good good reasons. 1. They didn't repeat kids cartoon episodes every week, there was always a new adventure (even if some of the plots were very similar) Unlike Dexter's Lab. I am getting sooo bored of seeing the same episodes repeated. And I don't know how many times I have seen Johnny Bravo with those evil dolls, or where he goes out with the werewolf girl. 2. I was five, or four, and bright colours amazed me. The colours, the ideas, and the idea that to pretend I was the girl in Battle of The Planets, all I had to do, was put on a sun visor and pull up my hood. And run around, or perhaps get out my bike and ride around. Same could be acheived for Dungeons and Dragons, all I needed was to wear my coat or jacket, and suddenly! Ah! I was invisible! You can't see me! Ha! Now, call me cynical and old, but it doesn't really appeal to me, to do that sort of thing these days. Now with modern cartoons. The majority of characters in modern cartoons don't really wear an awful lot of capes or anything. There is no gimmick. And thats why kids cartoons from the eighties totally rule, and kids shows nowadays totally drool. Are you trying to tell me that Tweenies is better than Playschool? Twice a Day?? (I used to watch both episodes when I was a wee girl). Exceptions to the modern day rule though include Simpsons, cos thats class, and Toy Story2. But still, no gimmicks. How many kids do you see pretending to be wearing a lab coat, a la Dexters Lab? The thing about it all was that in the eighties, you could go out, and play whatever you had seen on telly. Unless it was dark, or something. You didn't need the same plot, just the jist of it. It had that interactive entertainment thing going on. Pokemon comes close for interactiveness, but that involves buying cards/games/toys. Sorry, I'll shut up now. Love, Idleberry ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+