• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Because kids love gross-out humor? Lmao

    Nearly every 4-10 y.o. I’ve known in my lifetime had “fart,” “poop,” “butt,” and “booger” as their top most said words of the day. The remainder was yammering about their favorite TV shows and books/toys. And bugs. And rocks.

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    28 days ago

    Because it was ok. People were mentally healthier. Socially wiser. Less hysterical.

    People are still that way outside the US, Russia and Afghanistan.

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      27 days ago

      lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.

      Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?

      People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.

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    28 days ago

    One my greatest dilemmas is how much I love Ren and Stimpy’s first seasons but I absolutely despise John Kricfalusi. I can’t even downplay his hand on the show, the humour comes straight out of his sick mind and I love it.

    Maybe we should arrest guys like him and, instead of putting them in jail and letting them rot there doing nothing, force them to make cartoons. There may be some untapped potential there.

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    28 days ago

    You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.

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    28 days ago

    It was ok lol. My dad was the one to put me on Ren and Stimpy. It gave me a huge love and appreciation for cartoons and animation in general.

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    28 days ago

    aaannddd you know what else im gonna do?

    Im gonna hit ya…

    …aaaanddd youre gonna fall down…

    Lol. 90s cartoons were something else.

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    27 days ago

    “They” made the right decision. Without Ren and Stimpy there would not have been a successful SpongeBob SquarePants. Also, a booger collection under an end table? Genius!