Have you noticed?

Have you noticed? was Originally Posted on July 21, 2006 by lavarock

1) That cartoons are really pretty bad now-a-days. I know that they say when you get old, you lose touch with the youth market, but I just find many of today’s cartoons really horrible.

2) It used to be that the voices in cartoons were all done by 1 or 2 people. For example, Mel Blanc did Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, the Roadrunner, Barny Rubble and so on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc thus you might watch a morning of TV and be listening to one person.

Contrast that with today’s cartoons. I’m flipping channels and see the end credits of a cartoon and see maybe 20 voice credits! In the case of the Smurfs, they wove the word “smurf” into about every 5 words. How annoying (but good for name recognition)

3)Amine is taking over. I see lots of anime on now-a-days. Anime is a term used usually to describe a Japanese style animation with distinctive background and character attributes that sets itself apart from regular cartoons. Many old style cartoons used the same background over and over when character ran roon to room or through the woods, etc.

By the way, anime characters have great hair, big eyes and the handsomeness of the male characters well outdistances my own Oh to be a cartoon charater!

As an aside, I used to think I would make a great superhero untill I saw what I looked like in tights….

Now the magic is gone