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Well you also have to remember these are now the same kids that grew up with teletubbies. TV shows obviously don't have to make sense anymore, just loud with lots of swirling colors. I swear kids are all on acid now. Not angry.....jealous!

Monster Rain wrote:Indeed, but as you say, it was tacked on at the end and was easily turned off if you didn't feel like watching that part of the show. I would rather have it at the end when you could avoid it than shoehorned into the actual content of the show.

True, unless like me you were inflicted with a mild case of obsessive compulsion as a kid, so that you had to watch every last bit of a cartoon, even though you knew the last bit after the ad was going to really, really suck.

Also, if it hadn't been for those important messages we wouldn't have this:

Pork chop sandwiches!

Man I love those things.


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Andrew1975 wrote:Well you also have to remember these are now the same kids that grew up with teletubbies. TV shows obviously don't have to make sense anymore, just loud with lots of swirling colors. I swear kids are all on acid now. Not angry.....jealous!

Apparently for little kids these shows are exactly what they need for how their brains are developing at that time.

Or something. All I know is I want to stab the creator of Night Garden in the eyeball with a fork.

Avatar the last airbender?
there are a lot of gak shows but there are also some great ones too... this is just a case of people thinking their generation is better than the others.

Monster Rain wrote:

filbert wrote:I can tell I am getting old, most of the antics of /b/ and the ilk seem to fly right over my head, raising nary a chuckle.

I've never posted on or even read 4chan.

I don't see myself starting.

Copious amounts of high quality porn.

Just sayin'