But Disney cartoons from the 1960s were pretty intense (101 Dalmations comes to mind). The little DoodleBobs watched Looney Toons growing up and nobody ran off a cliff or dropped an anvil on anyone's head or ran around shooting their shotguns with wreckless abandon...And Bugs was a transvestite at times!!
I'd have no problem playing the entire Toy Story series (and Finding Nemo and The Incredibles) to children of all ages. But Sesame Street has gone down the tubes, as has most of the content on PBS...which is why Nickelodeon does so well - there is GENERALLY not an agenda and it's just fun.
Of course they were intense, and Bugs cross-dressed because it was FUNNY, not normalizing it. Intensity was about overcoming, not promoting the criminal or scary behavior.
There is FAR too much constant potty and sex humor in “kids” shows, trying to cater to IMMATURE so-called adults. Never mind all those which have agendas.
Let me tell you, I am so scared of Ursula, the villainess in Little Mermaid that I could not even listen to a radio interview with the actress who played her on Broadway!
But Little Mermaid is a great movie, and Ursula is a big, scary, part of that!