Now, THAT was good, wholesome entertainment for the WHOLE family.
Posted on 12/01/2009 7:23:23 AM PST by PapaBear3625
President Barack Obama ... ... is slated to deliver a prime-time address on Tuesday night in which he'll lay out his plans for the American war in Afghanistan.
The address before the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night will not only be used to announce the immediate order to deploy roughly 30,000 more troops, but the administration will also use the occasion to convey how it intends to turn the fight over to the Kabul government, the New York Times reported.
But the administration may also face an unforeseen enemy as it lays out its long-awaited plans. And they are loud and they are legion: We're talking about preschoolers and their parents.
That's because ABC-TV was scheduled to present its annual screening of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. And we don't know about you, but that show is pretty sacrosanct around our house and not to be trifled with lightly.
A call to the White House may be in order here. We hear it's pretty easy to get through these days ...
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NBC moved away from cartoons long ago. They found more syndication money in programs like “Saved By The Bell” which weren’t restricted to just “weekday mornings and afternoons”.
ABC is owned by Disney and Disney needs lots of programming for their cable/video empire (and new marketable characters).
If you’re referencing the piano music, and I’m sure you are, then you may have a point. Honestly, I’d have to think about it a bit. For me the music was merely another facet of something that annoyed me. If I were to listen to it by itself, it might be a lot more entertaining. I’m not sure if I could answer that honestly right now, without listening to some of it separated from the cartoon.
We have all the Warner Bros, Pink Pather, old Tom & Jerry’s on DVD. Watching them with my little girl is one of my favorite things to do. Anything to get her away from the dreck that’s on now.
Now let’s put things in perspective here. Out here on the left coast, it’s not such a problem, ol’ nObama is on before I get home, so I can avoid him easily.
However, for you east coast people, he’s mucking with the Tuesday night “reality” TV shows, “So You Think You Can Dance” and “The Biggest Loser”. To heck with Charlie Brown, how DARE he delay our watching 400-pound clods with two left feet make utter fools of themselves for the chance at fame and fortune???
I was thinking of the way kids cartoons are now absorbed into the green and warming culture, but that photo of yours sure said everything needed to said about the Today Show.
Eee-Gads! LOL
The cartoons back then were light-years better than the crap out today. It sucks in both quality and content.
;-)
Probably not. And yes, I feel sorry for them too.
If I had kids today, I wouldn’t let them watch that stuff on a dare.
Not to mention legitimately clever and very, very funny.
Television animation that has never been equaled both in illustration quality and story lines.
Politically incorrect heaven for young boys.
And, then there is that magnificent opening music score.
Turn it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fYTA7bxqP4
Classic Loony Tunes cartoons on YouTube (a bunch of em)...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=looney+tunes&search_type=&aq=0s&oq=loony+
ACT (Action for Childrens' Television) in the late 1960s castrated childrens' programming. Some of the members acknowledged that some of the resulting pablum was boring and unwatchable, but at least it wasn't offensive and had pro-social(ist) values.
They also drafted a blacklist of certain cartoons (largely containing wartime imagery like anti-Nazi violence and racist or ethnic imagery of black people, Jews, Irish, Italians, etc...). That blacklist was expanded in the 1970s to include violent imagery (cartoon use of guns) and in the 1980s expanded to include smoking (they now digitally paint out the cigarettes out of old cartoons, the most ludicrious example being Pecos Bill now rolling a non-existent cigarette). Whether ACT was in charge of the subsequent additional banned content matters not, it became the industry norm.
Those now-classic warner brothers and MGM cartoons were made for theatrical distribution under the studio system with a healthy budget per episode. Cartoon Network should be called "Flash-drek Nightly for stoners". Handmade animation is becoming a lost art. I was surprised to see that Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox was stop-motion animated rather than computer animated.
LOL, it wasn’t the Christmas special per se. It was the Peanuts genre in general that I was addressing. I knew I’d need the fire retardant suit. It’s led to some nice conversations though. People got to mention what they like about it. I go to explain why it drove me crazy. I am sounding crazy right? LOL
The Saturday morning cartoons for today’s kids are the worst junk ever.
We had some great ones when I was growing up. Crusader Rabbit, Tom Terrific, Gerald McBoing Boing, Andy’s gang, Howdy Doody, The Bugs Bunny Road Runner show, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Ruff and Ready, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Kukla Fran & Ollie, The Shari Lewis show, Captain Kangaroo and many many others.
The people who made cartoons then didn’t grow up so much watching cartoons. They were humorists and illustrators first.
And just think of all the business Acme would have lost without that cartoon. ;-)
I liked that one too. Great looking frame there...
Bammy would be “Rerun”, IMO. ;-P
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