I don't know about stunting their brains, I do know it corrupts their morals and manners as they imitate their favorite cartoons and characters!
Hi Gail, long time no hear. Yes, the weirdness corrupts their influential minds with nothing objected to by most of their parents or overseers. It's a truly sociological problem that starts with the values of the entertained majority and what they'll accept.
I look at some of my neighbors like they are aliens from space for behaving so oddly, then I'll see refugee Hmong Vietmanese families going out of their way to go on family walks, picnics and such (away from televisions). They've got it right.