Random Thought Of The Day #449

Day 449

Hey... look at that... the economy IS still fucked everywhere. Weird... didn't I call that last week?

Oh well... we're still fucked.

So on to something that ISN'T terribly depressing and makes you realize how nobody, except the super-wealthy, is going to come out of this unscathed.

*crickets chirping*

Yeah, I got nothing.

But that picture does bring to mind a quick rant.

Why the fuck don't they show old-school Loony Tunes on tv anymore? Seriously... that shit was awesome! I know that the networks (even cable) won't show even Tom & Jerry before about midnight anymore because of all the "violence" in them.

OK, so old-school cartoons were violent. Certainly they were. Did they teach kids violence? Probably. Who knows? Who cares? It's not like a little kid is gonna be able to rig up a 300 lbs anvil to drop it on the neighbors cat when to see if it gets smooshed and then gets up walking around with a flat back.

I miss my old-school cartoons.

Instead, the new cartoons out anymore feel more like a fucking acid trip than a cartoon. I remember back in college, we figured out that if we got ourselves totally hammered, we could kinda figure out what the hell was going on in an episode of Pokemon. And don't even get me started on the cartoons where the characters play card games to make magical dragons and shit to fight. I couldn't sort that crap out if my life depended on it. And some sponge in his underpants running around.

I'm so confused.

The closest thing we still have to the old-school cartoons are the Simpsons & Family Guy. And maybe South Park, but I don't really watch that much.

I just miss the old, short cartoons. I think the last time we had something really cool like that was Animaniacs. That was a bad-ass show.

I miss stuff like that.

But even that is probably too racist or sexist or something-else-ist to even get onto tv anymore.

Oh well, I guess we're stuck with the acid-trip-lite garbage with some sort of bad-americ-anime influence that doesn't make a fuck bit of sense unless you're 3 years old or stoned out of your fucking mind from now on.

Hell, I'd be happy with the god damn Fintstones. But the tv networks would probably turn it into some weird crap about dinosaur card games that would eat other dinosaurs in a battle. And I would need alcohol or drugs to understand it.