Sit any generation down to discuss cartoons and many will go on and on about their favorite cartoon show. On the surface many of the shows will sound alike, but as each generation goes in-depth many will see how much cartoons have changed.
Televised cartoons have a history dating back to the 1920s and at that time there was barely any dialog between the characters in the episode. Cartoons were comparable to Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse, which were mainly action filled and in black and white. As time progressed cartoons increased in dialog and in color. The dialog between the characters was kid friendly and treaded lightly on certain topics such as first loves. There was no abusive language or topics that made parents feel uncomfortable.
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Cartoons such as The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-head rolled out into mainstream television and soon parents were in an uproar about the language and the message it sent to kids. Cartoons continued to explore the use of language as well as topics such as drugs and drinking. Cartoons appeared more for adults than for children. The violence once expressed through just hitting with various objects is now threatening each other with guns. Parents now feel uncomfortable watching these cartoons with their children because they feel as though cartoons have hidden messages and jokes for adults, but they are in cartoons that are meant for children. With all the controversy now with cartoons and T.V. shows in general, they now have what is referred to as a television rating system. Now children have to be age appropriate to watch cartoons in their age …show more content…
Cartoons are still colorful, entertaining, and a great pastime for children but at what cost. When you compare the language of cartoons from early times it is extremely different. The words used are chosen to make the target audience laugh, but one is left to question who is their target audience is it kids or adults. Words like "shut up" and "stupid" are light compared to certain cartoon shows. There are cartoon episodes that censor or "bleep" curse words out, for example let's take SpongeBob SquarePants, in an episode called Sailor Mouth the topic was about bad words and Patrick and SpongeBob, characters on the show, learned the bad words and began to use them. The 'bad words' were bleeped out each time they used a curse word, but if we go back to before the 90's no cartoon episode would dare use such language in a cartoon. Violence in cartoons is still present today, but different in aspects of severity. They now show guns and knives and characters using them in a threatening manner. We can still say cartoons are entertaining for both children and adults, but parents are finding that cartoons are, not how they once were. Cartoon are now rated from general audience to parental guidance. The episode of SpongeBob SquarePants with the cursing was rated "G" which means parents can trust that this cartoon program is suitable for all ages. A quick lesson to the children about using bad words and how to use
Although animated cartoons have long been associated with children’s entertainment, the content of many cartoons suggest they are for adults as well. From character portrayal to perceived gender roles, cartoons such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby Doo both reflect societal values from their time periods as well as perpetuate the developed stereotypes. Cartoons produced more recently such as The Simpsons start to challenge these stereotypes instead of following blindly. Comparing the earliest popular cartoons to more recent productions, shows progress towards a less stereotypical character portrayal in regards to gender.
First, it would probably help to start at the beginning of Saturday morning cartoons and give a history to find out how we got here. Saturday morning cartoons have been around since the 1950’s. Since many people who worked in radio knew that most kids programming does better on Saturday mornings than any other time. Like most television programming of this time most these cartoons seemed like radio programs with pictures and really didn’t utilize the medium. Nevertheless these cartoons were spearheading the way for future cartoons. This era gave birth to The Rocky and Bullwinkle and Popeye. The most popular cartoon, however, was Mighty Mouse Playhouse. The show had the ability to mix action with comedy, which seems to be the key to most good cartoons.
In today’s world of multimedia it has become extremely hard to avoid the introduction of adult themes to younger children, who lack the maturity to process and question the information. Young people are bombarded continually with unsuitable and undesirable concepts that give false images of acceptable behavior. Music, movies, television, internet and video games are accredited with the moral deterioration of present day youth. Great strides have been made to establish rating guidelines, parental controls and warning labels that assist adults in making informed choices on what their children should or should not be able to access but they are not perfect.
...ression just because it is not politically correct. Critics of South Park are in denial of what the world is because the world itself is not politically correct. People want to make the world seem like it is not as bad as it is. In the real world, profanity is spoken, violence happens, and racism is committed. South Park shows us what the real world is and how we should deal with it.
There is bribing, threatening, bad usage of words, and much more. For instance, when Porky the Pig and the dog were hunting and trying to kill Bugs Bunny who they don’t like, the pig held up a sign with random symbols, indicating it is not a kid friendly word. Even though it doesn’t say a specific word, most people can figure out what it means. Another example of a scene that again is not appropriate for a children’s cartoon is in the episode “Blue Danube”. The mother of three white swans were swimming when a black duck came and started swimming along.
porn cartoons" which isn't remotely true, especially seeing as how "90% of anime is aimed at children." Also, because of the "cartoons are for kids" mentality, just a small amount of violence sets people off when what they need to understand is that violence happens. "Events have consequences. That's why violence is in the movies. People get shot, and when they do, they fall down and stay dead. This is something you don't see in American cartoons." "Sexual content is usually only hinted at and rarely explicit." "One thing to remember is the American press often makes statements about sex in anime that are untrue." Some people think anime is bad and evil due to what the media says, even if they have never seen it themselves, and what happens is censoring and it makes getting anime to be brought over to America that much harder.
Another factor that points to children's television being too violent is the aggressive behavior that it is bringing out in the children that are watching it. During the average four hours a day that children watch television, They witness an average of 20 violent acts per hour. That is about 80 violent acts per day and, "Children who watch the violent shows, even 'just funny' cartoons, were more likely to hit out at their playmates, argue, disobey class rules, leave tasks unfinished, and were less willing to wait for things than those who watched the nonv...
Children have become much more interested in cartoons over many years and it has become a primary action to some lives. Typically, children begin watching cartoons on television at an early age of six months, and by the age two or three children become enthusiastic viewers. This has become a problem because too many children are watching too much television and the shows that they are watching (even if they are cartoons) have become violent and addictive. The marketing of cartoons has become overpowering in the United States and so has the subliminal messaging. The marketing is targeted toward the children to cause them to want to view the cartoons on a regular basis, but the subliminal messaging is for the adults’ to target them into enjoying the “cartoons”. This is unfortunate because children watch the cartoons on the television and they see material that is not appropriate for their age group. The Children who watch too much cartoons on television are more likely to have mental and emotional problems, along with brain and eye injuries and unexpectedly the risk of a physical problem increases.
Television programs that are targeted towards children, such as cartoons, can affect children in both positive and negative ways. I examined a variety of cartoons on both commercial and public television to observe the content of children's programming and determine the effects, both positive and negative, that programs have on children. The cartoons contain a wide variety of subject matters that can influence children in many different ways. I found that the majority of cartoons choose to use violence and inappropriate subject matter to entertain children. These images and stories can have a tremendous negative impact on children because the violence is rewarded without consequences, is glorified, and idealized. Children look up to the characters that have a negative impact by distorting their views on conflict resolution. There are, however, cartoons that contain little or no violence and often try to incorporate educational lessons that concern values and morals that are important for children to learn, thus having a positive impact.
Most American's would agree that children watch a lot of TV. It's common to see a child sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday morning with their Coco Pebbles watching their favorite superhero. This sounds harmless enough. However, many parents and teachers across the country are worried about the cartoons their children are watching. They feel that the cartoons have become too violent and are having negative long-term effects on children. It is common to see young boys pretending to shoot one another, while jumping on the couch and hiding in closets as a sort of make-believe fort. But parents say that children are learning these behaviors from cartoons and imitating them. Others however, disagree, they say that violence in cartoons does not effect children and that children need this world of fantasy in their lives. They say that children would show these same behaviors regardless of the content of the cartoons they watch.
Children daily see hundreds of violent acts on television. Most parents notice the obvious acts of gore and try to avoid those types of shows; however, what parents do not realize is that cartoons contain just as much, if not more, violence per episode. When parents see shows such as “SpongeBob SquarePants,” for example, they seem more comical rather than violent, and do not grab the parents’ attention. However, children are more prone to being frightened by violence due to the fact that they are much more literal than older children and adults (Drinka 1).
Not to mention, Adult Swim cartoons are the worst for a child. Those cartoons are strictly cartoons for adults, because they contain more mature content. With this in mind children will find a way to watch them anyway. Shows like Family Guy has extreme violence, profanity, and sexual references. In reality children will start fighting more aggressively, using profound words and phrases and make sexual references towards one another. The consequences are kids can pick up bad habits from watching cartoons that contain violent
mainly with the content of the shows. Many of the shows on television portray violence, drugs, sexual activity, and profanity. People who watch these shows see what the actors and actresses are doing and then feel it is all right for them to do the same things. If a kid is watching a show were one of the actors or actresses use profanity, they will feel it is all right for them to use the same language.
should be censored to an extent, yet they do not see the significant effect that regular television shows really have on their children.As a child grows, more and more statistics are proving that they are being exposed to too many shows that should be censored. Many studies have concluded that young children are most affected by what they see on television (Dritz, Russel 1996). For example, a child that watches a cartoon with a lot
There’s an ancient chinese proverb that states “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which everyone who passes by leaves an impression” (Great-Quotes.com.) People blindly believe that children are easily influenced by violent cartoons on television. From generation to generation parents are always warned not to allow their kids to watch too much violent cartoons. What kids watch- and not just how much- matters when it comes to television viewing (Rochman.) But just how true is that? Research on the negative influences of cartoons on children is inconclusive and complex.