'Cartoons' wk. 9

I'm debating on which animation has made more impact in our lives. Limited animation came before the full features, at least that's what i'm concluding from our class. I guess using the same jokes and gags would tire after a while. Now it seems like all limited animation does have a story value. Simpsons produces a logical thought out story in just 30 minutes. The humor is mixed between slapstick and jokes which gives it a family value if not more of everyday occurrence humor. I think Nickelodean produced cartoons strictly for teens. The jokes were dirty, disturbing, and almost scary. I remember watching a Ren and Stimpy show, I was around 10 and never had any interest in the show. At one point they re-enacted a Repunzel and Ren was climbing up the 'hair' to reach Stimpy as repunzel. Once to the top the 'hair' is revealed as a long nose hair. I never quite got over that scene or gain interest in the show. While this is a later show of what the chapter describes as limited shows for older audiences, I'd just thought I'd bring up the Nickleodean kids. I'm sure most of college kids now remember old nickelodean with crazy cartoon shows like Rugrats, Ah! Real Monsters, Doug, Ren and Stimpy, and many more. These shows had more joke humor and situations of real life problems that was reflective of kids. Some other shows held a gross humor that was unseen in many limited animation before, like Ren and Stimpy. Even the art was drastic. There would be a pause and extreme close up of the distorted character with all of it's.. disgust. Like bulging eyes, pimples, blisters, gross teeth, etc. It was bizarre.

I miss some of the old shows though, they were different, and I enjoyed them to the sugarcoated artistic style like Disney.