Doesn't every kid's world revolve around cartoons?
Maybe it's just the power of good marketing, but I don't know of any kid who doesn't have a favorite cartoon character. Even in the new generation with the super lame why-are-little-kids-watching-this cartoons on television now, the kids that grow up with them can tell you all about them. My three year old nephew can recognize Scooby-Doo in an instant and even sing you the opening theme song. I was no different as a kid. Though my choice of cartoons were completely different [and not to mention much better], I found myself enveloped in the world of cartoons advertising my love all around me
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When I was a kid I had no interest in reality TV or live action TV and the safest kid-friendly channels to watch were Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Being a 90s kid, there were several good cartoons that I remember watching
such as Doug, Recess, Hey Arnold!, etc. The one cartoon character that
made its way in to my bedroom and all over everything was Tweety from
the Looney Tunes. I don't know where the madness began and I'm not
really sure when it really stopped, but for a long period of time I was
always surrounded by Tweety. I had the Tweety pillow, Tweety blankets,
Tweety dolls, and Tweety tshirts. I was a walking advertisement. Warner Bros should have paid me for my marketing. Over time my taste in cartoons began to change. The first major change came with the introduction of Japanese animations on Cartoon Network with the original Toonami. It came on every day at five and I planned my whole afternoon around watching those shows. As soon as I got home for school, I immediately got to work on homework to get it done before five. Then I settled down to watch my Sailor Moon [the original], Dragonball Z [the best], and other such shows. I was really getting into these shows in addition to the Pokemon and Digimon explosion when my world ended.
No, really. My life with cartoons died. My parents killed my soul and got rid of cable. Oh, how I argued and complained. Due to this traumatic experience, my cartoon experience changed completely. In order to get my cartoon/animation fill, I turned to Disney movies. Our collection of Disney VHS tapes grew immensely as there was nothing left to watch. I did manage to sneak in some Dragonball Z whenever my gma picked me up from school and took me to her house, and I did get to look forward to Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, I was the kid up early on Saturdays just to watch cartoons. My options were slim, but I still found time to watch what I could. Cartoons really drove my childhood.
As I am now, I still watch cartoons. I find myself flipping the channels to Cartoon Network when the classic cartoons are on and I will secretly admit that I know the theme song to Wonder Pets. I blame my nephew. >.>;; I also enjoy Japanese anime every now and then. For a period of time, I watched atleast two hours a day worth of anime. This is to the point that I've managed to see every episode of Inuyasha [subtitles ftw]. I haven't really been able to get in to them anymore/have the time for them, but sometimes I will find a good one to watch when I'm in the mood.
From childhood to young adult..hood.., I have always been surrounded by cartoons and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. Cartoons = <3.
