#powerpuff girls – @tymime on Tumblr

In the Powerpuff Girls episode "Sun Scream", you can see the word "guns" flash in the background for a single frame. I can't guess why this is there, but my theory is that it's botched censorship, because the grey sign seems to flicker with an ever so slightly mismatched color.

But it seems kind of sinister somehow, doesn't it?

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If you ever need to ask a ‘90s kid why they like ‘60s music so much, here’s your answer

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Anyone ever notice how a lot of late ‘90s/2000s cartoons were using pop punk theme songs?

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I absolutely abhor gross-out humor.

The simple reason is that gross things are gross.

I don’t think finding gross things funny is natural. It’s a learned behavior. It probably starts out as embarrassment laughter and this coping behavior mutates into a weird obsession. We get naturally disgusted by gross things, because the majority of gross things have something to do with the potential for illness and illness itself- you don’t want to touch poop because it can make you sick. That’s a survival instinct. If there’s correlation between gross-out humor and apathy towards pollution (i.e. tossing garbage on the ground) I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

I didn’t even like gross-out humor as a kid, at least nearly not at all. I think may have laughed at fart jokes for maybe two years out of my entire life? If even that! I never liked Ren & Stimpy or Cow & Chicken, and I only watched them when nothing else was on, and I regret ever doing that to this day.

It’s why it baffles me when a smart, clever, and highly thoughtful cartoon I love can somehow whip out a shoehorned fart joke out of nowhere. Some of my favorite cartoons do it, and I can’t understand why. You would think being smart and wise would erase any thoughts of toilet humor from your mind. I’ve seen it in Angry Beavers, Dexter’s Lab, and The Powerpuff Girls- completely unnecessary gross jokes that could’ve been skipped entirely without effecting the plot or humor level at all. It’s particularly annoying when a genius like Stephen Colbert does it. It’s beneath him, if you ask me.

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wissykit asked:

What cartoons did you enjoy the most as a kid? How do they hold up today?

That’s a pretty long list, actually. Off the top of my head: Rugrats, Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Kablam, Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Pokémon.

As for how they hold up today, I’d say pretty darn well. I don’t know how well they’d do on TV nowadays, considering how much tastes have changed, but I have heard stories of parents introducing them to their kids- I imagine when they’re still young enough to not have any biases.

The only thing I can really think of is Tiny Toons and Animaniacs are chock full of ‘90s pop culture references that haven’t aged too well. Even in the mid-to-late ‘90s when I was a kid (I was five years old in 1994), a lot of the jokes were already dated by the time I saw them. Even now I don’t know who some of the celebrities they make fun of are supposed to be.But then again Looney Tunes (another favorite) are also full of contemporary references, and those helped me learn to love old movies and radio shows.

Of course, other than that I’d say all them are pretty timeless. It helps that a lot of them were deliberately retro, as I think a lot of them were created and written by nostalgic baby boomers. I was lucky that I grew up with former-hippie parents who introduced me to that sort of stuff. I don’t imagine there were many kids my age who got every Beatles reference in “Meet the Beat-Alls”.