Bleeeehhhh

This is gonna be short because I'm tired, and I'm home for the weekend.  So, you kinda now know my whole backstory of how I became a nerd. This is kinda weird for me because normally I can't shut up about stuff. And here I am, 11:07 on a Friday night and I'm ready to drop down dead and sleep until noon tomorrow. Except then I would miss Saturday Morning cartoons...except those suck nowadays. It's either the fifty-billionth incarnation of the Power Rangers, or cheap Pokemon/Yu-gi-oh!/really crappy quality cartoons that just make me cringe. Whatever happened to shows with actual plots? To traditional, handdrawn stuff? To shows that actually made you laugh? To shows that made you want to pull a Calvin and Hobbes and race downstairs at six in the morning so you could spend the whole day watching cartoons?

I think the problem is that there's not anyone seriously geared towards making good quality shows anymore. All they have to have is a basic, I'm sorry, stupid, plot, throw a few potty jokes here and there, make all the characters act like brain dead morons and voila! We have most of the cartoons on nowadays.

This is part of why I became a Brony/Pegasister. Because the show was well written, and the characters weren't stupid. They were actually pretty smart, and more importantly, the lessons they learned in every episode weren't forgotten by the next one. It makes me miss the 90's, when most of the cartoons were very character driven, and people weren't worried about kids being scarred or offended (that should read, the parents of children). I mean, don't they realize teenagers watch Saturday Morning cartoons too? That girls watch cartoons too?
*incoming soapbox feminist rant*
Most cartoons are geared towards boys. Not saying that girls can't like boys' cartoons, but I miss the days of the Powerpuff Girls. I miss girl leads. I miss smart, witty humor that the 90's shows had. I'm sick of this brain dead stuff that people seem to think children like.

I recall one cartoon where, after explaining how there's a multiverse and there's a bunch of bad guys trying to take over the world (what else is new?) the ONLY girl character replied, "Tyrants must be stopped." Excuse me for a second while I blow out my brains. So, after hearing from one of your guy friends that there's trouble in another universe that you haven't seen at all, you automatically agree to join this guy on his quest? Where's the skepticism? What is spurring you to say this? AGh!

This is the problem with being a writer: you analyze other characters because they're not acting the way you want them too.