avatar, last airbender: this series never seems to stop surprising me at how good of a job they did of portraying buddhism in a way that i think is accessible to children and their parents. its really pretty cool how ang does actually stay true to a lot of buddhist ideas, and the show does not seem to just use eastern thought as a gimmick. the characters are very dynamic, especially for a childrens cartoon. also the fight scenes are cool, i can't lie. in fact i yelled at my girlfriend for trying to talk to me during and of the series finale battles.
tom and jerry: i never get bored of this show. i loved this show when i was a kid and i love i now. what gets me now is how incredibly trippy some of the scenes are. my favorite instance is when tom eats jerry and jerry walks up through his insides, slides tom's eye up like a window, walks out, and then shuts it. besides the fact that he opened his eye, the fact that the creators maintain the social nicety of closing his eye again, makes me laugh. the imagination put into this show is really great. they do the same theme over and over again, but yet it is almost always new and entertaining.
spongebob: i really like this shows. it has its funny moments, but i really couldn't tell you why i like it. i really like spongebob though.
dragon ball z: me and my dad watch this together sometimes now that they started running the new incarnation of it. me and him and my brother used to watch to together, and so i have a lot of nostalgia for the series. and my dad does too. my brother hardly talks to him and i cant tell you how many times he's said: "i used to really like dragon ball. it was nice having something me and you boys could watch all together." i'm actually kind of crying now. but anyway, to show that im not just be a pretentious ass, i still find this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm6GCulrPVE video to be awesome. I'd make the complaint that the animation be a little better, but ultimately, i totally enjoy watching that video. so i like to watch the new dragon ball z, especially with my dad (who also likes avatar, not that its really relevant).
samurai jack: i liked this when it came out, but i wasnt old enough to be smart enough to pay attention to it. i have never seen an episode of this i havent fully enjoyed. i think i love that jack is just jack no mater what faces him, and especially in the case of technology. I missed a lot of this show when it aired, but sometimes they show it late night on boomerang and i watch it. i mean i think the show has enough examples of bio vs techno in it to make that a legit point of study, but, beyond that, it has a lot of cool fight scenes. of course the ideas of nature and tradition vs technology are huge in the show, but that is only one part, specifically the part i highlight cause i want to sound like a smart cool guy. the other part is the action and it has good action. i think the action blends comedy and violence very well, and of course any violence jack partakes in is very justifiable, which i like.
dexters lab: this is another show i loved as a child, and now they are showing on boomerang. i think part of the reason i loved it is dexter's constant sense of frustration. i think dexter's hate for deedee communicated a slightly misogynist view, which i found funny when i was a kid and i still do now (a carry over of my dad's divorce maybe...hahaha). Also, maybe, it communicated to me on the level that I had a few social ambitions, and neither did dexter...but let's not get too heady. anyway, this show was fun and clever i though, and i still do think!
i ignored king of the hill and aqua teen hunger force because they are obviously more adult and a discussion about those types of cartoons warrant their own thread.
PS. I love powerpuff girls, but they dont show that on any station to my knowledge so it didnt fit the VERY STRICT rules of this thread.
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childrens cartoons you like to watch.