#3

                As a kid I had no interest in cartoons at all. Sitting there by myself watching tv seemed awful. The only way to get me to sit there and watch something is if my two sisters (we’re triplets by the way) both wanted to also sit there and stare at the screen. My oldest memory of watching a cartoon is being very annoyed when road runner was on. I thought it was dumb and wanted to play outside. I didn’t dig blue’s clues or little bear but if it was the majority’s vote to sit there like little zombies staring at the tv screen then that’s what I did. Although as a group we worshiped Sailor Moon.

                As I got older watching tv after school didn’t seem so bad. Hey Arnold could hold my attention, that was probably the first cartoon that I learned to appreciate but I hated watching reruns. Staying home from school by myself with nothing to do but play with beanie babies or watch cartoon was hell. In middle school I learned that Sponge Bob was awesome. I really enjoyed the character personalities and how the ocean was brought to life in a ridiculous manner. With Sponge Bob reruns became tolerable because there’s so much attention to detail in those episodes that I felt like I would catch something new if I watched it over a few times.  The episodes did seem to get old fast though. I liked South Park too but that was probably for the violence.

                In high school I really loved Family Guy. It was entertaining stuff with reruns that I would watch but I still didn’t like to watch it by myself. It was just really funny, everyone thought that. I was going with the flow and falling under Stewie’s popularity among kids around my age. As of now I’ll watch American Dad a lot, alone or with others. I think that the writing on that show is great. The writing seems to go a bit further than Family Guy’s.

                To sum things up as a kid my relationship with cartoons was little to none. Before I sat down to update this blog I spent a lot of time thinking about my childhood and cartoons just had a very minor role. I think that I possibly had ADHD and still maybe do if I have/had trouble sitting there watching cartoons or anything else for that matter. It just felt pointless to spend the day watching tv when I could be outside. Now I have the understanding of animation as an art form to entertain the masses and I wonder if I missed out on anything good by not having an anime phase when I was a preteen.