The Animated Series: It’s Not Just For Kids Anymore
Usually when we think of animation, at least in the United States, we think of kids stuff. Cartoons are the domain of children, from Disney movies to Saturday morning TV fare. But over the decades, the animated series has grown and evolved into a wide variety of forms for a wide variety of audiences. Animation is not just for kids anymore. The first animated series to break away from the children’s entertainment ghetto were probably Rocky and His Friends and the Bullwinkle Show. Although these two programs of the early 1960’s were shown in the late afternoon timeslot, when children were home from school and assumed to be watching, the humor in them was decidedly not aimed at children.
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