Do kids enjoy animation series like the Simpsons?
storkosaur
The Simpsons and South Park are more oriented toward adults than kids.
But I wonder if kids enjoy them and at which age they start to
understand and to enjoy those kind of TV series?
If you have a web article it would be great.
Thanks
Gz
Daffyfan15
But I watched it because I liked the fact it was a cartoon and I liked the
characters and voices. I think that's one of the general reasons children watch
shows that are targeted for a mature audience. I found out that the Looney Tune
Cartoons from the 30's and 40's were not purposely targeted to children, but
yet again, they enjoy the characters, sound effects, and voices. I hope this
helps a little.
Terrence Briggs
No Web article, but I can safely say that I and my preteen brother
LOVED the Simpsons, since the Tracy Ullman days. I chalk it up to
budding animatophilia, but I tend to believe my tastes were somewhat
refined in those post-Thundercats days.
On a related note, the would-be pollsters of the 2-11 demographic
stated that Simpsons was one of the most popular shows of the early
1990s. Why else would a myriad of elementary schools ban those
"Underachiever...and proud of it, man" T-shirts?
Terrence Briggs, who recalls Tom Shales' glowing review of the
second-season premiere as his first read of the Washington Post (How's
THAT for encouraging young readership?)
Peace to you...
NF
South Park, mostly because my wife would kill me.
I'm sure she doesn't get most of the humor, but she likes the physical humor
in the show.
"storkosaur" <storkosa...@THISnetscape.net> wrote in message
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Chris Sobieniak
wrote:
>I watched Simpsons since it first started, and I was
>five years old back then!
I did too, though I first saw it as the Tracy Ullman shorts from a few
years before the sereis began, and that would put me at around 10-12
years old for my age.
>But I watched it because I liked the fact it was a
>cartoon and I liked the characters and voices. I
>think that's one of the general reasons children
>watch shows that are targeted for a mature
>audience.
I did too, though I also enjoyed the more edgier nature of the series
and how it doved into subjects that weren't necessarily present in TV
cartoons by that time.
>I found out that the Looney Tune Cartoons from
>the 30's and 40's were not purposely targeted to
>children, but yet again, they enjoy the characters,
>sound effects, and voices. I hope this helps a little.
Which led to the spate of the early days of TV when these same cartoons
now got stamped as being for kids rather than the adults they were
originally pushed for, or a "general audience" that they used to cover.
Kinda goes up there with how I used to stay up til midnight to watch the
Rocky & Bullwinkle toons that would get aired on a UHF station in my
town. While they sometimes got the regular daytime slot in some places,
others choosed to put them at a later time, kinda created that cult
status to those adults who have watched the show outside it's simple
comic formula and into something further.
From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak
--"Fightin' the Frizzies since 1978"--
Chris Sobieniak
(Terrence Briggs) wrote:
>No Web article, but I can safely say that I and my
>preteen brother LOVED the Simpsons, since the
>Tracy Ullman days. I chalk it up to budding
>animatophilia, but I tend to believe my tastes were
>somewhat refined in those post-Thundercats days.
I tend to favor the earlier seasons of the show myself. I preferebly
enjoyed the very first season as I enjoyed how much more looser the
animation felt and the kind of visual mofits that were used (like Wes
Archer's "twister mouths").
>On a related note, the would-be pollsters of the
>2-11 demographic stated that Simpsons was one
>of the most popular shows of the early 1990s. Why
>else would a myriad of elementary schools ban
>those "Underachiever...and proud of it, man"
>T-shirts?
I remember just having to watch the show under parental supervision at
that time! My mom never liked it at first because of the edgier
material used. I used to have a shirt or two, though I might've had one
of those bootlegged types as well.
>Terrence Briggs, who recalls Tom Shales' glowing
>review of the second-season premiere as his first
>read of the Washington Post (How's THAT for
>encouraging young readership?)
>Peace to you...
I might've saved the Entertainment section of my newspaper the week that
the Simpsons first began airing on Fox that week in January, '90! Have
to look around for it.
Joshua Kreitzer
>
For the 2002-03 season, "The Simpsons" was the #1 show among boys age
2-11 on any broadcast network, according to the Nielsen ratings. (The
article doesn't say what the #1 show among girls age 2-11 was.) See
the following article:
http://www.jackmyers.com/pdf/06-24-03.pdf
Whether they understand all of it is a different matter, but they are
certainly watching it.
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
storkosaur
Steve Carras
> Thanks all for those very informative posts
Even the Flinstones had anadult audience (the LATER Sat AM showing and
incarnations, though, were a different matter. Hanna Barbera by then
had changed, but 1957-1971 Hanna-Barbera Productions had some real
intellignet content, along the lines of Jay Ward,Disney, Warners,
Lantz,UPA and MGM
Steve Carras
Even the Flinstones had anadult audience (the LATER Sat AM showing and
Chika
It's a little more complex than just this. There is a nostalgia element,
where an animation was watched by kids who enjoyed it so much that they
still watch it when grown. Of course, what is a kid? Does a child of 5, a
child of 10 and a child of 15 watch and enjoy the same thing?
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