bogleech:

You know what’s so great about the stuff most popular with kids right now?

SENTIMENTALITY.

The concept has practically been some sort of unspoken taboo for so fucking long in entertainment both for children and for adult geeks. How many pale imitations of Looney Tunes did we just live through? How many Ren and Stimpy’s and South Parks and Spongebobs? I still enjoy a lot of those shows but it was still like this non-stop barrage of cynicism, sarcasm and in-your-face “wackiness” for something like 25 years straight, beginning somewhere in the late 80′s to early 90′s, where real tenderness and feeling was either the setup for a punchline or at least kind of on the down-low, sneaking its way into special exceptions like Hey Arnold or little rare moments of the zanier fare.

GOD was it exhausting.