IPW

I'm sure they still exist but htere used to be tons of cartoons every Saturday. Some of them sucked bad. Lots of the same background scrolling behind running characters over and over again (you know who I'm talking about Shaggy). But they were fun. I looked forward to Saturday morning like I look forward to an afternoon nap now. I have checked out the current line-up, sort of carelessly flipping and lingering on a couple of the offerings. Aside from the occasional re-airing of Bugs and his pals, they seem to have continued their downward slide towards sucky-town. The animators (there are lots of Koreans involved) don't seem to have a love for the characters that they used to. Once the really talented animators here started getting paid what they were worth, unfortunately it became to expensive to actually produce a quality cartoon. Believe it or not, the height of cartooning did not arrive with Pixar, but in the 40's with shorts made specifically for the theaters, long before the telly. I have seen, rarely aired on TV for some reason, examples of this in a couple Popeye cartoons (yes, a Popeye cartoon is the finest example of cartoonerie that I have ever seen). I believe it was "Popeye and the 40 Thieves" and took place in the Middle East, sans-oil war. The only domestic product fought over at that time were lamps full of Genies or flying carpets. I think there were plenty of both in the cartoon I'm thinking of.

Anyway. In response to the lack in most of our lives of Saturday morning cartoons, I present my own, based on the current debate raging at work. I'm trying to convince everyone that they should eat meat. But the fact that I'm wrong is harming my case.