Now I'm not as good a conisseur of cartoons as I used to be, but I have several younger brothers and sisters that, when looking after them, I watch the cartoons and stuff with them. As I sit there staring at Dora the Explorer who is teaching kids Spanish before they speak English, I couldn't help thinking, why can't they just watch cartoons? They're kids for fuck sake! Let them just watch a cat chasing a mouse through a house while a rather large, faceless black housewife shouts at "Thomas!" (which now thinking back to it, was quite racist).
Sadly, my brothers have fallen victim to one of the most annoying and draining epidemics on Television, no, not Goldenballs, its the poor standard of programming on the Disney Channel. Good. Lord. Is there no cheesier form of programming in the history of human kind? The Suite Life of Zac and Cody, Camp Rock, Sleepover Club. These children don't deserve this kind of torture. No one does. I enjoyed my childhood viewing. Johnny Bravo, the inappropriate blonde haired "Ladies Man", Ed, Edd and Eddy, three guys who did anything for money and jawbreakers...and the piece de resistance, Wacky Racers!
There were a few cartoons and shows I didn't like as a kid but I just used to watch it because it made me laugh. I don't want to learn all the state capitals and sing along to songs about Brazil, learning, was for school! That was the purpose of school. With the shows of today, kids will be taught from Home by Diego and Mickey Mouse. I just wanted a show about a boy who had a secret laboratory behind his bookcase. Is it too much to ask?
Bring back the good cartoons - Dexter's Laboratory, Wacky Racers, Secret Agent Squirrel, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Top Cat and of course, Hong Kong Phooey, who may I add is the Number One, Super Guy. 
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