In fact...

Anonus

...the argument here is that, nostalgia be damned, the cartoon is one of those rare beasts that has improved with age. It has lost its saccharine, hearts-and-flowers quality and become so hip and switched-on that it has all the characteristics of an electric train set—ostensibly for the kiddies, but it’s the grown-ups who are rolling on the floor.

Imipolex G

These are not your words.

Anonus

No they're not

DYRE

I long for the day when critics will be able to admit that they like something made for children without having to pretend that it isn't actually made for children.

Anonus

I get your frustration for sure

I just think "hip and switched-on" is fucking hilarious, even if that was the lingo of the time

Klinotaxis

poor fucker never saw bugs the bunny

Anonus

Klinotaxis said:

poor fucker never saw bugs the bunny

this dude's only exposure to animation was apparently bambi, which bore little resemblance to an electric train set

glennmagusharvey

What exactly is being described here?

DYRE

Cartoons (Hanna-Barbera cartoons primarily?) in 1965.

https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2017/06/its-not-about-cartoons.html