[Ciexyz]

I used to watch Popeye in the '50's when I came home from school. Kids today don't have TV shows with true American heroes like Popeye.

[aruanan]

I used to watch Popeye in the '50's when I came home from school. Kids today don't have TV shows with true American heroes like Popeye.

There were so many great shows back then. The reason that the after school stuff was so good is that these cartoons were mostly made for adults as shorts in the movie theaters in pre-TV decades. They had to have some degree of humor and sophistication. Once the educationist folks got hold of children's TV, it went pretty much straight into the crapper and became preachy, short bursts of manic nonsense sandwiched between many layers of advertising.