This theory this week that applies to my topic of cartoons is a ritual. There can be different concepts to the ritual of cartoons. There is the ritual of when children come home from school; they like to watch their favorite cartoon shows every day. Parents are also known to occupy their kids with cartoon shows to keep them from bothering the parent who might be busy cooking or cleaning house.
There is also the ritual of certain classic cartoons that
are played each year for the holidays of Halloween and Christmas. I remember as a kid watching the Peanuts “It’s
the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”, which original aired October 27, 1966, has
been a holiday classic cartoon that is still played on television every
Halloween. Another set of classic
holiday cartoons that is seen each year are “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
(1964), “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” (1970), and “Charlie Browns Christmas”
(1965), which even to this day has kids get excited that Christmas is right
around the corner ( Internet Movie Database , 2012) .
When I was a kid, growing up out in the middle of nowhere, we
only had access to three television channels from an antenna, so we were kind
of limited to Saturday morning cartoons for a few hours and holiday specials
such as those mentioned above. Now a
days there has to be ten channels of cartoon networks, like Disney, Cartoon
Network, Nickelodeon, etc., that offer a wide variety of cartoons for children
of all ages to watch daily. If only some of the cartoons made sense to us
adults, they would be enjoyable to watch with your children and create a new
ritual of watching cartoons together. My
grandfather enjoyed Looney Toons and would always make sure our Saturday chores
were done in time to watch it.
Internet Movie Database . (2012). Retrieved from IMDb: http://www.imdb.com
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