Old School is the Best School

I was sitting around my parents’ house a few days ago watching T.V. with one of my nephews.  I needed this break from campus because just too many people were wanting to hang out, asking for autographs, or wanting to just touch me in general.  I know, it’s hard to imagine that I’m that popular but what do you expect with a nickname like “Jet”.  I’m kinda a big deal…a really big deal. Ok, enough of the shameless self-promotion, back to my very important topic.  OK, so I’m being a huge loser watching cartoons with my 9-year-old nephew.   It had been awhile since I’ve watched actual Saturday morning cartoons since I became a big boy and graduated to AdultSwim (Venture Brothers, Family Guy, etc).  I was excited to return to my glory days of mindless fascination but I was disappointed to find that I was oddly bored with all of the cartoons that I watched.  It mainly seemed like every other show was an attempt at copying Spongebob humor or an attempt to be EXTREME and AWESOME!!!  Where were all of the goofy cartoons that really rode their characters’ personalities to be funny or used the time-tested formula of mixing humans and animals?

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