I’m bored enough to start some pseudo analysis of children’s television, in many parts (hopefully around 3) and show off how the state of things are today:
Part 1: Child to adult ratio.
For this part, I’m going to list current ongoing shows during primetime(thank you the hardworking wikipedians who managed to list this, so I didn’t have to.)
The score goes like: If the major characters are either children, preteen, or early teen(below the age of 15), it’s a “Child” centric show. If the major characters are 17 and above, it’s going to be marked “Adult” centric show.
Part 1: A: Current shows
Ben 10 [Child]
Camp Lazlo [Child] Codename: Kids Next Door [Child] Cambala Investigation Agency [Child] Dexter’s Laboratory [Child] Digimon Frontier [Child] Di-Gata Defenders [Child] Dragon Tales [Child] Dragonball Z [Adult] Ed, Edd and Eddy [Child] Galli Galli Sim Sim 2 [Child] Johnny Bravo [Adult](though it can’t be considered one)
Johnny Test [Child] Megas XLR [Child] Mega Man Star force [Child] Mike, Lu and Og [Child] Mix Master [Child] Naruto [Child] Pokémon: Advanced Battle [Child] Richie Rich [Child] Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get a Clue! [Adult] Sheep in the Big City [Adult] (wow, this is my favorite show of all time. When does it come on)
Skatoony [Child] Skunk Fu [Child] Strawberry Shortcake [Child] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [Adult] The All New Popeye Show [Adult] The Jetsons [Adult] The Popeye Show [Adult] The Powerpuff Girls [Child] Tom and Jerry Tales [Child] Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy [Child] Winx Club [child]
Number of Adult centric shows: 9 (mostly off primetime)
Number of child centric shows: 25. (mostly during primetime)
Further examination shows that most adult-centric shows air from 10pm to 6am while the whole primetime features younger characters.
Part 1: B
Now we shall consider shows that used to air, not just a few years back, but a few months back too.
Atom Ant [Adult]
Batman of the Future [Adult]
Batman: The Animated Series [Adult]
Beyblade [Child]
Captain Caveman and Son [Adult]
Captain Planet [Adult]
Centurions [Adult]
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines [Adult]
Droopy [Adult]Dynomutt [Adult]
Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends [Child]
Goober and the Ghost Chasers [Child]
I Am Weasel [Adult]
Josey And The Pussy Cats [Adult]
Justice League [Adult]
Krishna [Adult]
Looney Tunes [Adult]
One Piece [Adult]
Ozzy and Drix [Adult]
Pinky And The Brain [Adult]
Ramayan [Adult]
Samurai Jack [Adult]
Secret Squirrel [Adult]
Sky Commanders [Adult]
Space Ghost Coast to Coast [Adult]
Speed Racer [Adult]
Spike and Tyke [Child]
Star Wars: Clone Wars [Adult]
Superman [Adult]
Swat Kats [Adult]
Teen Titans [Adult]
The Addams Family [Adult]
The Cartoon Cartoon Show [Adult]
The Flintstone Kids [Child]
The Flintstones [Adult]
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy [Child]
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee [Adult]
The Mask: The Animated Series [Adult]
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest [Adult]
The Smurfs [Child]
Thundarr The Barbarian [Adult]
ThunderCats [Adult]
Time Squad [Adult]
Tom & Jerry Kids [Child]
Top Cat [Adult]
Touche Turtle [Adult]
Wacky Races [Adult]
Wally Gator [Adult]
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? [Adult]
Xiaolin Showdown [Child]
X-Men Evolution [Adult]
Yogi Bear [Adult]
Yogi’s Treasure Hunt [Adult]
Child: 7
Adult: 46
Analysis
Wrapup
I know at the end it’s all the same, but I can honestly say I learned a lot from TV shows watched during the course of my life. Many teach you simple things from social behaviour, repsect for others and ethics. As a liberal, libertarian male, I don’t mind any media, as freedom is foremost, but a complete paradigm shift from adults who take care of business day after day to wackhy, out of control pre-teens, I am a little disturbed.
Where is the justice league, and justice, where is top cat and his brilliant sarcasm, where is fucking captain planet in this oil deprived, environmentally screwed up world. When’re these people going to target any issues than try to sell more shit.
I will always love cartoons. The ones these days aren’t funny, creative, innovative, let alone good to watch. Either I’m getting too old too fast (20’s a big number) or something’s going horribly wrong.
My favorite cartoons of all time would be: Sheep in the big city, Swat kats, the Addam’s family, and the new adventures of Johnny quest.
I don’t think I’ll get a target audience if I write about programming in one post, and about 15 year old cartoons in the next.
Screw target audience.
6 Responses to “On children’s media Pt. 1: Child/Adult ratio of Cartoon Network(India)”
I love dragon ball z
true.. cartoons arent made like they used to be. you have a good taste. nowadays its become more marketing and every new ‘child’ show has its marketing team working on overdrive. The only new innovative show i’ve watched is Codename kids next door. This from a guy who grew up on a very high dosage of cartoons and anime.
here’s Sheep for u: http://tinyurl.com/6llpcd drawn a long time back.. almost 5-6 years ago.
I’ve never been into cartoons or anime, and my source of media was an old tape of the pink panther show until I got cable.
Rest assured, the kids are screwed.
true
Very interesting post. I thought that I was the only one who is still a cartoon watcher and bold enough to admit it. Anyway, I had once written a post on this on my blog too. I would really like it if you see it once. HERE
And I loved Sheep in the Big City too… And were you a fan of Garfield, the animated series?
@Prashanth, nice post and website. /me bookmarks
btw, I haven’t really watched television for over three years.