if you don’t know what line comes next, i’d suggest skipping this post coz it’s gonna be a face-full of cartoon nostalgia. oh where to begin?

so these last couple of months (over the holiday’s mainly) i’ve been, lets say indulging, myself in all things cartoon. well not all things. more just revisiting all those great things i loved as a

child but haven’t really thought about over the last ten years (well, except for Pokemon, that one’s stuck with me the whole way). why do we stop watching the things we love? i guess the number one reason is that we “out-grow” it. but as i’ve just realised, i have not even come close to outgrowing my old faves like Teen Titans, Pokemon or Kids Next Door. in fact, i even just watched all 3 season of avatar (the original cartoon, not the movie with blue people) which i had never even seen before and loved it!

so, if we don’t out grow them, what else is it? often it’s the sad reality that our favourite after school show has been cancelled. but i think the main reason we stop watching is that, as we grow up and move into secondary school, watching cartoons

stops being “cool”. and in high school, everything is about being cool. so if you’re still watching ash and pikachu try and become the best in all of kanto (or johto, or sinnoh, or hoenn. or unnova (but who really watched the unnova season?)) then you’re a nerd. no-one wanted to know which element you would rather be able to bend (for me it would be air or water) because soon it was all about which house would you be in at Hogwarts? (gryffindor of course) and then were you team bella or team edward? (neither, i can’t stand those stupid sparkly vampires) and now, if you don’t watch game of thrones, then you know nothing (john snow).

but, what’s life if you can’t enjoy the stuff you love? so i went and ‘aquirred’ all 5 seasons of Teen Titans and boy is it great. i miss all this kids stuff. i miss spongebob’s crazy antics. i miss debating with myself over whether i would rather have raven’s or starfire’s powers. i miss wishing that i had Fairly Odd Parents to help me get out of doing homework. i miss the playful adventures of the rugrats. and i never thought i’d say it but i miss team rocket. as a kid you just think they’re the bad guys, always trying to steal pikachu. but they are the comic relief of every episode. however, now that i’m older, i’m a little worried

by all their cross dressing, but as a kid you don’t pick up on that stuff. but they do it a lot. and being older, you notice things you didn’t. like all of meowth’s cat puns, or every time team rocket break the 4th wall.

so i say screw being “cool”. because all those old cartoons were the best. and if you can’t honestly sit down and find one thing you like about a show you used to love, then you should be ashamed. because your childhood is an important part of who you are today. and lets face it, pokemon are awesome.

(wow, that was a nerdy post)