Are you an adult and do you still watch cartoons?

I voted... No. ill be 38 years old later this year but i have not really actively watched cartoons since i was pretty much 13-ish and younger (as i figure by the time i was 15+ i doubt i thought much of cartoon's at that point). i have seen a little once in a while since, but not much.

I guess technically there is very little animated stuff i like (i.e. just... Death Note (2006-2007) ; www.imdb.com/title/tt0877057/ ) but your typical Toy Story types of animated movies (and the like (i have seen Toy Story 1 and 3)), while there are not total crap or anything like that, they are largely kids movies and are ultimately forgettable. basically animated movies etc just don't hold my interest like movies with actual people in them do and most importantly they have no re-watch value for me which is where movies are ultimately made or broke on whether they are something ill re-watch from time-to-time or not as the years pass. hell, even movies in general that are CGI heavy tend to be nothing special for me but i do like some here and there.

although something like Looney Tunes might be okay for nostalgia sake if i noticed on TV once in a great while as given my gut feeling at the moment those are probably something i would like the most from the past.

with that said... it's not like i would think bad of anyone in their 20's and older watching cartoon's here and there but i just never understood those who still praise those kinds of things as they can't hold a candle to movies with actual people in them. so basically... none of those animated movies are anything special.

i think it silly to wholesale dismiss an entire medium of storytelling. but yeah, i like animation.

the only ones i am keeping current with are Nick's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Wars Rebels.

i want to at some point go back and finish Regular Show. i got busy with a move maybe halfway through its run and fell off. probably going to start going back through the Real Ghostbusters too, now that it's on Netflix.

were i a child who watches cartoons would it be appropriate to vote "no" on the poll?

not really, the only current one I catch is maybe that Adventure Time.

but I do like animated films.

Yes, I'm an adult, and yes, I like cartoons. I've been watching a lot of 1930s ones lately.

I don't really ever watch children cartoons. But I do like to watch Family Guy and American Dad. 

Honestly, Movieman, SpongeBob, for all the program's annoying qualities, is one of the cleverest television shows still on right now.

There is a tremendous amount of borrowing from the great old comedians, with Laurel and Hardy being the largest inspiration: SpongeBob and Patrick as L&H, with roles reversed a bit (though sometimes Patrick does fall into the Ollie role [see maze-finding scene starting at 22:50]), and Squidward as Charlie Hall; Mr. Krabs as Jimmy Finlayson (with a huge dollop of Joe Flaherty's Guy Caballero thrown in for good measure); Mrs. Puff, Sandy, and especially Karen take over some of the wives' roles.

In particular, the plot and many of the jokes in the episode "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve," one of SpongeBob's crowning achievements (with "The Camping Episode" and "Band Geeks," one of modern comic television's finest half-hours) is culled wholesale from L&H's "Their First Mistake." ("The Camping Episode" also holds many similarities with "Them Thar Hills.")

Now, could that be considered plagiarism rather than homage? Possibly, but in an era where no one remembers such comic masters as the Boys, it's difficult to complain. 

If kids are growing used to this kind of humor when young (rather than the gross-out gags and unfunny jokes that characterize many a modern SB episode), that's a good thing. 

[As usual, I'm interested in if anyone agrees, disagrees, etc., with my analysis here.]

Loud House is pretty good.

Teen Titans has lots of references that only adults would get.

We Bare Bears is funny.

SpongeBob is funnier than ppl think. I didn't get it for years why it's so popular but now having kids being forced to watch it I get it now.

Old Tom and Jerry and Looney Toons never get old. This cartoons were never made for kids anyways.



Funny thing is .." adult cartoons " like Family Guy etc ..aren't nearly as good as the ones supposedly made for kids.