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Yeah what the hell was up with that? People in the comments and retweets are saying “well it’s to show kids that things don’t always work out, especially in relationships”. I dunno about that, maybe I’m just too used to cartoons being used as the creator’s therapy session. Like how a bunch of them had prom episodes to live out the prom they’d “wanted”.
 
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Yeah what the hell was up with that? People in the comments and retweets are saying “well it’s to show kids that things don’t always work out, especially in relationships”. I dunno about that, maybe I’m just too used to cartoons being used as the creator’s therapy session. Like how a bunch of them had prom episodes to live out the prom they’d “wanted”.
That shit that turned young me off of both Adventure Time and Regular Show. That melodramatic crap was the opposite of what I wanted to see in a cartoon.
 
This is why (when I was little) all I watched were classic cartoons, I never got into most of the new era cn shows, I had a couple spongebob dvd's (and even then they were the early seasons) but mostly classic shorts and hanna barbera stuff like the flintstones and the jetsons. I think the only "modern" show I liked when I was a kid was tom and jerry tales, now..... not as much, I appreciate the classics a lot more considering how much they butcher it now.
 
This is why (when I was little) all I watched were classic cartoons, I never got into most of the new era cn shows, I had a couple spongebob dvd's (and even then they were the early seasons) but mostly classic shorts and hanna barbera stuff like the flintstones and the jetsons. I think the only "modern" show I liked when I was a kid was tom and jerry tales, now..... not as much, I appreciate the classics a lot more considering how much they butcher it now.
Being an 80's kid, I had a mom who bought me tons of Public Domain VHS tapes of all sorts of old material to watch, I think it made me the way I am, with all the dated things I viewed in my youth. To this day, these two cartoons stick out in my mind as given me some idea of how the world worked.

Incidentally, a new Blu-ray came out recently of this studio's work containing new transfers from the original negatives of these cartoons.
 
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Yeah what the hell was up with that? People in the comments and retweets are saying “well it’s to show kids that things don’t always work out, especially in relationships”. I dunno about that, maybe I’m just too used to cartoons being used as the creator’s therapy session. Like how a bunch of them had prom episodes to live out the prom they’d “wanted”.
This began with Gravity Falls' Season 2 and it got worse from that point. Writers write what they know, and you can guess that none of them had a happy relationship (if any). Meanwhile, 90s and 80s cartoons DID have happy couples here and there.
 
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