[El Scorcho]

Knowledge is your friend. Many android devices will get security updates, Google/phone manufacturers won't "game the system" and tell you that you got an entirely new version of the OS when you really didn't like Apple does.

Oh yeah, they get security updates... at the wireless carrier's discretion, which is usually pretty far removed from the actual fixes of the vulnerability. Bottom line: The time to patch for vulnerabilities on Android is typically very long.

You're also just plain wrong about the Apple OS updates. Just because a phone isn't capable of running ALL of the new features in an OS update doesn't mean it didn't get the new version. That's lame. You can do better.

[alabama24]

Knowledge is your friend.

I think the phrase is "Knowing is half the battle… GO JOE!"

[Purple Haize]

Knowledge is your friend.

I think the phrase is "Knowing is half the battle… GO JOE!"

GO JOE!

[BJWilliams]

I wish little boys were watching that and Transformers and He-Man again and not stuff like Phineas and Ferb, Annoying Orange and The Regular Show

[LUconn]

What? Phineas and Ferb is awesome

[RubberMallet]

phineas and ferb is pretty amazing. the new looney tunes show is also one of the better cartoons out there.

[alabama24]

What? Phineas and Ferb is awesome

+1

[PAmedic]

Regular Show and Adventure Time = nightly must see TV

[LUconn]

Regular Show and Adventure Time = nightly must see TV

I can't even put my finger on why I find those shows funny. But I don't let my kids watch them yet.

[PAmedic]

every day I ask my wife why did you gunt my fries.

she just ignores me. I think she just cant handle how cool I am.

and as far as parenting: I probably shouldnt be allowed to have kids at all but oh well

[lynchburgwildcats]

cheaper iPhone to stupid cartoons? Sigh...

[LUconn]

did you even take the time to read the posts? The consensus is that the cartoons are NOT stupid.

[PAmedic]

agreed. motion carries.

[lynchburgwildcats]

did you even take the time to read the posts? The consensus is that the cartoons are NOT stupid.

That's a matter of personal opinion.

[flamesfilmguy]

What? Phineas and Ferb is awesome

+1

+2

[BJWilliams]

Ok I will concede on Phineas and Ferb, but my point was that cartoons back in the 80s and early 90s were fun and sparked imaginations of many young boys who would go on to become fathers (and will eventually become grandfathers), and it was at a time when you didnt have groups wringing their hands over characters shooting at each other and all the various psychological underpinnings that may come with the "violence" that came with them

[Sly Fox]

I personally believe if you went back and watched most of the '80s & '90s cartoons you would find them in general to be nothing more than commercials for products that weren't that funny at all. There were a few exceptions but as whole ...

I know because I used to run those things at master control in the Late '80s & Early '90s. Phineas & Ferb blows that stuff away with their creativity.

[HenryGale]

Phineas and Ferb is the first real cartoon I really enjoy since my youth of Scooby Doo, Looney Toons, Tom and Jerry and such....
And P & F is really entertaining

[El Scorcho]

Phineas and Ferb is amazing. One of the best cartoons to be on TV, maybe ever. The writers on that show are operating at another level.

As someone who's son is obsessed with The Transformers I can confirm that the original series was nothing more than extended commercials for Takara Tomy/Hasbro. The dialogue is TERRIBLE. It gets worse after the second season, too. Transformers Prime has been the first thing I've ever watched that has cashed in on the potential that franchise, and I say that as a fan.

[RubberMallet]

Ok I will concede on Phineas and Ferb, but my point was that cartoons back in the 80s and early 90s were fun and sparked imaginations of many young boys who would go on to become fathers (and will eventually become grandfathers), and it was at a time when you didnt have groups wringing their hands over characters shooting at each other and all the various psychological underpinnings that may come with the "violence" that came with them

i have gone back through the power of netflix and watched many of the cartoons i enjoyed as a child. thundercats, gi joe, he man, transformers, smurfs.....the animation, dialogue, plot lines were completely moronic. i didn't care because they brought back alot of memories but don't kid yourself. they were pretty dumb.

shows that i still consider very good like dark wing duck and animaniacs even when compared to some of the cartoons available today hardly compare.

[Yacht Rock]

I would agree that upon further review, many things from my childhood simply don't hold up as well. I will say this though, when we had cartoons as a kid, they were only on at a certain time during the day, and that was it. If you missed it, there was no DVR. There was no ability to have 5 hours of Phineas and Ferb set to On Demand so we never had to watch multiple episodes of a show at once. I think when we took it in small doses, it was good. I would watch an episode of GI Joe, and then go outside and play baseball in the street and forget about how bad the script was.

These days, kids are surrounded for hours by the same media and the ability to watch the same episode over and over again. This causes modern day media to hold up to greater scrutiny. Due to the fact that kids can watch shows now anytime they want 24 hours a day, they have made these shows more adult friendly, which is why we may like them more than the ones that, as kids, were only geared toward children.

[Purple Haize]

Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Thank you and good night!

[ALUmnus]

Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Thank you and good night!

Used to watch it every morning before I left for the bus stop.

But really, for real quality in the older cartoons, the only one I can think of was Looney Toons/Merry Melodies. And much like today's cartoons, it's probably because they were full of adult humor.