If there’s one thing I didn’t think about when it can cames to catoons, it would be the physics. This poem really shed some light on the topic. I don’t know if that’s what the cartoonists were trying to imply but it indeed makes sence now. I like to think of it as way to distract your children from asking too many questions. Instead, you make them ask questions based on what they see from the cartoons. In other words, making them think they’re getting the answers they want.
Physics, in my opinion, is based what’s physically possible. When I was young, I didn’t dare try to attempt the stunts pulled on television but I did take a few phrases I heard. They were only good for inside jokes or friends that watch the same shows I’ve been watching. Now it isn’t worth the time and I end up making my own jokes that soon become inside considering my friends are the only ones who’ve heard it. One example is when someone asks me, “What’s up?”, I reply, “What’s down?”. I use to say something less clever like “The sky” or just point up at it. After that, it literally got deeper when I started saying “What’s down?”. This is because if you go so far down into the Earth and pop up on the other side, the answer will still be the sky even if it’s at a different hour.
Cartoons can sometime backfire though. I once had a job at a kind of summer school called the Boys and Girls Club. There was a little girl who got the wrong impression from watching family guy. She had told me she hated teenagers even though she would one day become one. She would constantly try to make my job miserable. She knew I was getting paid to work there and assumed that was the only reason I worked there. For me, it was really for the experience but nothing was going to change her attitude towards teenagers.
From watching cartoons, I want to become a cartoonist myself. I dedicated my life to drawing and wasting time watching anime to this day. Sadly, it gets in the way of my studys. Maybe watching cartoons is only ment for ten year olds and if your any older, it’ll get in the way of work. I’m a living example though I may have no F’s, D’s, U’s, or S’s. Timmy Turner from Fairy Odd Parents always got F’s. This would be an example of the way simple cartoon can influence a childs work habits. Sometimes their’s a price to pay for letting children watch too much television as well as letting them have access to one.
The ending of the poem is what caught my eye the most,
“…learn that if a man runs off the edge of a cliff
he will not fall until he notices his mistake.”
What drives me to be a cartoonist is the life lessons you can teach to “viewers like you”. Not just trying to get a good laugh. Some methods are exaggerated and can give young viewers the wrong idea as The Simpsons does to the father figure, Homer. Sometimes, it’s just pure action like DBZ. Cartoons come in many shapes and sizes, but I want to be the type who can incorporate some physics into this line of work.