the classroom of sundays :)

‘BEEP BEEP!!!! ‘Gone are the days when these words on TV meant the road runner outsmarting the coyote…

Long ago (or what it seems like), Sundays weren’t seen as a day of sleeping till noon!!

Instead, we woke up early to enjoy an hour full of cartoons… (Well they were worth waking up for!!).I am not referring to a horde of channels but 60 min in entire week!

 

Our parents also used it as the best bait to make us complete our homework, clean our rooms and even for a little help in the household. A whole week’s good behavior was to ensure us that we’ll have the remote for that hour. I bet now a day’s kids won’t understand all this fuss over some cartoons, and certainly not the good behavior part…coz all they do is throw a tantrum, not surprising though since they regularly watch a kid do the same on TV. We lived in a different dimension all-together.

 Wind back your life 10-15 yrs in the past & you’ll know what I’m speaking of, well it seems like the end of an era now (the innocent one as a matter of fact)…

It seems like all that was required to know about life, we learned by watching them.

Popeye taught us never to be afraid of bullies and also the reason our moms were able to trick us into green vegetables.

Aladdin showed us to be brave & fearless.

Science actually seemed fun while watching Dexter’s laboratory.

Huey, Dewey & Louie (d three famous brothers in duck tales) taught us that siblings are your best friends and thus stick together.

In all time favorite tom n jerry, we discovered the unseen friendship despite of all those fights.

Chip n dale proved that no matter how small you are, you can still rock on!!

Mickey Mouse taught us to value friends and be happy, whereas watching Donald duck we learned to control our anger.

Well, I can go on with this forever…

Sometimes we think that today’s children have so much, but surf a few hours through their cartoons & you’ll realize who the lucky one is. Trust me, a kid trying to act smart along with a couple of double meaning jokes…hellooo… not funny!!!

The essence or to be precise the innocence seems to have lost. The fairytales with a hope of happy ending, or an episode with a morale of goodness over evil. Those were the basic roots for optimism, decency and the qualities which a child should imbibe in him/her.

We might not have all those cool gadgets, clothes, accessories, but we had something that our after generation will never have…. a childhood!!

Cheers for the blissful time we spent watching them all….

 

p.s.: I guess cartoon creators need to start smoking pot & tripping on acid again so we can have quality cartoons like Scooby doo & the gummy bears again!! (Well, whatever it takes ;))