[Echo-chan713]

Well my view on it was that when we were kids we could grasp the darker side of the shows more than today's children. If we showed today's kids the older cartoons they would be scared and parents would have fits over the fact that a show scared their child.

The world is dark and [to me] a scary place to live and parents say that the world is all like comedies and sesame street and unicorns going to candy mountain and farts rainbows and such; so they get their kids to watch shows that make them happy not terrified.

Onto a whole other factor, when I was a kid, TV was my parent, no one told what I should and shouldn't watch cause later on I'll watch it anyway (or the fact don't want to be a part in my life) . Today, parents are more active in what their kids should watch, they have now netflix, TiVo, parental control settings, etc. If their was something on it didn't have a control block on it or a "like you like this, then we reccomend this:".

I'll make an example in 'Chef Goes Nanners' when there was debate on whether or not the South Park Flag has to change in order to make it less racist. Kyle and Stan had no idea that it was considered racist, they thought that it was a flag of 5 people. I'n the end Chef realized that the reason why Kyle and Stan say that the flag shouldn't changed because they just thought that it was just 5 people (4 whites and 1 black) unless someone pointed it out.

In another words, we didn't know that it was dark when we were kids unless the parents watched it with them or the parents watched it themselves, then the parents would point out to the children that it's a dark show and you shouldn't watch it.

Don't flame on me for this cause this is what I think why they aren't any darker series like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Sailor Moon (some episodes were dark), Ah, Real Mosters, etc.

I don't know how many aurums I got out of this one, but it'' be around 45-50 aurums XP