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Is Adventure Time appropriate for kids?

#41
KwinS said:
Is there a required list of talking points that one must memorize if you like the show?
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No. The show just demands a level of attentive viewing that apparently "grown-ups" like some in this thread find too demeaning to lend to a cartoon. If you're watching it for the humor, you've missed the point.

La Planète sauvage wasn't very funny either, but you can bet I'll show it to my children.
SoonerMatt said:
I thought only stoners watched Adventure Time....
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People have said the same thing about every meaningful form of artistic expression to come out of the 20th century from Count Basie to Led Zeppelin, from Picasso to Harmony Korine (incidentally, I wonder how many in this thread discount Spring Breakers as an adolescent boob-flick).

Every once in a great while a piece of work arises that transcends its intended audience, its genre, and even its medium to contribute something of value to the culture as a whole. Either you catch on or you get left behind. Your loss.

I'll just leave this here.
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#43
callofcthulhu said:
No. The show just demands a level of attentive viewing that apparently "grown-ups" like some in this thread find too demeaning to lend to a cartoon. If you're watching it for the humor, you've missed the point.
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I watch it with my 10 year old Son, and appreciate it for its humor, but simply hadn't considered the bigger picture you proposed, despite recognizing myself that there is more depth to it than the average throw away cartoon. So exclusive to that, I can still enjoy it just for the humor... and without being stoned.
 
#48
I really enjoyed AT (my son still does), but I've found the more recent episodes boring. Existential jibber-jabber aside, I want to be entertained, and simply haven't been as of late. James Baxter...? The Computer glitch/virus episode...? The pillow fort episode was pretty alright, but it still lacked a bit of the charm and nuance that I enjoyed in previous seasons.

Let me adjust my monocle and twist my mustache...it's too mainstream and commercial to be cool anymore. Once I see Finn and Jack shirts hanging in the window of Hot Topic, or all over Think Geek, it has left the building with Elvis.
 
#51
Shows like this are meant for parents to watch with their children. In fact, most are. Children will have questions when they watch these things and parents are supposed to be with them to answer those questions. That's why these shows seem to appeal to a broad audience. I love the humor in a lot of the cartoons like Sponge Bob & Adventure Time. Think about Sesame Street; the celebrity guests are for the older audience.
 
#56
Tituscrow said:
My daughter (8 yo) loves it. That and Phineas and Ferb.

I tend to watch with her...not because I'm on the lookout for inappropriate content with a trigger-finger on the remote, but because I love 'em too.

"I can't stop now, I got a platypus controlling me...". Awesome.
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I love that there have been a couple of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" references in P&F.

"Dad" is voiced by Richard O'Brien (writer of the RHPS and Riff Raff)

One episode he's watching TV and says:"This isn't much of a horror movie. Where are the rock and roll musical numbers?"

And another where he is wearing an outfit similar to Riff Raff's (at the end of the film) and make a comment on how strangely comfortable he feels in that costume.
 

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