Don't denigrate cartoons. An entire generation learned valuable lessons from them. Lessons such as:
If you keep running when you have gone off a cliff, you will not fall unless you stop running,
Three buckets contain enough paint and colour selections to paint a realistic mural of a tunnel,
When arguing, change your position and your adversary will also change theirs,
Martians are planning on blowing up the earth for blocking their view of the sun,
An umbrella is insufficient protection from falling boulders,
Sentences are long trains connected by And, But, and Or, and
Bills sit on the steps of congress until they are passed.