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So I have had a blissful day, which is odd being that I am back in the groove of things.

However, like every normal day in life I learned something new. I learned that kids cartoons have REALLY gone downhill since I was a kid. I remember Sesame Street thinking it was the best thing ever as a kid, and now I don't know a single kid who watches it. In fact there are so many mindless cartoons and the kids would rather watch them instead. It kind of makes me mad that people make those shows and attack the demographic like that, but at the same time it is a genius idea to make money.

I have decided that if I were to make a cartoon it would have the following components:

- a platypus. Kids don't know what it is, and it makes for an interesting character. Is it a duck? no! Is it a beaver? No! What is it?

- A female lead character that doesn't need the help of her male sidekick to solve issues.

- foreign language. Not spanish though, let's try for mandarin, or german. Something we don't already get a choice to learn in grade school.

- Education. I don't even care what we learn. It can be obscure facts about anything for all I care, but you have to learn something.

-Finally, it has to be something with music. There has to be a catchy theme-song that is not going to drive parents bonkers when the kids get hooked. So no, "Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorer" Dora and explorer don't rhyme so they should not make up the theme song. It drives me nuts when the eldest child here tells me "Hey aunt Jess, the Dora song rhymes!" and she is so excited because she thinks that it does, but when she gets tested on rhyming at school, she fails.

I also think that cartoons should have subtle adult humor. Family Guy is overboard, but you have to give us something to laugh at during the day too. Is it all too much to ask? I am now hunting down cartoons that I feel are suitable for her to watch around me. So far I am batting zero. She may end up watching ATHF tomorrow.