I really do not watch the Disney channel a whole lot. I used to watch it all the time growing up. I loved the oldschool animation and the cheesy cartoons. I enjoyed the later cartoons: Kim Possible, Doug, House of Mouse, and Phineas and Ferb.
But...the new Mickey Mouse cartoons really upset me. They upset me for quite a few reasons. First, oldschool Mickey Mouse cartoons had more moral storylines. I caught one of the new cartoons and Mickey was squirting ice cream from an ice cream truck into his shorts to get relief from the hot weather outside. Goofy and Donald were also rubbing the ice cream on their bodies to get cooler. This cartoon is called "Stayin' Cool". It's on Youtube. If Walt was around, he would have had the characters pay for the ice cream before using it to cool themselves. Using it illegally is wrong and un-Disney.
In another cartoon short "Goofy's Grandma", Goofy bets Donald Duck money that he can fool Mickey into believing Donald Duck is really Goofy and Goofy is not dressing up as his grandmother. The bet is lost and Goofy gives Donald a stack of money. Gambling does not belong in Disney cartoons. That is not moralistic behavior. It is also certainly not a habit that impressionable children should be learning about. Lying to friends is also not something that should be represented in this manner either. It's disgusting?! What is wrong with the Disney writers?!! That's terrible.
Another problem is the animation quality is really REALLY bad. If I wanted to see body hair and manboobs with a dumb-funny plots, I would watch "Ren and Stimpy". This is the Disney channel. Children should not be watching cartoons that can spurn other adult-related questions like: what are manboobs? what are those red dots on his chest? why does that character have hair on his chest? why don't I have hair on my chest? These cartoons are not up to proper Disney standards.
Lastly, the plots are not as good as they used to be. Certain iconic behaviors are missing. In a cartoon I caught today, Goofy was pretending to be his grandmother and he fell through the wall. When classic Goofy would have somehow been catapulted through the roof and done his iconic yell. I think he even farted. I don't remember any other past Disney cartoons having bad manners in them like farting. It's not right. Good manners were upheld back in the old days within Disney cartoons.
As a result, I'm a firm believer that Walt Disney is rolling around in his coffin and his cryogenically-frozen head is spinning inside a container somewhere. It's really sad that oldschool 2D animation Disney cartoons are crappy now, and Pixar-animated cartoons are of WAY HIGHER quality. It's sad when a company that started out doing 2D animation suddenly sucks at what it was iconic for when it started.
There's something wrong with the world if Disney cartoons become comparable to "Ren and Stimpy".
If the new shorts cannot live up to the oldschool short cartoons, then just show the oldschool Mickey Mouse cartoons. Those are awesome cartoons. Quality over quantity. And if you don't want to show the old cartoons, show the decent tv shows like Jessie, Good Luck Charlie, and Girl Meets World instead of sub-par cartoons. The "Steamboat Willy" lover in me hates the creators of the new Mickey Mouse short cartoons for even making Disney cartoons like that. Shame on them.
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