Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

children are a prime target for marketing. they are young and easily molded. if you sell the child, you've sold the parent. cartoons are nothing but long drawn out sales pitches for a product. people in the industry even refer to them as program length advertisements. star wars, ninja turtles, pokemon, whatever the hell kids watch now. dora the explorer or bob the builder. your children sit down every saturday morning for 5 hours of of nonstop advertising. they have society disabled against any type of resistance to the market. when you have these kids coming back and seeing this same shit hyped as the big thing over and over, watching the same tv shows, they are gonna jump on it like snap. xmas, birthdays, oh how could a parent or grandparent disappoint!