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Originally Posted by pshrynk
A lot of those 60's cartoons were quite subversive. The Simon Bar Sinister character in Underdog being one of them. Watch re-runs of Rocky and Bullwinkle and you'll drop your teeth at the innuendoes and frankly sexual tones set by the dialogue, all the while being perfectly entertaining for the littluns. Today's cartoons are a pale ghost of what we have had in the past.
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That's one reason (among many) that I loved Rocky & Bullwinkle and still love it to this day.
I remember having one of their comic books (I must have been about 10) and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world that the characters would move around ... on the page, but outside of the frames of the cartoon boxes. For example, if they needed to escape from Fearless Leader, they would tear a hole in one of the frames, and jump down into the one below.
That single comic opened my mind up to whole new worlds. That (for me) was my first "think outside the box" moment.