Adventure Time on Cartoon Network, parents beware.

Doom

My daughter who is 6yrs old has recently started to watch a cartoon on the Cartoon Network called Adventure Time, I sat down to watch some of it with her this morning, it is a bit of a strange cartoon, but I was really shocked to see one of the characters start to stab another one with what looked like a knife :eek:, this would be unsuitable for a 12 yrs old nevermind younger kids, anyone ever see this programme and what do you think?

How Soon Is Now

Its a harmless crazy weird cartoon i just wish i was the one who came up with it!!!

If you dont want your 6 year old watching it turn it off simple

I doubt he/she has a clue whats going on im 26 and i have no idea half the time!!!

phasers

Regular Show is better.

Owen

After years of watching Tom and Jerry, I hit people in the face with a frying pan whenever I'm in the Kitchen. I also set fire to them.

WoollyRedHat

I chase cats around neighbourhoods.

McLoughlin

Doom wrote: »

My daughter who is 6yrs old has recently started to watch a cartoon on the Cartoon Network called Adventure Time, I sat down to watch some of it with her this morning, it is a bit of a strange cartoon, but I was really shocked to see one of the characters start to stab another one with what looked like a knife :eek:, this would be unsuitable for a 12 yrs old nevermind younger kids, anyone ever see this programme and what do you think?

Its rated TV PG which means that the program may be unsuitable for younger children without the guidance of a parent due to it containing adult innuendos and mild language the same as The Simpsons and WWE.

Duckworth_Luas

Thanks OP! I had no idea that this piece of genius existed, now I do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBquNTf3yE

Also Starring LeVar Burton

"Mathematical"

krudler

"daddy, whats thats red stuff coming out of kittys ears?"
"should I poke Todd with a sharp thing like the mouse did?"
"no son , no sirree bob!"

DeWitt

I know a lot of dope fiends who obsess over this "cartoon".

Guy:Incognito

DeWitt wrote: »

"cartoon".

Is it not a cartoon?

red dave

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

DeWitt wrote: »

"cartoon".

Is it not a cartoon?

Looks like a visual representation of an acid trip.


Which is awesome.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

A friend of mine, who has awesome taste in TV shows, told me tonight that I should watch every episode of this, because its hilarious...
Can't wait...

Optimalprimerib

That's gas, the best form of advertising is sometimes negative advertising. That's my bank holiday sorted. Thanks op

mikom

Doom wrote: »

My daughter who is 6yrs old has recently started to watch a cartoon on the Cartoon Network called Adventure Time,

Tell your daughter thanks for alerting me to this show.

lordgoat

Just want to say AT, what a show.

I love how the ice king flies with his beard.

Banjo

The only blood I remember seeing is the ketchup used to fake a massacre at the hands of the Cute King. They showed Jake squirting it out of the bottle while feigning death.

I watch it with my 3 year old, it's weird but no more violent than what goes on in Garfield, Tom n Jerry, Spongebob… certainly a damn sight less violent than Looney Tunes (the amount of shooting people in the face that goes on in those cartoons is unbelievable). The violence in AT usually has consequences too - Finn gets hurt and is often made to feel bad for resorting to violence against anything anthropomorphic. Most of their solutions are non-violent and/or involve incredibly complicated science and cause/effect relationships. Most of the scary monsters (Lich King and Marceline's dad notwithstanding - flip the channel IMMEDIATELY when they turn up ) are comedified pretty quickly - eg the WhyWolves, Crystalized TreeTrunks, the bald witch, the donut witch etc, while much of the true creepyness (Marceline's abusive ex-boyfriend, Peppermint Butler, the corruption of Abrakadaniel, the subservience of all princesses to the nIce King) exists only really as dialogue that goes over kids' heads, and the ice king is too hilariously inept to be scary.

My little 'un only wants to emulate this show by pretending she can make her arms long and wobbly like Jake or sing in a vocodery manner like Finn. She's never had a nightmare related to it or expressed any anxiety over it. Contrast with, say, Kung Fu Panda Legends Of Awesomeness or Tree Fu Tom both of which left her practicing kata and trying to kick her mammy. And Waybaloo is a gateway show to both of those... Or scooby doo, Ben Ten, Transformers - all of which scare the crap out of her and she's only ever seen them in ads (Scooby) or on t-shirts of boys in her play school or hanging up in the kids section of M&S.

It doesn't hurt that Adventure Time an excellently written and (voice-)acted show

Queen-Mise

phasers wrote: »

Regular Show is better.

The Regular Show is fantastic. It is the best cartoon since Ren & Stimpy. I love it.