I think enough time has passed since our last look at old-school cartoons (which you can read up on here) that we can look at another one. After wasting (worth it) at least 30 minutes on YouTube trying to find which cartoon I would write about, I settled on two. The first one will be Disney's Filmore, and the second one will be Doug.
The premise of Filmore is simple enough: A middle school is treated like real life (think CSI for kids) with ace hall-monitor Filmore in charge of preventing students from various 'criminal offenses' (handing out test answers, sabotaging pep rallies, stealing school projects). Of course, it is never that easy. Filmore has to find a balance between justice and what the politics of the school dictate (the politicians being the principal and the "chief" of the student police). Look, I could talk on and on about how great this show was, but if you clicked the video above ask yourself this: How can a show be bad with an intro like that? The best part is that You Tube has the episodes, so they are not difficult to watch from time to time and get that great feeling of being a kid again. You know, before words such as: tutorial, mid-term, lecture slides, and professor ever existed. Anyways, the show is always watchable and I know that if you watched it as a kid you will have a blast watching it again. If you were unlucky enough not to have seen this, I guarantee you will appreciate the intelligent way in which kids cartoons used to be made. It goes without say that if this came back on TV with new episodes, I would watch.
I almost forgot how good this show was until I watched a few episodes again. Instead of telling you what the show is about, I will let you figure that out from the opening intro. Again, if you did not watch this as a kid, its not too late to see what you missed out on. Anyways, check back often for more nostalgia such as this. Also we have a twitter account! Follow us @MillenniumSandE. cheers!
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