He appeared to know a lot about the
toys that were on the commercials and he told me that many of his friends
would have one toy or another, and would say whether the other child liked
the toy or not, whether it was "cheap" or not. My friend and I watched two
episode of Avatar, and one episode of another show called Drake and Josh.
The latter is a live action show about two step-brothers in a blended
family. The show was typical of many of the simple situation comedies of
my childhood but my friend appeared to enjoy it as much as he did the
animated show.
I had time to sit down with my friend's mother later that afternoon, and we
watched cartoons as well. She is 42, and told me that when she was young
cartoons were on for a short period of time in the afternoon (usually re-
runs of old Warner Brothers cartoons) and on Saturday morning until about
noon. She explained that while she did not like her son to watch TV
excessively, she noticed that he would sometimes go for a period where he
did not want to watch television at all, and then want to watch several
hours at a time. She remarked that this experience was similar to friends
of hers. I asked her how she felt about the character dying on the Avatar
show. She explained to me that she had seen several violent cartoons in
her childhood and she did not feel that she was a more aggressive person
for it. She said that sometimes she noticed her son was a bit more
energetic after watching cartoons, but chalked it up to the fact that he
was less physically active at the time and needed to get his energy out
after sitting for a long time. She reported that she did not let him watch
certain cartoons, because the shows had either frightened him in the past
or she felt that they had inappropriate content. Most of these...
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