Watching cartoons as a grown up

In the past decade I have noticed a significant rise in the number of animations being made and can’t help but notice that its not just young people watching them but grown ups as well. Still being a recent graduate I remember in my teens people often saying “you still watch cartoons?” and although the answer is yes, I cant help but feel the need to explain that not all animations are like the ones we knew growing up instead they are now enough of them to entertain almost anyone. I also feel that people who don’t like cartoons are generally quite serious in social places.

There is no doubting that cartoons for an adult are almost entirely a waste of time however if they are entertaining for you then it means its good for you to watch them after a long day at work as you don’t have to watch something created for children as there are animations out there for mature audiences. I personally feel like animations are an evolved form of digital art with sounds attached to it and I think that I many other people from my generation will still be watching these in old age. My personal favorite is one by Adult swim called Rick and Morty which is a comedy based on the classic back to the future series. In this cartoon Rick is a scientist known to have to have the smartest brain in the universe and uses his grandson Morty as a sidekick for their highly intense sci-fi adventures in an infinite number of realities and near endless worlds and dimensions. What I really like about the show is the theory behind it as stated by a fan made video I saw on YouTube which makes sense to the other fans of the show, being that Rick is well aware of the fact that he’s a character on a show and that his existence is dependent on his ability to entertain us, in fact the very first thing he does on his show is try to destroy his world and start over perhaps out of a fear that his life and current world aren’t interesting enough. Rick is always in situations where one would think that there is no point of return but since he knows its a show and he’s the main character which means that the writers and producers can’t kill Rick because his name is in the show.

While the theory goes a lot deeper my point is that these are the kinds of things children wouldn’t comprehend, the kind of things that grown ups can spend well deserved free time on. I continue to watch them as I grow older the same way I continue to buy games because at the end of the day its about what makes you happy and what makes the world more bearable and art most definitely does that for me. I know people who watch them in private because of several issues such as judgmental family and friends but its really just about doing what makes you happy.