TV Is Pretty Awful These Days, but...

[MineralMan]

My family got its first TV in 1952, when I was about 7 years old. Every afternoon, I'd watch a kid's show on the tube after school. Things were primitive, and budgets at stations were tiny. So, they ran old animated cartoons from the 20s and 30s on that show. They were pretty awful, and had elements of racism and other negative things in them, but that's what was on TV those afternoons. Here's one of the actual cartoons I remember seeing, made in the thirties. TV is different now. Now we have Fox News to get our bigotry. This is what we had then. Watch it through. "Farmer Al Falfa:"

[underpants]

1. Checking it out tonight

I'd say that TV is at an all time high now. There was the beginning of the reality shows that was horrible but now there are so many formats making really good tv shows.

[lagomorph777]

2. And Curse of Oak Island is back!

So there's that... and The Orville

[ProudLib72]

3. You don't have to be an old geezer

I was raised on Bugs Bunny cartoons made during WWII that were really racist. It was only when I became an adult that I realized how racist they were.

[monmouth4]

4. Felix the Cat..n/t