'Nother thing...

Ya know what else really ticks me off? Animation that doesn't need to be animates. I think the first instance of this that I can remember was the cartoon "Doug". There was nothing fantastic about the cartoon, nothing in any of the scripts that a director would have to say "Man... there is NO WAY i could ever get a budget to film something like that! It's gonna have to be drawn!" You could easily re-enact any episode of Doug with regular kids in costumes. Other shows/movies that tick me off like this include Rocket Power (which has nothing to do with rockets OR power), Hey Arnold, Disney's Recess, Pepper Ann, and a slew of other crap that is currenly littering Nickelodeon and Saturday mornings.

New rule: Unless you've got a talking sponge, super powers, an anthropamorphic animal, or space battles, you are not allowed to be animated. Deal?