Almost every weekday it seems either Homer Simpson or Hank Hill provide cartoon style entertainment on television channels in the repetitive test pattern known as syndication. The Fox television-broadcasting corporation has invested a serious amount of prime time to Sunday evening cartoons like American Dad and The Family Guy, while still producing occasional new Homer Simpson escapades.
However, at some point along the rocky scheduling road Sunday evening replaced Saturday morning. Cartoons seem to have found a new target audience by introducing adult themes and controversial subject matter to evening broadcast television. Following the comedic formula introduced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone creators of the rather outlandish South Park television series. Parker and Stone decided to produce a comedy driven animated series that dealt with controversial issues.
Seriously, what happened to Saturday morning cartoons? One possible answer is that society got to a point where most people are not willing to wake up on Saturday morning and devote time to watching cartoons. A better explanation is that society demanded cartoon style entertainment with adult themes and Saturday morning was the wrong forum for a new style of adult themed cartoons.
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