Last week I talked about when I was a kid and how people were always trying to get me to go play more sports. I guess sports were supposed to teach me about getting in shape, working with a bunch of other people and following rules or something. As you can see, all those things that I was supposed to learn, never really stuck with me.
I’m in terrible shape, I don’t like working with teams of people and following rules are not my cup of tea. What I should have been doing instead of sports was watching more cartoons. I did my best, but people were always trying to get in my way. My parents were telling me to do homework and stuff and my friends were always trying to get me to go outside. But I was seriously learning more from cartoons than I ever learned from sports.
You know, like how videos and capturing attention are the biggest currency in businesses today. How having a good imagination can help you in marketing. How good copy and snappy writing can help attract people to your business. And how people love getting things explained to them visually instead of being told how to do things.
And as we’ve learned in this pandemic, sports have almost become a liability and an afterthought, while TV, movies and CARTOON viewing have been at an all-time high. And tell me that you haven’t had a ZOOM call that hasn’t had some sort of cartoonish character or behavior that you’ve had to deal with. Watching more cartoons would have been way more useful to me growing up than sports ever taught me.
On to the more important calling of today. That of Bitter Friday Giftures…
If only I would have paid attention to this simply cartoon image…
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…
Beavis and Butthead taught me…
I learned from Space Jam…
I learned how love feels from…
I learned how big of jerks…
I learned from cartoons…
I learned that…
I learned that I should get…
I learned that you can solve any crime..
I learned how to…
And how I am supposed to…
So as you can see, there were many ways that cartoons prepared me later for life. Unlike sports, that just gave me sore ankles, bad knees, bad back and no real way of coping with life.
Now it’s your turn. What lessons or skills have cartoons taught you?
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Bitter Cartoonish Behavior Ben