Animation 1970's - Present

Since the 1980's animation has developed, mainly changing its target audience to an old age group from young children. Mainly people describe some of these animation as being very childish or juvenile. People also describe most of them as being quite annoying.

Matt Goening

Matt Goening is the creator of the Simpsons and Futurama. The Simpsons is about a middle class family in America and about their life and about all of the crazy things that happen. There are some adult/mature themes in the Simpsons, but not very often. It has quite a lot of adult humour though, and it is one of the most popular animations ever created as well as the longest running one.

Billy and Mandy

Billy and Mandy is another American animation aired by cartoon network. Its is about two children named Billy and Mandy and their friend Grim, who is meant to be the grimm reaper. Many people say that the genres of Billy and Mandy are 'Black comedy, Comedy horror, Satire, Farce and Toilet Humor'. Billy and Mandy is also quite gross and sick, this is because of the themes that are in this animations show.

Seth MacFarlane 

Seth MacFarlane is a very popular modern animator. He is known for the shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. Each of these shows do have quite a lot of adult humor. Some people enjoy all of these shows, but other people find some of them quite stupid and even a bit repetitive and similar to the other shows. These animations are aimed for an older audience, because there are a lot more mature themes throughout each of these shows, and show things that only an older audience with understand and get the joke to. The genres of Family Guy are Cutaway gag humor, black comedy, off-colour humor and also surreal humor.

Sponge Bob Square Pants

Sponge Bob Square Pants is aimed at a younger audience to the others, but it does still have some mature content, things that 7 years olds would not understand, but a parent watching would find slightly funny or amusing. Although Spong Bob is popular with a wide range of people, some people do find it very annoying and stupid, because of the juvenile humor. Sponge Bob was created by a man called Stephen Hillenburg, and is a very popular show in Nickelodeon, and the a main genre of it is slapstick comedy. That is probably why some people find it very annoying and childish, but it is still loved by many people of all ages.