>>96294874>I don't know, maybe I'm not giving the kids enough credit.I mean no offense, but I don't think you are.
Were DuckTales and Darkwing Duck really custom-made for kids of the 80s and 90s (Gosalyn aside)? I don't believe they were. Nothing about the way Huey, Dewey and Louie act screams "80s", and if you look past their more saccharine take on Scrooge, the overall feel of the cartoons wasn't terribly unlike the Barks comics. It didn't feel "updated" for an 80s audience.
To the contrary, many of the shows I grew up watching (Tiny Toons and Animaniacs, especially), the writers were constantly referencing things from their own generation of 20-40 years prior, from Woodstock to Howdy Doody. And I was a smart kid, I got most of the jokes, but even the kids who didn't kept on watching for the jokes they *did* get.
