On Saturday, The Cartoon Network showed two cartoons that both contained a great amount of violence. These two cartoons were BeetleJuice and The Adams Family. They were aimed to catch the eye of little kids and were specifically timed to attract waking teenagers. In BettleJuice there were approximately twenty violent acts committed by both the good character, BettleJuice, and the bad character(s), the kids. Some of the violent acts involved multiple threats to B.J., being hit with objects such as a spoon, being electrocuted by a car battery, getting his hand bit off, theft, and gangs ganging up to beat B.J. up. The kids killed the talk show host that was supposed to host the show BeettleJuice was hosting. In The Adams Family there were approximately twenty-one violent acts committed. Some of the violent acts in this cartoon involved numerous weapon incidents, weights falling on people, the kids flooding their basement and thrashing
their room. The bad guys were tied up, eaten by alligators, beat up by about ten boxers, beat up in prison, and blown up. Nobody was killed in this cartoon though. In BeetleJuice both the good (B.J.) and the bad (Kids) characters inflicted the violence. In The Adams Family, the good characters, the kids, inflicted the violence on the kidnappers. Having the good characters inflict the violence on the bad characters is not good to do in social learning. This tells the kids to perform violent acts back on someone if they are performed on them. It shows them that two wrongs make a right and that is what society is trying to veer away from. In both cartoons, humor was always displayed to cover up the activity of violence. BeetleJuice cracked a joke about him still having the upper hand after the kid's bit off his hand and it re-generated. In The Adams Family, the kid's chores were to flood the basement and thrash their rooms. They aske
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