You bet.
It wasn't until I saw the actual ballet that I realized it wasn't really about dinosaurs. Also there was about 10 seconds of nudity in the performance, and it was the first time I saw a woman's bare breasts, which I treasured for many years. Now, boys are subject to this sort of thing by age five. And not in such high class setting.

We got such good messages, from TV, cartoons and comic books - Classics Illustrated. We learned to love our country, respect our parents, want to grow up and work! Welfare and subsidies did not exist, not even in cartoons. TV shows like "Route 66" gave us characters like Buz who was into personal responsibility and tough love. The show centered itself around worrking class people. Of course, in Chicago style, Me TV has taken the reruns off in favor of ALF and Mama's Family! Even Brit TV gave us the Avengers, with a smart and self-reliant lead in Emma Peel, long before our idiot feminist got in the act. Comedians knew they were entertainers, many were war veterans, and they knew their role was to entertain, not be nasty political hacks. Daniel Boone gave us s coexisting races respecting each other and working hard to support their families. Today we have immature parents being run by out of control kids as the basis of the TV sitcoms, blacks making idiots of themselves in the same genre. Obnoxious carton characters act as political pundits. Schools don't try to rasie people up, but to make them dome down until all are dumb. Blacks used to speak perfect English in my school, today, they can't pronounce common words correctly, but teachers think they are honoring their roots! The cowboy shows always ended with a message from the lead to be good little buckaroos and respet teir parents. One of my fondest memories is seeing Gene Autry in person with my grandpa.

You had Dinos in your head?!

Wow...a Canadian company promoting evil ideas under the noses of the idiotic leftest...

Somehow, that should be a rub in the nose to America...oh, that's right, we are now deft, dumb and blind to anything of value.

Tom and Jerry excursion into classic piano, was great. But the best short was the storm from William Tell by Rossini. Mickey is the conductor and as the music gets wilder so does the storm until it is tossing the musicians around. And let's not forget Fantasia. I wound up buying recordings of every piece in that film, and had dinosaurs tromping through my head via Rite of Spring

There are few contemporary series on the air that provide pro-free market, pro-individual liberty moral lessons. Star Trek (the original series) was a good series, in part, because it did.
Babylon Five was another superb series that
was an entertaining moral lesson in the entire 5 year arc without statist propaganda bias.
There is a very good current series from Canada Broadcasting, (available in the US by subscription through Acorn tv or by using a vpn) that I recommend highly for moral lessons, praise to productive inventors, scientific ingenuity, and imaginative entertainment: The Murdoch Mysteries. (The writers even manage to convey progress of women's suffrage without insulting biased feminist attitudes so prevalent in US programming.)

I love old cartoons!

Your Welcome...I thought everyone would like this one.

Little House on the Prairie is awesome for kids. The didactic themes are part of the stories, not an afterthought at the end to meet some mandate. I love the way the characters generally speak to one another with respect, even if they disagree.

They don't have that Canadian-accented sass that the modern shows have. Apparently that's like the cool irreverent way to speak now. To me it just sounds contemptuous and makes the person doing the hammed-up sass look silly. Maybe I'm getting old.

Anyway, we encourage our kids to watch Little House. Even the religious messages, which I don't agree with, I am fine with because the characters are respectful, and we need to learn to respect people with other religions.

Up until now, I haven't watched a Warner Brothers cartoon since the early 60s, no, the late 50s, I think.
I recall during the 50s, I recall a cartoon festival where the admission was a can of food for the poor and that theater was loaded with kiddies watching back-to-back Warner Brothers.
Later on during the 60s I did watch some Bullwinkle, The Flintstones and The Jetsons, the latter two prime time, I think.
Oh, yeah, animated Peanuts and Christmas specials also.

I recently ran across the old Westinghouse Studio One tv shows from the 1950s on Amazon Fire. Terrible copies but the two subjects I came across were the stories of John Peter Zinger, touting the free speech issue in the 1740s and one on James Otis and the Writs of Assistance issue in 1761. One starred Charleton Heston. Neither would be shown today, too much reality for the public to deal with. But it does affirm that producers, in those days, were aware of the importance of telling those stories for the elucidation of the public to the historical foundations of what we are (and should be) Just found them on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGIg... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpdQ6...

JUST FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU.

I remember growing up watching He-Man, GI Joe, and a variety of other cartoons that always ended with a moral lesson. Now children of today not only lack that moral lesson, but get bombarded with absolute stupidity (Sponge Bob, Ed, Edd, and Eddie and a whole host of others) not to mention Earthism (Pokemon) and other destructive im_morals. Even in the old TV shows like _Andy Griffith, the old Westerns, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons and many of the Family shows of the 80's there were moral lessons in each episode. Good grief! Even Archie Bunker in his loud-mouthed way railed about the dangers of government.

Yes some were very creative and really quite amazing.

Maybe you could show them some reruns from the fifties?

Thanks Carl,
All that I've read of Annie Holmquists articles have been thought provoking . With grandchildren as overnight guests some exploration of cartoons has found some good ones. Baby Einstein has classical music and fine art incorporated in their tales.
Mr Peabody was a blast from the past.