There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply gave them everything?”Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought: “What if we simply gave ...

Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs. Just laser guns, synth music, animal hybrids, toyetic vehicles, and an intro theme that went harder than it had any right to. Some of these ...