Let he with no sin cast the first stone.
Trust me, viewed objectively the crap we watched as kids was just as bad in it's own way. Though you'd need someone from our parents generation to properly articulate why.
He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe, The Thundercats, Silverhawks, Mon Chi Chis, The Mighty Orebots, Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors, My Little Pony, Maxi's World, Beverly Hills Teens, Pandamonium, Laser Tag Academy,Jem, Galaxy High, Big Foot and the Monster Machines, Gobots, M.A.S.K., G.I. Joe, Bionic Six, Cops & Crooks, Transformers, etc... Not to mention stuff on the USA Cartoon Express like Clue Club, Inspector Inch, and others which the names elude me.
I look back on a lot (but not all) of these things favorably, but I'm inherantly biased as I was the target audience. To "our" parents they were probably seen the same way we look at current kiddie toons.
Though I admit part of the problem might be that the whack jobs of "our" era that were blaming kids cartoons for all the ills of the younger generation (since video games weren't as popular then) are now in power, and rather than the requirement that there be so many minutes of educational content per episode (knowing is half the battle!), the amount of violence and "action" especially fairly serious violence (as opposed to purely cartoony stuff) seems to have been reduced dramatically with the current era of cartoons.
I mean you couldn't do Masters Of The Universe without He-Man pwning people, The Thundercats were always fighting, Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors had a vehicle combat sequence pretty much every episode, etc... The style nowadays seems to be very differant, it seems they've moved towards 'toons rather than a comic-book type approach.
Plus honestly, let's not forget that once upon a time someone thought it was a good idea to do a Saturday Morning Cartoon based around the idea of MC Hammer as a superhero with magic shoes. In crticizing some of the things out there now, let us not forget some of the horrors of the early 1990s.
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