I remember blood in Powerpuff Girls, and let's not forget the 90s Batman, Superman and Gargoyles. Also even though it was used as a throwaway gag, I thought that intent to commit suicide in yesterday's ep was shades worse. Being done in is a hard one to get by censors, but imagining trying to sneak past one doing in oneself? The crew must have quite a time.
The threat of death in a "kids" show really is no surprise to me, because I remember the old school Disney Afternoon. I remember they never really fluttered around the term and such in TaleSpin, which borrowed heavily from both pulp adventure and soap operas.
So while I agree, that Foster's has made a great step today, I don't think it was as great of a step as yesterday with some of its implied situations even outside the suicide thing, and "kids" show of the past 2 decades.
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