Characteristics Of The Simpsons

The Simpsons, the longest running cartoon of all time, is another cartoon that can affect children desire to participate in physical activities. Homer Simpson is another cartoon character who displays gluttony and inactivity. Homer Simpson is known for over-indulging food, such as doughnuts, burgers, pizza, ice-cream, candy, hot dogs, cupcakes, and beer; however, the main characteristic of Homer is his laziness. Homer is frequently seen asleep on a sofa or bed. Homer “laziness” can influence children that there is nothing wrong with sleeping “all day” and inactivity. Another way The Simpsons show can influences laziness to children is how The Simpsons themselves watch a lot of television. The whole family (Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie)

Timmy Turner, the main character in Fairy Odd Parents, favorite activity is watching television. Timmy watching television accounts for about eighty-five percent of the time he has after getting home from school. Also, Timmy and his friends get together to watch cartoons after school, instead of doing a more active activity. In the show, watching television is often portrayed as “fun”, however, when Timmy’s parents tell him to go play outside, Timmy shouts statements, such as “I don’t want to go outside. It’s boring,” “Playing outside is lame” “I don’t feel like going outside,” “Why would I want to go outside when all these super cool shows are on, Mom”. Statements such as those, pushes this image to kids that playing outside (physical activity) is boring and watching television is more fun; thus, kids can start to have the same attitude toward physical activity and television, and they will no longer wish to play outside as well. Also, Timmy is obsessed with videogames, which influence his viewers to have the same obsession. Playing videogames is the second activity — watching television is the first — that Timmy does the most. Timmy often make wishes to his fairy to give him the newest videogame. Timmy videogame collection is so huge that he has a videogame room, which is a room with huge shelves filled with videogames. Like Bart Simpson, Timmy Tuner influences his

It is well-known that a lot of kids who watch hours of cartoons do not participate in any physical activities; however, I have realized that cartoons can influence kids to participate in physical activities. For example, if a child watches how much fun Charlie Brown haves when playing baseball, the child will probably want to play baseball, too. Children who watch cartoons that contain outdoor adventures, such as Backyardigans, Dragon Tales, and Dora the Explorer will want to go outside and have imaginary adventures, which increasing their physical activity levels. Of course, there is no direct medical evidence of this claim, but by using logical reasoning from other medical studies, which shows that children tend to duplicate the behavior that they see on cartoons; for example, Professor L Rowell Huesmann, senior research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan says that there 's evidence that exposure to media violence can lead to aggressive behavior and ideas, provocation and anger in viewers; therefore, this research professor is stating that children tend to — not always — pattern the behavior and ideas portrayed in cartoons; therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that children can duplicate the physical activities (behavior) that they see in cartoons