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The other day, between doing important shit like fingerpainting and defending our house’s front yard from the forces of evil, my 4-year-old nephew was looking for something to watch on TV. While most days I’d just put on one of the bajillion kids channels provided for him on the idiot box, this time I turned to some illegally downloaded avi files specially-purchased nostalgia-tripping DVDs. Being a kid, he doesn’t really give a damn about things like the quality of the animation he’s watching, so given this opportunity, I decided to put on one of the shows that I grew up on. That got me thinking about the shows I loved as a kid and the huge influence they had on me (and my childhood wardrobe), which brings me to this: my list of the four cartoons that helped warp my young mind, for better or worse, and showed me how to live.

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