Most of those cartoons we liked as a kid were "better" than cartoons today only because we remember them through the rosy eyes of a child. Most of the cartoons that I grew up with during the early-mid '90s were poorly-animated, low-budget, and primarily existed to sell action figures.
Most anime isn't for mature audiences, either; it may be (for the most part) better animated than American cartoons, but look beyond that and you'll see a bunch of juvenille crap that ALSO exists to sell action figures... only, in Japan instead of here.
Now, there are a few exceptions. I still find Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, and Animaniacs just as funny as I did when I was a kid - but those shows were never intended for an audience of only children anyway.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
