This is an actual open note/rant we sent to Cartoon Network to show our dismay over their recent summer lineup announcement. Let me put it simply: “Where all the cartoons at?”

Dear CN (the network formerly known as Cartoon Network),
I don’t even really know where to begin. To say that I’m more than a little upset after looking at the summer line up and the distinct lack of just about everything “cartoon” related would be an understatement.

I used to look at Cartoon Network as a beacon of hope amid a dank, depressing let down of what is currently passing for cable tv programming. I looked forward to each new season with great anticipation because of the creative genius that was being displayed time and again in purchasing ground breaking and entertaining animated shows. The network, in my opinion, was finally broadening the market and minds of a nation that has frankly lost its ability to laugh and enjoy life.

Shows like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Powerpuff Girls, Chowder, Flapjack, Ed Edd and Eddy, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and many others came to define a new era of great American animation. What happened?

This latest round of shows has gone completely against the grain of everything your network has stood for since its inception. Gone are the ballsy choices, the defining new shows, the groundbreaking animation.

The sad fact is that this nation has more than its fair share of luke warm, watered down reality television. It doesn’t need another one contributing to the thousands of hours of worthless, meaningless triviality that are already spewed forth each “season”. Honestly, reality television leaves about as much impact on television history as a wet noodle thrown against a wall-when its done it just rolls down onto the floor. Is that what you want to really be remembered for?

What is almost worse to me in this whole situation is that the network is now heading to the beginning of the line-impressing and molding young minds to believe that reality shows are what they should EXPECT and CRAVE from cable programming. Are you prepared to be a part of that?

Please don’t become another MTV. Do you remember when it was called Music Television, before they became a wasteland of reality shows force feeding a nation of young listeners into the mold of what the corporate douche bags claimed was “good listening and viewing”?

Your network has established itself as a leader of quality, groundbreaking animation. You’re not cattle. You don’t have to follow the herd.

Sincerely, A concerned fan