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Yesterday, the Parents Television Council released its latest study, Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter: Sex, Drugs and Profanity on Primetime Animated Shows Kids Watch Most, documenting the ...

Cartoons, of course, are more than just sketches. They spark, capture and shape political discourse. They editorialize and, often, indict. They depict an ethos, sometimes of the entire nation.

The animated anthology Cartoons: No Laughing Matter? is aptly named. Its eight British and American shorts offer a few chuckles, though mostly of the ironic or bitterly bleak variety.