Spongebob Case Study

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Two different television stations: Nick-Spongebob Squarepants, Disney- Tom and Jerry
The number of violent acts:
Spongebob Squarepants: In one episode, approximately 5 times.
Tom and Jerry: Beginning to the end, the whole episode I watched was just full with violent.
The number of pro-social acts:
Spongebob Squarepants: Depends on which episode you are watching, but basically Spongebob is living under water with different looking, type, personality of people, trying to show how his life cycle goes which them by socializing each other. So I would say, there was more than six times, showing pro-social acts.
Tom and Jerry: I watched some old version of it, which only shows how their seesaw match (chasing each other) goes. They basically fight,
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Might any of the program content be confusing to them? Why?
Tom and Jerry can definitely be confusing to them, since all they watching is how to fight and tease each other with laughing. Whoever around the world is able to fight with laughing on his/her face?
What might a child learn from watching each show?
Hopefully, some social skills, and how should not he/she acts to friends.
Anything else you can derive from watching these cartoons?
The purpose of making these kinds of cartoons is to make them fun and happy, I think. It is true that they laugh when they are watching them, however, the way, what these cartoon show to make them laugh, is wrong. Since children learn and mimic from what they see and what they laugh, in my opinion, it is violent to let them watch these cartoons, especially Tom and Jerry, unless they reach to the age, knowing an ability to separate themselves from cartoon and real world.
Are there gender stereotypes?
I do not think I find any gender stereotypes in both of the cartoons, since Spongebob is showing his life under water with his friends, mixed gender, and Tom and Jerry are