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What pages did you read? This section of the text takes us through Nickelodeon's transition from their live-action dominated programming in the late 80's to it's animation dominated programming in the 90's. Even though there were some animated shows airing on Nickelodeon in the late 80's because Nickelodeon did not own its own animation studios, they were simply airing borrowed programs. These borrowed animated programs did a poor job at promoting Nick's "Us versus Them" message; however, their live-action originals like "Pinwheel" or "Mr. Wizard" did a very good job. Mr. Wizard (Don Herbert), for example, walked child audiences through science experiments that could be completed with household items in a very non-condescending way. Not sure how this show catpures the US-THEM theme. Nickelodeon's original live-action programming theme of "Us versus Them" was carried over into it's animated programing when they opened their own animation studio. Among their first creations were Doug, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and Rugrats. Did these shows have this theme?

Animation on television was aimed at kids and at the time could be classified into two categories: **toy/license driven cartoons and everything else. I**n film on the other hand, **animation was more often used to offer social commentary to adult audiences.** This sentence needs an example to clarify. The function of animation has changed drastically when advertisers discovered there was money to be made. The advent of 'time slots' divided audiences so that marketers could more effectively reach a particular audience. Cartoons used to have transgenerational appeal.

It's hard to see the coherent thread of argument here. I wonder if your precis gives a close-enough summary of the key ideas here. More details and description would help the key ideas come through more clearly. GRADE: B-