>>>Mind you, I'm now five years out of physical touch with the country.
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>Well, then. ;-)
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>>>I grew up on Mickey and Donald and the rest - in printed form. A short daily strip, two weekly pages, and an occasional movie. When I was about age 8 the first TV sets appeared, and we watched Disneyland around sunday noon... and by the age of 12 I had enough. The humor is shallow, the characters never get out of character and the plots were predictable even at that age and with only a couple of years of viewer experience (not redmondese this time). Later it only got worse the more I sampled.
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>I know what you mean, but those were different days and those programmes were intended for an audience of children that only ever existed in the US and is no more.

And there is labor strife out there.
I read today that 6 of the dwarves are not happy.