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Animated television shows and the economy of the United States have something in common--they both depend on a precious natural resource. But, while the oil the country relies on will run out someday, the fuel that keeps TV cartoons going, natural gas, is endlessly renewable. As long as there are human beings--particularly boys and overgrown boys--around to fart, and make fart jokes, there will be cartoons. Of that you can be sure. This is not at all a criticism of boys or what they turn into; it just happens to be a fact, and a diamond-hard one, that boys aren't subject to the depredations of the Four Horsemen of Appropriateness--Received Notions About Femininity, Fear of ...