When it comes to children’s programming, in the era before streaming, both kids and parents were the definition of a captive audience – in thrall to whatever happened to be on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel at the moment. Back then, if it wasn’t on PBS, most of the time it was likely some annoying garbage trying, often successfully, to sell your child some equally garbage toy.
Things are better now. Now, it’s much easier for adults to determine what the young’uns watch and when. But the days of seemingly unlimited choice brings with it a whole new problem: with so many options, what exactly do you put on? Let us help. Here are 31 of the best cartoons to stream now, from classics to new additions to the kiddie canon.
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