Frank Kogan

So...

When because of the weather we have inside recess, some kids go to the gym and get to run amok while others go to the auditorium where a feature film is projected, always a kids' film like the Croods, and just like in the old days of double features you enter whether the film is beginning or in the middle, and when your recess is finished you leave even though the film isn't over.

Also, first thing in the day, there's an early "recess" which isn't literally a recess but it's when the kids arriving early or the kids who are already there for Extended Day go to the playground, but when early recess is inside they all go to the auditorium and what they usually see is Angry Bird Toons or excerpts from Despicable Me.

Let's classify the midday recess feature films as "Broader Culture," with lots of comedy but also broad positive social messages.

Whereas we'll classify Angry Bird Toons as "our kind of toon" meaning there's no message, just (as Manny Farber had said about termite art) "go for broke art," pure where's the next bit of mayhem, where's the next belly laugh, etc. And although it's just as much from the Broader Culture as the feature films are, it's exactly the sort of stuff that "we" in our marginal halfway-out MMI "PBS" go apeshit for, extolling it in just the way that we extol and preserve the old Fleischer Studio and Warner Bros. cartoons, and the Bill Gaines comic-book output in his Tales From The Crypt days, and so on. (Or at least I would so extol it.)