An Open Letter to Disney: Please Bring Back Kim Possible

Dear Disney, Even as a fully grown, bill and tax-paying adult I still faithfully watch cartoons any chance I get. Can you blame me? Being a responsible young adult isn’t easy. Sometimes I like to come home after working a 10-hour shift and sprawl out on the couch watching hour-long blocks of whatever cartoon is airing as I count the hours before I have to wake up and do it all again the next day. Great animation is like comfort food to me, it takes me back to a simpler time when I was just heeding warnings about the real world instead of actually walking out into it on a day to day basis. From the art, to the voice acting, to the stories, to the messages, to the winks at the older crowd, there is so much inside a good animated show that you have no choice but to respect all the work that goes into it. Then there are some shows (in any genre, mind you) that only come around once in a lifetime. You got your Looney Tunes, your Flintstones, your Charlie Browns, your Batmans, The Simpsons (Yes, this is my personal Top 5, by the way) — shows that changed the landscape of how we watch television and leave a lasting impression on us. Years later I still remember the final episode of Kim Possible. Kim and Drakken getting abducted by Warmonga and Warhok the day of Kim’s graduation. Leading Ron and Shego to head after them to rescue their respective mates. The good guys win, the bad guys lose, Drakken turns to the side of good, Kim and Ron graduate Middleton High all before riding off …