Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Sure I liked (not loved) this series as a kid back when I first started watching it for a short time in the early 90's, but today I feel it far inferior to most other cartoon series. While they did come up with creative plots to the series, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is really no more than a commercial disguised as a TV program. This show has no artistic merit to it except to keep the kids' attention for a short time and persuade them to buy their merchandise. This show just cannot compare to the cartoons made during the classic era of animation from the 1920's through 1960's or the stuff from the "revival period" of animation in the late 80's/early 90's. Cartoons should be made not to persuade the kids to buy the products, but to first cater to the cartoonists' tastes and then to those of the public.