Movie Quote by William Jackson

A quiet confession like this lands less as cultural critique than as a self-portrait: an adult admitting he no longer has the access codes for kids' media, and not particularly mourning the loss. The surface meaning is plain enough (children's TV is mostly cartoons; he doesn't watch), but the phrasing does more work than it seems. "I'm not up on" signals a gap in fluency, not a principled boycott. It frames ignorance as generational drift rather than moral failure. The sentence almost shrugs.

The subtext sits in the soft hedge: "mostly" and "don't seem" are protective qualifiers. He isn't condemning cartoons as trash; he's distancing himself from a genre that bypasses his tastes and, maybe, his patience. It's a polite way to say: this isn't made for me, and I don't feel obligated to pretend it is. That matters in a culture where adults often perform expertise about everything, especially "what kids are watching", as a proxy for being a tuned-in parent, teacher, or citizen.

Contextually, it reads like an offhand interview answer, the kind of line offered when asked to comment on children's programming, media effects, or generational change. The humor is unintentional but real: a grown person baffled by cartoons is as old as cartoons. Still, there's something telling in the refusal to inflate the topic. Instead of launching into panic about screens or nostalgia about "better" shows, Jackson offers a modest boundary. The intent is not to judge children's TV; it's to locate himself outside it, and to make that distance sound normal.