User blog comment:Mobo85/Signs of the "Times": Two Major Newspapers Cover Phineas and Ferb Marketing Machine/@comment-406459-20100624022611

Cartoons aren't meant to be educational, they're meant to be funny. (Except for educational cartoons, of course, which are usually hit-or-miss- mostly miss.) Both SpongeBob and Phineas and Ferb are made to make you laugh, not learn- except they do it on a higher level of wit than most cartoons that I would liken to the best of Looney Tunes or other golden-age shorts. Phineas and Ferb isn't educational (nor is it meant to be), but it sure is smart.