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Word: housepet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...habit of demanding sustained output from its artists, even at the cost of substandard quality Witness the proliferation of Saturday morning cartoons in response to the nationwide popularity of "The Flintstones." What followed was a wave of amazingly identical animated series, all featuring a family and it, highly humanoid housepet living in an unusual situation, i.e. on another planet. The fact that many of these disappeared from the networks within a few months hints at the disparity between perceived demand and real satisfaction, and underlines the need for artistic endeavors to proceed relatively independent of popularity indexes...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: More Than Margaritaville | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

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