One of the things I see over and over which bothers me is the demonization and labelizing simultaneously of both the "popular" and the "nerd" kids in the stupider cartoons that don't think of plots. Shows like Recess seem to be where one group of the "oddball" kids battles the frou-frou and apparently "must be brainless if they are good-looking" supposedly popular kids. And that's the plot. Weak. There are other shows with the same vapid thing going, I think my mind doesn't want to remember them, either.

Invader Zim sorta battles Dib but its like not serious, its more like "We are Nemesises!" and kinda respectful in a way.. and besides its a genius versus an alien with lots of gadgets who wants to destroy humanity. So then the "kid" versus kid thing is funny. Even the teacher in that though really totally horrible to children has more than one thing going on.. you don't know if she's human, and she saved the world from being overtaken by the Lice Queen. Who can't like her after that??!