Cartoon Love...

So this whole thing spawned from a friendly argument over how tall gnomes are, and i quickly responded with 8 inches due to my memories of David the Gnome. Which leads me to this...what happened to cartoons recently? and why aren't theme songs this awesome?!? and why are they dumbed so far down for their audience? shouldn't we be encouraging a higher subject matter and speak with our children?
I was obsessed with this show, even though I clearly remember (stooopid) Nickelodeon changing the schedule like 4 or 5 times, but I always found a way to watch it.