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Both the shows focused on making children seem like adults with their own community quite independent from the actual adults. A lot of kids have different roles, almost reminiscent of tribal societies. For example, you have Gerald who is the keeper of urban myths. And for Recess you have people like King Bob. In both shows the main characters have rivalries with different grades...Hey Arnold had the bullysome sixth graders, while Recess had...the fifth graders, I think?

Primitive societies with their own mythologies and roles and group rivalries. Recess definitely played this up a lot more than Hey Arnold...it was pretty much where most of the humor came from. Hey Arnold had more adults and was more archetype based (for example, one bully, one nerd, one cool kid, etc) but it started the idea of mythology and more absurd characters like Stoop Kid and Chocolate Boy. Recess picked this concept up and ran with it (remember Swinger Girl? The Ashleys?)

I can't recall a children's show before Hey Arnold that had this concept. You had Rugrats which had babies acting like adults, but they almost never played up the "baby society" aspect.

Basically, Recess is the natural successor of Hey Arnold because of the focus on an independent childhood society, a concept Hey Arnold basically invented.

Jokes are often used on the Internet.

More like 99.9999% (compared to regular space). Asteroid fields are vastly empty space.

Children need physical contact, physiologically and psychologically. There are a bunch of studies confirming this (the most famous of which is Harlow's monkey experiment).

Without physical affection, these kids will have higher rates of many, many mental disorders.

And it sounds like the parents don't really pay attention to these kids, so I kinda doubt a lot of them are getting the affection they need.

Please tell me there will be actual, accurate Latin. :D