I was informed of his preference in an entertaining little piece on the World Service on the way in to work. A channel on Venezuelan tv has just cut Homer & family to replace them with episodes of Baywatch as they have decided the cartoon lacks educational content.
Incidentally when I was last in KL I noticed an edition of Lat's brilliant cartoon book (nowadays graphic novel, I suppose) Kampung Boy with a nice commendation from Matt Groening on the cover. Genius recognises genius. The great and good tend only to recognise the obvious. But having said that, someone, somewhere (in Venezuela) recognised the educational value of Baywatch. Now that takes some imagination.
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