How Strawberry Shortcake Introduced Me to the Conundrum of Cartoons on DVD

The advent of streaming wars has built a physical media scarcity in a very specific medium: animation. One of the headaches of Disney+ is having to sit through copious credits from all over the world between episodes of Bluey, and then having to deal with the background ambient binge of episodes stopping abruptly. Then there’s the matter of trying to restart the cycle-through of episodes when it just pops you back to the main series menu. And no, watching Disney’s live cartoon stream so it can push other shows among Bluey episodes doesn’t cut it. It’s why I found myself going out and just buying season one and two on DVD. In the baby trenches, having something on in the background while feeding and nurturing a growing tiny human has been super important. After getting tired of the constant “Are you still watching?” messages, we switched over to live channels including PlutoTV. Quickly my kid’s attention was grabbed by Strawberry Shortcake on the free platform, and not being a part of ... Read full article.