Another challenge is how you as a writer build rapport (or a kind of familiar relationship) with your children audiences and not just grab their interest. A cartoon show is an extending show and not just one or two episodes. THe efforts that you as a writer have to put in the script is larger because you want kids to keep following the cartoon. In order to create such relationshio, you must very craefully and skillfully draw your charcters in a way that keeps their charcaters rich and subject to further elaboration.
Take the Simpsons for instance, Homer Simpson, the father, is a very simple yet rich charcater. He always feels he's a loser, he likes to eat a lot. But the authors write the chracter in a way that makes you expect a lot of funny stuff from him. Naturally, you'd keep following the show to see what the character is doing every episode. Other shows that fail to maintain such rapport, are either cancelled by the production company or aired in non-prime time.
As a cartoon scriptwriter, there are also important language guidelines, in my opinion. This is one of the faults that the Bakkar cartoon creators fall in. In many scenes, you'd find Bakkar talking with a very complex or highly eduacted language.
It is important that every character has a different set of langugae terms, because this adds to the extent you persuade the child with the character. You would expect Bart Simspons to say words like : "cool, jerk, that sucks..etc", while his mother, Marge Simpsons, would say educated words like "modernization, globalization, incorporation, ...etc'. Homer Simpsons, the father, will always be food-centered with pharses like " stomach rumbles, delcious, apetite, hungry, when's lunch..etc"
Bottom line: a good cartoon scriptwriter, I believe, is one who knows what to say, to whom and how to say it.
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