he may be a zombie now

Good to see you buddy
How've you been?
Things have been okay for me,
Except that I'm a zombie now--

I think it's because he's a kid

he's expected to grow up

People change a lot more between 10 and 20 than between 30 and 40

but adults grow up so much slower that you can forget they should be aging

it is strange

simpson's kind of lampshades it and treats it as part of its humor

calvin is just eternally a child by definition

I feel like Bart gets it sometimes, Simpsons fans just aren't as perpetually whiny as Pokémon ones

ash is explicitly on a journey and is making progress, so we expect other things to change too?

I think that's a demographics ploy of some kind

child + Pikachu = money

it isn't bad

it just is