Why is Mikey unable to do the crazy things his friends do when logically as a example of American Animation he should do some Tex Avery stuff? Mikey is not a example of old time cartoons, he's a example of Modern Cartoons, The Animated Sitcom and all!
In Like Ozu, Like Son, Ozu decides almost randomly to cheer up a homesick Mikey by acting as his father, this seems oddly nice from Ozu, until the Christmas episode where we find out Ozu has a lost son he misses dearly. It wasn't just to help Mikey, Ozu was acting out his own parental fantasies he never got to experience with his biological son!
