Why are there almost no long-running animated shows where the characters actually GROW over time...

Why are there almost no long-running animated shows where the characters actually GROW over time? Shit like the simpsons and family guy are clear examples of shows where the characters are frozen in time forever. There are a lot of other examples.
Are there any shows out there where characters actually age in real time? I know Adventure Time had characters like Finn age over time with their VAs, but what are some other examples?

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The Simpsons
>Apu's eight children are shown growing and developing as the seasons drag on
>Maggie remains a baby forever

>7 Christmas specials
>Stewie is still a 1 year old

Venture Bros.

The shows are based on the current age group of the cast meaning you can age them or you would have to change their character entirely. Finn still behaved like a child with ADHD even in the later seasons of Adventure Time.

They're episodic. Shit's meant to be viewable in any order.

Does Reboot's Enzo/AndrAIa count? It was more of a time skip

Not part of the deal, unless that's the entire premise of the show.

It'd be nice if long running shows slowly aged the characters. Like every 100 episodes the characters would age a year. Stewie would be four-ish, Bart would be 16, the South Park kids would be almost 13.

To King of the Hill's credit Bobby starts out 11 in the beginning of the series and ends at 13 (talking about his 14th).

You make a cartoon precisely BECAUSE you don't have to deal with actors aging.

King of the Hill

Loud House is aging up the characters for season five. It's rumored to be the last season though.

To make reruns less noticeable. That's it.

Because if characters age then you need to redesign them and and that costs time and money.

Kinda related, I'm really surprised that so many people hate the timeskips in Young Justice so much. It's the only cartoon that shows characters aging and time moving forward so noticeably. Each season only covers 6-7 months, so without the timeskips we'd still be on The Team's second year. YJ isn't something like The Simpsons or Family Guy when they've gotten 26 episodes a year for decades with no sign of slowing down. It got canceled after its second season and was lucky to get a third. The only way for there to be major movement in time in YJ without skipping years between seasons would be to have every episode be a mini-timeskip of a few months, and that's just dumb.

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Because when they start out they don't know if they'll get cancelled after 5 episodes or run for 30 years.

Source: Your ass

Because in Young Justice's case, it's largely a gimmick. There's very little in the new seasons that really required such a drastic time skip and the plot would likely have been much tighter without it.

Alfred J. Kwak

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It would feel way more contrived if all the major plots in the show happened in a timeframe of two years instead of 9. You know how in Supernatural there's a brand new world-ending catastrophe every fucking year? That's what it would be like if Young Justice didn't have timeskips.

It's rare because it's flippin hard to write and develop characters on a consistent basis for a long time ya dimwit. Ahhhhhh love you though dude. You're kinda cute. Kiss me. NOW FAGGOT!

Because studios thing that being age xx is an important part of the character and can’t change it under any circumstances.

They need to do a live action sitcom parody of this. Like after a decade the young child actor still plays the part of a toddler and so on

King of the Hill did it a bit. It wasn't anywhere close to real time but most of the characters grew and developed as the show went on.

Except Bobby regressed really hard. Early to midway he was really growing into being a teenager, but by the later episodes he was acting more like a little kid. The most striking example is that in a season 2 (I think) episode he was angry that his parents thought he needed a babysitter, but in season 8's Phish and Wildlife he was begging his parents to give him a babysitter and freaked out, crawled into their bed and called them home from their date because he got scared by a Frankenstein movie.

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This.

If characters change then it'll change the whole show, fundamentally.

He is in preschool now and Meg who was just 16 is now over 18. So they have aged, but not enough to actually change anything.