Urbanization, born with the new production and consumption tools that emerged after the Industrial Revolution, has influenced the world over time. This process has developed simultaneously with transportation and communication technologies. Therefore, in the new cultural environment, communication tools have started to be effective in the cultural acquisition process of the individual rather than family, relatives and other social environment. Thus, the effect of traditional information transfer systems has decreased. In this process, television has become a media tool that has significant effects especially on children. Therefore, the structure and purpose of the cultural content watched on television has gained importance. In this context, the subject of the article is the cartoon series "Nasreddin Hoca Zaman Yolcusu" broadcast on TRT Çocuk, a thematic channel. The aim of the article is to examine the role of television in the process of updating the tradition through the selected sample. Within the scope of the study, thirty episodes of the cartoon series were watched from the beginning. These sections were analyzed with content analysis technique. In the cartoon series, Nasreddin Hodja anecdote type is confronted with today's issues and the audience is shown his humorous, philosophical, critical and instructive attitude. Each episode in the series is based on a separate case study. In the series, various topics such as transportation, urbanization, shopping and consumption culture, environmental problems, animal rights, and the effects of technology are discussed. The cartoon named “Nasreddin Hoca Zaman Yolcusu” is an example of updating a tradition produced based on the field of cultural indicators represented by Nasreddin Hodja anecdote type.

Nasrettin Hodja, Intertext, Cartoon, Humor, Culture transfer