Re: BS&P, 'Toon violence, etc.

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 19:37:11 -0700

Paul puzzled: (at least we ain't reachin' for the sports verbs yet)

>>>"Ah yes, Jonny Quest. Lots of HOV's (Horrible-Oriental-Villains) mowed
>>> down with machine-guns every week..." (or something very similar)
>I donknow- I always though that JQ was pretty multi-cultural in it's day.
>Sure you had Dr. Zin, but what about the Russky Commies, The Nazi-survivals,
>the WWI pilot, the Scandinavian Dwarf, the Upper-Class Brits, Arab
>mummy-resurectors- etc.etc.etc! You couldn't trust anyone!

Ehhh...I've a few like that one that took place in the Tibetan Llamissary among
others, and most of the henchmen appear of Oriental extraction. I think it was
a Cold-War thing as opposed to anything more racist. (The "mummy" one
is a favourite).

>>Different kind of violence in Scooby
>I think that Scooby is the most anti-business show ever made! Geez! If I was
>a Bircher, I'd be convinced that they had Karl Marx as a story consultant.
><Now kids, whenever anything goes wrong, it's because some greedy
>businessperson is acting like a ghost to scare away the competition!>

Yeah. Dateline 1998. Turner reluctantly renews the Kats after the chain of
sorry business decisions makes it obvious that H-B was sabotaged to fake
out the IRS for tax reasons:

"And I would've gotten away with it too....if it weren't for you meddling SWATKids!"

Ted pulls his mask off to some Really Dramatic Moog Music, and he's really....

                CAPTAIN PLANET!!!

 


Received on Thu Jul 04 1996 - 23:10:20 PDT