Political Messages in Kids' Shows

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Rocko's Modern Life premiered an episode this month with featured a predominant Trans character. This has inspired a discussion of politics in children's cartoons, and if there is room for the subject. Which is why I have decided to make this video discussing just that on the latest episode of Quinton Reviews!
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[@crotchman]

If you ever do this topic again, I'd recommend checking out The Legend of Calamity Jane. It tackles a lot of intense topics head-on while also being genuinely artistically beautiful and super badass.

[@venus_envy]

Quinton: "Seeing the cartoon jellyfish get tortured really messed me up as a kid." Also Quinton: **cites the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, which was set to clear land for cattle ranchers, as an example of cartoonishly evil intentional environmental destruction** me: could he be considering veganism? ٩(⑅´◡` )۶٩( ´◡`⑅)۶ᵋᵎᵌ⁎४*✧ Fight the power!

[@ericbishop2369]

quinton please im begging you, fix your audio

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Wait, you're friends with Sarah Z?! :D

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Could I use it on a cheap Tuesday 5 dollar pizza...pick up only

[@cosmiclsd833]

teachers: "spongbob makes kids stupid" spongbob: unionize ur workplace

[@antoniopaganini5700]

based Spongebob

[@biohazardousgeodez]

based spongebob

[@nathanyan1126]

based spongebob

[@fahim102]

*b a s e d s p o n g e b o b*

[@a-life]

Based Spongebob

[@PolythenePam0451]

"Racism is for chumps" - Mr Rogers

[@lukedeconcini]

Mr. Rogers is the ideal boomer. Imagine the world if all boomers were like Mr. Rogers

[@lennon8435]

All the cool kids desegregate

[@liamgardner2985]

@@lukedeconcini Mr Rogers wasn't a Boomer. He was in the "Greatest Generation"

[@cootmaster]

sounds like mr t

[@poprocks6576]

God I love mr. Rodgers we need a new m]mr. rogers to explain to children racism is for stupid people

[@TheSuperLaziest]

i didn't realize teaching kids to be kind to one another is liberal propaganda

[@BGrimoire]

Respect is for those who deserve it! (sarcasm, btw)

[@cool23819]

in this day and age anything slightly leaning towards the left or right is considered propaganda. It's unfortunate but that's the state we're in.

[@TheManWithTheFlan]

Better yet, teaching empathy and kindness is communist.

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@TheManWithTheFlan The thing is most, if not all, kids shows teach empathy and kindness in one way or another. They also teach kids to share, to respect the others, to not be mean, etc.... The real problem is that some persons disagree with those messages ^^

[@Fanimati0n]

Force gender stereotypes & oppress people who are different to own the libs

[@dstinnettmusic]

*KRUSTY KRAB UNFAIR, MR KRABS IN THERE, STANDING AT THE CONCESSION, PLOTTING OUR OPPRESSION*

[@dstinnettmusic]

@@shukuchishikeishuu9540 I dunno, squidward told me to tell it at people

[@shanez1215]

DISMANTLING THE ESTABLISHMENT, BOARD BY BOARD. SAWING THE TABLES OF OPPRESSION.... IN HALF.

[@hannes9488]

Beautiful! Memefication is the future of poetry

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

@@shanez1215 GNAW AT THE ANKLES OF BIG BUSINESS

[@strawberrybandage]

This is beautiful.

[@carlcarlington7317]

I like how Timmy wishes to change the fabric of reality instead of just... Wishing for a new ball...

[@lukekline9513]

Fair point.

[@pashlyn]

Hindsight for Timmy isn't always 20/20

[@Problematist]

It was more about not wanting to be discriminated but then again he could've just wished that there's no discrimination in the world.

[@originaluseername]

ilh htrhrthrthtrhrthtrthrthrthhtme

[@Penguinmanereikel]

I don't think the ball was the real issue for him. I think the issue was assholes like the dentist guys thinking that they're better than him. Plus like the others said, he was literally discriminated against for his crappy buck-tooth teeth by people with "perfect" teeth.

[@roastingpotato]

Basically you can’t coddle or please your oppressors. Even if you’re act perfect,they will forever keep moving the goalpost. That’s what the fairly odd parents taught me.

[@JEEVES635]

@Paul Tello 🤦

[@shimmer6382]

Unless you were a teen or looking too deep into it, fairly odd parents didn't teach you that :/

[@user89076]

I love how you phrased your comment. I gotta remember this.

[@Rat-ld8xu]

Darksoul123 regardless of the creators’ intentions, that’s what people took from it, and their’s nothing wrong with that.

[@manicpepsicola3431]

@@shimmer6382 you can take that message from the theme song lmao

[@Dracoboss98]

"Not supporting the victims of the sickness was something so evil it has to be personified by a giant, mutated sewer rat" Hey, don't talk about splinter that way

[@ImmortalKat4ever]

I think the funniest part about the prom queen "issue" is that prom queens are ELECTED. It's not like a radical minority could've taken the crown while the rest of the school didn't like them.

[@ilyarepin9490]

How dare a gay guy be POPULAR!

[@EmperorSmith]

Yeah, he never explained why it was a "problem". "It's a problem, because in this High School I read about, a gay person existed".

[@crimsondynamo615]

They act like the gay guy led a Bolshevik style revolution against the school to take the crown. As funny as that sounds, that is so outlandish it just shows how stupid that commentator is.

[@francegamer]

Prom dictator installed by military coup is just a very funny idea to me.

[@AsierEtxeberria]

The problem is not how that person became prom queen, the problem is that person having the right to become prom queen in the first place. The name alone says it all, "prom queen" not "prom king".

[@Vick_or_somethin]

I love how Rachel's transition was still relevant to the story since the movie centered around change and how it affects us.

[@CEWThree]

I love how Mr. Rogers looks straight at the camera in that pool clip. He KNOWS he's stepping on racists' toes, and he doesn't care.

[@MelShibson]

Pun intended

[@drakan4769]

I always saw him as this nice guy that would never pick a fight, but that look was TOTALLY picking a fight, I can just hear him going "oh yeah I'm putting my feet in here next to this other man's feet, what are you gonna do about it racists?"

[@drewgehringer7813]

Fred Rogers sued the KKK in 1990 (and won) for handing out fliers directing children to call a Mr. Rogers impersonator who said racist and homophobic shit.

[@CEWThree]

@@drewgehringer7813 "Now kids, it's not nice to say bad things about someone, but these Klan motherfuckers aren't my neighbor."

[@kerosan138]

@@CEWThree LMAO

[@WyvernGM]

It never ceases to amaze me how Spongebob, in an episode nearly 20 years ago, took an unambiguous stance against racist humor, back during a time in which the cultural attitude was very much along the lines of "Can't we all just get along?!? Why do we need all these PC culture wars!?!?"

[@walternelson2687]

I'm fairly certain that it was a stance on taking racist jokes seriously. Now excuse me while I go watch more Dave Chapelle and laugh at racial jokes about everyone. Oh those funny whi peepoe, when will they ever get funky?

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@walternelson2687 This was bad and you should feel bad

[@perhaps1094]

@@walternelson2687 yikes

[@MiloKuroshiro]

@@walternelson2687 I don't think you watched the episode or Chapelle

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

Nelson was maybe that audience member that made Dave Chappelle quit comedy for awhile

[@AdequateEmily]

As a trans woman, Rachel Bighead’s appearance meant a lot to me. I never actually watched Rocko’s Modern Life as a kid, it was just a tad before my nicktoons days, but I was a kid once, and I grew up watching cartoons. It was my first exposure to art and it was how I first discovered my love of writing. And yet all portrayals of boys who ever did anything feminine was played for laughs. So I never really strayed much out of the masculine bubble…and that went on for a really long time. Secretly I had been trained to other queer amab people, but at the time I didn’t realize it. And so much of this could’ve been solved if one of those “durr trans women aren’t real, men shouldn’t wear dresses” jokes was replaced by a meaningful trans character. Maybe it wouldn’t have taken puberty hitting me like a truck for me to suddenly realize my gender. And most importantly, it’d just make me feel comfortable. So much of my life is spent fearing ostracization because I’m trans…sometimes i just want to be seen in something as basic as kid’s programming because…it means I’m seen as normal enough to be acceptable to show to children. And you have no idea how much more important that is for a child who feels this hurt, and doesn’t understand it, and decides that they can’t be that because it’s considered so unacceptable. That’s why it’s important. It’s why kids shows have morals…to instill what we want others to practice. And I can’t wait until showing kindness to people like me is no longer seen as a controversial thing to teach children.

[@xdissonance8]

The reboot really meant a lot to a lot of trans people. I'm trans, and growing up the only concept of transness I had was as a joke, because in media and from other people irl that was literally the only way I had seen or heard it portrayed. So when I felt dysphoria I had no concept of what it was feeling because transness wasn't a valid concept in my mind. Really fucked me up. I am SO goddamn happy for gen z. The level of tolerance and acceptance in the new generation is something I really would not have expected to come about so quickly

[@christopherb501]

@@xdissonance8 Now if only they could take over already. The past generations are NOT moving quickly enough.

[@ghostwizard7597]

@DJ MC do you know what gender dysphoria is?

[@samhank]

Still a dude

[@bradyd.6332]

If trans women demand representation, then that means real women don’t represent them. They don’t even see themselves as real women.

[@vmp916]

I like how the nick toons watermark goes gray in blob world.

[@superninja252]

its like the chowder episode were they use the cartoon network logo to break the fourth wall

[@bycion7770]

@GalacticHypernova ***D E T A I L S***

[@bycion7770]

@GalacticHypernova D O Y O U K N O W W H A T A N A R T I S T A N D A S N I P E R H A V E I N C O M M O N ? *D E T A I L S*

[@ravioli3066]

What’s in the canister? D E T A I L S

[@BBWahoo]

@@superninja252 lmao i remember that, it didn't even line up

[@finnsword8286]

The Sesame Street rant on fox might be both the funniest and saddest thing I’ve seen. “We wanted our show to help inner city black and hispanic children because at the time there wasn’t many shows for them.” “This is bad and scary somehow.”

[@finnsword8286]

Big Bird personally voted for that gay boy to become Prom Queen.

[@92JazzQueen]

And the sound of it he just cut out one clip and didn't read the rest.

[@stephaniewozny3852]

I'd laugh if those opinions weren't so damaging and held by enough people to be a problem.

[@Goremocker]

@@stephaniewozny3852 That's why I laugh, then cry.

[@crimsondynamo615]

They’d rather be those people be ignorant so they can justify their racism

[@0Enigmatic0]

According to the internet, in media, all characters are: 2 races: white or political 2 sexual orientations: hetero or political 2 genders: cisgender or political (and so on)

[@j.a.ogrady7783]

I adore everything about this comment. It still baffles me how simply acknowledging the existence of people who just want to be themselves are in fact people is political.

[@ms.chomper5024]

I don't mind any diversity. What I don't like is it being this huge moment when we can just take a quote from Knuckles that explains everything media gets wrong about diversity. "You know Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying this is an exception and not the status quo".

[@JaceReboot]

I guess I'm 3x political XD

[@MEOWMIX3DS]

yeah....

[@theblandcharlie822]

@@ms.chomper5024 b-but it was funny

[@buggiez961]

as a trans person who has been constantly let down by creators in regards to transphobia, the introduction to this video could make me cry! so good. thank you!!

[@genericgorilla]

lol I always call low brow racial jokes "squirrel jokes" in my head because of that SpongeBob episode

[@Penguinmanereikel]

borrowing this

[@Jaffa6290]

BECAUSE THEY'RE SO DARN STUPIDDDDDD

[@Tron239]

I feel like this should be the new trope name for them now. :P

[@arisenpawn425]

@Mai Nyigguh Judging by your juvenile username, you don't have one either, you loser.

[@SilverFan8]

@@arisenpawn425 your sentence is a juxtaposition

[@theuncalledfor]

The president of Brazil calls himself Captain Chainsaw. Captain Planet villains are _real_ now. Edit: It has been brought to my attention that, apparently, the label was given to him by the media, rather than taken willingly.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@macmcskullface1004 It's obviously just a nickname. But still, yes. I wish I wasn't serious.

[@Haduge]

@@theuncalledfor No, he didn't call himself that. He was sarcastic about how the media portrays him; as if he were a "chainsaw captain" when he is far from it.

[@olivermarijuanajones5041]

That grease-stain should be put down like a sick animal, but of course he's trump's kinda 'strong man'. Fuck mother nature, Jesus'll fix it! the Chinese need a new source of soybeans, here lately, any way, Brazil is happy to profit off of our president's ignorance of how tariffs work

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@Haduge Oh fucking course we'd get a fascist defender

[@willianditaquera]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 lol the facist calling people facist, its perfect!

[@basementdwellercosplay]

I never want to hear Ben Shaprio say he wants to shot Elmo and Big Bird ever again

[@timvandeursen2687]

I never want Ben Shapiro to speak publicly in general ever again

[@justsomerandomguynamedsam3657]

I'm sorry but I laughed my ass off

[@pinkpusheenpaws]

big bird cannot be killed by bullets, that thing is immortal

[@bradyd.6332]

Who would you trust more with a pregnannt woman? A texan or George Floyd?

[@bradyd.6332]

If trans women demand representation, then that means real women don’t represent them. They don’t even see themselves as real women.

[@nonbinaryjigsaw420]

this reminds me of a clip from that Mario cartoon "everyones learned that it's not a person's color that counts, it's the kind of person they are inside" "think they'll ever learn that lesson in the real world?" *mario looks at the camera "haha, yeah when humans get as smart as mushrooms."

[@marinanicole5693]

"It takes all of the colors to make a rainbow! except black. there's no black in the rainbow"

[@darthutah6649]

@@marinanicole5693 So that's why alllivesmatter is offensive to the black community

[@smallmailman3992]

@@darthutah6649 no, not really. All Lives Matter isnt really considered offensive at its core. Its more like they dislike all lives matter because its used to detracts from BLM. Somone on the internet said that theres an invisible too, at the end. Its not to say that all lives dont matter, its to point towards the problem and say, Hey, This is a problem. All Lives Matter says Hey, The problem is solved.

[@blindmario]

@@smallmailman3992 it wasn't that deep man

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

This reminds me of a Malcolm in the Middle episode that really made me think when watching it. To make the description brief, Dewey is accidentally transferred into the class for kids with mental disabilities. One of the things said is that at the beginning of the episode all he wants to do is get out of the class with the "weirdos", but he slowly starts to get along with them and understand them. But the most thought provoking thing was that it tuns out all the kids do all day every day is make bracelets that they then put in a box at the front of the room. It's revealed that this guise of teaching them "life skills" was actually so that the schools could sell the bracelets at a nearby gas station to make money. It really made me think about the "special" kids at my school who would get teachers coffee and food to learn "life skills" but there was always an air about it that they were treated lesser that others.

[@GamblinLucario]

I've seen first hand how special education has been used by bad teachers as an easy paycheck. I may not have been "special" myself but the treatment I've seen through my sister who happens to be, is absolutely appalling. Her teachers made no effort to teach her correct information or provide the speech classes she desperately needed saying she was "at grade level" as an excuse. On the flip side, the school system will bend over backwards for kids in advanced programs or classes because it makes the schools look good. There's definitely some screwy stuff happening there and it almost seems like once a child is in special ed, they want to keep them there as long as physically possible.

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

@@GamblinLucario It's interesting to hear your perspective. Something else to note of the episode, is that the room for the "special" kids is a stuffy room in the basement. It really gives the vibe that schools just shove them down there and ignore them for as long as possible.

[@GamblinLucario]

@@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some schools actually did that, the truth can certainly be stranger than fiction. There's plenty of other shows with depictions of a special ed classroom and I've yet to see one that was ever positive or strayed too far from the one in Malcolm in the Middle. Growing up, I always saw them as a joke and would laugh it off as if it was only absurdist humor that could never happen. Now I'm not so certain and they always haunt the back of my mind as if that may have been the intention of the show runners.

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

@ULGROTHA My apologies. Maybe I combined the two episodes in my head. My point(s) still stand.

[@janNowa]

@@GamblinLucario I've been in both "special" and "advanced" classes at my school (plus volunteered as a helper in the classes for the really low functioning kids), and the difference in budget between the two is tangible. They bought a dozen robots for the advanced kids to screw around with, meanwhile the low functioning kids don't even have computers or tablets like the entire rest of the school, and the teachers did jackshit to help us. And this was at a good school, imagine what it's like for schools with terrible budget and staff.

[@rear9259]

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpors was an allegory for the dangers of pudding

[@supersonicguy556]

also for how good chicken rice is, but how much better peace is.

[@basedbattledroid3507]

An allegory for What is Scientifically Possible.

[@bluesolace9052]

An allegory for how rolling around In a million pizzas will transform you into a giant pizza

[@holysayingsofrobin4055]

Rear An allegory to not become a gross chair-troll monster.

[@DaFro3713]

And how some things are simply NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE

[@dustafee666]

Thanks for talking about the AIDS crisis in a frank way. Not enough people know about this fucked up part of our very recent history.

[@excitedcat9517]

Dusty Green As I heard this story go on my blood was boiling, how could these politicians get away with this!? People were dying and all they did was laugh, treating those infected like garbage instead with compassion... God, it makes me sick! Thank god nowadays a situation like that wouldn't be ignored however I'm sadden for the people of back then who suffered in silence. It's kinda heartbreaking, y'know?

[@Posiman]

I also recommend the video essay on Rent! by Lindsay Ellis. It is genuinely funny and deeply informative when discussing the movie and its context, but shockingly blunt and anger-inducing when talking about Reagan administration's approach to the HIV pandemic. I've seen it a hundred times and the final scene still gives me chills everytime...

[@olmo4767]

@@excitedcat9517 are you sure that isn't happening at this exact same moment? The fact that you don't know about it is proof that these people are doing their jobs better than ever. There are at this very moment dozens of millions of people afflicted by myalgic encephalomyelitis all over the world, a horrible and disabling lifelong illness, while the entire society ignores them completely and have been doing so far at least half a century. Please research it. I kniw very well how those poor people with aids must have felt, for I have been feeling the same way for 25 years

[@jasonbolding3481]

@@excitedcat9517 not just laugh, be fair. White house press secretary Larry Speakes also called a reporter a fairy so they threw in a few homophobic jokes too. Those couple press conference are something everyone should watch, but our history education is lacking

[@gabriellegay4097]

@@olmo4767 …I don’t think that’s quite comparable to the HIV/AIDS epidemic

[@dominickdibart12]

How dare Sesame Street give children who can't speak English in an English speaking country something to do with their mornings...

[@cf1696]

@Mahiru koizumi Because they don't want them to learn English. They want them to "go back to where they came from." They're just too cowardly to say what they mean.

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

What I learned today: Captain Planet kinda cute

[@th3rasave]

www.deviantart.com/brokencassette/art/Captain-Planet-146700505 Have fun

[@beaniepq]

Legs for days, man

[@pedmonds2011]

Spider Doctor CAPTAIN PANET A THICC BOY

[@ironicdivinemandatestan4262]

Crushing the bourgeoisie in between those thighs 🥵🥵🥵

[@BugsyFoga]

"Papa Smurf is Karl Marx" -Quinton

[@jfarrar19]

Given my nonexistent knowledge of The Smurfs, it seems legit.

[@fuckgoogle2554]

Uh, that's essentially a fact. Peyo was a member of the communist party and received funding from the USSR to produce propaganda. Look even vaguely at early Smurfs comics and it's pretty obvious. Of course, many of these early issues have been quietly retired because of the antisemitism and antifeminism they also contained.

[@Odinsday]

@@fuckgoogle2554 I feel like a lot of people forget how much the USSR hated Jewish people (especially Stalin) in its early years.

[@Frahamen]

I mean, he IS Waloon.

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

As a child I had actually heard this theory, think about it, they all live in a commune where there is no money, every smurf has a job that defines their role in society and they share the fruits of their labor. The antagonist of the story is a capitalist who wants to either eat the smurfs (to consume them) or literally turn them into gold and become rich.

[@donpearleone6904]

"Is this what the teens are calling 'praxis'?" Yes it is and Timmy's mom is a comrade.

[@samuelsolomon7330]

As well as a cosmonaut.

[@Charlie-qs6kk]

I have to admit I never heard Ben Shapiro's voice until right now and man he sounds so comically whiny it's not even funny

[@TownDarling]

what are you talking about, it’s the exact same voice

[@lillianward2810]

My thought exactly

[@BBWahoo]

PEEEEETAAAHHHHHH

[@moss5356]

I KNOW RIGHT

[@tdogger]

He is well aware

[@TheSkyfolk]

It's a shame you didn't bring up the Static Shock episode about racism, it was really clever in that it used its status as a popular superhero show that was already rooted rooted in black culture to reach out to youths and parents about racism. While probably cheesy to a lot of people it was the first time I'd ever seen blatant racism portrayed in a cartoon on saturday morning.

[@DragoonBoom]

Yooo not to mention the teen titans episode where the crew meet their idol but he's actually a huge fuckin racist to Starfire. In the end he doesn't learn his lesson because that's how racists operate and the crew straight up ask him to leave after his bullshit is brought to light.

[@sunspotmill1291]

The Proud Family also did an episode about racism and black history month. It also made an episode where Penny befriends a muslim girl, learn how to respect each others cultures and avoid prejudice, and saw that their lives are really no different from each other. Then the muslim family also later got their house vandalized by racists and islamaphobes, but then ended off that scene with an important message about anti-bigotry. The Proud Family tackles a lot of racial diversity and topics.

[@robertharris6092]

Is that the one where MLK was never born or whatever?

[@ToruKun1]

@@robertharris6092 I think it's the one where Richie doesn't want Virgil to go to his house after school because his dad fucking HATES black kids.

[@expendableindigo9639]

Robert Harris lol that’s Our Friend Martin

[@BeTeeEl]

Prom is like one of the most vapid high school concerns and these full grown men are sweating over a prom queen like actual children. Smh.

[@danielyahalom3961]

they're like anime fans on prom night

[@cyanmanta]

Their concerns are treated as valid and worthy of discussion without evidence, while the left’s concerns are just “snowflake behavior” and can be safely dismissed. Only a person completely lacking in empathy could buy that line of horseshit. And it turns out, there is a large minority of Americans who lack empathy.

[@CronTime3D]

Daniel Yahalom but the PROM IS T O M O R R O W

[@Odinsday]

@@cyanmanta Conservatives are built on the foundation of snowflakery. Never forget this.

[@noreski435]

Conservatives believe in free speech but only if it fits their perspective.

[@donnel736]

static cling makes me so happy, i love rachel so, so much. as a trans man, i know how badly our community needs TRUE trans representation. rachel's voice isn't even different, making her even more accurate to our wonderful trans women.

[@plushs]

yes!!!! ahh i remember watching it with my gf and we were both so excited for rachel :"-) it was so good.. i need to watch it again

[@anustthethird9363]

I would love to see some representation for trans guys too.

[@kidanarchy2105]

@@anustthethird9363 writing a comic and working on it bud. Trans rights are human rights.

[@fruitjuicyyy1088]

Absolutely. I was so overjoyed to see a Natural, realistic representation of a Trans person & Her family. Gives me lots of hope for representation in the future.

[@chuutheecomrade]

donnel .....rachel is literally the best trans rep on netflix we really get crumbs lol

[@pikapichu5]

One of my favorite examples of this in video games comes from Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Whenever you go to buy new clothes in that game, they will mention whether it's a boy's item, a girl's item, or unisex, but still allow you to wear it anyway without any fuss. Villagers will compliment your outfit if you choose to wear one the opposite of the player character's gender, some of them even mentioning they wish they were as brave as the player to wear what makes them happy. The approach is a little flawed, but I'm just floored that a game so many children played was out there telling them that girls could have facial hair and "boy" hairstyles and that boys could wear dresses or cute hair clips if they wanted to after barely seeing anything else like it growing up.

[@SparkpadArt]

Better than what Pokemon did at the time: making an entire clothing category (dresses) inaccessible to boys. Taunting players with a grayed-out button they could never press unless they restarted the game.

[@williamhinson2863]

It's also adorable as heck I mean have you gave a cute or tuff boy villager a cute girly dress? Example: Raymond

[@Tonithealtwing]

It’s even better now in New Horizons; your character isn’t gendered. At all. You don’t have to choose whether you want to be a boy or a girl at the start of the game and never be able to go back on that decision. You can just wear whatever you want, have whatever haircut you want, and just be yourself. No gendered things required.

[@Treesarewoke]

@@Tonithealtwing Uh, no. You still pick a gender at the begining of the game.

[@sonic23233]

Chuggaconroy did that in New Leaf

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

All in all, I think we can all agree on one thing *Captain Planet, he's a hero* *Gonna take pollution down to zero!*

[@avatarmikephantom153]

You mean war machine? Lol

[@supertaoman12]

I fucking hated Captain Planet when I was a kid. He was just so weak. He could control all the elements but get splashed with some oil and he's suddenly close to death.

[@beaniepq]

@@supertaoman12 This. Watching the show was like pulling teeth, even if the message was on point.

[@floppiethethirth]

One thing I do think has changed is that we went from people who are secretly a clown, or secretly enjoy sewing to just straight up gay people. The eufamism (I think that's the right word, I'm not sure) has been dropped because it is not needed anymore.

[@numberoneingoenthusiast9379]

i think it's spelled euphemism

[@Mafon2]

it's not euphemism, it's allegory. But honestly, I (as a sewing heterosexual) always thought that sewing is about sewing. Pun not quite intended.

[@DAEsaster]

@@Mafon2 Which can still work both ways. If some jock didn't like that you sewed, he'd probably call you gay. Because "gay" is often thrown around in place of "feminine, emotional, somehow a threat to masculinity and I don't like it"

[@neomcdoom]

floppiethethirth Yeah you’re right. I still don’t really have a problem with it though.

[@lingy69]

And is it an issue that they just are gay because I don't see the problem there

[@prototypeone7534]

When I clicked on this video, I was really worried. I thought that this would be yet another guy throwing the word "SJW" as a means to criticize content, yet instead what I got was one of the most profound videos on cartoons I've ever watched. Thank you for uploading this

[@GabyGeorge1996]

Quinton reviews is pretty left-leaning. I think you’re in the clear

[@leephillips4402]

Yeah I've really come to hate that acronym, people who call people SJWs are SJWs these days. I was actually under the impression Quinton Reviews was one of those people after hearing about some of his tweets.

[@fireball111121]

@@leephillips4402 Honestly a lot of, let's call them right-leaning contrarians, love to use "liberal" slang from like 2009 as insults.

[@bigbawlzlebowski8886]

*Black person exists In show Some KZbinr creates a three-part video series about how this is sjw propaganda.

[@oatseawong6664]

Disney is the SJW machine now.

[@lizrathburn8603]

my dad worked in aids law for 3 years at the height of the "plague" as he calls it and you are spot on with how badly people were treated in every aspect of life. Every day people were throw out of their apartments, abandoned by their families or even just shamed into silent death. This happened, and everyone just tried to forget, they tried to forget and they tried to make the rest of us forget. We can't let them keep this past buried.

[@rexduodecim3528]

Well it's not only homosexuals and drug users. Heterosexuals can also be affected along with people with Hemophilia. You should care because the government shouldn't let people die like that while knowing the full extent of the AIDS Epidemic. I can see that you see gay people in a bad light but having a little empathy for the thousands of lives lost and affected by the epidemic doesn't hurt.

[@rexduodecim3528]

@Paul Tello l mean not to offend you but I seriously would like to know why gay people should not be treated against a potentially fatal disease like everyone else. The medical field is not supposed to cherry pick who they will or won't treat based on their backgrounds so I wanna know why you think gay people shouldn't be included

[@Enigma2Me]

@@rexduodecim3528 He's a bigoted asshole. All of his other posts are pretty much nothing but him being a butthurt racist snowflake.

[@leiram8833]

@Paul Tello Oh cool, so its fine for me to hate whites and straights then! 👍👍

[@Prgrant-gj6st]

my favorite part of static cling was when Mr.bighead and Rachel kept saying yes and no to each other

[@Goremocker]

Thank God I'm not the only one. That scene was brilliant. So many emotions with two words.

[@matti.8465]

My favourite part was how Mrs. Bighead, INMEDIATELY after finding out about Rachel supported her and bought her some nice shoes.

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Same

[@GiantKitten]

I loved their exchanges, even before Ed's acceptance. When he shouted that he had no daughter, it carried the necessary emotional sting, but the fact of it being a callback felt reassuring, like a wink telling us things would be okay in the end.

[@beaniepq]

@@matti.8465 I mean, it's very in character for her. Also, those shoes were straight fire.

[@stephaniewozny3852]

"Catering to black and Hispanic youths, who *quote-unquote* don't have access to reading materials at home." ....why is he phrasing it like they are lying? Why would you lie about that? Why so suspicious, Ben?

[@sa_exploder]

“Who are they going to sell their homes to, BEN? Fucking Aquaman??” Couldn’t resist.

[@puffedrice4624]

"Them colored kids are just hiding their reading material!"

[@Penguinmanereikel]

@@sa_exploder *Sell their houses to who, BEN?

[@Seagull512]

@@Penguinmanereikel it's a quote from hbomberguy's climate denial video where he (Harris) plays a clip of Benjamin saying someting along the lines of "who cares if the costal areas gets flooded? Don't you think people will just sell thier houses and move?"

[@jessbian3385]

Cory S JUST ONE PROBLEM BEN, SELL THEIR HOUSES TO W H O ?

[@muticere]

Rocko has ALWAYS had LGBT themes. They haven't always been positive or nuanced, but as a kid it was the show that showed me these things exist and people exist among all spectrums. I can't fathom how you can say you're a fan of the old show and not get that.

[@Andyatl2002]

ted dymski, how is it shoved down kids throats? How are gay people supposed to find or relate to characters, and find out they aren’t alone? What you are saying isn’t realistic at all.

[@claynorth964]

you think showing a gay teacher is "ramming it down kids throats"? really? you think kids shouldnt be exposed to gay people until there adults? why is that?

[@angrymal1345]

@ULGROTHA me too but they did show him hugging his partner in the jungle

[@destroyerkitty9434]

I dream of a day where a transgender character is no longer a political statement. It’s just a character and a well-written one at that. Rocko was smart about it at the very least, showing that a person’s happiness (Rachel’s euphoria upon embracing her true gender) is more important than anyone’s silly opinion on the matter, and the episode directly confronts Ed with this truth. Honestly though, I’m really happy with Rachel. She’s one of the best written trans characters in cartoons as of late.

[@battleupsaber462]

Can't believe you glossed over the best one: that one Transformers episode featuring a Middle Eastern Country called Carbombya Wait no thats the worst one

[@ColaNerd10]

Even for the fucking 80’s that’s just... oof

[@manospondylus4896]

BattleUp Saber I remember hearing that this episode caused several animators behind the show to leave it.

[@wolight]

@@manospondylus4896 Also actor Casey Kasem

[@paddyret7968]

lol

[@user-rj4pq7lm1n]

You're in the comments of every video I watch

[@Tortoiseshel]

I'm sorry I ever disrespected Captain Planet, he's truly the hero we need right now.

[@Wendy-je9zf]

Tortoiseshel and THAT’S the tea 😌 🍵

[@j-money2337]

He’s the hero we need but not the one we deserve

[@SaitoGray]

Nah, he's the hero we deserved in the 80's, now it's way too late.

[@fridaynightnicktoons6885]

I still hate him. That's time we coulda had bugs bunny. Tbh I don't know if global warming I real or fake. People on both sides have been condescending to me for not having a stance....idk how I'm gonna go to your side if you attack me for not having researched something? But while I'm neutral,I hate the cap because he's annoying. Static cling was amazing though

[@tonycd5304]

Nah he still kinda cheesy, but if I were to make captain planet today it'll be like a dbz jojo like anime.

[@bwackbeedows3629]

16:43 Mr. Rogers: Hello neighbor. Mr. Rogers: (smirks) *You mad?* 😏

[@fistpump64]

aww didn't talk about the lesbian cats in Courage the cowardly dog

[@basedbattledroid3507]

One of them was a rabbit, you philistine. Jk

[@AlexReynard]

I watched that one again recently, and it's kind of unfortunate in hindsight. For Courage, the moral is, "If someone with a prejudice against you for how you look commits lots and lots of unprovoked *violence* against you, then you should go risk your life to help them." I get everything else the episode is saying, but she tries to straight-up murder Courage many times, purely because he's a dog. And she never apologizes. Just a line at the end that maybe all dogs aren't so bad. That's a little fucked-up.

[@Yipper64]

@@AlexReynard yeah a sort of "love thy enemies" situation though. But yeah thinking about it like that it's somewhat contradictory. "take abuse from these people but don't let other people abuse people" in a way.

[@Chill227]

They were just friends

[@Yipper64]

@@Chill227 nah man they where meant to be lovers. It's just the censors wouldn't let that slide, because such a thing wouldnt be shown in certain countries which would make them lose money. I really do miss the days when the censors cared though.

[@bobi_futt]

Good video, but you need to be more careful with your noise reduction on your audio. You’re getting some distracting artifacts from the reduction process.

[@JTtopcat]

I was wondering what that was

[@shiggiewiggie357]

yeah he sounds like he's in a fish tank

[@rws531]

the audio makes this unwatchable for me. I don't how his audio can be this bad all of a sudden.

[@MrMars-sx3db]

I thought my computer was on drugs

[@Nvenom8.]

Sounds like it was recorded in a parking garage.

[@DragoonBoom]

Holy hell *that* simpsons episode is a goddamn nightmare. Even when I saw it years ago and didn't understand how terrible it was I couldn't help but think the ending was hot nonsense.

[@fusetunes]

mhm. for as much as they had handled pretty respectfully for their time period in the past, that one was.... just awful. no other way to really put it. it seems like media has a lot harder time discussing trans issues than anything else and it's kinda sad tbh

[@DragoonBoom]

@Phillip it only makes sense in a world where trans people don't exist and there are only cross dressing men who want to trick lesbians. Patty isn't gonna be erased because she's secure in her sexuality also "dude that looks like a lady" oh shit was the episode about Marge not condoning her sisters gay relationship and Veronica actually being "male" was the "woke" way to get Marge to be gay friendly? It's a terfs wet dream fuck me is this gross

[@MagcargoMan]

@Phillip Veronica wasn't trans. He was just posing as a woman to get into the golf tournament. Holy hell, don't get triggered.

[@MagcargoMan]

@Phillip It doesn't, because he wasn't trans nor was he pretending to be trans. Also they're not "faking it" but that doesn't mean they aren't masquerading as the opposite sex.

[@frieza65]

@MagcargoMan So... they're not faking it, but they *are* pretending to be something they're not/putting on a false show or pretense, going by the literal definitions of "masquerade"? Please learn what words mean, you fucking dork. So you actively don't believe what trans people say. Gotcha. Not really surprising, given that people like you routinely pull the "don't get triggered" horseshit as a way of attacking an accusation that they know full well applies to them. And since your views do not coincide with my own, I have no problem requesting that you not get triggered over being called transphobic or bigoted. :) Facts over feelings, friend. You've shown your hand, now you gotta own it.

[@Petrico94]

"Don't shoot! This man isn't Black."

[@KaeraNeko]

The first time I saw that, I was certain that it was from the abridged series. Then I read the manga and realised that it wasn't.

[@chinuamiller]

@@KaeraNeko what manga?

[@jonathankent1517]

@@chinuamiller Dragon Ball Super

[@rosieholstein3233]

My favorite out of context line of all time.

[@kevinforbesofficial]

I definitely liked that Fairly Oddparents episode, but I agree (knowing what we know of Butch Hartman) that he 100% did not intend that to be the moral of the episode.

[@DAEsaster]

Does Butch even intend for any of his episodes to have a moral? He made a boy with a pink hat, and his parents thought he was going to be a girl, heavily implying that at some point he wished to be a boy. And then freaked out when people read into it. Same thing with Danny Phantom, his clone is a little girl, and the wish-ghost touches Danny's chest asking if he's *sure* there's nothing she can do.

[@kevinforbesofficial]

@@DAEsaster not to mention his weird MPREG thing

[@darkmyro]

@@DAEsaster I've never thought of that, but butch mostly runs the show from my understanding he doesn't have a big hand in writing it. That's why there was a dip in quality in the last season of Danny phantom. Like butch comes up with the designs and concepts, but the writers do the heavy lifting.

[@phoneguy8369]

@@DAEsaster It's honestly kind of hilarious how many trans-coded characters a transphobe like Butch has managed to make, lol. Anyway everyone in DP and FOP is gay and trans I don't make the rules sorry

[@josejoelmoranhernandez1629]

One of my favorite episodes is the gender swapping one. It fucking imprinted on me something (i'm not trans but enby), and it was "You can like 'boy stuff' and still be femme, you can dress 'like a girl' and still be a boy, nobody has a say on what you are or are not"... it's kinda tear-jerking looking back at it

[@vickytsurka8109]

every time i hear ben shapiro's voice i think it's edited to make fun of him but no, that's just how he sounds

[@leiram8833]

He sounds like if Kermit the frog got his balls clipped in a car door

[@RoguSpanish]

Holy shit, it is?? I literally thought Quinton edited his voice to make him sound like that, I laughed out loud when he started speaking!

[@EternalGuardian07]

I always call him the Human Weed Whacker. His voice is horrid to listen to.

[@SNESJW]

@@EternalGuardian07 His hair looks like it was cut by a weed whacker

[@vickytsurka8109]

@kristian rikardsen hey kristian do me a favor and drink some antifreeze

[@trevorturner9733]

Ben in that clip kinda looks like emo Peter Parker

[@CateGhost666]

Now all I can picture is Ben doing the Spider-Man 3 dance down the street ahahaha

[@DAEsaster]

@@CateGhost666 That's essentially what he does, is it not?

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Now I can't unsee it

[@christopherb501]

@@CateGhost666 Oh please. One look at that dork and you _know_ he couldn't ever match the epic dance moves of Raimi-era Spider-Man.

[@shanez1215]

He's got that funky soul.

[@hobihope2981]

Oh man, don't even get started on how the 4kids & other US companies censored kids anime for American TV to be "less controversial," like getting rid of the lesbian relationship in Sailor Moon

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

You missed the best part. Changing a cute, consenting relationship between two women to a borderline incestuous relationship between two women.

[@bigbawlzlebowski8886]

Conservatives

[@cohengamertv6548]

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

[@joshm977]

“they’re girls and cousins too” will forever be the funniest thing ever to me, they couldn’t go a single second without mentioning they’re cousins

[@butchbf2612]

A lot of English translators do this with Asian media and water it down to make it seem less gay

[@cahillcomics918]

i thought this was gonna be dumb and whiney, but instead it was an intelligent conversation about the subtext in shows people love and were too young to realize til new shows did the same thing and they were offended

[@x999uuu1]

Why did you think it was going to be like that?

[@neutralkushhotel5010]

x999uuu1 because it’s youtube, and chuds dominate the platform

[@bigbawlzlebowski8886]

ESS JAY DUBBYAS

[@quitpayload]

That Fox News clip was like one of those discussion panels The Onion used to do.

[@SirBlackReeds]

What if that was the point?

[@NIN10DOXD]

@@SirBlackReeds It's not though. They actually believe the shit they're spewing.

[@Rebazar]

Well yeah... that's what the Onion was parodying.

[@SirBlackReeds]

@@NIN10DOXD Can you prove that? After all, Fox News has proven time and again that they value ratings over accuracy.

[@Otokogoroshi]

@@FluffyBunniesOnFire I recently watched some of the older Onion videos and it almost couldn't laugh... so much of it is just... fucking... THAT'S HOW IT IS NOW! Like the one about the attractive women's union not wanting to be in talks with some guy. Hard to laugh when parody is too close to reality.

[@samueljackson3512]

I think the point of the fairly odd parents episode is "Bigotry isn't actually based on things that matters, humans will use any small different to hate others". It's kinda undermined by the fact that everyone is supposed to be the same, so no one could be "greyer and blobbier"

[@dirgenmeister4018]

I think that there's still a level of truth to that. Like, if we were to just talk about race, there's a completely arbitrary distinction between what's considered white and not white, since human skin tones have a massive variance in actual color (there's a rly good website that attaches specific hex values to a wide variety of people's skin tones and it rly shows how varied it is). To us, the distinction between white and minority seems somewhat obvious, because we're informed by a long history of people trying to enforce those ideas, but to an outside observer those qualities would seem completely irrelevant and meaningless, because there aren't clean sub-categories of skin tones. In a certain way, to claim that skin color means anything is almost as dumb as claiming you are greyer and blobbier.

[@dirgenmeister4018]

Also there is one specific difference between the dentist and Timmy: the dentist has the ball. Because he has the ball, he is in a position where he can enforce arbitrary hierarchy, because he needs some level of justification as to why he deserves it. The fact that he's "greyer and blobbier" is a figment of his imagination, but it's a figment he needs to justify his theft of Timmy's possessions.

[@Child_Friendly_Child_I_Swear]

@nice try167 "It hurt itself in its confusion!"

[@sand8375]

@nice try167 if you think its oversaturated thats your problem bro.

[@jabberwockthelemur2961]

@nice try167 people use the word "bigotry" to refer to bigots. If you feel that you're being targeted by that word then I have something to tell ya, bud.

[@Rexdrinkredbull]

"Deal with the REAL, people!" god that's such a 90's turn of phrase 😂

[@averymartin1327]

I like how Static Cling shows a trans character simply just existing. Not just the butt of an edgy joke.

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Same

[@Z3RO5286]

well it is not sjw left wing pandering because have you seen closet clown episode???

[@vitaminwater9662]

yeah because no show has ever done that before how awesome and groundbreaking

[@soggycactus4240]

@@vitaminwater9662 appreciating one show doesn't down play what others have accomplish, chill out and make your own comment praising those shows.

[@carlycrays2831]

I mean, they have one bad joke, but it's a good bad joke.

[@kingboobs20]

As bad as Ben Shapiro's hair is now, it used to be SO much worse.

[@greentaigo2552]

The hair in the video looks like he's been running in 40 degrees and then came home and dropped olive oil on his hair

[@robertharris6092]

@@greentaigo2552 at least hes smart enough to run in the cold.

[@angela.luntian]

tbh thats pretty discriminatory to call someone's something "bad"

[@kingboobs20]

@@angela.luntian Nah, unlike gender identity or sexuality that hairdo is a choice. If you're in the public eye and the look you go for is "evil Moe Howard" you damn well better be prepared for the mockery.

[@juancarloshernandez2333]

@@robertharris6092 40 degrees Celsius

[@NintendoTransformer]

I was honestly really scared that you were going to be mad about thew whole trans thing and complain about it "pandering to SJWs" or something like that. But you were actually very respectful and chill about it! Which I'm really happy about! I'm a trans guy, and I can't express enough how good it is to see a cartoon where a trans character is portrayed as a normal person and not some wacky harmful stereotype. I'm a person who just wants to be happy like any other person, and I wish more people would understand that. I'm so happy that children's media is now starting to teach that we aren't gross or scary or mean, but just normal people. I wish I got to grow up with that as a kid. I think it would have made it a lot easier for people to accept us, and for us to accept ourselves.

[@Zarastro54]

Cookie Waffle Nah. If you get more in to Quinton’s content, it becomes pretty clear that he’s definitely not a chud.

[@fightonafriday]

@@Zarastro54 what?

[@rodneyp9590]

@@TheCyndicate judging others is morally disgusting, and honestly judging gods will and his creations is blasphemous.

[@neal2399]

TʜᴇCʏɴᴅɪᴄᴀᴛᴇ awwwww it’s adorable that you think your hollow-skulled take on a 9-month-old video matters

[@TheCyndicate]

@@neal2399 , if its age mattered and devalued it, you wouldn't be here commenting on it. The truth is, you can't argue the points being made, so you sling very weak, none functioning insults as a deflection. You're obviously not that bright.

[@jonathanstern5537]

As a comic book fan, I know this all too well. Not a week goes by that a LGBTQ+, non-white, female version of a formerly male superhero comes out, and people start bitching about comics becoming political, and I'm like, "Dude, Superman started out fighting robber barons, Captain America punched Hitler out on the cover of his premier issue, The X-Men were representative of the Civil Rights movement... comics have always been political."

[@amf8648]

Right? And Wonder woman is LITERALLY based on two bisexual & poly women whom were in a realtionship with her creator: not shit she is bi!???

[@Scringus]

I do agree with you, but on the other hand, a lot of times these new characters either aren't handled well(looks at marvels first non binary characters being named snowflake and safespace) or are written as lazilly as possible so they can say that they have said characters without putting any effort into them

[@amf8648]

@@Scringus Sadly true :/ pure baiting honestly: "we want your views but we don't actually give a fuck about portraiting you respectfully, we're so woke tho!!!"

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

Also, the sister episode to the Rugrats episode about the babies forming a union, was about Chuckie and Phil being bullied by other boys for wearing dresses. "If mommies can wear pants and grown ups can wear diapers (referencing sumo wrestlers they saw) how come we cant wear dressies!?"

[@FreakDaMIghet]

“I’m not your son. I’m your daughter, and I’m finally happy.” That pretty much sums up what transgender means.

[@lennongrad13]

5:47 Jesus I never noticed I guess Timmy’s bucked teeth is actually just a single tooth

[@seafoamspirit3484]

You mention video games briefly at the end, and as a big SMB fan, can I mention Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? And that Luigi is canonically LGBT, as of 2003? He blatantly had a crush on a boy, Prince Peasley, in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Maybe he's bi, maybe he ends up with a girl, but he's still LGBT. One of the most iconic characters in gaming is one of us. And to expand on Vivian, for those unaware, she is canonically a transgirl. She is a partner, too, one of the good guys. Her sister, Beldam, is a villain; and misgendering Vivi is depicted as one of her villainous traits. A Mario game depicted transphobia as villainous. This was sadly censored in English translations, but that's out of the creator's hands.

[@rosieholstein3233]

Omfg you're right, I totally forgot about Luigi being smitten by Prince Peasely, that was the best.

[@citavalo]

Is that Gilbert Gottfried who voices the dentist? Because he has that Gottfried in him.

[@gamestation2690]

Yes, that’s him.

[@jayjay86443]

When you hear a Gottfried like voice, chances are it's him. Guaranteed. No substitute.

[@shanez1215]

I WAS WONDERING WHERE I HEARD THAT VOICE. I KEPT THINKING OF WHEN JOHN OLIVER DUBBED JARED KUSHNER WITH HIS VOICE

[@manospondylus4896]

Let‘s also not forget all the dystopian social commentary in Invader Zim.

[@rainbowrotcod]

ive always felt that was just jhonen being a little pretentious and pessimistic, as that seems to appears in all of his works; but yknow thats still a good point

[@unlimited-edge]

Luis A. After watching Florpus I revisited the original series (parents didn’t let me watch Zim lol) and yeah the old one just felt... cynical and overly edgy. And not even like smart cynical just more of an “everyone is an idiot except me” kind of way. I’m glad the new one kept the weirdness but toned down the weird dystopia the old show had

[@rainbowrotcod]

@@unlimited-edge yes, indeed

[@basedbattledroid3507]

@@louisea.6618 That's pretty accurate of him to say, because you look at his earliest stuff like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and not only is it kind of rough in general but there's a lot of deliberate scratchiness to all of the illustrations.

[@DAEsaster]

@@unlimited-edge I watched the old one religiously when I was younger, and I miss the cynical dystopia tone. It's the part that has remained funny to me as I've aged, I love things like Portal 2 and SCP where the system is so obviously broken but nobody notices. The "TACOS LOL XD" hasn't aged well for me, and I felt like the new one relied on it too much.

[@noacarvajal8647]

this is all great Quinton but especially thank u for talking about the Rocco special, as a trans woman it's really good to hear you talking about how being trans should be seen as normal and fine like on the special !!!

[@samuelhuff3427]

Okay Human rights shouldn’t be religious or political. They should just be there. All humans no matter their orientation, race, sex, or gender. We all deserve rights to be us.

[@coryman125]

Re: Sesame Street: I love how the entire core of their argument was "the goal of this show was actually to help Black and Hispanic youths", and they present this like it's some evil thing. Like, oh no, this show about educating children is ACTUALLY about educating poor children with little access to proper education? How DARE they! I've been deceived! All this time I thought they were only airing that show for rich white children, but NO, apparently they care about everyone equally and not just people I like! I really don't care where people stand politically, but when people are this openly racist it's almost amazing

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_You're telling me that the key to get us back home has been stuck to your butt... FOR 20 YEARS?!!!_ *~ Filbert (Rocko's Modern Life 2019)*

[@rho-starmkl4483]

Mr. Friendship Pretty much the same plot device as that one time Filburt tried to fix Rocko’s car.

[@nicholasrodinos4701]

3:12 Remember when Rocko's neighbors chased him for admitting that he liked rainbows.

[@Quirderph]

Now THAT Sounds like a metaphor.

[@strangeworm4562]

@Paul Tello please explain I'm very interested on why you think that

[@Powersd451]

@@strangeworm4562 Because he's straight up a homophobe and transphobe, only here in the comments to talk shit. Report and ignore.

[@Fenkuro]

as a trans guy i just really appreciate being able to have a reviewer for once that i don't have to be scared of saying some dumb shit that makes me feel wrong for being the happiest me i can be

[@xdissonance8]

Right? I saw the name of the video and I was Concerned, but it actually was really good. I love this channel

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Same, trans woman here, and I kept seeing this video in my recommendations, I was really unsure if I should even click it. I thought it was just going to be non-stop outrage about Rachel Bighead, like the comments on the Netflix trailer comments section. But I'm really glad I watched this video, sums up everything that has to be said about our representation in the media.

[@theblandcharlie822]

is that pfp a persona refrance?

[@Fenkuro]

@@theblandcharlie822 :^)

[@PoohhNani]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Duplacorn]

I hate anyone who says “hiv virus” like do you not know what the v stands for

[@TheSoup222222]

@brmbly if you have the HIV Virus from an ATM Machine you'll need to go to the ER Room and possibly go into the ICU Unit.

[@weirdotzero7065]

@@TheSoup222222 I think I read a story like this by DC Comics

[@brookerainwater640]

Same smh my head

[@godess_call]

human immunodeficiency virus virus

[@snfriedm]

Its like the car companies that make “Sport SUVs”

[@cable78]

3:29 Time stamp to make it easier to not get spoiled.

[@Mafon2]

he spoils it at 20:11

[@BugsyFoga]

"THEY PUT CHEMICALS IN THE WATER, TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY !!!" -ALEX JONES

[@elperronimo]

Certain frogs can change their gender by changing the hormones in their body. The chemical that was put into the water was messing with the frogs' hormones and changed their gender spontaneously. So the chemicals in the water were turning the frogs trans

[@DAEsaster]

THEY PUT BLEACH IN THE WATER TO TURN THE POOL SEGREGATED!

[@breadpilled2587]

The mention of the Captain Planet episode really hit me. I remember seeing a re-run of that episode. It was only a couple years after my dad had died of AIDS and my mom had contracted HIV. I had never seen anyone, nobody in my childhood at the time, talk positively about someone with HIV. At the time, my mom and brother and I had to keep the secret that my mom had HIV because she knew that we would be ostracized. Recently we have been able to be more open about it but to this day, in 2020, some of our neighbors still wont talk to us. I feel like we still need episodes like that cheesy Captain Planet one. People still havent learned.

[@breadpilled2587]

@DJ MC that's not the only way you can get HIV

[@kingfarquaad4422]

I'm so sorry for your loss and that you're still pestered with rude and intrusive questions. It's sad how little the stigma has been addressed. Thank you for sharing this

[@breadpilled2587]

@@kingfarquaad4422 aids is a progressed form of HIV. It comes from the virus

[@kingfarquaad4422]

@@breadpilled2587 did you mean to tag me?

[@breadpilled2587]

@@kingfarquaad4422 oh sorry, wrong person.

[@jibrijibri4548]

I loved Rachel so much. Joe Murray’s statement on his decision to make Ralph transition was very beautiful too.

[@jinjeredge]

"In a society that also hates clowns" That sounds like our society

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Yeah I feel bad for the professional clowns who can't get a job because the media has such an anti-clown bias and now nearly every single person has coulrophobia. Not to mention that stupid "killer clown prank" phase, god that was stupid, and horrible, and inaccurate to daddy Pennywise.

[@Arthonizer101]

@@basedbattledroid3507 The thing is being a clown is a job, that just happens to have a shrinking market. It's sad, especially if its someones dream job but its not that bad

[@IKnowThatFeelBr0]

Clowns are officially an endangered species, and it's all our fault.

[@moomooold]

"WHO CARE IF I HAVE IT IT SUCKS UNH" cabin plotnet is good shopw

[@Charles-jj2su]

The fact that a character happening to be trans is seen as a “political” things speaks volumes about the work that still needs to be done to educate people and relieve them of the ignorance that is bigotry. I should know, I used to be like that too.

[@dylanbrune7723]

the only way to eliminate class struggle is to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie

[@RFLCPTR]

YES.

[@strangeworm4562]

Eat the birds

[@younggamer7218]

Yes but actually no.

[@obama2200]

Yes

[@johnnypanic6493]

god tier koch joke

[@Anonsage3]

I expect a dedicated video when the other kochroach dies.

[@crimsondynamo615]

One down, one to go

[@chaosvii]

@[First Name Redacted] Dover It'll be fantastic when the power structure which cultivates & rewards these folk for the living all according to the life philosophy _I got mine_ also bites it.

[@jealousyofthesun]

@@chaosvii The koch brothers support gay marriage, open borders, and legalizing drugs. One of them literally ran for president on this platform. In the 80s.

[@darkdreamer871]

I know this must be such a difficult time for Charles Koch and I hope he and his brother are able to reunite soon.

[@sessena7919]

The "another one bites the dust" bit made me laugh out loud

[@VicEntity]

Same. Caught me way of guard

[@3layerdipstack726]

*i cringed*

[@sessena7919]

@@3layerdipstack726 good for you kid

[@3layerdipstack726]

Sessena that’s not good he should remove it

[@sessena7919]

@@3layerdipstack726 why? It was funny to a lot of people. You can joke about an old billionaire who made the world a considerably worse place

[@elileal6980]

The gray blob bit reminds me of animal farm. "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others"

[@Jets1713]

That Mr. Rogers clip of him grinning is golden

[@DaveWraptastic]

Sesame Street teaches kids to share, to be nice to others and care for each other. If the right thinks that's a liberal agenda, the problem isn't Sesame Street but their idea of society.

[@eddiesam8539]

More like the left. As in I see more of their messages on main stream media, heck, even in movie theaters I'm seeing them in the commercials.

[@sneff212]

What right winger has thought thats a liberal agenda? are you just using that non sequitor to lump all the republicans together? What about inclusivity hmmmmmmm??????

[@acumbess]

@@sneff212 did you watch the video??? And who said all republicans??

[@Drbeckerproductions]

I'm sure they wouldn't care if Sesame Street taught their kids radical Christianity.

[@EddJM]

SHARING?? Sounds like communist propaganda to me.

[@hannahkimble6080]

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

[@mozz6344]

Hannah Kimble KILLER QUEEN DAISAN NO BAKUDAN BITES ZA DUSTO

[@bigmac5252]

How do I say this, it's a little crude but hehe... my pee pee feel hard

[@AnzeigenameHere]

MAY THE KOCH BROTHERS BE REUNITED!

[@jessejamestnt]

@@AnzeigenameHere for fucking real...

[@tonycd5304]

@@mozz6344 beat me to it.

[@requiem6465]

In Australia people unironically enjoy Captain Planet myself included.

[@rainingcomplete3018]

Big Dick Requiem and you have the right opinion

[@KaeraNeko]

It's good to know that the GBR is in good hands.

[@sackfu7952]

I think one of the biggest problems with pop culture right now is the sudden and likely willful confusion between politics and ethics.

[@antipsychotic451]

I mean, your ideology is almost certainly going to influence your ethics. If you're a neoconservative who hates gay people and wants to blow up children across the globe, it's safe to say you're a shit person with bad ethics.

[@benji9180]

Between this kind of videos and the Garfield stuff Quinton has become one of my new favorite discoveries in KZbin

[@noreski435]

Too bad he acts like a clown on twitter.

[@jessejamestnt]

@@noreski435 Go cry about it somewhere else.

[@kirbyfan4]

Jesse Osborne yea because Quinton does enough crying on twitter for everyone else

[@at5203]

@@noreski435 Did he called out your favorite youtuber or something?

[@succrse7235]

@@at5203 Quinton could not call out anyone even if they had killed thousands of people. That's how much Quinton's ability for discourse sucks

[@natepomeroy9756]

Love to see Sarah Z getting recognized more in the video essay / media criticism community!

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

She had an Audible sponsorship in her last vid, so I guess you can say she's made it

[@natepomeroy9756]

Callum Lambkin and she collaborated with Schaffrillas Productions! She seems to finally be getting the recognition she deserves.

[@MiloKuroshiro]

Her channel been finally growing! And I'm really glad

[@nine300]

She is genius

[@sunspotmill1291]

I followed her channel a bit ever since she made her 'bad media criticism' video. She got interesting content and video essays under her channel. It's cool how she is starting to get some bigger attention than before now.

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

The Rocko's Modern Life special wasn't targeted at kids, it was targeted at nostalgic adults.

[@weirdotzero7065]

@@Waynekurr Yep. Also, the special is rated TV-Y7, and can be found on the kids section next to She-Ra

[@PrincessAshley972]

@@weirdotzero7065 Which, funny enough, is also a show technically targeted at nostalgic adults. Just slightly older. But its perfectly fine to be viewed by children who can also get something out of it. I like the trend that we can make media for both children and adults and it doesnt have to be one or the other

[@TheUnluckyEverydude]

I mean, the same could be said about Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse.

[@dogabc6296]

Lol well my younger brother watched the shit out of that whatcha gonna do???

[@jooree7696]

I never saw Rocko, but i liked the movie still

[@SPDYellow]

That's really the galling thing, how little it takes to qualify as "woke" or "political:" all you have to do is have a protagonist who isn't a cishet White Male and you're done. You don't need to do anything else, because there are only two genders, Male and Political, and two races, White and Political.

[@pleasebenice3520]

11:42 is so satisfying to hear. Yes, THANK YOU, when will people like this learn that they’re being JUST as sensitive as the people they’re making fun of?? It strikes me as so un-self-aware

[@venus_envy]

Arguably more sensitive.

[@blarg2429]

@Kvothe Windrunner If you looked up said evidence you'd realize you're wrong. That you have chosen not to do so dooms your contribution to this conversation from the outset.

[@adeer87]

Kvothe Windrunner Or maybe sometimes a girl just wants a fire truck

[@MagcargoMan]

What's self-unaware is the fact that SJWs try to take over entertainment, businesses, education and science and that people calling out these easily-triggered types are deemed the same for calling them out.

[@adeer87]

MagcargoMan “Calling out” is a generous way to describe getting offended over gay and trans characters existing in media but ok.

[@ChunkyAppleCider]

11:50 My high school once elected some guy and his Xbox prom King/Queen. So y'know.

[@ozioni2553]

they're ruining the sanctity of prom king and queen

[@jacehackworth6413]

And it wasn’t covered on Fox News? I wonder why.

[@nxgan1088]

Gamers are the most oppressed minori-

[@kevinnelson6070]

@@nxgan1088 Gamers are the majority by now, I'm just waiting for the first gamer president.

[@maschaorsomething]

@@nxgan1088 Gamers don't belong here, they are wiping us normal people out by marrying our women and making up to 7 little criminal gamer kids. Playing their disgusting "pökemans", clearly teaching them animal fights from a very young age. We will be no more, folks...

[@MF-R]

I find the "toys make you gay" argument hilarious; I grew up playing with guns, trucks and other boy shyte, thought barbies were 4 girls and all that -- I'm still Pan.

[@prageruwu69]

i swear to god i still get chills when i see the clip of rachel saying "i'm not your son, i'm your daughter, and i'm finally happy"

[@Warriorx269]

It's weird

[@watermoof4914]

@@Warriorx269 youre a nerd

[@t.m.carter4171]

The dislike bar was not as bad as I was expecting. I wonder how many of the dislikes actually watched the whole video.

[@Silhouetters]

0%.

[@SaitoGray]

Yeah, i'm surprised too, let go back in a few day when the right will find out about it and cry on twitter.

[@culwin]

Around 5-10% of dislikes don't mean anything and happen for lots of reasons, from bots, to people seeing embedded or recommended videos, to people who just can't click the right button. Nobody should really care about it.

[@sososoweeder]

disliker right here. watched the whole video. vid wasn't bad, just wanted to spite you.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

@@sososoweeder congratulations, you just played yourself and humanity.

[@kingkingo1841]

I didn´t know it was wrong to learn hispanic kids to read

[@anonthe-third2367]

Teach

[@GabrielGabeRodriguez]

To learn

[@algi1]

6:19 I think there's a bigger, more important point to make here. The original bigotry was ALSO invented. It never made sense he doesn't deserve his ball because he has bad teeth. That was just as invented as the one in the alternate universe.