1/29/2023 0 Comments Paw patrol logoEvery episode revolves around some poor citizen finding himself on the wrong side of the law or the victim of an alleged natural disaster or public health crisis. Unfortunately, emergency services seem to be the only thing going on in this horrifying world. This program centers around a group of talking dogs who work for various emergency services: Chase is the cop, Marshall the fireman (or rather firepup), Skye the helicopter pilot, and so on. The worst one, worse than Daniel Tiger or PJ Masks or even My Little Pony (which is the subject of a pedophile cult in these United States) is Paw Patrol. Our three-year-old, quite perceptively, calls it “Stupid Truck.”ĭespite my best efforts, the kids have managed to see a lot of these shows, mostly at grandparents’ houses. Have you heard of Super Truck ? It’s a quite popular show about a truck. When I was a child, Doug Funny was subjected to various ethical dilemmas, and even the Ninja Turtles of blessed memory had quarrels and existential crises - I recall Michaelangelo once seeking hypnotherapy for his pizza addiction - in between fighting some genuinely frightening baddies. Then there is the sheer inanity of the dialogue, characters, and situations. In a typical episode the Paw Patrol send an entire fleet of vehicles to an attempted misdemeanor (Thank goodness the backgrounds are always empty.) The color palette is unimaginably garish, a lot of neon fuschias, turquoises, and oranges, plus a distinct shade of cyan that looks like radioactive Mountain Dew. I have always admired the artistry of traditional hand-drawn animation, and the CGI you see on TV (usually farmed out to digital sweatshops in Asia) is even uglier than the top-shelf Disney/Pixar version. (Do Muppets in fact have sex? Inquiring minds don’t in fact want to know.)īut in our case the objections are aesthetic as much as anything else. There is a lot of this stuff going around, and you have to wonder whether even the most progressive parents really believe their kids need to learn whether in addition to being blue and wearing a diaper, Gonzo in Muppet Babies is gender-queer. We go to one of those scary parishes where the old Latin Mass is said twice on Sundays, and I must say the sexual proclivities of Dora the Explorer are a major topic of concern. When some of our friends at church nod in approval upon hearing that we haven’t got a proper television, I am happy to let them think that this is largely because we want to protect our children from all the woke nonsense in cartoons.
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