It's later revealed that he was sent from Peru by his Aunt Lucy, who took him in after he was orphaned in an Earthquake.
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The animation style is whimsical, his adventures are light and fun, filled with slapstick and proper-sounding British accents, but none of that changes the fact that Paddington Bear is full of some dark, dark shit.įound on a train station platform with a suitcase and a note reading "Please look after this bear," Paddington Bear was based on his creator's memories of Child Evacuees leaving London during World War II. Paddington, in his little hat and blue coat, stuffin' down marmalade and cocoa, is absolutely adorable. All of these were present in spades on Animaniacs, which snuck so many jokes past the censors you start to wonder if any of them were even awake during the day.įrom jokes about "fingering" to the confusion between "conjugate" and "copulate," Animaniacs was downright filthy for a kid's show, but smart enough to realize most of the jokes would sail right over kids heads into the waiting ears of parents forced to sit with their babies and watch this crap. Here's a list of things I didn't know about when I was seven years old: Jerry Lewis. They shot three seasons, only two of which aired, and the show effectively launched the careers of the cult artists that created it. They would take angry calls from their landlord, interview inanimate objects/concepts (like Death or Orgasm), and report fake news about celebrities (usually Bjork). Get it?Ĭreated by mad geniuses Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, Sifl and Olly are sock puppets that mostly say and sing offensive things in between music videos. The not-a-kids-show nature of TMNT gets even more interesting when you take into account their original origin from the black-and-white comics, which were originally conceived as a parody of Frank Miller's Daredevil, where a mutated superhero (Daredevil) learns ninjitsu from a wise old master (Stick) to fight evil ninjas in New York (The Hand). You could also summarize it this way: A bunch of ninjas use lethal weapons to kill one another on the gritty streets of New York city. The rat teaches the turtles to be ninjas and they live in the sewer, protecting New York City from the evil Shredder, his gang of ninja (robots), The Foot and Krang, an alien brain who has been banished from Dimension X, where he was a warlord.
The human is mutated into a humanoid rat. The turtles are mutated into humanoid form. And for those folks, here are ten children's shows that aren't actually (entirely) for children.įour turtles and a ninjas master are covered in toxic waste. We miss Saturday mornings sometimes, when we would run downstairs filled with sugary cereal and spend the day watching cartoons and "educational programming." Even though these days we're well aware of the alphabet (some of us, at least - mostly those that don't comment articles on the internet) and the names of colors, we still crave an animated dog or a puppet coming round into our living rooms and teaching us lessons.
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