) and I've put it off many times, so, I'm putting it out to all of you.offensive cartoons · 5:51am Sep 3rd, 2015
There are many shows out there, especially these days, the tend to be offensive in some way, sadly, not realizing they are.
Some that are intentionally offensive, like The Boondocks, aren't so bad in that you know it is meant to be offensive, but funny in it's own way because of that.
However, many shows tend to be offensive due to talking down to the viewer, regardless of whether that via is say 1-4 years of age, yet talks to them as if they are so stupid that it offends others when they see it's not so much teaching the kids as screaming they're idiots at them.
This is one form of offensive cartoons, which sadly most new kid shows these days tend to do.
However, my reason for this blog is something that is offensive due to it insulting the deaths of those that died on the titanic.
For an example of being offensive to the memory of those who died on that ship, i direct you to the two reviews below by Nostalgia Critic.
As you no doubt have realized, both movies were offensive to the memories of those who died, the second one even more so.
This leads me to something almost or just as (i'm not quite sure yet) offensive as the second animated titanic movie.
For those who don't know, way back in the early days of cartoons, DC released a show called Superfriends, basically the great grandfather of the Justice League.
Now, you wouldn't DC could possibly have stooped so low as to insult the memory of the titanic. Well, guess again. Monday night Australia Time i watched a dvd called The Best of Superman, a collection of some of Superman's finest (though i hesitate on that word with some of it) stuff, including several episodes of Superfriends.
Now, it was whilst watching these episodes that i found the offending episode. Originally, my beef with it was logic being fuck out the window.
The episode starts with two divers going down to the wreckage of the titanic. Why? To fill it with balloon and float it back to the serface.
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Yeah, that was the first insult, though it is sort of minor (despite it being the equivalent of desecrating a grave, what with the number of people who died inside), but trust me, it only goes further from there.
But to the logic, some kind of fungus monster attacks the two divers whilst inside, breaking comunitcation with the boat. With this in mind and the dnager they saw their comrades in, the people on the boat call the Superfriends for help.
Here's my first beef with logic. They're a small fisherman's boat and yet, not only do they have a tv phone, but they somehow have the frequency (which, since the Superfriends are superheros should be super top secret and no one be able to know about) to call them.
My second beef with the logic is one of the heroes that goes to save the divers. Black Vulcan. For those who don't know, his powers are basically electricity. Yeah. A guy who's power revolve around something that, when it makes contact with water, pretty much will kill anything for miles around, is going underwater to save to divers from a fungus monster inside the titanic.
If logic isn't offending you there, the last part sure will have.
But wait, logic fucks up even more. when he goes into the water, WITH HIS LOWER BODY SURROUNDED BY ELECTRICITY nothing happens. and, while fighting the monsters that have no possessed the two divers, he fires an electric bolt in the water. Normally, this would've killed him, his partner hero (i think it was Superman; i haven't watched the episode again due to the rage it filled me with) and anyone or anything else living.
Now we get to the part focusing that offends the memories of those who died on the ship all those years ago.
The ship is now a monster (NO, i am NOT making this up, that's what the episode does), that tries to first eat Falcon and the hero who came with him, before RISING TO THE SURFACE and heading towards land, eating anything in sight.
Yeah, if you're not offended by them turning something involved in the tragic deaths of hundreds of people, it goes even further. Black Vulcan and i still think it was Superman lure the Monster Titantic Ship (Good, fucking God, did i really just say that?) away from the lighthouse it was eating (not bothering to fix the damage, so i won't be surprised if when they went back they found it had fallen down, killing who knows how many of the people they were trying to save) and get it to follow them to an area filled with ICEBERGS and TRICK IT INTO CRASHING INTO ONE, CAUSING IT TO SINK!
And if that's not offensive enough, one of the heros says (and don't quote me here) "Isn't it funny. the titantic was sunk in the same place by the very same iceberg it crashed into all those years ago?"
followedby the other hero saying, "Well, i guess lightning DOES strike twice in one place."
ARE YOU SHITING ME? THEY ACTUALLY SAID THAT? HOW THE FUCKING HELL IN CHRIST'S NAME DID THIS EPISODE GET GREENLIGHTED?! AT LEAST THE ANIMATED TITANIC MOVIES WERE DONE BY INDEPENDENT STUDIOS, SO THEY HAVE THAT EXCUSE AS TO HOW THEY GOT THROUGH, BUT HOW THE HELL DID NO ONE THINK THIS WAS IN THE LEAST WAY OFFENSIVE?!
FOR THAT MATTER, HOW DID THE VOICE ACTORS NOT NOTICE WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WAS OFFENSIVE? SURELY ONE OF THEM LOOKED AT IT AND THOUGH, "UM DOESN'T THIS SEEM A BIT INSULTING TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE THAT DIED ON THE TITANCI?" BUT NO. THEY READ THE LINES AND THIS FUCKING EPISODE GOT AIRED!
Sorry for that, but, seriously, this episode had me so mad i didn't get any sleep, which didn't help since i had to work the next day. How did the producers not realize what this episode held? It boggles my mind that this thing even exists.
Let me know whether you agree wtih me or not. for now, i'm going to try and write some more of chapter 4 of An Apple Far From The Tree.
Later everypony.
Mumbles as he starts posting: god damn Superfriends. Why did they even...?
This is a very touchy subject indeed.
I am actually a bit forgiving with Superfriends (Not just because it is where my start of the DC superheroes/villains began), but you have to remember it came out during a time before civil rights or probably in the middle of it. IDK, i have forgotten my history, but you also have to remember the EARLY Looney Tunes and Disney. They were products of their time, much like how we have products of our time.
Now then, I can't defend making fun of the dead in the way that you describe, but you have to remember the times there were in. I am sure most people consider those two titanic movies to be either iconic/personal to them, while insulting to others as well. I am also going to say that I never really liked James Cameron's Titanic movie as well. But, i think the only saving grace of it is, is that it is remembering them in some way. Don't get me wrong, they did it in a horrible way, but at least it's getting mentioned. How many moments of history do you know that have never been adapted?
I am not arguing against you, i am just saying think about it from a different point of view. You are correct in your opinions, yet just take a step back to think about it, just a bit more.
Also, i know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I just think that's just someone's idea and it didn't pay off very well. Just move on from it. We will get angry at it, but then we will ignore it. It's why it's forgettable. Because it doesn't matter in the end.
What are you talking about? That lightning thing is hilarious.
Well, guess that the rule "no event that isn't more than 200 years old [it was once 150 years, but considered just how touchy the American Civil War and the Unification of Italy is for some people, 50 extra years have been added] " actually has an application in the minds of some.
I didn't find those offensive, not anymore than the jokes about Fontana Square; Ustica or the Mont Blanc's Tunnel Massacre. Yes, sure, it's insulting, but mostly to the viewers'/listeners' intelligence, not to the family of the victims.
hmmm... i think the titanic thing is a little insulting, sure. but not nearly to the degree that you seem to be making it out to be. and as for superpowers, when have they ever made a lick of sense?
In Superfriends' defense, as a late 70s early 80s show, they weren't allowed to have actual *fights* by Network Standards and Practices.
That's why Aquaman's useless, and Batman and Superman never actually punch anyone.
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Squak!!!!!
don't forget, some people think of it like that.