Lunch Break LOL

Waldo sent me this gem while I was on vacation. Thought I’d share.

First up, Don Cheadle is one of the great American actors. Also I’ve ALWAYS hated Captain Planet mostly for what the show stood for. My biggest beef was that the villains are your standard youth cartoon villains, which I mean is one-dimensional. No backstory, no motivation, they do bad things because they’re bad people, and that’s the end of it.

Its one thing when you’re dealing with giant robots, or homo-erotic barbarians, but Captain Planet was designed to have real-world appeal. I don’t know about now, but back in those days even tho GI Joe was a somewhat realistic show that dealt with the military and terrorists, the show was just for entertainment, and didn’t discuss how to fight or survive terrorism.

Meanwhile Captain planet was about promoting the green agenda, saving energy, and reducing pollution, and the villains were people who produced trash, pollution, and wasted energy.

What this teaches children was the local paper plant dumps dioxin in the river because they get a kick out of killing fish, and ruining fresh water, rather than being unaware of the dangers, or more likely doing their best to mitigate the dangers for the lest-expensive bottom-line.

And of course as we all grew up, we started learning the Green Agenda is much less the champions of the planet, and more Luddites divorced from reality, or a bunch of corrupt hacks altering scientific data to line their pockets with grant money.

I think this is the logical end of Captain Planet. And I LOL’d a lot!

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0 Responses to Lunch Break LOL

  1. bluesun says:

    I really like the robot chicken take on Captain Planet, where he’s actually Ted Turner in a (really bad) disguise. And all Ted does is run around painted blue yelling “CAPTAIN PLANET!”

  2. Roadkill says:

    I used to watch it… but then again I really dig Asian girls with bob cut hairstyles. I always took offense that the white red-headed(Irish ancestry?) American was the idiot.

    • Weerd Beard says:

      You’re about the same age as me. Sitting on your ass watching cartoons was just in our blood when Captain Planet was on. Didn’t matter if you LIKED the show or not, it beat the shit out of getting off your ass! 😉

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