Did You Know That We Learn Stereotypes As Children?

[crabapple]

Well, if we make fun of the past, then that proves we don't miss whatever was going on back then; just as if you make fun of a person, that proves you don't envy that person.

[Phalanx]

...and if you make fun of a kitten, it makes a funny look on its face.

[crabapple]

Exactly.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Some people go on about children's programmes being full of allusions to sex and drugs, but these are mostly students who go though that 'it's hip to bang on about the old shows, but only in a hip and ironic way, man' phase.

There are '100 Greatest (films, comedy, kids TV, whatever) Ever' shows on British television quite regularly (insufferably repeated to death), and these often feature chirpy young Z-list celebrity things being all clever in their soundbites about the kids stuff they - allegedly - used to watch as a child.

I say some of their lines are scripted in keeping with the tone of the programme, but in any event it seems trendy to look back at things we used to watch and replace the genuine awe and wonder we felt in the learning process with the same kind of knowing cleverness that festers in the likes of the Scream films.

It makes you wonder if we have gone forwards or backwards in becoming all cynically self-aware, and seeming almost embarrassed about admitting that such simple stories and concepts once terrified and intrigued our innocent minds.

Okay but...Alice In Wonderland and Wizard Of Oz are total acid trips :p

Alice In Wonderland, with the pills that make you big or small, and the hooka toking caterpillar...The cat who becomes invisible, all but his giant grin...

Wizard Of Oz, talking trees, flying monkeys, pastel horses...Poppy fields...

:D