Mini-Analyzations
- Here’s a theory you might have missed behind “Casper the Friendly Ghost”. It goes that Casper is symbolism of homosexuality and the struggle for gays in society. Casper is a boy ghost or male who constantly seeks the company of other boys or other males. The boys seem to think Casper is a nice fellow and find nothing wrong with his company. After a short while of cute playing, the friendship is ruined when grown ups, who represent the more “traditional” views of society, intervene. More than frowning on such relationships, they fear it terribly and steal the innocent boy and run away from poor Casper, who is left to seek out the next relationship.
-Contributed by Dave R. - In Tex Avery’s “King Size Canary,” a cat and canary compete by “growing” larger with the use a vitamin serum; the bigger one has the edge on the other. It goes back and forth with no resolution other than running out of serum as they stand on a basketball sized earth. This is all a metaphor for the US vs. USSR nuclear arms race!
-Contributed by Dave R. - There has been a great deal of speculation regarding the fact that Smurfette is the only female Smurf in the entire village. People automatically assume that Smurfette is responsible for the propagation of the entire Smurf population. This is an erroneous assumption, because this theory postulates that Smurfs reproduce sexually. I offer forth the idea that Smurfs reproduce asexually, much like amoebas. I believe that when a Smurf takes off his little white hat, the hat grows a new Smurf, and the old Smurf grows a new hat. In the case of Smurfette, well, there is at least one obviously homosexual Smurf in the village (that being Vanity), so why not two? I submit the idea that Smurfette is simply a cross-dressing male Smurf, and there are no real females in the village. No real female acts that over-the-top feminine. I have converted many unbelievers to this theory, based on the simple logic that it puts forth.
-Contributed by Natalie. - For me, the show that brought the whole anthropomorphic vs. realistic animals debate home for me was none other than The Get Along Gang. It struck me as weird to begin with; you stick a moose on his hind legs and he looses something fundamental about being a moose. And Montgomery has antlers, which brings up the issue of whether they could be considered a weapon in his society. But the episode that sealed it was the one in which the Gang ends up in a snowy town where they must search for an escaped elephant. A non-anthropomorphic elephant. From the zoo! I always thought that if you’re going to create a world of humanoid animals, you might as well go all out and populate your zoo with humans.
-Contributed by Farnie6.
Tags: cold war, asexual reproduction
May 13, 2008 at 8:17 am
That post can’t go without a quote from The Venture Brothers, of course:
Henchman 24: Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.
Henchman 21: Oh my God, you’re crazy! They’re so obviously mammals!
Henchman 24: Please! She’d be in estrus 24/7 if she didn’t lay eggs.
Henchman 21: Smurfs don’t lay eggs! I won’t tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They’re mammals!
May 13, 2008 at 8:56 am
King Size Canary cannot be a metaphor for the nuclear arms race. It was released in 1947, and the Soviet Union didn’t have nuclear weapons until 1949.
May 13, 2008 at 9:03 am
Hm. I guess the only logical explanation is that the Soviet nuclear weapons program was really a metaphor for “King Size Canary.”
May 16, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I don’t think Smurfette is a cross-dresser, but I do believe the Smurfs reproduce asexually. I have brought this point up with many of my friends and have convinced some of them. Smurfette was created by Gargamel to infiltrate the Smurfs so he could find them and eat them. Until this point, no female Smurf existed and therefore they could not have reproduced sexually. Because she was created, she took the appearance Gargamel made for her. Considering Gargamel has been chasing Smurfs for years, he probably noticed that all the Smurfs appear male and felt a female would draw more attention.
However, this does not account for the the little red-head with Grandpa Smurf. I have yet to find a good explaination for her.
Oh, and I LOVE the hat theory. That makes a lot more sense than my “they sprout from the ground like cabbage patch kids.”
June 12, 2008 at 9:54 am
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