Mistake No. 8
Ah, the world of Pokémon. Magical, mythical creatures that you beat into submission and force to fight against each other for your gratification and personal glory. While that’s not really the reason we’re talking about it today, I think it’s always important to remind everyone that their favorite thing will always be the worst, it just depends on how you look at it. Cheer up, it’s all a matter of perception.
Anyway, how in the everloving crap is Zubat holding Squirtle aloft in midair? Magnets? Velcro? Pokéglue? All I know is that for a creature being held aloft what looks like hundreds of feet in the air, Squirtle looks pretty effin’ chill.
Mistake No. 9
Old-school cartoons were effed up. Not just for those creepy rubber hose animations and the creepy smiles that everything, even the houses, seemed to sport, but for some of the jokes that the animators sneaked in while you weren’t looking. And no one was the king of creepy subtext like Walt Disney. Sure, it wasn’t his claim to fame, but that never stopped him from letting disturbing junk like a framed picture of sausage links with the caption “FATHER” sit in the background as the Three Little Pigs dance to “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
Stuff like that paves the way for Tom and Jerry to end themselves in an episode, among other things, and while I could sit here and pretend that I’m shocked and appalled, it’s just plain hilarious.
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