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1 month 27 days ago
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| MattNor91 wrote:
Coming to think of it, I can see that. I also see Disney Channel as kind of the same thing, especially since it has nothing but teenybopper sludge that has nothing to do with the Disney brand most of the time outside of Paul Rudish's hit-or-miss Mickey Mouse TV shorts, not to mention occasional airings of Walt Disney Animation Studios or Pixar fare.
As for the reason why crap like Kirby Buckets shouldn't be airing, never have I seen a children's program air a scene with a kid vomiting on camera before (yes, I know Rugrats did it a few times, but it involved babies and little children, and didn't do it very often... at least that's how I remember it). During the company's early days as a simple animation studio, Walt Disney would have slapped the tar out of anyone who put in a vomiting sequence and fired him/her on the spot.
That's because Walt Disney died in 1966, well before it was acceptable on basically any kids station.
Also, I can name and recall quite a few kids shows that had vomiting, even retro ones. I remember Arthur's sister vomiting spinach out on camera. There was also Rocko's Modern Life where Heffer vomited on Rocko's face after eating a steak. Both of these were rated TV-Y when they first came out. As for the latter, I was quite shocked the first time I saw it considering how much outright dirty and violent humour there was such as someone's thumb splitting open and a fountain of blood coming out, as well as outright cleavage.
In any case, the vomiting scene doesn't really bother me that much. I've seen much worse in kids shows, such as blatant innuendos and sex humour. Plus, I'm not sure if such scenes will be employed routinely in the show. Ads sometimes only show stuff that are just rare exceptions in the show.
And AFAIK Disney is more of an empire of companies nowadays, rather than just one company. The Walt Disney Company is composed of many subsidiaries, and I see their expansion nowadays as diversifying (not necessarily in a good way) rather than killing Disney. Only 2 or so of these subsidiaries are responsible for the "true" Disney style, and they are still churning out excellent films worthy of the Disney brand. I don't see how this show discredits Disney anymore than Cooking Mama discredits Square-Enix (Taito is a subsidary of Square-Enix).
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