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just say smurf.
Jun. 5th, 2012 12:17 pmknow what i haven't done in a while? a new propaganda post.
del told me she hated the smurfs, and that seems like a good place to start. the smurfs was a kind of bland kids show, really. it was inoffensive at best and kinda boring at worst. if you were like me and were really watching saturday morning cartoons for the ninja turtles ghost busters actionactionaction in the 80s and 90s, you probably sat through the smurfs because...well, it was still cartoons.
for the record there's a lot of people out there who like to say the smurfs are communist propaganda. i personally don't think they are, though the story could easily be reappropriated as such. but for the sake of humor i may in fact make jokes about smurf village being communist. just know that i don't believe it.
anyway as i've said many times before, 80s/90s toons were obligated through some shady nonsense to do anti-drug episodes. the smurfs were no exception. join me now as we watch smurfs deal with the dangers of rubbing balls too much.
( there's a good 219 images under here, dial up will die. )
so as usual the moral of this propaganda was 'you can never have the willpower to stop any substance abuse on your own, it's best to just surrender completely to your addiction until a friend comes and bails you out. cause that will totally happen every time and addiction by its very nature doesn't push other people out of your life.'
though i guess to be fair, at least this particular propaganda didn't go on one of your classic "YOU BECAME DEPENDANT. ON SOME SORT OF DRUG." tiarade. though lampshading it as 'magic' really doesn't help, because like i said before there is so much magic in the smurf universe that it's like well why should this magic be Bad vs other magic being Good?
who knows. MYSTERIES. hope you enjoyed.
del told me she hated the smurfs, and that seems like a good place to start. the smurfs was a kind of bland kids show, really. it was inoffensive at best and kinda boring at worst. if you were like me and were really watching saturday morning cartoons for the ninja turtles ghost busters actionactionaction in the 80s and 90s, you probably sat through the smurfs because...well, it was still cartoons.
for the record there's a lot of people out there who like to say the smurfs are communist propaganda. i personally don't think they are, though the story could easily be reappropriated as such. but for the sake of humor i may in fact make jokes about smurf village being communist. just know that i don't believe it.
anyway as i've said many times before, 80s/90s toons were obligated through some shady nonsense to do anti-drug episodes. the smurfs were no exception. join me now as we watch smurfs deal with the dangers of rubbing balls too much.
( there's a good 219 images under here, dial up will die. )
so as usual the moral of this propaganda was 'you can never have the willpower to stop any substance abuse on your own, it's best to just surrender completely to your addiction until a friend comes and bails you out. cause that will totally happen every time and addiction by its very nature doesn't push other people out of your life.'
though i guess to be fair, at least this particular propaganda didn't go on one of your classic "YOU BECAME DEPENDANT. ON SOME SORT OF DRUG." tiarade. though lampshading it as 'magic' really doesn't help, because like i said before there is so much magic in the smurf universe that it's like well why should this magic be Bad vs other magic being Good?
who knows. MYSTERIES. hope you enjoyed.
