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PROPAGANDA POST TIME!
with SNORKS.
before i even get into this let me say holy shit i don't even know anything about snorks. i mean, i watched snorks. it was definately something i did see on television. i watched it during my youth, but i can't claim to have paid attention. i think i paid even less attention than i paid to the smurfs. which is really all the snorks are, an aquatic smurf ripoff who didn't say snork every other word
so i don't know any of these characters. or villains. or towns or anything about it. but i DO know the title is a reference to the 1930s propaganda that should crown every collection, REEFER MADNESS. so without further ado...
usual disclaimer applies: this post isn't meant to condone or encourage drug use. my opinion on the matter is it's your body, and you get to make choices about it. it's not my job or anyone else's to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. so if you're straight edge, that's cool! enjoy the post! if you're couchlock'd, that is also cool! i hope you too enjoy this post!
snork guards guarding the snork cave to the reefberry crops snorksnorksn-
what is even happening why am i awake right now i should have slept two hours ago
i guess snorks eat things called reefberries. or maybe they don't, maybe they were exclusively made up for this episode. either way, i guess these cops are guarding the reefberry crop before it can be harvested. they do a shit job of it though but police incompetance is pretty common in propaganda so whatever
go right on in chief of police snork and all-star snork
wow i can't believe i remembered the yellow one is named all-star
i think it's cause he reminds me of a sneech
actually you can see they have like weird feet so you know they're neither snork but the guards don't notice this because ?
??????????????????????
lanternfish!
i guess reefberries grow in very dark places
would you really yank on the jaw of a lanternfish i would not
police snork and allstar get into a weird little conversation about ARE YOU NERVOUS IM NOT NERVOUS COUGH COUGH I MEAN UH JUST INSPECTING THE CROP BEFORE THEY OPEN
i dont know why its not like the guards followed them in
going by the danny devito school of scammin here. THE MINUTE YOU BREAK CHARACTER YOU BLOW THE GRIFT
plorp
ITS TIMEEEEEE
TO DRUG THE BERRIES
they throw a bunch of powder on the berries that turns them from blue
to RED OH NO
what they are throwing on them is silly powder
how a powder can be thrown in water you know just don't ask questions right now im too tired to think about the logistics
it's powder
it's in water
it turned a blue berry red on contact
maybe silly powder isn't so much what it does as what it is cause it's pretty silly
hey kid you wanna come along with the snorks
and have some fun with the snorks
yup we're leaving now
we went in for like ten seconds and now we're leaving
everything is good don't ask questions
hey did those seahorses have weird green feet to you or
so we already know they're not snorks who the fuck are they
i didn't know the hulk and taz had kids
good for them
okay so i
i don't know who these guys are
they appear in the opening when a bunch of random characters flash but i really don't remember them. but like i said i don't remember like anything about snorks. i don't think they're exactly central villains maybe just like minor menaces
from what i GATHER during the episode their names are big weed? or big seaweed? and little seaweed or something i don't fucking even know
use a character named big weed in your reefer madness spoof, instant hit
anyway little seaweed asks why they'd bother covering the reefberries in silly powder, pointing out "so now they'll all act silly. so what?"
big weed doesn't really rebuke this, and i think honestly this entire episode is a little bit of a thumbing of the nose at most propaganda
so really this isn't a propaganda
i guess i should come clean with you guys on that now
it's mostly just a cartoon about snorks getting stoned
STILL HERE? GOOD. the real smurfcop and teensmurfs i mean SNORKS FUCK
they're all here to get the reefberry harvest
you were here 14 seconds ago and just left and have no memory of being here and deny doing it but hum deedum that's probably just a coincidence we sure are guarding the fuck out of our national food supply or whatever
huh
they are all red
that is odd
i have the vaguest memory of this snork being kind of a bitch
she's seriously squicked by the colour of the berries
snorkcop is like WELL SOMETIMES THEY DO JUST RANDOMLY CHANGE COLOUR
i'd be so disturbed if i was growing like strawberries or something and came out one day and they were just ABRUPTLY NEON PURPLE or something wouldn't you? i mean 'sometimes they change colour' doesnt really sell me on 'and they'll taste totally normal and be safe to eat' but w/e i'm not a snork
DUBIOUS FLORA?
PUT IT IN YOUR FUCKING FACE
good
she describes them as being better than she remembers and shares them with all-star
but apart from a kind of slurring of their words and a general cartoon goofiness which is sorta indistinguishable from normal snork antics that i remember from childhood you...can't....tell...
you especially can't tell because snorks have half-lidded eyes like ALMOST ALL THE TIME ANYWAY so it's like the stoner squint effect is completely lost
oh right let's not forget snorks is the show where a cast member is prettymuch just a straight up harpo marx reference. tooter the green snork only speaks in various honks and awoogas.
and does like marx bros level comic relief
so
like
how can you tell
if he's stoned on sillypowder
or just being himself
(you can not)
anyway the snorks all still work in a team and harvest the crop without error in spite of all of them apparently bein stoned so there's that
wooditwooditywoottoooto im an eel belt loading berries OKAYFUCK THIS i need some sleep i'm coming back to these caps in the morning
did i mention this episode is only ten minutes long and i picked it cause i was like THIS SHOULDNT TAKE UP MUCH TIME TO CAP I CAN TOTALLY GET THIS DONE BEFORE TOMORROW ON NO SLEEP ITS ALL GOOD IM A GENIUS and that was before i realized i was not at all a genius
the guards at this point are playing like catch with reefberries using their snorkles and also eating them
and uhm
okay i'm not an expert on snork anatomy but isn't the snorkle like a nose?
or a secondary mouth or something? doesn't this seem unsanitary? oh god what if it's a sex organ
"silly powder"
wink wink
they're getting "silly"
which is why they're all squinteyed and mellow
a classic propaganda dealer gambit
give everyone free drugs and then ??????
even though police chief snork looks it here (i told you the snorks all always had half lidded eyes) he is not eating reefberries
all-star snork offers him some and he's like EH MAYBE LATER
okay question
are reef berries just a drug to snorks anyway? they seem to eat them recreationally and the silliness is described as BETTER THAN REMEMBERED so ???? does that mean reefberries are just like
snork cigarettes
i'm thinking too hard about this
here governer snork
reef a tryberry <- actual line
seen here: a sober snork
seen here: a stoned snork?
are snorks opposite humans is that what's happening
so he declares today REEFBERRY DAY
petition to whitehouse.gov to rename 4/20 reefberry day
HELL YEAH DRUGS wait
actual police reaction to 4/20, pictured here
just a labored, heavy sigh
MEANWHILE
can't have a reefer madness parody without a car crash
WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING
NO YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING
pink snork shows up with a bag of reefberries and goes EW A FIGHT, HAVE A REEFBERRY
so these snorks were sober when they both blew through stoplights and smashed into eachother
moral: car accidents happen anyway
moral: but with REEFBERRY you won't be pissed off at the other person???
so
you wanna go out sometime
okay so SO FAR all 'silly powder' has done has been cause the snorks to act kinda goofy, mellow, and generally not bicker as much. SO UH GOTTA FIX THAT RIGHT CANT HAVE KIDS THINKING ITS A GOOD IDEA TO "GET SILLY"
so quick let's talk about how drugs make your town super dirty super fast i guess
(nevermind the fact that if you have lived in a small town i *PROMISE* you there were a lot more drugs being done there than you were aware of)
"silly" snorks engage in checkers
a game which requires strategy and forethought
anyway the garbagemen snorks talk about how they'll pick up the trash tomorrow, because they're pretty into their game right now.
OH NO, TRASH PICKUP DELAYED A DAY!!! THIS WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE except that the governer declared a holiday and most trash pickup is delayed a day for holidays anyway
STOP PLAYING CATCH WITH YOUR SNORKLES
ITS FREAKING ME OUT
so while all the snorks were out getting stoned, the cop was putting the rest of the harvest away. he also gives us a timeframe for how long he's been working (the rest of the day, so like idk 8 hours?)
so thusly is our trope of "drugs INSTANTLY DESTROY A COMMUNITY" fulfilled
whew, long shift
time to knock off and eat like a whole handful of reefberries
hahahahahahhahha
wow
so the stoned snorks shout THERES SNORK COP, AND HES NOT RED
and just take off after him
and i didn't manage to cap it but they totally miss him when he hides down this alley
so trope of addicts chasing you down to physically force you to do drugs: check
this stopsign looks like i should do something to it
maybe i should
make sweet love to it
oh my god snork police man no don't do that there are children watching
their love was not to be
ALRIGHT enough of having sex with stop signs, i have to STOP ALL THIS SILLINESS
as an aside i really like the snork police hq thing here
i didn't expect to, but i did.
send help i like a design from snorks
KNOCK KNOCK OFFICER
WE WANT TO SHARE OUR DRUGS WITH YOU
good thing i'm inside and stone cold sober
bet you couldn't tell though what with my half-lidded snork eyes
DONT LOOK AT ME
seen here: a sober snork
why do i have this little pouch
what do i keep in it
meanwhile at the edge of town, more stoned snork guards
WE GOTTA KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR BIG WEED AND SEA SNORK OR SEA WEED AND BIG SNORK I DONT KNOW
NEITHER DOES THE VIEWER WHO FUCKING KNOWS
ITS JUST FUN TO SAY BIG WEED I GUESS
HAHAHAHAfajslkdf;sdf
as an aside i got these strawberries and they are really fuckin good, everyone should eat strawberries more often
unless you're allergic
then don't i guess
hey burnouts
which way to town, we wanna take it over
high 5
get it
h i g h
h - i -...wait
p solid depiction of stoners in a giggle loop i guess
TIE THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS UP IM SICK OF THEIR SLOW PACED DRUG HUMOR
so is big weed made out of seaweed or does he just wear seaweed or is he just like a fish who has a natural camoflage of looking like seaweed or
like why does he walk around if he lives in the ocean
is little seaweed his sister or his girlfriend or his queen
WHO ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT EVEN ARE SNORKS omflkdsfasdf
huh that crowd of stoners begging to get stoned with a cop has disapated
that's weird
HELLOOOOOO
STONERS WHERE DID YOU GOOOOOOO
OH NO
A BADDIE HAS TIED UP ALL YOUR STONER PALS, OFFICER SNORK
WHAT WILL YOU DOOOO
u snorks like gettin silly huh
well you can get silly ALL YOU WANT
IN MY CORAL MINES
wait you don't mine coral it needs relatively shallow water and sunlight to live (shut up nerd)
bake em away, toys
AWOOOGA
only sober person in town to the rescue!
so he fires a bunch of reefberries at the baddies from his snorkle
which, even though it made OTHER snorks stoned to put reefberries in his snorkle, does not affect him
i dunno maybe officer snork just has a natural tolerance to 'silly powder'
what *are* these guys
they look more like fart ghosts than algea
omph
i'd be so grossed out if someone shot a berry out of their nose directly into my mouth, i don't think any amount of 'silly powder' would make that okay
HEY I JUST REALIZED
WE DONT HAVE LEGS
WHOAAAAAAAA
goddamnit why do i even have henchmen
i'm looking at that huge bottle back there and just thinking like, that's not the SNORKS' fault. the snorks didn't throw that in their town, and it's probably too big for the garbagemen to pick up
you can't blame human(?) littering on the snorks getting stoned
anyway seaweed girl removes her ribbon and throws it like a weapon?
and for some reason it actually works and ties up copsnork????
oh no i fell *over*
DONT LIKE REEFBERRIES HUH
WELL HOW BOUT SOME SILLY POWDER......STRAIGHT <- actual lines
the best plan is to pour powder into water and expect it to act like it's in a gas and not a liquid
IS THE SNORKLE A NOSE HOW DID HE EXPELL AIR THROUGH IT SO MUCH ABOUT SNORK PHYSIOLOGY MAKES ME ANGRY
hell yeah 4/20 sillypowder son
NOW WHO'S ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE POPULACE
evidently not me, since i hid in my police station from them
gimme the key so i can let my stoner buddies go
NO WAY
I WANNA DO IT
words can not describe the delight i feel looking at big weed's face in this
seriously, it's perfect
aaaaalright so big weed lets the snorks go, and they're i guess all sober again
and all star asks how they're going to avoid big weed harassing them like this again in the future
don't worry about it! i've gone for classic propaganda hypocricy trope #4!
ah yes, the "keep the dealer addicted to drugs" trope!
so the moral is if you have an aggressive invasive enemy who wants to take over your land and enslave your culture
get them stoned
and they will peacefully negotiate mutually beneficial agreements
THE END
so...WAS this a propaganda?
well, it certainly has plenty of propaganda tropes. but at the same time, there was no real effort to deliver some sort of scare tactic moral (apart from 'unless one of your pals is sober you're all doomed to enslavement') and overall the effect of the 'silly powder' on the snorks was just ...well, it was pretty close to realistic? just mellow and goofy as fuck. so i don't think this strictly WAS a propaganda.
what i think it really was? was the writers giggling to eachother that they should do a reefer madness take-off. and really if you know reefer madness, you know why it's silly, and you're probably closer to being pro-legalization than pro-propaganda. but i also think there's only so much a writer's department could get away with without having to package it up with a little bit of a 'drugs are bad, stay sober' morality.
either way it's fun!
and i'll have the snorks theme song stuck in my head for like ten weeks now.
HAPPY EASTER Y'ALL!
PROPAGANDA POST TIME!
with SNORKS.
before i even get into this let me say holy shit i don't even know anything about snorks. i mean, i watched snorks. it was definately something i did see on television. i watched it during my youth, but i can't claim to have paid attention. i think i paid even less attention than i paid to the smurfs. which is really all the snorks are, an aquatic smurf ripoff who didn't say snork every other word
so i don't know any of these characters. or villains. or towns or anything about it. but i DO know the title is a reference to the 1930s propaganda that should crown every collection, REEFER MADNESS. so without further ado...
usual disclaimer applies: this post isn't meant to condone or encourage drug use. my opinion on the matter is it's your body, and you get to make choices about it. it's not my job or anyone else's to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. so if you're straight edge, that's cool! enjoy the post! if you're couchlock'd, that is also cool! i hope you too enjoy this post!
snork guards guarding the snork cave to the reefberry crops snorksnorksn-
what is even happening why am i awake right now i should have slept two hours ago
i guess snorks eat things called reefberries. or maybe they don't, maybe they were exclusively made up for this episode. either way, i guess these cops are guarding the reefberry crop before it can be harvested. they do a shit job of it though but police incompetance is pretty common in propaganda so whatever
go right on in chief of police snork and all-star snork
wow i can't believe i remembered the yellow one is named all-star
i think it's cause he reminds me of a sneech
actually you can see they have like weird feet so you know they're neither snork but the guards don't notice this because ?
??????????????????????
lanternfish!
i guess reefberries grow in very dark places
would you really yank on the jaw of a lanternfish i would not
police snork and allstar get into a weird little conversation about ARE YOU NERVOUS IM NOT NERVOUS COUGH COUGH I MEAN UH JUST INSPECTING THE CROP BEFORE THEY OPEN
i dont know why its not like the guards followed them in
going by the danny devito school of scammin here. THE MINUTE YOU BREAK CHARACTER YOU BLOW THE GRIFT
plorp
ITS TIMEEEEEE
TO DRUG THE BERRIES
they throw a bunch of powder on the berries that turns them from blue
to RED OH NO
what they are throwing on them is silly powder
how a powder can be thrown in water you know just don't ask questions right now im too tired to think about the logistics
it's powder
it's in water
it turned a blue berry red on contact
maybe silly powder isn't so much what it does as what it is cause it's pretty silly
hey kid you wanna come along with the snorks
and have some fun with the snorks
yup we're leaving now
we went in for like ten seconds and now we're leaving
everything is good don't ask questions
hey did those seahorses have weird green feet to you or
so we already know they're not snorks who the fuck are they
i didn't know the hulk and taz had kids
good for them
okay so i
i don't know who these guys are
they appear in the opening when a bunch of random characters flash but i really don't remember them. but like i said i don't remember like anything about snorks. i don't think they're exactly central villains maybe just like minor menaces
from what i GATHER during the episode their names are big weed? or big seaweed? and little seaweed or something i don't fucking even know
use a character named big weed in your reefer madness spoof, instant hit
anyway little seaweed asks why they'd bother covering the reefberries in silly powder, pointing out "so now they'll all act silly. so what?"
big weed doesn't really rebuke this, and i think honestly this entire episode is a little bit of a thumbing of the nose at most propaganda
so really this isn't a propaganda
i guess i should come clean with you guys on that now
it's mostly just a cartoon about snorks getting stoned
STILL HERE? GOOD. the real smurfcop and teensmurfs i mean SNORKS FUCK
they're all here to get the reefberry harvest
you were here 14 seconds ago and just left and have no memory of being here and deny doing it but hum deedum that's probably just a coincidence we sure are guarding the fuck out of our national food supply or whatever
huh
they are all red
that is odd
i have the vaguest memory of this snork being kind of a bitch
she's seriously squicked by the colour of the berries
snorkcop is like WELL SOMETIMES THEY DO JUST RANDOMLY CHANGE COLOUR
i'd be so disturbed if i was growing like strawberries or something and came out one day and they were just ABRUPTLY NEON PURPLE or something wouldn't you? i mean 'sometimes they change colour' doesnt really sell me on 'and they'll taste totally normal and be safe to eat' but w/e i'm not a snork
DUBIOUS FLORA?
PUT IT IN YOUR FUCKING FACE
good
she describes them as being better than she remembers and shares them with all-star
but apart from a kind of slurring of their words and a general cartoon goofiness which is sorta indistinguishable from normal snork antics that i remember from childhood you...can't....tell...
you especially can't tell because snorks have half-lidded eyes like ALMOST ALL THE TIME ANYWAY so it's like the stoner squint effect is completely lost
oh right let's not forget snorks is the show where a cast member is prettymuch just a straight up harpo marx reference. tooter the green snork only speaks in various honks and awoogas.
and does like marx bros level comic relief
so
like
how can you tell
if he's stoned on sillypowder
or just being himself
(you can not)
anyway the snorks all still work in a team and harvest the crop without error in spite of all of them apparently bein stoned so there's that
wooditwooditywoottoooto im an eel belt loading berries OKAYFUCK THIS i need some sleep i'm coming back to these caps in the morning
did i mention this episode is only ten minutes long and i picked it cause i was like THIS SHOULDNT TAKE UP MUCH TIME TO CAP I CAN TOTALLY GET THIS DONE BEFORE TOMORROW ON NO SLEEP ITS ALL GOOD IM A GENIUS and that was before i realized i was not at all a genius
the guards at this point are playing like catch with reefberries using their snorkles and also eating them
and uhm
okay i'm not an expert on snork anatomy but isn't the snorkle like a nose?
or a secondary mouth or something? doesn't this seem unsanitary? oh god what if it's a sex organ
"silly powder"
wink wink
they're getting "silly"
which is why they're all squinteyed and mellow
a classic propaganda dealer gambit
give everyone free drugs and then ??????
even though police chief snork looks it here (i told you the snorks all always had half lidded eyes) he is not eating reefberries
all-star snork offers him some and he's like EH MAYBE LATER
okay question
are reef berries just a drug to snorks anyway? they seem to eat them recreationally and the silliness is described as BETTER THAN REMEMBERED so ???? does that mean reefberries are just like
snork cigarettes
i'm thinking too hard about this
here governer snork
reef a tryberry <- actual line
seen here: a sober snork
seen here: a stoned snork?
are snorks opposite humans is that what's happening
so he declares today REEFBERRY DAY
petition to whitehouse.gov to rename 4/20 reefberry day
HELL YEAH DRUGS wait
actual police reaction to 4/20, pictured here
just a labored, heavy sigh
MEANWHILE
can't have a reefer madness parody without a car crash
WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING
NO YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING
pink snork shows up with a bag of reefberries and goes EW A FIGHT, HAVE A REEFBERRY
so these snorks were sober when they both blew through stoplights and smashed into eachother
moral: car accidents happen anyway
moral: but with REEFBERRY you won't be pissed off at the other person???
so
you wanna go out sometime
okay so SO FAR all 'silly powder' has done has been cause the snorks to act kinda goofy, mellow, and generally not bicker as much. SO UH GOTTA FIX THAT RIGHT CANT HAVE KIDS THINKING ITS A GOOD IDEA TO "GET SILLY"
so quick let's talk about how drugs make your town super dirty super fast i guess
(nevermind the fact that if you have lived in a small town i *PROMISE* you there were a lot more drugs being done there than you were aware of)
"silly" snorks engage in checkers
a game which requires strategy and forethought
anyway the garbagemen snorks talk about how they'll pick up the trash tomorrow, because they're pretty into their game right now.
OH NO, TRASH PICKUP DELAYED A DAY!!! THIS WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE except that the governer declared a holiday and most trash pickup is delayed a day for holidays anyway
STOP PLAYING CATCH WITH YOUR SNORKLES
ITS FREAKING ME OUT
so while all the snorks were out getting stoned, the cop was putting the rest of the harvest away. he also gives us a timeframe for how long he's been working (the rest of the day, so like idk 8 hours?)
so thusly is our trope of "drugs INSTANTLY DESTROY A COMMUNITY" fulfilled
whew, long shift
time to knock off and eat like a whole handful of reefberries
hahahahahahhahha
wow
so the stoned snorks shout THERES SNORK COP, AND HES NOT RED
and just take off after him
and i didn't manage to cap it but they totally miss him when he hides down this alley
so trope of addicts chasing you down to physically force you to do drugs: check
this stopsign looks like i should do something to it
maybe i should
make sweet love to it
oh my god snork police man no don't do that there are children watching
their love was not to be
ALRIGHT enough of having sex with stop signs, i have to STOP ALL THIS SILLINESS
as an aside i really like the snork police hq thing here
i didn't expect to, but i did.
send help i like a design from snorks
KNOCK KNOCK OFFICER
WE WANT TO SHARE OUR DRUGS WITH YOU
good thing i'm inside and stone cold sober
bet you couldn't tell though what with my half-lidded snork eyes
DONT LOOK AT ME
seen here: a sober snork
why do i have this little pouch
what do i keep in it
meanwhile at the edge of town, more stoned snork guards
WE GOTTA KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR BIG WEED AND SEA SNORK OR SEA WEED AND BIG SNORK I DONT KNOW
NEITHER DOES THE VIEWER WHO FUCKING KNOWS
ITS JUST FUN TO SAY BIG WEED I GUESS
HAHAHAHAfajslkdf;sdf
as an aside i got these strawberries and they are really fuckin good, everyone should eat strawberries more often
unless you're allergic
then don't i guess
hey burnouts
which way to town, we wanna take it over
high 5
get it
h i g h
h - i -...wait
p solid depiction of stoners in a giggle loop i guess
TIE THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS UP IM SICK OF THEIR SLOW PACED DRUG HUMOR
so is big weed made out of seaweed or does he just wear seaweed or is he just like a fish who has a natural camoflage of looking like seaweed or
like why does he walk around if he lives in the ocean
is little seaweed his sister or his girlfriend or his queen
WHO ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT EVEN ARE SNORKS omflkdsfasdf
huh that crowd of stoners begging to get stoned with a cop has disapated
that's weird
HELLOOOOOO
STONERS WHERE DID YOU GOOOOOOO
OH NO
A BADDIE HAS TIED UP ALL YOUR STONER PALS, OFFICER SNORK
WHAT WILL YOU DOOOO
u snorks like gettin silly huh
well you can get silly ALL YOU WANT
IN MY CORAL MINES
wait you don't mine coral it needs relatively shallow water and sunlight to live (shut up nerd)
bake em away, toys
AWOOOGA
only sober person in town to the rescue!
so he fires a bunch of reefberries at the baddies from his snorkle
which, even though it made OTHER snorks stoned to put reefberries in his snorkle, does not affect him
i dunno maybe officer snork just has a natural tolerance to 'silly powder'
what *are* these guys
they look more like fart ghosts than algea
omph
i'd be so grossed out if someone shot a berry out of their nose directly into my mouth, i don't think any amount of 'silly powder' would make that okay
HEY I JUST REALIZED
WE DONT HAVE LEGS
WHOAAAAAAAA
goddamnit why do i even have henchmen
i'm looking at that huge bottle back there and just thinking like, that's not the SNORKS' fault. the snorks didn't throw that in their town, and it's probably too big for the garbagemen to pick up
you can't blame human(?) littering on the snorks getting stoned
anyway seaweed girl removes her ribbon and throws it like a weapon?
and for some reason it actually works and ties up copsnork????
oh no i fell *over*
DONT LIKE REEFBERRIES HUH
WELL HOW BOUT SOME SILLY POWDER......STRAIGHT <- actual lines
the best plan is to pour powder into water and expect it to act like it's in a gas and not a liquid
IS THE SNORKLE A NOSE HOW DID HE EXPELL AIR THROUGH IT SO MUCH ABOUT SNORK PHYSIOLOGY MAKES ME ANGRY
hell yeah 4/20 sillypowder son
NOW WHO'S ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE POPULACE
evidently not me, since i hid in my police station from them
gimme the key so i can let my stoner buddies go
NO WAY
I WANNA DO IT
words can not describe the delight i feel looking at big weed's face in this
seriously, it's perfect
aaaaalright so big weed lets the snorks go, and they're i guess all sober again
and all star asks how they're going to avoid big weed harassing them like this again in the future
don't worry about it! i've gone for classic propaganda hypocricy trope #4!
ah yes, the "keep the dealer addicted to drugs" trope!
so the moral is if you have an aggressive invasive enemy who wants to take over your land and enslave your culture
get them stoned
and they will peacefully negotiate mutually beneficial agreements
THE END
so...WAS this a propaganda?
well, it certainly has plenty of propaganda tropes. but at the same time, there was no real effort to deliver some sort of scare tactic moral (apart from 'unless one of your pals is sober you're all doomed to enslavement') and overall the effect of the 'silly powder' on the snorks was just ...well, it was pretty close to realistic? just mellow and goofy as fuck. so i don't think this strictly WAS a propaganda.
what i think it really was? was the writers giggling to eachother that they should do a reefer madness take-off. and really if you know reefer madness, you know why it's silly, and you're probably closer to being pro-legalization than pro-propaganda. but i also think there's only so much a writer's department could get away with without having to package it up with a little bit of a 'drugs are bad, stay sober' morality.
either way it's fun!
and i'll have the snorks theme song stuck in my head for like ten weeks now.
HAPPY EASTER Y'ALL!
