Dussicar
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Piggybacking on the "favourite cartoons" thread, I figure there are some of you out there who had a cartoon or cartoons that you absolutely wished had fallen off the earth.
For me, it would be GI Joe.
They really should have let somebody with a freakin' brain handle the writing and production of that stupid series. I swear, whoever it was in charge of that toon was somebody freshly booted from the Ralph Nader school of conduct for being too extremist and not to mention way too American and apple pie-ish.
Even as a kid, I was turned off by the fact that if there was a character that had even a passing glance of ethnic blood, they would stereotype the fucking shit out of them.
Like that Native American tracker on Joe's team who had that Eagle named spirit. I swear, the voice actor must have been watching just about every Lone Ranger episode imaginable on the behest of GI Joe's creators because he was a sad and pathetic commentary on how the eighties viewed any change or "deviation" on the American way of life. Regardless of who came first in the continental sense of the word.
Storm Shadow was just as rediculous. His voice seemed to be a compilation of every single buddist monk and B-movie ninja put together....Not to mention the fact that there has NEVER been any records in history that has documented or archived live footage of a ninja being able to dismantle and obliterate a modern main battletank with a judo chop to it's treads, followed by a hearty and forceful Hayiiiah!
Oh, hey! There is a group of bad guys that just so happen to look like the bad dudes from The Road Warrior? No problem! Let's just give them an over-the-top Austrailian accent! Yeah. That will sure affirm American kids that anybody from down under is just as human as "you and I."
I also find it a little convenient that no matter how desructive and chaotic the battlefield is, every ship, vehicle, plane, and hotdog stand that suddenly explodes, will give the pilot and occupants enough time to safely bail out before said vessel sends it's fiery love to a twenty mile radius...With absolutely no wounded, I might add.
Or the fact that every time somebody got knocked unconcious, the animators had to go out of their way to make sure every child knew that the person was still alive by making their chest heave up and down to absurd degrees.
I hated Cobra Commander's whiny voice. I sure as fuck don't want to hear it again every time one of his soldiers, pilots, tank drivers, or janitors open their mouths to say something stupid like "Bail out!"
For me, it would be GI Joe.
They really should have let somebody with a freakin' brain handle the writing and production of that stupid series. I swear, whoever it was in charge of that toon was somebody freshly booted from the Ralph Nader school of conduct for being too extremist and not to mention way too American and apple pie-ish.
Even as a kid, I was turned off by the fact that if there was a character that had even a passing glance of ethnic blood, they would stereotype the fucking shit out of them.
Like that Native American tracker on Joe's team who had that Eagle named spirit. I swear, the voice actor must have been watching just about every Lone Ranger episode imaginable on the behest of GI Joe's creators because he was a sad and pathetic commentary on how the eighties viewed any change or "deviation" on the American way of life. Regardless of who came first in the continental sense of the word.
Storm Shadow was just as rediculous. His voice seemed to be a compilation of every single buddist monk and B-movie ninja put together....Not to mention the fact that there has NEVER been any records in history that has documented or archived live footage of a ninja being able to dismantle and obliterate a modern main battletank with a judo chop to it's treads, followed by a hearty and forceful Hayiiiah!
Oh, hey! There is a group of bad guys that just so happen to look like the bad dudes from The Road Warrior? No problem! Let's just give them an over-the-top Austrailian accent! Yeah. That will sure affirm American kids that anybody from down under is just as human as "you and I."
I also find it a little convenient that no matter how desructive and chaotic the battlefield is, every ship, vehicle, plane, and hotdog stand that suddenly explodes, will give the pilot and occupants enough time to safely bail out before said vessel sends it's fiery love to a twenty mile radius...With absolutely no wounded, I might add.
Or the fact that every time somebody got knocked unconcious, the animators had to go out of their way to make sure every child knew that the person was still alive by making their chest heave up and down to absurd degrees.
I hated Cobra Commander's whiny voice. I sure as fuck don't want to hear it again every time one of his soldiers, pilots, tank drivers, or janitors open their mouths to say something stupid like "Bail out!"
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