I recognise captain planet, pretty sure it wasn't particularly preachy. I do seem to recall there being a retarded amount of non-recyclable packaging with the video game though
I remember the aids episode, lol. It was pretty weird and a bit on your nose. Ferngully is another one that I remember having a heavy environmentalist message, don't cut down trees with Tim Curry voicing the main villain which stole the entire show.
Ferngully was cartoonish fun and the "forest good, lumber bad, humans bad" message wasen't too distracting. It made a compelling conflict for the plot of the movie.
The monster sucking the fumes of the machinery was pretty cool and gross.
It was never going to succeed at making little boys "not want to drive a huge truck".
I guess that's my inner conservative nostalgia. I do want to preserve large, functional patches of every ecosystem cause cool plants animals and shiet.
I always thought Captain Planet was some kind of weird controlled opposition on Ted Turner's part, because the villains were just too ridiculous and even too cartoony for a fucking cartoon, and that's saying something considering comic book villains who form organizations with the words "evil" and "doom" in them ...
Know what was a better environmentalist cartoon? The Raccoons. At least Cyril Sneer was presented as more than just an "evil businessman who didn't care". It was made clear in the pilot that his entire motivation was to build a hassle-free business for to leave to his son (which used to be the definition of a "successful businessman", one who started or maintained a family business that would last a million generations, not to have a million copies of his business in a million fucking countries ...) AND was open to better ideas ....
And the series didn't always harp on one thing, it had perfectly normal stories, too (became a bit more of a sitcom type show before circling around with the alligator guy at the last season or two. It's been a LONG time since I saw this series in the wild, so pardon any memory errors. But at least I reminded myself of something I can (re)-watch without puking.
I always thought Captain Planet was some kind of weird controlled opposition on Ted Turner's part, because the villains were just too ridiculous and even too cartoony for a fucking cartoon, and that's saying something considering comic book villains who form organizations with the words "evil" and "doom" in them
Oh right, I forgot they named their villains some really funny stuff like Sly Sludge, Verminous Skumm or Hoggish Greedly. Even for a cartoon it's a bit too much, lol.
Know what was a better environmentalist cartoon
For me personally either once upon a forest or Nausicaa. Especially Nausicaa I'd argue is one of my favorites overall.
I am not entirely opposed to saving the environment but I have some issues with the mentally ill people we call our leaders pushing more and more restrictions on us. The thing we need is progress and in some regards we already HAVE some solutions(like nuclear power) our dear leaders do not like to hear about.
Nausicaa/Princess Mononoke/Ghibli films in general are cheating. They don't have nearly as much woke infection, and an older target audience, so their environmentalist message is much more nuanced.
I don't remember that episode, but I remember the show. Static Shock. Some chemical exosion in a blighted urban area gave a bunch of ghetto trash super powers. The main character spent most of the series fighting lowlife thugs and gangs who benefited from it. If I was a normal white kid in that situation you're goddamn right I'd bring a gun with me to school.
It's basically about a kid named Jimmy who gets fed up with his bully, threatens him with his dad's gun and accidentaly shots his friend. In the end he gets arrested and Static Shock says that a lot of kids get arrested or die due to gun violence. A bit on the nose but still better than anything modern cartoons do, compare that to the OK KO (let's not be skeletons) or the Animaniacs reboot (bun control) episodes about gun control
Reminds me of the time some kid started bullying me in 1st grade. My parents told me not to be a pussy. Paraphrasing, obviously. Shoved the kid when he wasn't expecting it, and he fell down a hill. No teachers saw me do it, and who's gonna believe the known bully when he tells his teacher that the quiet 7 year old with a Barney backpack shoved him down a hill at recess.
I recognise captain planet, pretty sure it wasn't particularly preachy. I do seem to recall there being a retarded amount of non-recyclable packaging with the video game though
Don't recognise the other three mind
I remember the aids episode, lol. It was pretty weird and a bit on your nose. Ferngully is another one that I remember having a heavy environmentalist message, don't cut down trees with Tim Curry voicing the main villain which stole the entire show.
Ferngully was cartoonish fun and the "forest good, lumber bad, humans bad" message wasen't too distracting. It made a compelling conflict for the plot of the movie.
The monster sucking the fumes of the machinery was pretty cool and gross.
It was never going to succeed at making little boys "not want to drive a huge truck".
Besides, what will Aussies use as speed bumps if we don't protect enough rainforest ecosystem for cassowaries to repopulate?
I guess that's my inner conservative nostalgia. I do want to preserve large, functional patches of every ecosystem cause cool plants animals and shiet.
You forgot he was SINGING about how much he loves pollution ...ok, who's worse with their pollution fetish? This guy or the wonderbread guy?
Polluting be kinda hot tho.
If you want an environmentalist movie that WASN'T all "humans are bad"?
Once Upon a Forest.
I'm not kidding, that movie was surprisingly fair to humanity, unlike similar films of the time.
Thank you for the recomendation.
I always thought Captain Planet was some kind of weird controlled opposition on Ted Turner's part, because the villains were just too ridiculous and even too cartoony for a fucking cartoon, and that's saying something considering comic book villains who form organizations with the words "evil" and "doom" in them ...
Know what was a better environmentalist cartoon? The Raccoons. At least Cyril Sneer was presented as more than just an "evil businessman who didn't care". It was made clear in the pilot that his entire motivation was to build a hassle-free business for to leave to his son (which used to be the definition of a "successful businessman", one who started or maintained a family business that would last a million generations, not to have a million copies of his business in a million fucking countries ...) AND was open to better ideas ....
And the series didn't always harp on one thing, it had perfectly normal stories, too (became a bit more of a sitcom type show before circling around with the alligator guy at the last season or two. It's been a LONG time since I saw this series in the wild, so pardon any memory errors. But at least I reminded myself of something I can (re)-watch without puking.
Oh right, I forgot they named their villains some really funny stuff like Sly Sludge, Verminous Skumm or Hoggish Greedly. Even for a cartoon it's a bit too much, lol.
For me personally either once upon a forest or Nausicaa. Especially Nausicaa I'd argue is one of my favorites overall.
I am not entirely opposed to saving the environment but I have some issues with the mentally ill people we call our leaders pushing more and more restrictions on us. The thing we need is progress and in some regards we already HAVE some solutions(like nuclear power) our dear leaders do not like to hear about.
Nausicaa/Princess Mononoke/Ghibli films in general are cheating. They don't have nearly as much woke infection, and an older target audience, so their environmentalist message is much more nuanced.
I don't remember that episode, but I remember the show. Static Shock. Some chemical exosion in a blighted urban area gave a bunch of ghetto trash super powers. The main character spent most of the series fighting lowlife thugs and gangs who benefited from it. If I was a normal white kid in that situation you're goddamn right I'd bring a gun with me to school.
It's basically about a kid named Jimmy who gets fed up with his bully, threatens him with his dad's gun and accidentaly shots his friend. In the end he gets arrested and Static Shock says that a lot of kids get arrested or die due to gun violence. A bit on the nose but still better than anything modern cartoons do, compare that to the OK KO (let's not be skeletons) or the Animaniacs reboot (bun control) episodes about gun control
Reminds me of the time some kid started bullying me in 1st grade. My parents told me not to be a pussy. Paraphrasing, obviously. Shoved the kid when he wasn't expecting it, and he fell down a hill. No teachers saw me do it, and who's gonna believe the known bully when he tells his teacher that the quiet 7 year old with a Barney backpack shoved him down a hill at recess.