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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 125 points 8 months ago

Not only does the brave little toaster have a song where cars in a junkyard sing about how worthless they are before they are crushed to death but one of those cars drives himself onto the conveyor belt before the magnet can put them there because he wanted to die on his own terms.

WTF were they showing us yo.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 8 months ago

WTF were they showing us yo.

Life, bro. Real fucking life reflected in the shiny surface of an animated toaster.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

True. I do like with children's stuff doesn't shy away from things that are more real.

[-] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

Couldn't agree more, children's shows should absolutely be about peeling away the thin veneer of sanity that's all there is protecting us from the gargling, writhing chaos and madness that lies in the darkness beyond.

It builds character.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Hell look at what sesame Street did back then with Mr Hooper.

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

You're worthless!

Whole movie is so gothic. But the danger feels so real in that one and in American Tail.

I blame BLT for causing some minor hoarding tendencies.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

There are no cats in America is actually a deeply troubling introspection of American immigrant racism of both the immigrant and the recipient country.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

But my cohort had Watership Down

Described recently as the best example of cosmic horror/literary irony

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Art Garfunkel's song "Bright Eyes" is absolutely, beautifully, brutally sad.

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