grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus? If ol' Cap taught me anything, it was that if you want to score with hot Soviet cartoon ladies, you need a ring that shoots fire to blast the ever-loving crap out of eco-terrorists. Apparently I missed the virus message.

Chowderhead wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/fox-news-the-muppets-are-communist_n_1129173.html?ref=mostpopular

It ain't easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.

Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.

Bolling, who took issue with the baron's name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.

"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.

"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."

Indeed, there was no mention of the benefits of oil drilling in the Muppets, but there was also no discussion of any other aspect of the industry. Richman, played by Chris Cooper, was out to destroy the Muppets theater. Kermit and his friends, then, were not committed environmentalists (though one must imagine the frog is concerned with his swampy homeland) but simply puppets looking to save a place they once loved.

Still, Gainor blamed the film, and its predecessors, for Occupy Wall Street and the environmental movement.

"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."

The Teletubbies were unavailable for comment. Mahna-Mahna.

Thoughts? Opinions?

I know this comes from the Huffington post, so if need be, I'll post a Fox News version of the story.

grayshadow87 wrote:hot Soviet cartoon ladies,.

grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus?

CuddlySquig wrote:

grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus?

There was that one episode, named "Population Bomb," that taught kids that humans are like vermin

"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff,"

CuddlySquig wrote:

grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus?

There was that one episode, named "Population Bomb," that taught kids that humans are like vermin

Tyyr wrote:You can apply the label vermin to almost any animal you want to, it's so broad it lacks any real meaning. Hell, by that definition a Tyrannosaurus would be vermin.

Chowderhead wrote:

CuddlySquig wrote:

grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus?

There was that one episode, named "Population Bomb," that taught kids that humans are like vermin

Source.

Because I looked this up, and the only thing that came up was a book called "Population Bomb" that had nothing to do with TBGH.

Dr. Blight and Sly Sludge break into the government's computer system in order to obtain phony legal documents allowing them to change all the national parks into giant toxic waste dumps. In addition, Dr. Blight's computer MAL falsifies the criminal records of the Planeteers and cleans up Sy Sludge's background check to make him look like a committed environmentalist. First appearances of Dr. Blight, MAL and Sly Sludge.

Cyporiean wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

CuddlySquig wrote:

grayshadow87 wrote:How are Nickelodeon's Big Green Help and Captain Planet teaching that humanity is a virus?

There was that one episode, named "Population Bomb," that taught kids that humans are like vermin

Source.

Because I looked this up, and the only thing that came up was a book called "Population Bomb" that had nothing to do with TBGH.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Captain_Planet_episodes
Episode 1.5 "Population Bomb"

Dr. Blight and Sly Sludge break into the government's computer system in order to obtain phony legal documents allowing them to change all the national parks into giant toxic waste dumps. In addition, Dr. Blight's computer MAL falsifies the criminal records of the Planeteers and cleans up Sy Sludge's background check to make him look like a committed environmentalist. First appearances of Dr. Blight, MAL and Sly Sludge.

pretty sure that description is wrong as its the same one listed in 1.4...

Captain Planet prevents part of a wall breaking and falling on a crowded street in an overpopulated city. Back on Hope Island, the Planeteers learn that the world is very overpopulated and some countries try to slow it down. Wheeler, annoyed at the idea of anyone recommending how many children to have, goes out windsurfing despite an approaching storm. He's blown off-course and is washed up on an island with a miniature city. The inhabitants, genetically-effected mice with human characteristics including overpopulation and its resulting polluted land, capture Wheeler for food. His kind warden, Piebald, saves his life and the totalitarian government decides he should be shown to the masses to prove their society is well-off instead. When they learn about the Planeteers, their army attacks Hope Island and capture Linka and Kwame for slaves as well. Wheeler has to cooperate with the government to spare Piebald trouble, and think of a way to successfully rescue humanity...

biccat wrote:From the description:

Captain Planet prevents part of a wall breaking and falling on a crowded street in an overpopulated city. Back on Hope Island, the Planeteers learn that the world is very overpopulated and some countries try to slow it down. Wheeler, annoyed at the idea of anyone recommending how many children to have, goes out windsurfing despite an approaching storm. He's blown off-course and is washed up on an island with a miniature city. The inhabitants, genetically-effected mice with human characteristics including overpopulation and its resulting polluted land, capture Wheeler for food. His kind warden, Piebald, saves his life and the totalitarian government decides he should be shown to the masses to prove their society is well-off instead. When they learn about the Planeteers, their army attacks Hope Island and capture Linka and Kwame for slaves as well. Wheeler has to cooperate with the government to spare Piebald trouble, and think of a way to successfully rescue humanity...

Captain Planet was pretty out there, politically speaking.

sebster wrote:Dammit, I only ever managed to see the crap episodes of Captain Planet. That episode actually sounds pretty awesome, in a crazy kind of way. All the ones I watched were basically variations on;

One of the villains is doing environmental harm, not to make money but just out of spite. The planeteers go there, meet some mildly racist stereotype who explains some mildly offensive platitude. Wheeler tries to set something on fire but feths it up.
One or more planeteers is captured or goes missing, preventing them from calling Captain Planet. They dick around, eventually finding or rescuing the missing planeteers. Captain Planet is called, he acts like a douche while beating up the villains.

A civilisation of warrior mice sound totally awesome in comparison.