February 11, 2005

Fonzie, Astroboy and Spiderman walk into a bar.....

Correct me if I’m wrong: But was Fonzie not the biggest pervert in the world? Everyone wanted to be like The Fonz. Why? He was a pervert! Why was this character so popular? Because he wore a leather jacket and was “cool”? Yeah sure you can wear all the black leather jackets you want and put as much grease in your hair as you want, but to quote The Wedding Singer “no one wants to see a fifty-year-old guy hitting on chicks”.

It’s the little things like that on television that get looked over by the FCC and other similar groups. Sure everyone thought that Power Rangers was violent, but did anyone ever pay any attention to shows like, oh I don’t know, Astroboy? Now if that’s not one twisted concept I don’t know what is. Wasn’t it kind of morbid when the scientist creates Astroboy in the image of his dead son? What kind of message is this sending to kids? That if someone or something you love dies you can just create a robot in their place? No! That’s terrible! Who came up with this horrible premise?

If the FCC and all these morality groups are trying to protect the children, they should stop worrying about some chick’s boob and start looking at what the kids are watching. They look at shows like Astroboy and say, “Oh that little robot boy is so cute” and don’t even know how that little robot boy came to be. The Spiderman movies are another thing that I can’t wrap my mind around, and as much as I enjoy those two films, it boggles my mind how some morality group has not attacked them. We may not know who the next villain will be or what the story of the next movie is, but there is one thing we do know: at some point Kirsten Dunst is going to get soaking wet while wearing a paper thin shirt and from the looks of things it’ll probably be pretty cold out too (hint, hint). What’s worse to these people, seeing Janet Jackson’s boob for all of two seconds or seeing Kirsten’s nipples through a tiny layer of cloth for an entire scene. Obviously Janet’s little outing must be the worse because no one’s seemed to mention Kirsten’s wet t-shirt contest.

As the Fonze proves these morality groups, which have been in existence for years, obviously don’t really pay attention to what’s actually going on, on the screen. The fact that this is still going on doesn’t really surprise me though. People are always saying, “look what we’ve accomplished in the past 50 years”, and yeah technology has come far, but as far as the human thinking is concerned, the majority of the human race is still in 1965.

Youngblood

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