Quotes to Live By, and Dirty Children's Programming
Ya'll remember this? One of my absolute favorite quotes from literature ever, this beautiful statement between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland:
"But I don't want to talk to mad people!"
"Oh, you can't help that; everyone here is mad. They're mad, I'm mad, you're mad..."
"I'm not mad!!"
"Of course you are. You're here, and everyone here is mad."
I love the Cheshire Cat; he rocks my world ^_^
But, I was thinking of that quote today suddenly, and since I've been in a Van Helsing obsessed mood recently, I got a rather strange idea.
Transylvania (at least in that movie, anyway) is messed up enough that this statement could apply to it (instead of Wonderland) almost just as well. I came to the conclusion that it works out rather nicely if you picture Van Helsing saying Alice's lines and either Anna or Dracula responding in place of the Cat. Interesting, no?
Along with that weird thought du jour, here's a terribly amusing example of what they can get away with in children's programming, since their target audience is too young to get innuendo. This is from a show called Rainbow that was on in the '70s. (I didn't even bother watching the video since it would've loaded so frickin slowly on my computer: I just scrolled down to the script text below.)
http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/rainbow_tv_episode.html
It made my eyes water, I was sniggering that hard. So go on, check it out.
I dare ys ^_~
"But I don't want to talk to mad people!"
"Oh, you can't help that; everyone here is mad. They're mad, I'm mad, you're mad..."
"I'm not mad!!"
"Of course you are. You're here, and everyone here is mad."
I love the Cheshire Cat; he rocks my world ^_^
But, I was thinking of that quote today suddenly, and since I've been in a Van Helsing obsessed mood recently, I got a rather strange idea.
Transylvania (at least in that movie, anyway) is messed up enough that this statement could apply to it (instead of Wonderland) almost just as well. I came to the conclusion that it works out rather nicely if you picture Van Helsing saying Alice's lines and either Anna or Dracula responding in place of the Cat. Interesting, no?
Along with that weird thought du jour, here's a terribly amusing example of what they can get away with in children's programming, since their target audience is too young to get innuendo. This is from a show called Rainbow that was on in the '70s. (I didn't even bother watching the video since it would've loaded so frickin slowly on my computer: I just scrolled down to the script text below.)
http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/rainbow_tv_episode.html
It made my eyes water, I was sniggering that hard. So go on, check it out.
I dare ys ^_~