Dumbo was animated in 1941.  They aren’t just going to toss in a scene.  Yes, that would be very hard to work around.  

The last time I saw it on television, they cut the leadup to the song and the song itself. So it’s possible that’s what they’re planning to do. 

Right. Of course you didn’t see the racism. Because it didn’t apply to you. And there’s the inherent problem. White America regularly discounts issues of racism that don’t seem like a big deal to them because we explicitly don’t have to deal with it. We can just look at SotS as a pretty, happy dancing animal movie.…

The NAACP released a statement of condemnation upon its release. Time Magazine similarly commented on how it would provoke outrage. Theaters were picketed, black newspapers wrote excoriating reviews.

Just because black Americans and the black media was largely ignored in the time doesn’t mean that the criticism is a…

I get why they are doing what they are doing, but does that mean they are leaving Peter Pan untouched? This is pretty bad too

Bootlegs and foreign VHS. My grandma had it on VHS in the 80s too. 

“A scene from Dumbo in which the eponymous elephant meets a group of crows...”

I think “Rebecca has to be in a relationship with herself” is a misread of what happens. I can see how you’d get there, but it’s not about self-care. It’s that she realizes there’s this part of herself she’s been repressing and devaluing. It’s four or five steps further into the conversation. But to each their own.

They were insulting each other by complimenting each other. I know, it sounds weird, but it’s a thing. It’s also because they are both trying to one-up the other in terms of compliments.

Agreed. Not exactly a follow-up per se, but there’s some similarity to the bit at the end I also liked- when the guys proposed she go on 3 dates with 3 guys, and Rebecca goes “9 dates? That’s such a weird number”

Have the other Rebecca jokes been getting worse or am I in the tired of it cycle of the recurring gag?

I knew that was how her storyline would end since last episode, but it was still so delightful to see.

We have found peak Valencia, and it is her sheer delight at realizing that she can, in fact, control her wedding proposal. She just has to be the one to make it.

Paula and Valencia’s girlfriend’s horrified looks during the “pirate king kidnapped and forcibly married me” song killed me. Great critique of all those old Carousel songs that are just like, cheery descriptions of domestic abuse.

It’s heartbreaking. They were my OTP.

Antidepressants don’t ‘numb’ people, they even out an already imbalanced brain so the person CAN deal with their issues properly and not spiral worse. I’ve been on and off antidepressants for 20 years and they have never kept me from feeling anything, including sadness or anxiety, they’ve made those feelings manageable…

No sarcastic at all. So many people are on anti-depressants (SSRIs specifically), me included! SSRIs aren’t really medically numbing you. That’s more like lithium or stuff to help with mania. I think it wanted to help normalize anti-depressants

For some reason, I found the moment of Rebecca and Dr. Damn exchange of

This episode was so good. It was just...everything about it was good. I’ve never seen a show so committed to accurately portraying the struggles of not just mental health, but health in general.

This show is really firing on all cylinders for the end, isn’t it? Both music wise and actual plot wise. “I hate everything but you” is such a Greg thing that it helps sell Skyler-as-Greg, at least in my mind. Plus a great Springsteen style song.

And again, I love how realistic Rebecca’s mental health struggles are.…