Censorship in the US is usually more insidious than government bans. It hinges primarily on two methods.

I mean, Dixie Chicks was still that

That’s not nothing though

I mean, that might be the case if the first wave had ever ended. But it hasn’t. We’re literally still in the middle of it, but for some reason the culture at large just got bored, forgot, or got economically desperate enough to just pretend things have gotten better.

They are. That’s basically the vox populi on Star Wars and George Lucas.

The best examples of these are ones where there is a recontextualizing of the sketch with the new material. Here that clever use of lego scale played into it. My favourite is this one, making fun of 90s anime fan-subbing culture:

The octopus and fish are driving car? How can that be?

Ah, I see what you mean. Thank you for the clarification!

Wait, how is valuing family and community a “little c” conservative value? I roll with plenty of queer progressive circles, and I haven’t met anyone who values found family and community more than them.

This isn’t your fault at all, but I just now realized how stupid the word “dramady” looks when actually written down

I’m with you. I kept thinking that my friends and I had had experiences by that age that made this character’s reaction to a move with her loving nuclear family seem so overblown. It’s a scenario built on the premise that this is the most harrowing thing that has ever happened to Riley, which, good for you I guess…

Yeah, fair. Maybe do skip forward to the final sequence running through the recorded history of blackface though. That’s some powerful stuff.

Spike Lee made a messy, muddled, film? Perish the thought.

Every single institution has the potential to become a self-interested technocracy with no oversight. And I agree that unions in the US have a history of being co-opted by bad actors. It’s interesting you highlight the usefulness of unions dying out about 100 years ago. That timeline lines up uncannily well with both…

Hoo boy, was waiting for the anti-union crank opinion.

Ah yes, leftist ideology, That’s what destroyed Detroit. The wholesale gutting of the manufacturing sector? Don’t pay attention to that.

quiet, anonymous mosaic

McCracken has very clear anime influences in his work. Both Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Lab took cues from anime and other Japanese media in conjunction with 60s Hanna Barbera stuff. The influences might not *necessarily* be the more recent franchises Madski mentions, but absolutely Giant Robot, Magical Girl, and…

Up is a really decent short followed by a mediocre, oddly claustrophobic and small-feeling (which is something Pixar is usually very good at avoiding) feature.

Well, his slave cooks did any way. They were the ones who were educated in France under chefs there. They were also the ones who brought ice cream to the states.