EvilHomer - 2015-02-16
I can't believe the YT commenters have never heard of Teletubbies or rave culture. Damn kids today!!!
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EvilHomer - 2015-02-16 Oh, sorry, was that a spoiler? Well, whatever, I doubt anyone's going to watch ten minutes of Arthur just to find out what the big secret was.
Still... damn kids! Where's my walker!
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RocketBlender - 2015-02-16
It's MLP, isn't it?
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EvilHomer - 2015-02-16 NO IT'S NOT.
It's clearly a reference to Teletubbies and the late 90s rave scene. You can even check the peer-reviewed Arthur Wiki if you don't believe me.
http://arthur.wikia.com/wiki/That%27s_a_Baby_Show!#Cultural_re ferences
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EvilHomer - 2015-02-16 Also:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Arthur< br />
under the trope heading "Show Within a Show".
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EvilHomer - 2015-02-16 If this were anticipating FiM, then Arthur would be in college, and he'd be watching Dark Bunny, or rather a less cis version of Dark Bunny; Rainbow Adventure Bunny or something.
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BiggerJ - 2015-02-16 Well of course that's what they were consciously referencing. But they were, of course, unaware of the oracular prediction caused by the ethylene gas floating up through the building from underground.
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EvilHomer - 2015-02-17 No, as both I and IZ have pointed out, the alleged connection does not stand up to scrutiny. Yes, in a very brooooaaaaad sense, you could say that the lessons presented here are applicable to MLP. But you could also relate the lesson to ANY age-dysmorphic phenomenon, as defined through any cultural lens - Adventure Time, Teletubbies, video games, higher education, non-marital living beyond one's mid-20s, etc. Cultural neoteny is one of the most pwerful and all-pervasive driving forces underlying post-industrial society; neither Arthur nor MLP invented it, and it's not going to end there either.
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Rodents of Unusual Size - 2015-02-16
I love how you don't want to spoil an episode of Arthur because it's so cutting edge.
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BiggerJ - 2015-02-16 Fixed, for you.
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infinite zest - 2015-02-16 (shoulda read EH's post first, but the Pony's out of the bag so to speak anyway..)
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dairyqueenlatifah - 2015-02-16
Yeah, that was dead on actually.
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