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Worlds gone mad

AFTER Dad’s Army, now the Muppets come with a woke warning. We’re told the show has “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures”. Really? Granted, the Swedish chef spoke hurdy-gurdy gibberish and often fought his own ingredients but he still made a lot more sense than Jamie “Bosh!” Oliver. What kind of muppet gets peeved about harmless kids’ shows?
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
Worlds gone mad

AFTER Dad’s Army, now the Muppets come with a woke warning. We’re told the show has “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures”. Really? Granted, the Swedish chef spoke hurdy-gurdy gibberish and often fought his own ingredients but he still made a lot more sense than Jamie “Bosh!” Oliver. What kind of muppet gets peeved about harmless kids’ shows?
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I think they are worried about offending the Green party.

A spokesperson for the Green party said: "Kermit the Frog is not an accurate portrayal of our membership. While we are concerned with protecting the environment, not all frogs are green, neither are all our members frogs. The show's cast should portray a more diverse representation of our members and objectives by including toads, newts and axolotls."

In response Kermit said "Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs and members of Parliament."
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
Worlds gone mad

AFTER Dad’s Army, now the Muppets come with a woke warning. We’re told the show has “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures”. Really? Granted, the Swedish chef spoke hurdy-gurdy gibberish and often fought his own ingredients but he still made a lot more sense than Jamie “Bosh!” Oliver. What kind of muppet gets peeved about harmless kids’ shows?
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As someone who has been rewatching it, that message doesn't even come up before every episode. In fact, it only comes up before a small handful of episodes.

It does, however, come up before episodes with some ****ty stereotyping in certain sketches that you wouldn't get away with today.

Surely having a message show up for five seconds at the start is better than just removing it completely?


But of course, woke=bad now.
 
Quill said:
As someone who has been rewatching it, that message doesn't even come up before every episode. In fact, it only comes up before a small handful of episodes.

It does, however, come up before episodes with some ****ty stereotyping in certain sketches that you wouldn't get away with today.

Surely having a message show up for five seconds at the start is better than just removing it completely?


But of course, woke=bad now.
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So what was the ****ty stereo typing? not the Swedish chef surely??
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
So what was the ****ty stereo typing? not the Swedish chef surely??
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From what I've seen so far, things such as depictions of Native Americans, Indians, Chinese, Latinx, Romani. I haven't got all the way through so can't comment past that.

I haven't seen it yet, but I know there's an ep with Johnny Cash that has a few Confederate references in it, I imagine that one will have the message beforehand too.
 
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Well never see a nazi in a ww2 film again then
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Not like you Chazz to purposely be incredibly obtuse about the situation.

As I said, It's a simple 5 second message before the show. They haven't removed this stuff. So petty to complain about something that doesn't affect the show whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with telling kids (who are the most likely age group to watch Muppets) that these depictions are wrong.
 
Quill said:
Not like you Chazz to purposely be incredibly obtuse about the situation.

As I said, It's a simple 5 second message before the show. They haven't removed this stuff. So petty to complain about something that doesn't affect the show whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with telling kids (who are the most likely age group to watch Muppets) that these depictions are wrong.
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Tell the bbc that they reported it
 
Quill said:
From what I've seen so far, things such as depictions of Native Americans, Indians, Chinese, Latinx, Romani. I haven't got all the way through so can't comment past that.

I haven't seen it yet, but I know there's an ep with Johnny Cash that has a few Confederate references in it, I imagine that one will have the message beforehand too.
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Interesting as Cash was very pro Native American rights and got criticised / censored at the time for his stance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Tears:_Ballads_of_the_American_Indian
 
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