Don't forget Spawn TAS, Aeon Flux, Simpsons, Batman, Ninja Scroll, Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z etc. showed blood too. There still some cartoons nowadays with death and blood shown like Castlevania and all.
The sad thing is that he used to be a normal kid whose father worked in an embassy. The beginning of the episode implies that they've moved to Washington DC not much earlier, though, and that he still felt like he didn't fit in. The villain played on this feeling, falsely promising him to make his problems disappear.
@@samanthawright9589 well...his dad IS an addict with booze so Wheeler knows it all too well. From what the Hanna Barbera series says, Wheeler's own father had made him get booze for him years before Gaia got the Planeteers together...
In the past they did not think about kids as idiots and wimps that cant understand or handle anything like people do now. Kids used to see things all the time in the old days that people now think will give kids mental problems for life.
@@mr.lafitte336 FR, 90's kids are so obnoxious with their insistence on putting everything from the 90's on a pedestal while blindly crapping on everything after that.
Lynca: without bliss I cannot stand the pain🤕😖 Thats deep in a way she's saying she wants to be numb but she knows what just happened to her cousin😭😭😭😭🤕🤕🤕
One of the few times Captain Planet actually sounded p*ssed off. IIRC, he knows what's going on even when he's in the rings, so yeah, he'd be pretty angry at one of his friends' cousins being killed.
+Mad Foxxi Right on brother No drugs EVER not even when they are keeping you alive or healthy! Not like sudden withdrawal kills anyone ever :D Hey kids go into grandmas bathroom take all those nasty pill bottles and dump them right in the toilet! She will thank you! All grandma needs is your love and macaroni art to feel good! And don't worry about the environmental consequences about improperly disposing of prescription meds into the public water system, not like its circulating back around or making it to fresh water sources with uncertain results.
Will Ferrel um excuse me what about weed? Weed helps with Medical problems like glaucoma a really terrible eye condition that can leave you blind so before you call someone a "drug addict piece of trash" learn not all drugs kill you or affect you in a negative way, douche
Sad, but true. That's what viewers need to understand and that's why it's important for parents to sit down and talk with their kids about these bad situations and why they should say NO to drugs. But also if someone they know and love is in trouble, they should tell an adult they trust, explaining the difference between telling and tattling, especially when their life is in danger.
All these people in the comments saying it's too dark for a kids show, need to shut up. This is showing kids the dangers of drugs, you're never too young to learn about stuff like this. Just think about the kids with parents who do stuff like this on a daily basis. They see it everyday, and already know what it does and how it affects people, why shouldn't other kids learn about it??? This is a topic that should never be kept from kids. Teach them at a young age, instead of waiting till their older, because it might be too late to persuade them at all.
Well, it's too late now. So how can you see a mild death on a children's show? I already know about illegal drugs before this show's episode (I never grew up with it but I'm getting interested at it). And called it dark. Well, not every story is all about cupcakes and rainbows you know. It's all about how we live in a world where evil lurked around us. Seeing cartoons with guns and smoking. Does kids turned them into a thug or something? Nope. Kids are no thugs! It's purpose was used for entertainment and life lessons. We know some today kids stuff have no purpose at all.
It's definitely dark compared to what cartoons are nowadays. Cartoons and family shows won't even dare touch these subjects anymore because parents would be like 'ZOMG KIDS SHOULDNT WATCH THIS STUFF". When I watched this episode back then, it definitely worked...drugs are something I never touched because for a good chunk of my childhood ...I remembered that BLISS episode. Not even the stupid DARE program in grammar school made it clear..but Cap'n Planet did.
I do agree the problem is some still feel its to dark tho yeah kids need to learn but some may still be to young to fully handle it and might get messed up tho they do need to learn
This ultimately would be the kind of episode that would teach us the dangers of drug addiction and overdosing. Dark, terrifying, and sad it may have been, I bet that this episode REALLY taught us a lesson in the most extreme way possible. And whether we like it or not, you just GOTTA RESPECT that, man!
I was eight when I saw this, and boy did I never forget it. I never thought much of Captain Planet as a kid, but whatever else you might want to say about it, I think it REALLY handled this subject right. The entire episode really stuck with me, and this scene burned itself into my brain. (Some of the commenters are saying stuff like "90s kids were tough" or "90s cartoons weren't afraid to show dark stuff". They're really not correct ---- one of the reasons this scene was so effective was BECAUSE it was so unusual. Characters almost never died in kids' shows, let alone right on screen. So when it happened, it sure got your attention.) We all laugh when we look back at most of those anti-drug PSAs from the '80s and '90s, but unlike those, this really showed how being addicted to drugs could affect you physically and mentally. What stuck with me more than anything else was how much physical agony Boris and Linka were in. The direction and the voice acting did an excellent job conveying that. But in particular I never forgot the last scene, where they're reassuring Linka that eventually the pain will subside, and she replies that the pain isn't as bad as the pain of losing her cousin. Ouch. Good job, Captain Planet. You were a pretty hokey show a lot of the time, but you really did this one right.
"90s kids were tough" or "90s cartoons weren't afraid to show dark stuff" The people who say that haven't watched a cartoon since 1993, lol. It's the same era where every random mugger and cop in NYC had a ridiculous laser gun in Spider-Man, since they censored real guns, or made it so he couldn't throw a punch.
@@AirLancer Odd that the Spider-Man series had to do that, but the Batman series had already been having real guns and real punches for a couple of years.
This is one of the moments I remember the most. As far as I recall, the episode never mentioned the word "drugs" (I might be wrong though), only they were pills that contaminated your body. At this point, Linka was so contaminated she could not even use her powers. This episode caused a great impact on me, but a positive one, I never ever wanted to try anything offered by strangers, nor a pill that was not given by my dad (he's a doctor).
@mrmegarock58 holy fuck dudes read the description. Stop attacking the guy with a wiener dog wearing a fedora for a profile pic. That being said it kinda has a "he's going over that cliff" vibe at the end.
@@plawson8577 Except this episode is just as dark and realistic in the dangers of drug abuse and addiction and what happens to those that fall under it's evil spell too long.
Nosymbol Suggesting that a show be accurate in first aid maneuvers doesn't mean I don't know what the message is. Maybe they should do a show on reading comprehension for those extra special TH-cam commenters :)
+soso694 You realizes when this show was made right soso? And Disney gets a lot of on scree death, this ain't new. Poor venison, I mean Bambi's mom! BLAT! Then CPR on the side of a high-rise :/ yeah 1-2- waaAAHHha *Wilhelm scream* Last Kids shows don't have to be accurate to life, life is depressing kids only need that is small doses to learn how things work. Good messages are not always easy an easy Pill to Swallow ;3
This was a very sad moment... Im glad for the honesty of what some drugs can do, though. Linka was lucky to snap back into reality and stop using drugs after that. Most who are on drugs and see a loved one die from it care very little. I know its fake but the concept is very very real.
nightmuffin937 I love "water ship down" it was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I liked this episode, it made me cry, but I really enjoyed the emotional content in this one. and loved Ren and Stimpy for the same reason, plus it had an out there bizarro style that fit me perfectly. (yes I was a very odd child lol.) I think cartoons should be able to get away with one dark one a year.
What about on Fat Albert on the Gang Wars episode where a kid got shot trying to protect his big brother from a gang or some Batman TAS episodes of Grave of the Fireflies or Watership down or Ninja Scroll? or Bravestarr>
But apparently you can go darker and show the results of an abusive relationship in shows like Steven Universe. I don't know if I would want my kids (if I have any) to watch that show.
@@4igami It was when Lapis fused with Jasper and kept her in chains beneath the sea. There was an episode after they were finally separated where Lapis said to Steven that she missed Jasper in spite of being fused to someone like her.
@@lucindamobley5492 didnt mean they had a relationship. Lapis said she was prisoner many times so she keeps jasper as one of hers for using her. The follow up was when they were on the boat and jasper wanted to fuse again because she loved fusion but lapis turned her down.
This is perhaps the most serious moment in the entire series. My guess is, that after this battle ended, Wheeler didn't move a muscle from near Linka until she fully regained her health.
Ironically, this episode is one of the first times Linka acknowledges the budding romantic bond between her and Wheeler, because she tries to exploit it to get Wheeler to take Bliss and sink down to her level.
All the other eco-villains represent direct physical environmental threats, but Skumm represents societal and social decay, which makes his threat at once more insidious and more personal.
Though I do believe this is very dark and kind of too much for a kids show but in all honesty kids are going to find out about drugs eventually and it better to show them what these things called drugs that they teach them in school to stay away from really do to you. That being said I believe the producers did a wonderful job to portray something like this to help drug prevention!
I was always told from a very young age to never go near drugs, but I wasn't show what they could really do to you until I was in the 6th grade. Someone came to our school to teach a groups of students at a time from each pack throughout a couple of days. He showed up pictures of people who used different drugs over a period of time. The ones that were the most surprising were the pictures of a woman who did meth over the period of 5 years. By the end of it she looked like an old woman with no teeth. I never wanted to do drugs in the first place, but that just freaked me out and made me even more determined to stay away from that crap.
There was one episode of COPS when the crime boss’ meathead nephew fell into some drugs and overdosed but managed to survive. Surprisingly the boss was actually against drugs in general, even as a criminal.
@@lupinvash3 - The network was aware that there were kids who liked the villain characters -- ergo, those characters had to be against drugs, too. GI Joe did the same thing in their PSA episode where terrorist organization COBRA was vehemently anti-drug. With that in mind, I was a little surprised that CP used Scumm as the antagonist here and not some throwaway drug-pushing villain.
That's kind of a part of the lesson itself.... Addiction becomes a lifelong fight for the majority of people who experience it. So it's best to never fall victim to it.
The show producers don't care. This show was made to get funds for anti-pollution, anti-drug, and anti-violence campaigns. The makers of this show got paid a lot of money from special interests in anti-drug campaigns to show a "gritty reality" to scare kids straight. That is why this show lasted cause they got so much backing wanted free publicity for their causes.
Um, it was '80s kids who handled this-- and that's no surprise, because D.A.R.E. had already been in our faces for years. The '90s kids were still shitting in diapers when this first aired.
Skumm is an amateur when dealing drugs. I mean he throws Boris the Bliss bottle BEFORE he even tries to push the three defenseless Planeteers over the ledge.
People laugh at 90s drug PSAs and, yeah, most of them sucked and did the complete opposite of what they intended, but where Lynca breaks down over Boris? Same thing happened to my family. My brother was brain dead from a overdose. My other brother, who was the one who got him addicted years and years ago, came in and broke down. I lost one brother. The other got clean that day and has been clean for over 4 years, now.
I was going to make a joke about how the asian girl pushed her friend out of her way while they were standing in a rooftop, or how I remember watching this as a child and thinking "well, this is innapropiate for my age", or how my mind would be waaaay too polluted to ever be a Planeteer, but giving that Power of Four PPGs special of recently, I've decided to go with this one: Bliss killed Boris.
But with bliss, I'm sure it can kill quickly and it would have killed Linka if she did not snap out of it in time. Her cousin was not lucky, he was addicted long before and there was no hope to save him.
It was a sci fi made up superdrug that was like 20 times stronger than any other drug, to the point where one hit immediately turned people into strung out junkies in seconds. One of the villains invented it specifically to make people disgruntled addicts because, well that's what Captain Planet villains did. So it's not surprising chugging half the bottle killed him instantly. It was probably the equivalent of 50 doses of heroin and meth at the same time.
I remember seeing this on Boomerang one morning before I had to go to school around 7 years ago. This is probably the darkest episode of Captain Planet just for the fact that someone actually dies, not just dies, but dies on screen.
That being said, I don't think that this shouldn't be shown to kids in lieu of that scene. Hell, kids need to be coddled less. Death happens, a lot. The realistic and uncompromising side of cartoons back then is what made them enjoyable and relatable.
This episode fucked me up when i was a kid. also, the fuck ted turner? you say swat katz was the most violent show at the time and cancelled it because it's too graphic for children? bullshit!
That’s what happens when you try to eat raw peas while Russian, your cooked-beetroot-conditioned metabolism just cannae process them and you’re deid in mere seconds. Helicopter dude knew it.
the fact that they made a reedit where Boris just "Fell Unconscious" was an insult to the message that this episode was trying send .....nowadays adults think that shows shouldn't go this far to teach kids lessons.......let me tell you it was stuff like this that scared me off of drugs THIS is the kind of stuff kids should see because even if it is scary its teaching them a valuable lesson I'm not saying Traumatize them but some of the crap they show doesn't cut it
Looking back at this Its a dark episode with Linka's brother taking drugs and dieing at the end.This and another episode about a character having HIV were the darkest episodes of the series they took a risk and this aired before Batman the Animated Cartoon series which was also very dark for a kids show I loved that show to I remember watching this back in the day and realizing it felt alittle different than the other episodes lol but i guess i was to young to understand or i just enjoyed it for having a darker tone.I'm surprise they didn't have a warning label before the episode its pretty depressing if you knew somebody who died from taking drugs.
All the people saying stuff like "cartoons weren't scared to be dark/violent back then" have some selective-ass memory. Moments like these are memorable BECAUSE it was so rare for cartoons to actually depict death. I mean jeez, a whole generation of imported cartoons got censored to the point where you couldn't even say the words "die" or "kill." Spider-Man couldn't throw a punch, and every rando in NYC had a laser gun. Cartoons were HEAVILY censored during this period. Basically, if you honestly believe that '90s cartoons were more violent, then you probably haven't WATCHED a cartoon of any sort since the '90s.
Static shock had an episode about a guy who dealt super powers but they were only temporary. Some shows do allegories and metaphors. Things are just more subtle than a character chugging pills and dying on screen.
.......... Say whatever you want about Captain Planet, it did NOT pull punches! Granted its message wasn't always clear but the motive was and it. Had. GUTS!
@@lyricalfriendsranzzyandpla4388 the cartoons nowadays geared towards the same age group as Captain Planet tend to be more violent (ex. Spider-Man cartoon geared toward the same age group). While no drugs are shown violent content that belongs in an R rated movie are shown including blood in some cartoons. Drugs were shown back then (or a reference to them) but with a goal of delivering a message to the audience regarding the detrimental effects towards the user. On that Captain Planet episode such allusion is made with the fictional drug “blitz” and the addiction acquired by one of the planeteers is shown and the death of one of her family members in order to show the end game of drug addiction.
She even tried to use her powers on gi. Something that linka when sober would’ve never condoned. I don’t think she’s ever used her powers on any of the rangers before.
Because Verminous Scum (the Rat-like villain in this clip) earlier in the episode tricked Boris into taking his drug, Bliss. He was addicted and would do anything for more bliss.
Producer:WTF!!!!WHY ARE YOU KILLING PEOPLE IN A KIDS SHOW. Script writer:Say no to drugs.................pls don't fire me..................... Artist:So am I drawing Cocaine,meth,or like bruh? (Captain Planet smashes through the wall with blood shot eyes)IM A WIZARD WHO FLYS A PONY
I believe the mentioned in the episode that specific drug "Bliss" builds a tolerance unusually quick so they had to make higher and higher doses to get their high. Though the guy chugging half the bottle was a bit excessive he'd already been well past the point were a single pill could sate him.
Damn, dude chugged almost the entire bottle. No wonder he died.
Not to mention that he throwed himself though the window, injuring himself.
@@nivesgrgat6577 those drugs had him feeling invincible
@@TheDripGodz Yeah
@@TheDripGodz He thought wrong. He got himself injured.
Imagine if they had showed what he was probably going through when he died.
"These things killed Boris, but without this, I can't stand the pain" That really hits.
Caesary
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Yeah, Kath Soucie killed it with her delivery there as well as how the voice direction was for her too with seeing Boris had OD'ed.
@@jowston100 window smash lol
Man what a catch of 87.
What makes 90's cartoons so special?
They had balls to show blood and deaths onscreen
And lasers guns!
And deaths of children at that
Don't forget Spawn TAS, Aeon Flux, Simpsons, Batman, Ninja Scroll, Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z etc. showed blood too.
There still some cartoons nowadays with death and blood shown like Castlevania and all.
And "Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated!"
wileyk209zback SCOOBY DOO having blood?!?!
its a shame they didn't have time to animate Boris a proper funeral
😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
Well that's because he was a junky.
The sad thing is that he used to be a normal kid whose father worked in an embassy. The beginning of the episode implies that they've moved to Washington DC not much earlier, though, and that he still felt like he didn't fit in. The villain played on this feeling, falsely promising him to make his problems disappear.
@@Maceman486😂😂😂😂
He was just a junkie.
The dude smashing the window at the end makes this hilarious.
smash! *ends*
Lenaia McBride Death can be used as comedy. Look at South Park!
Breaks window like "who fuckin'??"
Even more hilarious is when they finally summon Captain Planet, they cheer, and Boris is just lying there dead in the corner.
@@Pazij He was like, "BYYYATCH! BEST GET MY MY SHYIAT!!!"
A valid lesson was learned here:
Drugs kill.
im too
This episode made me hate the villain Verminous Scumm even more than I already did.
Same thing on Bravestarr
Charles Johnson learning the hard way
He went to hell before he died.
imagine being a kid and your favorite character overdoses💀
you could stop watching the show
Whose favorite character was Boris?
@@STOCKHOLM07 exactly he laced his cousins SANDWHICH with bliss 💊 and got her hooked
@@STOCKHOLM07 I think that Das might’ve been referring to Linka
@@TheDripGodz Blintz actually.
I'm more shocked that the other plucky teens just shrugged off someone dying in front of them like it was another day on the force.
Wheeler is confused about Linka crying at the end and she has to clarify to him that she's crying about her cousin dying in front of her like wtf
@@juangil6429 well, from what I hear withdrawal isn't a plesent experience. & He's likely witnessed this stuff in America
@@juangil6429 Ted Turner intentionally made Wheeler a dumbass because according to him, Americans don't know anything.
@@samanthawright9589 well...his dad IS an addict with booze so Wheeler knows it all too well. From what the Hanna Barbera series says, Wheeler's own father had made him get booze for him years before Gaia got the Planeteers together...
@@Blossom44100 Exactly my - sad - point. Besides he probably assumed she was crying from physical pain. I heard withdrawal hurts
you know... For the kids!
Not anymore
JasminLeblanc this aired in the early 90's and the drug epidemic was still high
In the past they did not think about kids as idiots and wimps that cant understand or handle anything like people do now.
Kids used to see things all the time in the old days that people now think will give kids mental problems for life.
*A FAMILY PICTURE*
They wanted to make sure the kids got the message.
The 90s shows had guts to dive into dark territory
@@ShanaReviews because they went there with serious misinformation
Your Brain on Heroin commercials were played in between...
There are cartoon even better than this now, you're just too lazy to find them
There aren;t many good shows out there nowadays. Most of them are garbage
@@mr.lafitte336
FR, 90's kids are so obnoxious with their insistence on putting everything from the 90's on a pedestal while blindly crapping on everything after that.
Lynca: without bliss I cannot stand the pain🤕😖
Thats deep in a way she's saying she wants to be numb but she knows what just happened to her cousin😭😭😭😭🤕🤕🤕
One of the few times Captain Planet actually sounded p*ssed off. IIRC, he knows what's going on even when he's in the rings, so yeah, he'd be pretty angry at one of his friends' cousins being killed.
Another time of Planet's full rage in effect was in "A Formula For Hate", which discussed AIDS, and had Verminous Skumm as the big bad as well.
Not to mention what happened to that friend herself.
This should teach kinds a lesson not to do drugs EVER
+Mad Foxxi Right on brother No drugs EVER not even when they are keeping you alive or healthy! Not like sudden withdrawal kills anyone ever :D Hey kids go into grandmas bathroom take all those nasty pill bottles and dump them right in the toilet! She will thank you! All grandma needs is your love and macaroni art to feel good! And don't worry about the environmental consequences about improperly disposing of prescription meds into the public water system, not like its circulating back around or making it to fresh water sources with uncertain results.
Agreed...DiC made their episodes involving drugs pretty scary. Scary enough to get through the kids
Will Ferrel um excuse me what about weed? Weed helps with Medical problems like glaucoma a really terrible eye condition that can leave you blind so before you call someone a "drug addict piece of trash" learn not all drugs kill you or affect you in a negative way, douche
Eric Johnson yeh heroins baaad
Will Ferrel some drugs are good like Weed.
I understood its concept when I was young. What happened to Boris was sad but the message was when you turn to drugs, you'll hit a dead end.
Sad, but true. That's what viewers need to understand and that's why it's important for parents to sit down and talk with their kids about these bad situations and why they should say NO to drugs. But also if someone they know and love is in trouble, they should tell an adult they trust, explaining the difference between telling and tattling, especially when their life is in danger.
@@Disneyfan82 someone told me that families should have more meals together and encourage more conversation with one another.
When you meet an addict, show them this episode.
All these people in the comments saying it's too dark for a kids show, need to shut up. This is showing kids the dangers of drugs, you're never too young to learn about stuff like this. Just think about the kids with parents who do stuff like this on a daily basis. They see it everyday, and already know what it does and how it affects people, why shouldn't other kids learn about it??? This is a topic that should never be kept from kids. Teach them at a young age, instead of waiting till their older, because it might be too late to persuade them at all.
Handz and Pawz weed is good
Well, it's too late now. So how can you see a mild death on a children's show? I already know about illegal drugs before this show's episode (I never grew up with it but I'm getting interested at it).
And called it dark. Well, not every story is all about cupcakes and rainbows you know. It's all about how we live in a world where evil lurked around us.
Seeing cartoons with guns and smoking. Does kids turned them into a thug or something? Nope. Kids are no thugs! It's purpose was used for entertainment and life lessons. We know some today kids stuff have no purpose at all.
It's definitely dark compared to what cartoons are nowadays. Cartoons and family shows won't even dare touch these subjects anymore because parents would be like 'ZOMG KIDS SHOULDNT WATCH THIS STUFF". When I watched this episode back then, it definitely worked...drugs are something I never touched because for a good chunk of my childhood ...I remembered that BLISS episode. Not even the stupid DARE program in grammar school made it clear..but Cap'n Planet did.
I do agree the problem is some still feel its to dark tho yeah kids need to learn but some may still be to young to fully handle it and might get messed up tho they do need to learn
Too much bubble wrap around kids these days
This ultimately would be the kind of episode that would teach us the dangers of drug addiction and overdosing. Dark, terrifying, and sad it may have been, I bet that this episode REALLY taught us a lesson in the most extreme way possible. And whether we like it or not, you just GOTTA RESPECT that, man!
Yeah it taught so well, the Millenial Generation sidestepped Drugs so Hard
It was an epidemic In the 80s and 90s.
There is even a song from 1991 called yo mammas on crack rock
This shit aired on Cartoon Network?! Imagine in Steven Universe if a character dies of a drug overdose
+Даријан Митровски Wouldn't they be more like sea anenomes or sponges? I thought the Gems were actually sexless.
@@SirBlackReeds I thought they ripped off Jurassic park?
Cartoon Network have done more to cross the line
The show originally aired on TBS.
Imagine this happening in SpongeBob, my ninja.
The way Lynca reacted to Boris's death was rather sad
She even felt powerless.
@@EnchantedSmellyWolf Her mind was polluted.
@@EnchantedSmellyWolf Kath Soucie has natural Talent.
@@Tornado1994
A great voice actress like Tara Strong
Precursor for fentanyl
I'm surprised Linka didn't dub Skumm her mortal enemy after this tragic incident.
the 90's a time when action cartoons dared to go dark
Only in your old school
@@EnsignRedSquad only in your new school
The reason why they're better than now
And the time where they had the balls to go there.
Not just action cartoons, but most cartoons from the 1990s.
I was eight when I saw this, and boy did I never forget it.
I never thought much of Captain Planet as a kid, but whatever else you might want to say about it, I think it REALLY handled this subject right. The entire episode really stuck with me, and this scene burned itself into my brain.
(Some of the commenters are saying stuff like "90s kids were tough" or "90s cartoons weren't afraid to show dark stuff". They're really not correct ---- one of the reasons this scene was so effective was BECAUSE it was so unusual. Characters almost never died in kids' shows, let alone right on screen. So when it happened, it sure got your attention.)
We all laugh when we look back at most of those anti-drug PSAs from the '80s and '90s, but unlike those, this really showed how being addicted to drugs could affect you physically and mentally. What stuck with me more than anything else was how much physical agony Boris and Linka were in. The direction and the voice acting did an excellent job conveying that. But in particular I never forgot the last scene, where they're reassuring Linka that eventually the pain will subside, and she replies that the pain isn't as bad as the pain of losing her cousin.
Ouch.
Good job, Captain Planet. You were a pretty hokey show a lot of the time, but you really did this one right.
Captain Planet was allowed to dig into stuff like this because it was an "educational" show
"90s kids were tough" or "90s cartoons weren't afraid to show dark stuff"
The people who say that haven't watched a cartoon since 1993, lol. It's the same era where every random mugger and cop in NYC had a ridiculous laser gun in Spider-Man, since they censored real guns, or made it so he couldn't throw a punch.
@@AirLancer Odd that the Spider-Man series had to do that, but the Batman series had already been having real guns and real punches for a couple of years.
I missed this episode as i was out shagging teenage girls significantly older than me
@@AirLancer A kid on Bravestarr died from an overdose as well. It wasn't unheard of. Oh, and don't forget Cartoon Allstars to the Rescue.
The moment Verminous Skumm became a complete monster.
Heisenberg doesn’t seem so bad in comparison
This is one of the moments I remember the most. As far as I recall, the episode never mentioned the word "drugs" (I might be wrong though), only they were pills that contaminated your body. At this point, Linka was so contaminated she could not even use her powers. This episode caused a great impact on me, but a positive one, I never ever wanted to try anything offered by strangers, nor a pill that was not given by my dad (he's a doctor).
and now that you are an adult, time to try good ecstasy.
The word drugs is mentioned quite a few times in the episode
SAME. I remember this episode the most. Shit was dark as hell for a kid's cartoon.
Drugs are fun
@@chedagoz7145 Ok cuck
"Category *_C O M E D Y_* "
mrmegarock58 he died haha
@mrmegarock58 holy fuck dudes read the description. Stop attacking the guy with a wiener dog wearing a fedora for a profile pic.
That being said it kinda has a "he's going over that cliff" vibe at the end.
This episode has a similar premise to the BraveStarr episode "The Price", where similarly, a kid dies from drug overdose.
That was...dark...
VanguardSupreme DAMMIT
Yeah, this is way darker than "Avatar" and even the "Rick and Morty" episode that parodied this show. But that also makes it more "real."
Idk Avatar has genocide my guy
@@Max-ks2to And PTSD.
I mean, this show was corny as heck, while Avatar took a large part of its story seriously, only taking a break for comedy to balance out the drama.
Which Episode of Rick and morty
@@aeroblu2002What about the Regular Show episode where Walks lost Mona?
It’s incredible that’s Kath Soucie doing Linka’s voice.
Kath Soucie is in the VA Hall Of Fame!
Oh yeah it is. What a sexy voice she has. I could hear it all day long.
More incredible: Verminous Scumm is voiced by Jeff Goldblum.
This episode was essentially designed to fuck with your emotions, whilst driving home a point about drug misuse.
Filmation executed it better 4 years earlier in Bravestarr.
@@plawson8577 I forgot about Bravestar.
@@plawson8577 Except this episode is just as dark and realistic in the dangers of drug abuse and addiction and what happens to those that fall under it's evil spell too long.
If they reboot Captain Planet, each major villain should affect each hero on a personal level.
CPR should have been applied right away. Kid's shows have to be accurate now.
Nosymbol Suggesting that a show be accurate in first aid maneuvers doesn't mean I don't know what the message is. Maybe they should do a show on reading comprehension for those extra special TH-cam commenters :)
+soso694 You realizes when this show was made right soso? And Disney gets a lot of on scree death, this ain't new. Poor venison, I mean Bambi's mom! BLAT! Then CPR on the side of a high-rise :/ yeah 1-2- waaAAHHha *Wilhelm scream* Last Kids shows don't have to be accurate to life, life is depressing kids only need that is small doses to learn how things work. Good messages are not always easy an easy Pill to Swallow ;3
svin1 >implying death is real in DBZ
Apparently they did have something like that at the end of the episode, but with the characters talking to directly to the audience.
ummmmmm would CPR work for someone who died by overdose?
This was a very sad moment... Im glad for the honesty of what some drugs can do, though. Linka was lucky to snap back into reality and stop using drugs after that. Most who are on drugs and see a loved one die from it care very little. I know its fake but the concept is very very real.
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You sound like a p*ssy posting some shit like that. Don't take it so serious. It's a cartoon. From the 90s. Go put a tampon on you sissy.
I don’t think it’s that they don’t care, so much as they don’t have the willpower to act on it.
Man that is the most darkest scene in Cartoon history =(
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oh my friend there are far darker.
and some insanely creepy.
more darker where they cheered over his dead body
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Have you seen water ship down?
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I love "water ship down"
it was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.
I liked this episode, it made me cry, but I really enjoyed the emotional content in this one.
and loved Ren and Stimpy for the same reason, plus it had an out there bizarro style that fit me perfectly.
(yes I was a very odd child lol.)
I think cartoons should be able to get away with one dark one a year.
What about on Fat Albert on the Gang Wars episode where a kid got shot trying to protect his big brother from a gang or some Batman TAS episodes of Grave of the Fireflies or Watership down or Ninja Scroll? or Bravestarr>
In fairness to Villanous Skumm, a person would OD on Tylenol if they just poured the entire bottle down their gullet!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol
Totally couldn't get away with that today.
You couldn't get away with that even back then! Don't fuck with Ted Turner, I guess.
But apparently you can go darker and show the results of an abusive relationship in shows like Steven Universe. I don't know if I would want my kids (if I have any) to watch that show.
Lucinda Mobley didnt see any abusive relationship in Steven Universe
@@4igami It was when Lapis fused with Jasper and kept her in chains beneath the sea. There was an episode after they were finally separated where Lapis said to Steven that she missed Jasper in spite of being fused to someone like her.
@@lucindamobley5492 didnt mean they had a relationship. Lapis said she was prisoner many times so she keeps jasper as one of hers for using her. The follow up was when they were on the boat and jasper wanted to fuse again because she loved fusion but lapis turned her down.
That sound...that wind sound after Boris dies...
It's in Half-Life 2.
We don't go to Ravenholm.
Finally someone notices 😂
This is perhaps the most serious moment in the entire series.
My guess is, that after this battle ended, Wheeler didn't move a muscle from near Linka until she fully regained her health.
This show certainly had colossal balls.
Love how Linka cries on Wheeler's shoulder
I hope they became a couple after.
Ironically, this episode is one of the first times Linka acknowledges the budding romantic bond between her and Wheeler, because she tries to exploit it to get Wheeler to take Bliss and sink down to her level.
At first i thought these were original characters that the magic school bus stole
Imagine TMSB kids experimenting with BLISS.
There’s actually a fan theory about that.
That's a theory, but remember that the Magic School Bus franchise was 4 years older than Captain Planet.
It’s scary how accurate this is
I just showed this to my dad and he gave me the most concerned face ever
Linka based episodes or ones where Verminous Skumm is the enemy tends to be the darker ones.
All the other eco-villains represent direct physical environmental threats, but Skumm represents societal and social decay, which makes his threat at once more insidious and more personal.
I remember seeing this crazy shit on TV when I was a kid XD
did he just overdose on a kids show lmaooooo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_overdose
Yes.
It happened in Bravestarr too.
Though I do believe this is very dark and kind of too much for a kids show but in all honesty kids are going to find out about drugs eventually and it better to show them what these things called drugs that they teach them in school to stay away from really do to you. That being said I believe the producers did a wonderful job to portray something like this to help drug prevention!
Yourstrulyphotos well said. I agree with you
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Yeah I'm kinda glad they talked about that topic
will i boy oh boy then you havr back before thos cartoon allbstarsvto the rescue
I was always told from a very young age to never go near drugs, but I wasn't show what they could really do to you until I was in the 6th grade. Someone came to our school to teach a groups of students at a time from each pack throughout a couple of days. He showed up pictures of people who used different drugs over a period of time. The ones that were the most surprising were the pictures of a woman who did meth over the period of 5 years. By the end of it she looked like an old woman with no teeth. I never wanted to do drugs in the first place, but that just freaked me out and made me even more determined to stay away from that crap.
Bravestarr did this in 1987 as well with The Price episode even had a 12 year old OD from drugs
This and Bravestarr had the only "drug" episodes I can think of where someone actually died of an OD.
There was one episode of COPS when the crime boss’ meathead nephew fell into some drugs and overdosed but managed to survive. Surprisingly the boss was actually against drugs in general, even as a criminal.
There was a PSA message by He-Man who says "Drugs don't do better, they make things worse".
@@lupinvash3 - The network was aware that there were kids who liked the villain characters -- ergo, those characters had to be against drugs, too. GI Joe did the same thing in their PSA episode where terrorist organization COBRA was vehemently anti-drug. With that in mind, I was a little surprised that CP used Scumm as the antagonist here and not some throwaway drug-pushing villain.
This was the first Dark moment for me back in the 90's
I love how in these 90's cartoons crippling addiction can be solved THAT quickly! Cuz she still would've taken the drugs!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction
It's not like she did it for years and she was still a frickin' Planeteer.
Well you only have 30 minutes in the show so have to move the story along quickly
That's kind of a part of the lesson itself.... Addiction becomes a lifelong fight for the majority of people who experience it.
So it's best to never fall victim to it.
Boris had almost been hit by Cars twice in this episode due to BLISS, I don’t think he wanted to live 😂
Boris also jumped through a window with glass cutting his arms, face, wrists, and peepee. He was a done ninja, my ninja.
The show producers don't care. This show was made to get funds for anti-pollution, anti-drug, and anti-violence campaigns. The makers of this show got paid a lot of money from special interests in anti-drug campaigns to show a "gritty reality" to scare kids straight. That is why this show lasted cause they got so much backing wanted free publicity for their causes.
The f*ck? If this is in a 90’s kids show, what was even the point of companies like 4kids?😧
Damn 90’s kids, you could handle some dark sh*t.😳
Um, it was '80s kids who handled this-- and that's no surprise, because D.A.R.E. had already been in our faces for years. The '90s kids were still shitting in diapers when this first aired.
@@user-ep4lv4fw9o my bad. But still, this is dark as hell for a kids show.
Captain Planet prophesied the things to come
Fentanyl.
One of the saddest moments in 90s cartoons.😭
And scariest.
@@nivesgrgat6577 and darkest
Yet, most heartbreaking….🥺😢
Skumm is an amateur when dealing drugs. I mean he throws Boris the Bliss bottle BEFORE he even tries to push the three defenseless Planeteers over the ledge.
He knew that wouldn't happen, so he spiked that bottle of BLISS with fentanyl.
Still hits home. Definitely wish they had a complete series DVD, I would buy it in a heartbeat!
I think the series was released on DVD in Australia and New Zealand? You could try online.
Dark and realistic.
It's true. I had crackheads break through my window before while passed out and bleeding on the floor.
These people may not have been dead but the planeteers were fighting literal zombies.
People laugh at 90s drug PSAs and, yeah, most of them sucked and did the complete opposite of what they intended, but where Lynca breaks down over Boris? Same thing happened to my family. My brother was brain dead from a overdose. My other brother, who was the one who got him addicted years and years ago, came in and broke down. I lost one brother. The other got clean that day and has been clean for over 4 years, now.
I was going to make a joke about how the asian girl pushed her friend out of her way while they were standing in a rooftop, or how I remember watching this as a child and thinking "well, this is innapropiate for my age", or how my mind would be waaaay too polluted to ever be a Planeteer, but giving that Power of Four PPGs special of recently, I've decided to go with this one:
Bliss killed Boris.
That BITCH!!
Gi was just *done* with Linka at that point.
Um, this is still Captain Planet, right? The kids' show?
Yes!, Not all kid shows have to be a load of stupid crap that don't teach important skills to children!
@@daniconi7333 Right. CP is also educational, especially with the worst types of pollution we have here in this world :(
I remember this episode made me super paranoid about what I ate for around 5 years. Always checked my tacos, burgers, sandwiches, etc.
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😂😂😂 it’s best make your own food trust no one
Boris dies
Category: *COMEDY*
Morgan Carder back when kids can take deaths
They gave up on that poor kid way too quickly. Nobody dies that quick on a drug overdose.
But with bliss, I'm sure it can kill quickly and it would have killed Linka if she did not snap out of it in time. Her cousin was not lucky, he was addicted long before and there was no hope to save him.
It was a sci fi made up superdrug that was like 20 times stronger than any other drug, to the point where one hit immediately turned people into strung out junkies in seconds. One of the villains invented it specifically to make people disgruntled addicts because, well that's what Captain Planet villains did. So it's not surprising chugging half the bottle killed him instantly. It was probably the equivalent of 50 doses of heroin and meth at the same time.
Didn't even try cpr, Jesus.
I remember seeing this on Boomerang one morning before I had to go to school around 7 years ago.
This is probably the darkest episode of Captain Planet just for the fact that someone actually dies, not just dies, but dies on screen.
That being said, I don't think that this shouldn't be shown to kids in lieu of that scene.
Hell, kids need to be coddled less.
Death happens, a lot.
The realistic and uncompromising side of cartoons back then is what made them enjoyable and relatable.
That was a deep.episode. Captain Planet was ahead of time
This episode fucked me up when i was a kid.
also, the fuck ted turner? you say swat katz was the most violent show at the time and cancelled it because it's too graphic for children? bullshit!
Maybe it was cancelled exactly because it wasn't too graphic and dark enough like Captain Planet!
Yeh Swat Kats could had been more edgier
@@isabellafelipedeoliveiraca6698 Or maybe Ted Turner was too butthurt and hypocrite when it came to violence and characters dying.
That’s what happens when you try to eat raw peas while Russian, your cooked-beetroot-conditioned metabolism just cannae process them and you’re deid in mere seconds. Helicopter dude knew it.
the fact that they made a reedit where Boris just "Fell Unconscious" was an insult to the message that this episode was trying send .....nowadays adults think that shows shouldn't go this far to teach kids lessons.......let me tell you it was stuff like this that scared me off of drugs THIS is the kind of stuff kids should see because even if it is scary its teaching them a valuable lesson I'm not saying Traumatize them but some of the crap they show doesn't cut it
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Ending it at the guy smashing the window just makes this video funny for some reason 😅
lol ya
One of the saddest moments of the 90s. Throwing away happy pills is an unforgivable act.
Looking back at this Its a dark episode with Linka's brother taking drugs and dieing at the end.This and another episode about a character having HIV were the darkest episodes of the series they took a risk and this aired before Batman the Animated Cartoon series which was also very dark for a kids show I loved that show to
I remember watching this back in the day and realizing it felt alittle different than the other episodes lol but i guess i was to young to understand or i just enjoyed it for having a darker tone.I'm surprise they didn't have a warning label before the episode its pretty depressing if you knew somebody who died from taking drugs.
Actually, Boris was Linka's cousin.
Don't forget about the Teers in the Hood episode
There was also Bravestarr in 1987 which i remember when i was 5 and had a 12 year old hooked on space drugs and overdosed/died from it
Drugs don't kill people they make life better.
My brother did drugs once, thankfully he got the help he needed
Dang, I don’t remember this episode
Mind pollution
I do. It was horrible because it teaches us that drugs kill people.
Yeah this was one of the darker episodes. I actually forgot how much linka looked like crap in this one.
@@jordanpeterson5038, not to mention "A Formula For Hate", regarding HIV/AIDS... and guess what, Verminous Skumm is the villain again.
I do
I wonder what would Uncle Dimitri finds out about Boris
Watchmojo brought me here. I never even knew about this episode. Damn, talk about dark.
Damn, remember when kids shows had the balls to tackle subjects like this? Like remember when Gargoyles tackled guns?
so much for the planeteers being heroes, guy has a cardiac episode and they go "eh druggie deserved it" and leaves him to just lie there
All the people saying stuff like "cartoons weren't scared to be dark/violent back then" have some selective-ass memory. Moments like these are memorable BECAUSE it was so rare for cartoons to actually depict death. I mean jeez, a whole generation of imported cartoons got censored to the point where you couldn't even say the words "die" or "kill." Spider-Man couldn't throw a punch, and every rando in NYC had a laser gun. Cartoons were HEAVILY censored during this period.
Basically, if you honestly believe that '90s cartoons were more violent, then you probably haven't WATCHED a cartoon of any sort since the '90s.
Today cartoons wouldn't even think about touching the theme about drug abuse.
Static shock had an episode about a guy who dealt super powers but they were only temporary.
Some shows do allegories and metaphors. Things are just more subtle than a character chugging pills and dying on screen.
.......... Say whatever you want about Captain Planet, it did NOT pull punches! Granted its message wasn't always clear but the motive was and it. Had. GUTS!
This was one of the better episodes and had balls
The era when cartoons had a message to keep kids away from drugs unlike the underground drug hype culture seen today 🤷🏻
Do cartoons nowadays show drugs i think they are more childish
@@lyricalfriendsranzzyandpla4388 the cartoons nowadays geared towards the same age group as Captain Planet tend to be more violent (ex. Spider-Man cartoon geared toward the same age group). While no drugs are shown violent content that belongs in an R rated movie are shown including blood in some cartoons. Drugs were shown back then (or a reference to them) but with a goal of delivering a message to the audience regarding the detrimental effects towards the user. On that Captain Planet episode such allusion is made with the fictional drug “blitz” and the addiction acquired by one of the planeteers is shown and the death of one of her family members in order to show the end game of drug addiction.
I could have sworn this was about bath salts until the comments stated this was made in the 90’s 🤯
Drugs are something that shouldn't be touched ; they ruin lives, and also end lives.
You'll live to regret it. Or worse, you won't live.
When I was a child, I watched somebody punch out a window with a bare fist. There was a lot more blood than those last few frames.
This episode shocked me when i was 9, i felt sad for Linka.
that's really deep but it teaches a really big lesson
don't ever do drugs
Same thing in Bravestarr and COPS
RIP Borris.....whoever you are.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(given_name)
She even tried to use her powers on gi. Something that linka when sober would’ve never condoned. I don’t think she’s ever used her powers on any of the rangers before.
Man this was when Captain Planet was at its darkest haha.
Close quote: "You have to, Linka. Please! Do it for Boris!"
Why did he take the drugs the bad guy gave him
Because Verminous Scum (the Rat-like villain in this clip) earlier in the episode tricked Boris into taking his drug, Bliss.
He was addicted and would do anything for more bliss.
Producer:WTF!!!!WHY ARE YOU KILLING PEOPLE IN A KIDS SHOW. Script writer:Say no to drugs.................pls don't fire me..................... Artist:So am I drawing Cocaine,meth,or like bruh? (Captain Planet smashes through the wall with blood shot eyes)IM A WIZARD WHO FLYS A PONY
this is a sin.
Why did they add this I was traumatized when I was little and saw this
Damn Captain Planet addressed substance abuse? Tough!
Captain Planet had major balls.
Only episode I remember from this TV series. Great episode very sad.
It’s sad that 2-3 decades later drug overdose is still an issue.
It’s promoted as COOL now , but the choice is always yours
@@TheDripGodz So disappointed in mankind trying to make drugs cool, but they are not. They kill.
Those eyes! Those fucking red eyes!
To be fair he just downed like forty of them at once. He'd probably be fine if he just took one.
That's what happens to those that fall under the spell of drug addiction.
It shows how addicted people were back in the days and what overdose can do.
I believe the mentioned in the episode that specific drug "Bliss" builds a tolerance unusually quick so they had to make higher and higher doses to get their high. Though the guy chugging half the bottle was a bit excessive he'd already been well past the point were a single pill could sate him.