In 101 Dalmatians, they wouldn't have any financial problems if they didn't live in a giant house/mini-mansion in the city, and employ what appears to be a full-time, live-in housekeeper. They're poor by rich people standards, but realistically they're probably doing just fine.
THANK YOU!, yes they said that the puppies will be an expense but they are clearly well off enough to afford a full time housekeeper- and Secondly we never find out the source of Cruella's Wealth, I always thought it was a family thing, with Cruella and Anita being from rich families, so that is how Roger and Anita are scraping by at the moment and Cruella's attitude fits a spoiled aristocrat who expects to get everything she wants- It fits her attitude better than if she was a self made woman, who would likely found a better way to get the dogs and arrange the whole thing
@@timothycarney9652 I always assumed Cruella came from old money because of her dark, mostly abandoned mansion (Hell Hall was it?) where Horace and Jasper keep the puppies. If she were self made and bought her own house, and is Anita's age, she'd likely be living in her own house. It's the family house, she's abandoned it and lives in the city most likely. One of the characters says "no one has lived there in years." I base this entirely on the animated feature, of course. Edit: her parents are likely dead, or else that's still be living there, she inherited early and probably blew a bunch of the money on drugs and plastic surgery and that's why she looks a thousand years old.
They didn't even have electricity so what if it's a giant home? I doubt it was taxed by square inch, and kicking the old housekeeper out (who was surely very low-wage) just to keep some puppies is stupid.
+Firestorm ofanime the greek concept of sky didn't simply refer to our atmosphere but space in general so Zeus would be the god of space Uranus wasn't a god as much as he was a primal force that was the father of the titans he was the Son and husband of Gaia
Bugs Bunny is *smarter* and able to outwit the people who wanna kill him 'cause of who he is. That's why Elmer Fudd is the go-to foil. He wants to kill Bugs 'just 'cause he's a rabbit, and it's rabbit season. Bugs gets away from stronger and deadlier enemies by use of his wits, and he keeps a sense of humor. I am totally cool with that message. (Oh, and good stepmoms who things work out for? Carol Brady.)
When you think about it, Cruella De Vil actually serves as a pretty good anti-smoking lesson. She does clearly look far older and more decrepit than her classmate, to the point where her skin & hair (and presumably teeth) look like what happens when you leave an ashtray in the rain for several days.
The early artwork made them look similar ages but Disney wanted her to look evil so made her look older. Because older women are evil 🤨 Though as a kid I just assumed she was on drugs or suffering from anorexia
6:43 The Hunger Games is a bad example. Katniss won in the first book because she was literally playing a home game. The layout of the arena was similar to her own life experiences. Factor in that she'd been training for YEARS with her bow and even if she didn't have her MC powers, she would have done exceptionally well. IRL you don't bash a team for performing well on their home field/court/ice/etc., it's expected that they defend their house. As such, the moment that it was decided that the arena was to be a forest like environment, Katniss was all but guaranteed to have a stronger showing than her District was known for. When you have favorable odds (no pun intended), it makes sense that you'd win because it then becomes a matter of math. Last I checked, math was brutally honest and fair. Soren raises a good point, but the evidence he used to defend said point was pretty weak.
But she still needed help from sponsors and the help she got was because of Peeta and Haymitch for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I like Katniss but she was helped out a lot by other people. Peeta even kept the "Careers" off her scent for as long as he could. Still I will say she worked hard to keep her family alive and that paid off with the skills she needed for the arena.
Yeah but there's a difference between training to be a good hunter, which is probably done in the few hours in between helping her impoverished family, and training specifically for the Hunger Games' survival challenges like the careers did. Remember, Katniss only trained to hunt small animals and deer. The careers specifically trained to kill people, which is an entirely different ball game as you can ask any soldier or police officer forced to take a life while on duty.
But that only reinforces the point that she wasn't some "chosen one" who was magically gifted. In fact, the support Katniss gets from other people is a huge theme of the books/movies. That's the point--she can't do everything she does by herself. If she was doing it alone, she'd have died. She needs the help of others. Everything she gets she either worked her ass off for (her skill with a bow) gets from the help of people who care about her, or gets because someone she helped/did something kind for/inspired wants to help her back.
The "chosen one" doesn't have to be magically gifted. The trophe is also fulfilled if the person has to work for it. Its more about the protagonist being that one person that seems to be necessary to set all the important things in motion, like how Neo is the "chosen one" in the matrix. Its not like he doesn't do anything like Harry Potter in the first HP movie.
Jay Smith I see your point .... but she was not the favorite to win and did not have that big of an advantage..... you have to remember other districts broke the rules and would have their "tributes" raised to enter the Games, they literally trained their whole life to fight, use multiple weapons and survival skills and were treated like heroes in their District for doing it......in fact she was a malnourished girl who could only use one weapon and track , they even had a sene that pointed out that her survival heavily counted on a Bow being in the Cornucopia at the start of the games. So they were concerned she could or would not survive if the Bow was not there.
Yes they reference that not all step moms are bad when the bratty kid was complaining about her Dad marrying Nancy. Ironically Giselle brought up Prince Edwards step mother nessa who was evil lol.
But the woman Captain Von Trapp almost married was pretty useless, despite having all the socio-economic markers of equal status as the captain. Maria was young, and inherently virtuous by having chosen to be a nun. And she wasn’t the Captain’s ‘appropriate’ choice as a wife and step mother to his children.
If Looney Toons happened in today's world, ACME would be diversifying itself like Amazon and would offer Prime delivery as well as grocery online shopping, thus ending his endless need to eat the Road Runner.
I always imagined it was because of pride or desire. Think about it like everyone knows he buys stuff from the internet and while all we see him buy is ACME stuff that doesn't mean he doesn't order food, hell he's bought TONS of Roadruner food to distract that bird so my best guess is he either keeps trying to catch him to prove himself as capable of catching what's supposed to be his food-chain established prey; or alternativelly it's because he knows that eating the guy will be the most delicious thing ever, like if someone ran into a golden eggs goose they'd most likely chase it for god knows how long same thing here.
LEGIT_ELITE it would have blown my mind as well if I hadnt seen that comment trending on tumblr about a week ago. It sure did back then. It wouldnt surprise me if someone thought of it way before that though seeing as how the movie is almost 20 years old.
LEGIT_ELITE Something else about Marvin that can be considered interesting his centurion helmet could be a reference to the fact the planet Mars is named after the Roman god of War
KingofSting19 Not really. I mean, even in the "all grown up" crap, he actually treats her as his real mom. I think there was AN episode where he goes through that, but by the end they hug it out. (Either that episode exists, or my brain made fanfiction with AMAZING animation.)
Most of the early disney movies were based on fairy tales which were written hundreds of years ago. In those days Step mothers were actually a little dangerous because the kids in the first marriage were set to inherit everything and any of her kids would inherit nothing unless the other kids were out of the way. Not the case in every story but in a good bit of them before they were censored. Enchanted is the best example of reconciling old disney representations with new world struggles. Yes the villain is a Stepmom with really sketch intentions and some weird tongue spasm problem but at the end of the movie Giselle, the protagonist, marries and becomes a Stepmom herself. A movie where everything works out for the stepmom, just not the villain stepmom.
Are you guys deliberately putting errors in here so that we viewers can spot them? If ou are, then please keep at it; it's FUN! @0:53 actually, Cruella paid for most of the puppies---not the 15 she stole from Roger and Anita, but the rest of them were bought and paid for; a random puppy that Tibbs talked to in his first trip into the DeVille mansion told him as much. @1:33 going by the original book's continuity, Cruella came from a wealthy family---she was rich before she knew Anita (though the movies don't make that clear, it was kind of implied in the fact that the DeVille mansion was very old and has her family's name on it). @6:11 was Speedy really lazy? I thought he used his brains as well as his speed (i.e. work) to win...
I read the book many years ago, so I may be wrong. I thought that Roger, (in the book), worked as some kind of financial/economic professional and then at the end of the book he is rewarded in some way by the government for successfully helping them to fix the national debt. maybe my memories just not so great
Adam Moore That's how I remember the book, too. He was a musician in the animated movie, a game developer in the live-action movie, but somehow used his skills with numbers and finances to help the British government with their money so much, they permanently exempted him from taxes.
No, I could've sworn she stole the 84 other puppies from shops and shelters. If she paid for them, why on Earth did she steal from Roger and Anita instead of just finding more somewhere else and paying there. It's the only reason why she wanted to have the puppies killed because she was sure the cops were closing in. Paying for more never would've brought this problem. Sorry, I just think I'm remembering it differently.
@@ackbarfan5556 What I remember from the animated movie is Sargent Tibbs sneaking into the De Ville mansion and asking one puppy "Are you one of the 15 stolen puppies?" and he answered, "Oh, no; we're bought and paid for!" You're dead-on accurate that Cruella shot herself in the foot by stealing those puppies, and more patience on her part would've paid off---for exactly the reasons you've cited. The movie doesn't really address why she stole them when buying more puppies would've been smarter; at a guess, she was just greedy and impatient.
Heroic Stepmom = Kala from Disney's TARZAN Another Heroic Stepmom = Martha Kent from SUPERMAN EDIT: Oops. As has been pointed out, Kala and Martha Kent are adoptive mothers, not step moms. My bad. I am a doofus.
+OtherGonzo kind of what movies present. as yea there is a difference between an adootive parent, and a step parent. so you cant use adoptive parents as examples for positive step parents.
Can't go with you on Bugs bunny. Bugs Bunny especially, but the Looney Tunes heroes to some degree are trickster heroes. Tricksters win by outsmarting or tricking their opponent, not by being the best. Odysseus didn't out muscle the Cyclops. Anansi didn't out-roar the lion, Puss-in-Boots didn't out-magic the Giant/Troll/Whatever. They out-clever their marks who is set up to have a clear advantage. So the Wile E. is a super genius, Yosemite Sam is the rooting-tooting-nest, the trickster can outsmart them. And for kids who often feel powerless compared to adults or older kids, knowing there is someone out there who defeat them and make you laugh at the same time is a good thing.
+Rahsaan Footman THIS. Also the smart or hard working ones are obsessed with their prey, and selfish. The best character to teach them a lesson is a Trickster one, since it can get to the limits a righteous character could not go, and that's how it can create the comedy part.
+Rahsaan Footman Bugs Bunny did end up playing the fool in two cartoons. One where he got duped multiple times by a gremlin, the other where he challenged a Tortoise to a race and, despite actually running his ass off, the Tortoise still won, exactly like the title said. (But in the Gremlin's case it was because Bugs didn't believe in him for half the cartoon, allowing the creature to do whatever he wanted until Bugs wised up, which was unfortunately too late, and in the Tortoise's case the Tortoise had identical siblings who helped win the race for him. Bugs legitimately beat the Tortoise he challenged at the beginning but the Tortoise still won because his 5th brother was at a checkpoint near the finish line and crossed it just as Bugs outran the 4th brother.)
+Rahsaan Footman I would also like to add that at the beginning of most Bugs Bunny cartoons, he isn't trying to outwit anyone. He's simply going along his own business. It's usually someone else trying to start a fight with him which causes him to act. In a way, Bugs Bunny is acting in a sort of 'poetic justice' type of way towards these characters because they were gunning for him in the first place.
Since most Looney Tunes villains are actively trying to hurt someone in ost shorts, I'd say the lesson is "don't be an asshole". Mocking speech impediments is still not cool though.
Who is to say Who is evil and whoisnt. Daffy Duck plays both sides. Foghorn is a total dick to the Dog but is seen as the focal character. And it is odd that most antagonists do have speech impediments. Porky does too but he is rarely an antagonist.
While I can agree that LT characters like the Road Runner, Speedy and Tweety win by "dumb luck", Bugs doesn't. He does work for his win. Most of the time he's watching his foes. He's showing the importance of being patient and observant. (good lessons for kids) He tries to hide it by acting nonchalant or unresponsive which demonstrates a clever mind. Bugs understands people. He wins because he does think with a level head. Is Bugs always a nice guy? Hardly! But he does win because of skill not dumb luck.
Except for the cartoon where he gets outraged over the $0.01 bounty on rabbits and ends up in prison. That does help show that his normal M.O. is effective, as you point out.
And to say he doesn't have any skills was ignorant when the cartoon clearly shows how smart and creative he is going beyond normal thinking the rabbit who evrn dress up sometimes in drag to fool his antagonist. Only time I disliked bugs was when he screwed with Daffy.
@@teemusid exception but not the rule. There is also the one time Coyote does catch road runner and then doesn't know what to do with him. Just raises a sign "Now what?"
How poor could of Anita and Roger f been if they could afford a three floor home, a nanny, and enough musical instruments to fill an entire attic? Cruella was filthy rich, of course she's gonna think everyone else is poor.
DenkitekiKesshiRune That's what I was thinking! I haven't seen the film in _years_ but it never occurred to me that they were legitimately poor because of the house and nanny.
DenkitekiKesshiRune Back then houses were much cheaper than they are now, proportional to income level. More people could afford houses even being in lower middle class. As for the nanny.... well back then old people were cheap, heck old people still are cheap, and we cant possibly expect a single man to clean his own house, nah, thats womans work
But the location of his home was prime realestate, it's walking distance of a park, and look at their furniture! Grandfather clocks, wall paneling, curtains, and a fireplace mantel? That doesn't look like a lower middle class house. I don't think Roger was even a failing composer, he was just suffering from a writers block which is common for any composer in the musical career. In fact from the royalties from the Cruella De Ville song, in a few short months they were able to move to a plantation that could accommodate all 101 Dalmatians.
The reason that evil step mom's are common in children's movies and evil step dad's are not is because evil stepmom's turn into dragons and evil stepdads do rapes.
Rav Enj Dalmations is old, but that's something a kid will watch, because the parents will get the Disney collection for their kids. Brady Bunch, not so much.
Mark Breen-Klein Yup. And Bugs calling Elmer "Nimrod" was based off of a great hunter. The nickname "Nimrod" was ironic (like calling an idiot "Einstein" or someone stating the obvious "Sherlock"), and it became an insult over time (because it was always associated with Elmer Fudd).
The entirety of Looney Tunes is almost completely based on irony. That is what's special about it. Hunters hunt and kill rabbits. What about a scenario where the rabbit/bunny wins and outsmarts a hunter? Cats catch, kill, and eat birds. What about a scenario where a cat repeatedly fails to properly do any of those things? Coyotes run down, kill, and eat desert animals. What about a scenario where a coyote goes above and beyond what's necessary to catch a roadrunner and still fails? It's all just a parody of natural life.
Cinderella literally implies "Listen to your supposed godmother and sneak away from you house to go and meet your true love." Nice going Disney, you made a lot of parents lives a lot harder
Deep cut. LOL. Had to go far back for that one. Shows what they're saying is kind of true though. There aren't many examples of good step mothers in movies.
Rohld Dhal teaches kids that if you have any flaws at all ( weight, ugliness, or gum chewing) you are a horrible person and deserve to be turned into a giant blueberry, strawberry fudge or have your farm go out of business. His characters are either flawless, misunderstood readers or "fat ugly monsters" who watch tv.
+Definitely Catherine At least in Chocolate factory the kids weren't really being punished for their specific flaws, they were punished for their poor impulse control and their parents by extension punished for their poor parenting. Many of Dhal's books contain poor parenting. It just happens it is easier to convey a bad guy if you give them unattractive flaws in addition to being bad. And of course a writer would consider reading to be an attractive trait.
Very true but when I think about Characters like Sophie from the BFG or Matilda they can sometimes come across as very Mary Sue-ish, Don't get me wrong I love these books but it's just sort of a trend I've noticed in his writing.
***** In most of the stories that Disney's films are based on (Grimm's etc.) the evil ones are actually the real parents/parent which Disney deemed to controversial hence the stepmoms.
Icarus2377 I would post a link, but TH-cam would probably flag the comment as spam and it wouldn't show up here. Just look for the Allusionist on iTunes and find the episode called "Step Away"
At the end of Dalmatians they aren't broke anymore because he sold his original song Cruella Deville and it's playing on the radio as the puppies all rush back into the house safe and sound.
Vlad Velasquez I never got the impression that people were "lawsuit-happy" now. I just thought that she seemed very overly prideful. Hell, I don't know anyone who would just sit around and let a song about how evil and terrible they are get popular, truthful or not!
+finalfanfan7 How is it that they can afford a house maid in the early part of the movie? If they are supposed to be so poor they can barely afford to feed themselves?
0:33 A different explanation is offered by the live-action adaptation, in which Cruella specifically wants puppies because their fur is much softer than adults
To be fair, it takes a certain amount of cunning, charisma, and natural talent to outsmart a hunter with a gun, or a cat several times your size, or a coyote with a gadget. Bugs, Tweety, Speedy, and Road Runner aren't just "lucky." They are just very skilled at what they do.
pereiramariana35 Actually they never got married, at least it's not shown in the end montage, you could argue it's implied, but I there is no indication that they are married or even living together.
I've rewatched all the episodes at least once, and I think this one is my favorite. It's where I fell in love with the cast, and they're all at their peak. It's super well written, and well acted. This one is simply the best. For me, at least.
In regards to Bugs Bunny: "[...] he's not a thinker!" EXCUSE YOU? He's insanely clever, he outwits his enemies all the time, he's sarcastic and creative. He comes up with schemes to survive characters like Elmer Fudd WHO ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL HIM. He thinks outside of the box all of the time to get what he wants. There's a reason he wins and how dare you shit on him.
There _is_ a reason he always wins, that reason being that he's the designated protagonist, living in a cartoon universe that literally won't allow designated protagonists to fail (or designated antagonists to succeed).
fox inuasha Actually it's a really awesome cartoon on Adult Swim. One that loves, amongst other things, deconstructing old cartoon tropes in a really funny way. Sometimes a really sad way too. Apart from that it has some really great ongoing storylines in its own right, so it's not _just_ a "hey let's parody all these old 60s-80s cartoons" effort.
That is what I love about Monsters University, you can study, work harder than anyone, try over and over again...and yet you migth not be good or adecuate for what you want to do. It teaches kids not to give up, but to look at it a different way. Hey maybe you suck at a sport, but after all you prepared you can prepare others and become a rich, celebrated coach! Just like Mike is not scary, but his training allows him to understand how sully can be more effective in his own scaring work and work together as a team. And he is happy because he is at the top of his game! Don`t tell kids they can do whatever they want, maybe they can`t, but there is always something you overlook when you are too focus on a goal that is not meant to be.
101 dalmatians the lesson is that happiness come from your connections with other living being, your friendships, be they dog or human. got nothing for step parents, Disney screwed you. Looney toons don't need to show the winner working hard cause you, in your life, only see your own hard work, while you look at other people, you see only the finished product, not the work behind it. but while it feels like, you worked hard and lost against someone who are just naturally better, doesn't mean you can't keep working, losing isn't the end. it's easy to over analyse a silly kids show to find a ''bad lesson'' and such, but you can do the opposite too.
Remember when Wile E. Coyote drew a tunnel to a rock (or rather, a mountain) , and road runner fucking ran through it? That is the bullshit they meant by magical.
Ebon Hawk Someone always has to be the best though, and sometimes no matter how much work you put in, it's impossible to beat them. Especially with bugs who puts in a hell of alot of work on costume design and other prep. The point is that everyone has their own abilities and some are just special, like how everyone who isn't luke Skywalker is kinda screwed when compared.
Rem Twilight yes someone always has to be the best, and sometimes that means ''you'' will be filling that spot. but even the best can lose the best boxer loses sometimes the best pingpong player loses sometimes.
Roger's success wasn't blind luck - he is very clearly shown throughout the movie to be working diligently on his music - and they may be 'poor' by Cruella's (and apparently Soren's) standards, but to own a two story house with a live-in maid, I think they can afford some extra kibble. Plus, when they get the 99 dogs they make a financially responsible plan: use the hard-earned money from the success of the song to buy a place in the country where they can breed and sell dalmatian dogs.
i think Looney Toones is more like "it doesn't matter how smart an evil one is, or how hard they try to do something bad, 'cause something will happen and good ones will win again."
There's nothing to denote whether or not Cruella was wealthy prior to attending college with Anita. So she's not necessarily some kind of "John Galt." #CruellaDeRand
Peter Gorman I'm in *total* agreement. A soul partially-crushed for a moment of troll. But if we're gonna get _heady_ about _101 Dalmatians_, we might as well break the moral bank.
Actually Horace and Jasper, the lackies, hide out in a mansion in the country called the "Deville place". And there is the implication of class divide between Creulla and Anita.
Katja Yount In the book, it's explicitly said that the mansion is an old De Vil family heirloom. Though, in the book, Cruella has a husband who actually makes the furs. It's implied she had to marry him to keep the lifestyle she was used to. EDIT: In the sequel, she's found to be making raincoats out of tough metal instead--after having gotten out of jail. And that's probably the most sane thing about the sequel.
+ZipplyZane She is a fashion designer and was a model. Having starved and likely slept her way to the top, she wants to stay on the cutting edge. She also likely came from a family of hard core sport hunters who saw animals as being here for whatever use and whim that struck people's fancy, particularly rich people.
step mothers used to be a legitimate threat to children. Bio/Real mom dies of complications from child birth or some disease while the kid (s) are young. Dad remarried because someone has to keep house while he earns an income. Stepmom might love the existing kids. Or, equally likely, she could view them as a threat to the inheritance of any children she might contribute to the family. Stepmothers offing their stepkids was not an inconceivable circumstance at the time that many fairytales were written.
If I remember correctly, in the original versions of fairy tales, it was originally mothers, not step-mothers, who were the villains. At some point, centuries before Disney, it was seen as too cruel to kids to make them fear their mothers, and the mothers were changed to step-mothers.
Marvin wears a little spartan helmet, because he is a martian. Mars (or Ares in greek) is the roman god of war, so Marvin was deliberately designed to look like a roman soldier.
Probably my favorite thing about After Hours is these four people. They all have great personalities and chemistry with each other. They are so good I cannot choose a favorite.
Roger made bank on the "Cruella Deville" song he wrote. Which is just awesome. Every guy wants to write, produce, and market to massive financial success a hate-song about one of his partner's terrible, terrible childhood friends. Plus, she died alone after stealing puppies, so nobody is coming after Roger for defamation.
In my fairytale class, we talked about how the brother's grimm censored a lot of fairytales when they collected them and wrote them down. In the original version of snow white, the evil queen is snow whites biological mother. The brother's grimm thought that was too cruel so they made her a step mom instead. Then it was all evil step moms in fairytales all the time.
I get Soren's point about franchises making kids feel special, but I do feel like he ignores other primary character's abilities: In Harry Potter, Hermione is a total Type A, without whom Ron and Harry would've been murdered by Devil's Snare, completely unaware of the Basilisk, Buckbeak and Sirius would be dead, and so on. In Hunger Games, Katniss would have never even have become the symbol in the rebellion that she did without Peeta admitting his feelings for her nor Haymitch, Effie and everyone else doing all the leg work
Whatever. She's still the special chosen one. History won't remember her trainer, or the announcer, or the person who pulled her name out of a hat. History is going to remember that a girl named Katniss rebelled from the oppressive government system.
in the book of 101 Dalmatians, cruella married into wealth and the family was a little more rich also had another female dalmatian to foster the puppies,
Yeah? She still wanted fur coats. I don't care, the ends justify the means, the means DON'T justify the ends. She still wanted to make fur coats out of domestic animals. Even if she had ONE female dalmation, that dalmation couldn't feed that many pups.
Tyler Reed Did you somehow miss the HBP? Large portions of that were devoted to Dumbledore talking about how the prophecy was bullshit that only mattered in so far as Voldemort believed it.
Sean K Yet it came true, despite Dumbledore's exposition on the matter it was entirely true. Not to mention the same foreteller is shown to have another accurate foretelling in I believe the Goblet of Fire. None of the book supports the notion that anyone can be the chosen one, instead all of the books constantly reinforced the idea that only Harry could have been.
Tyler Reed The point was the prophecy came true because Voldemort placed stock in it. If he had left the Potters alone then Lily never would have sacrificed herself for Harry and Voldemort never would have died the first time. And he probably would have succeeded until a confrontation with Dumbeldore. Diviner's can foretell the future but that doesn't mean it's set in stone. Did you not even read/watch Prisoner of Azkaban?
umm no harry potter teaches kids that you might be the one but it comes at a cost . Harry had his parents taken away from him. He didn't have a good childhood and he was supposedly killed a guy as a baby. I don't care how evil Voldemort is Harry must have felt some guilt for killing someone even if he didn't remember. After being called a freak all those years he finds the place where he belonhs only to be told he killed someone then realize that they weren't actually dead and were out to kill him then he has to actually kill Voldemort while still being in school. Dumbledore isn't much help either he didn't tell Harry the things he need to know. He just left Harry and hoped he didn't die. He watched the people he cared about get murdered and he was constantly under attack by the ministry and the students of Hogwarts. His first best friend left him when he need it. While a lot of people in the wizarding world look at Harry as this hero Harry was scared and alone with a shady best friend and a not so perfect life.
This, and also: Though the movies skip over it, the Harry Potter books at least have a whole part wherein Dumbledore specifically emphasizes to Harry that he should not put too much weight into the whole prophecy/"chosen one" one thing as if it was inherently predetermined fate. Dumbledore explains that, if the prophecy had been made with nobody around to hear it, none of it would have come to pass. It only came to pass because Voldemort *did* take it as fate and acted upon it, and because his acting upon it changed Harry's life in such a way that he *would* become the one with the particular connection and ability to defeat him. Not by some extraordinary magical ability or divine rite saying "you're the one to defeat him", but because Harry would never WANT to stop fighting against the man who robbed him of the loving family he'd had! To quote the book, since JK Rowling puts it way more eloquently than I could paraphrase it: " 'But sir, it all comes down to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or--' 'Got to?' said Dumbledore. 'Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!' Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front of him, and thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat. 'I'd want to see him finished,' Harry said quietly, 'and I'd want to do it.' " Point being: it was only because Voldemort had MADE that prophecy have so much meaning to Harry that it came true. And it was only because of the person Harry already *was* - good and pure of heart and willing to give his life if it meant saving others from the pain Voldemort had given him- that made him the one who could defeat him. So the message to kids really isn't "you're a special snowflake" at all (and, yes, if you ARE, it probably does come at a cost). Instead, it's much more about every person's ability to make their own choices about how to face the obstacles and injustices they see in life. That you can either look at the injustices you see in the world and choose to turn your back on fighting for a change, or you can be like Harry and CHOOSE to take it as your responsibility to stand in resistance even when it's the hard and scary thing to do.
i don't think he feels guilty for the guy who killed his parents dying because of his mothers love protecting him enough for it to back fire and kill voldemort. i think he just didn't want to be seen as famous cause he wasn't in on that.
I love how at 1:23 when Katie hears"100 year old mantis" she can scarcely keep her shit together. Watch it in slowmotion and see how hard she has to fight to not laugh. Oooooh man, that was beautiful.
In Looney Tunes, it's worth remembering that they actually had to create Yosemite Sam as a more aggressive and pushy antagonist because, because they started to feel like it looked as if Bugs was basically just bullying Elmer Fudd.
At least for Chuck Jones cartoons, Bugs never starts the conflict. He is minding his own business until forced to deal with an aggressive antagonist. That was Jones's main rule.
i think its because he cant really speak (from what i remember) and that he lives in the middle of nowhere also he's a predator so i just assume people are extremely scared of him (keep in mind i have not seen looney toons in several years and was very young when did so i could just be talking out my ass)
@@SlashDashCrash you're pretty much right, but I think the real reason is because of their dynamic. Think about it like this the roadrunner is supposed to be the coyote's prey, yet he manages to bot outsmart and humiliate Willie every single time he even attempts to catch him, to me it seems like the Coyote's pride is hurt and his motivation is showing that even if he gets beaten a million or more times he'll eventually catch up and eat the roadrunner.
Actually in Enchanted, Giselle became Morgan's stepmom when she married Robert. She did alright. And Nancy was going to become Morgan's stepmom and ended up marrying Edward..
Love these! Going through the playlist now, and cracking up all the time! Cruella De Vil inherited her money btw - that's why there is a "old De Vil house" where the puppies are taken. So they did go to school together, she's not old, she's crazy skinny to the point of looking unhealthy, coupled with the awful skin smoking gives you... actually a good lesson to not smoke... it's one of her defining 'evil' traits... Anyway, keep it up! -Shawn
Can we really feel sorry for characters like Wile or Sylvester since they are trying to kill and eat their respective birdy foes? I know it's in the nature of coyotes and cats to hunt but it's also in the nature of prey to evade getting eaten. You can't be pissy if your dinner evades you. It's survival of the fittest. That's the law of the jungle.
You should do the Flintstones. How As long as Barney and Fred keep working at their menial, unskilled labor jobs their fine, but every time they try to use their minds to get ahead things go horribly wrong. Nice message. Never try. Just keep working for the man.
Given Cruella de Vil's personality and willingness to resort to thuggery to get what she wants I don't think it's unreasonable to presume she black widowed her way into money or at least she used underhanded business to make her fortune. That is of course if she didn't simply inherit it at some point after school.
Maybe the looney toons lesson is not that working hard gets you nowhere. But maybe that you can work as hard as you can for all of your life, but if your not working for the right thing, you won't come out victorious. ie, Wiley Coyote working to capture Road Runner. He probably wants to kill him, or keep him captive and torture him. That's an Inhumane thing and thus doesn't deserve to be rewarded.
they have a multi - bedroom town house in London and a live in maid; at modern inflation they are millionaires. Plus Cruella clearly inherited her fortune.
+Luke Watson judging by the genre of music that the guy wrote (rag time), the movie is set many years ago. Pretty sure the housing market was a lot cheeper back then
+Sebastian Ferguson But they still have a live-in house maid. That implies they've got to be somewhat wealthy. Maybe Roger was a poor failed songwriter when he was a bachelor, and started to see the success of his work around the time he got married. If Roger and Anita can barely afford to put food on the table, how can they possibly afford to hire a maid?
The reason it's always an evil stepmother has to do with inheritance laws in the middle ages. See, because women weren't allowed to own property, if a woman remarried, her husband could take all of her stuff and give it to his own children, leaving her children with nothing if he wanted to (this commonly happened). As a result, step-mothers being jealous of their husband's children and abusing (and sometimes outright murdering them) was also common. But because men COULD own property, they didn't often have the same issues because they their wives couldn't steal it from them and they got to decide how it was divided up after their death.
Blame the Grimms (As in Grimm's Fairy Tales) for the Step-mom trope. In many of the fairy tales they collected it was the mother, like the woman who birthed these children, who are evil. In older versions of Hansel and Gretel it was their mother who convinced their father to lead them to starve in the woods. That was too dark for the early 19th century so they changed it to a step-mother. Jump ahead 100 years and Disney, who loved fairy tales, continues this trope by adapting his favorite fairy tales for animation.
After Hours: it's all the fun of listening to strangers' conversations without any of the hassle of restraining orders.
Michael, is that you?
Nope.
hakasims pp
Brainstormer623 Gordy
step dad and mom are evil
Brainstormer623
In 101 Dalmatians, they wouldn't have any financial problems if they didn't live in a giant house/mini-mansion in the city, and employ what appears to be a full-time, live-in housekeeper. They're poor by rich people standards, but realistically they're probably doing just fine.
Connor Tyler I remember in the 101 Dalmatians TV show they all move to a farm in the countryside because there was more room.
THANK YOU!, yes they said that the puppies will be an expense but they are clearly well off enough to afford a full time housekeeper- and Secondly we never find out the source of Cruella's Wealth, I always thought it was a family thing, with Cruella and Anita being from rich families, so that is how Roger and Anita are scraping by at the moment and Cruella's attitude fits a spoiled aristocrat who expects to get everything she wants- It fits her attitude better than if she was a self made woman, who would likely found a better way to get the dogs and arrange the whole thing
@@timothycarney9652 I always assumed Cruella came from old money because of her dark, mostly abandoned mansion (Hell Hall was it?) where Horace and Jasper keep the puppies. If she were self made and bought her own house, and is Anita's age, she'd likely be living in her own house. It's the family house, she's abandoned it and lives in the city most likely. One of the characters says "no one has lived there in years." I base this entirely on the animated feature, of course.
Edit: her parents are likely dead, or else that's still be living there, she inherited early and probably blew a bunch of the money on drugs and plastic surgery and that's why she looks a thousand years old.
They didn't even have electricity so what if it's a giant home?
I doubt it was taxed by square inch, and kicking the old housekeeper out (who was surely very low-wage) just to keep some puppies is stupid.
Manek Iridius - oh, you want to get into the intricacies and inequities of the ad valorem tax system? I thought not! ;-)
"get a new coat guy, bruh" has to be the best line in this whole series
Especially since her coat guy was her husband. Who by the way left her at the end of the book
Why did Cracked like this comment after they ripped this series away from us?😓
I had no idea T1J was aware of Cracked
"I like his tiny hat and his nothing face"
Me too, Katie
Oh, my God. I NEVER thought of that Marvin the Martian referee thing! It makes total sense why he'd ref the game!
Space jam was the shit, the new one with LeBron is going to be just shit.
Yeah, as stupid as that movie was, It kinda grew on me too.
@@maxhydekyle2425 you sir were correct.
Marvin the Martian wears a Roman-style helmet because he's from Mars, which is a planet named after the Roman god of war.
+Dr Shaym So if they had a character from Uranus, would he be wearing the clothing of a Greek aviator? Because Uranus is the Greek god of the sky.
+Firestorm ofanime the greek concept of sky didn't simply refer to our atmosphere but space in general so Zeus would be the god of space Uranus wasn't a god as much as he was a primal force that was the father of the titans he was the Son and husband of Gaia
+carultch "so if they had a character from ur anus..." man, you botched such a potentially great joke right there.
+Samuel Pérez García An overused joke that they probably didn't want to use.
Actually his helmet is more of a Carthaginian styled one.
Cruella only appears so old because she smokes.
I Rosencrantz but the Dad also smokes
I Rosencrantz Forget all the other stuff about smoking. That shit makes you murder puppies.
King Yak yea but the dad looks 40, yet he's actually 12
botched plastic surgery
Still a bad lesson for kids.
Bugs Bunny is *smarter* and able to outwit the people who wanna kill him 'cause of who he is. That's why Elmer Fudd is the go-to foil. He wants to kill Bugs 'just 'cause he's a rabbit, and it's rabbit season. Bugs gets away from stronger and deadlier enemies by use of his wits, and he keeps a sense of humor. I am totally cool with that message. (Oh, and good stepmoms who things work out for? Carol Brady.)
When you think about it, Cruella De Vil actually serves as a pretty good anti-smoking lesson. She does clearly look far older and more decrepit than her classmate, to the point where her skin & hair (and presumably teeth) look like what happens when you leave an ashtray in the rain for several days.
I also used to think that she was anorexic. But I believe she's doing more drugs than just cigarettes ;)
Angel Singer But...but Roger smokes.
The early artwork made them look similar ages but Disney wanted her to look evil so made her look older. Because older women are evil 🤨 Though as a kid I just assumed she was on drugs or suffering from anorexia
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
Yes be he smokes a classic pipe. So you know he can be trusted
6:43 The Hunger Games is a bad example. Katniss won in the first book because she was literally playing a home game. The layout of the arena was similar to her own life experiences. Factor in that she'd been training for YEARS with her bow and even if she didn't have her MC powers, she would have done exceptionally well. IRL you don't bash a team for performing well on their home field/court/ice/etc., it's expected that they defend their house. As such, the moment that it was decided that the arena was to be a forest like environment, Katniss was all but guaranteed to have a stronger showing than her District was known for. When you have favorable odds (no pun intended), it makes sense that you'd win because it then becomes a matter of math. Last I checked, math was brutally honest and fair. Soren raises a good point, but the evidence he used to defend said point was pretty weak.
But she still needed help from sponsors and the help she got was because of Peeta and Haymitch for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I like Katniss but she was helped out a lot by other people. Peeta even kept the "Careers" off her scent for as long as he could. Still I will say she worked hard to keep her family alive and that paid off with the skills she needed for the arena.
Yeah but there's a difference between training to be a good hunter, which is probably done in the few hours in between helping her impoverished family, and training specifically for the Hunger Games' survival challenges like the careers did. Remember, Katniss only trained to hunt small animals and deer. The careers specifically trained to kill people, which is an entirely different ball game as you can ask any soldier or police officer forced to take a life while on duty.
But that only reinforces the point that she wasn't some "chosen one" who was magically gifted. In fact, the support Katniss gets from other people is a huge theme of the books/movies. That's the point--she can't do everything she does by herself. If she was doing it alone, she'd have died. She needs the help of others. Everything she gets she either worked her ass off for (her skill with a bow) gets from the help of people who care about her, or gets because someone she helped/did something kind for/inspired wants to help her back.
The "chosen one" doesn't have to be magically gifted. The trophe is also fulfilled if the person has to work for it. Its more about the protagonist being that one person that seems to be necessary to set all the important things in motion, like how Neo is the "chosen one" in the matrix. Its not like he doesn't do anything like Harry Potter in the first HP movie.
Jay Smith
I see your point .... but she was not the favorite to win and did not have that big of an advantage..... you have to remember other districts broke the rules and would have their "tributes" raised to enter the Games, they literally trained their whole life to fight, use multiple weapons and survival skills and were treated like heroes in their District for doing it......in fact she was a malnourished girl who could only use one weapon and track , they even had a sene that pointed out that her survival heavily counted on a Bow being in the Cornucopia at the start of the games.
So they were concerned she could or would not survive if the Bow was not there.
does tarzan gorilla mom count as a step mom? Cuz she did good
+Bryan Cruz adoptive mothers aren't stepmothers
I thought step parents adopted their step kids? Like, that was part of the process of marrying someone who already has kids.
No, just because you marry someone doesn't mean you automatically adopt their kids, that's a separate legal process altogether.
Foster mom
And Kircheck was technically his step dad who resented him
*"Boy, I'm glad she's dead."*
Had to fucking pause for a minute because I was laughing so hard.
Same.
me too XD especially the voice he did when he said,"YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!" XD
In Enchanted Amy Adams would have ended up a stepmum, but I don't think they ever once acknowledge it
yup
+bobbiwib They do I think the little girl gets a line about not all step mothers being bad.
it is frightening how much better that made me feel
bobbiwib
Because the writer acknowledged something that should have been acknowledged.
Yes they reference that not all step moms are bad when the bratty kid was complaining about her Dad marrying Nancy. Ironically Giselle brought up Prince Edwards step mother nessa who was evil lol.
Good srepmom depiction: Maria in Sound of Music
Cheaper by the dozen
Those aren't kids movies just because it happens to have children in them doesn't make it a is movie.
Cheaper by the Dozen is totally a kids movie
Sofia the First
But the woman Captain Von Trapp almost married was pretty useless, despite having all the socio-economic markers of equal status as the captain. Maria was young, and inherently virtuous by having chosen to be a nun. And she wasn’t the Captain’s ‘appropriate’ choice as a wife and step mother to his children.
All the money Wile E Coyote spent on acme products he could have bought food.
He only knows how to shop from ACME though, there's a very good chance he'll be having explosive something, all I'm saying bud.
If Looney Toons happened in today's world, ACME would be diversifying itself like Amazon and would offer Prime delivery as well as grocery online shopping, thus ending his endless need to eat the Road Runner.
Karen Holmes In the words of Cliff Klavin. "It's not about food. He wants to catch that one Road Runner. It's, uh, very existential. "
I always imagined it was because of pride or desire. Think about it like everyone knows he buys stuff from the internet and while all we see him buy is ACME stuff that doesn't mean he doesn't order food, hell he's bought TONS of Roadruner food to distract that bird so my best guess is he either keeps trying to catch him to prove himself as capable of catching what's supposed to be his food-chain established prey; or alternativelly it's because he knows that eating the guy will be the most delicious thing ever, like if someone ran into a golden eggs goose they'd most likely chase it for god knows how long same thing here.
Forest for the trees.
That Marvin the Martian thought just blew mind!
LEGIT_ELITE it would have blown my mind as well if I hadnt seen that comment trending on tumblr about a week ago. It sure did back then. It wouldnt surprise me if someone thought of it way before that though seeing as how the movie is almost 20 years old.
LEGIT_ELITE Something else about Marvin that can be considered interesting his centurion helmet could be a reference to the fact the planet Mars is named after the Roman god of War
LEGIT_ELITE I know man.. its out of this world!
Zthewise Ares
IAmDaedem He's the greek one
Just throwing this out there, but in Rugrats, Kira is a good stepmom to Chuckie. If I remember correctly, she even legally adopted him later on.
K.M. Char Yeah, but ironically, Kira stopped Chaz from marrying an evil step mother haha
K.M. Char And didn't Chuckie have the same kind of "you're not my real mom!" relationship that Swaim described with stepdads?
KingofSting19 Not really. I mean, even in the "all grown up" crap, he actually treats her as his real mom. I think there was AN episode where he goes through that, but by the end they hug it out.
(Either that episode exists, or my brain made fanfiction with AMAZING animation.)
animewisher Can you call Rugrats 'AMAZING animation'?
D.A.R
No, but as someone who can barely draw, I consider my brain recreating any level of animation amazing XD
Most of the early disney movies were based on fairy tales which were written hundreds of years ago. In those days Step mothers were actually a little dangerous because the kids in the first marriage were set to inherit everything and any of her kids would inherit nothing unless the other kids were out of the way. Not the case in every story but in a good bit of them before they were censored. Enchanted is the best example of reconciling old disney representations with new world struggles. Yes the villain is a Stepmom with really sketch intentions and some weird tongue spasm problem but at the end of the movie Giselle, the protagonist, marries and becomes a Stepmom herself. A movie where everything works out for the stepmom, just not the villain stepmom.
Are you guys deliberately putting errors in here so that we viewers can spot them? If ou are, then please keep at it; it's FUN!
@0:53 actually, Cruella paid for most of the puppies---not the 15 she stole from Roger and Anita, but the rest of them were bought and paid for; a random puppy that Tibbs talked to in his first trip into the DeVille mansion told him as much.
@1:33 going by the original book's continuity, Cruella came from a wealthy family---she was rich before she knew Anita (though the movies don't make that clear, it was kind of implied in the fact that the DeVille mansion was very old and has her family's name on it).
@6:11 was Speedy really lazy? I thought he used his brains as well as his speed (i.e. work) to win...
About speedy, yes! I remember the entire point of the cartoon was that speedy was the only hardworker in his family...
I read the book many years ago, so I may be wrong. I thought that Roger, (in the book), worked as some kind of financial/economic professional and then at the end of the book he is rewarded in some way by the government for successfully helping them to fix the national debt. maybe my memories just not so great
Adam Moore That's how I remember the book, too. He was a musician in the animated movie, a game developer in the live-action movie, but somehow used his skills with numbers and finances to help the British government with their money so much, they permanently exempted him from taxes.
No, I could've sworn she stole the 84 other puppies from shops and shelters. If she paid for them, why on Earth did she steal from Roger and Anita instead of just finding more somewhere else and paying there. It's the only reason why she wanted to have the puppies killed because she was sure the cops were closing in. Paying for more never would've brought this problem. Sorry, I just think I'm remembering it differently.
@@ackbarfan5556 What I remember from the animated movie is Sargent Tibbs sneaking into the De Ville mansion and asking one puppy "Are you one of the 15 stolen puppies?" and he answered, "Oh, no; we're bought and paid for!"
You're dead-on accurate that Cruella shot herself in the foot by stealing those puppies, and more patience on her part would've paid off---for exactly the reasons you've cited. The movie doesn't really address why she stole them when buying more puppies would've been smarter; at a guess, she was just greedy and impatient.
In Enchanted, Giselle actually became a very good stepmother to Morgan :v
How do you know? We never really see her raise her after the movie ends.
but there is a line in Enchanted that not all step mothers are bad
Heroic Stepmom = Kala from Disney's TARZAN
Another Heroic Stepmom = Martha Kent from SUPERMAN
EDIT: Oops. As has been pointed out, Kala and Martha Kent are adoptive mothers, not step moms. My bad. I am a doofus.
When you adopt a kid that kid doesn't become your step child they become your child
cjishere97 So if one parent dies and you take over for them you are evil, but if both die and you take over you are a hero?
+OtherGonzo what are you even talking about
+OtherGonzo kind of what movies present. as yea there is a difference between an adootive parent, and a step parent. so you cant use adoptive parents as examples for positive step parents.
cjishere97 Well, because a step-child is the child of the person you marry.
Can't go with you on Bugs bunny. Bugs Bunny especially, but the Looney Tunes heroes to some degree are trickster heroes. Tricksters win by outsmarting or tricking their opponent, not by being the best. Odysseus didn't out muscle the Cyclops. Anansi didn't out-roar the lion, Puss-in-Boots didn't out-magic the Giant/Troll/Whatever. They out-clever their marks who is set up to have a clear advantage. So the Wile E. is a super genius, Yosemite Sam is the rooting-tooting-nest, the trickster can outsmart them. And for kids who often feel powerless compared to adults or older kids, knowing there is someone out there who defeat them and make you laugh at the same time is a good thing.
+Rahsaan Footman THIS.
Also the smart or hard working ones are obsessed with their prey, and selfish. The best character to teach them a lesson is a Trickster one, since it can get to the limits a righteous character could not go, and that's how it can create the comedy part.
+Rahsaan Footman Mythology, Old Folktales, Puss-in-boots. One of these things is not like the other.
+TNPWarlord Source material Puss-in-Boots. The French fable like Reynard the Fox and Cinderella. Not necessarily the Dreamworks one.
+Rahsaan Footman Bugs Bunny did end up playing the fool in two cartoons. One where he got duped multiple times by a gremlin, the other where he challenged a Tortoise to a race and, despite actually running his ass off, the Tortoise still won, exactly like the title said. (But in the Gremlin's case it was because Bugs didn't believe in him for half the cartoon, allowing the creature to do whatever he wanted until Bugs wised up, which was unfortunately too late, and in the Tortoise's case the Tortoise had identical siblings who helped win the race for him. Bugs legitimately beat the Tortoise he challenged at the beginning but the Tortoise still won because his 5th brother was at a checkpoint near the finish line and crossed it just as Bugs outran the 4th brother.)
+Rahsaan Footman I would also like to add that at the beginning of most Bugs Bunny cartoons, he isn't trying to outwit anyone. He's simply going along his own business. It's usually someone else trying to start a fight with him which causes him to act. In a way, Bugs Bunny is acting in a sort of 'poetic justice' type of way towards these characters because they were gunning for him in the first place.
This is the only video series I watch on Cracked.
Sun Jetzu every series is good, maybe not so much cracked responds anymore, but I think you should watch more because they're all great
d deadjl All the series are fairly good. If it doesn't fall into a series, usually pretty bad.
Try Today's Topic or Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder (if you haven't already) those are cool too.
Sun Jetzu I can see why.. Yet I think these take the most amount of time to make.
MrFrostburner It didn't used to be like that. Discount Domain Names was pretty funny, all those years ago.
Since most Looney Tunes villains are actively trying to hurt someone in ost shorts, I'd say the lesson is "don't be an asshole".
Mocking speech impediments is still not cool though.
Who is to say Who is evil and whoisnt. Daffy Duck plays both sides. Foghorn is a total dick to the Dog but is seen as the focal character. And it is odd that most antagonists do have speech impediments. Porky does too but he is rarely an antagonist.
Mars is Ares, Spartans worshipped Ares. Ergo, the Martian has a Spartan helmet.
...that's amazing. Is that... is that confirmed to be the case, because that's just so clever.
what about the hightops?
That's.... Actually really cool. Kudos to you.
Personally, I always liked to think that maybe it was the Spartans who wore Martian helmets, not vice versa😉
It, for some inexplicable reason, bothered me that you said "Mars is Ares" that's like saying Neptune is Poseidon.
While I can agree that LT characters like the Road Runner, Speedy and Tweety win by "dumb luck", Bugs doesn't. He does work for his win. Most of the time he's watching his foes. He's showing the importance of being patient and observant. (good lessons for kids)
He tries to hide it by acting nonchalant or unresponsive which demonstrates a clever mind. Bugs understands people. He wins because he does think with a level head.
Is Bugs always a nice guy? Hardly! But he does win because of skill not dumb luck.
Except for the cartoon where he gets outraged over the $0.01 bounty on rabbits and ends up in prison. That does help show that his normal M.O. is effective, as you point out.
And to say he doesn't have any skills was ignorant when the cartoon clearly shows how smart and creative he is going beyond normal thinking the rabbit who evrn dress up sometimes in drag to fool his antagonist. Only time I disliked bugs was when he screwed with Daffy.
@@teemusid exception but not the rule. There is also the one time Coyote does catch road runner and then doesn't know what to do with him. Just raises a sign "Now what?"
How poor could of Anita and Roger f been if they could afford a three floor home, a nanny, and enough musical instruments to fill an entire attic? Cruella was filthy rich, of course she's gonna think everyone else is poor.
Ex-fucking-actly
DenkitekiKesshiRune That's what I was thinking! I haven't seen the film in _years_ but it never occurred to me that they were legitimately poor because of the house and nanny.
DenkitekiKesshiRune Back then houses were much cheaper than they are now, proportional to income level. More people could afford houses even being in lower middle class. As for the nanny.... well back then old people were cheap, heck old people still are cheap, and we cant possibly expect a single man to clean his own house, nah, thats womans work
But the location of his home was prime realestate, it's walking distance of a park, and look at their furniture! Grandfather clocks, wall paneling, curtains, and a fireplace mantel? That doesn't look like a lower middle class house. I don't think Roger was even a failing composer, he was just suffering from a writers block which is common for any composer in the musical career. In fact from the royalties from the Cruella De Ville song, in a few short months they were able to move to a plantation that could accommodate all 101 Dalmatians.
DenkitekiKesshiRune
Again. that movie was set at what time? like the 1950's? There were parks everywhere back then, it was a different world
I don't think we should sell short Bugs Bunny's incredible aptitude for a good drag performance. :)
CyricZ So true. There have been quite a few times. Also, didn't know you watched Cracked. :o
CyricZ Besides, he's the only one of the "winners" that showcases wit and craftiness to get out of trouble. The whole drag thing is a good example.
CyricZ Thumbs up if Bugs Bunny in drag gave you a boner.
He is the most progressive character they have
Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?
The reason that evil step mom's are common in children's movies and evil step dad's are not is because evil stepmom's turn into dragons and evil stepdads do rapes.
Wow. I seriously have no argument. Well Done. You need more likes.
So children's movies only have evil stepmoms because of censorship, then?
What about Tim Allen's The Santa Clause. Fuck Neal.
Yes, because a brutal child rape would really mess up the pacing and tone of most Disney movies.
3:31 i love soren's look of pride and joy at Dan's chance of growth as a person
Phineas and Ferb if the only step family show I can think of where everybody is okay with the new arrangement
YES!!!
Eric D. Hansen Rugrats, Brady Bunch, Different Strokes. Probably more.
sprukununuy And those are all pretty old. Phineas and Ferb seems like the only modern show that shows a second marriage family getting along well.
Rav Enj Dalmations is old, but that's something a kid will watch, because the parents will get the Disney collection for their kids. Brady Bunch, not so much.
Rav Enj Have fun paying for therapy and plastic bedsheets, then.
Isn't Marvin the Martian supposed to be a reference to Mars, the ancient god the planet was named after?
Yes
look at him he looks like he's wearing Roman war armor
Mark Breen-Klein If you listen, right after Soren asks the question, you can hear whats her name say Mars. Sorry, I haven't caught her name yet.
Niche Carved Ah. Kate. That's her name.
Mark Breen-Klein Yup. And Bugs calling Elmer "Nimrod" was based off of a great hunter. The nickname "Nimrod" was ironic (like calling an idiot "Einstein" or someone stating the obvious "Sherlock"), and it became an insult over time (because it was always associated with Elmer Fudd).
The entirety of Looney Tunes is almost completely based on irony. That is what's special about it. Hunters hunt and kill rabbits. What about a scenario where the rabbit/bunny wins and outsmarts a hunter? Cats catch, kill, and eat birds. What about a scenario where a cat repeatedly fails to properly do any of those things? Coyotes run down, kill, and eat desert animals. What about a scenario where a coyote goes above and beyond what's necessary to catch a roadrunner and still fails? It's all just a parody of natural life.
Cinderella literally implies "Listen to your supposed godmother and sneak away from you house to go and meet your true love." Nice going Disney, you made a lot of parents lives a lot harder
Tbf, if you're in that abusive a relationship, you should probably get out as soon as you can.
Snow white was far worse.
4:37 the sound of music... I mean aside from ww2
Touche.
sniffthecactus duh hhhh
Deep cut. LOL. Had to go far back for that one. Shows what they're saying is kind of true though. There aren't many examples of good step mothers in movies.
All Dogs Go To Heaven 2
Nanny Mc Phee had a good step-mother aswell
For a movie featuring an evil step-father, just watch Pan's Labyrinth.
Well, as depressive as it may be... Soren won the argument with his "You're not special!"-move. ...Yay.
Daniel: 18
Soren: 14
Katie: 15
Michael: 18
"How'd he end up with a Spartan helmet, any how?"
Katie: "Mars"
You have no idea how much hearing her say Marvin was the favorite made my day. He has been my favorite forever and so few appreciate him.
Rohld Dhal teaches kids that if you have any flaws at all ( weight, ugliness, or gum chewing) you are a horrible person and deserve to be turned into a giant blueberry, strawberry fudge or have your farm go out of business. His characters are either flawless, misunderstood readers or "fat ugly monsters" who watch tv.
+Definitely Catherine At least in Chocolate factory the kids weren't really being punished for their specific flaws, they were punished for their poor impulse control and their parents by extension punished for their poor parenting. Many of Dhal's books contain poor parenting. It just happens it is easier to convey a bad guy if you give them unattractive flaws in addition to being bad. And of course a writer would consider reading to be an attractive trait.
Very true but when I think about Characters like Sophie from the BFG or Matilda they can sometimes come across as very Mary Sue-ish, Don't get me wrong I love these books but it's just sort of a trend I've noticed in his writing.
The Allusionist had a really interesting episode about why step-mothers are often portrayed as evil.
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***** Can you post a link?
***** In most of the stories that Disney's films are based on (Grimm's etc.) the evil ones are actually the real parents/parent which Disney deemed to controversial hence the stepmoms.
Icarus2377 I would post a link, but TH-cam would probably flag the comment as spam and it wouldn't show up here. Just look for the Allusionist on iTunes and find the episode called "Step Away"
Marvin the Martian is dressed as a Roman warrior because Mars is the Roman god of war.
At the end of Dalmatians they aren't broke anymore because he sold his original song Cruella Deville and it's playing on the radio as the puppies all rush back into the house safe and sound.
finalfanfan7 Do you think Cruella would sue for defamation of character?
Master Markus In 1950s London? Nah, people weren't as lawsuit happy back then.
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I never got the impression that people were "lawsuit-happy" now. I just thought that she seemed very overly prideful.
Hell, I don't know anyone who would just sit around and let a song about how evil and terrible they are get popular, truthful or not!
+finalfanfan7 How is it that they can afford a house maid in the early part of the movie? If they are supposed to be so poor they can barely afford to feed themselves?
+carultch It's London, every family has an English butler and a maid whether they're rich or not.
0:33 A different explanation is offered by the live-action adaptation, in which Cruella specifically wants puppies because their fur is much softer than adults
That’s interesting in the book she wants to start a whole fur farms and sell the coats in mainland Europe
To be fair, it takes a certain amount of cunning, charisma, and natural talent to outsmart a hunter with a gun, or a cat several times your size, or a coyote with a gadget. Bugs, Tweety, Speedy, and Road Runner aren't just "lucky." They are just very skilled at what they do.
Fun fact: Claude Frollo is technically an evil step-father. Adopts the baby, keeps him in a tower (a la Rapunzel), it fits most criteria I would say
Bugs bunny is a thinker. that's how he always out thinks everyone Daniel. The lesson n loney tones is don't buy from ACME
in enchanted the princesse became a stepmom, so eat that with your cereal!
Oh God Yes!
pereiramariana35 Actually they never got married, at least it's not shown in the end montage, you could argue it's implied, but I there is no indication that they are married or even living together.
The stepmom also became a princess in Enchanted
Timothy Robert pajama dance party.
pereiramariana35 i shall, and it shall be Delicious! lol. x)
5:30 “we never see the good guys work hard”
*_[space jam theme blasts loudly]_*
I've rewatched all the episodes at least once, and I think this one is my favorite. It's where I fell in love with the cast, and they're all at their peak. It's super well written, and well acted. This one is simply the best. For me, at least.
In regards to Bugs Bunny: "[...] he's not a thinker!" EXCUSE YOU? He's insanely clever, he outwits his enemies all the time, he's sarcastic and creative. He comes up with schemes to survive characters like Elmer Fudd WHO ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL HIM. He thinks outside of the box all of the time to get what he wants. There's a reason he wins and how dare you shit on him.
There _is_ a reason he always wins, that reason being that he's the designated protagonist, living in a cartoon universe that literally won't allow designated protagonists to fail (or designated antagonists to succeed).
fox inuasha I'm a Venture Bros fan, mocking classic cartoon tropes is in my blood :D
There WAS that episode with the Gremlin ("Falling Hare") and Bugs never really got the best of him.
Marianne Ibbotson I don't know who that is. another yt channel I'm guessing
fox inuasha Actually it's a really awesome cartoon on Adult Swim. One that loves, amongst other things, deconstructing old cartoon tropes in a really funny way. Sometimes a really sad way too. Apart from that it has some really great ongoing storylines in its own right, so it's not _just_ a "hey let's parody all these old 60s-80s cartoons" effort.
That is what I love about Monsters University, you can study, work harder than anyone, try over and over again...and yet you migth not be good or adecuate for what you want to do. It teaches kids not to give up, but to look at it a different way. Hey maybe you suck at a sport, but after all you prepared you can prepare others and become a rich, celebrated coach! Just like Mike is not scary, but his training allows him to understand how sully can be more effective in his own scaring work and work together as a team. And he is happy because he is at the top of his game! Don`t tell kids they can do whatever they want, maybe they can`t, but there is always something you overlook when you are too focus on a goal that is not meant to be.
101 dalmatians the lesson is that happiness come from your connections with other living being, your friendships, be they dog or human.
got nothing for step parents, Disney screwed you.
Looney toons don't need to show the winner working hard cause you, in your life, only see your own hard work, while you look at other people, you see only the finished product, not the work behind it.
but while it feels like, you worked hard and lost against someone who are just naturally better, doesn't mean you can't keep working, losing isn't the end.
it's easy to over analyse a silly kids show to find a ''bad lesson'' and such, but you can do the opposite too.
Remember when Wile E. Coyote drew a tunnel to a rock (or rather, a mountain) , and road runner fucking ran through it? That is the bullshit they meant by magical.
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it is a cartoon, it's comedy after all.
Ebon Hawk Someone always has to be the best though, and sometimes no matter how much work you put in, it's impossible to beat them. Especially with bugs who puts in a hell of alot of work on costume design and other prep.
The point is that everyone has their own abilities and some are just special, like how everyone who isn't luke Skywalker is kinda screwed when compared.
+Rem Twilight does that make Bugs silly Batman?
Rem Twilight yes someone always has to be the best, and sometimes that means ''you'' will be filling that spot.
but even the best can lose
the best boxer loses sometimes
the best pingpong player loses sometimes.
I always love the little things at the end. "I assume he knows something we don't"
12:37 am and it's a good day.
These people are seriously underated actors ..love these videos they are all amazing and have good chemistry.
Roger's success wasn't blind luck - he is very clearly shown throughout the movie to be working diligently on his music - and they may be 'poor' by Cruella's (and apparently Soren's) standards, but to own a two story house with a live-in maid, I think they can afford some extra kibble. Plus, when they get the 99 dogs they make a financially responsible plan: use the hard-earned money from the success of the song to buy a place in the country where they can breed and sell dalmatian dogs.
i think Looney Toones is more like "it doesn't matter how smart an evil one is, or how hard they try to do something bad, 'cause something will happen and good ones will win again."
There's nothing to denote whether or not Cruella was wealthy prior to attending college with Anita. So she's not necessarily some kind of "John Galt."
#CruellaDeRand
Charley Deppner referencing Atlas Shrugged is -10 karma points
Peter Gorman I'm in *total* agreement. A soul partially-crushed for a moment of troll.
But if we're gonna get _heady_ about _101 Dalmatians_, we might as well break the moral bank.
Actually Horace and Jasper, the lackies, hide out in a mansion in the country called the "Deville place". And there is the implication of class divide between Creulla and Anita.
Katja Yount In the book, it's explicitly said that the mansion is an old De Vil family heirloom.
Though, in the book, Cruella has a husband who actually makes the furs. It's implied she had to marry him to keep the lifestyle she was used to.
EDIT: In the sequel, she's found to be making raincoats out of tough metal instead--after having gotten out of jail. And that's probably the most sane thing about the sequel.
+ZipplyZane She is a fashion designer and was a model. Having starved and likely slept her way to the top, she wants to stay on the cutting edge. She also likely came from a family of hard core sport hunters who saw animals as being here for whatever use and whim that struck people's fancy, particularly rich people.
"Thousand year old mantis" will always make me laugh, no matter what.
step mothers used to be a legitimate threat to children. Bio/Real mom dies of complications from child birth or some disease while the kid (s) are young. Dad remarried because someone has to keep house while he earns an income. Stepmom might love the existing kids. Or, equally likely, she could view them as a threat to the inheritance of any children she might contribute to the family. Stepmothers offing their stepkids was not an inconceivable circumstance at the time that many fairytales were written.
If I remember correctly, in the original versions of fairy tales, it was originally mothers, not step-mothers, who were the villains. At some point, centuries before Disney, it was seen as too cruel to kids to make them fear their mothers, and the mothers were changed to step-mothers.
"Marvin the Martian, really?"
"I like his tiny hat and nothing face."
Marvin wears a little spartan helmet, because he is a martian. Mars (or Ares in greek) is the roman god of war, so Marvin was deliberately designed to look like a roman soldier.
I miss these.. so much
Probably my favorite thing about After Hours is these four people. They all have great personalities and chemistry with each other. They are so good I cannot choose a favorite.
so can we talk about the guy in the back miming being a cook?
he stirs an invisible pot
Roger made bank on the "Cruella Deville" song he wrote. Which is just awesome.
Every guy wants to write, produce, and market to massive financial success a hate-song about one of his partner's terrible, terrible childhood friends.
Plus, she died alone after stealing puppies, so nobody is coming after Roger for defamation.
Don't worry. All 101 Dalmatians taught me was that dogs with spots are cute.
In my fairytale class, we talked about how the brother's grimm censored a lot of fairytales when they collected them and wrote them down. In the original version of snow white, the evil queen is snow whites biological mother. The brother's grimm thought that was too cruel so they made her a step mom instead.
Then it was all evil step moms in fairytales all the time.
1:10 People of any age can attend college and I thought Cruella was rich because she was a famous fashion designer
3:35 This is a really good point!
I love this series! I wish they uploaded it more than once a month
I get Soren's point about franchises making kids feel special, but I do feel like he ignores other primary character's abilities:
In Harry Potter, Hermione is a total Type A, without whom Ron and Harry would've been murdered by Devil's Snare, completely unaware of the Basilisk, Buckbeak and Sirius would be dead, and so on. In Hunger Games, Katniss would have never even have become the symbol in the rebellion that she did without Peeta admitting his feelings for her nor Haymitch, Effie and everyone else doing all the leg work
Whatever. She's still the special chosen one. History won't remember her trainer, or the announcer, or the person who pulled her name out of a hat. History is going to remember that a girl named Katniss rebelled from the oppressive government system.
Read Nin Thank you
I would point out the Evil Stepmother trope goes all the way back to Hera in Greek Mythology.
in the book of 101 Dalmatians, cruella married into wealth and the family was a little more rich also had another female dalmatian to foster the puppies,
Yeah? She still wanted fur coats. I don't care, the ends justify the means, the means DON'T justify the ends. She still wanted to make fur coats out of domestic animals. Even if she had ONE female dalmation, that dalmation couldn't feed that many pups.
+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband
+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband
+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband
@@readnin7314 what are you talking about?
After watching this episode a million times, I finally noticed the chef "cooking" back at the stove with nothing in his hand @ 4:49 , lol
OH MY LORD! I FOUND THIS SHOW LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO AND I'VE FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE BEEN SEARCHING!
Harry Potter taught us that, anyone can be the ONE.
Edisson Ortega So did the Lego Movie! :D
Edisson Ortega How? The only other person who could be the one was Neville, and since he wasn't the universe shit on him, almost constantly.
Tyler Reed Did you somehow miss the HBP?
Large portions of that were devoted to Dumbledore talking about how the prophecy was bullshit that only mattered in so far as Voldemort believed it.
Sean K Yet it came true, despite Dumbledore's exposition on the matter it was entirely true. Not to mention the same foreteller is shown to have another accurate foretelling in I believe the Goblet of Fire. None of the book supports the notion that anyone can be the chosen one, instead all of the books constantly reinforced the idea that only Harry could have been.
Tyler Reed The point was the prophecy came true because Voldemort placed stock in it. If he had left the Potters alone then Lily never would have sacrificed herself for Harry and Voldemort never would have died the first time. And he probably would have succeeded until a confrontation with Dumbeldore.
Diviner's can foretell the future but that doesn't mean it's set in stone. Did you not even read/watch Prisoner of Azkaban?
Exceptions to the stepmom/stepdad thing: Mrs Doubtfire, Nanny McPhee... any others?
In The Sandlot, the step-father is conscientious and makes a sincere effort to be a good dad. He was played by Denis Leary.
umm no harry potter teaches kids that you might be the one but it comes at a cost . Harry had his parents taken away from him. He didn't have a good childhood and he was supposedly killed a guy as a baby. I don't care how evil Voldemort is Harry must have felt some guilt for killing someone even if he didn't remember. After being called a freak all those years he finds the place where he belonhs only to be told he killed someone then realize that they weren't actually dead and were out to kill him then he has to actually kill Voldemort while still being in school. Dumbledore isn't much help either he didn't tell Harry the things he need to know. He just left Harry and hoped he didn't die. He watched the people he cared about get murdered and he was constantly under attack by the ministry and the students of Hogwarts. His first best friend left him when he need it. While a lot of people in the wizarding world look at Harry as this hero Harry was scared and alone with a shady best friend and a not so perfect life.
This, and also: Though the movies skip over it, the Harry Potter books at least have a whole part wherein Dumbledore specifically emphasizes to Harry that he should not put too much weight into the whole prophecy/"chosen one" one thing as if it was inherently predetermined fate.
Dumbledore explains that, if the prophecy had been made with nobody around to hear it, none of it would have come to pass. It only came to pass because Voldemort *did* take it as fate and acted upon it, and because his acting upon it changed Harry's life in such a way that he *would* become the one with the particular connection and ability to defeat him. Not by some extraordinary magical ability or divine rite saying "you're the one to defeat him", but because Harry would never WANT to stop fighting against the man who robbed him of the loving family he'd had!
To quote the book, since JK Rowling puts it way more eloquently than I could paraphrase it:
" 'But sir, it all comes down to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or--'
'Got to?' said Dumbledore. 'Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!'
Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front of him, and thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat.
'I'd want to see him finished,' Harry said quietly, 'and I'd want to do it.' "
Point being: it was only because Voldemort had MADE that prophecy have so much meaning to Harry that it came true. And it was only because of the person Harry already *was* - good and pure of heart and willing to give his life if it meant saving others from the pain Voldemort had given him- that made him the one who could defeat him.
So the message to kids really isn't "you're a special snowflake" at all (and, yes, if you ARE, it probably does come at a cost). Instead, it's much more about every person's ability to make their own choices about how to face the obstacles and injustices they see in life. That you can either look at the injustices you see in the world and choose to turn your back on fighting for a change, or you can be like Harry and CHOOSE to take it as your responsibility to stand in resistance even when it's the hard and scary thing to do.
i don't think he feels guilty for the guy who killed his parents dying because of his mothers love protecting him enough for it to back fire and kill voldemort. i think he just didn't want to be seen as famous cause he wasn't in on that.
I love how at 1:23 when Katie hears"100 year old mantis" she can scarcely keep her shit together. Watch it in slowmotion and see how hard she has to fight to not laugh. Oooooh man, that was beautiful.
In Looney Tunes, it's worth remembering that they actually had to create Yosemite Sam as a more aggressive and pushy antagonist because, because they started to feel like it looked as if Bugs was basically just bullying Elmer Fudd.
At least for Chuck Jones cartoons, Bugs never starts the conflict. He is minding his own business until forced to deal with an aggressive antagonist. That was Jones's main rule.
I'm pretty sure that Roger got rich by creating a hit song slandering Cruella after meeting her, like, once.
I don't know why Wile. E Coyote doesn't just buy food instead of all those contraptions.
i think its because he cant really speak (from what i remember) and that he lives in the middle of nowhere
also he's a predator so i just assume people are extremely scared of him
(keep in mind i have not seen looney toons in several years and was very young when did so i could just be talking out my ass)
@@SlashDashCrash you're pretty much right, but I think the real reason is because of their dynamic. Think about it like this the roadrunner is supposed to be the coyote's prey, yet he manages to bot outsmart and humiliate Willie every single time he even attempts to catch him, to me it seems like the Coyote's pride is hurt and his motivation is showing that even if he gets beaten a million or more times he'll eventually catch up and eat the roadrunner.
Actually in Enchanted, Giselle became Morgan's stepmom when she married Robert. She did alright. And Nancy was going to become Morgan's stepmom and ended up marrying Edward..
I absolutely love you guys. And as a step mom this one was a little extra awesome
Love these! Going through the playlist now, and cracking up all the time! Cruella De Vil inherited her money btw - that's why there is a "old De Vil house" where the puppies are taken. So they did go to school together, she's not old, she's crazy skinny to the point of looking unhealthy, coupled with the awful skin smoking gives you... actually a good lesson to not smoke... it's one of her defining 'evil' traits...
Anyway, keep it up!
-Shawn
Can we really feel sorry for characters like Wile or Sylvester since they are trying to kill and eat their respective birdy foes? I know it's in the nature of coyotes and cats to hunt but it's also in the nature of prey to evade getting eaten. You can't be pissy if your dinner evades you. It's survival of the fittest. That's the law of the jungle.
worst message is from the beauty and the beast.. be kind to your abuser in the hopes, that he'll change
I want watch an After Hours movie or at least a short film!
You should do the Flintstones. How As long as Barney and Fred keep working at their menial, unskilled labor jobs their fine, but every time they try to use their minds to get ahead things go horribly wrong. Nice message. Never try. Just keep working for the man.
At the end of the movie, Roger actually made it big with his song about Cruella.
Given Cruella de Vil's personality and willingness to resort to thuggery to get what she wants I don't think it's unreasonable to presume she black widowed her way into money or at least she used underhanded business to make her fortune. That is of course if she didn't simply inherit it at some point after school.
In the book she did inherit her money or at least most of it.
@@puffball4484 also her husband (who’s alive in the books) is a rich furrier
Maybe the looney toons lesson is not that working hard gets you nowhere. But maybe that you can work as hard as you can for all of your life, but if your not working for the right thing, you won't come out victorious. ie, Wiley Coyote working to capture Road Runner. He probably wants to kill him, or keep him captive and torture him. That's an Inhumane thing and thus doesn't deserve to be rewarded.
He wants to eat him. Of course it's inhumane, he's a fucking coyote.
Coyote isn't doing the wrong thing, he's fulfilling a basic need.
Blaine Self ikr
they have a multi - bedroom town house in London and a live in maid; at modern inflation they are millionaires. Plus Cruella clearly inherited her fortune.
Rodger and Anita that is.
+Luke Watson judging by the genre of music that the guy wrote (rag time), the movie is set many years ago. Pretty sure the housing market was a lot cheeper back then
+Luke Watson So why does Cruella say that they can barely afford to feed themselves?
+Sebastian Ferguson But they still have a live-in house maid. That implies they've got to be somewhat wealthy. Maybe Roger was a poor failed songwriter when he was a bachelor, and started to see the success of his work around the time he got married.
If Roger and Anita can barely afford to put food on the table, how can they possibly afford to hire a maid?
carultch I thought the maid was Anita's, do we even know what she does for a living?
The reason it's always an evil stepmother has to do with inheritance laws in the middle ages. See, because women weren't allowed to own property, if a woman remarried, her husband could take all of her stuff and give it to his own children, leaving her children with nothing if he wanted to (this commonly happened). As a result, step-mothers being jealous of their husband's children and abusing (and sometimes outright murdering them) was also common.
But because men COULD own property, they didn't often have the same issues because they their wives couldn't steal it from them and they got to decide how it was divided up after their death.
I miss these four so much!
doesnt the first Nanny Mcphee movie end with a happy ending for a stepmother?
Yes , yes it does .
Not Spartan helmet, Roman helmet, Martian Kingdom is based off of When Rome allied with Egypt and Cleopatra etc.
Blame the Grimms (As in Grimm's Fairy Tales) for the Step-mom trope. In many of the fairy tales they collected it was the mother, like the woman who birthed these children, who are evil. In older versions of Hansel and Gretel it was their mother who convinced their father to lead them to starve in the woods. That was too dark for the early 19th century so they changed it to a step-mother. Jump ahead 100 years and Disney, who loved fairy tales, continues this trope by adapting his favorite fairy tales for animation.
i mean step mom sounds much better than thinking that your real mom who is supposed to love you would do that, so i get why they changed it.
I love ur after hours .. Ur points are always interesting i wish yall did more
I can't even remember how many times I've watched this entire playlist.