I find it interesting that nowadays, if you made a cartoon that mirrored modern events this much, you are gonna get in trouble with both the public, and your producers, but back during the cold war, people were getting payed to make this type of stuff. This story really fascinates me. It shows that no matter what politics are involved, human life is far more sacred than any war.
@@e.g.8018 yeah no bruh, that's nothing new. People did that back then too, and pretending we were somehow more enlightened in the 50s through the 70s is clinging to a mythic past that didn't exist. The red scare wouldn't have existed without conservatives strawmanning anyone who threatened their power.
I always took the ending of this book as "We're all the same, we can come up with the same ideas, the same messes, and the same mistakes. It shouldn't matter how or what we do to tick people off, just accept each other, we are all capable of doing the same things"
I was going to write this if I hasn't seen this comment. I recommend this show, even to adults. Even the first season is good (and the second season makes a bit more sense as they are connected) but the second season can be watched on its own.
@@LFTRnowit's so good. both seasons do a great job making the material a little more serious but not going overboard like the cat in the hat movie. I feel like Dr. Seuss would have loved it honestly.
The Butter Battle Book is my favorite of Seuss' work. I find it still prevalent, especially since were still all fighting over the most ridiculous of things. Also, it has one of my favorite opening lines of any story. "On the last day of Summer, ten hours before Fall, my Grandfather took me out to the wall.
When I first watched this, I hated the cliffhanger for being a cliffhanger, but now as an adult: I LOVE these types of cliffhangers & wish we did more of these!
A few Seuss books are directly political. "Yertle the Turtle" is a direct Hitler parody. "Horton Hatches an Egg" springs from political cartoons Seuss drew for PM, a weekly socialist magazine. Later, "Horton Hears a Who" has the hapless elephant become a target of McCarthyism.
I love how the core of the book and special is that no matter how the US and the Soviet Union got into their 44 year schism, whatever your political leanings on the topic, if the end result of either ideology or political agenda is nuclear weapons and the looming specter of MAD, it may just as well be "where do you butter your toast"? No matter what, if the end of the argument is the destruction of both sides, or more likely *ALL LIFE ON LITERALLY THE ONLY PLANET WE KNOW FOR A FACT HAS LIFE!!!!* it doesn't matter who's right or wrong at that point.
The heck? I was literally talking about this book/short with a friend who'd never heard of it. Impeccable timing. It's also kinda neat, and appropriate, that the guy that voiced the grandfather was a war veteran himself. Definitely one of my favourite Suess shorts along with The Lorax and Grinch.
I remember seeing this as a kid on a dvd, it gave me a feeling I can’t really explain. Like it was just different than the rest of the small films on the dvd. Never knew it had to do something with the Cold War until now.
4:02 I never that there were Zook spies in the Yookeroos, to be honest. It felt more likely to me that the Yookeroo high command were actually feeding both sides of the war through the use of shell companies to create a forever war, and that Grandpa Yuke wasn't the only Yuke operator to fight in the war, he was simply the one who survived the longest. The reason I feel that way? The Yookeroo high command when he deploys Grandpa Yuke with the Big Boy Bomb notably stays in his home, and simply closes the window after egging Grandpa Yuke into basically committing a kamikaze attack on the Zooks. It was as if he _knew_ the Zooks already had a Big Boy of their own, and basically told Grandpa Yuke to be the scapegoat for _his_ crimes, while High Command stays in what is quite likely a luxury safehouse of a bunker with a lot of supplies and living space, and everyone else is forced to be housed in communial Shelters like sardines in a can and with limited supplies. In fact, people have noticed elites suspiciously buying out land in areas that are supposedly "Going to be underwater in about a decade" according to those same elites, and building highly expensive luxury villas in those areas, that also seem to serve as strongholds of some sort, all while pushing locals and natives off their lands.
I remember being really freaked out by the part in the original book where the Yooks were marching into the underground bunker. Little me thought they were walking into some kind of grave. Guess the truth was worse.
Notice The Grinch invaded Whoville to steal annoying Christmas, but I am sure Yook or Zook Patriots Day would be way worse. But they will nuke the Grinch's @$$ if he tries to steal that
@ParkNarcz If you really want to get hardcore, a peaceful whoville can be like a small peaceful European country cause they are either in the Yook orbit or Zook orbit. Maybe the Who's REALLY celebrated the Grinch stealing Christmas so they didn't have to worry about buttering rolls during the Roast Beast Feast!
@@ParkNarcz The fact that Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham had a whole second season dedicated to this book, and resolved the issue by having the Zooks and Yooks put their differences aside to make a Butter Sandwich, just goes to show that good morals can affect great storytelling.
my elementary school had us watch this I remember being confused about racism or whatever the theme is but I wanted to see how the war ended and only cared about that
From a British Ani Nuke song called "20 Tons of TNT" (by, of all people the comedy duo of Flanders and Swann). "Ends the tale that has no sequel (refrain) Now in death are all men equal." (refrain).
me and a friend connected the grinch and horton one day and came to the conclusion that there is a whole whoniverse and every book takes place within the expanded whoniverse.
Yep.I remember back in "91 when Russia quit being Communist how we were gonna beat our swords into plowshares and hold hands and formed a circle and sing"Bang Bang Lulu" and petition the Catholic Church to declare Ronald Reagan a Saint!!😮😅😊😢
Now let's look at it with nearly 35 years of hindsight,shall we??😮😅😊😢 Russia is flexing their muscles militarily again. Although China may have adopted a capitalist style economy,theyr'e still a Communist dictatorship and they're still flexing their military muscle in the China Sea.😮😅😊😢 North Korea is still run by the bat crap crazy Kim Jong Un.😮😅😊😢 Trump is Putin's stooge.😮😅😊😢 Cuba is still communisCommunist. Right wing politicians are on the rise in parts of Europe.😮😅😊😢 So yeah,the Cold War never really ended!!😮😅😊😢
I find it interesting that nowadays, if you made a cartoon that mirrored modern events this much, you are gonna get in trouble with both the public, and your producers, but back during the cold war, people were getting payed to make this type of stuff.
This story really fascinates me. It shows that no matter what politics are involved, human life is far more sacred than any war.
We need stuff that mirrors modern events.
I don't think it was that simple, this cartoon was likely controversial even then, especially during the red scare.
My take is that back then people would genuinely represent the other side, as opposed to nowadays where we strawman the other side.
@@e.g.8018 yeah no bruh, that's nothing new. People did that back then too, and pretending we were somehow more enlightened in the 50s through the 70s is clinging to a mythic past that didn't exist. The red scare wouldn't have existed without conservatives strawmanning anyone who threatened their power.
@@HeavyMetalHindu yep
Dr Seuss got a lot of heat back then when he made the book and had it published
I always took the ending of this book as "We're all the same, we can come up with the same ideas, the same messes, and the same mistakes. It shouldn't matter how or what we do to tick people off, just accept each other, we are all capable of doing the same things"
The second season of "Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving" is loosely based on "The Butter Battle Book"!
Loosly? We got both Yookia and Zookia in there!
I was going to write this if I hasn't seen this comment. I recommend this show, even to adults. Even the first season is good (and the second season makes a bit more sense as they are connected) but the second season can be watched on its own.
@@LFTRnowit's so good. both seasons do a great job making the material a little more serious but not going overboard like the cat in the hat movie. I feel like Dr. Seuss would have loved it honestly.
The Butter Battle Book is my favorite of Seuss' work. I find it still prevalent, especially since were still all fighting over the most ridiculous of things. Also, it has one of my favorite opening lines of any story. "On the last day of Summer, ten hours before Fall, my Grandfather took me out to the wall.
Watched this when I was in school on the big roller tv and vcr set up
When I first watched this, I hated the cliffhanger for being a cliffhanger, but now as an adult: I LOVE these types of cliffhangers & wish we did more of these!
Ah yes, the book that taught me to fear the bomb at age 3
A few Seuss books are directly political. "Yertle the Turtle" is a direct Hitler parody. "Horton Hatches an Egg" springs from political cartoons Seuss drew for PM, a weekly socialist magazine. Later, "Horton Hears a Who" has the hapless elephant become a target of McCarthyism.
I love how the core of the book and special is that no matter how the US and the Soviet Union got into their 44 year schism, whatever your political leanings on the topic, if the end result of either ideology or political agenda is nuclear weapons and the looming specter of MAD, it may just as well be "where do you butter your toast"? No matter what, if the end of the argument is the destruction of both sides, or more likely *ALL LIFE ON LITERALLY THE ONLY PLANET WE KNOW FOR A FACT HAS LIFE!!!!* it doesn't matter who's right or wrong at that point.
The heck? I was literally talking about this book/short with a friend who'd never heard of it. Impeccable timing. It's also kinda neat, and appropriate, that the guy that voiced the grandfather was a war veteran himself.
Definitely one of my favourite Suess shorts along with The Lorax and Grinch.
That's a fun piece of trivia! Thanks for commenting!
4:28 - 4:31
Yookenheimer
Lol
The Boys in the backroom, remind me of the Royal Magicians in Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
What a spine-chilling story. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Thank you for watching!
I remember seeing this as a kid on a dvd, it gave me a feeling I can’t really explain. Like it was just different than the rest of the small films on the dvd. Never knew it had to do something with the Cold War until now.
4:02 I never that there were Zook spies in the Yookeroos, to be honest. It felt more likely to me that the Yookeroo high command were actually feeding both sides of the war through the use of shell companies to create a forever war, and that Grandpa Yuke wasn't the only Yuke operator to fight in the war, he was simply the one who survived the longest.
The reason I feel that way? The Yookeroo high command when he deploys Grandpa Yuke with the Big Boy Bomb notably stays in his home, and simply closes the window after egging Grandpa Yuke into basically committing a kamikaze attack on the Zooks.
It was as if he _knew_ the Zooks already had a Big Boy of their own, and basically told Grandpa Yuke to be the scapegoat for _his_ crimes, while High Command stays in what is quite likely a luxury safehouse of a bunker with a lot of supplies and living space, and everyone else is forced to be housed in communial Shelters like sardines in a can and with limited supplies.
In fact, people have noticed elites suspiciously buying out land in areas that are supposedly "Going to be underwater in about a decade" according to those same elites, and building highly expensive luxury villas in those areas, that also seem to serve as strongholds of some sort, all while pushing locals and natives off their lands.
You can feel the fear and uncertainty in the voice of Grandpa Yook when he says "We will see".
The fact that Ralph Bakshi, a director better known for his X-rated animated films, was picked to collab with Dr. Seuss
I remember being really freaked out by the part in the original book where the Yooks were marching into the underground bunker. Little me thought they were walking into some kind of grave.
Guess the truth was worse.
I always wondered how these two civilizations would react to a culture that doesn't like butter.
Butter Battle Book is my favorite Dr. Seuss special.
Butter side down is clearly flawed, so I don't think it's drawing a parallel so much as showing that the consequences are worse than the cause.
I know the true ending!
The butter side down nation collapsed and then the butter side up nation completely fumbled its advantage in 1 generation.
i think that the "planes" looking the same is a reference to how the russins copied the b-29 , making the tu-4
Interesting idea! That makes sense to me!
Notice The Grinch invaded Whoville to steal annoying Christmas, but I am sure Yook or Zook Patriots Day would be way worse. But they will nuke the Grinch's @$$ if he tries to steal that
A crossover between the two would be amazing 🤣
@ParkNarcz If you really want to get hardcore, a peaceful whoville can be like a small peaceful European country cause they are either in the Yook orbit or Zook orbit. Maybe the Who's REALLY celebrated the Grinch stealing Christmas so they didn't have to worry about buttering rolls during the Roast Beast Feast!
@@ParkNarcz The fact that Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham had a whole second season dedicated to this book, and resolved the issue by having the Zooks and Yooks put their differences aside to make a Butter Sandwich, just goes to show that good morals can affect great storytelling.
@@robbiewalker2831A BUTTER SANDWICH!?! It’s so obvious! I never would have thought of that.
my elementary school had us watch this I remember being confused about racism or whatever the theme is but I wanted to see how the war ended and only cared about that
We're living in the shadow of the cold war.
Bakshi is my favorite director anyway, and Seuss made sure that I was literate. I love it when geniuses collaborate
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels with the Lilliputian quarreling over eating eggs from the large end or the smaller end.
Hey, we dont currently know everything our fighter jets are capablw of doing. Pilots are always doing things the engineers thought was impossible.
What if there was no more butter or bread? What's left to fight over?
From a British Ani Nuke song called "20 Tons of TNT" (by, of all people the comedy duo of Flanders and Swann).
"Ends the tale that has no sequel (refrain)
Now in death are all men equal." (refrain).
me and a friend connected the grinch and horton one day and came to the conclusion that there is a whole whoniverse and every book takes place within the expanded whoniverse.
theory: the boomaroos touched
Don't talk about this book too loudly, or else Illumination will notice and proceed to try and ruin it.
Great video!
Thank you!
I genuinely want to know who tries to put butter on bread upside down.
Fucking Zook...
It has not ended, Putin is old school KGB.🤔
U cant uninvent inventions after they have been invented. Its not just russia and america.
Except those side-downers oppress their own people and imprison those that dissent.
Savages both of them. I prefer to eat my bread butter side round!
Spread along the sides of the bread.
you got yourself a new subscriber sir
Thank you!
*but grandpa.i want to eat with my butter side down*
To be honest, I don't think the cold war ever ended.
It's the cool wars now
Yep.I remember back in "91 when Russia quit being Communist how we were gonna beat our swords into plowshares and hold hands and formed a circle and sing"Bang Bang Lulu" and petition the Catholic Church to declare Ronald Reagan a Saint!!😮😅😊😢
Now let's look at it with nearly 35 years of hindsight,shall we??😮😅😊😢
Russia is flexing their muscles militarily again.
Although China may have adopted a capitalist style economy,theyr'e still a Communist dictatorship and they're still flexing their military muscle in the China Sea.😮😅😊😢
North Korea is still run by the bat crap crazy Kim Jong Un.😮😅😊😢
Trump is Putin's stooge.😮😅😊😢
Cuba is still communisCommunist.
Right wing politicians are on the rise in parts of Europe.😮😅😊😢
So yeah,the Cold War never really ended!!😮😅😊😢
Thanks for the edutainment
Thanks for watching!
They have a ‘concept of a plane’!
Haven’t you seen Oppenheimer? They didn’t know what the bomb was going to do either.
In the moment I'm referring to, they're talking about a "plane", but your point is taken.
Seuss didn’t always colour his backgrounds either, so that checks out!
Films you missed: War Games
You could take a look at Krakatit by Karel Čapek as it predicted atomic bombs
Thanks for the recommendation!
4:24 Oppenheimer and Truman?
I couldn't resist.