I feel the same, I had an girlfriend. Her dad was like Richie's, I didn't know it. Till he went off, over the phone with me on the line. 😮 wasn't sure, what I did besides date her.
My mom told me that if she caught me being disrespectful or racist and not just telling a racist joke actually being racist she would hit me so hard that I would see not as mine but my sister's my mom's and my dad's birth at the exact same time@@Thepunisher90thGaming
It's not even that. In the comic AND in this series, Dakota is explained to ba a black-majority area. ALL the kids in that situation speak like black people. Either to fit in or to lessen the chances of getting jumped for speaking differently.
@@CLDJ227 Watch The Atlanta Episode of A Goofy Movie; it may not have literally been their intention but that's how many people see it. Also Lion King 2 had a blatant anti-racism message and Kovu had much darker fur than any of the other lions, even Scar, or the other Outlanders.
@@CLDJ227 Static Shock the live action animated series came out in 2001, but the series from the comics came out in the 90s by Milestone Comics before DC got a hold of Static. But the 90s wasn’t to far off though 🤣🤣
This show was awesome. It started off as its own thing but was adopted into the DC universe. The episode that stuck with me was the one where a kid at Virgil’s school was bullied to the point where he felt the need to bring a gun. Richie ended up getting shot in the arm. And after the episode Static does a PSA about gun violence in schools Static Shock was a time where cartoons and shows were all about informing people. RIP Dwayne McDuffie 🕊️🕊️
When Corey was claiming in this scenario some dude going down an alley is going to get robbed and I'm thinking to myself "but it's snowing even thieves aren't going to put up waiting in the cold for some sucker to come along." Then 10 seconds later...the prefect criminals appeared.
Besides this episode, I strongly remember a scene from "Static in Africa," where Virgil talks to Richie about how they feel in society. Virgil says something to the effect of this: Virgil: "It's amazing, Richie! Back in America, I was a BLACK kid. But here, I'm just a KID. It feels good! Do you feel like this all the time?" Richie, a white boy sitting at home about to hit an existential crisis: "Uhh, yeah, I guess..."
Love you guys but I get the feeling y'all didn't watch much of this show. Richie talk that way because he grew up in that environment. He goes to school in the hood. Literally the show start with Virgil getting recruited in a gang. And a lot of those gangbangrs went to the same school. So Virgil definitely understands the hardship life as a black kid in this society, in this particular situation I think he just didn't wanna believe his best friend could come from someone so horrible.
The villains Shadow😂 AKA E-bon was Black, Shiv was either Asian or Mexican & the Bird girl is definitely either Puerto Rican or Dominican 😂 the guy Pyro was White sooo every race was Covered 😂
There IS no joke for Ritchie to talk like that. In the comics this cartoon is based on, it's explained that Dakota is a majority minority area, so all the white, latino, asian, and black kids talked like the black kids. That's common in ANY real-life majority-black inner city area as well. Hotstreak was a racist white kid who spoke in ebonics in the comics.
Nothing wrong with young characters using slang it’s a part of our vernacular. Not everyone speaks formally especially people in urban areas. Not everything is stereotyped💯
@christophersmith6727 There wasn't anything stereotypical about Static Shock. Both creators of Static Denys Cowan and Dwyane McDuffie were producers on this show and McDuffie even wrote a few episodes. They would want Static to be authentic
To be this stupid.... The slang still is made from Black Culture which helped shaped the society that we have today. They still overwrote the slang as a try hard because it's a Black superhero show. You didn't see this much push of slang in other shows, even in Teen Titans unless it was a punchline/parody of the slang.
This was a really fantastic series and very memorable, too. It was also underrated, it didn't really get the credit it deserved, but it definitely should have. I remember this episode, vividly. It was a very heartfelt and smart way to tackle the subject to children. One thing, at this time, Richie didn't know that Virgil was Static. That happens later, around the time when he became a superhero. 👍
Static is past due for a comeback on the small or big screen honestly. But also, Richie did know that Virgil was Static; Virgil revealed his powers in the first episode
Static is pretty op but had to grow to utilize his powers in those op ways, the intros alone show he does, at one point he's struggling with Ebon and Hotstreak, but later on he just effortlessly dismisses or no sells their attacks. Pretty cool development honestly
You should have seen him in the 90's comic. Static was creating new attacks by big-braining and changing the flow of ions, combining negative and positive charges and everything. Every other electricity character else just throws electricity around. And Korey reveals himself to be a normie by calling Static "Static Shock". The SHOW is called that. The CHARACTER is JUST "Static". I KNEW that would happen.
This show was so ahead of it's time, dealt with Racism, Gun Violence and Bullying, the works. All without it feeling forced, masterful writing by Dwayne McDuffie, RIP man!
So the context is teaching kids racism is wrong, not that it's in everything like woke MFs claim. The morals were better because it helped to create a balance of equality. Today's woke garbage wants to break that equality
That's how you know they're just repeating what right wing grifters have been peddling. Same thing goes for comics too. Even the oldest comics were full of "woke propaganda" but they'll never acknowledge that.
Hell, go back even farther to a very socially conservative show like _Little House on the Prairie_ in the '70s where they were always talking about God, Christianity, family values, appropriate gender roles. They STILL had the obligatory "racist bigots are bad" episodes. 😅
Fynny thing about the homophobia, Ritchie comes out to Virgil in the comics and if I recall...that goes about as well as youd think with his dad in the 90s.
I'm with D.T on alot of things but this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters and the show. Reggie was always like this, and not to excuse the flaws but it's a 90's show where everyone talks like this- funky fresh, gag me with a spoon etc are just 90's colloquialisms. Dwane Mcduffie (god rest his soul) was a brilliant writer! (and wrote/oversaw most of these episodes.) when it came to social issues. Racism, gun violence, the hero revenge issue, redemption arcs etc! Static going to Africa and telling reggie that he doesn't feel like "A black kid" But "just a kid" in africa and his white friend can't really relate cause he's never experienced being an outsider? Those are so amazing! I think if you watched more episodes you'd get a better grasp and understanding of the characters, trust me you won't regret learning more.
It kinda comes off as revisionist. The dialogue reflects the talk of the time. But also the talk of Static being naive to racism when he's never really experienced it and the father came home mad.
No offense to the friend of his but it be nice to have someone like Martin here as well, because the other guy doesn't seem fully engaged weather out of misguided respect or not really caring- Martin could retort with interesting things about just the lingo back then. He could of easily corrected that Virgil and Refgie talk like that as you said, due to the era.
agreed; their takeaway of Virgil and Ritchie's vernacular being a result of some kind of insensitive stereotyping/lack of proper ethnic representation on the part of the series writer just felt misguided to me in what was otherwise a pretty good discussion
@@markervine1855 Exactly, Korey's always picking the WRONG person for introspective vids like this when only Martin is smart enough to set him straight.
@@markervine1855 Yeah agreed, like I'm not saying that that guy can't be here but Martin always has nice and reasonable insight that korey doesn't catch up on, that would be so much better; than someone who seems interested or afraid to talk about race culture. And no offense to that guy but I wouldn't trust him with it anyway, considering he literally made an out of nowhere joke on how "if Vergil had a gun it be like this." then he has the gall to go "Jesus" When he says funky fresh, dude you made a joke that the good natured kind black kid would have a gun and be a gang banger? when you didn't need too...
Static Shock was one of my favorite cartoons to watch every Saturday morning. The show was very progressive and talked about many social issues like gang violence, homelessness, corrupt politics you name it. It was very real and down to earth for kids of all races and backgrounds to relate to.
Miles Morales gets a lot of (justified) praise for adding representation to the superhero genre, and here we have Static Shock in the 90s-early 2000s talking about issues of racism before Miles was even conceptualized. Please give Static Shock his flowers. So underrated.
Miles gets the added boost of Spider-Man, and even then it's due to how good the Spider-Verse films. Give those flowers to Black Panther, Luke Cage, Falcon, etc for being original characters not connected to an existing legacy and still being popular back in the 70s. They were the trailblazers
Anyone remember the episode of Proud Family when the Teacher had the students switch lives with a random classmate to learn about each other’s culture and Penny had to be muslim for a week. You realize how important that episode was at the time considering it was post 9/11
To me it is more endearing that the writing treated the white characters and the black characters dialogue the same. Like, people exist TODAY that try to sound cool and speak like fools, and the 90's school yards were full of those kids.
And thanks to that, Richie, the most prominent white character, never felt out of place among the nonwhite characters like the Hawkins family. He was into the slang and some of the same music as V. He was practically Virgil's brother, just with skin a little lighter.
And white kids, Asian kids and Hispanic kids did talk like that but the only real problem is that this slang was already outdated in late 90s/early 2000s.
Some of the dialogue might be a tad dated, but the show never felt like it was trying to hard to be hip or cool. Shows like American Dragon Jake Long kind of fell into this trap. I also would say that perhaps this and Luke Cage are good examples of how to properly write black dialect 🤔.
I remember the commercial for this episode made it seem like the dad hated superheroes not black people, I am glad they did that because it made the episode hit harder not knowing what’s coming.
Hey not to be that guy, but his name is just Static not Static Shock, that's the name of the show *Edit* Kory does say Static from time to time, but still say Static Shock on occasion.
ALL normies pretending to be Static fans do that...people who only watched the cartoon somehow never noticed that at NO point in the show do they EVER call Static "Static Shock" The only time those 2 words are spoken together is when "Static Shock" is shouted in the intro.
@@Rhiorrha I'd don't think normies are pretending, some people just not know that part about that part of his name. Hell I was this people who didn't know his name was just Static when I was a kid until later in life as a teen web surfing the dude cause his that iconic of a hero. Maybe we should cut some people some slack. Not every has that info until they find out by other means like they was told, do their research, etc.
I thought that was Dan Lauria (Jack Arnold) the dad from The Wonder Years. Weird hearing him voice a racist dad 😂😂, he was my TV dad growing up watching The Wonder Years.
@32:00 I as a white male have a black best friend, we’ve been friends for most of our lives. His family considers me family and there’s plenty of pictures like that with me and his family, his mother has even told me “if you ever need a meal or a place to sleep call us anytime” I consider them family just as much. And maybe even more family then my own without going into too much detail about that.
As a white kid in the early 2000s, I, obviously, never faced racism and never even knew what it was. This episode, LITERALLY taught me what racism is and what it looks like. And before you ask why my parents never taught me, they’re conservatives
I'm White and as a kid, I learned about racism, but thought it was very much behind us as what we were taught gave me the sense it was more of a past problem and that anybody who was a supremacist-as I later learned in high school, was not commonplace. It's a very sad state of affairs to learn years later about how much it's all still very much as relevant today as it was back then. Shocking that as far as things have come, it's still nowhere near enough to solve the problem.
What makes static so great is the man Dwayne McDuffie not only did he bring static to the forefront as a great role model for kids in general but for pocs its great reputation to have aswell. Dwayne also gave us a look at other issues in real life I hadn't seen covered in most cartoons .
Also, another fact: Richie’s dad is voiced by Dan Lauria who played Jack Arnold, the father of Kevin Arnold, from the Wonder Years from the 80s and early 90s.
Main Villian: Ebon aka Gary Sturgis from the Tyler Perry Movies, Diary of a mad black woman and Daddy's Little Girls, the OG Villian of Cinema and Television. 😁👍
THIS and the Teen Titans episode with the racist alien captain who hates Starfire are the ones I love to bring up whenever there's idiots arguing that current cartoons are "Woke". It's like they pretend that anything before 2016 is somehow not woke despite 90's and onward animation got some social commentary.
static shock was written and created by a black man (dwayne mcduffie) and he had black writers on the show. was this episode written by a white guy? yes. but you will find the same speech in episodes written by blacks and mcduffie had to sign off on these scripts. its set in an urban area, just like the comic. thats how they talk in the comic so thats how they talk in the show. take that up with the people who created ebonics and mcduffie for focusing on that demographic or just dont hate? he has characters like icon and hardware dont are NOT hood so they dont speak like that but that is not virgil's enviornment......the villain's name is ebon, not shadow....his crew is diverse: latin, asian, white and black. shiv (purple hair) is NOT white. he is latino though i always thought he was asian.
Static Shock along with X-Men: Evolution were my favorite shows to watch when I was a kid. Watched it on WB Kids! Or Kids' WB on Saturdays. Gives me so much nostalgia. Just want to say the main villain is named Ebon and the show came out in 2000, but probably they recorded the first episodes in the '90s.
@BaithNa As much as people hate Miles and Love Static for it, It's kind of just a comic stereotype of black characters. Black Lightning, Storm, Static and Miles is how the timeline goes I think.
@Exilefromtomorrow I'd argue his origin and the plot point of Spidermans death was decent if it inspired Spiderverse(and not the trash Spiderverse comics). Things like his Uncle Aaron were definitely improved, but Spiderman dying as inspiration was both there and done similarly. But anybody can hate Bendis' decision making I get that(thinking of John Kent).
It's about time y'all got to this episode 🤣 🤣. The episode that pops up in the ever click bait list of cartoons tackling some big issues. Also, does anyone know what happened to Chris I hope he didn't have a falling out with DT or something 🤔. Edit: In terms of the dialogue while a lot of it is dated, I think it was that way less because it was white writers trying to capture the dialect of black people and more because they were trying to capture the popular slang of the time 🤔. In the case of Richie others have brought up that he probably talks that way simply because he hangs around Virgil all the time who talks that way. Nevertheless, I've thought about DT talking about this episode and I kind of thought he would make jokes about Richie's father calling Virgil a hood, and whether or not that was censored way of using the n-word 😅. Some last notes, I don't know what y'all are seeing with the picture it's a perfectly wholesome image that shows Richie hanging out with Virgil and his father indicating that he's like family to them. Also, while Richie's fathers turn is a bit quick he apologizes to his sun because Virgil's father told him how much of a good kid he has and he knows he is the reason for Richie running away. Although, I do agree that they should have shown him apologize directly to Virgil 🤔.
Glad I'm not the only one that found their complaint about the fishing picture odd and out of place, like for real, what's so weird about it? DT seeing stuff that isn't there again, 😆
14:57 I don't know black writers would be just as corny. Like once per episode on the Proud Family a _teenager_ would scream SOUL TRAIN LINE! In the 2000s.
If you think about it, Ritchie's dad was in a bad mood cuz he got his ass ready to work only for him to show up and tell him to get his ass back home. Then he shows up and his day just gets worse.
Still waiting on static shock getting a bluray complete series box set. Superman, batman, the batman, batman beyond, teen titans got a bluray upgrade. Where's static?
This series was actually aired in early 2000s and the writers were mainly black lol I think Static was just lame trying to be cool the Shadow guys name is actually named "Ebon" which is definitely funny
“Dude, let’s no go this way. This is a really rough neighborhood.” “What are you? Racist?” Mutant armadillo: “AYY BITCH GIMME SOME PEANUT BUTTER” “Oh.”
“You might say static was….. shocked.” *Close TH-cam. Throws my phone. Laughs way harder than I should*
You too, huh?🤣🤣🤣🤣
At what point over the years did Korey become Martin? 😂
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Korey, you're not quite on Martin's level. But you're trying, and that's important 😊
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Richie's dad sees their picture on Pop's desk "WHAT the hell is this?!You trying to absorb my kid into your BLACKNESS?!!"🤣
The show is from the early 00s . Comic from the 90s. The villains name is Ebon
I LOVED the Milestone comics of the 90s,I bought Static,Icon and Hardware and still have a few of those comics till this day.
"I hope you're happy, dad! My best friend's gone because of your stupid racism! I hate you!"-Ritchie
That quote always stuck with me since I was a kid
I feel the same, I had an girlfriend. Her dad was like Richie's, I didn't know it. Till he went off, over the phone with me on the line. 😮 wasn't sure, what I did besides date her.
My mom told me that if she caught me being disrespectful or racist and not just telling a racist joke actually being racist she would hit me so hard that I would see not as mine but my sister's my mom's and my dad's birth at the exact same time@@Thepunisher90thGaming
The way he's recorded from above makes it look like he's in Korey's dungeon.
Richie was Virgil's best friend, he's gonna pick up some lingo
Nope, that’s not allowed apparently
It's not even that. In the comic AND in this series, Dakota is explained to ba a black-majority area. ALL the kids in that situation speak like black people. Either to fit in or to lessen the chances of getting jumped for speaking differently.
“You might say Static is Shocked” Martin would be proud. 😂
It's funny how Jason Marsden went from voicing two Animal Stand Ins for Black People (Max and Kovu) then voiced the White Friend with a Racist Dad
Where those two animal characters meant to be black lol.
@@CLDJ227 Watch The Atlanta Episode of A Goofy Movie; it may not have literally been their intention but that's how many people see it. Also Lion King 2 had a blatant anti-racism message and Kovu had much darker fur than any of the other lions, even Scar, or the other Outlanders.
Marsden's career is friggin' LONG.
@@CLDJ227 Well, Kovu is literally dark-skinned (or dark furred, whatever), so I've always counted him.
@@smurvinlion king 2 was romeo and juliet my guy
"This a 90's cartoon"
2000's kids: "No tf it ain't!" 😂
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It still kind of has 90s animation for a bit 😄 😄.
@@CLDJ227 Static Shock the live action animated series came out in 2001, but the series from the comics came out in the 90s by Milestone Comics before DC got a hold of Static. But the 90s wasn’t to far off though 🤣🤣
2000s kids are 90s babies right?
@@kaylao.3326 Millennials yep. But it all depends on what year you were born.
This show was awesome. It started off as its own thing but was adopted into the DC universe. The episode that stuck with me was the one where a kid at Virgil’s school was bullied to the point where he felt the need to bring a gun. Richie ended up getting shot in the arm. And after the episode Static does a PSA about gun violence in schools
Static Shock was a time where cartoons and shows were all about informing people.
RIP Dwayne McDuffie 🕊️🕊️
What's crazy is, that's actually Static's origin story too.
He was bullied so hard that he got a gun and was forced to go to a gang war.
God bless mr. Dwayne McDuffie for writing these episodes 🙏🏾💪🏽🕊
Rest in peace to this fellow Michigander. He left too soon. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️
When Corey was claiming in this scenario some dude going down an alley is going to get robbed and I'm thinking to myself "but it's snowing even thieves aren't going to put up waiting in the cold for some sucker to come along."
Then 10 seconds later...the prefect criminals appeared.
Besides this episode, I strongly remember a scene from "Static in Africa," where Virgil talks to Richie about how they feel in society. Virgil says something to the effect of this:
Virgil: "It's amazing, Richie! Back in America, I was a BLACK kid. But here, I'm just a KID. It feels good! Do you feel like this all the time?"
Richie, a white boy sitting at home about to hit an existential crisis: "Uhh, yeah, I guess..."
Love you guys but I get the feeling y'all didn't watch much of this show. Richie talk that way because he grew up in that environment. He goes to school in the hood. Literally the show start with Virgil getting recruited in a gang. And a lot of those gangbangrs went to the same school. So Virgil definitely understands the hardship life as a black kid in this society, in this particular situation I think he just didn't wanna believe his best friend could come from someone so horrible.
Well said👏
I think they both did say earlier that they didn't watch the show but knew of it and this episode 🤔.
"His dad is just grumpy, aint no thing.
Old folks don't like rap much, ain't no thing
... Yeah I... I can't spin this."
Well they dont do research and assume to much
The villains Shadow😂 AKA E-bon was Black, Shiv was either Asian or Mexican & the Bird girl is definitely either Puerto Rican or Dominican 😂 the guy Pyro was White sooo every race was Covered 😂
Hotstreak 😅 Pyro is Marvel
That’s Hotstreak. Pyro is Australian from Marvel.🤣
They would all be straight white dudes if this was made today.
@@The95thHotstreak you're absolutely right i said Pyro my Bad 😂 it was a white guy with Flames named Francis
@@marcushamner5994 Pyro, Human Torch Hot Streak, FireStar etc they're all the same 😂
There IS no joke for Ritchie to talk like that. In the comics this cartoon is based on, it's explained that Dakota is a majority minority area, so all the white, latino, asian, and black kids talked like the black kids. That's common in ANY real-life majority-black inner city area as well. Hotstreak was a racist white kid who spoke in ebonics in the comics.
Nothing wrong with young characters using slang it’s a part of our vernacular. Not everyone speaks formally especially people in urban areas. Not everything is stereotyped💯
Nah man this is excessive. There's a clear difference between using vernacular and being a stereotype. This was a stereotype
@christophersmith6727 There wasn't anything stereotypical about Static Shock. Both creators of Static Denys Cowan and Dwyane McDuffie were producers on this show and McDuffie even wrote a few episodes. They would want Static to be authentic
To be this stupid.... The slang still is made from Black Culture which helped shaped the society that we have today. They still overwrote the slang as a try hard because it's a Black superhero show. You didn't see this much push of slang in other shows, even in Teen Titans unless it was a punchline/parody of the slang.
@@ChrisControversialsay that while living in the moment of the time period. It’s cringe for people on 2023, didn’t even phase kids in the 90s
@@PrinceRalexiel Both Beast Boy and Cyborg used slang terms ALL THE TIME
This was a really fantastic series and very memorable, too. It was also underrated, it didn't really get the credit it deserved, but it definitely should have. I remember this episode, vividly. It was a very heartfelt and smart way to tackle the subject to children.
One thing, at this time, Richie didn't know that Virgil was Static. That happens later, around the time when he became a superhero. 👍
Static is past due for a comeback on the small or big screen honestly. But also, Richie did know that Virgil was Static; Virgil revealed his powers in the first episode
Like it was in the pilot ep
Static is pretty op but had to grow to utilize his powers in those op ways, the intros alone show he does, at one point he's struggling with Ebon and Hotstreak, but later on he just effortlessly dismisses or no sells their attacks. Pretty cool development honestly
You should have seen him in the 90's comic. Static was creating new attacks by big-braining and changing the flow of ions, combining negative and positive charges and everything. Every other electricity character else just throws electricity around.
And Korey reveals himself to be a normie by calling Static "Static Shock". The SHOW is called that. The CHARACTER is JUST "Static". I KNEW that would happen.
I assumed that Virgil was trying to hurry his suspicions to stop Richy from feeling too bad.
This show was so ahead of it's time, dealt with Racism, Gun Violence and Bullying, the works. All without it feeling forced, masterful writing by Dwayne McDuffie, RIP man!
I don't know about "ahead of it's time". The things it tackled weren't super uncommon for cartoons at the time 🤔.
For Saturday morning cartoons maybe. I can't think of one black show that didn't cover all of these😂
@@CLDJ227 Not in real life but in a kid's show or cartoon, it was. No other cartoon at the time dealt with these topics.
Nah, this was common in these shows. Even the Super Mario Bros show had an episode about racism 😂
Dwayne gave us the most interesting content of Ben 10 alien force. Also gave us paradox a doctor who inspired character.
Ritchie's dad's comment about Ritchie not telling him "nearly enough" wasn't that Virgil was coming over. Ritchie never told him Virgil was BLACK.
makes you wonder if they went with the he was gay too story
Conservatives: The wokeness in cartoons these days is so annoying! We didn't used to have that crap in cartoons back then.
Cartoons back then:
Exactly!
So the context is teaching kids racism is wrong, not that it's in everything like woke MFs claim.
The morals were better because it helped to create a balance of equality. Today's woke garbage wants to break that equality
That's how you know they're just repeating what right wing grifters have been peddling.
Same thing goes for comics too. Even the oldest comics were full of "woke propaganda" but they'll never acknowledge that.
If they were smart enough to have an understanding of subtext in media, they’d be smart enough to not be conservative
Hell, go back even farther to a very socially conservative show like _Little House on the Prairie_ in the '70s where they were always talking about God, Christianity, family values, appropriate gender roles. They STILL had the obligatory "racist bigots are bad" episodes. 😅
Fynny thing about the homophobia, Ritchie comes out to Virgil in the comics and if I recall...that goes about as well as youd think with his dad in the 90s.
I'm with D.T on alot of things but this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters and the show.
Reggie was always like this, and not to excuse the flaws but it's a 90's show where everyone talks like this-
funky fresh, gag me with a spoon etc are just 90's colloquialisms.
Dwane Mcduffie (god rest his soul) was a brilliant writer! (and wrote/oversaw most of these episodes.) when it came to social issues. Racism, gun violence, the hero revenge issue, redemption arcs etc!
Static going to Africa and telling reggie that he doesn't feel like "A black kid" But "just a kid" in africa and his white friend can't really relate cause he's never experienced
being an outsider? Those are so amazing! I think if you watched more episodes you'd get a better grasp and understanding of the characters, trust me you won't regret learning more.
It kinda comes off as revisionist. The dialogue reflects the talk of the time.
But also the talk of Static being naive to racism when he's never really experienced it and the father came home mad.
No offense to the friend of his but it be nice to have someone like Martin here as well, because the other guy doesn't seem fully engaged weather out of misguided respect or not really caring- Martin could retort with interesting things about just the lingo back then.
He could of easily corrected that Virgil and Refgie talk like that as you said, due to the era.
agreed; their takeaway of Virgil and Ritchie's vernacular being a result of some kind of insensitive stereotyping/lack of proper ethnic representation on the part of the series writer just felt misguided to me in what was otherwise a pretty good discussion
@@markervine1855 Exactly, Korey's always picking the WRONG person for introspective vids like this when only Martin is smart enough to set him straight.
@@markervine1855 Yeah agreed, like I'm not saying that that guy can't be here but Martin always has nice and reasonable insight that korey doesn't catch up on, that would be so much better; than someone who seems interested or afraid to talk about race culture.
And no offense to that guy but I wouldn't trust him with it anyway, considering he literally made an out of nowhere joke on how "if Vergil had a gun it be like this." then he has the gall to go "Jesus" When he says funky fresh, dude you made a joke that the good natured kind black kid would have a gun and be a gang banger? when you didn't need too...
This is childhood memories for me
Didn’t Dwayne McDuffie write the show too?
He wrote a lot of episodes of this show including this one!
Yep, Static's co-creator himself wrote the episode
Static Shock was one of my favorite cartoons to watch every Saturday morning. The show was very progressive and talked about many social issues like gang violence, homelessness, corrupt politics you name it. It was very real and down to earth for kids of all races and backgrounds to relate to.
And wasn't written Lazily compared to shows and movies now a days try to be progressive but don't have the writing talent to execute it well.
Miles Morales gets a lot of (justified) praise for adding representation to the superhero genre, and here we have Static Shock in the 90s-early 2000s talking about issues of racism before Miles was even conceptualized.
Please give Static Shock his flowers. So underrated.
Static walked so Miles could run.
Damn Right, Static and Dwayne McDuffie did it first!
@@theoutlawking9123Dwaynes contribution to the genre is unrivaled
@@Kuroda_draco Without a doubt, Static, Superman TAS, JL & JLU, Ben 10, man's a Legend!
Miles gets the added boost of Spider-Man, and even then it's due to how good the Spider-Verse films.
Give those flowers to Black Panther, Luke Cage, Falcon, etc for being original characters not connected to an existing legacy and still being popular back in the 70s. They were the trailblazers
Static: Don't start none...won't be none.
Anyone remember the episode of Proud Family when the Teacher had the students switch lives with a random classmate to learn about each other’s culture and Penny had to be muslim for a week. You realize how important that episode was at the time considering it was post 9/11
To me it is more endearing that the writing treated the white characters and the black characters dialogue the same. Like, people exist TODAY that try to sound cool and speak like fools, and the 90's school yards were full of those kids.
And thanks to that, Richie, the most prominent white character, never felt out of place among the nonwhite characters like the Hawkins family. He was into the slang and some of the same music as V. He was practically Virgil's brother, just with skin a little lighter.
And white kids, Asian kids and Hispanic kids did talk like that but the only real problem is that this slang was already outdated in late 90s/early 2000s.
Some of the dialogue might be a tad dated, but the show never felt like it was trying to hard to be hip or cool. Shows like American Dragon Jake Long kind of fell into this trap.
I also would say that perhaps this and Luke Cage are good examples of how to properly write black dialect 🤔.
I remember the commercial for this episode made it seem like the dad hated superheroes not black people, I am glad they did that because it made the episode hit harder not knowing what’s coming.
Static shock was my jam back in the day.
Everyone remembers the two lost episodes of static shock.
25:02 he’s racist yes but he’s not abusing his wife
There’s also rumors that Warner Bros is making a Static Shock movie and Michael B. Jordan is producing it.
Main villian name is Ebon.
Before We Had The CW Series Black Lightning, We Had Static Shock 🦹🏿♂️⚡️💯💯
Oh, now you got to do a retro review of the gun episode.
Thank you Dwayne McDuffie
Hey not to be that guy, but his name is just Static not Static Shock, that's the name of the show
*Edit* Kory does say Static from time to time, but still say Static Shock on occasion.
ALL normies pretending to be Static fans do that...people who only watched the cartoon somehow never noticed that at NO point in the show do they EVER call Static "Static Shock" The only time those 2 words are spoken together is when "Static Shock" is shouted in the intro.
@@Rhiorrha I'd don't think normies are pretending, some people just not know that part about that part of his name. Hell I was this people who didn't know his name was just Static when I was a kid until later in life as a teen web surfing the dude cause his that iconic of a hero. Maybe we should cut some people some slack. Not every has that info until they find out by other means like they was told, do their research, etc.
The guy had gloves on at the end, no skin to skin contact.
Yeah it was cold, same with that jacket he was wearing lol.
Baby steps lol
Fun fact Dwayne McDuffie is Keane Michael key step brother
I thought that was Dan Lauria (Jack Arnold) the dad from The Wonder Years. Weird hearing him voice a racist dad 😂😂, he was my TV dad growing up watching The Wonder Years.
@32:00 I as a white male have a black best friend, we’ve been friends for most of our lives. His family considers me family and there’s plenty of pictures like that with me and his family, his mother has even told me “if you ever need a meal or a place to sleep call us anytime”
I consider them family just as much. And maybe even more family then my own without going into too much detail about that.
What you said, there's nothing weird about it at all, if anything this says more about Korey and that other guy.
As a white kid in the early 2000s, I, obviously, never faced racism and never even knew what it was. This episode, LITERALLY taught me what racism is and what it looks like. And before you ask why my parents never taught me, they’re conservatives
Shame smart people can create such cottonelle soft betas.
@handsomewadebrodyjr every time a white person feels guilty, Eric Garner and George Floyd gain another halo.
What does one's political affiliation have to do with that? That's just bad parenting on their end
I'm White and as a kid, I learned about racism, but thought it was very much behind us as what we were taught gave me the sense it was more of a past problem and that anybody who was a supremacist-as I later learned in high school, was not commonplace. It's a very sad state of affairs to learn years later about how much it's all still very much as relevant today as it was back then. Shocking that as far as things have come, it's still nowhere near enough to solve the problem.
@@futuremovieactor if you look hard enough, you’ll find racism everywhere.
But that's how they talk. We all know this to be true. Everyone nows a person like that
They're judging common slang from the 90s smh
That was late 80s and early 90s slang.
No kids were talking like that in the late 90s and early 2000s.
I remember this episode as a kid
Static shock live action. We need it
I REALLY hope it happens.
Has anyone here been to any of their shows? I'm sure they're great just wondering how they go
The food court was the spot 😂
What makes static so great is the man Dwayne McDuffie not only did he bring static to the forefront as a great role model for kids in general but for pocs its great reputation to have aswell. Dwayne also gave us a look at other issues in real life I hadn't seen covered in most cartoons .
Yeah because we've had 4 black superhero cartoons in the past 25 years
Static Shock was one of my favorite superheroes as a kid! Along with Danny Phantom. 😅
Would have loved to see them have a crossover.
Come on man where is Ben 10?
My friends (and me) used to pretend to fly on discarded manhole covers like Static did on his disk.
12:31 Ebon is the name of the shadow meta human. His actor was in Tyler Perry’s movie Diary of a Bad Black Woman as the guy who shot Charles
Also, another fact: Richie’s dad is voiced by Dan Lauria who played Jack Arnold, the father of Kevin Arnold, from the Wonder Years from the 80s and early 90s.
Main Villian: Ebon aka Gary Sturgis from the Tyler Perry Movies, Diary of a mad black woman and Daddy's Little Girls, the OG Villian of Cinema and Television. 😁👍
THIS and the Teen Titans episode with the racist alien captain who hates Starfire are the ones I love to bring up whenever there's idiots arguing that current cartoons are "Woke".
It's like they pretend that anything before 2016 is somehow not woke despite 90's and onward animation got some social commentary.
Very well said!
They are just dummies following a narrative 🙄
Judging 90s slang in 2023 shocking it feels weird. People talked like that
This show actually had late 80s/early 90s slang so us late 90s kids felt the same way that you do.
@BaithNa I'm an early 90s kid and I never felt that way watching
"You might say that Static is....SHOCKED."
I think I love you, Korey.
Static Shock was awesome 😎
Martin would be proud of that pun
The Acevane parody of this episode is hilarious
this is a 2000's show, I know because I saw promos for it on the WB/Kids WB when it was still a thing before the WB and UPN merged to make the CW
Underated series
Korey: You might say Static is...shocked.
Vegeta: ...you ruined it. You ruined it, and I'm leaving.
Hey KOREY i recently discovered your Classic SPILL Reviews & I know I'm like a Decade Late but hey it's COOL,,,,better Late than never 😁😁
I always loved those special episodes as a kid. Shows like this don't exist anymore. This episode of Static and the one about guns I still remember.
this is one of my favorite episodes
One thing I like about this episode, is that Mr Hawkins challenges Sean's worldview with facts and logic, without being inflammatory.
static shock was written and created by a black man (dwayne mcduffie) and he had black writers on the show. was this episode written by a white guy? yes. but you will find the same speech in episodes written by blacks and mcduffie had to sign off on these scripts. its set in an urban area, just like the comic. thats how they talk in the comic so thats how they talk in the show. take that up with the people who created ebonics and mcduffie for focusing on that demographic or just dont hate? he has characters like icon and hardware dont are NOT hood so they dont speak like that but that is not virgil's enviornment......the villain's name is ebon, not shadow....his crew is diverse: latin, asian, white and black. shiv (purple hair) is NOT white. he is latino though i always thought he was asian.
Did Richie's dad put on gloves to shake Virgil's hand?
He had gloves on cause it was cold, same with his jacket lol.
Fun fact:Richie was gay in the original comics, but the studio wouldn't let him be gay in the cartoon
Didn't stop them from dropping massive hints
@@declanmckenna6854 true.true.
Were i never got that @@mttylerdurden9
Static Shock was written by Dwayne McDuffie a black man
Static Shock along with X-Men: Evolution were my favorite shows to watch when I was a kid. Watched it on WB Kids! Or Kids' WB on Saturdays. Gives me so much nostalgia. Just want to say the main villain is named Ebon and the show came out in 2000, but probably they recorded the first episodes in the '90s.
Eyooo X-men evolution! My man!
Static actually came out in 2000 and ran until 2004 I believe
20:11 Virgil probably suspected something was wrong but was trying to keep positive and hope he was wrong
Why TF did Corey’s dad think Martin was a pedo…? 🤨
Because his dad was a Ahole
Great video currently rewatching this and glad to see you did a review on a episode 🤝
If they do a marvel and DC crossover i want to see Miles Morales and static shock together
I'm pretty sure Brian Michael Bendis was inspired by Static when he created Miles and that's why he gave him electric powers.
@BaithNa As much as people hate Miles and Love Static for it, It's kind of just a comic stereotype of black characters. Black Lightning, Storm, Static and Miles is how the timeline goes I think.
@Exilefromtomorrow I'd argue his origin and the plot point of Spidermans death was decent if it inspired Spiderverse(and not the trash Spiderverse comics). Things like his Uncle Aaron were definitely improved, but Spiderman dying as inspiration was both there and done similarly. But anybody can hate Bendis' decision making I get that(thinking of John Kent).
@@Exilefromtomorrow Dude, everybody in that Universe died. It wasn't like he replaced the 616 Peter anyway.
I can't believe Max's dad was so racist. You just never know
Well in the words of Chris Rock, if there's somebody you hate that's exactly who your daughter's going to be f******
@@shindean So Max was gonna **** his black friend lol
@@DDarkestKnight Max would give his blood to his best friend, tell me a cracker father wouldn't be mad about that
@@DDarkestKnightI mean, Richie was gay in the comic... But this was 2000 or so? If it was today.. yeah there would be less issue being direct
It's about time y'all got to this episode 🤣 🤣. The episode that pops up in the ever click bait list of cartoons tackling some big issues.
Also, does anyone know what happened to Chris I hope he didn't have a falling out with DT or something 🤔.
Edit: In terms of the dialogue while a lot of it is dated, I think it was that way less because it was white writers trying to capture the dialect of black people and more because they were trying to capture the popular slang of the time 🤔. In the case of Richie others have brought up that he probably talks that way simply because he hangs around Virgil all the time who talks that way.
Nevertheless, I've thought about DT talking about this episode and I kind of thought he would make jokes about Richie's father calling Virgil a hood, and whether or not that was censored way of using the n-word 😅.
Some last notes, I don't know what y'all are seeing with the picture it's a perfectly wholesome image that shows Richie hanging out with Virgil and his father indicating that he's like family to them. Also, while Richie's fathers turn is a bit quick he apologizes to his sun because Virgil's father told him how much of a good kid he has and he knows he is the reason for Richie running away. Although, I do agree that they should have shown him apologize directly to Virgil 🤔.
Yeah Chris is no longer with DT,I don't think it was a falling out tho. He just got super busy with his own content
@@brookswilliams5239 Ok cool, I figured that was the case 😎.
Glad I'm not the only one that found their complaint about the fishing picture odd and out of place, like for real, what's so weird about it? DT seeing stuff that isn't there again, 😆
DC animation definitely misses Dwayne McDuffie
24:26 i swear there was gonna be a Betterhelp ad right there
Ok the surprised DT lore of Korey's father hating Martin
14:57 I don't know black writers would be just as corny. Like once per episode on the Proud Family a _teenager_ would scream SOUL TRAIN LINE! In the 2000s.
If you think about it, Ritchie's dad was in a bad mood cuz he got his ass ready to work only for him to show up and tell him to get his ass back home. Then he shows up and his day just gets worse.
You notice Richie's dad shook Virgil hand with a glove on. Progress I guess.😂
Ah, my childhood. If anyone hasn't read the original or the new comic run, do yourself a favor and read it. They are incredible
Still waiting on static shock getting a bluray complete series box set. Superman, batman, the batman, batman beyond, teen titans got a bluray upgrade. Where's static?
Be cool to see Static Shock introduced in Gunn's DCU!
Naw….
Its coming
He's definitely a fan of Milestone and Dwayne Mcduffie
This episode still holds a lot of charge⚡️
I love Static Shock and I certainly love this episode of Static Shock
41:55 Nah, he’s wearing gloves so it doesn’t count 🤣
The main villain's name was "Ebon"
Where's Chris Herman. He's been MIA for a while now 🤔
Chris is no longer with DT, he was super busy with his own channels and content so he figured it was better to part ways.
@@brookswilliams5239Damn, I was hoping he finish Revenge of the Sith with Martin and Billy, oh well, I wish him good luck in his endeavors.
This series was actually aired in early 2000s and the writers were mainly black lol I think Static was just lame trying to be cool the Shadow guys name is actually named "Ebon" which is definitely funny
“Dude, let’s no go this way. This is a really rough neighborhood.”
“What are you? Racist?”
Mutant armadillo: “AYY BITCH GIMME SOME PEANUT BUTTER”
“Oh.”
23:55. Martin would be so proud. Lol.