The Ugly Side of Kids TV

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  • The controversies, lawsuits, behind the scenes issues, and more from your favorite kids' television shows.
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    (8/7 Update) Several days after this video was released, Jennette McCurdy released a memoir about her time at Nick, and it's quite damning of Dan Schneider. This video's segment on him was made before this information went public, and so the entire section is now completely outdated. I’d highly encourage you to check out McCurdy's book, which is available here: www.amazon.com/dp/1982185821/...
    CHAPTERS:
    00:00 Intro
    02:33 Joy Junction
    05:20 Smoke Ads
    7:56 Flipper
    11:57 Muppets and Sesame Street
    17:39 Tiny Toons
    20:12 Pokemon
    26:37 PBS Rainbow Problems
    34:23 Dan S
    38:31 Brian P
    40:03 4Kids Entertainment
    43:52 Anime
    48:00 Ren and Stimpy
    53:04 Real Life
    58:15 Toys
    59:47 Child Stars
    01:06:05 The Neighbor
    01:15:07 Credits
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  • @PaperWill
    @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +3049

    **Notes and Corrections (…of which there are many)**
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    2. As always, I got some stuff wrong. Here's a list of my dumb, dumb mistakes.
    A) When the Flintstones originally aired, it turns out that it was geared more towards families than just kids. That rebranding happened a couple years later, so grouping the show into "Kids TV" was a mistake.
    B) OMG is apparently a super common vape flavor of orange, mango, and guava….all of which are clearly visible on that product box. Whoops. (Although I stand by my statement that Puffbar targeted young users, as there were ads from the company talking about how you could take a break from “parental texts”.)
    C ) Keiko the orca’s reintroduction to the wild was much more complex than I went into here. Despite some problems, their quality of life was still given a massive step up and shouldn't be viewed as a bad thing. It had ups and downs, and while not necessarily a massive success, it was still better than the alternative.
    D) In the video, I argued that most internet theories about Dan Schneider were speculative. At the time, there had yet to appear a direct allegation by a former child star or performer that had worked with him to substantiate these rumors. But a couple of days after this video’s release, Jeanette McCurdy (a Schneider show veteran) released her new book “I’m Glad My Mom Died”. This memoir is easily the most damning evidence against Schneider we've ever seen, and I’d encourage everyone to believe McCurdy’s account as well as to ignore my outdated video info. You can find her book here: www.amazon.com/Im-Glad-My-Mom-Died/dp/1982185821
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    • @platinumdiamond1445
      @platinumdiamond1445 ปีที่แล้ว +35

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      @kristinfrostlazerbeams ปีที่แล้ว +29

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    • @CoduhyMinecraft
      @CoduhyMinecraft ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Omg is the worst puff flavor just had to let it be known

    • @The_Blue_Otaku
      @The_Blue_Otaku ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Fun Fact: in 1971 the first anime to target teenagers/young adult as it's main audience was Lupin The Third based on the manga writen by Kazuhiko Katō (or known by the pen name Monkey Punch) that started pubishing in 1967 fallowing the cime based escapades/heists of master thief Lupin The Ⅲrd grandson of the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin

    • @The_Jimmy_Turner
      @The_Jimmy_Turner ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You might want to add that you accidentally said it's somewhat Nintendo's fault for everyone getting seizures from the pokemon episode despite the fact it would be Game Freak's fault since Nintendo doesn't make the Pokemon anime

  • @Judgement_Kazzy
    @Judgement_Kazzy ปีที่แล้ว +4730

    Fred Rogers was so powerful he made a politician feel empathy. What an absolute specimen.

    • @acetrigger1337
      @acetrigger1337 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

      he was the best of us...

    • @Ethantheflagwarzguy
      @Ethantheflagwarzguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      better than daniel...

    • @UntalentedBrick
      @UntalentedBrick 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      truly a pure soul...

    • @someguy3418
      @someguy3418 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

      HE MADE A POLITICIAN FEEL EMOTION!?!? How powerful is he?

    • @number1_Gakupo_fan_fightme
      @number1_Gakupo_fan_fightme 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      ​@@someguy3418very powerful.

  • @emperorofyoutube7899
    @emperorofyoutube7899 ปีที่แล้ว +5906

    When you brought up the Muppets right after the animal mistreatment, for some reason my first thought was "Oh God no, they abused Muppets???"

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +1461

      Alright I'm not gonna lie, the mental image of that got a chuckle from me.

    • @Yatukih_001
      @Yatukih_001 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      The Muppets show and Sesame´s Street are produced for adult people. You can classify them as adult entertainment passed on as family entertainment.

    • @basedimperialism
      @basedimperialism ปีที่แล้ว +3

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      "Damnit, Kermit! You worthless toad! You fucked up the line AGAIN!"
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      "I don't care if your fucking *parents* died; I OWN you! Now get it right, or I'm not going to hold back next time."

    • @confused-as-ell
      @confused-as-ell ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@Yatukih_001 sesame street???

    • @Jakepearl13
      @Jakepearl13 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      Nobody likes talking about how fozzie always had the goofy smacked out of him offstage

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1099

    If you think kids television is bad, imagine how bad online children's content is. We literally have a generation being raised off TH-cam Kids and other streaming services as we speak.

    • @yesseru
      @yesseru 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Elsagate for example, softcore fetish porn aimed at children.

    • @user-xr2lv4ll6j
      @user-xr2lv4ll6j 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Missing comment.

    • @gigaprofisi
      @gigaprofisi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-xr2lv4ll6jtwo of them now

    • @_.rainydays._
      @_.rainydays._ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-xr2lv4ll6j??

    • @SineN0mine3
      @SineN0mine3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@user-xr2lv4ll6j I can't imagine what people were saying that TH-cam wouldn't want us to know about in response to that particular comment....

  • @asteroidrules
    @asteroidrules 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1490

    Fun fact: the reason why the Muppet Show pilot was called "sex and violence" is in part because of what Sesame Street did to Jim Henson's reputation. Puppetry was generally regarded as something for kids, and although Jim loved entertaining kids he wanted his work to be something more (which is why much of his earlier work was on nighttime talk shows and coffee advertisements), he was afraid that anyone would see a pitch for a puppet show by the guy who made Sesame Street and assume it was a children's show. So the pilot was named "Sex and Violence" specifically in the hope that such an outrageous and adult name would cause people to take a second look rather than brush it off.

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Which is interesting, because the Muppet Show was my favorite programme as a little kid.

    • @margraveofgadsden8997
      @margraveofgadsden8997 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Unrelated, but it warms my heart to see someone with a pony avatar. Used to be so common ten years ago. It was an objectively terrible time in my life, but mlp helped me through it.

    • @hellatubbies882yt
      @hellatubbies882yt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      fag@@margraveofgadsden8997

    • @FSAPOJake
      @FSAPOJake 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Jim Henson's coffee advertisements are the greatest coffee advertisements of all time. Nothing else comes close.

    • @robelkton7800
      @robelkton7800 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And today it seems that it's all you see on movies and TV

  • @thekingofcheese9005
    @thekingofcheese9005 ปีที่แล้ว +15531

    The thought of a room of adults having a serious meeting to talk about Tinky-Winky being gay propaganda has always been hilarious to me.

    • @xoselhket
      @xoselhket ปีที่แล้ว +506

      Me too. I remember laughing so hard and still do. They were things, creatures that spoke jibberish (which should have been a more important reason to be taken off the air) and they were not people. I also laugh how it couldn't be aired in Russia because of the jibberish lol but good move on them.

    • @azadalamiq
      @azadalamiq ปีที่แล้ว +172

      well at the time it was seen as that.. due to the character had a deep voice, carried a purse, was purple.. the gay color at the time, and upside down triangle which was an old gay symbol. it was the times back then still wrong though, and stupid.

    • @dynogamergurl
      @dynogamergurl ปีที่แล้ว +129

      ikr? tbh until a few years ago I didn't even know that they even had names, let alone genders/sexes.

    • @pearlchinasa1770
      @pearlchinasa1770 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      @@azadalamiq so every triangle that can even be turned pink is a gay symbol? How do you teach kids shapes then

    • @murrmakesstuff9269
      @murrmakesstuff9269 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@pearlchinasa1770 1 don't make it pink 2 who cares?

  • @mharlon09.
    @mharlon09. ปีที่แล้ว +2525

    I remember my parents prohibited me to watch The Fairly Oddparents because people in church said they made kids be "disrespectful" and it "mocked" parents, when in retrospective, Timmy had Cosmo and Wanda because his parents didn't even want him and neglected him 💀

    • @ltchugacast131
      @ltchugacast131 ปีที่แล้ว +404

      “Oh that’s my chest of hopes and dreams! That’s ok. Those dreams died years ago…
      How long ago?
      How old are you?”
      That line made everything click for me.

    • @nellkellino-miller7673
      @nellkellino-miller7673 ปีที่แล้ว +260

      Yep, I think it's actually really important for some kid's shows to teach kids to disobey and subvert their parents' authority if their parents abuse that authority. I'm really grateful for show like that, as someone whose single mother was a deeply neurotic, emotionally neglectful narcissist. It taught me to notice things like gaslighting, which in turn taught me to build the right emotional defense mechanisms to said gaslighting.
      Shows that teach kids to blindly obey their parents are undoubtedly responsible for many abuse victims not speaking out or even realising there's a problem in the fist place.

    • @knucklestheyoutuber4694
      @knucklestheyoutuber4694 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      As someone who has been through mental abuse, trauma, and grooming (not by my parents, hell, my parents fucking love me to death and i love them to death), I feel really disgusted when I get told that I should listen to my abusers because they are older. It makes me feel like I don't matter, that my situation is petty and meaningless. I'm basically being silenced by someone I look up to, and it really hurts when I'm told I should just listen to the abuser because their an adult and they know what's right and wrong, and that I'm the stupid 13 year old indian boy who has ADHD and autism. Whenever somebody even starts to say "well, they were kind of right about one thing" I get really pissed off because they are indirectly victim-blaming me. Sorry for the long textwall

    • @nebulanova4761
      @nebulanova4761 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I remember when that was a controversal show for that very reason... It was one of my favorites and luckily my parents didn't see any problems with it because it's a cartoon and it's not like Timmy does anything to wrong or disrespect his parents (besides a few episodes where he rebels against them or the other terrible adults in his life) without having some big apology at the end of the episode, followed by a joke to wrap it up.
      Yeah, the show depicted adults as pretty terrible, but any kid could of took that and said "wow, I'm glad my family, teacher, baby-sitter, w/e isn't like that".
      TLDR; However you teach your kid to think, that is how they are going to view the show

    • @dhruvakhera5011
      @dhruvakhera5011 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@knucklestheyoutuber4694 do u have adhd? 🤔 not being offensive but kinda doubt since u said 13 as well cause it can be that you can't study with your phone around you.

  • @joeburch6754
    @joeburch6754 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +485

    I went several minutes thinking "eating children" was a euphemism for something that you usually expect the average predator to want. But no, he actually wanted to EAT kids. that's mental

    • @cassiehosh1677
      @cassiehosh1677 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      where i'm from "to eat someone" is a slang to fuck someone (which is already terrible in this case) so imagine my reaction when i realized he was being literal lol

    • @burrybondz225
      @burrybondz225 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Didn't he want to do both?

    • @playernotfound9489
      @playernotfound9489 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@cassiehosh1677 yeah, i hate how stupid young adults and teens ruin words. hell innocent words get ruined. so that's why the brazen bull should come back.

  • @morganleanderblake678
    @morganleanderblake678 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +242

    I met Fred Rogers when I was 5 in the 80s. My babysitter and I took a train and two busses for me to sit in the audience for a live recording at the Boston Museum of Science. They didn't show this part on the television show, but he would spend hours with the kids in his audience. He would just hang out with us in a room full of the kids and their parents/etc. I remember really clearly how little he talked while he was with us. He just listened. And when kids would interrupt or be impatient he would be so gentle and say I'm so excited to hear their story too, can you help me listen? God, he was a saint of a man. Looking back it was like he was imparting empathy lessons to us by just showing us how to exist together.

    • @punkrckr6889
      @punkrckr6889 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      This comment genuinely got me choked up, I miss this man so much 😭

    • @Slenderquil
      @Slenderquil หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      "Would you help me listen" is such a perfect way to respond to interrupting people. What a wise man

    • @ryanthoms
      @ryanthoms 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I used to watch his show all the time growing up in the 2000’s, I miss the guy dearly. I think he imparted a lot of his kindness to so many kids, so absolutely awesome to hear that he basically single-handedly saved the network that defined my childhood.

  • @Ganondorfdude11
    @Ganondorfdude11 ปีที่แล้ว +5222

    The Flintstones had cigarette ads because it wasn't a kids' show in its time, it was a primetime show like the Simpsons is today.

    • @mal2ksc
      @mal2ksc ปีที่แล้ว +629

      Some of the humor was pretty risqué for the day too, because it wasn't considered a kids' show. Basically if it would fly on _The Honeymooners,_ they'd imitate it.

    • @jack-a-lopium
      @jack-a-lopium ปีที่แล้ว +322

      Makes me think of the recent 'outrage' over the TV show Friends... it was literally broadcast after 9pm to young adults, with subjects that young adults might find interesting and funny... it's only become 'controversial' now that reruns are being aired constantly round the clock... so you end up with post-watershed (yes I understand that is a British concept, and likely means nothing in the US) humour and situations broadcast at breakfast, or at 3pm when young kids might come into contact... the demo was never for people that young.

    • @Ganondorfdude11
      @Ganondorfdude11 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      @@mal2ksc It was the Honeymooners set in the Stone Age but without the wife-beating jokes.

    • @blungus123
      @blungus123 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @@jack-a-lopium I think people's problems with Friends have less to do with perceived raunchyness and more to do with the way they handled certain subject matters aging rather poorly (see the handling of Chandler's father's sexuality).

    • @jack-a-lopium
      @jack-a-lopium ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@blungus123 Yeah, must admit... I avoid all of that social media stuff, so I'm not 100% certain.

  • @Peringon
    @Peringon ปีที่แล้ว +2251

    Something I love about Mr. Roger's speech to senate is that when he says the first line of the song "What do you do with the anger you feel?" He clarifies to the senator "That line came straight from a child".
    What makes people who work on children's tv so amazing is that they understand kids have complex feelings that they express in what simple vocabulary they have.

    • @LittleMissLounge
      @LittleMissLounge ปีที่แล้ว +175

      This is why I will never concede that insulting bullshit argument "It's just a kid's show. Kids don't care if it's bad."

    • @justanothermortal1373
      @justanothermortal1373 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I love Mr. Roger so much. Wish we had more people like him.

    • @minnion2871
      @minnion2871 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      @@LittleMissLounge It's less that kids don't care that its bad and more "They don't have enough experience to realize just how bad it is until they experience good content to contrast it with.... and even then they might not know how to express that they don't like something in a way the grown ups take seriously...."
      At which point they look back on their childhood and wonder "Why did my parents let me watch this shit?"

    • @Sdir
      @Sdir 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@minnion2871 omg literally our situation

    • @minnion2871
      @minnion2871 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@Sdir And then of course getting the adults that actually have power over the animation industry to listen is still a difficult to do since many of the old guys in charge still think in the false dichotomy of "If it's not inappropriate for kids then its a kids show and kids will watch anything so we don't need to try....")

  • @bengermin3104
    @bengermin3104 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    That part at the end with Fred Roger actually made me cry. It was like it was literally like a movie moment, where the main villain just wanted someone to speak with them genuinely

  • @alumirati848
    @alumirati848 ปีที่แล้ว +5331

    it's crazy how the Traumatized Child Star is such a well-known thing, but seeing the backlash over Jennette McCurdy's book title ''I'm Glad My Mom Died" is something else... like all the shit her mother put her through i don't blame her

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran ปีที่แล้ว +548

      She is so inspiring to me. Such a strong young woman, and doesn't let her trauma hold her back, in-fact, she uses it to grow. That's a strong soul.

    • @christophewells3918
      @christophewells3918 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Absolutely

    • @gregjayonnaise8314
      @gregjayonnaise8314 ปีที่แล้ว +545

      The disgusting way the media tried to pin her and Ariana Grande against each other when neither girl held any animosity was so vile. I don’t blame McCurdy for staying the hell away from Nickelodeon, she was treated so poorly.

    • @willyeeton4390
      @willyeeton4390 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      If any of you are interested, her podcast Empty Inside is great. It's a lot of casual but serious discussions with a variety of guests. She covers her experience with Bulimia, her mother, child stardom, and many other topics and is generally a very good host.

    • @sickening_love1154
      @sickening_love1154 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      To be fair, I wouldnt like my mother if my mother put me through all that pain while being aware of what trauma they are putting me through. She's not my mother if she doesn't support me as a child.

  • @ManOfEthnicity
    @ManOfEthnicity ปีที่แล้ว +1130

    PW: "He hosted weekly pizza parties at his house for some of the kids"
    Everyone: "Oh no."

    • @myriadmaestro572
      @myriadmaestro572 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      My exact response.

    • @michaeltheoret3842
      @michaeltheoret3842 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Red Flag went up for sure when that was brought up. YIKES !!!

    • @Xeorboom
      @Xeorboom ปีที่แล้ว +28

      next he'll be like 'follow me to the back room and I'll harvest your soul juice'

    • @bellezanegra0206
      @bellezanegra0206 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Literally my gut reaction

    • @nevaehhamilton3493
      @nevaehhamilton3493 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pizza = child rape, apparently.

  • @izzypokemon6129
    @izzypokemon6129 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +276

    NGL I think you glossed over Dan Schneider a little too quickly. Instead of focusing on the foot thing, I wish you could have spoke about his abusive tactics on set, inappropriate relationships with underage cast members (like buying them alcohol and pressuring them to drink it), the sexist behavior towards his female staff and so much more. I appreciate your content though!

    • @kerri6011
      @kerri6011 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      I agree Becks actor fro, victorious confirmed that he hardly remembers it cause most of the the time the main cast was always high and or drunk, Jeanette McCurdy in her book mentioned him pressuring her to drink underage and that she was offered a large settlement so she didn't talk that she didn't take, that weird creepy video on the slap by ariana grande, Trinas actor from victorious saying more or less she was like the only adult main cast on set that tried to keep things right since the rest of the cast were just teens

    • @Mooms
      @Mooms 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      This video was released before Jennette McCurdy’s memoir came out. There wasn’t definitive proof that Dan was a horrible person, they were allegations

    • @jelliebyte
      @jelliebyte 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@Mooms there actually was a lot of proof (at least enough proof for more) and even then there were A LOT of allegations and various accounts from actors and people that worked directly with schnider, so I think wills take was horrendous.

    • @SineN0mine3
      @SineN0mine3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@jelliebyteyou can't expect literally every person to know what literally every other person has said about each other.
      The controversy was well known, but it's also been covered to death by other channels. If he didn't know it would be ethically reprehensible to accuse Schneider of the things that he's been accused of.
      Anyone who knows the story is likely to have strong opinions, but it's irresponsible to go around saying it's true if he didn't know.
      He pinned a comment explaining that he regretted not covering it in more detail, but this video is already an hour long and I seriously doubt he was going to have any hot takes about it when he's completely unfamiliar with the story.
      It's also illegal to accuse people of that kind of behaviour if you can't prove it if you make your accusations in published media. It's entirely possible to be used for defamation over things you said in a TH-cam video

    • @jelliebyte
      @jelliebyte 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @SineN0mine3 i don't expect everyone to know the story, i never said that, all i said was because of the allegations from various child actors who worked with him, I'd say that its more than enough for ME to say that they're true. i understand he wasnt familiar with it, but i also have to assume he did research for this video considering it was such a big scandal and a very serious issue with serious allegations.

  • @mewoisbest8851
    @mewoisbest8851 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Guys I’m not even kidding when the daughter said, “This is my favorite picture, it has my mom and Gillian and I love them so much.” I STARTED TEARING UP 😭😭😭

  • @misterwyrd8132
    @misterwyrd8132 ปีที่แล้ว +2912

    Not gonna lie the bit with Mr. Roger's made me cry. I was one of the kids growing up in a Bad Household like he spoke of (abuse, conflict, violence, neglect, manipulation all the typical dysfunctional family stuff) and my favorite show as a kid was Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. In hindsight after seeing this I wonder how much of me being able to break the dysfunctional cycle almost my entire family is consumed by was due to him just being kind and saying we all mattered and I had a choice in my behavior at such an early age.

    • @averysspookshowspectacular6205
      @averysspookshowspectacular6205 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      I've had this absolute passion since I was like 4, that I wanted to be a teacher, specifically for elementary. That's what I've been working towards, special education for elementary students. Mr. Rogers must have been my earliest inspiration for that. It had me crying, and I never cry (my tear ducts don't work super well).

    • @princesspikachu3915
      @princesspikachu3915 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      I adore Mr. Rogers and my 6 year old daughter adores him as well. She really likes simple puppets as a result.

    • @davidhatred7275
      @davidhatred7275 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      same, i'm a brit so we never had mr rogers but learning about him and the sort of person he tried to be just makes me go all weepy, too beautiful for a world like this.

    • @mynameisworld
      @mynameisworld 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Those of us who are older have a different memory of Mister Rogers than the young'uns in these comments. Back when the show was still in production, I was always horribly teased for watching Mister Rogers. He was very much NOT a beloved figure when he was alive. Mister Rogers was treated as a joke by most people. I kept watching him secretly in my own room, all the way into college, and when the show ended I kept watching the reruns. During that time, other adults and teenagers would still joke about him, saying how "creepy" he was and making up rumors about what the believed were his true actions toward kids, making accusations about the interest he showed in the kids on his show and the way he looked at them. Then he died. That very day, the people who had always called him creepy and had made up lies about him suddenly claimed to have always been his biggest fan. So for us older folks, Mister Rogers is either a very secret, private show in which he talked only to the one person watching, or he was a creepy pedo joke. Most often it's the creepy pedo joke.
      Now, I've seen how the young people talk online. If these kids in this video's comments had been alive back in our time, most of the kids claiming to have been sad to see him on this video would be making the creepy pedo jokes instead. Most of these kids are only "sad" because it's cool to be sad now that he's dead. They don't know anything about him but the fake give-me-sympathy garbage that is STILL thrown around by people who insulted him for years only to pretend to be hurt when he died.

    • @princesspikachu3915
      @princesspikachu3915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@mynameisworld I was a teenager when the final episode aired in 2001. I was never teased. Then again I never told anyone I was watching it. It wasn’t as taboo as Barney, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Caillou, Sagwa, or Dragon Tales. I was a closet fan of those last two.

  • @Stripeschan
    @Stripeschan ปีที่แล้ว +2852

    Mr Rogers was a great man an it's honestly heart breaking how many adults, especially parents, didn't like him. They hated that he was giving kids confidence and telling them that each one was special because they "didn't earn it". They felt like those kids were gaining a sense of entitlement because the nice man on TV was being too kind to their children. All Fred Rogers wanted was to help kids grow and learn and have confidence in themselves. And that speech in this video proves it. Long live Mr Rogers.

    • @henrybyrd8381
      @henrybyrd8381 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Dude, he was probably a time traveler.

    • @alpyki2588
      @alpyki2588 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      There has to be a balance between praise and criticism. Too little and you get confidence issues. Too much and you get over confidence issues that can be just as bad, if not worse, than having no confidence.
      Florence Foster Jenkins is a great example of that. She couldn't sing opera and was constantly showered with praise because people found her so darn funny to listen to. She didn't get that people were laughing at her, until she gave one public concert. She died 5 days later of a heart attack. True, she was 76, but one has to wonder if all the negative attention received all at once had contributed to it. Had someone told her privately she was terrible at it, her name wouldn't be synonymous with terrible singers. Everyone would like to be informed if they were doing something wrong, or embarrassing, or questionable.

    • @michibmoon
      @michibmoon ปีที่แล้ว +235

      @@alpyki2588 ​ You can praise and criticize kids. That's what discipline is for. You can tell a child to improve what they are working on. That's why grading systems exist. They should be able to recognize what their strengths and weaknesses are.
      Some children grow up in broken homes where nobody tells them they are loved or special. I think that demographic is the one Mr. Rodgers was catering to hence being on a channel that is only run by donations. He interned to cater to the hearts of children who are having to grow up too quick and balance school, stress, death, abuse, neglect, and so many unfortunate things. They need the reminder that they are loved the most.
      The truth is, everyone needs a reminder now and again that they are loved. It makes us feel good to know that someone cares about our struggles or accomplishments.
      The opera singer example you gave is a good one about lack of criticism. It does seem that the people who were hyping her up really didn't care about her though. They actively wanted to watch her crumble. That is praise but used with negative intentions.
      I do agree that there needs to be a balance. Mr. Rodgers was trying to create that balance for some children. He knows that far too many kids start out life being expected to behave like adults.

    • @Hamilton-TheMusical
      @Hamilton-TheMusical ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This comment made me cry when the video couldn’t (on the inside though, I’mi’m in public)

    • @zaodedong9935
      @zaodedong9935 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      I can't help but think of how many children he probably helped who were being abused, bullied, or made to feel like they were nothing.
      He told those children, "I like you for being you."

  • @PinkManGuy
    @PinkManGuy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    The story of Flipper breaks my heart. That poor dolphin probably wanted to die weeks if not months in advance, but just wanted to see her handler one more time and die in her arms. It legitimately is making me tear up with equal part sorrow and indignant rage. We are the dominant species of the planet and this is how we treat our little brothers and sisters...

    • @shamrous7368
      @shamrous7368 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yeah that's why I hate stuff with using animals for entertainment (circus, tv shows with pets and etc)
      I just won't believe anymore that people able to treat animals in shows nicely

    • @user-rj7cf2hg7f
      @user-rj7cf2hg7f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, they are abusing innocent animals just to entertain children...

    • @hansjuker8296
      @hansjuker8296 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Waaah!

    • @pemanilnoob587
      @pemanilnoob587 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@shamrous7368genuinely the most important reason for CGI in my opinion

  • @fishlordusername891
    @fishlordusername891 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +114

    Used to love teletubbies between the ages of 3-4, which I conveniently actually remember. I don't think I even perceived the teletubbies as having a gender. Like in hindsight I just... never looked at a teletubby and went "ah yes that is a girl teletubby".
    Anyways the appeal was definitely the aesthetic. Child me just enjoyed watching them do stuff and look a specific way. It was all atmosphere.

    • @tentativegazer
      @tentativegazer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      **glances at pfp** Teletubbies to Homestuck fan pipeline real?!?!?!

    • @fishlordusername891
      @fishlordusername891 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@tentativegazer [BUZZER PLAYS]
      Teletubbies was ever present in most children's lives, BAD science. I'm a Homestuck because I'm a freak in an unrelated manner.

    • @flowerfloofs
      @flowerfloofs หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@fishlordusername891based response and based character choice

  • @metsboi2018
    @metsboi2018 ปีที่แล้ว +1686

    Damn Mr. Rogers single handedly saved pretty much the entire industry of kids TV. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't have really anything we know today

    • @MrM0gus
      @MrM0gus ปีที่แล้ว +10

      For real tho I thought he was gonna say that Rogers is actually child predator

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      What we watch today is destroyed childhood memories in order to push T H E M E S S A G E.

    • @abbaszaidi2615
      @abbaszaidi2615 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MrM0gus yeah I was about to become that "say sike rn" meme

    • @morbidsearch
      @morbidsearch ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@dansmith1661
      24 people didn't see the anti-Semitic drivel in your other comment on this video

    • @Strawberry_Angelic
      @Strawberry_Angelic ปีที่แล้ว +11

      No honestly he did like he has no idea what he did , like idk about books or things bcs we were a inner city school that finally got pushed to charter later on in middle cuz ours was k/ok - 8th And books we didn’t have any I don’t remember we had a library tbh but thanks to pbs I had between the lions reading rainbow and wishbone and I wouldent have known anything or dropes out if they had taken the funding away from pbs so I’m so happy he did what he did

  • @alpine8590
    @alpine8590 ปีที่แล้ว +665

    "Gay people love purple"
    Sir I dont have a single valid argument against that

    • @ohmygoditisspider7953
      @ohmygoditisspider7953 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I'm colorblind lmaoo can't see purple or blue or red or green.
      SO WHAT ABOUT COLORBLIND GAY HUH?

    • @alexevier
      @alexevier ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@ohmygoditisspider7953 you have a free pass to gayness

    • @knownevildoer
      @knownevildoer ปีที่แล้ว +28

      my favorite color has almost always been purple… ohhhh boy 😳🏳️‍🌈

    • @MEOWMIX3DS
      @MEOWMIX3DS ปีที่แล้ว +2

      what happens if I don't like purple

    • @toukonanami1219
      @toukonanami1219 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ohmygoditisspider7953 oh so you cant see all the colors? guess you're not allowed to be gay

  • @theautistictomboy4003
    @theautistictomboy4003 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    What makes Yoshifumi Kondō's death even more tragic is when you watch the film Whisper of the Heart, the first and only Ghibi film he directed, it tells the story of a girl who at one point of the film attempts to write a fantasy book within two weeks (I'm skipping a lot of info but that's the gist of it). The girl collapses onto the ground in complete and utter exhaustion and just lies there, after neglecting herself for the past two weeks. It's already an upsetting scene but that context makes it even worse for me.

  • @WandererEris
    @WandererEris 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    As a note: Jynx may also have ties to Japanese mythology. She could be based on the Yuki-onna and Yama-uba, two snow related female creatures. If you look up descriptions of the creatures, you'll see similarities. It's entirely possible the black skin was meant to represent frostbite, and the purple skin matches up with this idea. Her name fits with the mythology origin too. I think the ganguro thing may be real too, and the connections to Zwarte Piete and opera singers. She's a mishmash of all sorts of things that just so happen to align with an American thing that was pretty bad. I can't really blame the original devs because they probably didn't know and were just referencing their own culture as well as some European stuff.

    • @KathyHarrington
      @KathyHarrington 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This is very likely as Yama-uba has been shown to have light colored hair, pitch black skin and a red dress just like Jynx. Though it was never meant to be offensive, it might not have translated internationally very well.

  • @thecharlinator4066
    @thecharlinator4066 ปีที่แล้ว +2032

    The worst thing about the porygon episode is that the Pokémon company has refused to use porygon in any future episodes. Pikachu was the one who made the flash, so porygon wasn’t even at fault

    • @mirmalchik
      @mirmalchik ปีที่แล้ว +291

      can't cut pikachu, though. they had to find a more convenient scapegoat. luckily porygon lives in a separate dimension entirely and is probably fine not getting wrapped up in this world built on fun and innocent dogfighting

    • @SixWingZombi
      @SixWingZombi ปีที่แล้ว +168

      #FreePorygon

    • @toadallyawesome2997
      @toadallyawesome2997 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Thats weirdly unfair

    • @potato1907
      @potato1907 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      free my man porygon

    • @justapersonwithinternetacc3558
      @justapersonwithinternetacc3558 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      To be fair, it was porygon’s debut episode, so having it’s first episode be controversial isn’t really a good look…

  • @seaherb02
    @seaherb02 ปีที่แล้ว +1720

    kathy deciding to kill herself in her former trainer’s arms really hit me. like damn it shows you despite the fact that she was an animal how intelligent she was and how much that isolation made her depressed, ive never heard of animal just choosing to pass like kathy did. it kinda baffles me how humanlike the dolphins intelligence is, such a shame kathy’s needs were neglected during her retirement

    • @seaherb02
      @seaherb02 ปีที่แล้ว +260

      I did read after the suicide her former trainer Rich went from training dolphins to perform to creating an organization preventing dolphin captivity which makes me happy something positive could come out of such a sad situation

    • @lapislazarus8899
      @lapislazarus8899 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Check out John Lilly, Peter the Dolphin, Margaret Howe...

    • @cosmicreef5858
      @cosmicreef5858 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      No other animal is "human like" She was just an intelligent being just like ANY OTHER specie in the World
      Intelligence is not about knowing how to count but knowing how to adapt to your environment, being open minded to new/good things, solving your own problems, ect.

    • @a_literal_crow
      @a_literal_crow ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cosmicreef5858 Some animals are much more adept in problem solving than others.

    • @GayKermit-._-.
      @GayKermit-._-. ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cosmicreef5858 🤓

  • @Rupert3434
    @Rupert3434 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I love how the "fairness doctrine" was like "Yeah so tobacco lobbyists get 3, you anti-smokers get 1".

  • @pxrfxct
    @pxrfxct 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    As someone who has grown up poor and is only recently doing better financially PBS and cartoon network were the only things I had to be able learn more about how to be a person as well as distract me from being neglected and abused, it helped me cope in ways that were better than what most others had and I'm glad that they didn't cut funding back then

    • @shamrous7368
      @shamrous7368 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh
      It's nice to hear that ;_;
      Just hope you'll be alright

    • @hansjuker8296
      @hansjuker8296 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Neglected and abused...probably just a liberal.

  • @bio9leader60
    @bio9leader60 ปีที่แล้ว +2067

    As a child who was abused and neglected, that Mr. Rogers bit made me actually cry.
    I never had anyone to tell me I matter. In fact, I had several people insisting I didn't matter. Or much worse.
    Something like that is so much more important than most people know.

    • @tuwubah
      @tuwubah ปีที่แล้ว +74

      i unfortunately have the same situation. he's so comforting even though he knows nothing about me. it's lovely

    • @99sins
      @99sins ปีที่แล้ว +47

      exact same thing. I still can't stop. God where was this man when I had no one I could trust.

    • @thepeanutgallery6100
      @thepeanutgallery6100 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Idk if this will help but I just wanted to let you all know that you all matter and you have value and you all are loved dearly never forget that.

    • @theamazinggamerperson3474
      @theamazinggamerperson3474 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sorry you had to go through that

    • @mosshivenetwork117
      @mosshivenetwork117 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sorry that happened to you.

  • @Emirichu
    @Emirichu ปีที่แล้ว +5336

    Oh man Mr. Rogers' PBS speech still makes me so warm and happy. PBS shows were some of my only source of entertainment as a kid and they really shaped my childhood. I remember being sad over Mr.Rogers' death before I was even old enough to grasp the concept of it.
    This was a really great video--I can only imagine how much research you had to do for this behemoth of a video essay (on top of almost scrapping the whole thing!)
    Thanks for reminding me of some of my happy childhood kids tv memories! really helps with the dread from all the other not-so-fun facts haha

    • @punklover99
      @punklover99 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Love your work

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +310

      Glad you liked it, and I'm glad to see you're posting again! When I moved here to Tokyo, it was a really surreal experience with a lot of ups and downs of culture shock, but it's also just about the coolest place in the world.

    • @14g0t7
      @14g0t7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      About that second part-I always forget how much work goes into making videos on this site. Makes me respect creators more when I think about it.

    • @enterchannelname7395
      @enterchannelname7395 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Emi you here!

    • @thomasjess5029
      @thomasjess5029 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@PaperWill What's living in Japan like? Also that story about the evil puppeteer sounds almost too horrifying to be true, until you look it up.

  • @Valchrist1313
    @Valchrist1313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    One of our dogs was recruited for a major motion picture that came out in the last few years. They took her for about two months of training and a month of filming before she came home to live with us again.
    The one sad thing is that she was taught all these complex tricks, but they were 'trade secrets' so we weren't allowed to know the hand signals or commands. She was primed for all these reactions and communications that we couldn't understand.

  • @kieravermeal9127
    @kieravermeal9127 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Whoooo boy, the Dan Schneider section aged even worse than when Jeanette MacCardy released her book
    For context, there's been a new documentary called Quiet on Set, that exposes all of Dan's dirty laundry

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You ain't wrong lol. Her book actually dropped 2 days after this video did.
      So basically: I was totally wrong and kind of a moron.

    • @brngthemetal
      @brngthemetal 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @paperwill, did u stop making videos? I just found your channel, and i really enjoyed your videos

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@brngthemetal New video in about a week!! :D

  • @tastysand05
    @tastysand05 ปีที่แล้ว +1162

    Imagine being upset that kids have 2 loving parents and a non human children’s show character was purple and had a bag… and they call us snowflakes

  • @angyseal8065
    @angyseal8065 ปีที่แล้ว +1678

    I never watched Mr Rogers because I was born too late, but listening to him recite that song touched me to the point of tears. It felt like he wasn’t speaking to me, but to my inner child, and I can see why so many people cherish this man

    • @michaeltheoret3842
      @michaeltheoret3842 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I remember Sesame Street, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood , and even Shows like The Electric Company, Zoom, and 321 Contact( the latter three Shows I mentioned being geared more for Pre- Teen to Early Teens ) . I also remember watching the Shows " Ripples" and "Inside-Out" periodically as part of my Education in 4-5 Grade . Thankfully , PBS was spared those horrible budget cuts and a vital source of education was safeguarded . I learned a lot when I watched these Programs throughout my Childhood. Great Shows full of great educational content as well as being entertaining as well . All of these Programs took a lot of work to produce and also many aspects of production and casting were pioneering for the time . The Part of this Video showing Mr. Rogers at the Senate Hearing was both moving and hopeful . Such a humble ,decent Man who stood up to giants and prevailed for the benefit of Children is as pure and hopeful a story of a True Hero as could ever be written or told.

    • @janettecerrato663
      @janettecerrato663 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I cryed for solid 30 minutes

    • @thilypad557
      @thilypad557 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      absolutely same

    • @Xeorboom
      @Xeorboom ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Mr. Rogers is a great man I never watched his show either but he really is a good man

    • @Styxx_theFox
      @Styxx_theFox ปีที่แล้ว

      Same thing here

  • @fatboysgarage7984
    @fatboysgarage7984 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    As somebody who's gay, I can promise you that we have no agenda. Not only that, I know several gay people who prefer the color black over the color purple (myself included).

    • @arkworthy8594
      @arkworthy8594 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As somebody else who's gay, I can't say for certain that there ISN'T an agenda, because there sure seems like one. It concerns me that LGBTQ+ groups are targeting children and schools with alarming predictability rather than places where they could actually do a LOT of good, like the prison system, homeless outreach, etc.

    • @zomzomino
      @zomzomino 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@arkworthy8594why would you wanna teach homeless people about gay people?

    • @arkworthy8594
      @arkworthy8594 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@zomzomino because homeless populations are a massive risk for communicable sexual diseases?

    • @zomzomino
      @zomzomino 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arkworthy8594 and what does that have to do with gay people

    • @arkworthy8594
      @arkworthy8594 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@zomzomino STIs in homeless populations HUGELY disproportionately impacts gay people. With almost ZERO support.

  • @joelyface9667
    @joelyface9667 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    Who else started sobbing uncontrollably when Mr. Fred Roger’s came on screen? Just me?

    • @Hazbin-hotel-babe
      @Hazbin-hotel-babe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hes an angel that's for true

    • @mynameisworld
      @mynameisworld 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Those of us who are older have a different memory of Mister Rogers than you young'uns. I was horribly teased for watching Mister Rogers. Mister Rogers was treated as a joke to most people. I kept watching him secretly in my own room, all the way into college, and when the show ended I kept watching the reruns. During that time, other adults and teenagers would still joke about him, saying how "creepy" he was and making up rumors about what the believed were his true actions toward kids, making accusations about the interest he showed in the kids on his show and the way he looked at them. Then he died. That very day, the people who had called him creepy and had made up lies about him suddenly claimed to have always been his biggest fan. So for us older folks, Mister Rogers is either a very secret, private show in which he talked only to the one person watching, or he was a creepy pedo joke. Most often it's the creepy pedo joke. Now, I've seen how you young people talk online. If you kids had been alive back in our time, most of you who "sobbed uncontrollably" would be making the creepy pedo jokes. Most of you are only "sad" because it's cool to be sad now that he's dead.

    • @unchpunchem8947
      @unchpunchem8947 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@mynameisworldso people aren’t allowed to have fond feelings toward him anymore because our culture has changed? This doesn’t make much sense to me. You should be celebrating the fact that people seemingly universally love the man who you once felt you had to hide your interest in, not gatekeeping those feelings for anyone born after that cultural shift.

    • @WappleFan
      @WappleFan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mynameisworld you know, there’s a quote from the movie “The Mist” that I think really applies here…
      “Shut up, you miserable old buzzard.”

  • @vikkipink1288
    @vikkipink1288 ปีที่แล้ว +1560

    Mr Rogers is an absolute treasure and possibly one of the most genuinely kind hearted people who have ever lived. What an absolute legend single handedly saving educational programming for kids armed with nothing but his pure wholesome energy that could melt the most icy of hearts.

    • @monkestudios2927
      @monkestudios2927 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I’m very thankful for him saving PBS cuz I practically grew up on it

    • @HenshinFanatic
      @HenshinFanatic ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@monkestudios2927 shame it got taken over by the same kind of people he fought while he was in the army.

    • @monkestudios2927
      @monkestudios2927 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@HenshinFanatic Hey uh- that theory was disproven but also what

    • @alistertowelie
      @alistertowelie ปีที่แล้ว +4

      just think where we would be without him

    • @kellywalker1664
      @kellywalker1664 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Mr. Roger's was an outlier because Fred was trying to teach emotional intelligence, something my parents were clueless about, so I didn't get to appreciate his show 'til much later in life. Just before he passed the outrage porn "news" tried to pass him off as some enabler for the Me Generation, just because he suggested that people might have some unconditional or innate value as human beings.

  • @noonespecial311
    @noonespecial311 ปีที่แล้ว +7195

    Mr Rogers is such a great man. After all the depressing things talked about in the past hour, I'm really glad that you ended the video with such a hopeful message. I didn't grow up with Mr Rogers, but seeing these short clips of him really showed me how amazing he was. Also welcome back man! I was watching back some of your previous videos and thinking if you were gonna upload and you did! Amazing work

    • @randomprimary
      @randomprimary ปีที่แล้ว +102

      I grew up on his reruns, I didn't even learn he was dead until my teens.

    • @NealMouse9140
      @NealMouse9140 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Mr Rogers teached me alot when I was young. I grew up on the reruns in the 2000s, but Whenever I felt sad, Mr Rogers would be on TV and me and my Dad would watch it together.

    • @hblackburn5580
      @hblackburn5580 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      The trinity of wholesomeness;
      Steve Irwin- be kind to animals
      Bob Ross- be kind to yourself
      Mr. Rogers- be kind to others

    • @harukoharuhara1863
      @harukoharuhara1863 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I grew up on reruns too

    • @andysorensen1737
      @andysorensen1737 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      A friend of mine met Mr. Rogers and his wife in NYC in the 90s. He thanks Mr. Rogers for being such an inspiration to him, and Mr. Rogers came back with “Thanks for being my neighbor.”

  • @waterpicker
    @waterpicker 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    11:10 Given dolphins are one of the species who are most likely at or close to human level intelligence, that's like putting someone into isolation. You are gonna drive them nuts or depressed.

  • @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..
    @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Bro forget mr Rogers helping jus young kids. I'm 21 and hearing him tell me I'm special broke me down into tears lol. He looked and sounded so kind

    • @lynnz6308
      @lynnz6308 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I really never watched him as a kid, I grew up with Daniel Tiger 😭 but, Mr Rogers sounds like a very nice person. His voice feels like a warm hug and it’s so nice to know that he actually wanted to teach kids

  • @stephenbriggs9153
    @stephenbriggs9153 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    The reason you see the two towers in so much pre-2001 media is ironically the same reason why they were targeted, they're iconic landmarks that were distinctly American.

    • @NoelWatson-kg9qh
      @NoelWatson-kg9qh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and the reason they are always falling down? think is most who take this stance have never done any research beyond... asking google and then repeating whatever the first page tells them. The 2 towers always were masonic totems. Joachin and Boaz, they stood for 33 years then crumbled in the sythesis of ideologies and the commencement of the global teardown. ONE WORLD tower is more than symbolic representation of peace. it is the start of the unification of global governance.

  • @kamalionify
    @kamalionify 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1473

    I never experienced Mr Roger's Neighborhood since I am not a US citizen, but oh boy I got teary eyes just seeing how peaceful he was with the senator.

    • @zzulm
      @zzulm 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      Same and as an adult I see all the hard work, patience and love he put on his show.

    • @XISCify
      @XISCify 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      I didn't have tv as a kid so I never watched Mr Rogers (or anything else on pbs) but that part had me weeping

    • @princesspikachu3915
      @princesspikachu3915 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      I watch it even as an adult. It’s worth watching the show. Hopefully anyone who hasn’t seen it will end up finding a way to experience Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Just don’t get your hopes up when it comes to the animated series Daniel Tigers Neighborhood.

    • @pauldickhoff3594
      @pauldickhoff3594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Many see Pastore as a villain. But I never seen a more sincere politician. He was noticable fed up with PBS being used as a lucrative tax write-off and managers faking good intentions. But he was willing to give money to the decent people doing actual good .
      Imagime havimg a senate filled with Pastores dealing with the US of today..

    • @milhousevanhoutan9235
      @milhousevanhoutan9235 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@pauldickhoff3594 Yeah people don't give Pastore the humanity he deserves. He GENUINELY felt that way about PBS and it's not an unreasonable argument, that funding a television network is not necessarily the job of government especially at that time (choice in channels had only just significantly increased as opposed to the old 3 channel days). A lot of people agreed the time for government funding of television was over.
      Then he heard what Fred Rogers was doing and he CHANGED HIS MIND. Fred Rogers gave such a powerful argument that what he did couldn't be done on for-profit television (This wasn't in his verbal testimony but was part of his written testimony), that it was a worthwhile enterprise to do this for our children, and that it on it's own was a social good, that Pastore did a complete 180 and became one of PBS' ardent defenders for the rest of his time in government.

  • @ernestcruz6316
    @ernestcruz6316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Oh yeah, one other comment: Fred Rogers was, and IS, a real national hero.

  • @fsu7482
    @fsu7482 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Gotta fill my tum is a certified hood classic

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Every now and then a comment will really crack me up, and this one did it lol

  • @NPDGX
    @NPDGX ปีที่แล้ว +1094

    I will forever claim the PBS is worth every penny. I still remember watching Cyberchase as a kid, to the point where I remember learning about specific concepts from specific episodes far above what should have been my age. Exponential growth in elementary school? Sure. And now I have a B.S. in comp sci, and a good progress in grad school to go with it. Never let anyone tell you these programs are worthless. They want to show how fun education can be to kids, and it works.

    • @larae6885
      @larae6885 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So cool! Congratulations man

    • @loading7496
      @loading7496 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Martha Speaks, Word Girl, Wild Kratts... incredible shows, each and every one.

    • @larae6885
      @larae6885 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@loading7496 between the lions

    • @RutabegaNG
      @RutabegaNG ปีที่แล้ว

      Excellent!

    • @notaburneraccount
      @notaburneraccount ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I loved cyberchase! Also zoom!

  • @Kuronosa
    @Kuronosa ปีที่แล้ว +708

    Another part of why cigarette companies eventually stopped making their own ads WAS the Fairness Doctrine... If there were no ads promoting smoking, then there were no ads they had to pay for that said that smoking was bad for you....which left it all up to packaging, branding...and billboards...you know...those things that you see on the side of the highways sometimes? Does...anybody ever look at those anymore?

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +139

      Absolutely correct. In an earlier draft of this video I went on a pretty long rant about how it was all lobbied for by the tabacco industry itself, but truthfully this video is already on so many tangents I had to cut it lol.

    • @Kuronosa
      @Kuronosa ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@PaperWill video's already long enough.

    • @MechanicalShockwaveBow
      @MechanicalShockwaveBow ปีที่แล้ว +27

      what else are you supposed to look at when you're driving through missouri?

    • @aroach7461
      @aroach7461 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      People do look at them on the highway. Most of the time people just don't remember it in their immediate memories.

    • @jack-a-lopium
      @jack-a-lopium ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Outside of the US, tobacco companies found a neat little bit of free-advertising... they found that 'No Smoking' signs put up in public places (by the public) made people *REALLY* want a cigarette 😹
      I dunno if you have these public signs in the US.

  • @wutgirl57
    @wutgirl57 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Knowing that brian pecks victim was drake bell really turns everything upside down now...

  • @OctoJinx
    @OctoJinx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I know I’ve got to this a year late but I just need to say. I like deep dive videos but it does get depressing at times. The ending is so good. I accident found the court hearing video on my own earlier this year and it brought me to tears. I didn’t have a good childhood, I haven’t spoken to my father in years now, and children’s programming was my escape. My life was better and brighter because of the worlds put in front of me. I mainly watched PBS too, a LOT of PBS. I never really watched Cartoon Network or any of those until way later but even then I still just preferred PBS. I sadly never got to watch Mr. Rodgers at the time but now, ever so often, I go out of my way to find it. What he had on his show is stuff I needed then and the affirmation I need now. The passion and drive he had to teach kids, love kids, and embrace kids is something I lacked in my household but is comforting to know he gave to so many others. I’m so happy that man existed. The world is definitely better now that he was in it.

  • @alicesavage69420
    @alicesavage69420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1803

    You left out the best/worst part of the John K. story: After the backlash, he wrote an official apology letter that his lawyer strongly advised him not to release, and he released it anyway. In it, he blamed the whole grooming thing on HAVING ADHD

    • @skye4082
      @skye4082 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      W H A T ??? ACTUALLY? THATS CRAZY

    • @HailHydreigon
      @HailHydreigon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

      Wow, WTH? As someone with ADHD, that's not a damn thing we do. 😡

    • @xibalbalon8668
      @xibalbalon8668 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's neurodivergent and likes minors

    • @thatgaming1940
      @thatgaming1940 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      As someone with ADHD but that's not a fucking reason

    • @ahmadmalaki8364
      @ahmadmalaki8364 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      @@HailHydreigonthat’s like saying a horrible person is horrible because they have autism or they use autism as an excuse for their awful actions
      That’s real btw

  • @yamaracruz1268
    @yamaracruz1268 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    I miss Mr.Rodgers' Neighborhood so much. I actually cried when I learned he had passed. He was my whole childhood, and I wish he would have been my childrens' too. He was a giant part to how I learned english as a second language and learned that life is not fair and that's ok and somehow, somewhere out there, there was a man who always told me he was proud of me.

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Thanks for this comment. As long as we continue Rogers’ lessons in life, he never really left. We get to continue making him proud, and he continues being proud of us.

    • @100gecsrbetterthangod5
      @100gecsrbetterthangod5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, you could have bough dvds/VHS/online seasons of Mr Rogers' that is exactly what I am going to do with my daughter and what I wish I had done with my son.

  • @SakuraAsranArt
    @SakuraAsranArt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I just discovered this channel. Please come back 😢

    • @santiv4
      @santiv4 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      go to his channel and go to the community tab-i think you’d be happy about that news

  • @mikeshoults4155
    @mikeshoults4155 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Wait ..
    You are living in Japan...which means you studied/are studying Japanese....working in Japan....AND you wrote this script for this video AND drew all your own characters AND animated them AND edited the video.
    Dude....
    You are like a work machine.
    Incredible grind.

  • @jeanpaulsinatra
    @jeanpaulsinatra ปีที่แล้ว +357

    "This was a christian-themed game show for kids"
    oh god he's a nonce
    "there was just one problem with the presenter"
    remember to act shocked at the reveal he's a nonce
    "he was a cannibal"
    o_o

    • @tsunderenekokun
      @tsunderenekokun ปีที่แล้ว +1

      as someone who spent his elementary school years in a Christian school... I'm actually kinda disappointed that this kind of stuff reminds me of how bad the Christian community can get. like how they say being clean is a really important thing in Christianity, yet its common for a lot of Christians in the US to be p**os...

    • @cyrlizardboots878
      @cyrlizardboots878 ปีที่แล้ว

      A nonce who wanted to eat his victims afterwards so unfortunately not far off

    • @toothfairy10133
      @toothfairy10133 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      this was my exact thought process, took me out

    • @maryfreegirl2029
      @maryfreegirl2029 ปีที่แล้ว

      he was a cannibal nonce!!

    • @SM-ky6pb
      @SM-ky6pb ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Fr I already expected the predator part but a cannibal?? That caught me off guard

  • @awildbagel6723
    @awildbagel6723 ปีที่แล้ว +580

    God, Keiko's story makes me sooo mad. His caretakers KNEW he wasn't ready, they voiced their concern through the entire reintegration process, but the backlash from animal welfare groups was just too harsh. His death was entirely preventable had the world just listened to the people who actually worked with him.

    • @mirmalchik
      @mirmalchik ปีที่แล้ว +80

      it's a great example of how much damage we can do when we get too wrapped up in convincing ourselves and others that we're good people, rather than trying our hardest to actually help
      “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,” Rogers said to his television neighbors, “my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. '” - Mr. Rogers

    • @rockypockypuff
      @rockypockypuff ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Honestly, Keiko should have stayed in Oregon in his sea pen. Him leaving Reino Adventura was the best for his health, but letting him go from the tank or sea pen he was kept in before release shouldn't had been done as soon as it did.

  • @evajohnson9059
    @evajohnson9059 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    i already loved mr rogers but hearing how he kept funding for pbs makes me love him even more, growing up my family couldn’t afford cable and was very much a no tv family, we didn’t even have any streaming services( when that started become popular) so the only shows i saw were from pbs, and if that didn’t exist i wouldn’t have watched almost anything ( which is fine i guess but i loved those shows)

  • @Sonichero151
    @Sonichero151 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Fred Rogers was a genuine humanitarian and an angel. Ending on one of his most amazing and strongest victories after the hour of misery and pain was a really good pallette cleanser. The man was brave enough to not just talk about death to kids, he was there to help kids understand the goddamn kennedy assassination. With a tigar hand puppet he said "What does assassination mean?" On public television and then explained it to help kids understand the grief their parents were going through.

  • @Heart2soulz
    @Heart2soulz ปีที่แล้ว +249

    As a child i actually thought this would just be ugly cartoons or something NOT A CANNIBAL AND ANIMAL ABUSE…

    • @Karlach_
      @Karlach_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      same lol

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You’re a child?

    • @user-qi6pv9jh7o
      @user-qi6pv9jh7o 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@rachelcookie321 ...FBI?

  • @Mini_Mjni
    @Mini_Mjni ปีที่แล้ว +1200

    When you played the Mister Rodgers clips, I literally started crying. I'm not even from America, I'm a troubled kid in east Asia, and hearing his openning song just hit me with how familiar and warm his voice was, even though its been years since I watched the show. This was very well presented. Amazing video, keep up the great work!

    • @madlyns_artt
      @madlyns_artt ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Dude I started crying too 😭😭😭

    • @aycekoppii
      @aycekoppii ปีที่แล้ว +34

      same 😭 i started crying too. I admire his devotion to really teach children

    • @kikiblipblop3047
      @kikiblipblop3047 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      IT MADE ME CRY TOO

    • @rgh271
      @rgh271 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      at least i wasn’t the only one crying

    • @at_oussama
      @at_oussama ปีที่แล้ว +13

      never heard of him until I saw the Tom Hanks film of him, he's genuinely a saint.

  • @staceyann1180
    @staceyann1180 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    There was a real life man (neuroscientist John Lilly) who tried to teach dolphins to speak. They filled a house with water, found a woman to bond with the baby dolphin and tried to teach him English. Lilly insisted he was starting to speak; not mimic like a parrot but actually understanding his words. The recordings are interesting but I'm probably hearing what I want to hear more than what is actually there.
    Turns out the ridiculous Flipper storyline is actually based on true events!
    I forgot to mention Lilly was also a strong advocate for hallucinogens. Although I'm certain that's entirely unrelated.

    • @willowjohnson8553
      @willowjohnson8553 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      also she used to … be intimate with the dolphin. so

    • @lavender732
      @lavender732 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@willowjohnson8553do you mean he

    • @willowjohnson8553
      @willowjohnson8553 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      sorry no, i meant the lady who was actually in the dolphin pool. she would give him a hand iykwim

  • @SpellboundWolf
    @SpellboundWolf 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My dad showed Mr. Rogers to me when I was incredibly young, but has forgotten all of the lessons about patience & kindness. He allows anger to control who he is because he's afraid of losing control himself. I haven't spoken to him in over a year.
    Thank you for teaching me about smoking advertising.

  • @aurorethebore
    @aurorethebore ปีที่แล้ว +715

    I started crying over the part about Mr. Rogers. As a kid who grew up never feeling valued or loved, I really wish I’d watched that “baby show” I never liked as a kid. Despite that, I’m so glad so many kids who did watch got that validation and love (parasocial as it may be) growing up.

    • @astoldbynickgerr
      @astoldbynickgerr ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I was fighting back tears during those clips. I’m an adult now and still don’t feel valued or loved. I wish I had someone like Mr. Rogers in my life. I definitely agree with your last sentence.
      I think they should reboot that show or something for ppl today 😅🥹

    • @theamazinggamerperson3474
      @theamazinggamerperson3474 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hope your doing better now

    • @craigcuozzo6791
      @craigcuozzo6791 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@astoldbynickgerr i do honestly would wish that too but, to be real, a saint like him comes along only once or twice in a generation.

    • @AzureRadio
      @AzureRadio ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'll fully admit that it made me cry as well. We were so very blessed to have had him in this world and he made such a huge impact, in millions of lives. All because he stood up and spoke, and spoke from the heart, not to convince a business man, but just spoke to him as another human and poured his heart out.
      I regret that I never got the chance to meet him, but that's OK, he still had an impact

    • @LeUberTroll
      @LeUberTroll ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking I would’ve been the only one to feel how you all do. Stay safe, love yourself even though it’s hard. Eat and sleep well, exercise if you can. It’s really all we have.
      Maybe I’m feeling really sentimental but I love you guys.

  • @James-oj5bh
    @James-oj5bh ปีที่แล้ว +1217

    I’m a little embarrassed to say, but I cried at hearing Mr. Fred Rodger’s song to the senator. I was just watching this video out of mild curiosity, and was surprised by some of the info I learned, but this was a truly eye opening experience for me about how we expose children to the world through kid’s media. Thank you for making this, it was a really great video!

    • @Giantkiller130-t
      @Giantkiller130-t ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Never be embarrassed about being emotional--it's part of who we are as people and even Mr. Rogers said it is ok to cry and be emotional.

    • @owltellyouwut
      @owltellyouwut ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Yea I also cried at this part too. Just the mention of Mr. Rogers makes me miss watching the show during a simpler time in my life - or just missing being a kid for a little while in general.

    • @nancy0752
      @nancy0752 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The minute he said Rodgers would be coming up. I had to pause cause I knew it was gonna be wild and had to brace myself, and even then I had to keep pausing to compose myself. I knew he did a lot of good yet I always keep getting surprised about seeing theses things.

    • @hollycummins4136
      @hollycummins4136 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too. They should make a movie about that.

    • @fiyahspinnah
      @fiyahspinnah ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It made me cry too he was an amazing man. The real genuine article.

  • @rainbowstalkerthe2nd587
    @rainbowstalkerthe2nd587 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Dogs in production is one thing but dolphins are so intelligent, emotional, wise creatures. It’s like having a human being in the show but they don’t communicate the same way and are treated like objects

  • @SniperOnSunday
    @SniperOnSunday 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Fred Rogers was not a mere person. That man was an angel.

  • @SunriseCavalier
    @SunriseCavalier ปีที่แล้ว +926

    Fred Rogers is one of the best examples of a Christian actually living out the Gospel - he is such a visible embodiment of love and sincere concern for the well-being of every person.

    • @halfbakedmedia
      @halfbakedmedia ปีที่แล้ว +54

      One of two. The other is Weird Al, who's a Methodist.

    • @Author.Noelle.Alexandria
      @Author.Noelle.Alexandria ปีที่แล้ว +78

      He didn't make it about religion. He just plain loved and genuinely wanted to do good, and my god he did.

    • @SunriseCavalier
      @SunriseCavalier ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@halfbakedmedia oh yeah I love Weird Al, clean comedy. One of my daughter's favorite videos on here is "trapped in the drive through" and she's in grade school; has no idea about the R Kelly series, just laughs at Al's version on its own merit

    • @stasiaborginon1951
      @stasiaborginon1951 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Author.Noelle.Alexandria But love is the whole point of religion. God literally said that he's love. So when you preach about love, kindness, and being good to other you do what god wants and what he is.

    • @arcturus4762
      @arcturus4762 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@stasiaborginon1951 This is right but also wrong. God in monotheistic religion is love, but he's also justice and is capable of abhorrence hate. At least Christianity (and pretty sure Islam too), people are not to judge their neighbor because their sins will be punished by God himself when the time comes. The point of religion is literally to find "a way". If you base your entire religion on love, it's a religion of love, but most monotheistic religions are founded on the principles of the deity, which aren't simply love.

  • @James11111
    @James11111 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +511

    I remember my mother parroted the "tinky-Winky is gay" stuff and even as a small child I thought it was ridiculous.

    • @franze4
      @franze4 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      lmao how did you grow up seeing your mum

    • @James11111
      @James11111 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      @@franze4 As a woman who did her best to raise me right despite her own struggles.

    • @kanaka118446
      @kanaka118446 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@James11111that's love right there

    • @KathyHarrington
      @KathyHarrington 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      What makes this all the more ridiculous is that Tinky-Winky is carrying a magic bag, not a purse. If you even look more closely at it, it looks much more like a shopping bag than a purse.

  • @chrisz7494
    @chrisz7494 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was listening to the video and doing some chores when you said Ronald Brown wanted to eat children. I genuinely GENUINELY thought that was just censor-speak for what we normally think of regarding adults and children. Imagine my shock when i came back to the screen at 4:56

  • @NegativeTravis
    @NegativeTravis ปีที่แล้ว +333

    The PBS hearing wasn't the only time Mr. Rogers testified in front of government. In 1984 he got up in front of the Supreme Court to argue for the educational value of VCRs. His testimony was specifically cited in their decision to uphold the legality of home recording.
    Hard to believe he's been gone for 20 years now.

    • @mariotime1329
      @mariotime1329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But could he make you understand how to set the clock from blinking 12:00?

  • @Scorpio.Incubus
    @Scorpio.Incubus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +144

    How is 20 years in prison appropriate for conspiring to eat children? That man should have been sentenced to life, regardless of how old he was.

    • @Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb
      @Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      well he worked with kids for what, 35, 40 years? and he never went through with it? the fact of the matter is that if he was to have written a screenplay about it, he would have just been a hack writer. if he never made the screenplay, he gets 20 years. i dunno. seems like a huge waste of taxpayer money. but I dunno if it was an actual plot that got cut short, or a fkd up series of posts in some sick roleplay fiction. if it's the latter, i really don't like the thought of being punished for voicing things you would like, when you have no intention of pursuing it. that's thought police fascism dystopia.

    • @hotdogwater9580
      @hotdogwater9580 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      A lot of people in that position of power are child predators themselves sadly

    • @Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb
      @Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hotdogwater9580 based on....?

    • @charlesreid9337
      @charlesreid9337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      our "justice system" centers around class , race, sex and iq not justice. Young poor black man with an ounce of weed .. 10 years in prison. Middle class white child rapist.. a few years. Upperclass - counseling

    • @charlesreid9337
      @charlesreid9337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hotdogwater9580 the number of religious leaders who are pedophiles is shocking

  • @Hulderkall
    @Hulderkall ปีที่แล้ว +420

    1:02:15 The saddest thing about Bobby Driscoll's death honestly is that when his body was found, he initially wasn't even recognised by anyone and with no identification found, had his body buried on Hart Island where New York's unclaimed bodies went, unable to ever be recovered among the other remains once his family finally found out about it

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +156

      Absolutely. This was one of the “too dark to include” things. I mean, can you imagine your own son dying, and only hearing about it a year later? It’s brutal.

    • @finchcarvingadiamond
      @finchcarvingadiamond ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@PaperWill oh. Jesus...Only for him to be somewhat inspiring a disgusting villain in that Chipmunks movie of all things.. poor guy.

    • @connordervoncyberlifegesen8529
      @connordervoncyberlifegesen8529 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@finchcarvingadiamond what?

    • @connordervoncyberlifegesen8529
      @connordervoncyberlifegesen8529 ปีที่แล้ว

      @mlg noob does it?

    • @quinndaniels1928
      @quinndaniels1928 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @mlg noob more than that. The character in Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers is explicitly supposed to be an older Peter Pan that was unable to find work as he grew older and went through puberty. Which, yeah, has a lot of questionable ethics when you think about how he's portrayed as the antagonist of the movie, but then again it's the character of Peter Pan as a cartoon that is an actor, and not a voice actor that is playing a cartoon, etc, etc, etc

  • @Jaz.7777
    @Jaz.7777 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Started sobbing when Mr.rogers said “I’m proud of you, you know that I hope you do” started sobbing bawling me eyes out

  • @handlehaggler
    @handlehaggler 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    That dolphin story is unbelievably sad.. wow

  • @terrenceswiff
    @terrenceswiff ปีที่แล้ว +419

    The idea of "oh it just needs to be more marketable" is nonsense tbh which is why 4kids was mocked so often. In reality, kids love hearing about foreign things that don't exist in their reality. Why else would fantasy and sci fi be so popular by default? Removing Japanese culture was just a coward tactic from 4kids that had never been necessary.

    • @JeffreyPiatt
      @JeffreyPiatt ปีที่แล้ว +7

      4kids was doing what the Japanese rights holders wanted done to there shows. There was a toy line to sell.

    • @terrenceswiff
      @terrenceswiff ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@JeffreyPiatt Which could be done without changing anything culturally, always. People like pokemon because they're pokemon, for example. The Japanese aspects of the series wouldn't damage the brand potential

    • @blueberrypitbull87
      @blueberrypitbull87 ปีที่แล้ว

      4Kids is great. They should have kept the rights to Pokemon...The OFFICAL Pokémon company has ruined the dub and is so cheap that they cut corners when they can even though they have TONS of money. Oh and Satoshi's new actor Sarah Natochenny cannot act. She is TERRIBLE. Also, 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh dub is the best thing ever.

    • @Naixatloz
      @Naixatloz ปีที่แล้ว +18

      While kids don't care, there are sadly some parents who do.

    • @huguesdepayens807
      @huguesdepayens807 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't want to see Japanese "culture" in my media.

  • @Daviddity
    @Daviddity ปีที่แล้ว +504

    can we just talk about how great mr rogers is? like he saves all of children's educational television with one song he wrote. even without the notoriety, he still managed to single handedly carry the court case which is genuinely inspiring. i aspire to be a mr rogers.

    • @Deinonuchus
      @Deinonuchus ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ever see his appearance of The Tonight Show? He has poor Johnny Carson tied up in knots. It's worth watching.

    • @matusfekete6503
      @matusfekete6503 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm too you young to have watched Neighborhood (and from wrong part of world) so I found about Mr. Rogers only recently, but from what I know he was really special and made world better place.

  • @kikii11911
    @kikii11911 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    rewatching bc of quiet on set

  • @malverdeislove
    @malverdeislove 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My older brother put a Black Sabbath cassette in my Teddy Ruxpin. Teddy saying "I AM IRON MAN" gave me nightmares.

  • @mmechrizma
    @mmechrizma ปีที่แล้ว +483

    I literally teared up when you brought up Mr. Roger's. Although children's tv programming is full of ugliness, there are a few sincere and caring people that are really changing kids lives for the better by connecting with them in a positive way. When we have more people like that in the world, we will know we're moving in a better direction than we've been so far.

    • @leahtv7778
      @leahtv7778 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No apostrophe in his surname.

    • @DookieheadRed
      @DookieheadRed 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE NAME@@leahtv7778

  • @kalo_vera
    @kalo_vera ปีที่แล้ว +476

    "Your favourite shows are probably being made by a studio of underpaid artists"
    Man that hits even harder after learning about the working conditions of studio MAPPA (AoT season 4, Jujutsu Kaisen, and the upcoming Chainsaw Man and Jigokuraku animes)
    Same could be said about the manga industry too
    It's just depressing

    • @somo4227
      @somo4227 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      made me realise how bad it is for toei animations

    • @menchita
      @menchita ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Studios with good working conditions, like Kyoto Animation"
      =/

    • @chantekiddo2293
      @chantekiddo2293 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ye, the studio who made some of my favorite animated works of all times had one of their animators straight up die due to overworking, it's such horrible working culture that has been going on for a long time.

    • @klear19634
      @klear19634 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dont forget a lot of the work is exported to overseas studios who never get any credit

    • @Dr.Mlieko
      @Dr.Mlieko ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I suspect that this is precisely why they are capable of maintaining such high quality
      If they were to pay them better, the quality would decline to Family Guy levels in order to save costs in other ways

  • @taylorthecurator
    @taylorthecurator 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I remember watching Ren and Stimpy as a kid and thinking "Wait...The Simpsons is too adult but THIS is ok...?"

  • @kingfitzzzz
    @kingfitzzzz หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Anyone else come here to rewatch after seeing Quiet On Set?

    • @miserableyaks
      @miserableyaks หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was just thinking that this did not age well

  • @bigwendigo2253
    @bigwendigo2253 ปีที่แล้ว +1240

    Kids aren’t the only ones that are able to experience mass hysteria, adults are 100% capable. Such a weird phenomenon!
    Geller wasn’t upset either he’s just a scam artist that saw a payday. Not a good dude.

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Covid19 proved this very well, on all sides. No judgement, just saying. It was shocking to see.

    • @fuzzydude64
      @fuzzydude64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ZeranZeran Did Geller do something related to Covid?

    • @angeljones965
      @angeljones965 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@fuzzydude64 i think they meant kids and mass hysteria

    • @tigerfestivals5137
      @tigerfestivals5137 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@angeljones965 I think they're saying that covid caused mass hysteria

    • @nidohime6233
      @nidohime6233 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You could say is a consequence of being empathic creatures. Monkey see monkey do.

  • @doefarris2189
    @doefarris2189 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    Okay, but Keiko wasn't "dumped" in the ocean, there was a whole multi-million dollar rehabilitation program set up for him which involved building a giant tank in Oregon with real seawater from the pacific ocean where he was taught to deep dive and hunt for fish. Then when his health had recovered, they took him back to Iceland with a team to supervise him, and while he never integrated with a pod, he did swim with them and was able to feed himself and go wherever he wanted (Norway, in particular) and had a much better quality of life in the ocean for three years than he ever did back at Reino Aventura (where he would have died sooner).

    • @jessicaclakley3691
      @jessicaclakley3691 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Thank you for clarifying that, I’d heard that a lot of trouble had gone into his rehabilitation but was worried I’d been misinformed or misremembered which animal was being discussed

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +127

      You’re completely right, Keiko had a much better quality of life once leaving. I should have gone a bit more in depth about that, sorry.
      No matter how difficult Keiko’s experience was after being reintroduced to the wild (required feeding by the supervisors til his death, and local areas passing laws banning contact with Keiko due to his pursuit of human interaction) there’s no debate that it was still significantly better than captivity.
      Again, sorry about glossing over that.

    • @doefarris2189
      @doefarris2189 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@PaperWill no problem, the captive orca industry is a special interest of mine, so even tho I knew it was just meant to be a joke, I was like, "I must tell the people what REALLY happened!"

    • @everfluctuating
      @everfluctuating ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@PaperWill might be a good idea to collect all these corrections/elaborations and make a mini update vid!

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@everfluctuating At some point I'm hoping to make a "Everything I Was Wrong About" video lol. Maybe a 100k sub thing?

  • @leandroperezfelix78
    @leandroperezfelix78 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i tear up with the Mr. Roger segment, because i know how important is that man for the children of america, and how hes lessons are so good for younger kids, and how that man show a real care for the learning experience of kids, thats what make me tear up.
    for the most part theres no meny people that show that caracteristics, and thats the people most needed in the loneliness epidemic of today, carring people that can guide the next generation, to be good and humble people.
    im mexican yeah, but even someone that never knew who Mr. rogers was, i feel the same way about carring and helping the kids of tommorrow grow in a better enviroment than the lone home with uncarring family.
    and more personal i saw what sacrifice Mr. Roger did make me see myself a little bit hehe

  • @andrewhorvath6864
    @andrewhorvath6864 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember going on coolmath games one day at school and seeing an advertisement for the movie Sex Tape, and as a Mormon kid back then, I didn't want anybody to know, so I made sure I zoomed in to get it of screen.

  • @BluetheRaccoon
    @BluetheRaccoon ปีที่แล้ว +943

    Mr. Rogers was some of the only meaningful emotional support and comfort I had as a small child in a house rife with untreated mental illness and drug abuse. I sincerely wish his show were on PBS as re-runs instead of the merchandisable "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood". When my daughter was a toddler and I saw that program appear, it was the first negative outburst she'd ever seen in me, and I truly believe that Fred Rogers' body of work can heal this terribly damaged and traumatized world. He gave me faith that men can love and be gentle instead of scary. I would not be who I am now if it weren't for him. Edited to add: I didn't realize just how much I miss Fred Rogers until this video. My inner child has some grieving to do. The world needs Fred Rogers now more than ever. I wish I knew how to create a neighborhood organization that promotes community bonding based around his legacy.

    • @TransDrummer1312
      @TransDrummer1312 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      As someone that grew up with Mr Rogers and had to sit through Daniel Tiger because of a sister a decade my younger… Daniel Tiger is brain numbing.

    • @yes_this_is_saeko
      @yes_this_is_saeko ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I never watched Mr Roger's neighborhood but i watched ONE EPISODE and I broke down

    • @bloodgain
      @bloodgain ปีที่แล้ว +67

      If it makes you feel any better, I think Fred would have very much approved of _Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood_ and the people behind it.
      The creator, Angela Santomero, specifically studied child development and psychology and has dedicated her career to making positive children's programming. She also created _Blue's Clues_ (among quite a few other shows), during which she worked with Dr. Daniel R. Anderson, a leading researcher in developmental psychology, specializing in the effects and benefits of media in cognitive development. While Daniel Tiger has certainly been merchandised, the IP and therefore profits from this merchandise belong to the non-profit Fred Rogers Productions, which produces almost exclusively high-quality educational children's programming, most of which is available to children for free on PBS, following in Fred's legacy. Further, _Mister Rogers' Neighborhood_ was also merchandised, and the company that would eventually be called Fred Rogers Productions replaced the _for-profit_ company that benefited from that in 1971, so they've been using the income from any merchandise to improve children's programming for over 50 years now. They're doing the same work today that Fred cared about. _Mister Rogers Neighborhood_ isn't lacking a presence on TV because of them, but because it's not being asked for by PBS affiliate stations. (You can contact your PBS affiliate and let them know you'd like them to air it, by the way!) However, PBS Kids does rotate classic _Mister Rogers' Neighborhood_ episodes on their app and website alongside their newer content. (Also, unlike the cartoons I grew up with in the 80's, the merchandise follows the show instead of being the purpose for it. PBS does not advertise merchandise and does not allow advertisement within the shows. I'm familiar with several of their productions, and it's good content that children will engage with.)

    • @sentinel2407
      @sentinel2407 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I've never heard of that man nor his career in my life since I come from a completely different country, but his soft voice alone in this video and the carefully chosen words with love made me hurt. It's a good hurt, I suppose. The kind of hurt that makes you realize that "damn I'm miserable". And now, as an adult, I'm planning to watch his show to, maybe, learn something? I'm still yet to reach that point where I can, myself, love and care instead of being intimidating.

    • @Tyler-2839
      @Tyler-2839 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm healing my inner child right now with the help of books, a therapist, and Mr Rogers.

  • @marcellacassab4331
    @marcellacassab4331 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +359

    I've gotten to a point in my life where I can't hear the first notes of "It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood" without tearing up a little. What a precious soul he was. An example for us all. It was always and still is my dream to create children's entertainment. Though my audience will be a bit older than Mr. Rogers was, I'm aiming more for the tween market, he's the example I will follow in terms of always being kind, empathetic and highlighting what makes everyone special.

    • @AIA2637
      @AIA2637 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I just watched an episode with my niece the other day and it made me remember how special being a kid used to be

    • @blizzard_the_seal9863
      @blizzard_the_seal9863 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      keep at it bro!!! you can do it!!! you can make the world a better place for kids just like he did :)

    • @helmaschine1885
      @helmaschine1885 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      uh not creepy whatsoever. Maybe aim at a family audience, not specifically tweens because that sounds like a pedo aiming for their targets.

    • @marcellacassab4331
      @marcellacassab4331 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@helmaschine1885 Of course I didn't mean it like that. Get your head out of the gutter. Every story needs a target audience and I think what I'm working on will most appeal to older kids and tweens. In the publishing industry this usually ranges between being marketed to ages 9-12 or possibly 10-14. That's all.

    • @YoshiCh1ef-je6me
      @YoshiCh1ef-je6me 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The only time I don't get tearful hearing it is when the demonic entity Daniel Tiger is singing it

  • @k_a_t_i_e999
    @k_a_t_i_e999 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Mr. Rogers shaped me in a way that I am forever grateful for. I cry whenever I see old videos of him. He’s such a special man and I will definitely be showing my kids his shows when I have them ❤

  • @alicemaddock2995
    @alicemaddock2995 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Coming back to this after seeing Drake finally come forward about Brian Peck ://

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Yeah, that segment didn't age very well huh. I was 100% wrong about Schneider.

  • @upsetstudios1819
    @upsetstudios1819 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    I've never met a 12 year old who weren't already into mainstream music videos and edgy 18+ games, it's hard to imagine them being into a silly song about lunch

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  ปีที่แล้ว +132

      That is...not a bad point.

    • @jackofalltrades6129
      @jackofalltrades6129 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      I think the big thing missing is context. This was not only in the 80's, but also it was targeted for Christian families who absolutely restrict the kind of entertainment their kids consume. I know this because I was in a big community like that.
      Also, how many 12 year olds HAVE you met? >.>

    • @icu3869
      @icu3869 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@jackofalltrades6129 Good point about context- that was my upbringing as well, now I'm amazed at how sheltered my neighborhood was in 1984.
      And anyone can meet lots of 12 year olds if they are involved with their community, church, shop at the mall, visit the zoo, waterpark or amusement park- or just have a big family- my neices and nephews keep me tuned in and very updated. (they are INCREDIBLY astute and media savvy, WAY more aware of many psychological concepts, family dynamics, and dicserning about how things like "demographics" ,"marketing" and branding works. It's pretty mind blowing how far technology has advanced the collective consciousness.)

    • @sentane8031
      @sentane8031 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@icu3869 just dont go eating kids okay?

    • @JohnDlugosz
      @JohnDlugosz ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@sentane8031 Remember, commas save lives!
      "Let's eat, Billy!" ==> "Let's eat Billy!"
      It could just be a misunderstanding due to bad punctuation.

  • @bai-zewarrior
    @bai-zewarrior ปีที่แล้ว +1138

    I never grew up with mr. Rogers, hell I didn't know he existed till I was a teen and heard about the lost episodes on TH-cam, but even I have to admit, just from what I've heard about him and his show, he's an amazing man.

    • @ebonykitsune5031
      @ebonykitsune5031 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Mr Rogers was a saint. Especially for kids like me where my parents weren’t always present. My mom worked full time nights as a bartender and my dad worked days but was pretty much napping on the couch after dinner or drinking beers and we kind of had to put our selves to bed most nights. We were super poor, parents were addicts and if I didn’t live up to any expectation I was a disappointment…so for me, Mr Rogers made me feel like I was appreciated for who I was, my feelings mattered, and he made me feel like someone cared when I believed nobody did. Growing up that was the utmost influential show of my childhood. #1. When that man died my heart broke for the next generation of kids that may not get that joy. He was humble, caring and truly an extraordinary human being. 💕

    • @L0rdOfThePies
      @L0rdOfThePies ปีที่แล้ว +23

      As a foreigner who never grew up with mr rogers, he was definitely an amazing man who really cared about kids, because of my ideal professions i can connect with his care for the next generation, it inspires me to nurture them myself as best i can from my position as an older teen or any authority over them. he did alot of good from his place in the world

    • @left4twenty
      @left4twenty ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Head injury as a toddler knocked out almost all of my memories before the age of five, but one of them is listening to Mr. Rogers. Listening to him is a sublime regressive experience for me every time.

    • @Ryan_Metzelar
      @Ryan_Metzelar ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here

    • @sonic23233
      @sonic23233 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pittsburgh loves the man

  • @IlikeCats662
    @IlikeCats662 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Even us Danes were pretty shocked about John dillerman, his last name is literally dickman. But most of us grew up watching “Onkel reje”, a show about an old guy who’s supposed to be like a weird uncle who smokes a lot, hates personal hygiene and has a song about it, eats a lot of junk, teaches you to not listen to your parents and is generally pretty weird and definitely wouldn’t air on tv in most countries.

    • @AYVYN
      @AYVYN 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always wondered why Danish girls liked me. This is distressing.

  • @emmanuelrainville8244
    @emmanuelrainville8244 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’m from Canada (French-dominant part of it), so I only heard echoes of Mr. Rogers and only when I was older, but it’s truly admirable and touching to see how much he could not be ‘corporate’ to talk about this subject. He had to go off-script to get his point across rather than ramble a bunch of well thought out words; No, he had to talk with his heart about his passion for educating and teaching children, he couldn’t do it with a already written text

  • @Culo_Sniffin_Cheezit
    @Culo_Sniffin_Cheezit ปีที่แล้ว +389

    I can't imagine how terrified I'd be locked in a room with an adult, as a child, who is trying to molest me. Running around the room to get away from him? I mean seriously, poor Shirley!

  • @TheCr0chetCr0ckp0t
    @TheCr0chetCr0ckp0t ปีที่แล้ว +264

    What is really impressive from this guy is not that he talked about depressing subjects for a whole hour and until 3 in the morning, but the fact that he wrote everything he said in English Captions. Well done man.👏👏

    • @dragonk4tz470
      @dragonk4tz470 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes! Big thanks for the captions!!!

  • @OffTheRailGaming
    @OffTheRailGaming 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    "Their weirdly psychadelic shire"
    Lol I've never heard the telletubbies described so aptly. It truly felt like a weird fever dream, even as a baby.

  • @Juffrou_ffoorie
    @Juffrou_ffoorie หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Well the dan schnieder bit didn't age well

    • @PaperWill
      @PaperWill  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Noooo, it did not lol.
      I left a full update in the description/pinned comment, because I was 100% wrong.

  • @Richardiii2
    @Richardiii2 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    To be fair, at the time of the Flintstones smoking ad, it was apparently meant to be a cartoon targeted to adults, not children.

    • @peteg475
      @peteg475 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah it was prime-time animation.

    • @SGresponse
      @SGresponse ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Heh. It was a show PRODUCED BY THE TOBACCO COMPANY for the sole purpose of cigarette advertising.
      Learned that one recently and it blew my mind big time.

    • @PsRohrbaugh
      @PsRohrbaugh ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@SGresponse This was the case with a lot of shows (where the entire show was produced by a company as an advertisement). You'd have the "Geritol variety hour" or something.

    • @Ranixo286
      @Ranixo286 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah it was the original "Family Guy" basically. Heavily based off the Honeymooners too, which was also moreso targeted at adults watching prime time.

    • @d.b.4671
      @d.b.4671 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SGresponse - I've long wondered if they picked the name "Flintstone" because it sounded vaguely like "Winston." Thanks for all but confirming it for me. ;)

  • @Finchwing
    @Finchwing ปีที่แล้ว +619

    This was such an interesting watch, thank you for making this ToT I'm an animator in kids TV and the passion people have for something seemingly unimportant, like a kids show, is so strong. There's plenty of whack stuff like weird client requests for how to present kids, unfair pay/working hours, incredible crunching, but somehow with all that we are still ploughing on in the industry and trying our best

    • @Finchwing
      @Finchwing ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@PaperWill aw that's real sweet to say ;^; thank you!

    • @darienb1127
      @darienb1127 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Man, I really hope that things can get better for you guys in the future

  • @Jubawub
    @Jubawub 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fred Rogers is my hero. I'm tearing up right now. This is why I went back to college, to get into kid's educational broadcasting. PBS was my lifeline.

  • @calopsitarevoltada6109
    @calopsitarevoltada6109 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is a tremendously good video.
    I didn't watch Mr. Rogers show, but the way you introduce his speech as a glimmer of hope, struck me so hard that I almost cried.
    Great writing, nice pacing, and overall a pleasant experience.
    And just as an addendum, "Please, you said 8 months without videos on the credits, but it's been 14 already 😭"