I can remember when Nickelodeon was an oasis of beautiful, creative, wholesome -- and completely politics-free -- programming for kids. That all began changing around the mid-80s, when its programming suddenly started being "edgy", with aggressively body-distorting animation, gross-out "humor" and veiled sexual references. A good way to prepare the soil for the political correctness police, I guess. It has never bothered my "liberal" relatives and acquaintances that these things seem to go hand-in-hand, everywhere. They don't seem to have noticed.
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I can remember when Nickelodeon was an oasis of beautiful, creative, wholesome -- and completely politics-free -- programming for kids. That all began changing around the mid-80s, when its programming suddenly started being "edgy", with aggressively body-distorting animation, gross-out "humor" and veiled sexual references. A good way to prepare the soil for the political correctness police, I guess. It has never bothered my "liberal" relatives and acquaintances that these things seem to go hand-in-hand, everywhere. They don't seem to have noticed.
"we did it?" the most disturbing part of this snipet is that dora is calling the monkey her brother.
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