There’s a new feature here at J. Cart. Overanal., and it’s called Mini-Analyzations! We’ll throw these up a few at a time. These below are all from the old archives.
Again, don’t hesitate to send in your own.
- I guess it’s worth mentioning that of the 101 dalmatians, the minority of them had blue collars. This has implications ranging from gender discrimination (the color of the collar is associated to the character’s gender) to socio-economic generalizations toward blue collar workers.
- Contributed by Fawzi - In Robotech, haven’t you noticed that the RDF is considered a defense force? Only Japan has a national defense force, and since the show was animated in Japan, it would be obvious that they would be a defense force. If the show was animated in the United States, they would be the Robotech Army.
- Contributed by Seprihoth5 - If you will note at the beginning of The Simpsons, the “Simps” part is visible before the “ons” part. This is undoubtedly a reference to the word(s) “simpleton” or “simple-minded,” etc.
- Contributed by Peter I. - In Transformers, all the bad guys were some kind of flying object and the good guys were some type of vehicle.
- Contributed by LUVMYHALEYBUG - The native country of Boris Badunov and Natasha Fatale, Pottsylvania, is basically a combination of the extreme American stereotypes of World War II Germany and Cold War Russia.
- Contributed by The Editor
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Re: Robotech/Macross
I bring this to your attention.
http://neojaponisme.com/?x=0&y=0&s=macross
Re: 101 Dalmatians
IIRC, the girls had blue collars and the boys had red. Pongo had a red collar and Perdita had a blue when they first met and then as their puppies grew old enough for collars, it was split that way. Now, if there were more female than male puppies, that I don’t remember at all.
Re: “In Transformers, all the bad guys were some kind of flying object and the good guys were some type of vehicle.”
It’s a racial difference. That puts a different slant on it, doesn’t it?
Hm…As far as the Simpsons go, that’s possible, but I think that it’s more likely that it’s either unintentional (since the cloud is moving that way), or has to do with the way “The Spimpsons” is sung at the same time. (Drawn out, so the parts of the word- I don’t say syllables because that’s not how they would be broken up correctly- appear drawn out as well.)
Just my humble opinion.