Comments on: Mini-Analyzations http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2009/02/27/mini-analyzations-9/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:50:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nick http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2009/02/27/mini-analyzations-9/#comment-839 Tue, 12 May 2009 14:13:04 +0000 http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/?p=603#comment-839 RE: The count in sesame street having OCD symptoms: It’s deliberate. Vampires of lore are supposed to be obsessed with counting and have to count everything (i.e. the whole ‘throw a handful of rice at a vampire to stop it following you).

So in sesame street that he is a vampire count who counts shouldn’t be much of a suprise.

]]> By: Edward Liu http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2009/02/27/mini-analyzations-9/#comment-466 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:03:41 +0000 http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/?p=603#comment-466 For what it’s worth, Disney did the same “darker complexioned character” == “evil” in “Aladdin,” too, with Jafar being noticeably darker skinned than Aladdin, the Sultan or Princess Jasmine. I don’t think the “always shown in shadow” argument holds any water at all for that movie.

This is one of those times where I find that the one of the biggest obstacles to discussing race these days is that we have no relatively neutral terms for it in the language any more. “Racial stereotyping” or a “racist” decision carry a lot more connotation than is intended in many situations, and I think this is one of them. I have no way of talking about this succinctly without associating Disney animators with the KKK when that’s definitely not my intention.

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