I grew up with this show. It was pretty good 20 years ago, but when the animation took a nose dive from traditional hand drawn cell animation to cheap flash animation I knew the show had lost its quality. The stories got worse, the characters continued to grow more annoying, they kept going through the same lessons over and over, it was a mess.
Then in 2019 they decided to increase the awful by making their teacher gay and having the kids attend his wedding. Okay, who the heck invites their students to their wedding? That's immediately creepy, especially since they're all 8 or 9 year olds.
Then in 2020 after "St. George Floyd" overdosed, "Arthur" decides to talk about racism and "being black" in a show where all the characters are animals, with varying skin colors from yellow to pure white to tan. How is "being black" supposed to work with animals? It doesn't, but the show pretends like it does.
I suppose fans of this show as kids, including myself, should have seen this coming since it was produced in Canada.
The one cool thing about the show is that Steven Crowder did the voice work for "The Brain" for some time when he was a kid. Since Steven was from Canada this makes a lot of sense.
Classic Arthur is one of the few cartoons I'm okay with my kids watching. Nice to see kids being kids. Siblings fight. Friends prank each other. Everyone has their own problems to deal with, but they man up and deal with them.
And Brain was the best Arthur character. Change my mind.
I grew up with this show. It was pretty good 20 years ago, but when the animation took a nose dive from traditional hand drawn cell animation to cheap flash animation I knew the show had lost its quality. The stories got worse, the characters continued to grow more annoying, they kept going through the same lessons over and over, it was a mess.
Then in 2019 they decided to increase the awful by making their teacher gay and having the kids attend his wedding. Okay, who the heck invites their students to their wedding? That's immediately creepy, especially since they're all 8 or 9 year olds.
Then in 2020 after "St. George Floyd" overdosed, "Arthur" decides to talk about racism and "being black" in a show where all the characters are animals, with varying skin colors from yellow to pure white to tan. How is "being black" supposed to work with animals? It doesn't, but the show pretends like it does.
I suppose fans of this show as kids, including myself, should have seen this coming since it was produced in Canada.
The one cool thing about the show is that Steven Crowder did the voice work for "The Brain" for some time when he was a kid. Since Steven was from Canada this makes a lot of sense.
Classic Arthur is one of the few cartoons I'm okay with my kids watching. Nice to see kids being kids. Siblings fight. Friends prank each other. Everyone has their own problems to deal with, but they man up and deal with them.
And Brain was the best Arthur character. Change my mind.
Brain definitely was, I agree.