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01/08/11(Sat)20:31 No.44509261>Topical
issues featured in Dinosaurs include environmentalism, women's rights,
sexual harassment, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights,
body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of
Robbie getting caught doing a mating dance by himself), drug abuse,
racism, peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples, corporate crime,
government interference of parenting, and allusions to homosexuality and
communism (in the guise of herbivorism).[11]
>The
two-part episode "Nuts to War," in which the two-legged dinosaurs go to
war with the four-legged dinosaurs over rights to pistachio trees,
aired in February and March 1992, and was almost certainly in response
to the Persian Gulf War. Dialogue in the episode addresses war
profiteering (by the Wesayso Corporation of B.P. Richfield, Earl's boss,
which sells weaponry to both sides), the casualties of war (limited to
one two-legger, which the Sinclair family thought for a time was
Robbie), the war's use as a distraction from domestic issues during an
election year, government suppression of information, and the harassment
of the antiwar movement. The (politically) hawkish dinosaurs created a
catchphrase for their political party: "We Are Right" (W.A.R.). Earl,
originally a hawk but later disillusioned, takes to protesting the war
with a sign reading "Pistachio Eaters Against the Chief Elder"
(P.E.A.C.E.), a backronym.
>In the
episode "I Never Ate For My Father," in lieu of carnivorism, Robbie
chooses to eat vegetables, and the other characters liken this to
homosexuality, irreverence, vegetarianism, communism, and drug abuse.
well fuck, shit was deep, but totally went over my head when I was watching it. |
