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rob morrisonmr. t cartoon intro is surprisingly gay written by geoffrey on 04/30/07
not that there’s anything wrong with this, but the amount of effeminate and homo-erotic subtext in the intro to the mr. t cartoon is surprising! here’s a run-down:
1. the gymnastics - now i can understand using some gymnastics as a way to draw in more girl viewers, but there’s so much of it here, it’s like watching the part of the olympics your mom loves — as opposed to watching a cartoon about mr. t kicking ass! kinda gay.
2. the way he puts his hand on the kid’s shoulder and awkwardly leans in. very uncomfortable, very gay.
3. mr. t sticks out his butt, then thrusts, to sink a sailboat. …gay…
4. finally, there’s something effeminate about spelling it out: mister t. “oh, mister! i could just gobble you up,” said the gay man.
i guess these were simpler times, when you could put gay messages in your children’s cartoons and no one would catch them. i wonder if the spongebob people ever wish they lived in the early 80s.
filed under tv kids shows: 80's
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tafkaga May 10
The fact that you have found so many things in this that look ‘gay’ to you tells me that you’re the one that’s incredibly gay, not the intro to this cartoon.
geoffrey May 10
so if i find a lot of things in an episode of “queer as folk” that look gay, it’s because i’m gay and the show isn’t? i don’t follow you.
tafkaga Nov 27
‘Queer As Folk’ is a show with overtly gay themes. To find something gay about this cartoon, you have to be either looking really hard — or acutely aware of anything that could be interpreted as a gay nuance.
Follow that?
geoffrey Nov 28
half a year later, i agree that there’s nothing *really* gay in the cartoon. i was just having a goof-around funny-poke at the big lug!!
what’s interesting to me is this idea that you are what you interpret. for example, i think the song “bein’ green” is about living life as a minority. you have all these problems when you have a different color of skin, and sometimes you think about how easy your life would be if you were another skin color. however, when you think about it, “green” really is beautiful, and you should be proud of who you are.
whether i’m completely right or totally off-base, i didn’t have to be a minority person myself to think of that interpretation.