25 Replies to “Was It The Greenface?”

    1. Not just the Swedish Chef, but also the Italian-accented guy with the boomerang fish act, plus countless one-off, throw-away jokes.

      1. “One of these Muppets is doing his own thing” … “One of these Muppets is doing his own thing” …“One of these Muppets is doing his own thing”.

        So the Sesame Street indoctrination jingle wasn’t REALLY about “diversity” … was it? Some “diversity” is more equal than others.

    2. Have a “buttonhole” relative who knows/knew the original on which the Swedish chef was based. Got the impression that all amused by this, especially the original.

    1. Thankfully … my 1yo grandson is more into “The Wiggles” than Disney …

      Although, I DO encourage my grandsons ogling of all the HOT pubescent looking Disney princesses. They all look so … uh … “ripe for picking” to quote John Steinbeck

  1. Much of the responsibility for the rise of green theocracy can likely be pointed at decades of Disney productions. ‘Bambi’ could have been the inspiration for the Suzuki types that made humans out to be the “enemies of nature”. I call it the Disney-Suzuki mind-f..k.

    1. In addition, the Disney nature movies sanitized much of what goes on in nature. Life in the wild can be nasty, brutish, and short and showing things as they are might have traumatized the kiddies.

      Then there’s the misconception that lemmings commit mass suicide, popularized by–you guessed it!–Disney. By the way, that bit in White Wilderness was apparently filmed far from the Arctic (Banff National Park, I think).

      Disney….. fake news before there was fake news.

      1. Actually the ‘mass suicide’ of the critters was filmed in Calgary on the side of the Bow Reservoir.

        They had to haul truckloads of the arctic rats in to make the shot.

  2. Have a family member (button-hole but still one of the family) who knows/knew the man who inspired the Muppets’ Swedish chef. As far as I could figure, none of the family had any problems with the parody, while the actual chef thought it was great fun.

  3. My question to this, if it was wrong then, and is wrong now, why put it on Disney+?
    Seem to me, we have some in=fighting at Disney between the “woke” SJWs and the money grubbing “capitalistic pigs.”
    The woke crewed is running them into the ground and the upper management is trying to save the “House the Mouse” built. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group

  4. The 1964 Swiss Family Robinson and a couple of other classics also sport this warning at the front.

  5. Society’s currently biggest problem is our governments and politicians have created two different realities.
    The fantasy is what they project as reality when in fact unless you have a multitude of exemptions, your breaking some law or restrictions.
    Good one is come get your experimental vaccination shot that our government heavily promotes as being safe with poor or bad data while the manufacturer gets an exemption from prosecution should you die or have a bad reaction to this experiment. But our government promotes heavily the fantasy that “normal” life will return while our media has our politicians spinning like tops with conflicting reports.
    While our businesses now have even more laws and restrictions on top of the current massive load.
    Smart money would run away from Canada as they promote uncertainty with their business investments. Other countries without these flick of the wrist laws are far more stable for long-term investors.

    1. We import a massive amount of products that we cannot legally make in Canada unless you have government exemptions and government incentives.

      A great deal of our current new investment is by our own government creating credit.

  6. One amusing comment:

    LOL…so ridiculous. There’s even a disclaimer on the George Burns episode because of his trademark cigar. I don’t know how these people function in the real world, if they even go outside to begin with.

    MND: I was puzzled by the Netflix warnings: nudity, bad language, and …… smoking.

  7. If they were wrong then, will they be giving back all the money they earned on those shows/episodes?

    I think we all know the answer to that….

  8. A lot of old shows carry some kind of disclaimer on them when you go to stream them, although Disney’s does seem to be particularly obnoxious in its moral preening.

    I watched the first episode of The Jeffersons last night via CTV’s streaming service. There’s a shorter such disclaimer on that one: “It may contain language, attitudes, cultural depictions and racial prejudices which may cause offence.” At least that dispenses with the preening.

    Sure enough, the “N” word is used twice in an argument toward the end of the episode. I said to my wife, “Yeah, they couldn’t get away with that one any more.” But of course the point is that George Jefferson was not less racist than Archie Bunker was; he just showed it in different ways.

    Still funny. It holds up.

  9. Ralph Cramden giving it to “them” right in the kisser.
    Edith, stifle yourself. Oh Archie.
    Meathead!
    Hop-sing what’s for dinner?
    Oh mammy.
    Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.

  10. Unfortunately, most on the left seem to have attended the “Humpty Dumpty school of Linguistics” and the “Scrooge McDuck School of Economics” and the “Orwell school of future history”…

    it shouldn’t be surprising that they want to erase the past

  11. I take offence with the depiction of the curmudgeonly gentlemen in the wings. That’s — ageism, or some such silly thing.

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