Okay, I had this blog idea last night while I was completely hammered. I'm still a tad hungover so hang with me here; i'm doing my best.
So, a few weeks ago, Jarrod and I were bored and watching t.v. Of course, it was really late at night so there wasn't shit on. As I flipped through the channels, I kind of stumbled across Jonny Quest. My friend Nick had a shit ton of Jonny Quest action figures, as a kid, so I figured it'd be worth a try.
In the very first instant we watched it, we knew we were in love (with the tv show, not eachother... thats a whoole 'nother story). The show has an absolute plethora of subliminal, old school racism. It's really, really fucking funny.
It probably isn't funny to a lot of people though; I find a lot of really inappropriate stuff hilarious. As a matter of fact, in one of the episodes, Race explains to Jonny how these arabian people are "backwards to our civilized society." It's shit like that. Also, in another episode, they meet a chinese dude, so they call him Charlie. Apparently, US soldiers called all asian people charlier after vietnam or ww2- so thats pretty funny too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJk8TnS2shs
Jonny Quest is possibly the greatest T.V show ever. I might go as far as saying that it is better than Mad Men, and you know how much I like Mad Men. Race is such a hard ass, even though I think him and Dr. Quest are both gay sometimes. But I'm sure Race gets tons of tail when he is out travelling through backward countries.
ReplyDeleteOf course, man. That was back when stuff was good (before Boomerang on Cartoon Network). Get a load of this too:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCP4JghzbGM
I mean, c'mon. You can't watch that leading up to 1:44-1:45 and not laugh/smile at the humour.