My kid started watching another talking vehicle show. The garbage trucks name? Stinky. Bulldozer? Dirty. And the Firetruck? Brave. There’s a bunch of anthropomorphized propaganda shows out.

The lack of classism and bigotry in SpongeBob is always an appreciated. Really, all of its lessons were well thought out, between respecting yourself, respecting your friends, and learning to exploit the sexuality of the proletariat for money. Way ahead of its time.

There’s this cognitive dissonance that we don’t need to police things made for children because no one would be so evil as to manipulate a child, but also we’re constantly worrying about random people manipulating our children. Like… Why don’t we turn that scrutiny towards the corporations obviously manipulating our children for their own gain? Why isn’t advertising to children banned as a form of brainwashing??

So many contradictions…