Quiet On Set - Blog Posts
After watching it's Quiet on Set, I want Brian Peck, Dan Schneider, and those that wrote character letters hunted for sport. But I also blame the parents, and not just the actors' parents who turned blind eyes in order to fund the family, but also our parents. I know so many parents who laughed at these inappropriate jokes being preformed by children because "Nickelodeon is just trying to make it fun for adults too". These kids shows are not supposed to be "fun for adults too" especially if it's children preforming these "jokes". If the parents of our time had been like this isn't right, and had done something or said something, who knows what could have happened. I'm so angry and disappointed in the adults who recognized the adult joke, but didn't try to protect the child preforming it.
There's just such a huge difference between shows like Animaniacs that included more adult/political jokes for the parents they figured would be watching with the kids and making little kids act out pornographic scenarios. He's disgusting, but the network okayed it.
I've mentioned before on this blog numerous times that while I love Life With Loopy, I tend to distance it from the rest of KaBlam since I don't care for much of the rest of the show (besides the ska music and Action League Now but that's beside the point). And with Quiet on Set out, I'm reminded of this one scene from the Henry and June wraparounds that REALLY bugs me, even moreso now with all we know.
So there's this one bit where Henry washes his and June's clothes with disappearing ink, and since they're cartoon characters, this makes their clothes start vanishing piece by piece. They freak out, June ends up hiding, but we end up seeing Henry lose all of it on-screen as an APM music cue called "Take It Off" plays.
...already really creepy in the late 90s, absolutely horrifying when you realize how much it plays out EXACTLY like some Dan Schneider shit. There are adult jokes in Nicktoons (and actually most cartoons to be honest) and for the MOST part they're pretty funny (mainly because the majority of them are done by adult characters played by adults)...but this was waaaaaaaaaay too close to what was actually going on with Nick's live-action shows, even if not then, what we'd eventually see down the line (this was at least animated so they weren't making anyone do it on screen, but...still. It makes you think, especially with the things they got away with on the Nickcoms). It just leaves a really, really gross taste in my mouth and it makes it age even worse than the dated pop culture references.
There's a fine line between "risque joke we're throwing in for the parents watching" and ".....someone actually approved this". Now that I'm looking back at stuff in The Amanda Show and everything in a whole new light, I remembered this since it was on around the same time, and yeah. It's just really weird and really creepy.
THISSS
This is not only in Nickelodeon, people need to stop assuming that it is. This is everywhere.
