Captain Planet

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DanQ
The theme song is now stuck in my head this evening. I'm not just talking of the snippet you posted either, Elok, but all of it.

Same here!

Now I need to watch a freecreditreport.com commercial, those songs trump all of teh other stuck-in-head songs I've ever come across.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Now I need to watch a freecreditreport.com commercial, those songs trump all of teh other stuck-in-head songs I've ever come across.

Oh, **** you.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Though actually, there is one that's worse. There's a local RV dealership that has a jingle about having the "Sharpest Pencil in Town" that will get stuck in your head for years, particularly since they haven't changed it in at least a decade. They also have a 40ft long pencil above the entrance to the lot.

I often wonder what they're trying to say...

[DaShi]

[Blake]

I loved Captain Planet .

Originally posted by Elok
Wow, that show was cheesy, and I remember way too much of it. Like the way the Central American kid sucked; he was like the Aquaman of the Planeteers. "Yeah, you can control earthquakes, tornadoes, giant fireballs and tsunamis, but I can TALK TO SQUIRRELS!"

Yah that was funny!

HEEEEART!

[Kuciwalker]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway

[Dinner]

Captain Planet teaches us racism

There are many theories that cartoons of all sorts have a political message of some sort underneat their cute skin. Well, it took me until my late teens to find my own theory. And now I have it, Captain Planet was a blatent slap in the face to nearly all of its characters.
I'll list em off by the elements that they represented:

Fire: I don't remember what the accent was, but I associate redheads with Ireland and Scotland (am I to blame on this conclusion?) and I remember him being the one that made the brash decisions and having a temper (but then again its been like a decade since i've seen the cartoon, this isn't my strongest arguement)

Water-straight up comparison to the monsoon season in Asia, nothing really offensive here

Air-clean on air

Love- what a ****ty power. firecrotch can set things on fire and all the little Indian boy can do is make things gay, like for instance tigers. I swear he made this badass tigers really gay like they belonged to Sigfried and Roy.

Earth- my strongest arguement. give the white guy fire, asian water, white girl air, indian love, but who gets the dirt? the black guy. why the black guy? if his ring backfires it won't show up as much on him? They could have really made a point by giving him water or fire instead, but no, they gave him dirt.

http://www.ubersite.com/m/14697

[MarkG]

what do you need Captain Planet when you have Al Gore?

[Sandman]

When I was younger, I assumed that the show had been produced in the Eastern Bloc, since it showed Americans in a bad light, whilst the commie girls were really smart. It also treated the Soviet Union as a continent. And all the baddies were capitalists.

And of course, Heart . Why didn't he just pick up litter or hand out condoms, that'd've been more effective.

[bipolarbear]

Originally posted by MarkG
what do you need Captain Planet when you have Al Gore?

Al Gore is to Captain Planet as:

A) Hillary is to Obama
B) Muqtada al-Sadr is to Nouri al-Maliki
C) Bruce Wayne is to Batman

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Sandman
When I was younger, I assumed that the show had been produced in the Eastern Bloc, since it showed Americans in a bad light, whilst the commie girls were really smart. It also treated the Soviet Union as a continent. And all the baddies were capitalists.

A neutral POW.

[classical_hero]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
How exactly did you NOT notice Captain Planet's questionable sexual orientation?

Just like how He-Man is of questionable sexual orientation. This is the subliminal things that cartoon makers are putting in their cartoons to make kids gay.

Every time I know watch an episode of He-Man, I keep thing of the brilliant SNL parody "The Ambiguously Gay Duo". I cannot watch He-Man without laughing any more.

[Heraclitus]

I remember an episode where Captain planet threw a nuke into space and it exploded. The explosion was complete with a mushroom cloud.

In fracking space! This seemed just a little too ridiculus to me and I was 8 or something.

[MattBowron]

then again you could consider the X-men series being a vision about how homosexuality could be gay, Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) thinks so

Also did anyone know Meg Ryan did the voice of Doctor Blight?