frog-and-toad-are-friends:

notacooltaco:

frog-and-toad-are-friends:

it’s weird that there’s a certain subset of animals that it’s okay to just graphically murder onscreen in children’s television

Bugs??

Actually, now that I think about it, there’s kind of a tiered system.

• Mammals: Literally never
• Amphibians: Also pretty much never, which is kind of strange
• Reptiles: If they die, it’s a Disney Death (falling down a big pit or whatever) but it’s more common for them to turn on the other villains and become symbols of treachery, because Bible
• Birds: You can show them get killed onscreen as long as they disappear in a comedic puff of feathers and leave no corpse
• Fish: They’re almost never anthropomorphized, so you can treat them like mindless meat even in settings where every other animal talks.  Show your other characters eating them with the heads still attached
• Invertebrates: Literally go hog-fucking-wild, you can show graphic insect dismemberment right on camera as long as all their goop and bodily fluids are bright neon colors