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

Scholar 1: *writes a thing*
Scholar 2: Here is my review of his thing. In closing, it is shit.
Scholar 1: It has come to my attention that Scholar 2 referred to my work as shit. I have for you now an essay on why my work is NOT shit and why Scholar 2 is henceforth dead to me.
Scholar 2: It has been brought to my attention that Scholar 1-