Sunday, March 21, 2010

Are You Afraid of the Cultural Stereotypes?

This is from an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? in which children from around the world are abducted for a kind of intergalactic zoo. I love the costume designer's attempts to establish that some of the kids are FOREIGN.

"Gee, little boy in the Agbada, where could you possibly be from? Africa?! Why I was not expecting that! And you in the poncho--Sweden, right? Wait, Mexico? Mind = blown."

How big an area do those thumbprints on the map convert to in actuality? Some of those kids look like they might have a five-thousand mile walk ahead of them. And notice how the two Canadian heroes take advantage of the situation to finally cross the border into America.

Also, why do mad scientists continue to not only install self-destruct switches, but make them really big and obvious? There might as well be a sign above it that says Do Not Push (Unless You Want to Defeat Me and Escape)

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