On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of my friends pointed out that Scrooge McDuck might work as an > example of the sort of cartoon character the folks at Fox would like. > I added Richie Rich as a second option. Then we were stumped. Daffy > Duck probably doesn't work since he is a buffoon who tends to get his > beak blown off by Elmer Fudd with some regularity. > Well, if you watch the new Looney Tunes sitcom, you will discover that Daffy Duck is a jobless person who mooches off of Bugs Bunny. Interestingly, Bugs doesn't appear to work either though he might be living off the profits of the pizzeria he bought which is run day to day by Speedy Gonzales. Anyway, Daffy would probably be used as an example of the lazy moochers Fox News says are the people occupying Wall Street. Thinking of rich people, Goldie Gold for number 3 -- she owned the "Gold Street Journal" and went on adventures with her paramour, GSJ reporter "Action" Jack. Since she runs the paper herself, she and Jack investigates the stories. It could easily be a story of two people taking on the liberal media by reporting the stories they won't. Someone call James O'Keefe. He can be consulting producer. There's the obvious ones from comic books, like Tony Stark of Iron Man. There's already dozens of articles claiming the Iron Man 2 movie is a love letter to Objectivism. Interestingly enough, this was one character not co-created by Steve Ditko. Seen similar claims for Batman in Batman Begins... Another one would be Daddy Warbucks of Little Orphan Annie who, at least during the lifetime of his creator Harold Gray, was very ant-FDR and anti-New Deal. It turns out, characters that are amoral, money-grubbing, and > isolationist don't seem to work in animated form. I did learn recently > that they have a version of The Apprentice for kids in the UK. That > made me sick to my stomach. > Funny thing, a few days ago a friend and I stumbled upon some cover art for a relaunched Richie Rich comic book where he is a rich kid adventurer -- something of a Goldie Gold (above) crossed with Ducktales and curiously Scooby Doo (all of the covers, save the Fantastic Four parody feature a supernatural element haunting the site). We remarked that it is much different time today than back when people would just follow the adventures of people who are so rich they lack common sense (original Richie Rich) or applaud when rich people just plucked poor kids from poverty and raised them (Little Orphan Annie, Diff'rent Strokes). Then she reminded me about the "Rich Housewives or etc...", the Kardashian family, and Angelina Jolie's growing family of Little Orphan Angelinas. The relaunced Richie Rich: http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=42491&mode=search Description of Goldie Gold and Action Jack: http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=1490 -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+: http://plus.google.com/113413697748381364954 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wesleymcgee -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
