The Ridiculous Anti-Ninja Turtles Campaign From The 90s

By Zeon Santos in Entertainment, Gaming, Science Fiction, Society & Culture, Toys, TV, Video Clips on Jan 16, 2012 at 10:35 pm

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Apparently there was a group of Canadian moralists who fought against violent, corrupting influences on children in the early 90s, and made their message known in a propaganda film entitled Not Just Fun And Games.

These squares despised toys, and had an awful lot of bad things to say about our beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, probably because their fathers never bought them that G.I. Joe doll they always wanted.

Why pile on more hate for the poor mutants, morality police-haven’t they been through enough? I mean, they already live in the sewer, what more do you want?

–via The Daily What

Tags: campaign against pop culture, canadian, not just fun and games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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lonewolfe13
Jan 16th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
* GI Joe ACTION Figure

^_^;
Zeon Santos
Jan 16th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
haha, yeah I would have written action figure if these guys weren’t so old. When they were kids, they were playing with dolls, big old clunky clothed dolls.
khendar
Jan 16th, 2012 at 11:13 pm
Awesome. They included Hero Quest as an example of witchcraft. No wonder we had so many years of drought when I was a kid.
DocBrown
Jan 16th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
“I’m gonna get rid of that Michael Jackson chocolate bar before someone picks it up for their kids.”
{eating noises}
soupenham
Jan 16th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
the moment he mentioned that the characters in TMNT used magic and called splinter the hero I just stopped watching the video.

too many facepalms have been made before the first minute.
observer
Jan 17th, 2012 at 12:12 am
I find people like this very sad. Didn’t Jesus turn water into wine and then 2 loaves of bread into 40 loaves. Sorry, but that sounds like Witchcraft to me. Witchcraft can be either good or bad, it depends on the person performing the magic. I lean more towards Wicca than Christianity. But, there are a lot of people who perform so called white magic who I just don’t want anything to do with. I know the difference between good and bad and right and wrong, I don’t need any religion telling me what’s what. So there. (blows raspberry)
oOPonyOo
Jan 17th, 2012 at 12:46 am
Man, the origin comics would have blown these lamer’s minds. I think they underestimate the intelligence of their flock. Oh, wait.
oOPonyOo
Jan 17th, 2012 at 12:50 am
Oh yeah, I think they could all stand to get much more higher.
Zeppo
Jan 17th, 2012 at 1:13 am
I think this is from a show called “Today in bible Prophecy” which aired of Vision TV in canada back in the 90s. They did a show about the Star Trek: The next Generation episode called “Who Watches the Watchers” (the one with “The Picard”). They claimed it mocked faith and christianity.
Zeppo
Jan 17th, 2012 at 1:19 am
Actually it was called “This week in Bible Prophecy”.
Kirsten Sundfor
Jan 17th, 2012 at 3:53 am
@oOPonyOo, i think people who get this kind of paranoid should simply obstain from using at all.

Turtle power!!
rogerweirdman
Jan 17th, 2012 at 5:03 am
This is nut’s just plain screwy. I am a christian, and believe it or not I can eat Michael Jackson chocolate bars without guilt, and watch as much TMNT as I want. Not all Christians are like this
Jimmay
Jan 17th, 2012 at 5:54 am
Smithers was not Homers secretary! He was Mr. Burns’ assistant! Get the facts right, video guy.
Jolly
Jan 17th, 2012 at 6:21 am
“I find people like this very sad. Didn’t Jesus turn water into wine and then 2 loaves of bread into 40 loaves?”

No.
Dobalina
Jan 17th, 2012 at 8:16 am
They were referring to Karl, Homer’s assistant, voiced by Harvey Fierstein, in the episode where Homer grew hair and became an executive.
Samuel222
Jan 17th, 2012 at 9:41 am
@Jolly: Do the details of the fairy tale really matter? Jesus did all kinds of unbelievable things, such as curing blindness, walking on water, turning water into wine, feeding many people off a few fish and bread, and last but not least: Resurrecting after death. If that’s not an astonishing feat of magic, then what is it?
Ryan S
Jan 17th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
“Good versus Evil equals confrontation” – Partners in Kryme
Ryan S
Jan 17th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
If Jesus literally turned water into wine then that would make him a magician, but if he turned people away from wine and onto water that would make him a true spiritual leader. I think the expression is misinterpreted to mean that he literally changed water into wine and not that by the administration of some wisdom his followers’ desires shifted to water from wine, as if the value of the two substances had been inverted.
Ryan S
Jan 17th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I say this because it is common among esoteric (truly esoteric) teachings that when the individual becomes liberated from the prison of egotism their value system is inverted and that which they detested becomes desirable, and that which they desired detestable.
Rumson
Jan 18th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
You’re a real buzz kill,Ryan S.

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