anybody remember that Tiny Toon Adventures episode where a guy began laughing so hard at old noodle limb cartoons that he started inflating like Veruca Salt with no explanation and then exploded
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You're right, it was more of an attempt at reclamation than an outright denial of its racist history. I mostly remember it feeling kind of skeevy and rather disingenuous.
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It's interesting that recent looks back at this genre like Bendy and the Ink Machine and Spinel in Steven Universe aren't simple nostalgia like this episode was They don't directly address the racism but they associate this animation style with dirty secrets and checkered pasts
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