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GI Joe
Reagan-era propaganda for children.
After showing my ex (when we were like 20yo) the Transformers movie (which holds up and is awesome), we decided to rent the GI Joe movie. All the badies had foreign accents. The plot revolved around some type of energy crisis. I even remember a corporate slogan for Amex worked its way into the TV show: never leave home without it.
The people who made that show should be held accountable for propagandizing children.
What? It was pure marketing for the toys. So was transformers. It was this whole thing in the 80s, but GI Joe was pretty much the classic example of it. But there was strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, even he-man, and others.
Unless you're using propaganda in place of advertising/marketing?
But the history of the GI Joe show and toys is well documented, and it wasn't tied to political shit except indirectly, in that it was essentially all US military at first.
Mind you, it eventually jumped the shark with the snake king and such as that. But it was never done as military propaganda as the goal.
The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.
I loved it myself, but Golobulus? Kinda jumping the shark lol. Jumping the snake for sure.
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I don't think most of that's propaganda. I think most of that is writers being lazy and inserting a few in-jokes for their own amusement.
Yeah a lot of older cartoons are problematic.
Tom and Jerry and pretty much any of the very old cartoons: racism
Transformers and He-man: basically made to sell toys. i.e consumerism