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[-] Shmandom@feddit.uk 170 points 2 months ago

#1 is doing the show for the children: they love when it feels risqué and adult-y.

#2 is doing the show to get parents' trust.

[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 137 points 2 months ago

I regularly pray Mr. Rogers remains the counterexample to this trend 🙏

[-] otter@lemmy.zip 85 points 2 months ago

I don't think he could do anything to mess that up at this point.

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago

"Mr Rogers miraculously raises from the dead only to go around diddling kids"

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago
[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The Onion

Posted: November 13th, 2025

Mr. Rogers has miraculously come back and been diddling kids ever since....

Words... Mentioning lots of people letting their kids be diddled.

So if you'd like to have Mr. Rogers diddle your kids, be sure to tune into PBS Kids at 10am Eastern.

The joke: Diddling just being wasting time with kids.

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Honestly with how the world is today if I saw this in a headline I wouldn't even flinch smh

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

I don't think he remotely fits the "overly wholesome" aspect of this meme at all. He's far more relatable to creator #1. He made shows about things that are difficult to talk about with kids. He frequently negotiated topics that others advised against. He was incredibly articulate and relatable when it came to even angry letters from ignorant parents. He communicated with children the same way he would with adults. He literally hired a working jazz club pianist to do the music and when asked what kids songs he was going to be playing, homie's basically like, "Uh, you do you fam. YOU are the music program." He even made episodes of his show that were FOR adults. He cared deeply about emotional health and knew how detrimental it is to your development at all stages in life. And he did this for decades as a devout and committed spiritual leader and never mentions God a single time. He knows how to be an example and I would be amazed if he were capable of hiding a sordid and deplorable existence.

He was also an incredible debater and speaker. He does use simpler language on the show but he is very capable. Just adding that because I'm obviously biased. I met him once and my mom wrote him an angry letter. She's always been a piece of trash but I will never forget his kindness and joy.

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He also did that episode where he and a black guy shared a foot bath together during a time of racial tension. Mr. Rogers was how church people should strive to be like.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Presbyterians don't have canonized saints but if they did, Fred Rogers would be the first on the list.

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 80 points 2 months ago
[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 46 points 2 months ago

...do I want to read this?

clicks

I don't know why I still get disappointed when I find out someone is a shitheel.

sigh

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

He’s completely responsible for sabotaging his own career. Difficult to work with, allergic to deadlines, and a weirdo sex pest.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 59 points 2 months ago

Ive read through this entire thread and I still don't know who or what this is referring to.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago

Let me know if you find out lol

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 months ago

I think left is Bryke (Bryan Konietzko and Michael DeMartino), the creators of Avatar the Last Airbender.

Right is probably that foot guy. Dan Schneider. I don't know if he's a pedo or not, but he's certainly a bit creepy.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago

But Avatar doesn't have a lot of blood or any sexual themes. While Schneider's shows had really weird scenes putting children in sexually suggestive situations. I also don't know anything about the creators of Avatar becoming bodyguards

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

There's at least one sexual joke in Avatar, when Sokka is "expecting" Suki to come to his tent and Zuko comes instead.

https://youtu.be/lgfe5JvZk80?feature=shared

But yeah probably not bodyguards, and afaict far from retiring. Last I had heard they are trying to massively expand the Avatar universe, after walking away from Netflix for creative differences.

I was really just trying to think of the best and worst creators from Nickelodeon.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not convicted of anything, if you watch that show on Nickelodeon pedophiles then he comes out as a really good guy (to the kids, he sucks to the adults). He was the only one who offered to help Drake after he was raped and he didn’t push anything

But his shows were sexually suggestive and involved kids so it can’t be him

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[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

Is this a reference to someone?

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm guessing that guy from that swords cartoon on Cartoon network that got caught with CP vs. say, the creator of Samurai Jack (even though it's simulated blood/ "oil")

edit: it was the creator of magiswords.

Edit 2: I accidentally said Jackie Chan instead of Samurai Jack and NONE of you corrected me. No more drunk comments. I did really like Jackie Chans' animated adventures, even though it was probably ccp propaganda.

Edit 3: "C C P" not "cop". I should've capitalized it. Didn't realize the "c" looked like an "o". Jackie Chan is a shill for the CCP. Still enjoy the old kungfu movies/ animation and think it's funny he's a porn star that worked in Hong Kong.

"Since 2013, Chan has been a pro-China politician, having served two terms as a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's political advisory body and, in 2021, expressing his desire to join the Chinese Communist Party."

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

I mean, Jackie Chan adventures was badass. Who cares if it's coppaganda, if anything it's mostly just unfortunate Chan kinda fell from grace.

Now that I think of it, I think that Mike Tyson show might have also been riffing off it.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sorry, I should have capitalized CCP. I didn't even think of that lol

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

it was the creator of magiswords.

That's a show I haven't heard of in a long time lol. And rightfully so, it was so forgettable and only really existed to push a mobile game afaik. Then it just suddenly dropped off the face of the earth and now I know why.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

They weren’t cops in Jackie Chan’s Animated Adventures, they’re like secret agents.

Chan plays a cop in the Police Story movies, which would be interesting to look at from a copaganda angle.

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[-] some_guy 29 points 2 months ago

It's almost as though people obsessed with children are more likely to commit crimes involving children. We see it with the Right all the time.

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Catholic Church enters the chat.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Hmmm... I'm not sure the references either. Granted my frame of reference are things like Adventure Time or Steven Universe and from what I can tell those show runners are amazing.

[-] Draces@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

It's unfortunate Justin Roiland was on adventure time

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, he was. Only as certain annoying voices but yeah.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

The fairly oddparents creator was a fucking creep. That'd who I thought of for #2

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I hate that fairly odd parents started as a good show. You ever seen the invader Zim commission?

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One made things he likes himself that happened to be for kids, but is otherwise a regular guy.

The other one really likes kids stuff, a bit too much even.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Then you have Dan Shneider

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[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Hey, one of them clearly knew kids a lot better than the other.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the South Park guys.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I hope this post isn’t how I find out about MC Bat Commander

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What does that make Mr. Rogers

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 months ago

He was too busy being good to everyone around him to have time for anything else.

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I wrote in another comment, but if you examine his life, he was NOT a conformist. My favorite thing about his unconventional style was that he knew he needed a radical music program but had enough humility to know he needed someone else to direct it (he was a very talented musician). So he found the local and famous jazz club pianist and directed him to play whatever sort of music he desired. Johnny Costa, one of my personal icons, was very confused at first because he thought his music would be far too advanced or technical for a children's show. And if you watch the show, you will notice that he plays every single song in a unique way, every single time. Can you imagine that? Playing the same music for 30 years and almost never playing the same thing. He was an absolute master of not hitting the note that your brain expected him to play, yet still playing enough to resolve and release the tension of the melody. It really is beautiful music.

Whoa, tangent. But seriously, MR was a rebel and the highest calibre of person that Pittsburgh has to offer.

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