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What? All Irish people don't throw Molotov cocktails at each other?

LOL...  I don't know what's more disturbing...  the bad accents or the synth music.  *vomit*

I`m not Irish but i`m offended by the crappy quality animation, Cartoon Network is the buttsechs and my kids are not allowed to watch it

I`ll rather have my two 9 year olds watch LOTR before CN ....

To be fair there are some wonderously um-pc kids cartoons if you go back far enough.

fadedsteve wrote:

I cannot believe Captain Planet had this episode or was "okay'd" for release!!

That is a fucking kids cartoon for christs sake!! lol

I dont have any words to describe how inappropriate that is for children. . . how did that episode get past network executives and end up on a saturday morning kids program?? crazy. . .

At least it mildly sort of explained the stupid fighting/terrorism in Ireland for me. Sort of.

Hurricane wrote:

At least it mildly sort of explained the stupid fighting/terrorism in Ireland for me. Sort of.

Get real mate! that's like trying to explain the middle eastern situation using a Venn diagram.

Nobody's asking the important questions....how did they survive a nuke? Why did they have nuclear detonation friendship bracelets? And why did they walk around in the fallout with smiles on their faces?

Hurricane wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Hurricane wrote:

At least it mildly sort of explained the stupid fighting/terrorism in Ireland for me. Sort of.

OMG. Please erase that silly memory from your head and do some reading.

lol, I was half-kidding. At least it told me that two sects (right word?) of Christianity in Ireland hate(d?) each other's guts for some reason or another.

I always hated these kinds of TV shows. Let the education be done by teachers; TV is for learning the Way of Jack Bauer and the Wit of Dr. House. Maybe some Law and Order SVU, and American Idol for a lighter side of entertainment (its not THAT bad of a show...).

Well I'm atheist and I'm an Irish Republican - doesn't explain that. This is not a religious war - it isn't to do with religion - it's to do with another country having invaded and stolen our land and us trying to get them out and get our land back. Period. Religion is just a handy guide as to who is on what side.

CameronPoe wrote:

Hurricane wrote:

fadedsteve wrote:

I cannot believe Captain Planet had this episode or was "okay'd" for release!!

That is a fucking kids cartoon for christs sake!! lol

I dont have any words to describe how inappropriate that is for children. . . how did that episode get past network executives and end up on a saturday morning kids program?? crazy. . .

At least it mildly sort of explained the stupid fighting/terrorism in Ireland for me. Sort of.

OMG. Please erase that silly memory from your head and do some reading.

LOL! no shit!

Even though I think he was being sarcastic!!

Its unreal how they can disect a long conflict into a cartoon. . . my favorite part is at the beginning when he zaps the molotov coctail out of thin air!!! What a fuckin joke!! I mean out of all the conflicts Captain Planet sticks his nose into, he has to mess with the conflict in Northern Ireland??. . .tasty pick!!

Might be an idea to watch the whole episode.

In that episode a mutant rat character called "Verminous Scum" comes up with a plan to start a world war, with the intention of causing a lot of radiation for another character called "Nukem" to bask in, eat, whatever.  He plants nukes in three troubled spots of the world at the time; South Africa, the West Bank and Ireland.  He then gives a remote trigger to someone on each side of the conflicts he is targetting, telling the people it will destroy thousands of people on the "other" side of the conflict; a black woman and a white male soldier in South Africa, a Palestian woman and an old Jewish guy in the West Bank, and two young men (a Protestant and a Catholic) in Ireland.

It then becomes the job of the planeteers to go to the hotspots and encourage the two people to resolve their differences, which they succeed in doing in all three cases.

You have to remember, Captain Planet was mean't to educate kids and promote peaceful/environmental causes, sometimes you just have to explain what nasty terms mean in order to do that.

Pubic wrote:

Might be an idea to watch the whole episode.

In that episode a mutant rat character called "Verminous Scum" comes up with a plan to start a world war, with the intention of causing a lot of radiation for another character called "Nukem" to bask in, eat, whatever.  He plants nukes in three troubled spots of the world at the time; South Africa, the West Bank and Ireland.  He then gives a remote trigger to someone on each side of the conflicts he is targetting, telling the people it will destroy thousands of people on the "other" side of the conflict; a black woman and a white male soldier in South Africa, a Palestian woman and an old Jewish guy in the West Bank, and two young men (a Protestant and a Catholic) in Ireland.

It then becomes the job of the planeteers to go to the hotspots and encourage the two people to resolve their differences, which they succeed in doing in all three cases.

You have to remember, Captain Planet was mean't to educate kids and promote peaceful/environmental causes, sometimes you just have to explain what nasty terms mean in order to do that.

That kind of 'education' does more harm than good, I shudder to think what they made of the Palestine Israel conflict. Political struggles as complex as those in Ireland, Middle East etc. should not be glossed over with such stereotype enforcing, superficial nonsense. If a subject like that is not gonna be treated seriously it should be left alone. Maybe kids shouldn't have politics fed to them in that way? ...There are books that cover these topics out there.

wow..........i can't believe i watched that show. No wonder i want to hand out bracelets with Nuclear bombs waiting to blow up and cause harm to all my opposing sides. I got CP to thank for that!