September 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Remember those Saturday mornings when you'd wake up early, grab a bowl of sugary cereal, and lose yourself in cartoons for hours? What seemed like innocent childhood entertainment might actually explain some of our adult quirks and perspectives.
In this nostalgic yet eye-opening conversation, hosts Chrisy and Kerry dive into the surprisingly problematic world of classic cartoons that defined Generation X childhoods. From Bugs Bunny's cross-dressing antics to the deeply uncomfortable romantic pursuits of Pepe Le Pew, these beloved characters now raise serious questions about the messages they conveyed to impressionable young minds.
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DJ NICK (00:07):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
KERRY (00:21):
Good morning everybody.
Th is is Kerry.
CHRISY (00:26):
And this is Chrisy.
KERRY (00:28):
Oh, waking up on the morning as a kid on Saturdays,
saturday morning cartoons.
If you ever wonder why we'rescrewed up, those of us in our
50s, it's because of thedysfunctional cartoons we were
addicted to on saturday mornings.
CHRISY (00:48):
yes, chrissy go well, because you know, I was sitting
there watching them all.
Yeah, they were wonderful andgreat and we're going to talk
about them and we're going tobring up things that probably I
think a lot of people havetouched on this kind of stuff
already because it was prettyobvious, especially with how
(01:10):
aware we're supposed to be aboutthings now right, and that we
try to be aware of for our kids.
Yeah, so I mean the, the one Ihave a whole paragraph of notes
for.
KERRY (01:23):
Chr Chrissy was like having the time of her life
doing show notes for this oneepisode.
CHRISY (01:29):
I was really upset that I actually forgot a couple of
characters, and I may have evenforgotten some other ones again,
but man, bugs Bunny and theRoadrunner Show.
KERRY (01:38):
Oh my gosh.
CHRISY (01:39):
That was just packed full of inappropriate humor when
you look back at it, you know.
The time period where theseshows were being produced.
I mean, I think Bugs, bunny,warner Brothers type thing was
probably started maybe in thelate 30s, probably some of the
(01:59):
earlier ones.
So cartoons were, I think, whenthey were made back then.
Because of the way motionpictures were shown, they were
sort of like things that wereshown prior to movies or maybe
during intermissions orsomething in the theaters.
So there was a lot of adulthumor to them, a lot.
So the visuals and the factthat it was a cartoon appealed
(02:22):
to children, no matter what.
But the real beauty of that andI think there's been some shows
that have tried to adopt thatkind of thing too.
I'll mention it briefly becauseI feel, in my opinion it's like
the best cartoon ever producedand I know a lot of people are
fans of the Simpsons and likeFamily Guy or whatever those
(02:46):
ones are, and I South Park, youknow all of those are wonderful,
but those are really straightadult humor type things, not
that kids can't watch and enjoy,but the one that I think
appeals to adults and childrenis Phineas and Ferb to me is the
ultimate cartoon ever.
I didn't put the notes down.
KERRY (03:05):
I was going to say I'm looking at my notes going wait
how did we go from Bugs Bunny toPhineas and Ferb?
CHRISY (03:10):
I'm definitely going to get back to Bugs Bunny, but I
just threw a quick shout out toPhineas and Ferb because it does
appeal to children and adults.
There's a lot of adult humor inthere as far as it references a
lot of popular culture thatadults would mainly get from our
time period.
I'm guessing that the twocreators of that show are
(03:31):
probably around our age.
KERRY (03:34):
I have no idea what this show is.
I'm like literally Googling itbecause I'm like I don't
recognize this.
This was in our time as kids.
No, oh, it's recent, it's morerecent, and they just came out
with a new season.
CHRISY (03:46):
It's a disney vehicle and I I do plan on talking about
disney stuff eventually, butnot so much today.
But not so much today.
But I just want to, as far asthe fact that they seem to have
a recognition for show cartoonsthat do appeal, that a child and
an adult could sit downtogether and enjoy.
KERRY (04:03):
Okay, Now I'm still trying to find them on here to
look at the characters.
CHRISY (04:07):
Oh, it's just again.
I'll talk more about that later, but just a quick shout out as
far as that, whereas I thinkthat the people who make Phineas
and Ferb, that is theirintention to appeal to adults as
well as children, I think, likethe Warner Brothers thing.
Yeah, it just seemed to workout that way for them.
KERRY (04:26):
Now I see the picture, so I know who you're talking about
.
Yeah, okay, sorry Now.
CHRISY (04:29):
I got it.
But going back to the BugsBunny, yeah, one thing that I
remember traumatized me horriblywith Bugs Bunny, to the point
where I would have to get up andleave because I wasn't going to
shut my TV off, because that'ssacrilege you, because I wasn't
going to shut my TV off, becausethat's sacrilege.
You don't shut a television, butI would leave or I didn't want
to watch it.
It was called what's Opera, doc, I believe was the title of the
(04:53):
episode, or whatever it wassegment, and it terrified me.
It horrified me, it was awful,I don't know that one.
It had a lot of classicalpieces involved in it.
What's it called again?
What's Opera Doc O-P-E-R-A?
It's Elmer Fudd and Bugs BunnyNick you were researching it.
DJ NICK (05:13):
It's based on a lot of Wagner's operas.
Oh, okay.
And it actually interminglestwo or three of his different
operas that he had done.
So they used that as kind of abasis.
It was from 1957.
I used that as kind of a basis.
It was from 1957.
I think it was kind of astand-alone thing originally.
Maybe they tucked it in withSaturday morning cartoons.
KERRY (05:31):
Okay, it actually was its own little thing.
Now it's starting to ring abell now.
Now I'm starting to get it,yeah.
CHRISY (05:36):
It just to me.
It really flipped me out alittle bit.
KERRY (05:51):
There was always this thing with Bugs Bunny that
sometimes, just for humor, bugsBunny would dress up as a girl.
CHRISY (05:54):
Oh, now I know what you're talking about.
Yes, and Elmer Fudd was like ahunter a lot in his things he
was usually trying to killeither Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny
or something and this just gotreally serious.
Outside of the fact, the musicwas really dramatic and you know
, it started outlightheartedhearted, it was very
operatic, I guess is what youwould as far as the like little
you know beats it took, you know, because it was music, uh,
(06:17):
inclined but and the fact that Idon't think I'm ruining this
for anybody at this point.
So I mean, oh mean, elmer Fuddkills Bugs Bunny.
Yeah, like in cartoons.
This like was totally upsetbecause nobody ever really died.
Right, yeah, you drop stuff onthem, they fell off buildings,
they fell like a pancake on theground, but then nobody ever
(06:38):
died, right, but this literallyhe killed him.
And this is the end where ElmerFudd regretted this and is
carrying a lifeless Bugs Bunnyat the end of the cartoon into
the sunset or whatever in hisarms and he's crying I killed
the rabbit.
I killed the rabbit.
KERRY (06:56):
I killed the rascally rabbit.
CHRISY (06:58):
Yeah, it was just, and I hated it.
I was like, oh my God, please,I can't handle this, I don't
want to see.
Now, at the very end, I guess,to try and keep it somewhat
lighthearted, he does sort ofBugs Bunny kind of wakes up and
does talk to the.
What do they call it?
Breaking the fourth wall?
Yeah, which is weird, he saysto the audience you know it's
(07:18):
opera or whatever.
Did you expect a happy ending?
KERRY (07:21):
or something like that.
CHRISY (07:22):
For me.
That didn't like fix me.
I was wasted by then.
I was like cartoon wasted.
I was like I can't believe youkilled Bugs Bunny and like
you're thinking this is going tomake it all okay.
So yeah, we had across-dressing rabbit once in a
while and you know not thatthere's anything wrong with that
(07:45):
, um, but uh, you know, we justreally didn't think of all the
things that he was doing.
Right, a lot of times peoplehave brought up that skunk.
Oh my god, pippi lapew.
And the cat.
The cat has a name, nick, foundout what it was.
The kitty cat has a name.
I have to to look.
DJ NICK (08:02):
I wrote it in my notes it's a Nellipi pussy cat.
KERRY (08:07):
Oh.
DJ NICK (08:07):
Yeah, so she actually had a name.
I didn't know her name as a kid.
KERRY (08:10):
I jokingly referenced this Pippi Le Pew and the cat.
I joke about them a lot, but Ilove that one, but it's horrible
.
I mean, well, what makes me madabout that is not so much.
CHRISY (08:23):
It was a cartoon.
It's that time period.
Why is everybody, our kids,have we made our kids just so
aware now?
And I hate to downplay us, butwere we that dopey where we were
?
Just like?
He just really digs her man,he's got her pinned to the wall
and he's trying to kiss her.
Who cares?
You know it's horrible, but Iguess it's like offensive.
(08:46):
But you know you're gonnacancel this crap.
You know put like what again.
We'll talk about disney later,but I think with disney they put
warnings on some of their oldcartoon movies right because and
I do agree with that I don'tthink that we should try to
erase things.
Yes, because I think they'resupposed to be there, as you
(09:18):
know something to sort of embarkon a good conversation about
where we were and where we'vecome so far.
The other thing and I don'tknow why I was thinking about it
when we were looking at thisPepe Le Pew issue was when
everybody got up in arms aboutit, because I have this type of
music and you hear it atChristmas.
Dean Martin sang the one I'mthinking of, but there were
other people saying it, whichwas the Baby.
It's Cold Outside, where hebasically is trying to get the
(09:39):
girl in his apartment to drinkmore so she'll stay longer.
Right, and again, maybe we werejust idiots, but when I heard
that song, I wasn't thinkingabout anything more than you
just want to spend a littleextra time with right, you know,
right, I know but boy.
KERRY (09:56):
But that is a great comparison between the the song
and the pippi lapew storylinethere.
That is, that was a goodconnection of the two.
CHRISY (10:05):
Yeah, I guess I get offended at the fact that we
have to.
KERRY (10:08):
That people are offended.
Well yeah, your offensivenessyou being offended is offending
me.
CHRISY (10:17):
I think it helps dialogue.
It helps bring conversation.
It gives us an opportunity totalk about these things.
And even if it's like you and Italking about it in a funny
manner, are there people whoneed to maybe have this
addressed to them a little bitmore, because maybe they have a
hard time being able to separatewhat's right and wrong.
Right, and I understand thatyou know, some people are more
(10:37):
vulnerable to having a hard timedoing that, but I mean, these
are things we grew up with andwe love.
So, yeah, pepe Le Pew, yes, wah, I'm sorry the whole.
I hated the Roadrunner and theCoyote dynamic.
I hated.
Whenever that came on, I waslike great, here's 10 minutes.
I'll never get back.
I really wanted somethingbetter on.
(10:59):
I never.
And I know people love thatpart.
Yeah, but I did not.
KERRY (11:05):
My dad loved the Roadrunner and the Waddy Coyote.
He loved that cartoon.
So I think that I liked thecartoon because now, looking
back, I think it was justbecause that would be maybe a
half hour that my dad would sitand watch cartoons with me oh
really.
So I think it was more becausemy dad was sitting and watching
cartoons with me than it reallythat I like the cartoon.
(11:27):
But I remember him laughingabout like, like I could just
sit here and hear him laughingas we're watching that.
But I just love that.
It was predicting Amazon fromway back in the day.
CHRISY (11:38):
It was like Amazon.
KERRY (11:40):
Oh, it was immediate delivery of whatever they wanted
, whatever.
Whatever they wanted, whateverthey wanted, whatever Wildy
Coyote needed to try to do,whatever Boom, it just instantly
appeared.
It's like Amazon.
CHRISY (11:51):
It was like Amazon.
KERRY (11:52):
I never thought of that.
CHRISY (11:55):
Geez, I mean you're right.
DJ NICK (11:57):
Yeah, if he needed explosives, acme explosives.
KERRY (12:00):
Exactly, acme is the Amazon life he needed.
Whatever, whatever he neededBoom it was immediate, immediate
delivery.
Boom, it was there.
There's some.
CHRISY (12:11):
I think there's something there I'm telling you.
I remember.
DJ NICK (12:16):
You should have Jeff Bezos in and ask him if that's
where he got the inspirationfrom Amazon, that would be true?
KERRY (12:22):
Yeah, that's a good point .
CHRISY (12:24):
Yeah, again, and I understand, like I said, that's
awesome that you have thatmemory with that.
Yeah, I remember my father,maybe just because of the type
of media watcher he was of thetime.
Yeah, he liked cartoons, so dadwould watch cartoons.
KERRY (12:42):
Oh, he would watch with you.
CHRISY (12:43):
Oh yeah, in fact I remember my mom saying that her
mother had brought that up asmaybe a small concern.
KERRY (12:49):
Oh that was a beige flag or a red flag, or whatever you
want to call it.
CHRISY (12:52):
Well, my grandmother had mentioned that probably before
I was born.
Even she had mentioned to mymother about her husband.
She says you know, your husbandactually likes to watch
cartoons.
And I, my grandmother, must nothave understood that there were
people my father's age whowould sit and watch cartoons
still.
So, but did you want to?
DJ NICK (13:13):
I got to go back to Pepe Le Pew because I you know
and, true to your fashion, Ifelt like you were normalizing
what he had done.
CHRISY (13:23):
Oh yeah, what do you mean normalize?
KERRY (13:25):
I didn't feel like you were like it wasn't a big deal.
DJ NICK (13:28):
Why are we?
KERRY (13:29):
offended that he's, you know, molesting the cat.
CHRISY (13:32):
Well, did he legitimately?
I mean, well, come on, he was.
He was, don't you remember?
Well, yeah, but okay, well, hewas a skunk.
I don't understand what skunksare driven by, maybe he couldn't
help himself.
DJ NICK (13:48):
I would think most mammals are kind of driven all
by that same thing.
CHRISY (13:52):
Well, okay, at any rate, all right.
Whatever how they act on theirdrive, I don't know.
DJ NICK (13:59):
When you were prepping for the show, you were more
critical of Pepe Le Pew theother day than you are right now
, are you?
CHRISY (14:05):
normalizing it.
I'm not trying to normalize it,but I guess.
I just want to say that,because it just falls in line
with that whole, let's justcancel it, not mention it, try
to shove it over here and actlike it never happened.
KERRY (14:23):
And that would be my family's way of we're not going
to talk about it.
Don't talk about Pepe Le Pew.
Pretend it never happened.
That never happened.
We're going to gaslight.
CHRISY (14:32):
You, you that you're remembering that?
All wrong.
What do they call?
There's a fact, what do theycall that when Cancel culture?
No, there's like an actualthing.
I've seen online, too, wherethey call it.
Is it the Mandela effect?
Oh, I'm vaguely certain.
They're like are you kidding me?
Right now they're trying to saythat Doesn't everybody remember
(14:54):
this?
Yeah, but now they're sayingthat that never happened.
You can look it up, but I seethat a lot.
And then you have Tweety andSylvester and the old lady, and
that old lady.
KERRY (15:08):
I think Nick found it.
DJ NICK (15:09):
You're so smart.
KERRY (15:10):
You're so smart, Chrissy.
Again, I watch a lot of TV.
DJ NICK (15:13):
The Mandela Effect is a social phenomenon where a group
of people share false memoriesof specific details about an
event, person, place orsituation.
KERRY (15:22):
Ooh, Look at you.
Look at you.
Wow, it's the DSMR of Chrissy.
CHRISY (15:29):
Oh, there she goes, using them big words again.
Yeah, it's just, which, I think, is sort of like this weird,
crazy science experiment on usto try and put us all together
and make us believe one thing,almost to control us in some
weird way, maybe, I don't know.
KERRY (15:48):
But there was so much violence in those cartoons, a
ton of violence A ton ofviolence to the things that kids
are watching today.
I mean I'd rather have theWaddy Coyote violence than some
of the stuff they're watchingtoday in the games or you know
video games and stuff.
CHRISY (16:07):
Well, the gaming is, and it's very realistic.
KERRY (16:09):
Yeah, right, but there was a lot.
There was a lot.
Well, yeah, I mean, you justlet's blow up, but they all came
back to life.
It's like you said.
You know, that was what was sotragic about the Doc Opera, was
that you know Bugs Bunnyactually died yeah, and the
other ones.
You know, the Roadrunner getsblown up or no, no, not the
Roadrunner.
The coyote ended up gettingblown up how many times?
(16:30):
But he still lived Right.
CHRISY (16:33):
So all of his plans backfired.
Yeah, they always backfired.
But so, yeah, this sylvesterthe cat, the tweety bird, the
old lady, and I kind of likedsylvester and twee's dynamic
more than like tom and jerry'sdynamic, I guess because
sylvester wasn't as threateningyeah which doesn't speak a lot
about his capabilities as, uh,tom seemed.
(16:55):
I don't know why.
He just seemed more threateningto me, and I mean God, yosemite
, sam, there was that foghornleghorn which that guy was
totally just obnoxious.
KERRY (17:07):
I love the whole.
You know when they go to work,when they would go and they'd
walk in and click the.
You know the sheep, the sheepdog leaving.
Oh yeah, and then the sheep youknow, and they would hit the
time clock.
Morning, ralph, yeah, morning.
CHRISY (17:20):
Ralph.
KERRY (17:20):
Yeah, morning, ralph, morning, sam, yeah, exactly.
CHRISY (17:22):
I remember that one that was a good one, that cracks me
up.
Yeah, bugs Bunny could be awhole show on its own, yeah.
Now here's the other one whichI think is even worse than Bugs
Bunny.
Yes, what was up with theSmurfs?
Why are we not addressing thisissue?
I know there are all thevillage of guys and there's sort
of like the seven dwarfs thing,where they all had these like
(17:45):
weird titles like Grumpy andSmarty and I don't know what the
hell.
They had all these differentnames, but there was only one
girl.
I know, for all of those dudes,I know, did you not look at
Smurfette and think whore sorry?
(18:09):
and no, I tease, maybe not awhole, yeah right that was
smurfs after dark well, nick,again, dj nick did some research
because I just know that Iremember there was one girl for
everybody.
And I do remember one specificepisode which offended me.
Even then, bugs bunny, yeah,doing all the things he did was
(18:32):
never didn't stick with me asoffensive, but they literally
had an episode unless this isthe mandela effect for me that I
remember where papa smurf wastrying to court smurfette,
really, and it just felt wrongto me, yeah, and I was like what
, 10, 12, I don't know how old Iwas, and I was just like this
(18:53):
seems wrong.
KERRY (18:54):
The guy is like sorry, I don't mean to be an ageist, but
dude is really old, like thehugh Hefner in the Girls Next
Door, that girl.
But there's only one girl nextdoor.
CHRISY (19:05):
Like Hugh Hefner with three or four blondes on his arm
, didn't offend me as much asthis one blonde in Smurf Village
Right, but Nick's DJ Nickresearched this and here
Smurfette was a creation ofGargamel.
KERRY (19:20):
I don't, I never knew this.
This is all new.
CHRISY (19:23):
And this is what's offensive to me.
Okay, what?
When Gargamel created her, shehad dark hair?
KERRY (19:30):
And why did Gargamel create her?
Do we know why?
DJ NICK (19:32):
Okay, step in Step into our office over here, dj Nick,
because you did the research onthis.
So Gargamel created Smurfetteto basically spy on the Smurfs
to get information.
CHRISY (19:46):
Oh yeah, let's create a woman to do that.
We'll work on Christmas.
Go ahead, keep going.
I wish this was a video I knowthis would be great you didn't
bring that up last night Now I'm.
I didn't know if she was set tobe a spy.
DJ NICK (20:05):
No, that's the reason that Gargamel created her was
for that reason, to spy on theSmurfs, because he could never
figure out where they actuallylived.
He didn't know where the Smurfvillage was, or whatever.
Yeah, he was always trying toscore the directions to at some
point smurfette decided sheliked all you know, like being
part of the village and oh, Ibet and so she, her allegiance
(20:25):
shifted, I'm supposing, fromgargamel to the smurfs but did
it really but?
But papa smurf um then did aspell to make her so did.
KERRY (20:38):
Did papa snurf know that she was a spy of gargamel?
DJ NICK (20:42):
I don't think she knew he.
I don't think any of the smurfsokay.
KERRY (20:44):
So then why did he feel he had to do the spell he didn't
like?
DJ NICK (20:47):
the well I think at some point yeah I'm guessing
smurfette must have came clean,or something.
CHRISY (20:52):
I you know, yeah, right, you know it's been.
When did she become clean?
But?
DJ NICK (20:59):
when he did put the spell on her to make her a
quote-unquote real smurf.
KERRY (21:05):
A real smurf.
DJ NICK (21:06):
That's when her hair suddenly turned blonde.
KERRY (21:08):
See this is Tell me how you feel about this, Chrissy.
CHRISY (21:11):
This is wrong.
Why does the brunette now, tobe good, have to be blonde?
What?
Why?
Because blondes have more fun.
Maybe blondes won't questionwhy they're the only girl in an
all-man world and what theirduty is to be.
I mean, I'm wondering.
(21:32):
I'm gonna take this down areally bad path.
Was she just not gonna questionanything when she became blonde
?
And a sarcastic, snarky?
Brunettes would be like.
This seems wrong.
I don't want to be stuck herewith all of you dopey men,
smurfers or whatever the hellyou're called.
Yeah, come on the smurfs.
(21:54):
I know everybody loves them,but there's a really weird
cartoon, payo it is remember thename that came up for the
creator.
DJ NICK (22:02):
That's the creator, Peyo.
It's French.
CHRISY (22:05):
What is he?
A soccer player.
He's French, don't?
Soccer players usually have onename, like Pele Peyo, created
by.
What's up with Peyo?
We'll deal with him later.
We can touch on some othershows, talk about some other
cartoons, because you hadbrought up some good ones I
didn't even think of I love thejetsons, meet the jetsons, oh my
(22:30):
gosh, the jetsons.
KERRY (22:31):
But it was one of those very hard to find cartoons.
So I don't know if it's becausewe only had, you know, the
antennas on the tv, so maybe wejust didn't get the channel that
the judsons were on, but I feltlike that was like the unicorn
of of uh cartoons that if I, ifthe judsons happened to come on,
it was like, oh my god, I can'tget over.
DJ NICK (22:52):
I love the judsons, I think the theme song really
brought that everybody lovesthat song yeah, I'm wondering
not much dysfunction with thejudsons, though for youons,
though for you guys?
Not much content for you guysto talk about?
Though that's the only problemwith the Jetsons.
CHRISY (23:05):
It just seemed like his wife spent a lot of his cash and
I'm not exactly sure what hisdynamic was with his boss.
But I can find dysfunction ineverything.
KERRY (23:15):
Come on, nick, you know Chrissy's going to come through
and find something for us.
I'm wondering.
CHRISY (23:19):
I stand corrected.
We would have to probably do alittle bit of research.
I wonder if the Jetsonsinitially, although, were on
Saturdays eventually.
But were they like theFlintstones, where they started
out as a primetime cartoon?
And I'm wondering if they werethe answer to like, because the
Flintstones was all prehistoriclike.
Stone Age type thing.
KERRY (23:41):
And.
CHRISY (23:41):
Jetsons was supposed to be futuristic.
KERRY (23:44):
Right, right, that's true , but the other one, though and
this one will give us a lot totalk about it's Scooby-Doo.
I love Scooby-Doo.
CHRISY (23:52):
I know Now you're going to have to talk about it because
Scooby-Doo holds such a placein my heart.
Yeah, I can't crap all over it,I just can't.
KERRY (24:01):
I can't.
Well, my biggest take onScooby-Doo was I mean, it was
just like okay.
Well, first of all, come onShaggy.
You know that Shaggy wassmoking pot behind the van.
Come on, they may never haveshowed it, but come on, shaggy.
DJ NICK (24:19):
He always wanted a Scooby snack.
Right, he had the munchies.
CHRISY (24:23):
They always had the munchies.
KERRY (24:25):
They always had the munchies?
Yes, and they were the hippieliving out of the van.
DJ NICK (24:30):
you know, but you know, what it's legal now.
KERRY (24:32):
I know In Ohio, right, but here's my take on.
I think, because I lovedScooby-Doo so much.
This is why I later lovedGilligan's Island.
Now, I know Gilligan's Islandis not a cartoon, but it's
basically the adult version ofScooby-Doo.
(24:54):
You've got these seven randompeople that are together, that
would never be together in thesame walks of life.
CHRISY (25:02):
I mean, come on, yeah, but with Scooby-Doo they choose
to be together and Gilligan'sIsland.
Although, why were all thosepeople on the same flipping boat
tour?
KERRY (25:10):
I know and the amount of things that the rich people
brought on the boat.
CHRISY (25:15):
Come on that boat it was a three-hour tour.
I know Because I remember thetheme song.
Yeah, you're right.
KERRY (25:23):
What were they doing?
But the boat couldn't havehandled all that luggage.
When you look at the boat likewhere, Anyways, I think Mr Howe
was avoiding the IRS.
CHRISY (25:33):
I think he sabotaged that boat ride and he needed to
be on an island.
He obviously was avoidingsomething.
All right, nick's got something.
DJ NICK (25:40):
You guys have moved too quick.
KERRY (25:41):
Sorry.
DJ NICK (25:41):
So the Jessens did start, and it was Sunday night.
KERRY (25:44):
Oh, okay.
DJ NICK (25:45):
But it didn't fare well because it was up against
Dennis the Menace and the Disneywonderful world.
CHRISY (25:51):
World of Disney.
Oh yeah.
DJ NICK (25:55):
Then it got moved to Saturday mornings for season two
.
So you were right, chris, itstarted out as an evening thing,
much like.
KERRY (26:01):
And that probably explains why I didn't get to
watch it much.
Right, because I was not freeaccess to the TV.
So Saturday mornings I wouldget TV and I would get a little
bit when I got home from school.
Remember we talked about one ofthe other episodes.
You know I was that latchkey kidkid, so I had like an hour and
a half of I could sneak in sometv time, but other than that
(26:24):
there wasn't much tv, so but youguys weren't even born when it
first run, I mean when it rightit was.
DJ NICK (26:29):
1962 is when it started oh yeah the jetsons you guys
watch for, unless they, you knowthey would do those special
shows right.
CHRISY (26:38):
the original run occurred before you guys were
even born there was a slot ofshows on when we would come home
from school.
Yeah, that Gilligan's Islandwas in that grouping, and so was
Scooby-Doo, yeah, but probablythings like the Jetsons.
Yeah, the Flintstones, I thinkthose were sort of after school,
(26:58):
before you know, after the soapoperas probably ended, but
before the evening news came on.
So like that two hour period,probably between four and six.
KERRY (27:09):
Right, you had like kids could sit, and it was right when
the soap operas ended.
Yeah, and before the news.
Yeah, that was your window so,but All right, we got, we got a
few more to cover, so Real quickSome.
CHRISY (27:21):
Yeah, that was your window so but all right, we got,
we got a few more to cover, soreal quick some oh my god okay I
don't know how to bring thisone up everybody, because I
don't want to make anybody upsetwith me, but I mean, I think we
live in a time where we'resupposed to be able to talk
about stuff, say whatever wewant.
So what was up with the snagglepuss?
KERRY (27:44):
in the yogi bear grouping .
CHRISY (27:47):
According to nick, he looked it up because I sort of
had my own feelings aboutsnaggle puss and what his you
know demeanor or background was.
Uh, nick said that, uh, he hada definite definition to his uh,
he was you know a finer things.
DJ NICK (28:00):
I mean he was you know a finer things.
CHRISY (28:03):
He enjoyed the finer things of life.
DJ NICK (28:05):
He had the collar and made a lot of Shakespearean
references and he was, you know,Into theater Into theater.
So would he have been.
KERRY (28:14):
What's that called?
Whenever shoot I'm trying tothink of the term when a guy is
like you're going to have toedit my pauses out on this one,
while I think when they're intouch with their feminine side
and they're, I can't think of aname you have to edit it out,
well, well, and here's the thingI think that he just he was
into the finer things in life.
CHRISY (28:36):
That he was into the finer things in life.
That's all, and I thinksometimes you can do what you
want with this.
KERRY (28:39):
Edit it out or what.
Here's where I'm going.
CHRISY (28:40):
Would he have been part of the cast of Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy or would he havebeen someone that Queer Eye for
the Straight Guy guys would havehelped?
Yes, so would Snagglepuss be acast member or a participant,
(29:02):
but you know what so what?
I know, oh, we don't care.
KERRY (29:05):
Well, no, we don't care, we don't care, but it's just
funny because it's the way thesecartoons were talking about
things, or bringing things upthat were going on without
talking about them.
CHRISY (29:15):
He certainly was going to tell you every time he was
leaving the room exit, stage,blah, blah, blah, dude, and not
everything is a stage.
Why did he have to always gostage left, stage right, what
was that?
Because he was.
He had a performer's heart.
Do you want to do theimpersonation?
Come on, nick, you're so goodat impersonations.
DJ NICK (29:34):
One of things must even always say heavens to
murgatroyd and he would alwaysadd the word, even after
everything he said you know likewhat.
Like he would say, um, I'mtrying to think, but.
But he would add the word even,like to accentuate whatever I
wanted to say.
Like I would say my life isbeautiful, even is what, oh?
KERRY (29:54):
got you now.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that was one I hadactually not thought about until
I read your notes and stuff.
CHRISY (30:01):
But Yogi Bear was great, always still in the picnic
basket, him and Boo Boo.
That was sort of a weirdrelationship, but okay, okay
when you mentioned on here.
KERRY (30:10):
you had about the three stooges.
That was my cue to turn the TVoff the Jabberjaw, the Three
Stooges.
DJ NICK (30:17):
Oh, so Jabberjaw.
She may not even know whoJabberjaw is.
CHRISY (30:20):
Jabberjaw is a flippin' shark, oh.
KERRY (30:23):
I know who that is and he sounded like Curly from the
Three Stooges.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
CHRISY (30:37):
And I know there's a lot of Three Stooges fans out there
.
They have a ton of appreciationfor it.
I understand their importance.
I was more of a charlie chaplin, harold lloyd grouch, the marx
brothers type person, not somuch with the stooges, and I
didn't really care for laureland hardy much.
KERRY (30:46):
But yeah, no, three stooges would come on like.
This would be more like asunday thing, sunday morning
thing, when the three stoogeswould come on.
That's when I exited stage left.
Me too.
I did not care for that.
CHRISY (31:00):
So we had Speed Buggy, which was kind of fun.
That was sort of the samevoices that we got with
Scooby-Doo, probably because itwas made by the same people.
Captain Caveman, who?
DJ NICK (31:12):
was always screaming, captain Caveman.
CHRISY (31:14):
He looked like a hairball.
KERRY (31:17):
Um, and then the school of rock stuff, yeah, fantastic,
that was great, that was reallygood schoolhouse school oh, what
did I call school of rockschool?
Oh no, not good, yeah, jackblack thank you for school of
rock?
CHRISY (31:31):
no school house rock awesome.
Does anybody want to maybetouch real quick?
I know we're running on time.
You're gonna have to edit thisdown.
What was up the picture pagesthing?
KERRY (31:40):
picture pages.
Picture pages time to get yourpicture I always wanted to have
that I'd sing that picture pagessong all the time, do we not?
CHRISY (31:54):
realize to what level I'm going to say the name Bill
Cosby had himself embedded inour lives our generation
especially.
KERRY (32:02):
I know it's hard.
CHRISY (32:03):
Dude, you're totally disappointed, I know.
I know you let a wholegeneration down.
All right, no more of that.
The other thing I was going tobring up real quick and I made
notes on it was oh, we didn'tlike Pink Panther.
KERRY (32:19):
No, no, no to Pink Panther.
CHRISY (32:22):
Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I used to get mad when that hadto come on.
Did not find that funny at all.
That was a pretty old one too,but it still showed up.
Sid and Marty Krofft stuff.
I don't know what that is Nowif you want to talk about
Scooby-Doo, and maybe they werehaving fun with the gong or
whatever the hell they weresmoking.
DJ NICK (32:39):
Sid and.
CHRISY (32:40):
Marty Croft is notorious for that.
They had that one thing.
DJ NICK (32:44):
H&R Puffin stuff.
I mean go H&R.
CHRISY (32:46):
Puffin stuff.
But your Land of the Lost Wasthat Sid and Marty Croft also
Land of the Lost.
DJ NICK (32:52):
It was the same time period.
I don't know if Sid and MartyKrofft had anything to do with
Land of the Lost, though, Talkabout.
Watch Sid.
KERRY (32:58):
This is stuff like right as you guys were born, it's
early 70s, so yeah, but he saysthis as if he's like you know,
so much age difference than us.
You're the same age, nick yeahhe's the same age.
CHRISY (33:11):
Yeah, Sid, and Marty K.
Supercraft Land of the Lostawesome.
KERRY (33:13):
Yes, I loved also He-Man.
CHRISY (33:15):
Yeah, I was totally into the He-Man.
KERRY (33:18):
And Cringer the battle cat.
CHRISY (33:20):
I remember the Superfriends and I know He-Man
was on.
The other thing is with thisone sitting next to me here,
this DJ Nick thing.
He loves Transformer crap.
DJ NICK (33:30):
Oh yeah.
CHRISY (33:31):
And they actually had to make a whole like what do they
call that when they make thesemovies and they're like many
installments in, like you know,they're like a whole franchise.
Yeah, he likes to listen tothat crap.
Real loud.
The movie, that horrible noise,I hate it I hate it when they
(33:54):
transform.
DJ NICK (33:55):
I love when they transform.
Yeah, I hate it, I get so angryand he's like.
CHRISY (34:01):
it reminds me of my childhood.
I'm like that's really too bad.
Because of the cartoon.
KERRY (34:04):
I watched the cartoon Okay so one other last cartoon
on my notes was Popeye.
What's your take on Popeye andolive oil?
Popeye the sailor man it madeby an olive oil.
CHRISY (34:19):
Um, it made me try spinach out of a can, did it
really?
Yeah, oh yeah, because I waslike, does so much for you and
you know me with my wholeaffinity for dieting.
I was just gonna, I was like,where was the popeye diet?
And let me tell you whatspinach in a can, oh, it's awful
.
It's so wrong.
Did you have it with ice cream?
KERRY (34:34):
no well maybe I should have.
That might have made it better.
CHRISY (34:37):
But no, I wasn't really big on the whole Popeye thing.
It was kind of, but there'speople who love it and it's very
recognized.
You see that sailor and thesong, of course, yeah.
KERRY (34:50):
This was a good.
This was a good, lighthearteddown memory lane, about to give
you something to think about,maybe, where some of our
dysfunctions come from thesedays.
CHRISY (34:58):
Starting out with cartoons and eating that sugary
stuff called cereal in front ofthe television.
KERRY (35:04):
Absolutely so.
What we want to know is we wantto know what your favorite
cartoons were.
Make sure to find us on ourFacebook page and pop in on
there and tell us what yourfavorite cartoon was or what
cartoons traumatized you.
Yes, please, what's your takeon the Smurfs?
We want to know that.
CHRISY (35:23):
And we will be coming in with the Disney.
You're not off the hook.
Oh yeah, we're going to do oneabout Disney, and I didn't talk
about it because it wasn'tSaturday morning.
But there was some bad CharlieBrown stuff too.
Oh, as much as much as I loveCharlie Brown, there's some
traumatizing stuff there.
KERRY (35:39):
We'll get into that in the future and we're also going
to get into in the future.
We touched a little bit onGilligan's Island but we're
going to talk about some ofthose shows in the 80s.
I know Chrissy's got a lot tosay about the Love Boat, yeah.
CHRISY (36:00):
How come we had love was fantasy island on after.
KERRY (36:01):
Yeah, fantasy island love .
What were you trying to tellthe muppets?
DJ NICK (36:04):
gilligan's island and all that jazz yeah, lovely, all
right.
KERRY (36:05):
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KERRY (36:40):
All right, everybody have a wonderful week.
Talk to you later.
Bye-bye.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
KERRY (00:21):
Good morning everybody.
Th is is Kerry.
CHRISY (00:26):
And this is Chrisy.
KERRY (00:28):
Oh, waking up on the morning as a kid on Saturdays,
saturday morning cartoons.
If you ever wonder why we'rescrewed up, those of us in our
50s, it's because of thedysfunctional cartoons we were
addicted to on saturday mornings.
CHRISY (00:48):
yes, chrissy go well, because you know, I was sitting
there watching them all.
Yeah, they were wonderful andgreat and we're going to talk
about them and we're going tobring up things that probably I
think a lot of people havetouched on this kind of stuff
already because it was prettyobvious, especially with how
(01:10):
aware we're supposed to be aboutthings now right, and that we
try to be aware of for our kids.
Yeah, so I mean the, the one Ihave a whole paragraph of notes
for.
KERRY (01:23):
Chr Chrissy was like having the time of her life
doing show notes for this oneepisode.
CHRISY (01:29):
I was really upset that I actually forgot a couple of
characters, and I may have evenforgotten some other ones again,
but man, bugs Bunny and theRoadrunner Show.
KERRY (01:38):
Oh my gosh.
CHRISY (01:39):
That was just packed full of inappropriate humor when
you look back at it, you know.
The time period where theseshows were being produced.
I mean, I think Bugs, bunny,warner Brothers type thing was
probably started maybe in thelate 30s, probably some of the
(01:59):
earlier ones.
So cartoons were, I think, whenthey were made back then.
Because of the way motionpictures were shown, they were
sort of like things that wereshown prior to movies or maybe
during intermissions orsomething in the theaters.
So there was a lot of adulthumor to them, a lot.
So the visuals and the factthat it was a cartoon appealed
(02:22):
to children, no matter what.
But the real beauty of that andI think there's been some shows
that have tried to adopt thatkind of thing too.
I'll mention it briefly becauseI feel, in my opinion it's like
the best cartoon ever producedand I know a lot of people are
fans of the Simpsons and likeFamily Guy or whatever those
(02:46):
ones are, and I South Park, youknow all of those are wonderful,
but those are really straightadult humor type things, not
that kids can't watch and enjoy,but the one that I think
appeals to adults and childrenis Phineas and Ferb to me is the
ultimate cartoon ever.
I didn't put the notes down.
KERRY (03:05):
I was going to say I'm looking at my notes going wait
how did we go from Bugs Bunny toPhineas and Ferb?
CHRISY (03:10):
I'm definitely going to get back to Bugs Bunny, but I
just threw a quick shout out toPhineas and Ferb because it does
appeal to children and adults.
There's a lot of adult humor inthere as far as it references a
lot of popular culture thatadults would mainly get from our
time period.
I'm guessing that the twocreators of that show are
(03:31):
probably around our age.
KERRY (03:34):
I have no idea what this show is.
I'm like literally Googling itbecause I'm like I don't
recognize this.
This was in our time as kids.
No, oh, it's recent, it's morerecent, and they just came out
with a new season.
CHRISY (03:46):
It's a disney vehicle and I I do plan on talking about
disney stuff eventually, butnot so much today.
But not so much today.
But I just want to, as far asthe fact that they seem to have
a recognition for show cartoonsthat do appeal, that a child and
an adult could sit downtogether and enjoy.
KERRY (04:03):
Okay, Now I'm still trying to find them on here to
look at the characters.
CHRISY (04:07):
Oh, it's just again.
I'll talk more about that later, but just a quick shout out as
far as that, whereas I thinkthat the people who make Phineas
and Ferb, that is theirintention to appeal to adults as
well as children, I think, likethe Warner Brothers thing.
Yeah, it just seemed to workout that way for them.
KERRY (04:26):
Now I see the picture, so I know who you're talking about
.
Yeah, okay, sorry Now.
CHRISY (04:29):
I got it.
But going back to the BugsBunny, yeah, one thing that I
remember traumatized me horriblywith Bugs Bunny, to the point
where I would have to get up andleave because I wasn't going to
shut my TV off, because that'ssacrilege you, because I wasn't
going to shut my TV off, becausethat's sacrilege.
You don't shut a television, butI would leave or I didn't want
to watch it.
It was called what's Opera, doc, I believe was the title of the
(04:53):
episode, or whatever it wassegment, and it terrified me.
It horrified me, it was awful,I don't know that one.
It had a lot of classicalpieces involved in it.
What's it called again?
What's Opera Doc O-P-E-R-A?
It's Elmer Fudd and Bugs BunnyNick you were researching it.
DJ NICK (05:13):
It's based on a lot of Wagner's operas.
Oh, okay.
And it actually interminglestwo or three of his different
operas that he had done.
So they used that as kind of abasis.
It was from 1957.
I used that as kind of a basis.
It was from 1957.
I think it was kind of astand-alone thing originally.
Maybe they tucked it in withSaturday morning cartoons.
KERRY (05:31):
Okay, it actually was its own little thing.
Now it's starting to ring abell now.
Now I'm starting to get it,yeah.
CHRISY (05:36):
It just to me.
It really flipped me out alittle bit.
KERRY (05:51):
There was always this thing with Bugs Bunny that
sometimes, just for humor, bugsBunny would dress up as a girl.
CHRISY (05:54):
Oh, now I know what you're talking about.
Yes, and Elmer Fudd was like ahunter a lot in his things he
was usually trying to killeither Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny
or something and this just gotreally serious.
Outside of the fact, the musicwas really dramatic and you know
, it started outlightheartedhearted, it was very
operatic, I guess is what youwould as far as the like little
you know beats it took, you know, because it was music, uh,
(06:17):
inclined but and the fact that Idon't think I'm ruining this
for anybody at this point.
So I mean, oh mean, elmer Fuddkills Bugs Bunny.
Yeah, like in cartoons.
This like was totally upsetbecause nobody ever really died.
Right, yeah, you drop stuff onthem, they fell off buildings,
they fell like a pancake on theground, but then nobody ever
(06:38):
died, right, but this literallyhe killed him.
And this is the end where ElmerFudd regretted this and is
carrying a lifeless Bugs Bunnyat the end of the cartoon into
the sunset or whatever in hisarms and he's crying I killed
the rabbit.
I killed the rabbit.
KERRY (06:56):
I killed the rascally rabbit.
CHRISY (06:58):
Yeah, it was just, and I hated it.
I was like, oh my God, please,I can't handle this, I don't
want to see.
Now, at the very end, I guess,to try and keep it somewhat
lighthearted, he does sort ofBugs Bunny kind of wakes up and
does talk to the.
What do they call it?
Breaking the fourth wall?
Yeah, which is weird, he saysto the audience you know it's
(07:18):
opera or whatever.
Did you expect a happy ending?
KERRY (07:21):
or something like that.
CHRISY (07:22):
For me.
That didn't like fix me.
I was wasted by then.
I was like cartoon wasted.
I was like I can't believe youkilled Bugs Bunny and like
you're thinking this is going tomake it all okay.
So yeah, we had across-dressing rabbit once in a
while and you know not thatthere's anything wrong with that
(07:45):
, um, but uh, you know, we justreally didn't think of all the
things that he was doing.
Right, a lot of times peoplehave brought up that skunk.
Oh my god, pippi lapew.
And the cat.
The cat has a name, nick, foundout what it was.
The kitty cat has a name.
I have to to look.
DJ NICK (08:02):
I wrote it in my notes it's a Nellipi pussy cat.
KERRY (08:07):
Oh.
DJ NICK (08:07):
Yeah, so she actually had a name.
I didn't know her name as a kid.
KERRY (08:10):
I jokingly referenced this Pippi Le Pew and the cat.
I joke about them a lot, but Ilove that one, but it's horrible
.
I mean, well, what makes me madabout that is not so much.
CHRISY (08:23):
It was a cartoon.
It's that time period.
Why is everybody, our kids,have we made our kids just so
aware now?
And I hate to downplay us, butwere we that dopey where we were
?
Just like?
He just really digs her man,he's got her pinned to the wall
and he's trying to kiss her.
Who cares?
You know it's horrible, but Iguess it's like offensive.
(08:46):
But you know you're gonnacancel this crap.
You know put like what again.
We'll talk about disney later,but I think with disney they put
warnings on some of their oldcartoon movies right because and
I do agree with that I don'tthink that we should try to
erase things.
Yes, because I think they'resupposed to be there, as you
(09:18):
know something to sort of embarkon a good conversation about
where we were and where we'vecome so far.
The other thing and I don'tknow why I was thinking about it
when we were looking at thisPepe Le Pew issue was when
everybody got up in arms aboutit, because I have this type of
music and you hear it atChristmas.
Dean Martin sang the one I'mthinking of, but there were
other people saying it, whichwas the Baby.
It's Cold Outside, where hebasically is trying to get the
(09:39):
girl in his apartment to drinkmore so she'll stay longer.
Right, and again, maybe we werejust idiots, but when I heard
that song, I wasn't thinkingabout anything more than you
just want to spend a littleextra time with right, you know,
right, I know but boy.
KERRY (09:56):
But that is a great comparison between the the song
and the pippi lapew storylinethere.
That is, that was a goodconnection of the two.
CHRISY (10:05):
Yeah, I guess I get offended at the fact that we
have to.
KERRY (10:08):
That people are offended.
Well yeah, your offensivenessyou being offended is offending
me.
CHRISY (10:17):
I think it helps dialogue.
It helps bring conversation.
It gives us an opportunity totalk about these things.
And even if it's like you and Italking about it in a funny
manner, are there people whoneed to maybe have this
addressed to them a little bitmore, because maybe they have a
hard time being able to separatewhat's right and wrong.
Right, and I understand thatyou know, some people are more
(10:37):
vulnerable to having a hard timedoing that, but I mean, these
are things we grew up with andwe love.
So, yeah, pepe Le Pew, yes, wah, I'm sorry the whole.
I hated the Roadrunner and theCoyote dynamic.
I hated.
Whenever that came on, I waslike great, here's 10 minutes.
I'll never get back.
I really wanted somethingbetter on.
(10:59):
I never.
And I know people love thatpart.
Yeah, but I did not.
KERRY (11:05):
My dad loved the Roadrunner and the Waddy Coyote.
He loved that cartoon.
So I think that I liked thecartoon because now, looking
back, I think it was justbecause that would be maybe a
half hour that my dad would sitand watch cartoons with me oh
really.
So I think it was more becausemy dad was sitting and watching
cartoons with me than it reallythat I like the cartoon.
(11:27):
But I remember him laughingabout like, like I could just
sit here and hear him laughingas we're watching that.
But I just love that.
It was predicting Amazon fromway back in the day.
CHRISY (11:38):
It was like Amazon.
KERRY (11:40):
Oh, it was immediate delivery of whatever they wanted
, whatever.
Whatever they wanted, whateverthey wanted, whatever Wildy
Coyote needed to try to do,whatever Boom, it just instantly
appeared.
It's like Amazon.
CHRISY (11:51):
It was like Amazon.
KERRY (11:52):
I never thought of that.
CHRISY (11:55):
Geez, I mean you're right.
DJ NICK (11:57):
Yeah, if he needed explosives, acme explosives.
KERRY (12:00):
Exactly, acme is the Amazon life he needed.
Whatever, whatever he neededBoom it was immediate, immediate
delivery.
Boom, it was there.
There's some.
CHRISY (12:11):
I think there's something there I'm telling you.
I remember.
DJ NICK (12:16):
You should have Jeff Bezos in and ask him if that's
where he got the inspirationfrom Amazon, that would be true?
KERRY (12:22):
Yeah, that's a good point .
CHRISY (12:24):
Yeah, again, and I understand, like I said, that's
awesome that you have thatmemory with that.
Yeah, I remember my father,maybe just because of the type
of media watcher he was of thetime.
Yeah, he liked cartoons, so dadwould watch cartoons.
KERRY (12:42):
Oh, he would watch with you.
CHRISY (12:43):
Oh yeah, in fact I remember my mom saying that her
mother had brought that up asmaybe a small concern.
KERRY (12:49):
Oh that was a beige flag or a red flag, or whatever you
want to call it.
CHRISY (12:52):
Well, my grandmother had mentioned that probably before
I was born.
Even she had mentioned to mymother about her husband.
She says you know, your husbandactually likes to watch
cartoons.
And I, my grandmother, must nothave understood that there were
people my father's age whowould sit and watch cartoons
still.
So, but did you want to?
DJ NICK (13:13):
I got to go back to Pepe Le Pew because I you know
and, true to your fashion, Ifelt like you were normalizing
what he had done.
CHRISY (13:23):
Oh yeah, what do you mean normalize?
KERRY (13:25):
I didn't feel like you were like it wasn't a big deal.
DJ NICK (13:28):
Why are we?
KERRY (13:29):
offended that he's, you know, molesting the cat.
CHRISY (13:32):
Well, did he legitimately?
I mean, well, come on, he was.
He was, don't you remember?
Well, yeah, but okay, well, hewas a skunk.
I don't understand what skunksare driven by, maybe he couldn't
help himself.
DJ NICK (13:48):
I would think most mammals are kind of driven all
by that same thing.
CHRISY (13:52):
Well, okay, at any rate, all right.
Whatever how they act on theirdrive, I don't know.
DJ NICK (13:59):
When you were prepping for the show, you were more
critical of Pepe Le Pew theother day than you are right now
, are you?
CHRISY (14:05):
normalizing it.
I'm not trying to normalize it,but I guess.
I just want to say that,because it just falls in line
with that whole, let's justcancel it, not mention it, try
to shove it over here and actlike it never happened.
KERRY (14:23):
And that would be my family's way of we're not going
to talk about it.
Don't talk about Pepe Le Pew.
Pretend it never happened.
That never happened.
We're going to gaslight.
CHRISY (14:32):
You, you that you're remembering that?
All wrong.
What do they call?
There's a fact, what do theycall that when Cancel culture?
No, there's like an actualthing.
I've seen online, too, wherethey call it.
Is it the Mandela effect?
Oh, I'm vaguely certain.
They're like are you kidding me?
Right now they're trying to saythat Doesn't everybody remember
(14:54):
this?
Yeah, but now they're sayingthat that never happened.
You can look it up, but I seethat a lot.
And then you have Tweety andSylvester and the old lady, and
that old lady.
KERRY (15:08):
I think Nick found it.
DJ NICK (15:09):
You're so smart.
KERRY (15:10):
You're so smart, Chrissy.
Again, I watch a lot of TV.
DJ NICK (15:13):
The Mandela Effect is a social phenomenon where a group
of people share false memoriesof specific details about an
event, person, place orsituation.
KERRY (15:22):
Ooh, Look at you.
Look at you.
Wow, it's the DSMR of Chrissy.
CHRISY (15:29):
Oh, there she goes, using them big words again.
Yeah, it's just, which, I think, is sort of like this weird,
crazy science experiment on usto try and put us all together
and make us believe one thing,almost to control us in some
weird way, maybe, I don't know.
KERRY (15:48):
But there was so much violence in those cartoons, a
ton of violence A ton ofviolence to the things that kids
are watching today.
I mean I'd rather have theWaddy Coyote violence than some
of the stuff they're watchingtoday in the games or you know
video games and stuff.
CHRISY (16:07):
Well, the gaming is, and it's very realistic.
KERRY (16:09):
Yeah, right, but there was a lot.
There was a lot.
Well, yeah, I mean, you justlet's blow up, but they all came
back to life.
It's like you said.
You know, that was what was sotragic about the Doc Opera, was
that you know Bugs Bunnyactually died yeah, and the
other ones.
You know, the Roadrunner getsblown up or no, no, not the
Roadrunner.
The coyote ended up gettingblown up how many times?
(16:30):
But he still lived Right.
CHRISY (16:33):
So all of his plans backfired.
Yeah, they always backfired.
But so, yeah, this sylvesterthe cat, the tweety bird, the
old lady, and I kind of likedsylvester and twee's dynamic
more than like tom and jerry'sdynamic, I guess because
sylvester wasn't as threateningyeah which doesn't speak a lot
about his capabilities as, uh,tom seemed.
(16:55):
I don't know why.
He just seemed more threateningto me, and I mean God, yosemite
, sam, there was that foghornleghorn which that guy was
totally just obnoxious.
KERRY (17:07):
I love the whole.
You know when they go to work,when they would go and they'd
walk in and click the.
You know the sheep, the sheepdog leaving.
Oh yeah, and then the sheep youknow, and they would hit the
time clock.
Morning, ralph, yeah, morning.
CHRISY (17:20):
Ralph.
KERRY (17:20):
Yeah, morning, ralph, morning, sam, yeah, exactly.
CHRISY (17:22):
I remember that one that was a good one, that cracks me
up.
Yeah, bugs Bunny could be awhole show on its own, yeah.
Now here's the other one whichI think is even worse than Bugs
Bunny.
Yes, what was up with theSmurfs?
Why are we not addressing thisissue?
I know there are all thevillage of guys and there's sort
of like the seven dwarfs thing,where they all had these like
(17:45):
weird titles like Grumpy andSmarty and I don't know what the
hell.
They had all these differentnames, but there was only one
girl.
I know, for all of those dudes,I know, did you not look at
Smurfette and think whore sorry?
(18:09):
and no, I tease, maybe not awhole, yeah right that was
smurfs after dark well, nick,again, dj nick did some research
because I just know that Iremember there was one girl for
everybody.
And I do remember one specificepisode which offended me.
Even then, bugs bunny, yeah,doing all the things he did was
(18:32):
never didn't stick with me asoffensive, but they literally
had an episode unless this isthe mandela effect for me that I
remember where papa smurf wastrying to court smurfette,
really, and it just felt wrongto me, yeah, and I was like what
, 10, 12, I don't know how old Iwas, and I was just like this
(18:53):
seems wrong.
KERRY (18:54):
The guy is like sorry, I don't mean to be an ageist, but
dude is really old, like thehugh Hefner in the Girls Next
Door, that girl.
But there's only one girl nextdoor.
CHRISY (19:05):
Like Hugh Hefner with three or four blondes on his arm
, didn't offend me as much asthis one blonde in Smurf Village
Right, but Nick's DJ Nickresearched this and here
Smurfette was a creation ofGargamel.
KERRY (19:20):
I don't, I never knew this.
This is all new.
CHRISY (19:23):
And this is what's offensive to me.
Okay, what?
When Gargamel created her, shehad dark hair?
KERRY (19:30):
And why did Gargamel create her?
Do we know why?
DJ NICK (19:32):
Okay, step in Step into our office over here, dj Nick,
because you did the research onthis.
So Gargamel created Smurfetteto basically spy on the Smurfs
to get information.
CHRISY (19:46):
Oh yeah, let's create a woman to do that.
We'll work on Christmas.
Go ahead, keep going.
I wish this was a video I knowthis would be great you didn't
bring that up last night Now I'm.
I didn't know if she was set tobe a spy.
DJ NICK (20:05):
No, that's the reason that Gargamel created her was
for that reason, to spy on theSmurfs, because he could never
figure out where they actuallylived.
He didn't know where the Smurfvillage was, or whatever.
Yeah, he was always trying toscore the directions to at some
point smurfette decided sheliked all you know, like being
part of the village and oh, Ibet and so she, her allegiance
(20:25):
shifted, I'm supposing, fromgargamel to the smurfs but did
it really but?
But papa smurf um then did aspell to make her so did.
KERRY (20:38):
Did papa snurf know that she was a spy of gargamel?
DJ NICK (20:42):
I don't think she knew he.
I don't think any of the smurfsokay.
KERRY (20:44):
So then why did he feel he had to do the spell he didn't
like?
DJ NICK (20:47):
the well I think at some point yeah I'm guessing
smurfette must have came clean,or something.
CHRISY (20:52):
I you know, yeah, right, you know it's been.
When did she become clean?
But?
DJ NICK (20:59):
when he did put the spell on her to make her a
quote-unquote real smurf.
KERRY (21:05):
A real smurf.
DJ NICK (21:06):
That's when her hair suddenly turned blonde.
KERRY (21:08):
See this is Tell me how you feel about this, Chrissy.
CHRISY (21:11):
This is wrong.
Why does the brunette now, tobe good, have to be blonde?
What?
Why?
Because blondes have more fun.
Maybe blondes won't questionwhy they're the only girl in an
all-man world and what theirduty is to be.
I mean, I'm wondering.
(21:32):
I'm gonna take this down areally bad path.
Was she just not gonna questionanything when she became blonde
?
And a sarcastic, snarky?
Brunettes would be like.
This seems wrong.
I don't want to be stuck herewith all of you dopey men,
smurfers or whatever the hellyou're called.
Yeah, come on the smurfs.
(21:54):
I know everybody loves them,but there's a really weird
cartoon, payo it is remember thename that came up for the
creator.
DJ NICK (22:02):
That's the creator, Peyo.
It's French.
CHRISY (22:05):
What is he?
A soccer player.
He's French, don't?
Soccer players usually have onename, like Pele Peyo, created
by.
What's up with Peyo?
We'll deal with him later.
We can touch on some othershows, talk about some other
cartoons, because you hadbrought up some good ones I
didn't even think of I love thejetsons, meet the jetsons, oh my
(22:30):
gosh, the jetsons.
KERRY (22:31):
But it was one of those very hard to find cartoons.
So I don't know if it's becausewe only had, you know, the
antennas on the tv, so maybe wejust didn't get the channel that
the judsons were on, but I feltlike that was like the unicorn
of of uh cartoons that if I, ifthe judsons happened to come on,
it was like, oh my god, I can'tget over.
DJ NICK (22:52):
I love the judsons, I think the theme song really
brought that everybody lovesthat song yeah, I'm wondering
not much dysfunction with thejudsons, though for youons,
though for you guys?
Not much content for you guysto talk about?
Though that's the only problemwith the Jetsons.
CHRISY (23:05):
It just seemed like his wife spent a lot of his cash and
I'm not exactly sure what hisdynamic was with his boss.
But I can find dysfunction ineverything.
KERRY (23:15):
Come on, nick, you know Chrissy's going to come through
and find something for us.
I'm wondering.
CHRISY (23:19):
I stand corrected.
We would have to probably do alittle bit of research.
I wonder if the Jetsonsinitially, although, were on
Saturdays eventually.
But were they like theFlintstones, where they started
out as a primetime cartoon?
And I'm wondering if they werethe answer to like, because the
Flintstones was all prehistoriclike.
Stone Age type thing.
KERRY (23:41):
And.
CHRISY (23:41):
Jetsons was supposed to be futuristic.
KERRY (23:44):
Right, right, that's true , but the other one, though and
this one will give us a lot totalk about it's Scooby-Doo.
I love Scooby-Doo.
CHRISY (23:52):
I know Now you're going to have to talk about it because
Scooby-Doo holds such a placein my heart.
Yeah, I can't crap all over it,I just can't.
KERRY (24:01):
I can't.
Well, my biggest take onScooby-Doo was I mean, it was
just like okay.
Well, first of all, come onShaggy.
You know that Shaggy wassmoking pot behind the van.
Come on, they may never haveshowed it, but come on, shaggy.
DJ NICK (24:19):
He always wanted a Scooby snack.
Right, he had the munchies.
CHRISY (24:23):
They always had the munchies.
KERRY (24:25):
They always had the munchies?
Yes, and they were the hippieliving out of the van.
DJ NICK (24:30):
you know, but you know, what it's legal now.
KERRY (24:32):
I know In Ohio, right, but here's my take on.
I think, because I lovedScooby-Doo so much.
This is why I later lovedGilligan's Island.
Now, I know Gilligan's Islandis not a cartoon, but it's
basically the adult version ofScooby-Doo.
(24:54):
You've got these seven randompeople that are together, that
would never be together in thesame walks of life.
CHRISY (25:02):
I mean, come on, yeah, but with Scooby-Doo they choose
to be together and Gilligan'sIsland.
Although, why were all thosepeople on the same flipping boat
tour?
KERRY (25:10):
I know and the amount of things that the rich people
brought on the boat.
CHRISY (25:15):
Come on that boat it was a three-hour tour.
I know Because I remember thetheme song.
Yeah, you're right.
KERRY (25:23):
What were they doing?
But the boat couldn't havehandled all that luggage.
When you look at the boat likewhere, Anyways, I think Mr Howe
was avoiding the IRS.
CHRISY (25:33):
I think he sabotaged that boat ride and he needed to
be on an island.
He obviously was avoidingsomething.
All right, nick's got something.
DJ NICK (25:40):
You guys have moved too quick.
KERRY (25:41):
Sorry.
DJ NICK (25:41):
So the Jessens did start, and it was Sunday night.
KERRY (25:44):
Oh, okay.
DJ NICK (25:45):
But it didn't fare well because it was up against
Dennis the Menace and the Disneywonderful world.
CHRISY (25:51):
World of Disney.
Oh yeah.
DJ NICK (25:55):
Then it got moved to Saturday mornings for season two
.
So you were right, chris, itstarted out as an evening thing,
much like.
KERRY (26:01):
And that probably explains why I didn't get to
watch it much.
Right, because I was not freeaccess to the TV.
So Saturday mornings I wouldget TV and I would get a little
bit when I got home from school.
Remember we talked about one ofthe other episodes.
You know I was that latchkey kidkid, so I had like an hour and
a half of I could sneak in sometv time, but other than that
(26:24):
there wasn't much tv, so but youguys weren't even born when it
first run, I mean when it rightit was.
DJ NICK (26:29):
1962 is when it started oh yeah the jetsons you guys
watch for, unless they, you knowthey would do those special
shows right.
CHRISY (26:38):
the original run occurred before you guys were
even born there was a slot ofshows on when we would come home
from school.
Yeah, that Gilligan's Islandwas in that grouping, and so was
Scooby-Doo, yeah, but probablythings like the Jetsons.
Yeah, the Flintstones, I thinkthose were sort of after school,
(26:58):
before you know, after the soapoperas probably ended, but
before the evening news came on.
So like that two hour period,probably between four and six.
KERRY (27:09):
Right, you had like kids could sit, and it was right when
the soap operas ended.
Yeah, and before the news.
Yeah, that was your window so,but All right, we got, we got a
few more to cover, so Real quickSome.
CHRISY (27:21):
Yeah, that was your window so but all right, we got,
we got a few more to cover, soreal quick some oh my god okay I
don't know how to bring thisone up everybody, because I
don't want to make anybody upsetwith me, but I mean, I think we
live in a time where we'resupposed to be able to talk
about stuff, say whatever wewant.
So what was up with the snagglepuss?
KERRY (27:44):
in the yogi bear grouping .
CHRISY (27:47):
According to nick, he looked it up because I sort of
had my own feelings aboutsnaggle puss and what his you
know demeanor or background was.
Uh, nick said that, uh, he hada definite definition to his uh,
he was you know a finer things.
DJ NICK (28:00):
I mean he was you know a finer things.
CHRISY (28:03):
He enjoyed the finer things of life.
DJ NICK (28:05):
He had the collar and made a lot of Shakespearean
references and he was, you know,Into theater Into theater.
So would he have been.
KERRY (28:14):
What's that called?
Whenever shoot I'm trying tothink of the term when a guy is
like you're going to have toedit my pauses out on this one,
while I think when they're intouch with their feminine side
and they're, I can't think of aname you have to edit it out,
well, well, and here's the thingI think that he just he was
into the finer things in life.
CHRISY (28:36):
That he was into the finer things in life.
That's all, and I thinksometimes you can do what you
want with this.
KERRY (28:39):
Edit it out or what.
Here's where I'm going.
CHRISY (28:40):
Would he have been part of the cast of Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy or would he havebeen someone that Queer Eye for
the Straight Guy guys would havehelped?
Yes, so would Snagglepuss be acast member or a participant,
(29:02):
but you know what so what?
I know, oh, we don't care.
KERRY (29:05):
Well, no, we don't care, we don't care, but it's just
funny because it's the way thesecartoons were talking about
things, or bringing things upthat were going on without
talking about them.
CHRISY (29:15):
He certainly was going to tell you every time he was
leaving the room exit, stage,blah, blah, blah, dude, and not
everything is a stage.
Why did he have to always gostage left, stage right, what
was that?
Because he was.
He had a performer's heart.
Do you want to do theimpersonation?
Come on, nick, you're so goodat impersonations.
DJ NICK (29:34):
One of things must even always say heavens to
murgatroyd and he would alwaysadd the word, even after
everything he said you know likewhat.
Like he would say, um, I'mtrying to think, but.
But he would add the word even,like to accentuate whatever I
wanted to say.
Like I would say my life isbeautiful, even is what, oh?
KERRY (29:54):
got you now.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that was one I hadactually not thought about until
I read your notes and stuff.
CHRISY (30:01):
But Yogi Bear was great, always still in the picnic
basket, him and Boo Boo.
That was sort of a weirdrelationship, but okay, okay
when you mentioned on here.
KERRY (30:10):
you had about the three stooges.
That was my cue to turn the TVoff the Jabberjaw, the Three
Stooges.
DJ NICK (30:17):
Oh, so Jabberjaw.
She may not even know whoJabberjaw is.
CHRISY (30:20):
Jabberjaw is a flippin' shark, oh.
KERRY (30:23):
I know who that is and he sounded like Curly from the
Three Stooges.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
CHRISY (30:37):
And I know there's a lot of Three Stooges fans out there
.
They have a ton of appreciationfor it.
I understand their importance.
I was more of a charlie chaplin, harold lloyd grouch, the marx
brothers type person, not somuch with the stooges, and I
didn't really care for laureland hardy much.
KERRY (30:46):
But yeah, no, three stooges would come on like.
This would be more like asunday thing, sunday morning
thing, when the three stoogeswould come on.
That's when I exited stage left.
Me too.
I did not care for that.
CHRISY (31:00):
So we had Speed Buggy, which was kind of fun.
That was sort of the samevoices that we got with
Scooby-Doo, probably because itwas made by the same people.
Captain Caveman, who?
DJ NICK (31:12):
was always screaming, captain Caveman.
CHRISY (31:14):
He looked like a hairball.
KERRY (31:17):
Um, and then the school of rock stuff, yeah, fantastic,
that was great, that was reallygood schoolhouse school oh, what
did I call school of rockschool?
Oh no, not good, yeah, jackblack thank you for school of
rock?
CHRISY (31:31):
no school house rock awesome.
Does anybody want to maybetouch real quick?
I know we're running on time.
You're gonna have to edit thisdown.
What was up the picture pagesthing?
KERRY (31:40):
picture pages.
Picture pages time to get yourpicture I always wanted to have
that I'd sing that picture pagessong all the time, do we not?
CHRISY (31:54):
realize to what level I'm going to say the name Bill
Cosby had himself embedded inour lives our generation
especially.
KERRY (32:02):
I know it's hard.
CHRISY (32:03):
Dude, you're totally disappointed, I know.
I know you let a wholegeneration down.
All right, no more of that.
The other thing I was going tobring up real quick and I made
notes on it was oh, we didn'tlike Pink Panther.
KERRY (32:19):
No, no, no to Pink Panther.
CHRISY (32:22):
Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I used to get mad when that hadto come on.
Did not find that funny at all.
That was a pretty old one too,but it still showed up.
Sid and Marty Krofft stuff.
I don't know what that is Nowif you want to talk about
Scooby-Doo, and maybe they werehaving fun with the gong or
whatever the hell they weresmoking.
DJ NICK (32:39):
Sid and.
CHRISY (32:40):
Marty Croft is notorious for that.
They had that one thing.
DJ NICK (32:44):
H&R Puffin stuff.
I mean go H&R.
CHRISY (32:46):
Puffin stuff.
But your Land of the Lost Wasthat Sid and Marty Croft also
Land of the Lost.
DJ NICK (32:52):
It was the same time period.
I don't know if Sid and MartyKrofft had anything to do with
Land of the Lost, though, Talkabout.
Watch Sid.
KERRY (32:58):
This is stuff like right as you guys were born, it's
early 70s, so yeah, but he saysthis as if he's like you know,
so much age difference than us.
You're the same age, nick yeahhe's the same age.
CHRISY (33:11):
Yeah, Sid, and Marty K.
Supercraft Land of the Lostawesome.
KERRY (33:13):
Yes, I loved also He-Man.
CHRISY (33:15):
Yeah, I was totally into the He-Man.
KERRY (33:18):
And Cringer the battle cat.
CHRISY (33:20):
I remember the Superfriends and I know He-Man
was on.
The other thing is with thisone sitting next to me here,
this DJ Nick thing.
He loves Transformer crap.
DJ NICK (33:30):
Oh yeah.
CHRISY (33:31):
And they actually had to make a whole like what do they
call that when they make thesemovies and they're like many
installments in, like you know,they're like a whole franchise.
Yeah, he likes to listen tothat crap.
Real loud.
The movie, that horrible noise,I hate it I hate it when they
(33:54):
transform.
DJ NICK (33:55):
I love when they transform.
Yeah, I hate it, I get so angryand he's like.
CHRISY (34:01):
it reminds me of my childhood.
I'm like that's really too bad.
Because of the cartoon.
KERRY (34:04):
I watched the cartoon Okay so one other last cartoon
on my notes was Popeye.
What's your take on Popeye andolive oil?
Popeye the sailor man it madeby an olive oil.
CHRISY (34:19):
Um, it made me try spinach out of a can, did it
really?
Yeah, oh yeah, because I waslike, does so much for you and
you know me with my wholeaffinity for dieting.
I was just gonna, I was like,where was the popeye diet?
And let me tell you whatspinach in a can, oh, it's awful
.
It's so wrong.
Did you have it with ice cream?
KERRY (34:34):
no well maybe I should have.
That might have made it better.
CHRISY (34:37):
But no, I wasn't really big on the whole Popeye thing.
It was kind of, but there'speople who love it and it's very
recognized.
You see that sailor and thesong, of course, yeah.
KERRY (34:50):
This was a good.
This was a good, lighthearteddown memory lane, about to give
you something to think about,maybe, where some of our
dysfunctions come from thesedays.
CHRISY (34:58):
Starting out with cartoons and eating that sugary
stuff called cereal in front ofthe television.
KERRY (35:04):
Absolutely so.
What we want to know is we wantto know what your favorite
cartoons were.
Make sure to find us on ourFacebook page and pop in on
there and tell us what yourfavorite cartoon was or what
cartoons traumatized you.
Yes, please, what's your takeon the Smurfs?
We want to know that.
CHRISY (35:23):
And we will be coming in with the Disney.
You're not off the hook.
Oh yeah, we're going to do oneabout Disney, and I didn't talk
about it because it wasn'tSaturday morning.
But there was some bad CharlieBrown stuff too.
Oh, as much as much as I loveCharlie Brown, there's some
traumatizing stuff there.
KERRY (35:39):
We'll get into that in the future and we're also going
to get into in the future.
We touched a little bit onGilligan's Island but we're
going to talk about some ofthose shows in the 80s.
I know Chrissy's got a lot tosay about the Love Boat, yeah.
CHRISY (36:00):
How come we had love was fantasy island on after.
KERRY (36:01):
Yeah, fantasy island love .
What were you trying to tellthe muppets?
DJ NICK (36:04):
gilligan's island and all that jazz yeah, lovely, all
right.
KERRY (36:05):
Well, be sure to check us out on our facebook page.
Also go to our new website,dysfunction junkies podcastcom.
And don't forget, in the monthof sept, we are supporting
Canine Companions.
We are raising awareness forthis wonderful organization.
We're also raising funds, so wehave a link where you can
donate to Canine Companions.
We will be at the CanineCompanions Dog Fest on September
(36:27):
21st in New Albany, ohio.
So if you want to see us faceto face and meet us, please come
out.
We would love to see you andteach you a little bit about
Canine.
CHRISY (36:36):
Companions yes, please, please, donate Wonderful
organization.
KERRY (36:40):
All right, everybody have a wonderful week.
Talk to you later.
Bye-bye.
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