Here’s some more ragging on the ahkj writers for ya. Why the hell did they do an entire episode about the lemurs wearing diapers!? You could do the exact same premise with so many other kinds of clothing! Like silly hats or onesies! That could have been adorable! But no, they just had to do fucking diapers!
I swear, it had to be somebody’s fetish on what’s supposed to be a kid show! And with that said, why in god’s name was the show made as a kid’s show!? Seriously!? You wouldn’t even have to change that much for the show to work as an average American adult cartoon show! AKHJ Mort would fit right in in an adult cartoon and King Julien! You wanna put in your fetish in a show so badly, make a show for adults!
There are shows that children and adults can enjoy that include adult jokes and are still appropriate for children. AHKJ is not of those shows. It fails! It loses! It gets no recommendation from me! Good day!
bahaha THAT LAST PART. I feel seen as someone who does not want the children in my life watching the whole show. nor would I recommend it to almost anyone. I'm so excited to have a reason to share my controversial diaper episode opinions though.
If it was a fetish then yes I can agree. I'll never get the logic for an adult writer to make a kid show episode like that. And the whole premise of these fetishes is their plausible deniability, which I find lame and cowardly. imo ahkj is pure kid's tv, though! I beef with it for being deeply behind its time (it came out after steven universe so the fatphobia and misogyny are like... come on) but i think its general humor is perfect for 8-12 year olds. It's true the characters would be at home on an adult show with no changes, but we see the same dark/adult humor in Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Trolls.
What sucks 4 me is I LOOVE this episode too, lmao! It deserves better than its infamy by a mile. The diapers annoy tf out of me and I hate their design, but it completely won me over in the end. It's too good for anyone to be skipping it and I'm so serious.
Yes it could've been about anything but diapers, BUT ahkj is a gross-out cartoon. They never passed up an opportunity to imply someth was covered in poop. It's not ahkj's best quality, but it was part of their comedic ethos. A writer can go for gross as a humor subgenre without it being a fetish.
My BIGGEST DEVIL'S ADVOCATE FOR THIS EPISODE: diapers are relevant to kids. It may seem super basic but I do wonder if our childless, skeptical, online adult (or teen) brains are primed to see a fetish, to where we miss how more statistically likely it is the ahkj team came up with this episode from watching their own kids play, or from noticing what gets a reaction out of them.
Could be naive, but I never see this simple truth brought up when it's time to roast this episode. The fetish seems unlikely by comparison to me. Especially when I don't believe fetishes like these are actually what's happening in cartoons on this scale. I don't know! I was ready to kill ahkj over this for a time, so I am very much the (throws aside the rock she was holding) meme after I started thinking it all over. I hope this is reassuring.
Not to say the staff must be innocent lambs either, bc I'm not convinced they weren't on tumblr a little. It would also be in-character for them if the point was to embarrass/shock/annoy kids and adults. (One reason I called them little shits.)
