A college professor claims that some of the hate against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Barney the Dinosaur</a> is due to men rebelling against an alternate version of masculinity and being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homophobia">homophobic</a>.
There have been multiple articles and documentaries on the topic of the public backlash against the popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">cartoon</a> from the 1990s. These latest statements were made on a new podcast episode in the series “Generation Barney,” which takes a look at the history of the show and its reception.
&#8220;Understanding particularly why adult men didn&#8217;t like Barney reveals a lot about gender and power in our current society. There were women who didn&#8217;t like Barney, but the high-profile hate was really coming from men,&#8221; podcast host Sabrina Herrera says in the <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/podcast/generation-barney/2024-11-19/love-2-hate">episode</a> titled, “Love 2 Hate.”
&#8220;He offered up a different model for masculinity, even as a purple dinosaur and not a human. This message about love, about nurturing, about looking after others, that these are emotions and also sort of social practices and responsibilities that in our culture are constructed and understood to be sort of feminine and feminizing,&#8221; Dr. Emily Contois, a media studies teacher at the University of Tulsa, replied.
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&#8220;Barney could be understood as resisting that, pushing back against that, offering a different model of sexuality and gender and size all coming together. And so for some of these men who reacted very poorly to him, that could be a piece of their reaction,&#8221; the professor continued.
Dr. Contois added, “A part of that white masculine sort of set of authorities is also this incredible resistance to homosexuality.&#8221;
The “Barney &amp; Friends” series was based on a friendly purple and green Tyrannosaurus rex character and a cast of children who went on adventures, enjoying songs, dances, and games that made learning fun. The show debuted in 1992 and was extremely popular with young children of that generation.
Bob West, the original voice actor for Barney, recalled getting death threats for playing the character. &#8220;There were certain things, certain messages that people would send that were pretty threatening,&#8221; he said during last week’s episode of the same podcast. 
&#8220;If you get a death threat from a middle school child who sends you an email, then it doesn&#8217;t make me feel bad for me. It makes me feel bad for them because they&#8217;re obviously going through something that&#8217;s leading them [to] act out this way,&#8221; he went on, per <a href="https://people.com/barney-voice-actor-recalls-getting-death-threats-for-show-8740141">People</a>.

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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with an affected drawl during a recent campaign stop that was so obviously fake that critics are comparing her to the classic Looney Tunes cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn.
Harris, who became the Democratic Party&#8217;s de facto nominee after President Joe Biden was effectively forced off the ticket in July, campaigned on Monday first in Detroit and then in Pennsylvania — and people quickly noticed that she only adopted the accent at that first stop.
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WATCH: Kamala Harris delivers the same exact line in a speech earlier today in Detroit and again in Pittsburgh a few hours later.
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In the first clip, Harris delivered her comments in an exaggerated southern drawl: &#8220;Ya betta thank a union memba for sick leave, ya betta thank a union memba for paid leave, ya betta thank a union memba for vacation time.&#8221;
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In the second clip, from later that same day, she reverted to her normal tone: &#8220;Thank unions for sick leave. Thank unions for paid family leave. Thank unions for your vacation time.&#8221;
&#8220;What in the Foghorn Leghorn is Kamala talking about? Why is she talking like that?&#8221; comedian Chad Prather asked.
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— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) <a href="https://twitter.com/WatchChad/status/1830942609457717587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Kamala Harris speaking in Detroit earlier today vs Pittsburgh a few hours later. Kamala speaking like Foghorn Leghorn in Detroit and sounding normal in Pittsburgh,&#8221; YouTuber Dustin Mills posted. &#8220;This has to be a comedy gag no way in hell we are living in real life are living in a clown world, it is official Kamala is making Hillary 2016 campaign look competent.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris speaking in Detroit earlier today vs Pittsburgh a few hours later.
Kamala speaking like Foghorn Leghorn in Detroit and sounding normal is Pittsburgh
this has to be a comedy gag no way in hell we are living in real life are living in a clown world
it is official… <a href="https://t.co/H8H8i83PeI">pic.twitter.com/H8H8i83PeI</a>
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&#8220;It is always cringe when people running for office put on fake &#8220;blackcents&#8221; but I&#8217;ve never heard one sound like Foghorn Leghorn before,&#8221; author Larry Correia added.
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It is always cringe when people running for office put on fake &#8220;blackcents&#8221; but I&#8217;ve never heard one sound like Foghorn Leghorn before. 😀
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Kamala’s New Campaign Accent Has People Comparing Her To Classic Cartoon Character

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A writer for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nickelodeon">Nickelodeon</a> animated children’s series “The Fairly OddParents” explained why one of the character names had to change.
In a new episode of the spinoff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartoons">series</a> “The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish,” the son of main characters Cosmo and Wanda announces that he has a new name. “Hey kid, I’m Poof — or at least I was,” he says in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">episode</a>. “I changed my name to Peri, like Peri-winkle.”
“Fairly OddParents” writer, producer, and star Ashleigh Crystal Hairston explained the name change with an X post. “The former name is a slur in many countries and cannot be used,” she <a href="https://x.com/shleighcrystal/status/1815524124909027415">wrote</a>.
According to <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poof">Merriam-Webster</a>, “poof” is used as “a term of abuse and disparagement” for gay men in British English.
The original “Fairly OddParents” series follows the main character Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy, as he goes about his life with two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The godparents grant his wishes to make life easier and overcome obstacles.
The series originated with shorts on Nickelodeon and aired from 1998 to 2002. It became very popular and was eventually developed into a half-hour series that premiered in March 2001. It ended in 2006 and was revived in 2008, making it Nickelodeon’s second-longest-running series ever, with only “SpongeBob SquarePants” going on for longer.
The series has had several spinoffs, including a live-action series on Paramount+ and several live-action TV movies starring Drake Bell as Timmy. “The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder” came out in 2022, while this latest iteration, “The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish” premiered in May 2024.
Peri, originally named Poof, was introduced in 2008 as a baby who caused drama with the relationship between Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents when he was born. Poof was the first fairy baby born in thousands of years. 
The new version of Peri grown up looks just like a combination of his parents Cosmo and Wanda.

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Animated Nickelodeon Series Changes Character’s Name Because It’s ‘A Slur In Many Countries’

Animated Nickelodeon Series Changes Character Name Because It's 'A Slur In Many Countries'

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“South Park” doesn’t believe in half measures.
The Comedy Central series has been delivering brutal takedowns since its very first season.
The pandemic. Trans athletes. The King of Pop. Paris Hilton. Jesse Jackson. PC gone wild. Name the subject, and chances are Stan, Kenny, Kyle, and Cartman have tackled it, sans apology.
The following eight episodes offer “South Park” unleashed. Pity the targets of the show’s satirical cudgel. They may never recover from the animated tongue lashing.
<h2>1. “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” &#8211; Season 11, episode 1</h2>
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Stan Marsh&#8217;s father, Randy, accidentally says the &#8220;n-word&#8221; as a contestant on &#8220;Wheel of Fortune.&#8221; He&#8217;s quickly branded a racist, and the reverberations fall on both his son and the boys&#8217; elementary school.
The episode mocks Jackson for pretending to be the embodiment of black America while initiating a tough conversation about race and the word in question.
It&#8217;s blunt satire, full stop, and an example of how &#8220;South Park&#8221; is willing to explore complicated issues from various angles. It&#8217;s not a lecture, and the laughs are both consistent and, often, uncomfortable.
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<h2>2. &#8220;Board Girls&#8221; Season 23, Episode 7</h2>
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It’s the episode even “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone may not be able to get away with today given the trans community’s rage against criticism.
The episode aired in 2019 before the trans issue flared up across the country. Vice Principal Strong Woman announces she’s entering a Strong Woman competition, in part, to inspire female students to be empowered. She’s upstaged by a biological man who transitioned to womanhood mere weeks ago.
And the trans athlete happens to look and sound like Randy “Macho Man” Savage, the wrestling icon from the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Chaos ensues, naturally, with the storyline echoing future conversations about trans athletes and biological differences. Clips from the episode went viral earlier this year, connecting the 2019 satire with modern conversations on the topic.
<h2>3. &#8220;The Worldwide Privacy Tour&#8221; Season 26, Episode 2</h2>
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The couple known by their first names, Harry and Meghan, enjoy a rarefied space in pop culture. Mock the duo relentlessly and suffer the consequences. Just ask Piers Morgan, who did just that and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61105178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost a high-profile gig with “Good Morning Britain.”</a>
“South Park” turned that cultural protection racket on its head.
The episode features a Canadian royal couple who wish to be left alone. And they’ll shout their wishes from the rooftops until every living soul hears them. It’s obviously Harry and Meghan, and the secondary plot involving a quest for victimhood makes the comedy bite even harder.
After the episode aired we learned about Meghan Markle’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/meghan-markle-faked-podcast-interviews-her-voice-added-later-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubious podcasting tics</a>, a story that may not have been told if “South Park” hadn’t made it culturally acceptable to do so. Her feminist podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spotify-cancels-second-season-of-meghan-markles-feminist-archetypes-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ended after just one season.</a> 
<h2>4. “The Jeffersons” Season 8, Episode 6</h2>
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What if the biggest pop star on the planet moved to South Park? Even more improbable? An animated series skewers him in ways many were thinking but couldn’t discuss in polite society.
Yes, the Mr. Jefferson in question is a Michael Jackson stand-in, complete with a child named Blanket. The new neighbor can’t connect with adults and dresses like Peter Pan for his young South Park friends.
When the adults accuse him of oddball behavior he cries, “that’s ignorant” in a high-pitched whine. Later, Mr. Jefferson’s face begins to crumble after one too many plastic surgeries.
We all knew about Jackson’s eccentricities, but “South Park” lined them all up for our inspection in one withering, 30-minute broadside. 
A subplot, riffing on the O.J. Simpson case, finds local police trying to frame Mr. Jefferson because he’s wealthy and black. Satire atop satire, and all of it stings. 
<h2>5. “ManBearPig” Season 10, Episode 6</h2>
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Former Vice President Al Gore’s climate change mantras are rarely, if ever, questioned in the media. He’s considered an oracle on the subject, even though he’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/al-gores-eco-friendly-investment-firm-owns-shares-in-polluting-companies-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profited off his declarations</a> and some of his predictions have been less than accurate.
“South Park” mocked him all the same.
The episode finds an animated Al Gore tracking down the evil ManBearPig, a creature which feasts on innocent humans. It’s clearly a metaphor for Climate Change, and the episode depicts Gore as an attention seeker first and foremost.
Few, if any, satirists approached Gore in such a fashion before or after the episode.
<h2>6. “Joining the Panderverse” 326th stand-alone episode </h2>
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Parker and Stone pay homage to countless YouTubers who have been calling out Kathleen Kennedy’s disastrous Disney tenure. She’s been behind the wheel as “Star Wars,” the MCU, and “Indiana Jones” took sizable stumbles.
The episode finds Cartman dreaming of an alternate universe where he and his buddies are swapped out for diverse versions of themselves.
It gets meaner.
Cartman boils down the Kennedy ethos into a phrase sure to become as ubiquitous as “yada yada yada” and “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” from “Seinfeld.”
“Put a chick in it and make her gay!”
<h2>7 &amp; 8. “Cartoon Wars Parts I &amp; II” Season 10, episodes 3 and 4 </h2>
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The show featured a bizarre cross-promotion with FOX’s “Family Guy” sitcom. The latter plans to show a character based on Islamic Prophet Muhammad, sending the town of South Park into a frenzy.
Could the series spark violence in the Colorado town or elsewhere?
The two-part episode matters for several reasons. Parker and Stone took the free speech fight into the public arena, coming after the attacks against a Danish newspaper for publishing a cartoon image of the Prophet.
Plus, it’s rare to see Parker and Stone lose a public fight with Comedy Central. The channel opted not to show the Muhammad character illustrated for the series, showing a black screen when the image was supposed to appear. Later, these episodes and several more with <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/06/south-park-episodes-missing-hbo-max-prophet-muhammad-1202969280/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar themes have been yanked from various streaming platforms.</a>
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The popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/dw-kids">kids</a> cartoon “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartoons">Paw Patrol</a>” introduced a new &#8220;non-binary&#8221; character on one of its spinoff shows, “Rubble &amp; Crew.” 
In a recent episode of the Nickelodeon series called “The Crew Builds An Observatory,” the English bulldog welcomes a so-called “non-binary” character named River into the mix.
The entire episode revolves around the gang building an observatory for stargazing and does not address River’s identity. But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> activist Lindsay Amer, who runs the YouTube channel “Queer Kids Stuff,” described more details about River’s inclusion in an Instagram post. 
“They brought me on to consult on the first nonbinary character—meet River!!—for the PP universe and write their episode, talk about a bucket list item,” Amer wrote. The content creator also discussed the subtle messaging with River, including shoes featuring the trans flag colors.
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“I wanted to write a nonbinary character that was aspirational and incredibly cool, someone for the pups (and kids at home) to look up to. They found an awesome non-binary actor to voice River and I’m so so happy about how it turned out,” the post continued. Amer also shared photos of River’s shoes.
“Peep River’s [non-binary, transgender] kicks!” the activist wrote. 
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paw-patrol-indoctrinates-pre-schoolers-with-radical-lgbt-propaganda">said</a> the “Paw Patrol” episode is part of a larger effort by Hollywood to indoctrinate children from a very young age by exposing them to LGBTQ messaging early and often.
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“Even back in 2020 they were, as you can see here, displaying the so-called ‘non-binary’ flag by adorning a boat in its colors. It’s not subtle at all, unless you’re in pre-school,” Walsh said. “For that audience, the idea is to get them used to seeing these colors and associating it with something good and fun and welcoming, so that when they encounter the &#8216;non-binary&#8217; flag in real life, they will draw that association. Subliminal messaging is a big part of kids’ cartoons these days.”
Walsh also pointed out how Amer openly promotes far-Left principles for young kids. Amer said toddlers should be introduced to “big abstract concepts like queerness” and that infants should have a “queer and gender-affirming environment in their nursery.” 
People expressed their disgust on social media.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not entertainment when it&#8217;s really propaganda,&#8221; one reaction said.
&#8220;I’m so sick of seeing this s***. Leave our kids alone!!!&#8221; another echoed.
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Popular ‘Paw Patrol’ Cartoon Spinoff Slammed For Introducing ‘Non-Binary’ Character

Popular 'Paw Patrol' Cartoon Spinoff Slammed For Introducing 'Non-Binary' Character

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The satirical, irreverent, oftentimes offensive adult cartoon “South Park” has been trending recently because it dared to make fun of the transgender movement. This led to many social media users wondering if the show is secretly conservative or, at the very least, if the writers are willing to take a sane approach to hot-button social issues.
Fans started circulating a few clips highlighting the madness of the trans movement and the people involved in it.
One of the more popular scenes from a 2005 episode of the show paints the character Mr. Garrison (who is on a mission to become Mrs. Garrison) as delusional and oblivious. It’s the sort of content that would never get approved in today’s political climate.
The episode “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina” first aired on March 9, 2005, per IMDb. In it, the quirky teacher heads to a Planned Parenthood clinic to procure an abortion after he realizes he hasn’t gotten his period following a gender reassignment procedure. The episode also reveals some brutal truths about abortion.
“Looks like I need an abortion,” Garrison tells the Planned Parenthood doctor, who responds in confusion, “An abortion?”
“Yeah I’ve got one growing inside me, now are you going to scramble its brains or just vacuum it out? If you want you can just scramble it, and I’ll q**** it out myself,” Garrison tells the doctor.
The doctor explains to Mr. Garrison that he’s “physically unable to have an abortion because you can’t get pregnant,” following up with, “You can’t have periods either, you had a sex change Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb, you don’t produce eggs.”
“You mean … I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me, and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?” Mr. Garrison asks.
“That’s right,” the doctor replies.
Mr. Garrison says, “But I paid $5,000 to be a woman, this would mean I’m not really a woman, I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis.”
Like so many other characters on “South Park,” Garrison is complicated and often self-contradictory. He is portrayed as a gay man who eventually goes through the process of “becoming a woman,” then attempts to revert back to being a man. At various points in the show, he dates both men and women, plus exhibits signs of racism and homophobia.
In the same episode, Kyle gets surgery to become tall and black so he can play basketball and Kyle’s dad Gerald gets talked into surgery to become a dolphin. 
“There’s nothing crazy about a person wanting to look on the outside the way they feel on the inside,” the doctor says while trying to convince Gerald to get the procedure.
Casual fans of the show and people who never watched it before want to know if Garrison and the others are some thinly veiled conservative rant against the trans agenda from way back in 2005. There’s not a black-and-white answer to that. But the show is masterful at pointing out absurdities even decades before those ideas became mainstream.
One of the most popular aspects of the show is its ability to mock everyone, including both the Left and Right. Unsurprisingly, “South Park” creators insist that the show doesn’t take sides politically; they just hate everyone. But critics had been noticing the show’s tendency to mock liberals more than conservatives for years, which led to terms like “South Park conservative” and “South Park Republican.”
The animated sitcom was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and remains one of Comedy Central’s highest-rated programs ever. “South Park” follows four grade-school boys — Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick — as they grow up in a small Colorado town. 
It features copious amounts of profanity, dark humor, and frank satire. Parker and Stone say “Monty Python” was one of their main sources of inspiration for the show, which premiered back in 1997. Since it began, there have been 321 episodes (including television films) of “South Park” spanning 26 seasons.
Every time a modern show or movie mocks Christianity, critics inevitably bring up a glaring fact: they do it to Jesus, but they’d never show the same disrespect to the Muslim prophet Muhammad. But for “South Park,” that’s not technically true. The series was boycotted after making fun of Mormons, Scientologists, Catholics, and Jewish people over the years, but then they did the one thing that’s almost never done. They took a risk by targeting Muslims.
An image of Muhammad was shown in the episode &#8220;Super Best Friends&#8221; (2001). Then in 2010, Parker and Stone took on the topic again in the episode titled “201.” Before the episode aired, the NYPD increased security at the Comedy Central headquarters as a response to threats the network received. The network wound up censoring images of Muhammad with a black “censored” box, despite the creators disagreeing with the decision.
“That was one of my most disappointing moments as an American; the American press&#8217;s reaction to the Muhammad cartoons. It was completely wimpy,&#8221; Stone <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-stone-trey-parker-ar_n_475744">told</a> The Huffington Post in April 2010.
&#8220;Cartoonists, people who do satire — we&#8217;re not in the army, we&#8217;re never going to be f***king drafted and this is our time to stand up and do the right thing. And to watch the New York Times, Comedy Central, everybody just go &#8216;No, we&#8217;re not going to do it because basically we&#8217;re afraid of getting bombed&#8217; sucked. I was so disappointed.&#8221;
Stone summed up his feelings succinctly in 2005, saying, &#8220;I hate conservatives, but I really f***ing hate liberals.&#8221; This type of sentiment led critics to dub the “South Park” creators as likely libertarians.
The duo also mentioned that making fun of liberals is fun because it’s more taboo and no one else does it. It’s like making fun of Muhammad, in that way. 
&#8220;Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it,&#8221; Stone told The Huffington Post. &#8220;It&#8217;s so much more fun for us to rip on liberals only because nobody else does it, and not because we think liberals are worse than Republicans.”
They enjoy mocking celebrities most of all, which has the show in sharp focus all over again as the latest episode absolutely skewered Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
&#8220;There&#8217;s something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood,&#8221; Stone said in 2010. &#8220;You have to laugh at Alec Baldwin when he gets political. You have to. He is an amazing actor, he may even be a great guy, but that s*** is funny. Sean Penn getting on TV on CNN and talking about politics … that&#8217;s f***ing funny. And we&#8217;re going to make fun of you, Sean Penn.&#8221;
One of the latest “South Park” episodes features “the Prince of Canada and his wife,” who are meant to represent Harry and Meghan.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-park-rips-harry-and-meghan-fake-privacy-tour-scores-new-fans-across-the-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> “The Worldwide Privacy Tour,” the Canadian prince and his wife — who look similar to Harry and Markle — go on a worldwide “we want our privacy” tour following a book tour for his tell-all memoir “Waaaagh.” Meanwhile, the Princess of Canada is described as a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim.”
Rumors were floating around that the real Harry and Meghan might sue the show for hurting their feelings. However, a spokesperson for the Sussexes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/22/baseless-nonsense-meghan-and-harry-wont-sue-south-park-for-mocking-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> those reports were “all frankly nonsense,” as well as “totally baseless” and “boring.”

‘South Park’ Isn’t Conservative, But At Least They’re Honest While Mocking Trans Militants And Whiny Royals

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The popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">British</a> children’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">cartoon</a> Peppa Pig is making headlines this week for introducing a same-sex couple, two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">lesbian</a> polar bears, in a new episode that premiered Tuesday.
Per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/peppa-pig-introduces-sex-couple-petition-lgbtq-characters-rcna46663">NBC News</a>, Penny the Polar Bear tells the eponymous character Peppa that she has “two mummies” and draws a picture of herself holding hands with them. 
“I live with my mummy and my other mummy,” Penny explains. “One mummy is a doctor, and one mummy cooks spaghetti. I love spaghetti.&#8221;
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PEPPA PIG has introduced its first LGBTQ+ couple on its latest episode.
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The cartoon may be of British origin, but it has become extremely popular around the world. NBC News reported that “Peppa Pig” has been translated into 40 languages and is broadcast in 180 countries. “Peppa” has a devoted fan base in the United States.
The series focuses on the 4-year-old pig, Peppa, and her life with Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, and her younger brother George. The publication notes that some critics take issue with how the cartoon glorifies a traditional nuclear family. 
This led to the creation of a <a href="https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/520/622/303/">petition</a> in 2019 that demanded series creators add a same-sex couple. Over the years, the petition has garnered more than 23,000 signatures. 
“Despite there being six series and over 250 episodes produced so far, none of the families feature same-sex parents,” the petition says. 
“Children watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age, and excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal,” it continues. “This means that children of same-sex parents may feel alienated by Peppa Pig, and that other children may be more likely to bully them, simply through ignorance.”
The news comes months after video of an all-hands meeting at Disney headquarters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks">went viral</a>, with one executive producer explaining how she could easily implement her “not-at-all secret gay agenda” in one show. Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for childrens’ entertainment content.
Also, the “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear” got backlash from parents as it featured a same-sex kiss which was initially cut from the final version but got added back in when the company came out publicly against the Florida Parental Rights In Education Bill — which critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill.” 
“Peppa Pig” is just one in a long line of children’s shows accused of pandering to LGBTQ activists through cartoons for children. Twitter critics voiced their objections to the narrative pushing.
&#8220;I have no problem with LGBT, etc. but what I do have a problem with is this sh** being drummed into them when they&#8217;re toddlers, stop confusing them and let them be kids,&#8221; one person <a href="https://twitter.com/RussellLloyd69/status/1567395638123298817">shared</a>.
&#8220;That&#8217;s the end of the Peppa Pig phenomenon. What a shame. Education not indoctrination,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/NickBuckleyMBE/status/1567421666531151872">wrote</a>, saying children &#8220;need to learn the basics, the norm, the generalizations — not the outliers, the exceptions or the fashionable.&#8221;

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Kid Favorite Cartoon ‘Peppa Pig’ Debuts Same-Sex Couple After Petition For LGBTQ Representation

Kid Favorite Cartoon 'Peppa Pig' Debuts Same-Sex Couple After Petition For LGBTQ Representation

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