Even though these CN shows were edgy, most of them had an underlying positive message>Dexter: in any experience, you're going to fail in small ways, maybe even big ones. The important thing is to learn from failure.>Johnny Bravo taught that being a creep will get you nowhere>Powerpuff Girls was feminist>Ed, Edd n Eddy taught that being a con artist will get you nowhere>Courage taught that true bravery isn't the absence of fear, but doing the rught thing even if you're scared of doing it>KND taught that you should enjoy your childhood while you still can>Foster's taught about friendshipWhat was Billy & Mandy's messsge? I can't decipher a message from it.What was it?
>>153685638No, their messages were all about monkeys:>Dexter: empower the monkey>Johnny: do the monkey>Powerpuff: beat the monkey>Eds: be the monkey>Courage: fear the monkey>KND: buy the monkey (plushie)>Foster: imagine a monkey>Billy and Mandy: befriend the monkey
>>153685638I don't think any seek to teach a lesson. It's more like we laugh at exaggerated portrayals of real life folleys. I don't even see half of these. Dexter never really learns, he's already is a genius. How was Powerpuff Girls feminist? Having girl heroes alone isn't feminist. For KND and Johnny Bravo, maybe you have a poijt. Still, just for fun I'll try to follow your logic and force one for Billy and Mandy. You could treat it as a metaphor for parenthood maybe. Dealing with kids is a challenge even for the God of Death.
>>153686314>My Gym Partner's a Monkey: my gym partner's a monkey
>>153685638>>Johnny Bravo taught that being a creep will get you nowhereThe lesson was don't approach or compliment women cause they're emotional and treat violence against men as normal.
>>153686314>Camp Lazlo: monkey
>>153686496Comfy monkey
>>153686458Has this ever happened to you? Women are cowards, if you creep them out they will just pretend you aren't and then make fun of you to their friends to cope.
>>153686363Nta, but there is a thing with cartoons wanting to teach morals. I don't know if it's forced by contract or some law, think of when Tiny Tunes were forced to do an episode centered on an antismoke campaign. The creators were having none of it so they just treated it as a joke.I went off a tangent, I wanted to say it could be intentional or not by the showrunners. Also, not every episode is going to have a message/teaching.For example, PPG. They had some feminist messages, most notorious the episodes with Femme Fatale and the league of male supers. But there's also the times they have shown boys as gross and rebelious, the prominent figures of ms. Keane and Bellum and Blossom wanting to instate a mysandrist dictatorship. But they also thaught about loving your family, learning to accept those who are different, treating others with love in general, not being a brat and crime bad.The lesson in Billy in Mandy is don't make deals with kids or you'll become their slave. Now, seriously, there are some, one episode I forgot was when Billy and Mandy didn't let her play a boardgame cause she was a gurl. She ventures into an abandoned home, met a woman that beat Grimm in every game they played, and taught her to use her feminine tools to get back at the boys.Other than that... idiots won't get anywhere in the future. And (I'm stretching it here) despite how much you hate your friends, you need them in your life or you'll be misserable. Or from Mandy's perspective, keep the useful fools close to you.Buuuut... I'm forcing it, if it really has any lesson it escapes me.
>>153686496>mmmhhh>Lazlo
>>153685638>True friends will have your back no matter whatalternatively>Most people aren't evil, just annoying
>>153686378Remember Adam and Jake? This is them now, feel old yet?
>>153686749Wait... stupdity and evilness are closer than you think. That's why Billy and Mandy are inseparable.
>>153686641You're conflating episodic lessons with OP's hypothetical series-arching lessons. Every plot must have conflict, so a "lesson" can be extracted from any episode. So you also don't have much of a point aside from your confusing the two, to be blunt.
>>153686314fpbp
>>153685638Grim Adventures is unique because pretty much all the characters are mostly morally bad and unsympathetic. Even Eddy or Johnny Bravo are shown to be caring, well intentioned people who just have serious vices that get in the way. Grim, Billy, and Mandy are all complete narcissists to their core. Maybe the lesson is that simple>don't be these assholes
>>153686766Is this Generator Rex? Holy fuck that monkey looks familiar
>>153685638Don't forget Evil Con Carne. Actually.... maybe it's better if we forget that one
>>153686793Fair, fair. Then I see none in many of those shows. Courage, Johnny, and maybe KND as OP pointed out. Ed, Edd & Eddy might be too, because the two topics I see there are enjoying your time with your friends and Eddy's ways of scamming others only lead to disaster and he has to learn to stop that (which he does in the very end). Or rather, maybe some message of maturing.From what you say, a series that doesn't have a series-arching lesson, but ends with a moral lesson in the final episode wouldn't count either, right?Mmmhhhh, PPG's theme across the series is girl can be cute and strong, and love. So many of the lessons they give revolve around that, but not feminism.
>>153686868It is.
>>153686832But Mandy always wins and she rules the future, so maybe be like her. The flowey dress is key.
>>153687014Are you trying to sissy hypno me Anon?
>>153686802Best part is I was being legit. All those shows had at least one episode centered around monkeys or monkey themes.They really liked monkeys in CN.
>>153687034Hey, if you want to act like a fragile sissy lady while wearing a dress is your choice. I always act super manly even when wearing a sundress with pretty yellow daisies and a matching pink purse.
