How have Sideshow Mel (and to a lesser degree bob) gone completely under the radar as being one-to-one depictions of Africans in sideshows from 1930s cartoons?>Afro>Skull/teeth necklace>Grass Frock >Leather shoes>Being a absolute ridicule and simplemindednessIts a form of secret blackface, where they're wearing the racist caricature's outfit and acting in the way they would in minstrel show, just sans the blackface itself.
>>154220297If you associate these things exclusively with Africans I think it's you who has the problem mate
>>154220297Sideshow Bob looked so joyful before the brain injury turned him into an intellectual and evil
I think they were going for >generic aboriginal tribesman of ambiguous origin that you used to get a lot. Stayed around surprisingly long too. Remember Tak and the power of Juju?
>>154220320Not OP, but it could be said that it is the savage cliche which is a caricature of jungle indigenous peoples. Which would of course include Africans.
>>154220320They are literally the outfits of africans from all the 1930s racist cartoons. Popeye, Looney Tunes, and even Mickey Mouse cartoons all used these same caricatures. No other character has an africa with a fucking bone in their afro.Literally just make Sideshow bob or mel black and it becomes insanely apparent.
>>154220297Because they’re both white. I mean yellow.
>>154220334It would have looked strange if proto-Bob became a villain.I see why a design change was necessary.
>>154220363https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fja1-pS1oThey lightly reference this being the shtick, but completely ignore the implications.
>>154220369>Doesn't know about sideshow RaheemInsane Larp
>>154220297>Rascist caricatures >two of the smartest and cultured characters on the showBoy, /pol/ really got to you, didn't it?
>>154220654Their characters on stage are caricatures. Outside of it they are intellectuals. Even if one of them regularly wears his costume offstage.
>>154220375You are a psychopathic freak that needs to be euthanized
>>154220697>I dress up and act like a 1930s racist caricature >But its ok because I'm white and am actually intelligent outside of this.
>>154220738That’s you
>>154220297OP is a dumb fucking retard.
>>154220759Stop baiting
>>154220297an obvious one
>>154220784How is it bait? Mel literally dresses like a 1930s savage caricature and acts like a complete incompetent doofus incapable of human speech that can only communicate through a whistle on the krusty show. Its a minstrel show minus the blackface.
>>154220823why was he fucking yellow? No other asian was yellow except for him and Dashi.
>>154220297the entire joke about krusty is he's a comically out of date kid's show, even when the simpsons first aired the idea of a clown hosted variety kid's show was wildly out of date, and was since like the fucking 70slike everything in the simpsons though the parody has outlived its original context and just exists as a bizarre detached concept that barely makes any sense in the modern age
>>154220854Even in the 70s having a white dude portray a racist caricature would have been out of pocket.
>>154220874Kung Pow had one of the creators of Jimmy Neutron doing a silly Asian woman impression for like the whole movie in 2002.
>>154220375Based as fuck./thread.
>>154220738LMAO. Cucks like you deserve euthanasia.
>>154220297Side show freaks and circus people in general were always assigned adventurous fictional backstories where they were the long lost prince of some exotic savage island, but their actual racial background and cultural heritage was secondary to whatever interesting bodily anomaly or talent was on display. They absolutely could be negro or some other minority sometimes, and that angle was played up when it was convenient, but that mattered less than them being interestingly deformed.The joke with sideshows bob and mel is that they are well educated shakespearian actors who could only land the gig of being a pretend retard that plays second fiddle to a clown. They’re not quite acting in a role where they are blacks, they are playing the role of hydroencephalics or downies or what have yous who are pretending to be blacks.
>>154220854>ME A LIKE A DA FLIED LICE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmbMwyJqcA
>>154220825No
>>154220854Funny cause here in LaTam we had Lalo y Lagrimita https://youtu.be/rZbNCu2YHR8?si=9f3n8NJvlCNpgR_GY El payaso Rorrito de mexicalihttps://youtu.be/Bk8MLvIsAus?si=UNTez8BQ3AZ0CtMx
>>154220854Not to mention the Serial Killers who dressed up as clowns, the trope of the middle age loser douche who plays a clown but wants to hang himself, and of course.The Joker, after Batman 89.That seal the deal on clowns being seeing in a bad light.
I don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, I genuinely don't mind racism. On the other, I find the Simpsons writers to be smug, pretentious fags, and amplifying outrage against them gives me schadenfreude even if I'm not actually outraged myself. So I guess I will chalk this up as funny, and if any negative backlash actually does come of it, it couldn't have happened to more deserving people.
>>154221069Funniest Simpsons joke.
>>154221221This was written like a modern simpsons joke. Yak Yak Yak, explain the punchline.
>>154221145No wonder The Simpsons are so popular over there.
>>154220297I thought the joke was that the sideshow characters were classicly trained thespians who could only get this one really shitty stupid role as a sidekick on a kids show. So the costume is intentionally made to be something ridiculous to rob them of 100% of their dignity.
>>154220297Probably because people associate black people in America as less intelligent than actual tribal Africans. Not all black people kind you just the ghetto hood blacks.
>>154221755>African/savage caricatures rob then of 100% of their dignity You almost got there.
>>154221868Stfu
>>154220297Shh, we already lost Apu, you're gonna make it worse>>154220353There's a 2000 episode where Homer corrupts a primitive pacific islander society with gambling and white American culture. It wasn't really subtle
>>154221868What makes thew white guy with a slide whistle African?
>>154222290So?
The old timely blackface only became a problem because of retarded leftist mewling. It should be normalized again. Love the oogabooga aesthetic, especially in old adventure books and toons.
>>154222290Oh you mean Lisa Jr?
>>154220297>>154220369Not just africans. A lot of non-polynesion natives were portrayed this way, esp. island cannibals. Meliinesians in particular look almost exactly like this.
>>154222360His slide whistle is literally the only way he can communicate in the krusty show because he is an incompetent savage. He literally bumbled into cannons and accidently gets himself into danger by his inability to understand the world around him.
>>154222963Africans say ooga booga and play drums not slide whistle.
>>154222963Slide whistles are inherently African in your world?
>>154220375Go back to /pol/ or wherever you got banned from.
>>154220838Asians are yellow. Nothing to be ashamed of. By you being offended, you imply that it is somehow wrong, and end being the actual racist.
>>154223560Mexicans literally have the same skin color.
>>154223560It's jaundice and it's wrong.
>>154220854in my little corner of the midwest in the early 90s we still had shows like krusty's
>>154224483No
