If there's a problem with some of these parodies, it would be that I wonder if younger viewers will appreciate some of the particulars of these cartoons. T (Tracy Morgan) is portrayed as a gruff man seeking work - these were done before his current reality show - and he punctuates every other sentence with barked admonitions to stay in school and drink your milk (as he really did in the Eighties) until they pile up in a riff saying, "If you believe in yourself, drink in school, stay in drugs, and don't do milk, you can get work." (In this case, a role in Ibsen's The Dollhouse.) Terminal train wreck Anna Nicole Smith's E! show gets recast as Smurfette, with the blue girl of Peyo's creation made into a fat, drowsy, horny mess. Animated in the same stop-motion style of its source, it would be liable for a lawsuit if parody wasn't protected under the First Amendment. Another scarily precise send-up is of the Rankin-Bass classic The Year Without a Santa Claus which is mutated into The Narrator Who Ruined Christmas in which Frosty the Snowman refuses to tell the story because he's lacking the Christmas spirit after 9/11. Joe-esque Saddam and Osama which includes a live-action commercial for Rocks!, which adds cheerful decals and a peppy jingle to the weapon of choice for Middle Eastern youths seeking to bean soldiers and tanks. This stylistic mimicry continues into the G.I.
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