Thursday, January 29, 2004
QUEER AS TOONS: I was looking for something to talk about today and oh boy, did I find it when a British news site said that Bugs Bunny had been outed by a gay-themed British radio station. I wasn't stunned by the article so much as the appalling lack of detail in the above-linked article, so I tracked the story back to its source.
It's not a poll so much as a tounge-in-cheek top ten list, but it is an interesting conversation starter. For instance, I'm utterly stupefied that Yogi and Boo-Boo made the cut, but confirmed bachelor Snagglepuss isn't on there. Surely he's the Paul Lynde of the classic Hanna-Barbera period. Putting the color scheme aside for a second, Snag didn't have a Cindy Bear to act as his beard, only shacking up with a female lion when economics got the better of him. On top of that, the most recent time I've seen anybody wearing Snag's Bret Maverick-style tie was on Tony Slattery. 'Nuff said.
The fact that Spongebob Sqarepants isn't anywhere near the list is a bit surprising, since he's world-class in a lot of the associated low comedy stereotypes. There definitely is something going on there. Maybe being able to reproduce by budding makes you become a bit camp.
As far as Batman and Robin, there was an article in Paul Krassner's classic counterculture newspaper The Realist, which was anthologized a few years back, using the comic books themselves to prove that Batman and Robin were lovers. Have your librarian track it down, trust me.
It's not a poll so much as a tounge-in-cheek top ten list, but it is an interesting conversation starter. For instance, I'm utterly stupefied that Yogi and Boo-Boo made the cut, but confirmed bachelor Snagglepuss isn't on there. Surely he's the Paul Lynde of the classic Hanna-Barbera period. Putting the color scheme aside for a second, Snag didn't have a Cindy Bear to act as his beard, only shacking up with a female lion when economics got the better of him. On top of that, the most recent time I've seen anybody wearing Snag's Bret Maverick-style tie was on Tony Slattery. 'Nuff said.
The fact that Spongebob Sqarepants isn't anywhere near the list is a bit surprising, since he's world-class in a lot of the associated low comedy stereotypes. There definitely is something going on there. Maybe being able to reproduce by budding makes you become a bit camp.
As far as Batman and Robin, there was an article in Paul Krassner's classic counterculture newspaper The Realist, which was anthologized a few years back, using the comic books themselves to prove that Batman and Robin were lovers. Have your librarian track it down, trust me.
|| Eric 8:42 AM#
