Should Children Be Watching This?

After finding that yet again, DSTV's boastful array of channels had nothing really to watch, I switched to old faithful.. The Disney Channel. I wasn't too impressed though that at 10pm they had on Disney's Funhouse, a show aimed at toddlers and various other little people. But after flipping through 100+ channels my finger was just too tired to flip away, and so I started watching CGI Mickey and Donald help Goofy get ready for a date with a cow.

What kind of message is Disney trying to send, making a dog like Goofy go for a cow? Perhaps, they've finally gotten past their issues of race, colonialism, and xenophobia and are sublimally telling the little munchkins that it's ok to be with someone not quite like you. And all I can say to that is well done Disney, it took you bloody well long enough!

And whilst this step forward is earth-shattering for Disney purists, one thing that did disturb me was Mickey and Donald teaching Goofy how to dance. You would think being on Disney they would teach him to waltz or dare I say it.. Improve his hot dog dance, a relatively innocent jumping around kind of dance. Unfortunately, after watching this I have come to see how Britney could have gone from Mouseketeer to the head-shaving super skank we see today.

Donald was the one who inspired this dance, a dance called the Hop Hop Shake, in which Donald hops around and then turns his feathery little ass to the camera and shakes it for all its worth. Parents blame skanky Britney for their pre-zit pre-teens' suggestive habits and now I've come to see that it has been Donald and Mickey all along shaking that ass and corrupting the innocent minds of impressionable Oompa-Loompas.