I had a friend with rich parents who had one and it diiiiiid have some burn-in. Old rear-projection and early plasma TVs were verrry susceptible to that hahaha
As a kid, I would have been CRUSHED if we had one of these and I couldn’t play SNES on it…
In a flash I was sent back, to the moment where it all began, psychically traveling to a gloomy Saturday afternoon in 1988.
I was sitting on the orange velvet couch watching "Catteries Not Included," when suddenly, an arousingly confident Gadget Hackwrench appeared and asked for my help fixing the ever-beleaguered Screaming Eagle. I don't know, I acquiesced. And as I handed her the hog ring pliers, her fuzzy digits grazed mine, and in that moment, truly, I was wooooke.
I wonder if there’s a correlation between the rise in sexy anthropomorphized animals and furries.
When I was younger they absolutely had humanized animals in cartoons, but they were super modest if they were human-ish, otherwise they were just talking animals. At some point we gave them…”generous” human attributes.
There’s exceptions, of course you’re right. But it became way more common in and after the 1980s. Even in earlier cartoons there were “sexy” animal humans, but they were usually mocking the human, not actually there to be human. Even in your example the anthropomorphizing is weird, not really Lola Bunny part of the show.
Oh certainly. I do recall several cartoons (reruns from ‘40s and earlier) that had deer or other animals turning into smokin’ hot pinup farm girls luring inept farm boys on the hunt or to explain the male animal’s lust. Then again, the appearance was often brief and they tended to not be three dimensional characters like modern ones.
There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.
On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.
Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.
This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.
Diana Rigg in the role of Emma Peel in the tv series The Avengers. She costarred with Patrick NcNee in the more British than British spy show about two secret agents.
This is a clip where Mrs. Peel infiltrates a secret group rebuilding the old Hellfire Club.
Overall the show keyed a love of tight leather and ass kicking females protagonists in a lot of growing young men.
She only had two starring shorts because the showrunners decided she was too sexy for something aimed primarily at kids. Didn't even get to the suits asking them to tone it down, they just decided they had crossed a line all on their own.
You beat me to it. It’s wild that the showrunners spontaneously went “hey uhh, maybe we need to tone it down?” On a show with characters like the nurse, somehow Minerva was too far.
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negativenull@piefed.world · 131 pts · 62d
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 62d
Sergio@piefed.social · 128 pts · 62d
1980s
BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 31 pts · 62d
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
1957
harmbugler@piefed.social · 126 pts · 62d
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 62d
And that, Kion, is how I met your mother.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 62d
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 62d
Except it would be on one of these bad boys.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 62d
If only… our 27” family CRT was like a thousand dollars. A nobody had rear projection TVs until like the 2000s!
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 62d
We had one but I wasn't allowed to game on it because my parents were worried about burn in
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 62d
They were right to. My brother and I burned dad’s rear projection tv in minutes playing megaman x.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 62d
I had a friend with rich parents who had one and it diiiiiid have some burn-in. Old rear-projection and early plasma TVs were verrry susceptible to that hahaha
As a kid, I would have been CRUSHED if we had one of these and I couldn’t play SNES on it…
Folstar@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 61d
Me in 2026 to myself: Be careful about burn in.
Also me in 2026 back to myself: Engineers solved that with hardware and software a long time ago. Burn in is incredibly rare now.
Me again: Remember how mad dad got about the Cartoon Network logo in the corner?
Me, frustrated: Dude, we haven't watched network TV in 20 years.
My final stand: Dad was really mad, bro.
blackwateropeth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
I’m more concerned about the DVD case which barely existed in 96 lol
Epp@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 62d
Oh, wow! I played Mario 64 on one of those, on a Nintendo 64 imported from Japan before they released in the USA. Memories...
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 101 pts · 62d
The 2001 Experience
nieminen@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 62d
Thanks for cropping into the screen properly
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 38 pts · 62d
I am the metamucil of shitposting.
adarza@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 62d
how many more runs til' you level-up to miralax?
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
Max level with optional Prestige level reset is "Mineral Oil Enema"
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 62d
Damn. For a second there, I thought I was going to go uncalled-out on this thread.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 62d
Ngl, happened to me while just scrolling and seeing random non-r34 art on the internet as a kid.
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 62d
Hellllll yeah
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 62d
hansolo@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 62d
First 10/10 on the spectrum mouse crush.
Gadget never once even understood every animal on the series hit on her every day. Never cared. Got her shit done. Loved her every episode.
I'm convicted that Ritsuko in Evangelion is loosely based on Gadget. I'll fight you over this.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Every time someone describes her I feel like I should know Gadget but I missed the show. You just answered it for me I think I married her.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 62d
In a flash I was sent back, to the moment where it all began, psychically traveling to a gloomy Saturday afternoon in 1988.
I was sitting on the orange velvet couch watching "Catteries Not Included," when suddenly, an arousingly confident Gadget Hackwrench appeared and asked for my help fixing the ever-beleaguered Screaming Eagle. I don't know, I acquiesced. And as I handed her the hog ring pliers, her fuzzy digits grazed mine, and in that moment, truly, I was wooooke.
rothaine@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 61d
ROFL somehow I had never seen this before, thank you
allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
Onyx is that you?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 62d
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 62d
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 62d
I mean, there is a direct path from the marketing mindset that gave us OG He-Man to Andrew Tate.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
And from Barbie to the Kardashians.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 62d
Masturs of the Universe!
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 62d
Hey, what's going on?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 62d
I wonder if there’s a correlation between the rise in sexy anthropomorphized animals and furries.
When I was younger they absolutely had humanized animals in cartoons, but they were super modest if they were human-ish, otherwise they were just talking animals. At some point we gave them…”generous” human attributes.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 62d
Here's the original sexy-dog version of Betty Boop cast as a sex worker a sailor visits in 1930. This stuff has been going in in cartoons for about as long as there have been cartoons.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 62d
There’s exceptions, of course you’re right. But it became way more common in and after the 1980s. Even in earlier cartoons there were “sexy” animal humans, but they were usually mocking the human, not actually there to be human. Even in your example the anthropomorphizing is weird, not really Lola Bunny part of the show.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 62d
The explanation everyone is missing here is the Hays Code.
Pre code movies from the 20’s and 30’s can be quite racy, even occasionally including things like gay people.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Oh certainly. I do recall several cartoons (reruns from ‘40s and earlier) that had deer or other animals turning into smokin’ hot pinup farm girls luring inept farm boys on the hunt or to explain the male animal’s lust. Then again, the appearance was often brief and they tended to not be three dimensional characters like modern ones.
deacon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 62d
There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.
On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.
Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.
This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 62d
I'm tempted to think there was some creepy Epstein kind of deal going on behind the scenes
deacon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
Thank you for the added erudition WorldsDumbestMan
tempest@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 62d
My off the cuff guess would be the success of who framed Roger rabbit even if Jessica rabbit was not an animal.
redsand@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 62d
I wonder if this effect could be seen in egypt's ancient society with all the animal head gods.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 62d
https://youtu.be/O2djHEIxPVs
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 62d
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 39 pts · 63d
1966 has entered the chat...
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 62d
What am I looking at here
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 62d
Hey don't be rude. That was half the US annual pixel budget in 1966. That was enough pixels to send a man to the moon.
Worstdriver@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 62d
Diana Rigg in the role of Emma Peel in the tv series The Avengers. She costarred with Patrick NcNee in the more British than British spy show about two secret agents.
This is a clip where Mrs. Peel infiltrates a secret group rebuilding the old Hellfire Club.
Overall the show keyed a love of tight leather and ass kicking females protagonists in a lot of growing young men.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 62d
50yrs later and still went out winning her game of thrones on her own terms.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Not to forget she was the ultimate Bond
girlwife.sbv@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 62d
Diana Rigg was incredible in The Avengers.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 62d
https://youtu.be/sflaJmINtrM
Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel, adventureress
hansolo@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 62d
Y'all, the Animaniacs had a genuine thirst trap character: Minerva Mink.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 62d
Not to mention The Nurse.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 62d
Helllooooo
MrNesser@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 62d
Nurse
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 62d
She only had two starring shorts because the showrunners decided she was too sexy for something aimed primarily at kids. Didn't even get to the suits asking them to tone it down, they just decided they had crossed a line all on their own.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 61d
I did like when she was a foil to Slappy Squirrel.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 61d
You beat me to it. It’s wild that the showrunners spontaneously went “hey uhh, maybe we need to tone it down?” On a show with characters like the nurse, somehow Minerva was too far.
Exatron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 61d
And she was in the show's opening
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 61d
Furry was a new concept for me in the 2010s. Draw something like this, and they flag you.
If you drew images like this in the 90s, did most people call it out or did they give you the ol' "nice!" Comment?
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 62d
Jessica Rabbit says hi.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 62d
Not on THAT TV
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 62d
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 61d
I miss furniture TVs.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 61d
They just make sense!
village604@adultswim.fan · 24 pts · 62d
For me it was Xena and Gabrielle kissing
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 62d
Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice. The reason why I still like goth chicks
Drusas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 62d
Winona Ryder in anything.
GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 62d
ceenote@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 62d
It doesn't mean you have a thing for rabbits
Doesn't mean that you don't
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 62d
Just sowing the seeds for Zootopia.
sundray@lemmus.org · 17 pts · 63d
Tell me about it, kid. 🐰
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 62d
Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
I have bad internet right now but if you say you didn't I won't believe you
Drusas@fedia.io · 11 pts · 62d
For me it was when the Green Ranger showed up in '93 and child me was like, "I don't know why, but I want that man to strap me to a table."
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 61d
Trini
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 61d
Jessica Rabbit for me
protist@retrofed.com · 8 pts · 62d
I got a basketball jones
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 61d
oh baby, ooo-ooo-ooooooo
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 62d
danekrae@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 63d
I believe I can fly!
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 61d
I hate this thread and all it’s comments, I had different plans for tonight
BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 61d
I like how many unsought questions this post actually answers. Everybody get a bonus Sexology skill point.
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org · -9 pts · 62d
Gross.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
Get your normal ass, well-adjusted, vanilla bullshit out of here. I want to know what her chest hair feels like on my cheeks.