Comments on: A Brief Moment of Culture, Part XIII https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: nathaniel miller (skavensrule) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12929 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:36 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12929 There is a good reason for “The Purple Smurf” to horrify a kid.  The original story in the Smurf comics is a “Zombie Apocalypse” type story that predates “Night of the Living Dead”

]]> By: Cesario VIola (cesarioviola) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12928 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:35 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12928 I wish I could buy that.  So much.

]]> By: Carl Fishman (carlfishman) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12927 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:34 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12927 @Kay; I once found myself constrained to stay in a room where the Smurfs were playing on TV, so I saw two whole episodes.  They appalled me!  The “messages” of both struck me as immoral and/or undesirable; terrible lessons to preach to children.  (One of them presented the idea that science was bad (presumptuous, bordering on wicked) but that magic was good.  The other made it clear that there was no moral imperative to keeping a promise made to someone who was “bad”.  

That was many years ago; obviously the experience has scarred me for life!

]]> By: Marni Rachmiel (marniferous) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12926 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:33 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12926 It wasn’t just the fever. It really is some kind of horrible hallucination.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12925 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:32 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12925 I know what I’m asking Santa for Thanksgiving!  (And by “Santa” I mean “My wife who controls the checkbook with a titanium fist”.)

]]> By: So It Begins (soitbegins) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12924 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:31 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12924 Pink wine?

]]> By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-xiii/#comment-12923 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:03:30 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3632#comment-12923 I’d never seen The Smurfs, so I clicked the link.  I can understand why this episode would scare a child, but I found the entire cartoon horrifying: unfunny, obvious and badly animated.  Why was this popular?  Plus, how would it have benefitted the purple fly—or even the purple Smurfs—to turn everyone purple?  (Maybe it’s a generational thing.  I can’t fathom the appeal of The Brady Bunch or Scooby Do, but as a child I watched both Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space without realizing they were crap, so go figure.)

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