In response to one of my former discussions...
@BishounenNerd (373)
United States
June 13, 2009 3:44pm CST
As you might remember, I made a discussion entitled "How could a bunch of 6th graders be capable of PURE EVIL!!!!" where I mentioned that video "The top 6 ways to kill Piper", and how appalled I was at it. Well, I made a video on Youtube against it, and one of my subscribers that I talk with quite a bit told me something that I think MAY be linked to it...
"... My sister (younger) was watching Drake and Josh and in one of the scenes there were drawings just like these that Drake made about killing his teacher, one he drew her falling out of a plane without a parachute I think, one of her getting hanged, and the T.V. show pre-programmed the laughter on it... So you can see what our world is turning into..."
He later informed me that the episode that he spoke of was called "Honor Council", so I'm about to go check that out. The point is, though, Drake and Josh is a REALLY popular show on Nickelodeon, and if this is what they were watching, then my guess is that they probably thought that this was funny, and thought, "Hey! Why don't we do that to one of our classmates?" Thus, the infamous video had been born...
Think carefully about the quote... There was canned laughter when Drake showed pictures of killing his teacher. Did they really think that was funny? Is death really funny? No, it isn't, death is serious. It means that bonds are broken, families mourn, and ultimately, life is wasted. The writers for Drake and Josh have no excuse for what they put in the minds of pre-teens, and THIS is why T.V. shouldn't be used as a babysitter, because it's the parents' responsibility to show them right from wrong, or else THIS is what T.V. will do to our kids!
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@cbjones (1147)
• United States
13 Jun 09
Not surprised a kids show on Nickelodeon would have canned laughter(What was the last funny non-cartoon show on that network anyway? Keenan and Kel?), but the fact taht it would be applied to a reference like that does surprise me. You would think that in this age of extreme censorship, where media like video games and movies get blamed for everything, a parent would be railing against that episode the second it aired.
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@BishounenNerd (373)
• United States
13 Jun 09
Personally I think it's because it's Nickelodeon, people think that it's good, wholesome entertainment for the whole family. If people aren't familiar with something, or if it's not hyped up, people seem to eat it up. If you really look at all the underlying factors, you start to get a better sense of the big picture, and that is that kid's entertainment sometimes teaches the wrong things. On the brighter side of things, I once ran into this movie called "The Phantom Tollboth". I can't remember who made it, but it was animated by Chuck Norris, and personally I think that if I ever had kids, that would be the kind of thing I would have them watch. In it's own strange way, it's very educational. Whatever happened to entertainment like that? Or am I just old-fashioned?
@BishounenNerd (373)
• United States
14 Jun 09
Well, Elk Plain did claim that they punished the kids who did this. However, I don't know if they said anything more or not. The CNN report I watched on it also had Piper Smith's mother saying, "One guy shrugged it off and said he was making dinner." We don't know what happened behind the scenes, so either he disciplined the girl later on, or he just ignored the whole thing. We won't know, though...
