The Cheshire cat, and much of Alice in wonderland, hit quite hard, but in a good way. Helped me see that insanity, mental health issues could be a good thing
Lots of good answers for ATLA, but I’m partial to the “Do the tides command this ship?” scene.
Maybe the best introductory scene for a villain that I’ve ever seen.
“Can your science explain why it rains?”
Sokka: “Yes! Yes it can!”
I just clicked on that link and oooooooohhhhh Azula truly is capable is sending chills down one’s spine. Her VA is so GOOD at playing the the role.
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ATLA was actually one of the things that came up when I was discussing this with my partner just now!
There was no specific quote, but watching Azula have a bona fide nervous breakdown after all her friends abandoned her was something else even as an adult.
The Avatar finale has two climaxes.
The final showdown between Aang and Ozai is the action-packed climax for the kids who want to watch a cool anime superhero fight.
The Agni-Ki between Zuko and Azula is the emotional climax for the adults watching.
To be fair, the Agni-Ki was fucking metal action-wise too.
I, too, climaxed
One of the things most people I know like about Azula is that the show ended with her still being evil. They wrote her to be genuine with herself, and that meant no redemption.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chapter 10 is pretty rough, particularly this stark line:
“Slowly but surely, everybody in the house began to starve.”
I read the book to my daughter a few years back and I’d forgotten quite how bleak things are before all the fun stuff that people remember.
Roald Dahl did not fuck around. He grew up in one of those psychopathic early-20th-century British boarding schools, and then went to Africa once he graduated, and World War 2 broke out and he fought in Egypt and Greece.
He wrote children’s literature because kids tend to vibe with how his brain works, but he was not playing games. Read his adult short stories sometime.
Edit: From his autobiography, from early on in his time in Africa:
Suddenly, the voice of a man yelling in Swahili exploded into the quiet of the evening … He was yelling from somewhere behind the house. “Simba, bwana! Simba! Simba!”
Simba is Swahili for lion. All three of us leapt to our feet, and the next moment Mdisho came tearing round the corner of the house yelling at us in Swahili. “Come quick, bwana! Come quick! Come quick! A huge lion is eating the wife of the cook!”
That sounds pretty funny when you put it on paper back here in England, but to us, standing on a veranda in the middle of East Africa, it was not funny at all.
Robert Sanford flew into the house and came out again in five seconds flat holding a powerful rifle and ramming a cartridge into the breech. “Get those children indoors!” he shouted to his wife as he ran down off the veranda with me behind him.
Yeah, I’ve read a couple, one about a frozen leg of lamb, I remember. He was a pretty dark character, including holding some deeply offensive views.
Talented guy when he was focusing his work though - there was a great anthology TV series in the UK called Tales of the Unexpected, some episodes of which I think were based on his more adult writing (including the leg of lamb one).
Are you gonna try to tell me the oompa-loompas weren’t so much happier moving to England and working in the factory instead of being in their home
But listen to them singing their working-songs
They were paid in cocoa beans… 😖
Any particular adult stories you’d like to recommend?
I’ll add “The Great Automatic Grammatizator.” It’s my favorite by far, but I like all of the stories in “The Umbrella Man and other stories.”
Holy hell, dude… I’m looking over the list now and just reading plot synopses is getting me unsettled.
Honestly I think the two autobiographical books, “Boy” and “Going Solo” are probably better than the short stories unless you’re in a pretty twisted mood. If you’re in for the darker material, a random selection of short stories I liked:
- “Mr. Feasey” is a very mild one that still has the Roald Dahl dark energy about it.
- “Pig” is a deeply unsettling one.
- “They Shall Not Grow Old” is haunting but quite good.
- “Man From The South” is a fairly famous one that’s also very dark and unsettling.
Winnie the Pooh
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
I think that this captures so much of the human condition.
Winnie the Pooh is a treasure trove of wonderful insights.
"I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are
I like you as you are Without a doubt or question Or even a suggestion Cause I like you as you are
I like your disposition Your facial composition And with your kind permission I’ll shout it to a star
I like you as you are I wouldn’t want to change you Or even rearrange you Not by far
I like you I-L-I-K-E-Y-O-U I like you, yes I do I like you, Y-O-U I like you, like you as you are"
- Mr. Rogers
There’s so many good Mr. Rogers quotes. What a wholesome human. I’m sad I wasn’t around to witness the height of his cultural relevance, but the beauty of him and his teachings were their timelessness. May his work be immortalized.
PBS had so many kind, gentle people working to remind us that there is love, kindness and hope in the world if we just take time to make room for it.
There was a clear reason for what this saint did.
I cried for a moment then laughed when i saw your username.
Good. ;)
“If you’ll excuse me, I have some children to turn into corpses!” -Bill Cypher, Gravity Falls
The entirety of Coco
Yeah, Coco goes pretty hard. I cry every time.
“If the world chooses to become my enemy… Then I will fight. Like I always have.”,
Shadow, Sonic 06
Ozai: (bitterly) It was to teach you respect.
Zuko: It was cruel! And it was wrong.
Ozai: Then you have learned nothing.
Zuko: No, I’ve learned everything! And I had to learn it on my own.
Avatar: the Last Airbender
“They say suffering brings wisdom. If that is the case, then I intend to make you very wise.”
Optimus Prime, Transformers Comics
damn I feel like I’m missing a lot not reading transformers
‘Everyone dies, some now some later’ from Princess Mononoke
Great quote, but this isn’t really a children’s movie
“what do you mean, it’s little animated pictures, of course it’s for kids”
~a bad mom
I have no idea how you can remember so many quotes, but everything by Michael Ende is deep. I like Momo a lot, it is about time, happiness, depression, society, capitalism and a lot more.
I don’t remember the exact line, but the line in the end of An American Tail where Fivel says something to the extent of “I’ll never find my family” and that they don’t love him because he thinks they all gave up on him having survived falling off the boat and into the ocean really hit hard, for me at least.
Tried to put in a spoiler tag thing, but it wasn’t working on my end, so sorry for spoiling this moment in the end of the movie to those who have somehow never seen it. You’re only close to 40 years late now.
They all gave up on him
having survived falling off the boat and into the ocean
Found the solution at https://infosec.pub/post/192236 but it’s not working for me
Orphan #1: So what’s your story?
Fievel Mousekewitz: I’m looking for my family.
Orphan #2: Hey, fellas! He’s looking for his family.
Orphan #1, Orphan #3: [Teasing] He’s looking for his family!
Orphan #3: I stopped looking a long time ago.
Orphan #2: At least you know who they are.
Orphan #1: Besides, why are you looking for them? They should be looking…
Orphan #1, Orphan #2, Orphan #3: …for you!
Orphan #3: They don’t care. Forget 'em. Fievel Mousekewitz: [Angry] You’re right! They don’t care, and if they did, they would have found me! Well, if they don’t care, I don’t care! I hope I never see them again!
Orphan #2: Yeah! Forget about them! You’re one of us now!
Orphan #1: Here. Make yourself a bed.
[They toss hay over Fievel]. Orphan #1: Ha-ha-ha! Pitiful.
Fievel Mousekewitz: [Crying] I’ll never find them anyway. Never. Never. Never. This is my home now.Yeah! This! It’s just such an emotional gut punch to see the ever optimistic Fievel just give up at the very end.
The land before time. Littlefoot sees his shadow and thinks its his mother, realizes its not and that hes very very alone.
“Pay a man enough and he’ll walk barefoot into Hell.”
- David Xanatos, Gargoyles
Avatar Legend of Kora, Varick says:
‘If you can’t make money during a war, you just flat-out cannot make money.’
There’s an argument to be made that Rocko’s Modern Life was not for children, but it aired on Nickelodeon in the afternoon, so we watched it. And this is poignant as hell-
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E Recycle!
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E Conserve!
Don’t you P-O-L-L-U-T-E. Pollute the rivers, sky, or sea. Or else you’re gonna get what you deserve…I still sing it to myself sadly when I read the news sometimes.
Rocko fought city hall! Rocko fought corporate America! They are big and he is small, Rocko fought city hall.
I also blame this for why my sense of civic duty exists, despite the obviously flawed and ofte. monstrous system I find myself in.
It’s a litttttle risqué, but I watched RML growing up and I turned out okay! Hopefully no one replies to this comment!
Heffer: (singing) Spring cleaning! Spring cleaning!
Rocko: Heff?
Heffer: Hi, Rocko!
Rocko: Why was everyone singing?
Heffer: We just had a song in our hearts.
Rocko: How is it you all know the words? Did you rehearse?
Heffer: Yeah, every Thursday. Didn’t you see the flyers?I think it was things like this, honestly, which shaped my sense of humor.
Same here.
Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby!
Rocko‽
Mrs. Big head‽
