Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

I'm still irritated that he thinks making Sally a homemaker in this show that's supposed to teach kids moral values is okay. I mean just look at that chart. Timmy is a business owner, Matthew is a chef, Patrick works in business, and Lucas is a farmer. What kinds of jobs do the girls have? Well Sally is a homemaker, Amber is a girl scout (shouldn't she be den mother?), Jenny is a teacher, and Alice is an interior decorator. Whatever could it mean!?

I'm not trying to sperge about feminism or anything, but if Enter wants to make a show starring good role models he needs to pull his head out of the 1950s' ass.

Actually, Mr.Enter once said on a stream the girl and boy scouts are like the police or military in this world, so Amber's got something going on there. That's something, right?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

It really doesn't make sense that Sally is a homemaker, when what little shreds of personality she has (stolen from Mabel and Pinkie Pie), suggest that she'd want some sort of high energy career.

 

[Wabbu]

I'm still irritated that he thinks making Sally a homemaker in this show that's supposed to teach kids moral values is okay. I mean just look at that chart. Timmy is a business owner, Matthew is a chef, Patrick works in business, and Lucas is a farmer. What kinds of jobs do the girls have? Well Sally is a homemaker, Amber is a girl scout (shouldn't she be den mother?), Jenny is a teacher, and Alice is an interior decorator. Whatever could it mean!?

I'm not trying to sperge about feminism or anything, but if Enter wants to make a show starring good role models he needs to pull his head out of the 1950s' ass.

Enter complains about gender stereotypes, but uses them a lot
And Sally wants to be mayor, but she's not mature enough, because according to Enter, in this world maturity is still valuable.

Actually, Mr.Enter once said on a stream the girl and boy scouts are like the police or military in this world, so Amber's got something going on there. That's something, right?

Wouldn't it make more sense if they were rangers?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@CuriousBystander: He's expressed feminist viewpoints and yet gives his female characters incredibly stereotypical occupations. Is that hypocritical or not?

@Toy_Bon-Bon: There's actually some potential there. How do you make Scouts police, though? Where do the cookies come in?

 

[Wabbu]

How do you make Scouts police, though? Where do the cookies come in?

"Buy some cookies or we will shot!"

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Actually, Mr.Enter once said on a stream the girl and boy scouts are like the police or military in this world, so Amber's got something going on there. That's something, right?

That makes no fuckin' sense. All other jobs are just normal jobs. Why be cryptic with this one? Did Enter have a bad experience with a cop?

Anyway, we haven't met Alice yet (god knows if we ever will). The only woman we've seen in a position of authority is Talula. Depending on the episode she's portrayed as either a villain or a victim of the pressures of her own job, a job which she is paradoxically prepared to do anything to keep. Most of the time we're meant to hate her. We're meant to hate the only woman who has any authority in this wacky town.

Enter complains about gender stereotypes, but uses them a lot
And Sally wants to be mayor, but she's not mature enough, because according to Enter, in this world maturity is still valuable.

You know how in the Simpsons once in a while Marge will get some kind of job only to abandon it by the end of the episode? That's how I imagine Sally playing out.

It's also quite telling that in the episode where Linda gets a job and authority she chooses to give it up for the sake of her kids, just like an outdated female stereotype should. I'd love to hear how Enter rationalizes that away.

 

[Wabbu]

You know how in the Simpsons once in a while Marge will get some kind of job only to abandon it by the end of the episode? That's how I imagine Sally playing out.

That's fitting
I can even see her leaving because she got bored
but Enter HATES the "the status quo is god" trope



Also, we were talking about children policeman, what do they fight against?
Is there any crime in this universe?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

: There's actually some potential there. How do you make Scouts police, though? Where do the cookies come in?

You have to eat stale ones if you commit a crime. One for robbery, three for murder.

 

[Master Shake]

Of course he needs to have a "Patrick."

He's probably the unfavorite who never gets invited to anything.

Also, we were talking about children policeman, what do they fight against?
Is there any crime in this universe?

The only crime I could think of is daring to question their holy Enter.

 

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

@Toy_Bon-Bon: There's actually some potential there. How do you make Scouts police, though? Where do the cookies come in?

Maybe the cookies are to the scouts as doughnuts are to actual police officers? Like, instead of cops at the doughnut shop, it's girl and boy scouts at the cookie shop eating Carmal De-lites and Shortbread cookies.

 

[Wabbu]

He's probably the unfavorite who never gets invited to anything.

But that would be sadistic/mean-spirited!

 

[Headbanger General]

Speaking of stupid shit Enter would rather do than create a series bible, he has created an extended family tree for the Dunns:

This is one of the most insipid things I have ever seen.

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

It really doesn't make sense that Sally is a homemaker, when what little shreds of personality she has (stolen from Mabel and Pinkie Pie), suggest that she'd want some sort of high energy career.

Yeah. You'd expect her to run a gym or something.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

Also, we were talking about children policeman, what do they fight against?
Is there any crime in this universe?

BREAKING NEWS, MILLIONS OF COUNTERFEIT ULTRA-RARE TRADING CARDS DETERMINED TO BE IN CIRCULATION; TWO FORGING RINGS BUSTED BUT POLICE ESTIMATE AS MANY AS ELEVENTY-TWELVE REMAIN AT LARGE; ECONOMY IN FLUCTUATION AS SUGAR SUPPLIER COALITIONS WITHOLD THOUSANDS OF SHIPMENTS UNTIL DETECTION MEASURES ARE IMPROVED; TREASURY AND MINT OFFICIALS SCRAP FALL PRINT MASTER MOLD OVER CONCERNS OF COMPROMISED DESIGN SECURITY.

 

[Konstantinos]

Okay, has no one ever discussed how unfortunate the title "Growing Around" is? That sounds like something you'd say if you wanted to describe a guy getting hard. I'd suggest that Enter amend that but it almost feels like it was intentional. The whole erection metaphor might be kind of apropos considering that GA is one big masturbatory, self-indulgent monument to Enter's bloated ego.

 

[KFC]

Okay, has no one ever discussed how unfortunate the title "Growing Around" is? That sounds like something you'd say if you wanted to describe a guy getting hard. I'd suggest that Enter amend that but it almost feels like it was intentional. The whole erection metaphor might be kind of apropos considering that GA is one big masturbatory, self-indulgent monument to Enter's bloated ego.

The best theory we came up with was that it was a play on the phrase "kidding around," except with autism.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I thought it was supposed to be a play on "Going Around."

 

[Orthodox Chrischanity]

My series that I'm totally writing a bible on that I may or may not every show results is "Dying Inside".

But I peeked on the DA comment section of the family tree and I noticed this.

So, do you think he's actually written one up?

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

So, do you think he's actually written one up?

I really doubt it; that's probably just his excuse for never making one.

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

My series that I'm totally writing a bible on that I may or may not every show results is "Dying Inside".

But I peeked on the DA comment section of the family tree and I noticed this.
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So, do you think he's actually written one up?

AKA Enter's too lazy to write a series bible.