Astounding! Beautiful! Intricate! And really lame.

8.14.2006

My problems belong to television.

I have an intensely negative attitude towards therapy. Maybe it was reading Freud's writings on hysteria when I was too young, or hating anything having to do with expressive schlock. But recently I've discovered another answer: Animaniacs.

My little brother brought the first season of Animaniacs home with him last week. When I was younger, it was my absolute favorite show. I credit it with teaching me a lot of things: U.S. Presidents, Gilbert & Sullivan, geography, unhealthy popular culture obsession. But apparently, it also managed to teach me a laughably bad attitude towards psychiatrists. In the first episode we are introduced to Dr. Scratchandsniff, a bald German with an unseemly, large head. He works for the studio, and tries in vain to effectively babysit ("cure") the Warner Brothers, and their sister. He uses stupid puppets, asks questions like "What's on your mind?" (Yakko answers, "My hat?") and is totally incompetent. He also runs around with a net most of the time, and rips out his own hair. This, I do believe, is my first ever impression of what a therapist did. No wonder.

Thanks, Animaniacs, for my bizarre factual knowledge and my lifelong resentment of therapy. I appreciate it.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Animaniacs was a great show. I still think of Taft as "the fat president." I feel like that TV show was your indoctrination into the crazy, mixed up world of television. Should I blame Yako, Wacko, and Dot? I think so. It all started with them.

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