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Was Secret Squirrel ever scandalized for 'flashing'?

posted 17 years ago by rogerc210
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Modesty issues circulate as inside jokes on the cartoon side. One character said "So what's your secret? You're not wearing pants?" Refering to the fact that the most covered up of all cartoon animals has nothing b/n his trenchcpat full of secret weapons & Secret's biggest(or smallest?) secret. Another was an episode of Harvey Birdman-Attorny at Law where poor secret was taking heat for exposing himself when trying to rescue someone. Wish I could find out which episode because it must have been hilarious. No doubt refering to the way Secret opens up his trench coat to pull out one of his gadgets, revealing the fact that under the coat, he has the same wardrobe as 50% of all cartoon animals...fur & nothing else.

I know Donald Duck was scandalized because he didn't wear pants. When asked why, Disney said "IDK...Why don't people wear feathers?"

As far as modesty & taste is concerned, some may have thought putting clothes on cartoon animals was going the second mile, but resulted in being expected to go the 3rd. Putting clothes on cartoon animals creates an expectation of modesty that wouldn't otherwise be there, since cartoon animals half the time don't wear clothes at all & nobody notices. Does anybody know if the trenchcoat thing cast any cloud of public contoversy against the show? I guess you could call it a modesty paradox.
Update: Youtube has the eoisode. It's just over 4 minutes into "% Funniest Characters of Harvey Birdman".

I myself drafted a story about the right length to comfortably fit into a classic SS episode, based on an idea I got from hearing of this episode.
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If I'm wrong if I don't & wrong if I do, you're having your cake & eating it too.

[–] rogerc210 17 years ago

“Now YOU listen to ME” Secret demanded, wagging his brown-haired finger at cartoon watchers throughout the nation, “I did NOT expose myself to that female-Agent Penny, on national television.”
The deposition was that Agent Penny was a hostage of Yellow Pinkie & Gold Flipper, when Secret opened his coat to save the day w/ his latest then A.P. screamed in horror & outrage. This served as a catallist for millions of phone calls & complaints, from kids & parents everywhere demanding his crucifiction. The squirrel’s defiance compelled his former allies & judge Porky Pig to admit all reruns of previous episodes & hair sample DNA from the item in question. The matches were unequivocal. Secret Squirrel had exposed himself over 100 times. His lawyers told him if he didn’t want to become squirrel pie, he’d better come up w/ a good mea culpa. Next hearing, Secret threw himself on the mercy of the court.

“Cartoon watchers everywhere. I admit I created expectations in you that were inappropriate. What I did was reprehensible, indefensible, & unbelievable. I am so sorry that I overestimated your commonsense, & underestimated your hypocrisy. How could I have been so gullible as to think I would be suffered the same tolerances & immunities as His Honor-w/ all due respect(fingers crossed behind his tail)the greatest freeballer of all Toondom, & countless other toons who do the same throughout their entire careers, & countless millions of others will do so in the future."............................

For those of you who've not seen the 90's version of the cartoon, Agent Penny was a character in that series. A female squirrel named after Moneypenny, & was dressed like Emma Peel from the Avengers. GoldFlipper was a new generation "Yellow Pinkie" in the form of a sea lion. New generation Secret Squirrel had all animal characters, & is one of the few ng "face-lifted" oldie cartoons that I like better than the original. Ng Jonny Quest left things to be desired.

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