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Daniel, we all can relate to you.


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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is the crown jewel of family television. Beginning in 1968, Mister Fred Rogers tackled a variety of issues that affect so many people over the years, from war to fear of school to death to divorce. Many of these issues children face are extremely real, and Mister Rogers's sincerity and soothing voice is so welcoming to people of all ages.

 

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is a segment of pretending, but they're also not afraid to address so many conflicts. This one deals with Daniel Striped Tiger wondering if he was a mistake, a question every single one of us can relate to so much.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iump3t1urY

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Is this a kids' show handling depression with tact and respect? Get out of here! Hell is now an NHL venue and I'm pretty sure if I searched Ancestry.com, I would find a Capuchin monkey listed as my nephew.

 

It's very unfortunate that the very idea of putting this kind of emotional weight into a story written for kids triggers a Battle of Gettysburg between the creatives, executives, and fans of the medium. This is one kind of story I really wish MLP could do, considering the high bounty on self-discovery and self-image in its society, to dampen the borderline utopic view of life that it presents and present a character or conflict relatable to a huge set of the fanbase. Why must we delude ourselves with the notion that everyone gets a happy ending when there are so many that can't even be happy in the first place?

 

Sadly, thanks to today's mostly Bowdlerized and commercialized television landscape, one can really only dream... -_-

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