Sponge 1, kulturkampf 0.
I’m not a huge fan of the comments over at Kevin Drum’s place. I’m usually not that fond of the comments on high-traffic political sites: slapshot chuckles, me-too high-fives, the distressing propensity of entirely too many no matter their ostensible politics to get all chest-thumpy and dick-wavy—really, the sheer number of smoke-this-suck-that-stick-it-where-they-ain’t-no-lube I wade through sometimes makes me think that evolutionary psychologists aren’t all blowing smoke, and the serious business of government is nothing more than primate dominance dynamics with keyboards. —Political Animal isn’t so much with the sodomite-catamite power struggle, and his own personal trolls Al and Charlie saw their shadows a while ago, or something, and don’t come out from under their bridges so much these days, but the dreary Camazotzian drone of Tim Graham Kevin’s Konscience still ends up suffocating most threads with the tragic call-and-response that violates rule no. 1 of the internet everywhere.
Still, I’m glad I cruised through the remarks following Amy Sullivan’s recent post on Tinky Winky 2: Porifera Boogaloo. If I’d written it off, I’d’ve missed the wonderful Gospel according to NTodd:
Does that mean I can wear cotton/wool blend pants, and touch my wife during her period?
Yes. The sponge has set us free.
(Really, I’m shocked at the good Doctor Stickypants’ sadly slackening grasp of the Zeitgeist. Everybody knows Spongebob is all about the stoners.)
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When I was still at Just Out, there were plenty of observations that the characters in Sponge Bob exhibited certain stereotypical traits of "the lifestyle." Squidworth is a pretty fussy nellie whose main modes of expression are wry sarcasm or explosive exasperation. An episode I saw a few months ago (when Katie dominated our living room TV) had a delicious satire of gender role expectations played out when Sponge Bob and Patrick adopted a baby jelly fish. Funny and subversive.
But, yeah, despite such Bert & Ernie-esque homophilia, mostly the show is about stoners.
Heh, thanks for the link. There's plenty more words of wisdom where those came from: I got me a million monkeys and a million keyboards banging stuff out all the time.
And please don't forget the Biblical source for my interpretation (John 19:28-30). Forget ye not the sponge and the vinegar, lest ye forget the will of God.
BTW, I like your site and have added it to my Guilty by Association blogroll.