Like Captain Planet, but instead of saving the Earth they encourage children to eat fast food
Oh my god kid vid was edge man
What the hell
Why would you do this to us?
Incredible.
He should’ve been called Edge Lord
they look like a weird cross between magic school bus, recess, and archie
i loved recess in middle school. it felt smart at the time. i wonder if it holds up.
I think it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UtUuT8AJjQ
Censorship warning: they redacted the word midget for some reason
Do people have a problem with that now? That’s the coolest name he could have gotten
Why not complain about the nerd?
People have a problem with everything online.
I have a problem with this
And where is the Legman?
~bchichitkikitkichbikititbchikta BHNUHBNNA BUHNNUHNUHNA~
That’s the coolest name he could have gotten
Excuse me, there are many far cooler names:
- Mephistopheles
- Merlin
- Megatron
- Michael
- autobots
They call him wheels because of all the removed
No one named Merlin is getting removed
Coming from someone named ILikeBoobies…
You can’t always get what you want.
Everyone is upset about using a name to highlight an attempt to be inclusive of a person with different abilities.
No one is calling out the kid literally named after the concept developed by a racist eugenicist to demonstrate that blacks and indigenous peoples were mentally inferior to the English.
Yep, checks out.
Well the IQ test concept was invented by the French to test whether children with learning disabilities needed to be separated from the general class population
My comrade in crisis, you are either misinformed or intentionally misinforming others.
Setting aside the fact the character is called “I.Q.” and not “I.Q. Test,” the concept of IQ, and the first test, was invented by the English statistician Francis Galton. Galton believed in eugenics and was a racist, and his research was in the pursuit of proving his racist beliefs.
Alfred Binet and two other french colleagues made their own IQ test almost 50 years later, and they eventually abandoned it because they felt IQ was better studied qualitatively.
You didn’t mention it, but for the sake of dispelling another common piece of misinformation you might have, Lewis Terman brought the abandoned Binet test to the US and popularised what we now typically refer to as “I.Q. Test.” Why did he do it? Eugenics!
TL;DR: IQ as a concept and IQ testing was born from eugenics, and the popularised concept in the west today was based on a later test developed by the French and adapted to suit American eugenics by a racist. To their credit, the French abandoned standardized testing because it was a bad way to look at intelligence.
Ah I thought it was Binet
We studied it in undergrad physc
“Dizz Able” was a runner up.
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All of their names are based on their stereotypes.
I can track what they’re going for with most of them except “Jaws”.
(edit: maybe he talks a lot?)
He’s the biggest, so if the other kids are out of line he unhinges his jaw and consumes them
Every group has that one friend
I figured it had something to do with eating and I found this:
Jaws is an expert on nature and the outdoors, as well as navigation. He is very socially aware and caring, and especially in regards to the natural environment. He is also occasionally presented as a voice of reason, retaining a cooler and more normal disposition in the wake of other members’ antics or strange occurrences. His name is derived from his older characterization, in which he was said to be the Super Official Burger King Quality Taste Tester, as well as an expert on food, specifically the food served at Burger King. However, these details were largely ignored in later materials.
Makes sense!
Yes, but their design and personalities also are
Nobody even mentioning Drake?
The guy played a character nicknamed Wheels in the Canadian TV series Degrassi Jr High.
And it’s about as bad as you’d expect.
[ not like us intensifies ]
Ok B⚾🏈mer
No it’s okay, they put a stylish circle around the W and have him a jean jacket so we know he’s cool and down to earth.
Yeah… ‘wheelchair kid’ is so much better than ‘wheels’
Holy crap kid vid just unlocked some nostalgia there… I completely forgot about this!
Of course one of them was called boomer!
this was like 10 years after we’d stopped naming shows after how obese the kids were in ‘em, so, a kind of progress.
“boomer”
