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I'm here literally to hear what was actually awful about richard scarry.  @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine I beg your pardon. He's not hiding. He's proudly driving that pickle car, living his best life. He is definitely not driving. Clearly a passenger, but smiling and enjoying his life. I wonder if Dingo Dog ever catches up or if Mistress Mouse will have to be called to save the day.  @mikey @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine there’s a bug-sized pickle car in there, also a bug film crew…  @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine  @nuncio @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine I think it was lobbying by Oscar Mayer and Truly Nolen. @talia_christine Hahaha...relatable. 😆 I expected that when I went off to the States to start college. 😂   @kroltanz @MichaelPorter @talia_christine  @kroltanz @MichaelPorter @talia_christine I came here to say "It's people" but you already go in there first. @robchapman @kroltanz @talia_christine Richard Scarry’s Nightmare: I Was Raised on a Farm  @NickGates @MichaelPorter @talia_christine there's a reason his name is Richard Scarry.....  @MichaelPorter @talia_christine this is like a Norman Rockwell painting of a typical American citizen in 2023. @MichaelPorter @talia_christine reminds me of a quote from Casual Geographic's recent video: "animals are only as vegetarian as their options" @vknask @talia_christine Interesting, I wonder if it’s true… I guess animals’ diets are determined by what’s available and the equipment they have to catch/consume. We’re lucky birds are small 😄  @pseudonymsupreme @talia_christine Look at the diversity, wealth, and cooperation. Wow.  @talia_christine Looks pretty reasonable -- the post office is run by a bunny and there's a fat cat in the town hall. @PCOWandre @talia_christine I think he's a fox. Cats seem to run the cafe next to post office. @sentient_water @talia_christine That explains no chickens in the picture. Local Government ate 'em all.      @talia_christine if you can’t imagine a little pig or other animal doing your job while wearing lederhosen, it’s not a real job.   Worth pointing out that Richard Scarry was born in 1919, and the small-town world he descripted in his books was one of 1950s in its latest: that is, a world where cars were a luxury, not a necessity, and thus services had to be accessible without cars. The Cars and Trucks and Things that Go from 1974 was in many ways one of his more "modern" works, and even there the autobahn where the action happened was in vacuum in context to the small-towns that the autobahns destroyed.. Could you rephrase the question? But ofc this is just a hypothesis based on my academic studies as contextualised by books dear to me when I was a kid. Scarry had an impressive bibliography: I haven't read all of his scores upon scores of books.  @talia_christine that's all there is to say and this is STILL MY EXPECTATION BY THE WAY *stares at world* 😡  @talia_christine The worm driving his apple car was on every page and I have yet to meet a single worm driving a vehicle of any kind.    @WorkWithKirk @talia_christine I certainly expected things to more brightly coloured  @talia_christine Doesn’t Mr Pig always have a crumby day? Flat tires ,accidents, the poor guy always has something happen.  |
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yup. we thought we were getting richard scarry. all we got was scary...