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To most of you, this might end up being pretty obvious. But, I'll explain anyway. I made this to let you know what I think of the controversy people made towards these shows and movies. Now, there are some films and shows in animation that spawned controversy towards them like The Simpsons, Family Guy and even some of the Ralph Bakshi films.

This however, is sth that is completely pointless and made for absolutely no reason or logical explanation or even simply make controversy just to get people to spit on it with hate.
Most of these received controversy in terms of shit like Racism, but there is a bit more to it.

Aladdin-It's hard for me to look at what people are saying for this movie, especially considering that it's one of my favorite movies and the fact that what people are saying about it being racist isn't true. If you look up 's Top 10 Controversial cartoons video, you'll find it at no. 7, where it's claimed to be racist towards Arabs. They say that the positive characters have lighter skin and are nice looking and the villains and the extras have darker skin and are ugly. I looked up the images and I notice that rumor not being true. In fact, last time I looked it up, their skin tone was equal. As for the looks... Ok, yes, some of the extras and the villains are pretty ugly, but not ALL of them are ugly. For side characters, take Jasmine's father for example. Sure, he may not be handsome, but he's not ugly either. In fact, he reminds me of Belle's father Maurice a little bit. As for villains, again, not all of them are ugly. Not even in the rest of the franchise. Mozenrath, for example. That guy was pretty damn attractive. Not to mention a pretty cool villain. So, again, the racism this movie is claimed to have... It's a lie! In fact, this movie has a 94% rating (being up there with Disney's Pinocchio, Tangled, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pixar's Ratatouille, Up, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Bugs life, Toy Story trilogy, Monsters Inc, Incredibles and Inside Out, Yellow Submarine, Sesame Street: Follow that Bird, The Beatles: Hard Day's Night, The Beatles: Help, The Lego Movie, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon 1 and 2, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, independent films such as The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Ernest & Celestine, Mary and Max and Waltz with Bashir, adult animated film Persepolis, the LOTR trilogy, the 1994 live-action Disney version of The Jungle Book, The Paddington movie, some other Disney Renaissance films The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, French children film Kirikou and the sorceress, Men In Black, 1 Million Dollar Baby, the 2012 Avengers movie, some Gibli films My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, Casablanca, The Little Prince, Star Wars: Force Awakens and it even shares the exact same rating with Ghibli's Castle in the Sky and Porco Rosso, Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Star Wars Episode 4: New Hope and Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back!), so how come it even managed to get such pointless controversy? Because of the haters and brainless people who want to do nothing more but causing scandals and make it look bad.

Peter Pan-This one doesn't have that much of controversy, but a lot of people are calling it racist because of the song "What Made the Red Man Red?". It was accused of being an insult towards the Native Americans. However, I never, EVER noticed that there was ONE Native American whatsoever that felt insulted by it. As for the looks of the Native American characters in the movie... Nostalgia Critic said it best here: "They're definitely an Archetype of what we thought the indians were at that time. It's like the black crows from Dumbo. I never really found them that insulting. I thought they were cool. That song, >>What made the red man red?<< , I love that song! It still sticks in my head." And I can safely say the same, especially since I agree with that (btw, if you don't believe me that he said that, go here www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrQ7w… ). Also, I think it is how indians would give the answer to when, why or what. So overall, nothing insulting or racist about this song.

Tom and Jerry-(Spoiler alert!)This is one didn't receive controversy in terms of racism, but because of that episode "Blue Cat Blues", which seems to be infamous because of the famous question "Did Tom and Jerry commit suicide?". The full answer to "Why is there any controversy to this"? you'll be given by, again, Nostalgia Critic. As for whether or not they died, like Nostalgia Critic, I'll say no. As a matter of fact, in my oppinion, they ran away. Why do I think that? Because, come on, they're Tom and Jerry. As Nostalgia Critic said: "We never see them get axed off, they survived much worse, it's obviously a punchline of a joke and most importantly, they had a dozen cartoons released after this one.". And this is one of the big things I safely agree with. Sure, this episode is not all that funny as others, but I get the point to it, and that is the fact that this episode in particular is a satire to how ungrateful people can be and how their ungratefulness can sometimes lead to suicide. In this case, the female cat leaves Tom for some rich doushbag. Seriously, Tom brought her a little flower, the rich one brought a giant flower wreath she hold on her shoulder, Tom gets her a tiny bottle of prefume, rich guy brings her a 2 meters long van of perfume, Tom gets her a ring (buying it for all the money he had, btw), the rich guy brings her a ring with a giant shiny rock, Tom gets a car that is jumping all over the place (after selling his house and even an arm and a leg for her), the rich doush buys her a 4 meters long cab. So basically, this episode satires how, for a person sb loves, he sacrifices everything he has just to have her love, but then he ends up being completely rejected and just wants to end his life because of such heartbreak and ungratefulness he received.
But, again, did they die? No. If you don't believe me, or don't WANT to believe me or listen to me, go here www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdVLzw…

Lefty from Sesame Street-Eeeyeah, even Sesame Street SOMEHOW managed to receive controversy. I presume most of you don't really remember this guy. Honestly, I didn't even know he existed at all until a few years ago when I found some of the sketches on YT. In fact, I found out that it wasn't too long until he was removed from the American version of the show because the sketches of him and Ernie were claimed to encourage kids to talk to strangers. And that "Would you like to buy an O?" apparently makes people create some dirty jokes such as Lefty trying to sell drugs with that song. Anyways, this guy was best known as the Salesman, mostly because he was trying to sell stuff to Ernie. Now, as for what he was accused for encouraging... Like most of these here, I think that's just people's stupidity. I personally don't find anything inappropriate about this guy, at all. If there is one tiny problem with him I had, is that I have a feeling that they gave him a wrong character. Really, he's dressed up like a detective. I mean, come on, a salesman who has a coat detectives normally have? Pffff! Character personalizing failure right there! XD Idk about you, but I would like this character to come back in the American version of the show, but as a detective of some sort. It can even be a parody to sth, like they did in Monsterpiece theater. Either way, there is no reason to make controversy towards this character.
Also, aside from Lefty, another thing that is causing pointless controversy towards this show is people making Gay jokes towards Ernie and Bert. Especially because of that sketch where Ernie reads a book and because of the fact they live together. Get serious, people, will you? -.- Just because two same gener people live together, doesn't AUTOMATICALLY mean they're homo!

Pocahontas-Yeah, back to Disney. Like Peter Pan, this is apparently accused of being racist because of the song "Savages". Really, people? Really? You accuse this song to be racist because of how two enemy sides call each other? Be reasonable and think about it. Pocahontas' tribe calls John Smith and his people savages because, let's face it, most of them are destroyers of nature and innocent lives (in fact, that's very close to reality), and Ratcllife and his men call her and her tribe savages because they live in the nature, they don't have same ways of thinking and living, and he considers them obstacles to him. And you have to admit, even though it may not be historically accurate, the movie itself still has some truth and reality to it. I mean, nature and lives that live there ARE getting destroyed because of human greed. Also, about the historical accurasy... As Joey Tadesco said in his Anastasia review, "If the movie's fiction, why does it matter if has to be realistic?"( www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuXsB… ). And before you manage to get me wrong, it's not like with such stupid crap like "The Magic Voyage" or "The Legend of the Titanic" where the history and the events are beyond insulting. Seriously, in terms of which one of these three is closest to reality of the events... Say what you will, but Disney's Pocahontas actually managed to get closer. Despite having a talking willow and animal sidekicks like a tiny bird and a racoon, Pocahontas still had more reality and truth to it. Maybe, JUST maybe, not in terms of history, but still in some other things.

Hunchback of Notre Dame-I think everyone knows towards what the controversy was made with this film. Aside from being accused of being a "Disrespect" towards the original story, it also seems to receive, again, pointless controversy towards the song "Hellfire". While "What Made the Red Man Red?" and "Savages" are accused of racism, "Hellfire" seems to be accused for hinting some other stuff like Hell and sexuality. *facepalm* Really, people? -.- Here's what I think. While the movie clearly took a lot of liberty with the sorce material (just like other Disney movies), this song shows a bit of the original character of Frollo. In the original story, Frollo wasn't a bad guy in a way Disney's version was. He didn't really hate Esmeralda like in Disney version. He was actually in love with her, but in a very obsessive way, and also the fact that he had his job in a church was an obstacle to even possessing a woman. In fact, he was even jealous because Phoebus was about to seduce Esmeralda, so much so that he tried to kill him. Also, even though it was after she was tortured, he tried to save her from getting hanged a few times (one of those times being Quasimodo saving her though). And a bit of that obsession is hinted in the song. Trust me, I can safely tell that because I read the book before watching the movie. Well, before watching it again, at least. Also, I'm hearing some complaints about Esmeralda's looks. Sth like: "She dressed unproper for a Disney movie. Her cloths reveal too much of her.". Really, people? Really? Come on, use your heads and eyes properly. She's not unproper. Her wardrobe is fine. In fact, she's a lot more covered than some other princesses. Take Jasmine for example. She's a lot more uncovered than even Pocahontas is. Heck, even the upcoming character Moana is more covered than these. As for Esmeralda's figure... Let's be honest, she's really one of the few Disney females to have a figure that's closest to the realistic one.

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride-Ok, before you go nuts by telling me that there's nothing "potentionally" controversal, hear me out. There's one deleted scene that might've caused controversy if it was kept in the final cut. And that is Zira's alternate death scene. Originally, at the point where Kiara offers Zira to help her up, Zira was suppose to refuse and flinge herself off the cliff, rather than slipping off like in the actual film. So basically, what would make this movie "controversal", is the subject of suicide. Which is actually a pretty dark subject, one that people don't really want to explain to children and children would probably not be able to understand it. Either way, I'm not saying that this would confirmingly cause controversy, just that it's a candidate of it.

So next time you think that there's controversy to such innocent things like these above.... Think before you talk, people. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. And stop creating controversy there where it doesn't even exist.

Tom and Jerry (c) Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros.

Image of Ernie and Lefty (c) CTW, Sesame Workshop

All other images by Disney

Description
To most of you, this might end up being pretty obvious. But, I'll explain anyway. I made this to let you know what I think of the controversy people made towards these shows and movies. Now, there are some films and shows in animation that spawned controversy towards them like The Simpsons, Family Guy and even some of the Ralph Bakshi films.

This however, is sth that is completely pointless and made for absolutely no reason or logical explanation or even simply make controversy just to get people to spit on it with hate.
Most of these received controversy in terms of shit like Racism, but there is a bit more to it.

Aladdin-It's hard for me to look at what people are saying for this movie, especially considering that it's one of my favorite movies and the fact that what people are saying about it being racist isn't true. If you look up 's Top 10 Controversial cartoons video, you'll find it at no. 7, where it's claimed to be racist towards Arabs. They say that the positive characters have lighter skin and are nice looking and the villains and the extras have darker skin and are ugly. I looked up the images and I notice that rumor not being true. In fact, last time I looked it up, their skin tone was equal. As for the looks... Ok, yes, some of the extras and the villains are pretty ugly, but not ALL of them are ugly. For side characters, take Jasmine's father for example. Sure, he may not be handsome, but he's not ugly either. In fact, he reminds me of Belle's father Maurice a little bit. As for villains, again, not all of them are ugly. Not even in the rest of the franchise. Mozenrath, for example. That guy was pretty damn attractive. Not to mention a pretty cool villain. So, again, the racism this movie is claimed to have... It's a lie! In fact, this movie has a 94% rating (being up there with Disney's Pinocchio, Tangled, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pixar's Ratatouille, Up, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Bugs life, Toy Story trilogy, Monsters Inc, Incredibles and Inside Out, Yellow Submarine, Sesame Street: Follow that Bird, The Beatles: Hard Day's Night, The Beatles: Help, The Lego Movie, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon 1 and 2, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, independent films such as The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Ernest & Celestine, Mary and Max and Waltz with Bashir, adult animated film Persepolis, the LOTR trilogy, the 1994 live-action Disney version of The Jungle Book, The Paddington movie, some other Disney Renaissance films The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, French children film Kirikou and the sorceress, Men In Black, 1 Million Dollar Baby, the 2012 Avengers movie, some Gibli films My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, Casablanca, The Little Prince, Star Wars: Force Awakens and it even shares the exact same rating with Ghibli's Castle in the Sky and Porco Rosso, Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Star Wars Episode 4: New Hope and Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back!), so how come it even managed to get such pointless controversy? Because of the haters and brainless people who want to do nothing more but causing scandals and make it look bad.

Peter Pan-This one doesn't have that much of controversy, but a lot of people are calling it racist because of the song "What Made the Red Man Red?". It was accused of being an insult towards the Native Americans. However, I never, EVER noticed that there was ONE Native American whatsoever that felt insulted by it. As for the looks of the Native American characters in the movie... Nostalgia Critic said it best here: "They're definitely an Archetype of what we thought the indians were at that time. It's like the black crows from Dumbo. I never really found them that insulting. I thought they were cool. That song, >>What made the red man red?<< , I love that song! It still sticks in my head." And I can safely say the same, especially since I agree with that (btw, if you don't believe me that he said that, go here www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrQ7w… ). Also, I think it is how indians would give the answer to when, why or what. So overall, nothing insulting or racist about this song.

Tom and Jerry-(Spoiler alert!)This is one didn't receive controversy in terms of racism, but because of that episode "Blue Cat Blues", which seems to be infamous because of the famous question "Did Tom and Jerry commit suicide?". The full answer to "Why is there any controversy to this"? you'll be given by, again, Nostalgia Critic. As for whether or not they died, like Nostalgia Critic, I'll say no. As a matter of fact, in my oppinion, they ran away. Why do I think that? Because, come on, they're Tom and Jerry. As Nostalgia Critic said: "We never see them get axed off, they survived much worse, it's obviously a punchline of a joke and most importantly, they had a dozen cartoons released after this one.". And this is one of the big things I safely agree with. Sure, this episode is not all that funny as others, but I get the point to it, and that is the fact that this episode in particular is a satire to how ungrateful people can be and how their ungratefulness can sometimes lead to suicide. In this case, the female cat leaves Tom for some rich doushbag. Seriously, Tom brought her a little flower, the rich one brought a giant flower wreath she hold on her shoulder, Tom gets her a tiny bottle of prefume, rich guy brings her a 2 meters long van of perfume, Tom gets her a ring (buying it for all the money he had, btw), the rich guy brings her a ring with a giant shiny rock, Tom gets a car that is jumping all over the place (after selling his house and even an arm and a leg for her), the rich doush buys her a 4 meters long cab. So basically, this episode satires how, for a person sb loves, he sacrifices everything he has just to have her love, but then he ends up being completely rejected and just wants to end his life because of such heartbreak and ungratefulness he received.
But, again, did they die? No. If you don't believe me, or don't WANT to believe me or listen to me, go here www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdVLzw…

Lefty from Sesame Street-Eeeyeah, even Sesame Street SOMEHOW managed to receive controversy. I presume most of you don't really remember this guy. Honestly, I didn't even know he existed at all until a few years ago when I found some of the sketches on YT. In fact, I found out that it wasn't too long until he was removed from the American version of the show because the sketches of him and Ernie were claimed to encourage kids to talk to strangers. And that "Would you like to buy an O?" apparently makes people create some dirty jokes such as Lefty trying to sell drugs with that song. Anyways, this guy was best known as the Salesman, mostly because he was trying to sell stuff to Ernie. Now, as for what he was accused for encouraging... Like most of these here, I think that's just people's stupidity. I personally don't find anything inappropriate about this guy, at all. If there is one tiny problem with him I had, is that I have a feeling that they gave him a wrong character. Really, he's dressed up like a detective. I mean, come on, a salesman who has a coat detectives normally have? Pffff! Character personalizing failure right there! XD Idk about you, but I would like this character to come back in the American version of the show, but as a detective of some sort. It can even be a parody to sth, like they did in Monsterpiece theater. Either way, there is no reason to make controversy towards this character.
Also, aside from Lefty, another thing that is causing pointless controversy towards this show is people making Gay jokes towards Ernie and Bert. Especially because of that sketch where Ernie reads a book and because of the fact they live together. Get serious, people, will you? -.- Just because two same gener people live together, doesn't AUTOMATICALLY mean they're homo!

Pocahontas-Yeah, back to Disney. Like Peter Pan, this is apparently accused of being racist because of the song "Savages". Really, people? Really? You accuse this song to be racist because of how two enemy sides call each other? Be reasonable and think about it. Pocahontas' tribe calls John Smith and his people savages because, let's face it, most of them are destroyers of nature and innocent lives (in fact, that's very close to reality), and Ratcllife and his men call her and her tribe savages because they live in the nature, they don't have same ways of thinking and living, and he considers them obstacles to him. And you have to admit, even though it may not be historically accurate, the movie itself still has some truth and reality to it. I mean, nature and lives that live there ARE getting destroyed because of human greed. Also, about the historical accurasy... As Joey Tadesco said in his Anastasia review, "If the movie's fiction, why does it matter if has to be realistic?"( www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuXsB… ). And before you manage to get me wrong, it's not like with such stupid crap like "The Magic Voyage" or "The Legend of the Titanic" where the history and the events are beyond insulting. Seriously, in terms of which one of these three is closest to reality of the events... Say what you will, but Disney's Pocahontas actually managed to get closer. Despite having a talking willow and animal sidekicks like a tiny bird and a racoon, Pocahontas still had more reality and truth to it. Maybe, JUST maybe, not in terms of history, but still in some other things.

Hunchback of Notre Dame-I think everyone knows towards what the controversy was made with this film. Aside from being accused of being a "Disrespect" towards the original story, it also seems to receive, again, pointless controversy towards the song "Hellfire". While "What Made the Red Man Red?" and "Savages" are accused of racism, "Hellfire" seems to be accused for hinting some other stuff like Hell and sexuality. *facepalm* Really, people? -.- Here's what I think. While the movie clearly took a lot of liberty with the sorce material (just like other Disney movies), this song shows a bit of the original character of Frollo. In the original story, Frollo wasn't a bad guy in a way Disney's version was. He didn't really hate Esmeralda like in Disney version. He was actually in love with her, but in a very obsessive way, and also the fact that he had his job in a church was an obstacle to even possessing a woman. In fact, he was even jealous because Phoebus was about to seduce Esmeralda, so much so that he tried to kill him. Also, even though it was after she was tortured, he tried to save her from getting hanged a few times (one of those times being Quasimodo saving her though). And a bit of that obsession is hinted in the song. Trust me, I can safely tell that because I read the book before watching the movie. Well, before watching it again, at least. Also, I'm hearing some complaints about Esmeralda's looks. Sth like: "She dressed unproper for a Disney movie. Her cloths reveal too much of her.". Really, people? Really? Come on, use your heads and eyes properly. She's not unproper. Her wardrobe is fine. In fact, she's a lot more covered than some other princesses. Take Jasmine for example. She's a lot more uncovered than even Pocahontas is. Heck, even the upcoming character Moana is more covered than these. As for Esmeralda's figure... Let's be honest, she's really one of the few Disney females to have a figure that's closest to the realistic one.

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride-Ok, before you go nuts by telling me that there's nothing "potentionally" controversal, hear me out. There's one deleted scene that might've caused controversy if it was kept in the final cut. And that is Zira's alternate death scene. Originally, at the point where Kiara offers Zira to help her up, Zira was suppose to refuse and flinge herself off the cliff, rather than slipping off like in the actual film. So basically, what would make this movie "controversal", is the subject of suicide. Which is actually a pretty dark subject, one that people don't really want to explain to children and children would probably not be able to understand it. Either way, I'm not saying that this would confirmingly cause controversy, just that it's a candidate of it.

So next time you think that there's controversy to such innocent things like these above.... Think before you talk, people. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. And stop creating controversy there where it doesn't even exist.

Tom and Jerry (c) Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros.

Image of Ernie and Lefty (c) CTW, Sesame Workshop

All other images by Disney