From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: Toons/Drugs?/History
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:51:01 GMT

I suppose the one thing that annoys me more than the irrational fervor of
the anti-drug crusaders is the idea that anyone who comes up with any idea
even SLIGHTLY bizarre must, necessarily, have gotten their inspiration from
Imagination-In-A-Drum, usually voiced by people who aren't even creative ON
drugs, though they probably hallucinate that they are.

Now, that famous Mighty Mouse episode?  Another explanation has floated
around which is quite different from the "drug advertisement" theory.
Remember that that show was about pollution, and that MM was holding
The Last Flower which crumbled as he smelled it, just like all the others
had.  Note that the "religious right" is owned and operated by fabulously
wealthy people, who generally regard environmental awareness as an
inconvenience that costs them money.  So, here's another show arguing
with their God-given right to make a buck off of poisoning someone else,
but aHA! someone notices the tenuous connection between smelling a dried
up flower and opium use, and thus presents a way to get back at them through
a cause with great marketing clout.  And the druggies appear to have bought
the propaganda wholesale.

(Of course, the third and most likely alternative is that, like "backwards
masking", is just another loony idea from a psychotic with a religious bent
and nothing better to do.)

>>>The smoking gun (or joint) for the drug influence of R&S is the exaggerated
>>>timing of the gags.  It's perfect doper humor.  

Evidently this person is severely cartoon-impaired.

>The people who manufactured and distributed LSD, often did so
>by placing a film of LSD on the back of a stamp.  The stamps often
>had pictures of famous cartoon characters on the front.
>	The scene where Stimpy sticks out his tongue revealing the 
>unused stamps, is probably the most indicative of illicit drug use.
>That is, if you are aware of the historical facts mentioned above,
>you don't consider Stimpy just a stupid cat who got postage stamps
>stuck on his tongue while in a furver of creativity, and you don't
>consider the scene simply surreal (like the crocostimpy commuter
>bus scene in Untamed World).

Stimpy did not get postage stamps stuck on his tongue in a fervor of
creativity; you will note that he licked *the envelope*.  A nice, surreal
way of delivering stamps, and one that makes just as much sense as Ren
being able to saw a mousehole for himself by carefully extracting a
Black and Decker beaver from his pocket...

>	Salvadore Dali often used sensory depravation to 
>aquire a surreal expression with little effect as possible from reality.
>(Not that he didn't use drugs at all.  In his later years, sensory
>depravation alone was his door to inner surreal insanity.)

And there is also a quote attributed to him:  "I do not need drugs.
I *AM* drugs."
                                          "
I think that it is quite clear that the Spumco crowd, whether or not they
happen to use drugs, can also make that statement.  (And the claim is that
John K. does *not*, and he's very likely the most twisted of the lot.  More
power to him!  BZZZZZZZZT!  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)