TRIGGER WARNING: This Disney classic was made before the invention of political correctness. View at your own risk.
bluebird of bitterness
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
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bluebird of bitterness 
I love this. Sure there are some things that wouldn’t fly today, but we have to get over ourselves. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
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I’m with you. 🙂
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That was adorable.
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Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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AWWW! That was very sweet (no pun intended). 😉 Thanks for sharing a refreshing show! 😀
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I am feeling intellectually challenged, because I can’t see anything here that might be deemed as non PC ? ? ?
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Racial/ethnic stereotyping, primarily. The sort of thing to which no one gave a second thought half a century ago, but which now gives some people the vapors.
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It has. in fact, become fashionable to dig for possible racial slurs with all the zeal of a diamond miner hunting for his prey.
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That’s true, unfortunately. Some people aren’t happy until they find something to get offended about.
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That’s because there IS nothing that can be construed as offensive. To say otherwise shows one’s level of insanity, PC or whatever you choose to call it…
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I obviously didn’t find it offensive, or I wouldn’t have posted it, but as you know, some people are constantly on the lookout for things at which to take umbrage. 🙂
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That echoes my feelings.
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I’m sitting here waiting to be offended. How many times must I watch it?
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I’m glad you weren’t offended! But I never know who’s going to see these things, and I’ve been scolded in the past by readers who found some of my postings and/or comments insufficiently woke. The warning is there to forestall any such objections. 🙂
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Loved it! 😀 The Edwardians probably thought the Victorians weren’t ‘woke’ either! … I gotta be careful around ‘woke’ folks, because I can really give myself a headache with the massive eye-rolls they induce. 🙂
What ticks me off is their assumption that they’re the only ones who get it and therefore have a divine duty to inform everyone else of their just cause … just like every other sort of evangelism, eh?
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That parade was a masterpiece of crazy animation. Must’ve been something to see it on the big screen in 1935.
Miss Coconut (a tropical plant) is an Eskimo with barber-shop North Pole to emphasize it, just because you make snowball cookies coated with shredded coconut. Funny.
Miss Licorice and her entourage are cartoonish Negroes (the PC word in those days) because, black, get it? Plus, she’s licking her thumbs. Lick-erice. Get it? Groan.
When they push up the carousel, it’s pushed by elephants and, what are those, tail-less monkeys? Little brown (cookie) people?
Never mind the few bits of racial and ethnic stereotyping, what about the relationships?
Some stale Hobo cookie arrives, steals a few bits to spruce himself up, and then he starts getting pretty handsy pretty quickly commiserating with the sad girl. Starts making her promises. Hashtag Me Too territory!
I won’t even go into the squirting eclairs thing.
The parade is the boardwalk parades, the character acts the queen watches are Vaudeville (e.g. the old-fashioned barbershop harmony) – all immediately-recognizable to the audience of the day. Now? Not so much.
The less said about the angel food cake the better. But the devil’s food was great. Racist? Ha. It’s a dash of Cab Calloway (or imitator thereof). Again, audiences would recognize it.
Seemed like the guys were offered in pairs, but they were saying, choose (only) one of us, so, okay; but then the judges said marry all three of us…! :O
Maybe the rules are different in cookie town.
Maybe I’m giving this too much thought.
I did like the Cinderella makeover using available cookie materials. She couldn’t have thought of that herself?
Yes, too much thought.
According to disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cookie_Carnival
Hobo was voiced by Pinto Colvig, best known for voicing Goofy.
According to imdb.com/name/nm0307732/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2
The girl was voiced by Marcellite Garner, voice of Minnie Mouse from 1930-1944.
Here’s someone who has given this even more too much thought than I:
theparisreview.org/blog/2014/02/06/sweets-for-the-sweet/
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