The bastardization of Little Bunny Foo Foo
Posted
February 25, 2008 at
4:47 pm by
Prescott
I just heard a new version of Little Bunny Foo Foo, wherein the wayward hare does not get scolded for “boppin’” field mice on the head (too violent), but rather the fairy admonishes Foo for “kissing” them. Apparently sexual harassment is serious business in the forest.
Is this the future of nursery rhymes?
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down, got up, was perfectly fine,
And Jill came responsibly making her way after.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the Queen’s horses and all the Queen’s women and men,
Couldn’t put Humpty back together again,
But fortunately the kingdom had universal health care and Humpty has made a full recovery.
Three visually impaired mice,
Three visually impaired mice,
See how they run after properly warming up,
See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who happened to be a member of PETA
So she treated them as equals and got them all Lasik.
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1. Rita said:
February 25, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
Maybe it’s a regional thing? I live in the part of the world where we have “duck, duck, gray duck” instead of a goose. Why? And, in the Little Bunny Foo Foo I knew, it used to piss off all my college friends because the good fairy was a “he.” Why?
2. Jessica said:
February 26, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Bring back dodgeball.
I truly believe if we weren’t so worried about whether or not a kid can survive their feelings being hurt or losing once in a while, we wouldn’t have college kids going out and shooting people over unresolved issues and taking it out on other people with a lethal weapon. All they are doing is having adult size temper tantrums because nobody was brave enough to confront them and hurt their feelings.
3. Rita said:
February 27, 2008 @ 10:19 am
Obviously, I think a little competition and developing coping skills is good for the average child. My own kids are sheltered and supported, so it’s healthy for them to be out and about, knocked around a little by the world. Just a little.
But, not all kids come from the same background as my kids. *I* didn’t come from the same background as my kids! Being knocked around by the world was just another place for me to be knocked around, you know? And the world seems to be harder on kids who don’t have a safe haven anywhere. So, I don’t really have a problem with things instituted to shelter children. Because no matter how cushy we make the world outside (us bleeding heart liberals), good parents will still arrange situations for our kids to make mistakes and learn from them.
I also don’t think that it’s really the coddled kids who grow up and react with violence. All of the cases I’ve read about where someone has shot up a place, the person was a victim of relentless social abuse. So, that’s a whole other issue.
I agree that too much sheltering of a person, all around, with never letting the kid grow from negative experiences will make them unable to cope when they’re older. But, I think that this sort of thing will manifest itself in a series of self-injurious behaviors. Drinking, drugs, inability to obtain gainful and rewarding employment, lack of intimate relationships, and so on. But, I still have faith in human determination and believe that for most people, regardless of how coddled their childhoods are, they will rise to the occasion and learn to grow when it’s demanded of them. Most kids who are abused grow up to become functional people, so why not most kids who are overly sheltered, too?
And, about the nursery rhymes, well they all lead back to long-forgotten British politics, don’t they? Three Blind Mice and Humpty Dumpty were codes for some underground rebellion, weren’t they? So, if they started out to be something more than the superficial meaning, then why not let them evolve with the current culture? They began as social statements, and there’s nothing wrong with letting them continue that way. JMO.