<story><title>The original “Bambi”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/bambi-is-even-bleaker-than-you-thought</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ralfp</author><text>I’ve grown watching „The Animals of Farthing Wood” (1993 cartoon).&lt;p&gt;It has episode showing family of mice struggling to survive and worried about future for their babies. In following episode we get shot of same mice family impaled on needles by birds going to eat them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wykop.pl&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;c3201142&amp;#x2F;comment_EkpfJKfyX8WRKQnr7HhlTAsIH3XsMyfZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wykop.pl&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;c3201142&amp;#x2F;comment_EkpfJKfyX8WRKQnr7H...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Entire story is told around forest dying out and animals struggling to survive in it. It was once called „that animals cartoon that traumatised generations”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I loved a cartoon growing up as a child, called Alfred J. Kwak [0], a Dutch &amp;#x2F; Japanese series about a duck and his adventures; I believe a lot of it is on youtube if you want.&lt;p&gt;The first two episodes are about two anthropomorphised ducks that meet, fall in love, move into a clog and have a spawn of babies, happily ever after until the whole family but Alfred get killed by a car. That was err. a pretty brutal thing for a four year old to see.&lt;p&gt;The show goes on to depict things like nazis, racism (waterfowl aren&amp;#x27;t real birds like us!), apartheid, classism, alcoholism, even transgenderism &amp;#x2F; gender fluidity (the stork Ollie), etc. In hindsight, it was A Lot, and most of it probably escaped me.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Alfred_J._Kwak&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Alfred_J._Kwak&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The original “Bambi”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/bambi-is-even-bleaker-than-you-thought</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ralfp</author><text>I’ve grown watching „The Animals of Farthing Wood” (1993 cartoon).&lt;p&gt;It has episode showing family of mice struggling to survive and worried about future for their babies. In following episode we get shot of same mice family impaled on needles by birds going to eat them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wykop.pl&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;c3201142&amp;#x2F;comment_EkpfJKfyX8WRKQnr7HhlTAsIH3XsMyfZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wykop.pl&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;c3201142&amp;#x2F;comment_EkpfJKfyX8WRKQnr7H...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Entire story is told around forest dying out and animals struggling to survive in it. It was once called „that animals cartoon that traumatised generations”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been split on this. On the one hand it is a bit unpleasant and can be traumatizing, and we tend to shy away from unpleasant things, but on the other hand lots of generations grew up on Grimm&amp;#x27;s Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales and learned a bit about how difficult life can be and the consequences of moral failings or lack of hard work. It is important to prepare children for the fact that life is not all rainbows and unicorns, but still important to protect them from the depravity of the world so that childhood is pleasant and magical with healthy emotional development. I guess there is a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it, and that&amp;#x27;s part of the complexity of life&amp;#x2F;the universe&amp;#x2F;everything.</text></comment>