Now, Mickey Mouse is a mouse, as is Minnie. Donald, a duck. Ditto Daisy, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Scrooge McDuck. All animals in the Disney Universe, and all walking upright and wearing clothes.
Then we get to Goofy. He's a dog. Walks, talks, manipulates objects with his hands, capable of complex, if often flawed reasoning. And then there's Pluto. Also a dog, but wearing a collar, spends most of his time on all fours, barking.
In a world of anthropomorphized animals, Pluto is the only pet. He's unique. I can't imagine the natural forces in that Universe that would render only one animal, of all the others, incapable of Higher Functionality, and willing to accept a life of slavery. The only conclusion I can come to is that Pluto is being punished for something. Maybe he sniffed a little too close to the Private Reserve Cheese. Perhaps he tried to put the moves on Minnie. Hell, maybe he's serving time for chipmunk-slaughter.
But he did something, and I wanna know what.
(This is the kind of shit that floats into the head of a ridiculously bored adult when faced with watching the same three episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for six months straight.)
2 comments:
Minnie has a kitten. I've seen it. I mean... ah, you know what I mean.
And which episodes are your kids addicted to? My niece likes them all, but mostly Daisy-Bo-Peep, Saving Santa, and the one with the balloons. Sad that I know this, but I have forgotten most of my Star Trek trivia.
But, come on, They Might Be Giants wrote the Clubhouse songs!
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the man who started the whole Pluto-isn't-a-planet thing that resulted in its "delisting" and in a lot of hate mail from angry fourth graders, has said he wondered the same thing: Why is Pluto a pet of a mouse and the mouse isn't a pet of the dog? He says he called Disney and asked; they told him that it was the clothes: You wear clothes, you're a sentient, talking thing. You go naked or nearly nekkid, and you're a pet.
I know, that doesn't explain WHY Pluto has to go through life as a pet, but it does show that the Disney folks put some thought behind it all. Apparently about 14 seconds.
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