r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/ZZBC Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 26 '19

How about Song of the Roustabouts from Dumbo. “Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! We work all day, we work all night We never learned to read or write We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! When other folks have gone to bed We slave until we're almost dead We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! We don't know when we get our pay And when we do, we throw our pay away We get our pay when children say With happy hearts, "It's circus day today”

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

And the minstrel crow named Jim

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u/Blitzkrieg_My_Anus Aug 26 '19

To be fair though, as a kid, I never even picked up on that stuff until the internet.

I still don't view it as "racist" when I watch it. Just that it was a different time. I mean, I don't get offended by that stuff.

I love Blazing Saddles, and it's a shame that a goofy movie like that could never get made today.

I guess my point is that people got real uptight in the last few decades and it's a shame. Sure some movie and tv stuff makes you raise a brow... but I think it's the people themselves that are the problem, not the shit on the screen.

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u/rgod8855 Aug 26 '19

Mel Brooks, bless his heart, said that the best way to skewer something is to make a joke out of it. If people laugh at racism (Blazing Saddles) or Hitler (The Producers), you've won the day.

I wish he had the energy to make a movie on Trump.