Outkast’s Benjamin talks ‘Class of 3000′
Posted by: Rich Watson on October 25, 2006 at 6:56 pm
“Once we started to create our characters and we’d get kind of feedback from other artists that work on other shows, you know, they were like, ‘Man, the things that you all are doing, I mean, we hadn’t seen this types of things, you know? Just even the type of style and the curvature of the characters, we haven’t seen this since the 40s and 50s.’ We didn’t even know, because we don’t study animation, but we just knew we wanted them to have a kind of like a music feel to them in how they move and how they looked. So since we didn’t know a lot about animation, it gave us that not knowing that made it something new and fresh.”
Skeptic November 24th, 2006
There’s nothing new about Class of 3000 other than the overt racism. It is a funky kind of PBS program: a combination of Arthur with Barney and Friends.
As for the racism, Tamika, the African American, beats up all over Madison, the sterotyped rambling idiot white girl. Tamika resents Madison’s white way of expressing herself, so she physcially assaults Madison several times in the Fundraising episode with a large, heavy object (susaphone), slamming it over hear head in order to silence the silly white girl.
But all of this isn’t surprising. Cartoon Network lost its way years ago when they dumped Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and all of those great cartoons: Samurai Jack, Dexer’s Lab, Time Squad, Dragon Ball, Dragonball Z, Johnny Bravo, etc. What did they give us: the kitten that could name fruit. Maybe some so-called marketing genius decided to overhaul CN–focus groups, blah, blah, blah.
