The Complainer Is Always Wrong/Quotes
"Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along —-- Buddy Bears theme song, Garfield and Friends
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
—Nietzsche
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(The doors of the Great Hall burst open and a wall of water crashes through, knocking the Vikings off their feet. There is little doubt that the whole of Hy-Brasil is sinking see a street go down, a statue sink and then we Cut to a close-up of King Arnulf. He is standing at the top of the Forum steps addressing a crowd of anxious citizens. They are keeping surprisingly good order considering they are already standing ankle-deep in water, and the whole town is rapidly sinking around them.) |
In another part of [Mark Evanier]'s site that you probably won't find, Mark makes a comment about an earlier show he worked on that, though he might not have realized it, reveals the exact reason for the existence of three bears who were constantly trying to force a lesson down Garfield's throat; the lessson of "if you ever disagree, it means that you are wrong." |
Consultants were brought in and we, the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain "pro-social" morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant "pro-social" moral was as follows: The group is always right...the complainer is always wrong. |
This was the message of way too many eighties' cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle. Each week, whichever member of the gang didn't get along with the gang learned the error of his or her ways. |
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better."
—Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt
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