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I took some heat from a few parents about this cartoon, but this is one that remains one of my personal favorites. It’s just such a ludicrous situation trying to pull itself off as a serious one.

I wanted to write back to a couple of these people (I never did) and say, now, c’mon: look at this cartoon: First of all, this cartoon “couple” have not hired a witch-like babysitter to watch their kids—they’ve hired a witch! Secondly, they’re not horrified at what’s occurred, as we might suspect, but mostly indignant. And lastly, they’re especially upset that the witch ate both their kids—as if to suggest one would have been pretty bad, but both is really unacceptable.

It’s even more interesting to me that fairy tales themselves, frequently full of violence and scary things, are directed at children—which is mostly condoned. This cartoon, on the other hand, is merely satirizing a common fairy tale them (e.g., “Hansel and Gretel”) and directing the humor at adults. Now that’s confusing.