Kids Episodes to Avoid for Unexpected Racist (or similar) Content

 Hi,

I think a lot of people are like me, and would not like to expose their kids to racist stuff. Due to the pandemic, we are watching a lot of TV in our house (more than we'd like), and have run into some racist content where we were least expecting it. I am hoping to use this post as a running log of the problem episodes we have run into so you can be aware of these problems before your kids encounter them.

All the Best,

"Rutherford"

1. Puss in Boots: Season 2, Episode 3. Mermaid is depicted as a black woman, and relentlessly put down as hideous and disgusting. She is depicted as mentally unstable and morally lacking.
2. Thomas and Friends: Season 24: Episode 4 "Thomas and the Forest Engines". Plantation working natives near Rio (Brazil) are not capable of travel, functioning off the plantation, or seeing the world. In the end, "they were much happier being useful at home". 
3. Alphablocks: Misogyny rather than racism. Female voiced characters are, on average, less competent, independent, and confident than male voiced characters and usually delusional. ex: Season 1: Episode 7  "kick". C is good at making cracks, K is good at kicking. C thinks she can kick too, and is depicted as over-confident and incompetent. She cannot kick at all, does not learn, and cannot succeed on the soccer pitch without cheating with the other blocks, or pairing up with (male) K directly. Similar to S1E7,  episodes featuring female character "I" continue the theme as females being less overconfident and under-competent. Episodes with letters I or Q set the tone that females are unlikeable. Episodes with A buffer this, but undercut with emphasizing A's terrible clumsiness (incompetence again). Letter J who thinks she is a beautiful J bird but is actually a Jet is a very funny gimmick, but furthers a theme of female delusion.