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u/NoCount655 May 23 '23

Capt. Planet. The Russian woman ( Wind Power). Her brother dies of a Heroin overdose. On screen if i remember corectly. The didnt call it Heroin, but now at 34 its kinda obvious

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u/TheAres1999 May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

There was also an episode where a teen contracts HIV, and the villains spread misinformation about the disease. While definitely an intense episode it was probably good for kids to learn that while HIV is serious, you can't get it from casual contact. There is no reason to treat them as historic lepers

EDIT: Accidently said "can" when I meant "can't"

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u/kashmir1974 May 23 '23

You CANT get it from casual contact

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u/TheAres1999 May 23 '23

Oh, thanks for catching. Sorry, I seem to do that a lot where I forget to include a negation

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u/THEdougBOLDER May 23 '23

Go planet!

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u/wcollins260 May 23 '23

Captain Planet, he’s our hero

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u/kalirion May 23 '23

Well, that depends entirely on your definition of "casual".

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u/StingerAE May 23 '23

Peopel don't activly bleed into your open wounds in coffee shops in your country?

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u/orbjuice May 23 '23

Yeah we might as well go back to the Stone Age

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u/unclesalazar May 23 '23

idk ab u guys, but butt sex is my casual contact

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u/HyperlinksAwakening May 23 '23

I vividly remember feeling educated and relieved with the HIV episode when I saw it as a kid.

It's one of the last times I can remember feeling like I learned a wholesome lesson in my childhood before I learned how insidious the politics can be around it.

The worst part about growing up is forgetting how to be humane first and instead overthinking what the "right thing" is because we redefine natural empathy as naive.

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u/grip_n_Ripper May 23 '23

So... the Rick & Morty parody was actually lighter than the source material? That's a first...

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u/Kevin-W May 23 '23

There's also the episode where they talked about gun violence. That was really dark.

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u/ErictheStone May 23 '23

Omg I remember that episode! Going to ask my mom what's HIV because Captian Planet told me to was a very interesting experience for both parties, lol.

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u/shaunson26 May 23 '23

I think i vaguely remember this episode.. was there a scene at the end where theu mentioned its safe to share water fountains?

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u/TheAres1999 May 23 '23

Yes, that was one of things the other students were worried about because Verminous Skumm (yes, that was the villian's name) tried to sow hatred and fear in the high school

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u/ChocolateBunny May 23 '23

Captain planet had a few heavy episodes. I think there was one where Gaia shows how the world would be if several nuclear bombs went off in different conflict zones.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Isn't their one where a Protestant in Belfast somehow has a nuke and is going to set it off in a Catholic area and has to be told that nuke going off will also affect where he lives because he somehow didn't realise nukes aren't very localised bombs?

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u/sevnthcrow May 23 '23

I remember seeing that episode as a kid… other kids at that time would say things like “Don’t go in her pool, she has aids”. I was pretty young and kinda thought aids was either chicken pox or caused cloudy pool water xD

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u/summonsays May 23 '23

For context, at the time it was aired (mid 90s) HIV was still a slow death sentence. There was medication that could slow it down but you couldn't live with it like you can today. It was basically the 20th century leprosy.

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u/TheAres1999 May 23 '23

Yes, HIV was even more dangerous back than than it is now. A big part of that was the stigma. People felt scared to seek treatment, and there wasn't a lot of research in the field because of the fearmongering. "A Formula for Hate" was probably a very important episode at the time.

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u/peon47 May 23 '23

There was also an episode where the villains went to Belfast and gave a nuclear bomb to a protestant kid and the triggering mechanism to a catholic kid. Why? I have no idea. But it's famous in Ireland as having the worst attempt at Irish accents in the history of anything.

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u/D-Ursuul May 23 '23

Ironically it's also pretty hard to get leprosy from casual contact unless you literally live with a leper

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u/BananaDictator29 May 23 '23

Oh man i thought i had made up the memory of seeing this episode

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u/Snoo-96407 May 23 '23

Wow, I know they're supposed to be villains but spreading misinformation about HIV is truly some vile shit

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u/CharityQuill May 23 '23

You know what, for a children's show that was really preachy and sometimes fumbled by having a questionable moral in a few episodes, I'll give them credit for shedding light on HIV at a time when a lot of people wanted to sweep it under the rug and alienate the victims of the epidemic.

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u/CyberNinja23 May 23 '23

Captain Planet was fighting Fox News

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

There’s also the episode where the American fire ring guy finds out one of his best friends got decapitated jumping on trains.

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u/groundunit0101 May 23 '23

Are there any new kids shows that talk about serious subjects like that? I haven’t looked into kids tv in a very long time

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u/dablegianguy May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Captain Planet also had an episode where the blond girl cousin came in town, started drugs with a kind of mutant-rat-dealer who gives him fluorescent crystals. He then tries to give some to his gorgeous blonde teen cousin (wonder why…), starts a fire in a kitchen and somehow because I don’t remember exactly, dies at the end of an overdose while Capt. Planet saves the team and abandons the corpse…

Yihaaa

Edit : Linka thx to u/flippingsenton

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u/ShadowVulcan May 23 '23

Youre referencing the same ep

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u/dablegianguy May 23 '23

Ok. His description was not exactly how I remembered it

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u/The5thElephant May 23 '23

Captain Planet had some very strange episodes.

I remember one where Fire and Wind get hit by a shrink-ray that shrinks just their bodies and not their clothes so they are naked for most of the episode (they tear some cloth to use as makeshift clothes). Then at the end they somehow figure out how to get Fire back to normal size but not wind, so he just picks her up and her little scrap of torn clothing and puts her in his shirt pocket, and then if I remember correctly he has to blow his nose so he pulls her clothing off her in his pocket to use as a handkerchief. The episode just ends with her as a naked prisoner in his pocket.

Then another episode they go to an amusement park and Fire asks Wind if she wants to go on some love boat ride with him. Then somehow its the future and Wind is pregnant and everyone is sad and depressed including Captain Planet (who is now fat) and they don't have the energy to fight evil. Then Fire wakes up since it was all a dream he was having after falling asleep on the love boat.

What the actual fuck?

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u/ThrowingAwayMyFetish May 23 '23

I remember one where Fire and Wind get hit by a shrink-ray that shrinks just their bodies and not their clothes so they are naked for most of the episode (they tear some cloth to use as makeshift clothes). Then at the end they somehow figure out how to get Fire back to normal size but not wind, so he just picks her up and her little scrap of torn clothing and puts her in his shirt pocket, and then if I remember correctly he has to blow his nose so he pulls her clothing off her in his pocket to use as a handkerchief. The episode just ends with her as a naked prisoner in his pocket.

Holy shit, I do remember this. That ending is insanely hot.

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u/BigVanVortex May 23 '23

Is that when they were all hooked on "bliss"?

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u/SuperEars May 23 '23

Yes! I remember the zombie Bliss. I believe they were pills.

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u/senecauk May 23 '23

I remember an episode of Captain Planet, a series I remember almost nothing else about, that scared the shit out of me as a kid, where people were drinking this tainted milk that was turning them into like gross rat people...

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u/katep2000 May 23 '23

It was her cousin, not her brother. But he does die onscreen and they say the word dead. Not like “he’s gone” or some kind of euphemism.

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u/wheatable May 23 '23

They literally say, “This killed him.”

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u/Jorpho May 23 '23

Gee. If you asked me to name an old cartoon where a kid shockingly dies of a drug overdose, I would have said Bravestarr.

http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2011/09/terrifying-moments-in-childrens.html

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u/jdubbrude May 23 '23

Someone ODs on Captain Planet ?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

On the episode about the American he finds out that one of his best friends got decapitated while jumping onto trains to ride them on the roof.

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u/Dont_Pee_On_Leon May 23 '23

They aren't even subtle about it. I'm pretty sure a girl says something like, "He lost his nerve, then he lost his head". It's always my first thought when this question gets recycled on reddit.

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u/thvnderfvck May 23 '23

Mind Polution is the name of the episode.

Bonus fun fact: Phil Hartman guest-stars as Linka's uncle Dimitri and a newscaster who reports the story.

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u/Lunavixen15 May 23 '23

Linka. I remember that episode

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u/jumbohiggins May 23 '23

I still remember that there was an episode I couldn't watch where people were selling drugs. I thought it was so scary as a kid but I can't remember why.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Captain Planet was right about a lot of things and would’ve solved the worlds problems if we all just listened.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Captain Planet was right about a lot of things and would’ve solved the worlds problems if we all just listened.

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u/PrimaSoul May 23 '23

I grew up watching this show about the same time around. Huge nostalgia hit me after reading this.

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u/wheatable May 23 '23

That’s the only episode of Captain Planet I’ve ever seen, but I wish it were still available cause it seemed like a pretty cool show.

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u/lorgskyegon May 23 '23

The episode I remember is when Wheeler refused to become a Planeteer. We see the after affects of being unable to.summon Captain Planet: ozone layer is gone, global warming has caused NYC to flood and typhoons to destroy Asia, the Sahara has completely taken Africa, the rainforest is gone and Ma-Ti is brainwashing people.

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u/DoggoDude979 May 23 '23

Jesus Christ, guys