Camp Cartoons

I have a question which would benefit from someone who has been around a good deal longer than I have been.

Some of you may be familiar with the Tellitubbies, the British children entertainment show. Most were content to accept these four suited up fantasy characters as harmless, until a Polish MP blasted the show because she considered one of them (the purple one) to be especially gay and therefore a bad influence on the children watching the show.

This was something I found most amusing, but it brought another question to mind. Have political and social commentators also caused similar outcry over other childrens' entertainment characters?

I can think of one which sticks out like a sore thumb, and that is Snagglepuss. Yes, it should have occurred to you by now; the pink cat who talks with the effeminate accent and says 'heavens to mergaroid' all the time is not just suspiciously gay, he is outright CAMP!

So did commentators also in the past resort to outcry over characters like these, or is the tellitubbie blasting a symbol of an increasingly sensatised and intolerant strain of homophobia in our own times?

Every age has its critics. I wouldn't lose sleep over someone claiming that Tellitubbies have a detrimental influence on children. That 's what the remote is for. On the other hand I've never been the same either since I watched Mister Ed the Talking Horse.  

Better question is...what kind of a monster-of-a-parent would ever dress their animal children in such a way? THAT i ask you!

^ that one was for you Ponce. This next one is for both you and Campy CXI!