Wow. First of all, I’ve never seen or heard of this cartoon, and maybe I live under a rock, but okay. Second of all, I was completely shocked. If I was watching this as a kid, I’d have grabbed the remote and changed the channel within 5 seconds. As I was watching it in class, I thought to myself, woah, this is for kids? Even now, the cartoon itself, the graphics, scared me, especially Ren. It was amusing in a slightly disturbing way, especially the Happy Happy Joy Joy song. 🙂 I guess the song would have been good for a kid, because it’s so repetitive and sort of catchy? Anyways, the concept, I think, behind the video was that you can’t create happiness for someone else: Stumpy helped Ren realize how much he appreciated being grumpy and unhappy, a thought that made Ren happy. So twisted. I’d probably be mind boggled realizing this now if I had ever watched this cartoon as a kid.
Everyone wants to be happy, or at least we all think we do. But, what is happiness?
