>Character becomes a hall monitor and goes mad with power
why was this so popular in the 90s/early 2000s
>Character becomes a hall monitor and goes mad with power
>Character becomes a hall monitor and goes mad with power
why was this so popular in the 90s/early 2000s
Closest thing a child can be to becoming an authority figure, nowadays they fight with 20-30-year-olds to become discord moderators.
It was a different time
Was this specifically a 90s/early aughts thing? I felt like this phased out by the time I finished middle school.
Believe it or not, cartoons with kids in school were a relatively new fad in the 90’s-2000’s. Also internet extensively chronicling episodes made it harder to get away with recycling plots. Shows like ninja turtles used to have writers who’d reuse their superfriends/ transformers/etc scripts. Now people can call them out on it.
Huh, that's neat. I guess a lot of these cartoons prepared me mentally for what "middle school" life is like as soon as I left elementary. Even school arcs like how EEnE made me think that middle school was how Antonucci portrayed it.
hall monitors were an actual US thing back in the day
they did exactly what they did in cartoons, make sure everyone who was in the halls was supposed to be there
it was basically a kid version of a cop, so writers who wanted to do a story with cop show cliches had a natural analog kids would understand (filmore made it to the whole point)
mostly to make sure the kid heading to the bathroom is actually headed to the bathroom and has a hallpass from the teacher saying they did
and that they arent off to skip school or something
I'm almost 30 and never saw a school with hall monitors, kids or otherwise. I assume it was an old thing from when the writers were kids that doesn't really exist anymore.
Schools do just have actual security guards because of shooters (even my hs had one in my last year) so maybe we'll see them in cartoon plots in the future.
Same, we got hall passes, but I don't ever recall needing to present one to anybody.
How the frick did hall monitors work?
I'm not from the US, so I honestly don't know.
At my schools, all kids were in class during class-time... and that was the end of it. Why would you have a single kid officially skipping class to... walk rounds?
high school are a big place, i used to skip some classes just hiding in a random part of the school that no one ever went in. im not american bbut we had the same thing and they where called prefects or "toilet monitors" because people destroy toilets in high school
>that they arent off to skip school
what?
1. Skip class
2. Teacher notices kid skipping class
3. Kids gets an F
4. Parents take whatever privilege the kid had so it knows getting an F for such moronic reasons is simply dumb
5. profit
it's cute you think every kid has good parents that gives a shit what they're up to
>I'm not from the US, so I honestly don't know.
I mean, you could always just google it.
Kid hall monitors seem like a cartoon thing. We usually did have adult staff walking around and if a kid needed to go to the restroom or office, the teacher would give them a hall-pass.
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Roger Ebert puts it perfectly
The Simpsons one doesn't count as it's meant to be a buddy cop episode, unlike the others.
Child friendly allegory for authority issues and police brutality. Very topical due to certain events in the early 90's causing a rise in distrust of the law, so educating children on the topic early on in a consumable way was seen as necessary.
They were trying to warn you about jannies.
It’s the easiest way to show a child that power corrupts. In what other situation will one child have legitimate authority over another?
90s cartoon writers were the original ACAB social media groups.
It's almost like something happened in the early 90's that really made people hate cops.
You forgot about the Robot Jones one and the Dexters Lab one from the Savino seasons where he’s at a library.
It's a metaphor for police brutality.
The SpongeBob and South Park episodes were funny though.
I like how the SpongeBob one basically had him act like a deranged cop who honesty thought he was doing good
Bart did a genuine good job up until he covered for Lisa. And Cartman did nothing wrong. Bear spraying a pedophile trying to pull rank is just based as frick
>why was this so popular in the 90s/early 2000s
BECAUSE IT WAS KINO AND I WAS BORN AND MY MIND CAN WARP REALITY TO MY WILL MEANING IT'S GOOD