# Fisher Price Little People - Tools of the Fascist **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153 "2001-03-23T15:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/21 "2001-03-24T06:01:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > I think the really sad thing is that the kids will watch this and think how great it is to be Eddie, not realizing that most of their adult life will be spent muttering “That son-of-a-bitch, Eddie. Who the hell does he think he is, anyway? ‘Nothing he can’t do’ MY ASS! Where would golden-boy Eddie be without us doing all the work, huh? That’s what I have to say about that. Screw that! I have half a mind to tell him just what he can do with that helicopter of his. Believe you me!” (and so on, for approx 40 years until retirement, or Eddie’s garish death, which is splashed on every tabloid.) Profound, **voguevixen** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/22 "2001-03-24T08:27:57Z")
I simply must get this video for my nephew, who I am attempting to warp as much and as early as possible. However, your view of the black man is flawed. Obviously he and Eddie are in a Dom/Sub relationship, and the black man - unnamed, anonymous and properly respectful - is simply playing the public role Eddie has defined for him. Privately, they’re breaking every sodomy law the Land of the Little People has on the books. You homophobic bastard! Let the little people live in peace! \ Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/23 "2001-03-24T09:07:44Z")
Be happy and rejoice - you can [order the video here](http://www.fisherprice.com/us/littlepeople/video/default.htm) from Fisher Price. Only $4.99! I hope the mods don’t see this as gratuitous advertising. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/24 "2001-03-24T10:13:52Z")
Everything’s gay with you, isn’t it, 'Sprix? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/25 "2001-03-24T17:03:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _From the link Esprix posted_ > Eddie™ Saves the Circus > There’s trouble on the tracks 'til fun-loving Eddie gets an idea from his frog Freddie. His daring plan will make your child glad to see that the show must go on! Isn’t it true that if you lick certain species of frogs, you get hallucinations? Maybe that’s it. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/26 "2001-03-24T18:21:02Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\* > **Arden Ranger:** Lately I’ve been dreaming about Blue and Elmo in a cage match to the death…:eek: \*\* No! Not Blue! She would win anyway. She’d paw print Elmo to death or lure him into one of those picture frame worlds where he’d have a stroke asking “Why? Why? Why?” 😃 [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/27 "2001-03-24T19:45:01Z")
Don’t even get me started on Devil’s Dogs and Angel Food Cakes!!! It’s a plot I tell ya…a plot!!! FIGHT THE MAN!!! FIGHT THE POWER!!! ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/28 "2001-03-25T02:10:02Z")
From your description, I’d have to agree. I can’t honestly say that you’re making too much of it. One would think that in this world of ours, a corporation like Fisher Price would tread softly whenever the issue of race is involved, and avoid offensive transgressions that are almost cliche by now, like having the black kid at the back of the bus. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/29 "2001-03-25T20:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr\_Paprika \* > \*\*I don’t have kids and have not seen your video. But I do recall playing with the little Fascher-Putsch people as a child. And I distinctly recall that there was a king and a queen and a castle with a dungeon. This would clearly imply the land of the little people was a monarchy. Albeit a crooked one, since tossing people into the dungeon was easily the funnest part of playing with them in the first place. > \*\* I had a hamster that used to love to crawl into that little dungeon trap door, fall down, and hide inside there. Eventually we didn’t even need to bother with a cage because you could always trust him to climb into his castle. King Hamster. Basically, my Fisher-Price castle was a box of hamster poop. I was a strange little boy. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/30 "2001-03-25T20:59:11Z")
/mild hijack My kids never watched that kind of crap, even as very little kids. They always preferred He-Man, Transformers, and that lousy Japanese Anime. My daughter did like Barnie alot until her brothers convinced her he was a kidnapper in a dinosaur suit. They also know every word to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” by heart and are better at doing the “Time Warp” than I am. Yes, I realize I have odd kids. And they have a weirdo for a mom, too, but at least we’re not boring! 🙂 /end mild hijack ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/31 "2001-03-26T14:23:11Z")
I would like to see that film. Its probably better than Left Behind! 🙂 Next thing you know, Eddie’s runnin for president. But do they have a third party? Noooooooooo! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/32 "2001-03-26T14:37:57Z")
Back when kids played with the Little People we didn’t have school shootings. Clearly there’s a connection. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/33 "2001-03-26T14:54:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > **Frankly Scylla, I think you should put what you just said in a letter and send it off to the folks at Fischer-Price. Sounds kinda subliminally racist/sexist to me.** Actually, this is a **GREAT** idea. Can you imagine the PR letter he’d get back? That’s a case of backpedaling I’d LOVE to see. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/34 "2001-03-26T23:54:13Z")
So I took a gander at the Fisher Price web site, and what’s up with the little people? [grumpyoldmanvoice]When _I_ played with little people, they weren’t made out of plastic with little molded hands and feet - _they were little wooden stumps with heads and the paint flaked off and little chunks would come off of 'em… **and we liked it!** _ \ Sorry. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/35 "2001-03-27T00:22:39Z")
_snicker_ Esprix, you sound like me when I played Barbies. They were all prostitutes who took drugs and had eating disorders, they were raped and beaten up, kidnapped, committed suicide, etc etc. I remember the Little People. I had the house, too! Hee hee! How old IS this video, anyways? ---
**Author:** ![fatherjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fatherjohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatherjohn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/36 "2001-03-27T03:18:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\* > > All the Little People in the video have names, and they all have their own little adventure segment of the video. All except the black guy. He doesn’t have a name or his own segment. In fact, he’s apparently not allowed to talk, either. > > . . . > > The black kid (we’ll call him “Token”) sees the most action in the segment where the little people return a lost sheep and help a farmer. He waits on the white women. When he’s not doing that he stands a respectful foot behind Eddie, lightly bowing his head. > \*\* Ummm, false. The black kid’s name is “Michael.” The first segment is devoted to him. The song goes “Discovering Michael; clever as can be . . . .” Michael figures out how to dry a farmer’s field after the other little people’s ideas (including Eddie’s) don’t work. Of course, his idea is totally goofy (he draws a picture of the sun and hangs it on a rainbow; the field eventually produces popcorn.). But the other scenarios in the other segments are equally goofy. Further, Michael talks in the other segments. Oh, and he flies the little people plane (actually a car with wings attached) in the last segment. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/37 "2001-03-27T03:30:11Z")
Yes, and Eddie drives an SUV, so is clearly evil. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/38 "2001-03-27T12:10:46Z")
If michael discovered how to dry a farmers field, do you not think Fischer Price would put that into action and make Millions!! Michael would be rich! Rich as Astronauts!! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/39 "2001-03-27T15:05:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > > Michael would be rich! Rich as Astronauts!! And there goes the coffee…all over the keyboard. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153/40 "2001-03-27T15:08:46Z")
Fatherjohn: No, I’m pretty sure it’s the little white kid in glasses and raincoat who fixes the field by hanging the paper sun. I’ll watch it again, and take notes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fisher-price-little-people-tools-of-the-fascist/59153.md?page=3)