Profound, voguevixen 
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! <sob>
Esprix
Be happy and rejoice - you can order the video here from Fisher Price. Only $4.99!
I hope the mods don’t see this as gratuitous advertising.
Esprix
Everything’s gay with you, isn’t it, 'Sprix?
Isn’t it true that if you lick certain species of frogs, you get hallucinations? Maybe that’s it.
Robin
[hijack]
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]
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!!!
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.
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.
/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
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!
Back when kids played with the Little People we didn’t have school shootings.
Clearly there’s a connection.
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.
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!
<ahem>
Sorry.
Esprix
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?
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.
Yes, and Eddie drives an SUV, so is clearly evil.
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!!
And there goes the coffee…all over the keyboard.
jarbaby
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.