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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 77 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A lot of cartoonists have pointed out that most alien races are drawn with the males looking completely alien, and the females looking like hot human women with some makeup.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 29 points 3 days ago

Thanks. They have another one along the same lines.

I remember seeing a Tarzan satire where the hero finds a lost city in the middle of the jungle.

All the men look like apes and all the women are beautiful.

The heroes ask each other how this could be.

There's a note at the bottom of the panel, 'It's because it's easier to draw monkeys than people, but more fun to draw beautiful women

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

As has been mentioned previously, the same network censors who would have lost their minds if Kirk kissed Uhura [much less Sulu] were fine with a white guy necking with a green hottie.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/LiveActionTV

All the Star Trek entries are hilarious:

Back in The '60s, U.S. TV networks, particularly NBC, wouldn't allow women to show their belly buttons, most famously affecting Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie. In the original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror", Uhura's mirror outfit included a bare midriff and her navel is visible in several shots. The producers achieved this simply by having someone take the Standards guy out to lunch and lowering the bottom half of her costume while he was gone. The shots with her bare navel were edited into the episodes and evidently no one caught it.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“If” isn’t the right word, since Kirk famously did kiss Uhura. But yes, the censors were against it. The scene was filmed both with and without the kiss, so the actors “accidentally” ruined every take that didn’t include it.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

I checked with an English major and they told me that "if" is perfectly cromulent.