When I was growing up I loved watching cartoons, I still do, but their power seemed much more intimate when I was younger. I watched all sorts, but I began to notice that an entire sub-genre of cartoons became all the rage when I was growing up. It would take a popular series and re-imagine the characters as either babies or children. I remember thinking that this was rather odd. Perhaps it was my first burst of critical thinking about pop culture.
One example of this sub-genre that I always found particularly weird was the show The Muppet Babies. Imagine the infantilizing of Jim Henson’s brilliant Muppets as diaper clad t0ddlers. Many of my friends enjoyed it, finding it irreverent, but I always found it rather creepy.
In this vein, I imagined what “Star Wars Kids” would’ve been like. It’s Luke Skywalker embellished with a Wiki Commons image of the home world of the irascible Skywalker clan, Tatooine.
In case you’re wondering here’s the Muppet Babies, in all their glory (please note the Star Wars reference at the :16 mark, talk about synergy!):
