Choose a TV commercial (containing questionable logic) to record. Break the commercial down frame by frame and examine its logic/illogic. Write an essay that discusses why the commercial is successful, despite its faulty logic. What does this imply about our cultural values?
When I was little my big brother and I watched Heman. Heman ruled. Heman dated a girl called Shera who also ruled in her own girl way meaning that she was big and strong like her man Heman but couldn't kick his butt. My big brother really dug Shera and his friends called him gay because of it. I really don't think it was a gay thing to like her but his friends said Shera looked too much like a man to be liked by a real man even though she wore a bikini that was made of iron or steel. Also Heman liked her and he wasn't gay so if my brother was then Heman was too and Heman definitely wasn't gay. They would have named him Gayman if he was but he definitely wasn't. But Heman is who had the power of Grayskull and that is what this essay will talk about.
The show always begins with the same start as all TV shows do that we all know and can remember for ourselves. The Cosby Show changed their beginning all the time and that was what it was known for. Other shows that changed their beginnings are not coming to mind but there were a lot. Heman never that I can recall. This is an important aspect of the show and the logic of Heman.
Where I will begin is with Cringer who was Heman's cat and where the faulty logic can be seen. I watched this beginning over and over. It starts with Heman and his sword and he holds it up to lightning saying "with the power of Grayskull" to make the two characters transform into great warriors. But Cringer doesn't want to. You can tell because he shies away from Heman when he starts getting all loud with his sword waving it around and being bossy. He is supposed to be his faithful cat, pet, and war friend, but in reality Cringer isn't so loyal after all when it is said and done. Watch it yourself and you see how the cat is a coward and doesn't want to be fighting with Heman. He is not ready for the change and starts backing away and hiding and shaking under his cat shield and cat arms and armor. Heman is all about teaching bravery and fighting and how to start wars by morphing into a battleman but the bottom line is that Cringer is afraid to morph into battle cat and who can blame him? I can't. Can you?
In conclusion, what does this imply about our cultural values? It implies that even the shows you always knew you were watching because they were about fighting and war were not really about that because the heroes were cowardly, especially the cat Heman called Battlecat. Heman should have called him Tattlecat. He'd probably get mad at that and to that he'd call Heman back Gayman. This also implies about our cultural values that even though we like war noone wants to go, especially gays. Noone likes cowards when it comes to war. Look at us now in our war.