{"id":2225,"date":"2010-09-29T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:07:53","slug":"no-more-zoos-no-more-cages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"“No More Zoos, No More Cages…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zoo Animals on Wheels from the TV show Get A Life<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Elliot was one of those comedians who a bit ahead of his time and because of that, very few remember his ridiculously silly feature projects like the movie Cabin Boy<\/em> and his short-lived TV show Get A Life<\/a><\/em>. Cabin Boy is one of the few movies I can enjoy through repeated viewings (Fancy lad! Sharky!). Many were disappointed when Fox canceled his Get A Life<\/em> show in the early 90s.<\/p>\n

I happened across this clip from the show Get A Life<\/em> which features an anti-zoo message presented in musical comedy form. It was a timely discovery. Just recently, I was talking to a friend about our mutual dislike for zoos. What a horrible thing, we opined, to take a living creature from it’s environment and lock it up behind steel bars. Neither do I care much for the more “humane” enclosures which are nothing but a pitiful simulacrum of the animals’ natural surroundings.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny though, we both conceded we quite enjoyed zoos as children.\u00c2\u00a0 Nostalgic feelings aside, this Waiting-for-Guffman-ish musical theater spoof\u00c2\u00a0 should be de rigueur for all future forms of political critique.<\/p>\n

Sing-a-long lyrics:
\nLiving in a zoo can be very sad
\nPeople stare at you and make you mad
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u017dOh how I wonder what they would do,
\nif animals stared at them like they were in a zoo
\nHow do you like it when we stare at you?
\nIt doesn’t feel good now isn’t that true?<\/em><\/p>\n

Previous anti-zoo musings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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