15 Times Disney Tackled Serious Subjects And Other Times It Was Terrible

The entertainment industry bears the responsibility of treating serious and important issues with respect, such as mental disorders or cultural diversity, to name a few. This is so because a large part of the understanding of the world is given through the media, so when they are done in the wrong way, it is disrespectful and even false.

Large content producers have been in charge of providing significant moments that, without a doubt, a large number of people remember fondly. That’s why in this list we’re going to take a trip down memory lane, recapping times when Disney did a phenomenal job talking about serious topics. But, on the other hand, we will also mention the times when he has done terrible.

1. Racism in It’s so Raven

In this endearing comedy, an episode was broadcast in which Raven, our magical protagonist, with the help of her best friend, Chelsea, used her wit to exhibit the racist behavior of a department store manager who did not want to hire Raven because of her hair color. skin.

2. The exchange in The Proud family

In the original version of this cartoon, there was an episode where Penny, the eldest daughter of the Proud family, goes on an exchange for an assignment about her experience with a new culture. The interesting thing about the chapter is that the family is Muslim, which makes her discover many interesting things about diversity and customs different from hers.

3. Perspectives on Playtime

Grotke’s mistress Playtime She was always a character well ahead of her time, which is why she is shown in many moments as someone revolutionary. For this reason, there is a chapter in which he does not hesitate to clarify to students that not everything they read in textbooks should be accepted as the only truth, since they are usually written from a single perspective.

4. Homoparental families in Good luck Charlie

For those who believe that ideas about same gender attraction is a contemporary idea, surely they do not remember when in Good luck Charlie Amy invited a friend of her daughter to play, to everyone’s surprise, the little girl is taken by her two moms.

5. Fatphobia in It’s so Raven

Another great moment in this series was when Raven gets the opportunity to model a dress made by herself, but when they show her the result of the photos in the magazine, she realizes that they used photoshop to make her body slimmer. At the end of the chapter we see her fight for her beliefs and appear on the catwalk wearing her design.

6. Eating disorders in Zack and Cody: Twins in Action

London and Maddie, co-stars of the series, dealt with eating problems after participating in a fashion show. The chapter shows us two sides of a coin, on the one hand, London starves herself to lose weight, while Maddie wants to gain weight, so she eats compulsively. The episode concludes with both understanding how dangerous their behavior is and accepting their bodies as they are.

7. Eating disorders in Lizzie McGuire

Miranda, Lizzie’s best friend, opens up to her friends and shares that she has been having negative thoughts, so losing weight becomes her only aspiration. The situation escalates to the point that Miranda faints due to the zero amount of food she was eating, which makes her understand that she was hurting herself by not letting Lizzie and David “Gordo” support her.

8. Gender decision in Lloyd in Space

Well, we have to know what are you, a boy or a girl?

In a chapter of Lloyd in Space, which no one came out to complain about like they do now, Lloyd meets the alien Zoit, whose species has the right to choose their gender when they turn 13. At the end of the episode, Zoit decides that he doesn’t want to tell anyone what gender he identifies with.

9. Machismo in liv and maddie

In a certain chapter of liv and maddie a group of friends create a system where they rate the girls at school based on their looks. Given this, the two protagonists protested against the degrading situation with the help of other affected women.

From this point we will go to the episodes that Disney should never have broadcast and that some were even eliminated.

10. Age difference in Girl Meets World

The moment when Josh, who was in college, told Maya, who was still in high school, that he liked her and was going to wait for her while he was one of the adults responsible for supervising a school trip.

11. Sexist practices in jessie

This series broadcast a horrible chapter in which Luke was in love with his nanny, so he put a camera in his room to spy on her. His friends know it’s wrong, but he continues as if nothing happened. The weirdest thing is that Luke is 12 years old at the time of that episode.

12. More macho practices in ZJack and Cody: Twins in Action

On a certain occasion, one of the many pranks that the pair of twins did ended in an accidental hole in the wall of the hotel. When Zack and Cody realized that through it they could spy on the girls’ soccer team, they decided to dig more holes and invite friends to watch.

13. Stalker in Zack and Cody: Twins in Action

Arwin, the maintenance guy at the Tipton Hotel, had a crush with the mother of the twins, so in a certain episode he shows them that he has a life-size cardboard cutout of her, which he uses to practice asking her out. However, the tone of the situation does not make it entirely clear that she does only that, since the strangeness is exaggerated.

14. Eating disorders in In full swing

After a wake-up call from Demi Lovato to Disney, precisely for disrespectfully addressing issues of eating disorders, the chain removed a chapter from In full swing in which a model made a joke about said disorder.

fifteen. Bullying in jessie

The Ross children are shown in a certain chapter attacking a child who has a gluten allergy, together they decide to throw bread at him and make fun of the situation. Faced with negative reviews, they pulled the episode.