A psychological researcher back in 1983: You know how kids use the people around them as role models? Look up to them, admire them, maybe even feel some latent attraction to a few of them…innocent crushes, that kind of thing?
A psychological researcher back in 1983: What if we took an entire generation of children, and inundated them with images of talking animals during their key developmental years.
A psychological researcher back in 1983: Made talking animals feature in every TV show, movie, toy, and ad directed at an entire generation of children.
A psychological researcher back in 1983: Just…completely swamped these kids’ brains with images of talking animals, so their role models were like cats and dogs and turtles and shit?
A psychological researcher back in 1983: I wonder what would happen to them.