Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Newport.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and please welcome to the stage, it's Anna Czazinski, James Harkin.
And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, James Harkin.
Okay, my fact this week is that grumpy from the seven dwarfs is not nearly grumpy enough.
Sounds like an opinion.
It is an opinion, I'd say.
It's the opinion of some researchers from Duke University in North Carolina,
and what they did is they looked at a load of movies that are aimed at children, so they would be rated U in the UK.
They split all the characters up in class, so you have your upper class, your middle class, and your lower class,
and they decided that the depiction of working class was unrealistic and
that the seven dwarfs would not be singing cheerfully as they walked down to the mine.
So, James, who were the scientists?
Yeah, they were just people at Duke University in North Carolina.
To be honest, they are, you know, they're cartoons, aren't they?
You don't really expect them to be all that kind of realistic, but scientists don't like it when you get things wrong.
In the Lion King, they're hyenas in the Lion King, the bad guys,
and some of the artists for the film spent two days observing hyenas in the hills above the campus of where they were.
And the scientists who were with them said, look, hyenas are good guys, don't depict them as idiots,