Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 26, 2023

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    Sugar Bombs 95  almost 2 years ago

    Candy Land has kind of a sad backstory.

    It was originally made in 1948 to be played by hospitalized children suffering from polio, and the whole reason it has such a sweet and saccharine aesthetic is because those ill children needed some kind of escapism.

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    codycab  almost 2 years ago

    Don’t get them started on Monopoly.

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    Averagemoe  almost 2 years ago

    https://youtu.be/l-3fLLvqjvg?t=1056

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    Antiyonder  almost 2 years ago

    So Peanut Brittle House is filled with bad fudge?

    Also yeah I’m going to be 41 next month and I learned about gentrification only cause I saw it being the basis for the MGaDD episode Like Mother, Like Moon Girl.

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    jerrica.benton333  almost 2 years ago

    what if we are really just trapped in an intense game of candyland, and everything we see and hear and experience is just our imaginations of what candyland is like.

    …like wouldnt that be a trip, man?

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    Jungle Empress  almost 2 years ago

    Candyland. ❤

    I’m getting Charlie the Unicorn vibes, though, LOL. You ever been to Candy Mountain, Marigold?

    Or you could try visiting the land of Monopoly? It’ll be fun, I promise!

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    iggyman  almost 2 years ago

    Marigold, what would you know about plumbing in the Peanut Brittle House? Putting it gently don’t you do your “business” outdoors ?!

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    Johnnyrico  almost 2 years ago

    “Gentrified”? Sounds like the opposite to me… Candyland is turning into a dump, not the other way around…?

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    Silenced Victim Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    So, Marigold, by “gentrified” you mean the inhabitants decided to keep the forest clean and become friendlier to visitors, newcomers, and each other? Peppermint Forest is part of Candy Land, so it should be friendly.

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    Wichita1.0  almost 2 years ago

    And then there’s Muncie…

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    CaveCat87  almost 2 years ago

    I just realized, in “Calvin and Hobbes”, they’ve played Monopoly, but I’m actually kinda surprised that they never played Candyland. I wonder how Calvin would react to that?

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    spamjtam  almost 2 years ago

    maybe candyland was actually created by world-faring unicorns?

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    willie_mctell  almost 2 years ago

    Frostina is a tyrant.

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    Decepticomic  almost 2 years ago

    Every place sucks to be.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  almost 2 years ago

    Remember: No matter where you go, there you are.

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    DonCoyote®  almost 2 years ago

    Come to Candy Mountain, Charlie!!! …………. Oh Charlie!!!

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 2 years ago

    How would Marigold critique Monopoly or Life?

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    josh_bisbee  almost 2 years ago

    I hate that Queen Frostine, husband of King Candy and mother of Princess Lollipop, has been reconned.

    She’s now Princess Frostine, elder daughter of King Candy and Princess Lolipop’s older sister

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