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   The Bravest Knight is not only a woke cartoon; it’s so woke that it’s hilariously bad.

   Sir Cedric, “Dad”, is a white man and a brave knight who used to be a pumpkin farmer. He is happily, homosexually, and interracially married to the slightly browner and slightly incompetent Prince Andrew, who goes by “Papa”. Their daughter Nia is a black girl with natty pigtails who bears no resemblance to either father. Cedric is training her to become a knight, and not even a “princess knight”. Mia is very smug and is always getting ahead of herself, which is why Sir Cedric has to tell her stories about his childhood when he was a not-yet-knight, traveling across the kingdom to defeat a dragon. Putting a interracial homosexual couple right on the cover of a children’s show is already an automatic zero on my woke-meter, and it should serve as a clear indicator that woke is the main focus of this series.

   Everyone featured in Cedric flashbacks is an awkwardly diverse mix of white, brown, and black (yet ethnically neutral) people who all live in the same stereotypical fairy tale land. The “diversity” is blatant to the level of ludicrous. The intro song sings that being brave is about being the person you want to be. The show repeatedly says people can be whoever they want to be and determine their own destiny, usually after a character insincerely expresses doubt that they are who they are and are incapable of improvement or changing themselves for the better. The backgrounds look like a classic storybook, but the character designs and animation look cheap, lazy, and anachronistically modern. The stories are meant to teach moral lessons, but the writing is terrible, and the performances aren’t very good, either. The characters don’t even take their own roles in the story seriously. They intentionally behave naively, silly, rudely, or subversively just to make a point. The stories often have to be interrupted to include woke virtue signaling, even though it makes absolutely no sense to do so. Normally, I’d be offended, but they’re so clownish and clumsy about it that I can’t help but point and laugh at how utterly dumb and ridiculous it is to be so woke.

   Cedric’s traveling companion is a troll named Grunt. Trolls are mischievous and Grunt often does stupid things, but excuses are frequently made for them because Grunt is Cedric’s friend. In the second episode, Cedric makes friends with a girl troll named Susie. Susie is knocking her stick under the bleachers so the spectators will drop coins that she can collect and give to the ticket keeper, who turned her away because she’s a troll. Cedric asks if this is stealing. Susie says trolls don’t steal, they “trade”, but Grunt says it’s a “gray area”.

   Cedric gets bested in a jousting tournament by a black girl and says he learned a lot from losing, but the show doesn’t specify what he learned from her other than that she trained herself to be the best, ignoring the fact that Cedric was a beginner who never jousted before to begin with.

   The fourth episode is supposed to be about generosity. The story told is about a giant whose greed (and blind stupidity) enables Cedric to escape from captivity, but doesn’t actually prove any point about why it’s good to be generous to others. Being greedy is stupid, so therefore, freely giving away money and gardening tools to strangers in the marketplace makes you a good person. Nobody ever said that virtue-signaling was logical.

   In the fifth episode, Cedric rescues a fairy, and the adult, male fairy who invites him into his home is named Lucy. When Cedric asks if Lucy is a girl’s name, the fairy replies, unironically, “Names belong to people, not genders”. Lucy uses a sleeping potion to steal all of Cedric’s berries without asking, and it’s considered justified because the fairies can’t search for food with a bear lurking around the woods. The bear is eating all the berries because someone dammed the river so the bear can’t get any fish, and no one thought to investigate the source of this problem before Cedric got involved. The moral of the story is that you’re supposed to help people even if they wrong you, and you should forgive people for acting stupidly if they do something silly to make up for it later.

   In the sixth episode, Grunt sneaks underwater into a dark castle and unlocks a tiny troll door, allowing Cedric to gain entry easily. Despite the fact that the troll door helped them get inside, Grunt resents it as a sign that trolls are treated as lower-class and says that when he gets his own castle, there will only be one door for everybody. He also resents using a troll exit, even though the secret slide is fun and enables them to escape the castle quickly. Cedric says he won’t include any slides in his castle because being prideful about class and virtue-signaling about equality is more important than fun or convenience. The moral of the story is that learning to swim is a crucial skill, but Cedric decides to skip Nia’s swimming lesson anyway.

   In the tenth episode, Cedric rescues a town from the Big Bad Wolf, Stanley. The wolf is male, but he wears a blonde wig and feminine clothes. No explanation is given for why he crossdresses. The reason why the wolf blows down houses is equally nonsensical; he’s innocent and just wants to make friends, so he blows at the houses and they fall down because they’re built too weak. Nobody strengthens the houses even though the suggestion is offered, and Stanley gets a new job as a leaf blower. Somehow, this is supposed to teach a moral about not being prejudiced.

   Even ogres are dumb and woke. Grunt pretends he’s an ogre to rescue Cedric, but the male ogres don’t buy it. The female ogre lectures him about making people feel bad because of their physical differences, but the second male ogre confirms that Grunt is a troll and not an ogre. Once tied up, Cedric and Grunt ask if the ogres are going to eat them. The ogres admit that they’re actually vegan.

   Cedric visits a fairy tale jail. The guard at the door is a woman in a wooden wheelchair who says, in virtue-signaling fashion, that while the prisoners have all done bad things, that doesn’t make them villains and suggests that they might become heroes someday. A witch gets released and claims she’s changed her ways while in jail without any explanation as to why she did. Her thief companion accompanies Cedric, but betrays them purely by instinct and laments that she’ll never be anything other than a thief. Cue yet another lecture about how you can be anything you want to be if you just believe in yourself.

   In summation, this show is pure brain rot. It’s a fine example of how, when storytelling goes woke, people lose the ability to think critically and become wired to blindly spout nonsense, even when they really do know better. Woke ideology sucks all the fun, joy, and logic out of everything it’s forced into. Forget this show exists. You won’t be missing anything.

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