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Perhaps we’ve all just been too caught up in American Vandal, and now we’re seeing drawings of dicks everywhere we look, but it appears that some animator drew a penis on a log in a Netflix animated children’s series. The plot of American Vandal, of course, involves an intricate mystery over who spray-painted penises on the cars in a high-school parking lot, with the tagline “Who Drew the Dicks” as a handy summary for the series.
“Who drew the dick?” indeed, Netflix.
The offending animated series is Maya the Bee, a seemingly innocent series about “a young bee named Maya who leaves her hive to discover the beauty and mysteries of nature, making new insect friends along the way.” Nowhere in that series description is an indication that the drawing of a penis would be in any way germane to the narrative, so we can only assume that when a drawing of a penis shows up fleetingly on a log in episode 35, it’s the work of a rogue animator.
The UK’s The Mirror picked up on a post from a mom on Facebook who was outraged at the idea that her child would be subject to such lewd drawings. Which is fair enough, though one wonders if the child would have even noticed it if not for the parent.
“I know I’m not going crazy,” the parent allegedly posted, “and I know that something like this shouldn’t be in a kids’ show whatsoever. I’m extremely disgusted by it, there should be no reason my kids have to see something like this. I don’t know if they’re gonna do something about this or what but there’s no reasons why this should be in this show.”
The Facebook account has since been made unavailable, but then again so has the offending episode of Maya the Bee, so if you feel like carrying on your own American Vandal-style investigation, that might be where you’d want to start.
