Australians are a morbid bunch
Australian television and radio station ABC is kinda weird. Its environmental awareness webpage, Planet Slayer, features cartoons about Greena the Worrier (I guess she's worrying about the planet?) Princess, who cavorts around town with dog Schpinkee, encountering egregious environmental offenses and putting herself in harm's way to make them right.
Upon first glance, the site appears to be for kids, but this isn't necessarily true. The cartoons are pretty creepy (in one episode, she is buried alive by killer vegetables) and Greena herself isn't exactly G-rated: she sports a midriff-baring top, a nose ring and a spike through one earlobe.
Other weirdness? The episodes don't really end happily, which is realistic but seems kind of sudden in the context of the already-short cartoons. The whole thing plays like a great idea that suddenly lost funding halfway through the project.
But the creepiest part of the site, hands down, has to be the "greenhouse calculator," which greets you with a graphic of Schpinkee the dog-cum-professor, pointing to a sign that reads "find out when you should die!" Just go to the site to get the full effect.
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