Jenny Slate

I mean, when he sings be prepared, that is those, those are literally goose stepping.

Yeah.

Yeah, because, you know, there's also the thing about the fairy tale, and I would include, you know, the Lion King in that, is that, like, the thing that can be hard in adulthood is that you can feel that a fairy tale only functions as something to, like, a warning or a disappointment, because it's like, wait, but, like, the Jafar of my life didn't get stopped.

The Scar of my life didn't, of my country, like, didn't get thrown off the cliff or whatever.

Yeah.

Like, they're sitting on the chair.

They're sitting on the throne, whatever, but...

I think that that can actually be a distraction from the other thing about fairy tales or archetypes, which is like they're a template for us to compare ourselves to.

They're not just like an outcome or sort of an immature, shallow warning.

It's like there's...

They're really useful.

They're really, really useful because you don't get so scared about like having to really think about your own life.

You know, you don't short circuit or get overwhelmed.

But if you place it outside of yourself and you look, then you're like, oh, I guess I do see a lot of stuff.

I do see a lot of similarities.

And then you have to do the more difficult work of figuring out how to turn in a new direction.

Yeah.

But if you do turn in a new direction, you shouldn't go in a big yellow and black bumblebee carriage.

And even if you do that, don't get out of the fucking carriage, man.

Stay inside.