curious georgeThere is something wrong with Curious George. Actually, I blame his caregiver – The Man With The Yellow Hat (TMWTYH).

Here we have an obviously untrained monkey who’s left alone for hours a day, free to roam the house and anywhere else he chooses. Of course he gets into mischief! It’s no wonder a gang hasn’t adopted him and set him up for a life of crime. But does TMWTYH care? Does he even notice?

TMWTYH leaves with a smile and says, “Stay out of trouble, George.” And when he comes back to chaos, he just smiles and acts like nothing’s a big deal – not the hamburgers George made out of dirt and substituted for real ones which almost drives a chef out of business; not the mountain of dirt in a pond that George deposited with a huge dump truck certainly leading to dead aquatic wildlife; not the train schedule board that George messes up causing chaos in a busy station. None of it makes TMWTYH stop and think:

Hmmm, maybe I should hire a babysitter for George.

Or better yet:

Hmmm, maybe a monkey really doesn’t make a good autonomous pet.

Stephen thinks George is hilarious and is just “very curious.” But I think George is an utterly annoying, badly behaved role model and should be banned!

What do you think of Curious George and TMWTYH?

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