Talk:Calimero

Two girlfriends?!

So basically Valeriano has two girlfriends?! The Calimero is Amish then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.82.31.211 (talk • contribs) at 22:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

No, Calimero is basically bisex, and doesn't disdain coprophagy. (fixed) PizzaMargherita 23:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Racist undertones? Project much?

A not-very-subtle racist undertone is evident from watching the original series of advertisements, which aired in Italy in the sixties Calimero hatches later than his siblings and immediately falls into a mud puddle, which turns him black. When he finds his mother, he asks her "Are you my mom?" She replies, "No, I don't have any black children." He says, "But would you love me if I were white?" She clucks, "Si, certo! (Of course!)"

Calimero is the hero of the series, people! Viewers are supposed to identify with him, so, even if we take the p.c. koolaid drinkers claim of the... black chicken as signifier for black man, children in this case are encouraged to identify with oppressed minorities, not reject them. How is that racist?

Having not seen the show, I can only comment on what's actually written here. Nobody has accused the series itself of being racist. The comment refers only to the advertisements from which Calimero originates. The ads have the notion of blackness arising from dirt being indistinguishable from blackness as a racial characteristic (and yes, I do realise we're talking about anthropomorphic birds here), plus the added idea that blackness is undesirable. I might be doing the advertisers a disservice here, since there may be subtleties that are lost in the translation, but you can't deny that if an ad like this aired today, it would raise some eyebrows.

Whatever the case, the section in question could benefit from being re-worded, although I'd sooner defer to an expert. Ultimately, describing something as 'racist' is a judgement call that Wikipedia probably shouldn't be making without citations. So while I'd agree that the ads were probably both racially insensitive and a product of their time, we should try to avoid commentary. Dooky (talk) 12:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0Ij1GpdS4 at 1min in...:: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.55 (talk) 21:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Delete

I don't know. I think it's too short and there're no refs, so ¡ADIOS! Railer-man (talk) 00:25, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Chicken/Chick

Calimero is a Chick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.79.56.39 (talk) 15:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Where does his name come from? Does it come from "kalimera", the Greek for "good morning"? There could be a few Greek immigrans in Italy, so this could be a bilingual joke? PatGallacher (talk) 21:17, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Influence in popular culture

I'd like to know what is wrong about mentioning that some rock bands have written songs about the Calimero character. Jotamar (talk) 15:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

No answer in 40 days, so I recover the deleted contents. --Jotamar (talk) 17:21, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

I've remove it again as it is trivia. "One Week" is not mentioned in Sailor Moon nor is the Sailor Moon reference mentioned in the song's article. —Farix (t | c) 14:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Prequel to Limon and Oli

It has became a prequel to Limon and Oli.--2600:1702:4B28:F760:AD6B:74F4:56A2:9D23 (talk) 21:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)