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Jamie's School Dinners: An Insight Into Eating Disorders

If any parents were as grizzly as the main character's parents of this Grizzly Tales story, they'd probably need some therapeutic training and experimentation on their hands. But through my lens, this story, titled 'Jamie's School Dinners', is not cited as a cautionary tale for 'lovers of Squeam' as promised, but a warning about ignoring the needs and habits of a child with an eating disorder, like Jamie. This essay will give you a better understanding of the themes portrayed rather negatively in the episode.

The story starts by introducing Jamie and his habit of eating chicken nuggets every day, day in, day out, and goes on to explain that his parents gave him their brains so he can know more, thus making them careless enough to refuse to understand their son's needs and habits, and only force him to eat greasy plates of meat and lard. Even temptation to eat healthy things from the new head teacher at his school goes awry, thus showcasing his dislike for healthy, balanced food.

However, the arrival of the main villain, an evil dinner lady, makes Jamie's experience with everyone around him neglecting his eating disorder worse, as she keeps force feeding him, leading to endless teasing and days and days of ignorance and refusal. As the days fly by, Jamie's experience with being force fed gets worse and worse, from getting morbidly obese to developing worse acne on his face.

All these side effects of Jamie's mistreatment represent those a child with an eating disorder thinks he or she loves not giving them the healthy, balanced diet they wanted, and only giving them big portions instead of one little portion a day. If you give a child big platefuls of meat, or one of the same food, they might think it's a healthy, balanced diet, and might demand more. The theme of greed is present in every Grizzly Tales story, so this one takes its main character's bad eating habits - or, disorder as we call it these days - waaaaaaaaaaaay too far.

This is documented near the story's shocking climax, where the wicked villain plants a time bomb in Tom's abdomen and lures him back to her rustic kitchen lair, where she uses him as an ingredient for her cooking show which a family of trolls from hell watch fiercely.

The shocking twist might thrill and gross out kids watching, but can also warn parents about what might happen if they ignore the needs, habits and preferences of their eating disorder-diagnosed kids, and encourages them in a sinister manner to balance their one favourite food with food they've never tried before, such as rice, bananas, beans, veggies, fruits and other healthy food, which is what's needed to build a healthy, growing body.

It also encourages them in a startling, sloppy manner to give their kids 5 minutes of exercise a day, not a lot, because it may hurt their bodies. Too much exercise for unfit people can tear their muscles and cause endless, daily stitches which may need bucketloads of Voltarol.

Good job, Honeycomb Animation. Maybe if you sold Grizzly Tales to the USA, you'd use this episode to teach about America's confrontation with their parents' worries about their kids' obsession with pigging out on junk food while watching Spongebob all day.

Teen Titans Go airing all the time on Cartoon Network is getting a bit boring, right, Honeycomb?

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