Let's not forget that unfortunate Spongebob scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNsWbK4OkZw

Both boomer and gen-z pearlclutchers seem to be equally oblivious in their own ways to the fact that language changes.

Pretty sure 75 years is prior to the other three existing, so Thomas & Friends has technically gone longer without dropping an N-bomb.

Context: https://www.scribd.com/document/899239966/Henry-the-Green-Engine-1951-Scanned-by-ThatERTLGuy#page=64 page 60 of the book, 64 of the document.

Written version in case someone doesn't want to click on random links:

The Guard's flag waved, his whistle blew, and they were off. Soon in the distance they saw the bridge. There were the boys and they all had stones. "Are you ready, Henry?" said this Driver. "Sneeze hard when I tell you." "Now!" he said, and turned the handle. "Atisha Atisha Atishooooooh!" Smoke and steam and ashes spouted from his funnel. They went all over the bridge, and all over the boys who ran away as black as ####.

All this means is that the Thomas franchise has existed long enough to be publishing books since when that word was still in common parlance. I'm sure if you looked at anything from that era, it wouldn't take long to find something that appears problematic through a modern lens.

So, are George Carlin and Ringo Starr racists?! /s

Don't even get started with Tintin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTxww_AIsI