Standardized testing has always been a villian to some, and now it's in black and white - or, rather, in animated pixels. As the New York Times reports, the No. 2 Pencil is part of the institutionalized-racism collective of super-villians on Adult Swim's new cartoon, Minoriteam:
They don't leap tall buildings in a single bound or scale skyscrapers. They don't transform into not-so-jolly green giants or zoom around in tricked-out sportsmobiles. Instead, Minoriteam — a motley band of minority superheroes — uses stereotypes to fight their archenemy: racism...The multiethnic crew battles a gang of villains including the sniveling Corporate Ladder (an anthropomorphized ladder with a cape and a pipe), Racist Frankenstein (a bigoted monster) and Standardized Test, whose head is shaped like a No. 2 pencil and whose body resembles a Scantron test.
Oh yeah. I'm all about that. I've been trying to find a screenshot online but haven't seen one yet. Please send one if you find it!
Posted by kswygert at March 20, 2006 07:07 PM