Even the song I'm Just A Rag Dolly, one of the two songs reprised from the movie, had been given new lyrics and had gone from being a friendly welcoming song to a song about feeling lost and hopeless. Darker and Edgier: The 1984 stage musical Rag Dolly (with Ivy Austin as Raggedy Ann) was initially going to be based on the animated movie, but ended up as a much darker take on the story, featuring Marcella as a dying girl with a mother who abandoned her and a father who's an alcoholic, and the fear of death is a prominent theme.While her portrayal was mostly positive with some subtler racist elements, her blatant blackface design makes the character ten times more uncomfortable, and modern editions of the books make no attempts to keep in. Blackface-Style Caricature: one of the toys is a mammy doll, Beloved Belindy.The same goes for the black maid Dinah, who was rather racist in portrayal, and most modern reprints of the story she appears give a warning to parents to read the story first to see if it's appropriate for their child to read. Bowdlerise: While her portrayal was positive, you'll never see the mammy doll, Beloved Belindy, in modern printings.Ann and Andy break the fourth wall and call upon the audience to use The Power of Love to fix everything. Audience Participation: In the Christmas special, the Big Bad Wolf and all of Santa's toys became trapped in an unbreakable substance.Although, in a case of Older Than They Think, at least some of the weird and trippy elements are taken from the books! It was made at the end of the 1970s and is seriously weird and trippy.
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