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I didn't hate this show as much as others did or do but that's because, as crazy and unbelievable as this is going to sound, I completely missed the environmental messages each episode bludgeoned into our heads when I was a kid. I just saw the show as five kids with super powered rings fighting bad people and always needing Captain Planet's help after a certain point. The only exception were the Planeteer Alerts at the very end.

It wasn't until the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the show many years later that I realized that the entire show was drowning in "Save the trees!" and "Anyone who doesn't recycle is the damn Devil!" messages. It was actually hilarious to realize just how oblivious I was to the obvious. I also looked up some episodes online to give them a watch and... yeah the show kind of doesn't hold up. Again, I don't hate it but I don't like it nearly as much as I did as a kid.

But hey! At least we still have that end credits song AND a few really funny parodies!

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Also, Wheeler is totally the inspiration for the American dubbing and name change of Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh!