This week I was watching Spongebob Squarepants on Nickelodeon. On the episode "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve" Spongebob takes on the woman role wife and mother when him and Patrick decide to parent a lost baby oyster. As "mother", Spongebob plays the sterotypical role of washing clothes, cooking breakfast, watching the baby, and cleaning the house. He pratically worked himself to death taking care of the home and the baby, while Patrick, the typical male, goes off to work and comes home expecting dinner on the table and watching television. Patrick does not help with the baby at all. They continue these roles until the baby gets old enough and flies away. Patrick being a typical male wants another baby, and Spongebob looks at him like he is crazy because he did not help at all. I think this is a good example of cartoon characters playing male and female roles.
Link: http://www.nick.com/turbonick/?extvideoid=106815 (the second part of the full episode)
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