re: Quiet On Set: Nickelodeon Documentary

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He wrote and produced scenes, to be acted out by kids, that were sexual in nature. The sexual nature of those scenes went over the heads of young kids, so what audience was he writing to? Who was he trying to entertain with showing a teenaged girl getting sticky stuff squirted on her face? Even though he hasn't been accused (yet) of raping a kid, I think he can stil be called a predator.

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He had multiple shows that spanned decades. The fact that they pulled a few scenes where it could be surmised that it was to mimic a sexual situation is speculation. Even the female writer that hated Dan said the scenes were never pitched as a sexual innuendo but just as something funny. Kids like slap stick comedy. Sticky stuff being sprayed in someone's face is funny. You know what else kids think is funny? Feet. My 4 year old daughter loves to joke about her stinky toes. Does that mean that someone in my family has a foot fetish? Should someone have said "hey this looks to explicit and should be cut"? Sure. But to say because they sprayed stuff in a kids faces and made feet jokes to get laughs means he molests children is disingenuous.

If Dan was a child predator, then they would have accused him of actually touching kids. They didn't. Hell Drake Bell said that Dan was the only one on his side once they arrested Peck. I would think a child molester would try to protect the other child molester in fear of a wider investigation.

I hate that yall are making me defend this guy. He was a shitty person. He just wasn't in the same league of shitty people as a guy who fricked Drake Bell in the arse repeatedly. But this doc lumped them all together like it was equal offenses.