A show which was invented not by environmentalists and politicians as typically thought, but rather corporate polluters and the government to convince children that
pollution is the result of a group of dumb,
grotesque individual
outcasts who do it for no purpose at all, rather than the result of the monetary interests of corporations.
Boy: Those evildoers are releasing
pollution into the water. Boy, they had better watch out for
Captain Planet.
Man: It's not evildoers, it's the local
oil business. And Captain Planet is fictional.