These days, I figure the Beano and Dandy are a terrible type of kids propaganda...by showing characters exhibiting "naughty" behaviour while also doing things such as turning invisible or powering a balloon on methane, the authors create a subconscious implication that both the ridiculous behaviour and the "naughty" behaviour are as impossible as each other.

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That sounds like a very British tactic. Though dated.

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