day shall come again

soo i've always thought the grunt-smith feud was fascinating both thematically and aesthetically. on the surface it seems like "xenophobic guy grooms his family and the rest of the world into hating aliens because racist" and yes that's Part of it but it goes deeper imo...... it doesn't perfectly resemble any IRL phenomenon because Buzzy Bee's a little right i mean the aliens DO abduct and implant parasites into people!! but it doesn't mean he should persecute every green person he sees (which isn't technically canon but a very popular fanon that i semi-adopt 🙂‍↕️). my take on it is that the whole conflict is quite morally gray and there's no good or bad side. pt9's got some closeted skeletons of his own as we know...

and then Aesthetically...woaw. both have this retro theme going on and i LOVE ITTT the smiths are very 20th century nuclear family while the grunts are a very Cold War military household, you could say. the smiths have this picturesque cape cod home, green lawn & white picket fences, and the grunts have that dull midcentury colonial home with an obstacle course and observatory tower in the back. so my idea was how about we #suburbiamaxx by making them that idea of "Arguing with your neighbor over the fence" sorta thang. except the fence between them is pretty tall in this because they don't want to see each other jhfkskhlhgjs