YMS: This animation would fucking terrify me if I was a child. While the main moral the scene wanted to show was that bullying can be resolved without resorting to violence, the message instead comes off as saying that adults and authority figures won't intervene when you're being bullied and that it's easier to just take matters into your own hands.

And when Butch eventually returns, they sit back and do nothing again, with Butch only leaving after Cool Cat and Maria yell at him. During the sandpit scene, Vivica Fox and Erik Estrada note And Cool Cat's parents in the original book clearly see Butch tormenting Cool Cat and Maria (this scene is happening in a backyard rather than a public place, meaning Butch is also trespassing onto private property), but they don't intervene until Butch kicks sand in Cool Cat's face, and Butch is already gone by the time they come over.

Accidental Aesop: A rare family-unfriendly variety.Acceptable Targets: Derek seems to view overweight people like this since Butch in both the book and the movie is the only character on the chubby side, while Cool Cat has at least two scenes dedicated entirely to him exercising.

That kid kicked sand in cool cat