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We are all the Te Xuan Ze now. We see the collapse. We see the magical chaos of politics, climate, and economy swirling around us. We fight invisible battles every day just to keep the "veil" of normalcy intact for our families. And nobody thanks us. Nobody even sees us.

On the surface, this is a gag. But at its core, Juniper Lee is the most brutally honest depiction of ever aired on Saturday mornings. The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee S... BETTER

Think about it. June is constantly exhausted. She misses birthday parties. She ruins her school projects because she had to stop a gnome uprising. She has the weight of cosmic responsibility on her shoulders, but she still has to do her math homework. She is the walking definition of "high-functioning depression" in a backpack. We are all the Te Xuan Ze now

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005–2007). We fight invisible battles every day just to

We talk a lot about the "Cartoon Cartoon Renaissance." The unholy trinity of Powerpuff Girls , Johnny Bravo , and Dexter’s Laboratory . The existential dread of Courage the Cowardly Dog . The ADHD bliss of Ed, Edd n Eddy . But nestled in the mid-2000s, right between the death of the original Cartoon Cartoon era and the rise of the Chowder/Flapjack weirdness, sits a ghost.

So here’s to you, June. You were tired. You were messy. Your hair was always a little too big for your head. But you kept the monsters at bay.

But here is the kicker: Nobody can know. When June fights a troll under a bridge, to the outside world, it looks like she’s having a seizure. When she banishes a demon from the mall, her grandma tells the cops she’s “just gassy.”