I love Skipper's writeup of Maurice here. It shows that even the rest of the animals notice how much Maurice cares about Julien, even despite all of KJ's crazy antics.
So last night I had a dream that someone found out that the Madagascar lemurs were based on ancient gods - and it was like a historian on Tiktoc that was giving the story. She was like doing a doctoral research project on this one “dead” religion and realized that the Madagascar Lemurs were based around this religion.
And it all centered around who Maurice was gonna marry - Maurice was like a fertility god of sorts.
ANYWAY so mort and Julian both wanted Maurice’s hand in marriage but he was giving to Julian - to give balance. A cycle of death and rebirth - to keep the world balanced.
Julian was the god of death, and mort was the god of greed. And no one wanted the god of greed to have a union with the god of fertility.
So ANYWAY mort swore revenge and was secretly planing to eat the king and capture Maurice to hold for himself
But in meantime he would pretend to worship and adore Julian.
Anyway so the writers admitted that they were practitioners of this religion - and the news media was going crazy because suddenly a whole bunch of kids and teens were starting to say they were part of this religion. And turns out it was NOT dead but like just quite. And there were even hymns retelling the story of how Mort ate king Julian.
And someone said what was wrong with the world now was the union between mort and Maurice had resulted in it being a cycle of Production and Consumption. So basically corporate greed is because Mort is greed and is holding Maurice.
So instead of death and rebirth, it’s production and consumption. And so mort with a 🚫 over him had become the new “down with capitalism” slogan.