Boomerang will edit 'Tom and Jerry'

ArcaMax Publishing ^ | August 22, 2006 | UPI

[Old Professer]

Why bother to rewrite history when it's so much easier to erase it?

[attackcartoons]

Does anybody remember the "Three bears" cartoons? You had anrgy dwarf Pa, passive agressive Ma, and semi retarded giant baby. They were directed by Chuck Jones in the early 50's. Basicly eight minutes of wife beating and child abuse.

I worked at Warner animation about ten years back. And would spend lunch in the lobby hanging out with the receptionist named cindy. I was there when she got a call from a distraught mother somewhere in the midwest. Seems her toddler had seen an unedited copy, and was now crying hystericaly. She spent twenty minutes explaining that the company couldn't fire all the people involved because they were all dead now.

The bear toons were pulled from circulation. I doubt they'll ever see broadcast again.

[longtermmemmory]

however cross dressing is allowed....

next they will edit out cartoon violence...

[freepatriot32]

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[HungarianGypsy]

Maybe we should start a letter writing campaign? A few years back when the Speedy cartoons were pulled for not being politically correct, they were put back on after a lot of viewers complained.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Can editing Pepe Le Pew be far behind? I mean, his odor is much more offensive than the odor of cartoon smoke. *Rolleyes*

[at bay]

This whole thing is ridiculous, especially if you have the special knowledge (denial) that smoking is basically harmless! God I share your concern over Pepe's fate!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

these shows represent the only original thinking i see on television.

Unfortunately, this is an indictment of the nature of tv, not any redeeming quality at all about the specified cartoons. They suck.

I recorded a "June Bugs" weekend from Cartoon Network. Part of the commercial lineup is a clip from some stupid show called "Adult Swim". Boy in his underwear threatening his brother that he's going to call their mom and tattle because the other boy accidentally set fire tosomething or other. Dials the phone and the other panics and grabs the phone only to here a dial tone while the first one chuckles and says "You're just lucky I don't know her number right now."

All that this did was to show every kid watching that they should be pricks to their siblings. And with it run SCORES/HUNDREDS of times during every commerical break that weekend, it did FAR more damage than smokin Tom which might be shown once or twice a year.

No. You'll never convince me that current cartoons have ANY redeeming or entertainment value. They're just empty-headed pap.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I don't mind them editing smoking out of cartoons for kids, as long as we can still find copies of the unedited cartoons to enjoy with other adults. However, this is just another symptom of the chipping away at the rights of adults to use a legal, taxed and regulated product of their own choosing.

I'm a non-smoker and it amazes me the number of people that don't see that something they can legally enjoy NOW, just may be the next thing on the chopping block of dangerous special interest groups that undermine ALL of our rights.

So what's your opinion of the latent homosexuality implicit in "Chip and Dale" cartoons? Why aren't the edited? Indubitably, My Dear, LOL!

[andy58-in-nh]

"Ey, Señor, so you want to see my Green Card? EEEpah! EEeepah! Andalé, andalé! - WHHHOOOOSH!!!"

[RubyCosmos]

Oh, don't even ... or I may have to tell you of the horror that is 9 1/2 Chipmunks.

[JeffAtlanta]

The Daffy Duck voice over going "tha-dea, tha-dea tha-dea That's All Folk's" will be cut for fear of offending people who stutter!!

Actually I do have a problem with that. I did stutter as a kid and Porky Pig made it made it seem acceptable to kids to make fun of it.

It's incredible how kids just always happened to want to immitate Porky Pig around me. When the teacher would say something to the kid, they'd just say "hey, i'm just talking like porky pig".

For some reason, stuttering is the only handicap that people think it's funny to make fun of. Apparently you do as well.

[DustyMoment]

Apparently you do as well.

And you're a jerk for that comment!! You think you're the only one who ever stuttered as a kid!!?? You're talking to one.

Get over yourself.

[JeffAtlanta]

Well you seemed to really believe that anyone that objected to Porky Pig being appropriate for children was being overly sensitive.

I don't want the government interfering in areas like this, but I don't see a problem with private companies do. Some of the material from the earlier cartoons just isn't appropriate for children.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LOL! Remember the episodes with that black housekeeper and she always said "THOMAS. THOMAS!" And she knocked him with the broom. ROFL. I shouldn't laugh but it's funny though.

[DustyMoment]

Well you seemed to really believe that anyone that objected to Porky Pig being appropriate for children was being overly sensitive.

No, Jeff, I don't. I'm truly sorry that you had the experiences that you did as a kid. It sounds trite, but children can be cruel with things that are different or that they don't understand. That's one reason why it is never a good idea for parents with children to just sit them down in front of the TV for hours at a time without supervision. TV is a major source of ideas and concepts that influence what they do, what they say, and how they act.

Stuttering was an essential part of the Porky Pig character. It's what made the character unique and what made him stand out. In show business, that's important. They don't make movies or cartoons about normal, average people, they make them about unique characters that are memorable. When there aren't adults (or even teachers, for that matter) with the ability to explain that a cartoon character is not real and that real people are hurt when they are teased about things they are sensitive about, the kids never learn that they are hurting someone that, perhaps, they didn't intend to hurt.

Those things can and do hurt, as you know, Jeff. Depending on the kind of family life and friends you have, sometimes these things can give you character, sometimes they give you something that sticks with you for life and makes you angry. Trust me when I tell you that I have walked a mile or two in your moccasins.

You're probably a pretty good guy, Jeff, but you may be stuck back in school when the kinds teased you about something over which you may have had no control. The salient question I would ask you today is this - what are you going to do about it? Are you going to look up every one of your tormentors from school and beat them up? Sounds silly doesn't it?

If I may offer a suggestion - let it go. It's something that happened, but you are alive today and I will bet that you are the better person for having had this experience. You can't change those kids, the only thing you can do is change you. Carrying the anger only harms you in the long run. The time to correct the problem has long since passed. Be the better person and let it go. A long time ago, I developed a philosophy that helps me put things in perspective. It goes like this: 20 years from now, how important will it be? The key is to look back at your life and see what things from 20 years ago really still impact you. For most of us, there isn't very much from 20 years ago that we still carry around with us. Do yourself a favor and unload the baggage. Be who you are - a good guy who looks forward, not behind you.

[Don Joe]

Can't offend anyone, you know.

Close, but... well, no cigar.

The rule is, it is OK to offend most people. It's just the tiny factions that we are prohibited to offend. The smaller the faction, the more "protected" their "right" to NOT be "offended."

Take homosexuals for example. They comprise at most 2% to 3% of the population, yet, their political clout far outweighs that of the majority.

The idea of "democracy" is a farce, even apart from its inherent fallacy (i.e., three wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner). As practiced, "democracy" turns out to be the diametric opposite of "majority rule".

In practice, what we endure is a "minority rule" regime.

Used to be that sort of thing was frowned upon (see "History of South Africa" for confirmation). Now, though, it's minority rule, plain and simple. Find any tiny faction that proclaims that it's "offended" by something, and watch the populace be hammered into virtual reeducation camp (otherwise known as "the schools" and "the media" and "entertainment"), until they learn to properly bow and scrape before The Offended Ones.

Of course, it helps if the tiny faction comprising "The Offended Ones" represents a sociological monkeywrench in the gears of classic American culture.

Welcome to the future. Shut up, bend over, and do as you're told -- and like it -- or else!

(Huh? Me, cynical?)