Some comments: >>Keep dumbing it down America! I weep for the future.
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It is extremely unsettling from today’s enlightened perspective to watch how the Warner Bros. cartoon studio so blatantly caricatured loud-mouth know-it-all white southerners in the character of Foghorn Leghorn. But we have to understand that those days were filled with tension, so the rascit undertones were everywhere. (you all know what the terms “Hubie” and “Bertie” stood for , right ? ’nuff said… ) It is comforting that we do not live in days filled with tension anymore and as a society have moved beyond such things.
And I wrote (my comment is awaiting moderation):
>>Ah say, ah say Kenny Delmar was indeed the voice of…the Hunter!…and from what I understand he was actually from Boston (as am I), not the South. Oh yes, he was Comm. McBragg, too. Quite.
Probably because he says things like “son” and “boy”.
That's easy: cause he's white.
Because he is from the South ya know BOY!! ......Ah miss good old Cartoons like him and Huckleberry Hound.....LOL
And here’s me thinking that Foghorn just had it in for the chained-up hound! As he would often advise young Henry:
“I say, boy, I say now that’s a chicken!”
>>>>>I no theres no racist undertones (sic) but what are they? how is it rascit?<<<<<<
I’ll put that in plain English:::
“I know that the racial undertones are not there. But lets make some up. How can we find a way to make it racist?”
Because he wouldn't cross the "road" and vote yes for Obamacare??
Ah say, your doin it all wrong, son!
Geez.....this was settled two years ago........
Whatever happened to the foghorn leghorn cartoons?
I used to grow up watching the bugs bunny, daffy duck cartoons and I haven’t seen foghorn leghorn in forever or chilly willy the penguin, droopy... I miss the old cartoons I don’t care for the crap they have now. I’m an old school kid who grew up with school house rock!
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Most of them had racist undertones and had to be taken off of the air. I mean, think about it...Foghorn?.......Leghorn? That is racist and people don’t put up with it any more.
2 years ago
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It was probably that “Camp Town Races” song he used to sing. Do Da Do Da!
The Flintstones theme songFlintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.Let's ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.When you're with the Flintstones
You'll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
You'll have a gay old time.
Fred & Barney, Wilma & Betty...yes, it all makes sense now...
Typical White Leghorn.
bkmk for later
Racist, no. Ripoff, yes---especially since Warner Brothers copyrighted not just the cartoon image but the characterisation and vocalisation of the character, denying Kenny Delmar the right to continue his Senator Claghorn character after Fred Allen discontinued the radio show on which Delmar made the character so popular. My favorite, Droopy Dog, could be seen today as having numerous racist symbols in it.
Shuffle-footed, Suth’rin drawl, that suspiciously plantation-like tune the wolf always whistled.
Is there a box set?
Cartoons went to hell about the time they cut out all the violence from the old cartoons they showed on TV. When I was a kid, they showed old WW2 propaganda cartoons killing Japs (they still called them that) and Nazis, and cartoon characters killing themselves.
Remember the black maid from the old “Tom and Jerry” cartoons (the funny, violent ones)? Now she has a “white” voice.
