Posted on 10/12/2011 4:37:24 AM PDT by marktwain
Wow! Elmer Fudd isn’t going to be happy he no longer can use his double-barreled shotty to hunt “wabbits”...
Oops...that is a Warner Bros production...hope they don’t succumb to this nonsense!
I was about to say, if Warner Brothers goes this route, there will be hundreds of ‘Buggs Bunny’ cartoons that will just have to be erased from existence. Especially if you include the horrendous violence of the Road Runner cartoons.
hmmmm. Might be a good idea to get copies of those classic cartoons for the kids. The PC crowd is probably going to make them ‘friendly’ to our modern times....
Maybe it’s a good idea they did replace it with a broom. Mickey definitely wasn’t a responsible gun owner.
A lot of those Looney Tunes cartoons have the shots of Fudd blasting Daffy Duck edited out. They do a “reaction shot” of Bugs Bunny, then cut back to a smoking Daffy. It’s pretty lame.
...well maybe it’s because Mickey was convicted of shooting Goofy (if the joke is needed,give me time to copy and paste it)
WB will make more millions in sales of the uncut versions
Actually, they or the TV Stations who carry them have and I have seen as horrible an example of the genre as is possible. There is a classic Bugs, Daffy and Elmer with the theme of which hunting season it is, duck or rabbit. Obviously, the end results had Daffy having his beak spun around multiple times.
This particular showing of this cartoon had EVERY USE OF THE GUN completely excised but there was still the sound of a bang. So all that was shown was the denouement of it being "Duck Season" -> BANG -> and Daffy's head smoking and his bill spinning! A total non sequiter and completely ruined cartoon.
I am sure that some liberal / anti-gun nut was very proud of their 'contribution'.
Usually nobody catches them. Paramount has been editing scenes for years on their old shows and DVD’s. They give you a little disclaimer that takes a magnifying glass to read.
It isn’t about uncut versions. It’s the 1984 memory chute, removing anything that offends the P.C. religion from movies and films. This time they got caught.
How long has it been since the Biathlon was shown in the US ?
It’s still an Olympic sport. An exciting one, at that. But it won’t be shown on US television because it shows a firearm being used in a fun, athletic way.
And that sport is ridiculously tough.
This is pathetic.
Actually, I've long wondered why the liberals who want to ban guns and violence don't start by eliminating them from their movies and TV shows.
(Of course, I wouldn't avocate removing guns from vintage cartoons and TV shows. I don't think anyone would suggest that the use of guns on TV today (judging by show promos during NFL games 'cause that's all I see) is in any way comparable to the way they were used on Gunsmoke e.g.)
ML/NJ
Actually, I saw it during the last winter Olympics. I couldn't believe it.
If you happen to see E.T. on tv, look for all the FBI agents running around.....their guns have been edited out and they now how radios.
Pathetic.
Warner Bros did this years ago. Not the guns, but other things. Case in point:
Bugs/Elmer cartoon “The Rabbit Of Seville”
In one part, Elmer is in the barber chair and Bugs lathers him up with shaving cream. Next Bugs climbs on top of Elmer’s chest, pulls out Elmer’s necktie and a HUGE straight razor and strops the razor on the tie. Then you see Bugs slash back and forth on Elmer’s face as Elmer yells “Ow, oh, oh, ow.....” Then Bugs walks in front of Elmer with a mirror singing, “There, you’re nice and clean, although your face looks like it might have gone thru a ma-chine.”
In the edited version, Bugs lathers up Elmer’s face, then walks in front of him with the mirror.
I noticed this back in the 80’s.
BTW I have a copy of the unedited version.
Oh wait. We did.
Our troops had to drill with brooms at first because liberal Progressives like Woodrow Wilson and his idiotic League of Nations forced us to destroy weapons and bulldoze airplanes so that WWI would be the "War to End All Wars".
How'd that work out? Liberals never learn a damned thing. And once again they are eager to render us all defenseless in the service of their stupid, stupid ideology.
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