Posted on 03/09/2021 10:23:38 PM PST by grundle
The famous (well, I guess theyâre infamous now) Looney Tunes were very much about teaching children moral and civil behavior. Bugs Bunny taught kids that keeping cool and using your brains was the best way to navigate life. Daffy Duck taught us that losing your temper always ends in disaster. Elmer Fudd taught us that violence doesnât solve anything. Yosemite Sam taught us bullies eventually meet their match. Wile E. Coyote taught us the price of obsession. Porky the Pig taught us the virtue of earnestness. Foghorn Leghorn taught us the sin of bluster and ego and feuds.
No one ever walked out of a Looney Tunes cartoon wanting to be Daffy or Wile or Elmer or Yosemite or Foghorn. No, you walked out wanting to be Bugs Bunny or Speedy Gonzalez or the Road Runner. Why? Because they were the cool ones, the smart ones, the crafty ones who prevailed.
And let me further assure you that no one ever walked out of a Looney Tunes cartoon wanting to be Pepé Le Pew, which is why the blacklisting and canceling of this character only proves one thing: that todayâs Woke Hitler Youth are not interested in morality but only in censorship and flexing their own tyrannical virtue.
Letâs begin with the fact that Pepé Le Pew is, by any measure, one of the most disgusting creatures in the animal kingdom: a literal skunk. Whatâs more, Pepé has no idea he stinks or that his odor disgusts everyone around him. On top of that, heâs an oblivious, narcissistic moron, the butt of every joke who always loses in the end, oftentimes by getting a well-deserved dose of his own medicine.
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I thought it taught only French people can do that?
Are we still thinking about Pepe?
That’s an old, OLD cartoon. I would think most people under 40 never heard of him. Just like that loudmouthed Rooster, what was his name? ...Foghorn Leghorn!
We can’t change what used to be popular.
Is black-with-a-white-stripelisted?
Maybe they just hate his name. haha
I think they’re trying to get rid of all the old, funny cartoons. The garbage of today could never compete with them.
I was thinking the same thing. It was meant to be funny as in this is what you do not do.
Every little breeze
Seems to whisper Louise
Where as, the animaniacs behavior showed it was fun to be crazy and mean and that would always be a winning strategy.
bkmk
Are they banning Maurice Chevalier too? I seem to remember him having a horn dog reputation as well.
During this lockdown - which is ending today in Texas - been watching old TV shows, amazing how the old shows ie The Waltons, Gunsmoke (or any western for that matter) have moral themes, how doing the right thing is the way to go. Still have some violence but it is not over the top but there to make a point.
Pepe le Cuomo.
As soon as you answer rhetoric designed to attack you with “Well, actually...” you have already lost.
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