How the heck do you redub a cartoon where no one talks?
They had cartoons in 1050? Of what? The Crusaders killing Mohammedans?........
Bye Bye Hitler, Tojo, Mammy, and now Smoking. Thank goodness the thought police are there to protect my children, rather than letting me inform them of the history of our culture and why things changed.
To give them British accents?
Let's see, this adds on to what they've already edited out: Tom in blackface with big lips, African savages and Mammy Two-Shoes.
Up next: the numerous scenes where Tom, Jerry or someone else is drunk.
Is this happening in Britain only, or America too?
I heard about this yesterday. It's okay to bash each other with frying pans, but smoking would send the wrong message. Besides, who cares if Tom smokes? He's the bad guy, remember? And everybody knows that cats are EEEEE-VIL (except for Walt Disney, in most of his/their movies).
By order of the Politburo!
Cigarettes are now non-items. The do not exist, they never existed.
Just... ugh...
Anybody whose "cartoon upbringing" happened after that is far more likely as an adult to put on a Pink Power Ranger suit and go to work for the Al Gore "Save the Planet" Team. ;)
Well, this story hasn't gotten any better since yesterday. With all of the revisionist editing of cartoons going on, pretty soon, all that will be left of them will be the Warner Brothers Logo at the beginning and the words "That's All Folks" at end. 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!!
God, I hate PC!!
Are they going to edit out when Tom gets his a$$ kicked by Jerry?
It was the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time.
In other news, while underage smoking has decreased, there has been a huge increase in children dropping anvils on each other.
Why bother to rewrite history when it's so much easier to erase it?
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.
however cross dressing is allowed....
next they will edit out cartoon violence...
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.
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