Speedy Gonzalez - Banned in the USA

Hispanic Online ^ | 3/27/02 | VIRGINIA CUETO

[Luis Gonzalez]

Hey! Meester Turner! Speedy Gonzalez has a message for you!

He's almost giving Ted the bird...

[usadave]

I think sometimes the censors are afraid of things that aren’t really there.”

It's called paranoia, and there is a lot of it speading across the United States. Oh my gosh, we better not show that on TV because it might offend somebody. I can understand if people were actually complaining about Speedy Gonzalez, but to rationalize not showing it on TV because it could conceivably offend somebody is just plain nuts. I think somebody needs to have their head examined.

[BluesDuke]

Back in the 60's, when people started worrying about cartoon violence, Hanna-Barbera started putting out cartoons that were supposed to teach something (usually with a NWO theme). I HATED those shows! Give me my anvils and wild takes!

Please. Hanna-Barbera lost it after the Magilla Gorilla/Peter Potamus shows' cartoons. (I'm surprised the anti-gun nuts haven't started beating on the tom toms to ban Ricochet Rabbit and his sneaky bullets - you know, the ones that would stop in front of the bad guys and display anything from oversized mallets to lariats to drill bits and saw blades - or Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse.) Though I still think the funniest H-B 'toon of them all was Top Cat.

I'll take my Acme Hours any old time. One Chuck Jones is worth a thousand Hanna-Barberas and as many Rocky and Bullwinkles.

[BluesDuke]

You will notice that Porky Pig no longer has a stutter. Its just "Thats all folks..."

Allow me, then...

Ebadee-ebadee-ebadee-eba-that's all, folks!

[BluesDuke]

But let's remember Stengel's Law: If I'm gonna get buggered, I don't want an amateur holding the Vaseline pot.

[sneakypete]

All Speedy has to do is run across the border,and Bubba-2 will make him a US citizen.

BTW,am I the only one who picked up on the fact that making Pepe La Phew talk with a French accent promotes the stereotype of the French not bathing? At least we can still joke about the French. They're white.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Yucca Mountain

YEEEEEEPA!, YEEEEEEEPA!

[sneakypete]

It's called paranoia,

I don't think that is what is happening in this case. This is just another example of how Red Ted Turner thinks. Anybody remember how he pushed that Marxist propoganda series,"Captain Planet and the Planeteers"? ALL white busiessmen were evil,and the purpose of business was to destroy the planet? Remember the Planeteers representing every minority on Earth,and gathering together to defeat the evil white man? Pure Turner. Crap like this is how he earned the tag "Red Ted".

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Tooth Fairy bump when it really hurt, 1965.

Speedy will always be a "TALL TALE" to the little people!

[sneakypete]

One Chuck Jones is worth a thousand Hanna-Barberas and as many Rocky and Bullwinkles.

You dare to say this about Rocky and Bullwinkle? Go wash your mouth out with soap!

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Lump charcoal is the best--------hold on!

[Drew68]

Anybody remember how he pushed that Marxist propoganda series,"Captain Planet and the Planeteers"?

Thanks for bringing this up. I was going to mention it myself before I saw your post. Absolutely horrible cartoon. The website has links to Peta and such nonsense.

If anyone wants to defile their browser and take a look at PC run amok, please go here:

Welcome to the Captain Planet Website

Jeez! I think NPR is less politically correct!

This is the crux of the problem. Turner owns all of this stuff. He is never in a million years going to allow any of it to be shown. Until either Turner has a change of heart or dies, we are SOL. Fortunately, some of these old cartoons can be found on the internet (for a very high price) and can be purchase. Most of them need to be converted from the British format on VHS in order to be viewed.

It shouldn't be this way! :-( :-( :-(

[Dante3]

The animated film "Coal Black and the Seven Dweebs(?)" was banned a long time ago. It just keeps escalating. Last year there was talk of banning the word "picnic." I'm not sure what ever came of that. And we used to laugh at the communists in the former Soviet Union!

[Ima Lurker]

I DEMAND the Minnesota Vikings change their name!! I am of Norwegian descent and find the use of the word "Vikings" very offensive. So much so that I can't even function anymore. Ooorrrrrr......they can just give me a big pile of money.......

[Budge]

One would think they would want to show Speedy cartoons all day long.

It might show the illegals how to outwit the gringos. Or at least give them the mettle to try.

[driftless]

I respectfully disagree. I'm a great fan of the Warners Brothers cartoons (Bugs is my all-time favorite cartoon character), but you are so wrong when you state that every one of their toons is superior to Rocky and Bullwinkle. Artistically and laughwise yes...but they were never as intelligent or witty as moose and squirrel.

[mware]

How about Fog-Horn Leg-Horn, who does a passable imitation of Fritz Hollings.

[driftless]

How about all the lutefisk and lefse you can eat instead of money? Uff da!!

[jgrubbs]

I will miss Speedy!

[Landru]

"Its time they outlawed fun."

Not to worry; they're working on it.

"Everytime we have fun it is at someone's expense."

Shazam!
Oddly enough?
That's precisely how the America-hating Socialists have it figured, too.