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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This political correctness might just reach critical mass, if this kind of taking fright from shadows continues. It would seem that Speedy Gonzalez is a plucky little hero type that always manages to skip away before certain disaster befalls him, and for some people (quite a few, judging from the response to this latest exercise in controlling Groupthink), this is a most admirable quality.
Next thing you know, they will be attacking Steven Foster Collins ballads and Samuel Clemens' fictional writings.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Elmer Fudd is next. You can't have cartoon characters hunting rabbits with a firearm. You can't have them hunting at all. And how about Yosemite Sam as an Arab beating on his camel. He's next. And then there's ...........
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I wonder if Frito-Lay will bring back the 'Frito Bandito'? Remember the pencil eracers?
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I think sometimes the censors are afraid of things that arent really there. Yes indeed! I loved those cartoons! Aside from all that, Americans have gotten so PC that you can't laugh at anything anymore - unless it's so filthy that it's actually ceased to be funny and just gone directly to gross.
Another thing that's rather peculiar about this one is that Spanish culture itself has no reservations about poking fun at people for physical characteristics (although this is changing). People frequently went by nicknames - things such as El Gordo, El Moro, etc. - that would have gotten the PC police on your doorstep in an instant here in the US.
I'm sick of PC. Bring back fun.
6 posted on
03/27/2002 4:57:42 PM PST by
livius
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"I think sometimes the censors are afraid of things that arent really there.That's precisely what the PC crowd are, imaging victums of crimes that don't exist.
Who wants to bet there's some lawyer in the wings, looking to shakedown Warner Bros for the "trauma" inflected by this racial insult.
7 posted on
03/27/2002 4:59:29 PM PST by
gracie1
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Sigh...The only carton we'll be left with is Scooby Doo. Great. What do we have? A white guy in tight pants, scarf tied coyly around his neck. Daphne, the red headed ditz. A seemingly unisex Velma. And Shaggy, brain fried on gawd knows what illegal substance. Stupid white people counting on a dog to solve mysteries. Where's the outrage??? Bring back some Porky, some Speedy, some Foghorn Leghorn, some Widder Hen for gawd sakes.
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
(By the way, do you know which of our speeding heroes crossed the finish line first?) I've got to know. Anyone?
14 posted on
03/27/2002 5:15:52 PM PST by
luigi
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Reflecting changing notions of political correctness, many older cartoons rarely, if ever, now get television airplay, including the censored eleven, an infamous group of shorts focusing on black stereotypes. That's a shame, really. I think it is important and instructive to show how blacks (and other ethnic groups) were portrayed earlier in time. Helps show how far we have come. What are they going to do next? Ban Fat Albert?
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wanna hear something funny? Speedy is apparently immensely popular on the Spanish-language "Cartoon Network". Go figure.....:)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Since the late nineties, Speedy has been noticeably absent from the Cartoon Networks daytime and prime time lineup.... I don't know that this is completely accurate -- while Speedy toons aren't all that frequent, I do see them from time to time. The one guy I am stunned has never been attacked by the PC crowd is my fave, Pepe Le Pew; the way he forces his attentions on Penelope (in such a loveable fashion!). I would have thought the NOW gang surely would have had him removed from Saturday morning cartooning already.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Well, he shouldn't be banned, but I never thought he was funny anyway. About ten years ago I went to a little movie house--I mean tiny--in Seattle to see a show called "Black Listed Bugs", or something like that. It was a bunch of Bugs shorts that had already been purged. A lot of WW2 stuff. A "Murder Inc" van drives by with a neon sign on the side saying "Murders $10, JAPS Free", or something like that.The one I most remember was a real incredible parody of Cab Calloway and his band as a band of heavenly angels. Incredible cartoon. I remember debating the censoring of these 'toons with my young friends at the time, and I was the only one who thought it was wrong. This was approx 1992. I had been listening to Rush about a year at that point, and was fairly well recovered from liberalism.
19 posted on
03/27/2002 5:20:33 PM PST by
Huck
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
(Speedy knows mysister, Speedy knows EVERYBODYs sister
),No, no no!! It's this:
"I will get Speedy Gonzales, he
is friend of my seester."
"Si, he is a friend of EVERYBODY's seester...."
22 posted on
03/27/2002 5:24:55 PM PST by
gcruse
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
HHispanic Mouse 0 (as he loses award...)
Black Actors 3
Sheesh what an idiotic over corrective society!
We need more jerks like me to overcome this PC overboard!
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Its funny though, we can have prime time shows, (The Simpsons and King of the Hill) that both depict male white Dads as complete bumbling idiots.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
![](http://www.snoopygift.com/images/snoopy-w-computer.gif)
I hope Taco Bell brings back the Chihuahua dog. Damned funny!!
28 posted on
03/27/2002 5:36:31 PM PST by
upchuck
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"Often, his sidekick was his cousin Slowpoke Rodríguez, the slowest mouse in all Méjico, who, despite lacking Speedys quick wit and fleet foot, was just as formidable an opponent." Anyone know why Slowpoke Rodriguez was just as formidable? We found out in one episode when Manuel yelled at Jose, "Jose, Jose! Slowpoke Rodriguez - he pack a gun!" At which point Slowpoke blows Jose away!
30 posted on
03/27/2002 6:09:48 PM PST by
DaGman
To: Tumbleweed_Connection;FreedomFriend;rightofrush;Joaquin;blueriver;Semaphore Heathcliffe;WDG55513...
I guess this is the equivolent of rolling out the welcome mat for for the illegals....kinda like saying "welcome to America. We will bend over backwards to make sure you're not offended....
..but you can offend us all you like. PING!!
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Yeah, and if you remember Yosemite Sam, he no longer has a firearm or bullets.
35 posted on
03/27/2002 7:23:51 PM PST by
Buckeroo
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Hey! Meester Turner! Speedy Gonzalez has a message for you!
![](http://www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/speedy-trans2.gif)
He's almost giving Ted the bird...
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