July 11, 2004
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We picked up a couple of DVDs at Amoeba Music today, one of which was the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. We were watching Disc 1 of 4 tonight… Wow. The bonus features/documentaries are a real treat. It’s so great that you can also choose to watch most of these cartoon shorts without the dialogue track (music only).
To think that 99% of these classic cartoony gags would be too politically-incorrect for a 21st century Warner Bros cartoon. We can’t have guns or weapons these days. No heavy physical contact or injuries to the head; no driving without seatbelts(and that includes mini clown cars!); no sharp objects like knives, axes or even scissors (!) like in Rabbit of Seville… Hey, we can’t even show red jelly in a donut, or man-boobs, or fake boobs, or broken glass, or…well you get the idea.Volume 2 of the Looney Tunes collection will released later this year and the list of shorts here looks awesome. The Three Little Bops! Michigan J. Frog! We’ll be getting this one for sure! I hope there’s a Volume 3 too…
Off to Laguna Beach tomorrow morning! Guess it’s time for bed…
Comments (8)
It’s too bad slapstick is now considered violence. Does any network even air old Popeye cartoons? Luckily John K and Spumco are making a few more Ren & Stimpys to help give me my needed dose of cartoon beatings.
The crazy thing is, that Cartoon Network airs all these old cartoons – Tom & Jerry, Popeye, Bugs dressing as a woman and seducing Elmer – It was deemed ‘okay’ in the 40′s and 50′s. We just can’t do these things in cartoons any more. There is some misguided logic that these actions aren’t ‘appropriate’ for kids cartoons today, even though kids have access to these old cartoons all the time on cable.
These days, the networks view their cartoon characters as ‘real’ people. So when a character gets hit with a mallet – not matter how slapstick, or over the top – the networks are really feeling the character’s pain! -Eddie
That sucks.
I mean its not your or anybody else’s falut if cartoons are too violent these days!
“Why can the parents just turn it off?”
More proof that TV execs are total idiots. I grew up on Looney Tunes and old MGM shorts. I’ve never given anyone a hot foot, dropped an anvil on anyones head, smashed someone’s hand with a hammer or used high power explosives as birthday candles.
I’m toon crazy… and so glad that Boomerang is airing all of my childhood classics once again. Definitely don’t see the same things going on these days. When hubby and i met 20 yrs. ago, we’d sit outside parked in the car detailing all of our toon favorites that were no longer available.
btw… we are die-hard for Mucha-Lucha.
Wow, that’s a romance! And thanks for watching ML! -Eddie
Those were “innocent” times, when violence in cartoons was considered hilarious cos no-one took them seriously. Now, everything has to be politically correct and content has to be sanitised to protect fragile minds, as though cartoons were the only influence on children’s development. Sheesh.