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Personally, I think this is wrong. If cartoons made 50 years ago are not considered suitable for children of today, then make new ones. Don’t hack up the classics!

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This isn't the first time these old cartoons have been edited. Some Tom & Jerry cartoons, as well as others from this era, have some stuff that is considered racist by todays standards, and you seldom see those segments on the air anymore. And they have basically buried Speedy Gonzales for the same reason. Even though the anti-smoking stuff seems a bit silly, in my opinion.
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The last time I caught that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he wanted to raise the bounty on rabbits from $1, it was hacked to pieces.

Likewise, the one with Michigan J. Frog ("Hello my baby, hello my darling...") was missing the "Free Beer" sign.

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The last time I caught that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he wanted to raise the bounty on rabbits from $1, it was hacked to pieces.


What happens in that one?

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The pussification of America continues ...

I am a cartoon junkie, and they never once made me want to smoke. I never said "Hey mom, if Andy Capp smokes, why can't I?"

If they're going to re-edit smoking from cartoons, then they should also ban the Swedish Chef from spreading real butter on his toast. After all, both are responsible for rampant heart disease.

The notion of revising history does nothing to keep the next generation from repeating it. If they're so damn concerned that Jerry puffing a last cigarette will encourage kids to smoke, maybe the parents should spend more time with their kids instead of plopping them in front of the TV. And maybe MGM should run an anti-smoking PSA where they show a good lung and a tar-filled lung before the cartoons.
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You know, this smoking thing is a bit ridiculous.

However, I can kind of understand not regularly showing some of the cartoons that are offensive toward certain groups, but that's no reason to destroy them/edit them/not release them.

And what would be wrong with still showing them, albeit with some sort of commentary before-hand, like when AMC or TMC ran a bunch of Charlie Chan movies and had a panel of Asian-Americans (including George "Sulu" Takei) talking about the impact/ramifications of some the movies' racist overtones?

I don't know. I don't ever want to see things totally destroyed, but I also think it is kind of irresponsible to show certain things in a vacuum, without giving any sort of context. You can watch "Triumph Of The Will" on its own, not knowing anything about it before-hand, and get a totally different (and less correct) impression of the movie than if you know the context behind the film. I guess that gets into how informed a viewer really should be about the material, but in the end, I really think an informed viewer is able to make a better internal judgement of any film.

I mean, would you show "Birth Of A Nation" without giving any sort of social commentary? I know that's extreme compared to the mammy from Tom and Jerry, but both views on race are cut from the same cloth.
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
The pussification of America continues ...
This is happening in the UK.

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Some people are just stupid.
Some were not blessed with brains.
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make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

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It's all really stupid anyway. They're taking out the smoking, but they're leaving in the violence (hitting each other with hammers, cutting each other to bits with saws). I think I'd be more worried about someone smashing me over the head with a giant hammer than I would be with someone smoking a cigarette next to me. The cigarette's going to take, what, 30-50 years to kill you, but the hammer can do it with one blow. So which one is worse again?
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It's like how they're taming down children's playgrounds to make them "safer". S.t.u.p.i.d.
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<blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith

You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money,
make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm.
I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum.
we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
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Flintstones was not a children's Cartoon. It was for adults. Later on they did show it on Saturday mornings, but it was originally an adult themed cartoon.
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Dear God, there really is no way to stop this is there? The special interest groups have taken over--you can fuck up the hard work of others with a single letter complaining about two cartoons!

This is why the next remake that Hollywood does needs to be Farhenheit 451! Special interest minority groups are going to hell!

('minority' meaning a small percentage of course...)

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Couldn't find the thread where I discussed this with others, BUT! Eventually we'll see Tom & Jerry the way it's meant to be, in a new "Golden Collection" reminiscent of the Looney Tunes collections.

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Well, yes, but there is the issue of Mammy Two-Shoes, which the DVD sets currently switch between editions released episode-by-episode. I know we discussed it in off-topic a number of months ago, but I couldn't find the thread so I revived the first "Tom and Jerry" result in google.

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bkev said:

Couldn't find the thread where I discussed this with others, BUT! Eventually we'll see Tom & Jerry the way it's meant to be, in a new "Golden Collection" reminiscent of the Looney Tunes collections.

I'm stuck in a loop.  Thanks, bkev!

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The pussification of the world we live in is crap. 

Can these same people "censor" our "troubles" too?  I really wish they would....seems it would be a far better tactic than censoring cartoons if they want to make the world a better place.  It would also be far less intrusive than having to play a Country music song backwards just so people can get all their stuff back.....LOL

Tom & Jerry Rule!!!!!

 

 

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It really is sad that changing old things has become a commonplace technique these days. After all, that's why some first editions are more valuable, because they have different/edgier text. I can't believe that even a harmless show like Tom and Jerry would receive such changes to make it more PC.

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This is why I snagged a copy of the Tom & Jerry Laserdisc Box Set Vol 1.  I think TCM showed the original early 1940s Christmas cartoon (along with some others) a few years back with introduction commentary by the host.  Boomerang & Nick showings are pretty well cut up.

I still need to get hooked up with the original Tijuana Toads episodes.  I think we'll eventually see this since I found a recent release of all The Inspectors episodes on a standalone DVD volume of the Pink Panther series.

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They're being released uncut and uncensored on Blu-ray soon.

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Censoring of Tom and Jerry was the reason why I started rebelling against the censors in the first place. I’ve been planning this civil rebellion for about a couple years now, but I declared war on censoring animation and illustrated books all the way back in 2015. Censoring animation was wrong then and is wrong today. By censoring their cartoons, these greedy corporations are rewriting history. I am sick and tired of it and everyone else in America should, too. Uncensored must dominate America’s home media, period.

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