Roflmao! Did you all know Loony Toons began in theaters as adult cartoons and we!
Question: Roflmao! Loony Toons started in theaters because they didn't have television back then and were sort of like the movies adults went to. Apparently, characters like bugs bunny and daffy duck were cursing and making racial slurs and stuff. However, they were later edited and made for TV so as to be directed for children. Wile E. Coyote probably screamed "F UCK!" everytime he missed the Road Runner. Here's the entry I found where it talks about it: The Looney Tunes series' popularity was strengthened even more when the shorts began airing on network and syndicated television in the 1950s under various titles and formats. However, since the syndicated shorts' target audience was children and because of concerns over children's television in the 1970s, the Looney Tunes shorts began to be edited to remove scenes featuring innuendos, racial remarks, curse words, ethnic stereotypes and extreme violence.
Answers: Roflmao! Loony Toons started in theaters because they didn't have television back then and were sort of like the movies adults went to. Apparently, characters like bugs bunny and daffy duck were cursing and making racial slurs and stuff. However, they were later edited and made for TV so as to be directed for children. Wile E. Coyote probably screamed "F UCK!" everytime he missed the Road Runner. Here's the entry I found where it talks about it: The Looney Tunes series' popularity was strengthened even more when the shorts began airing on network and syndicated television in the 1950s under various titles and formats. However, since the syndicated shorts' target audience was children and because of concerns over children's television in the 1970s, the Looney Tunes shorts began to be edited to remove scenes featuring innuendos, racial remarks, curse words, ethnic stereotypes and extreme violence.
Can you find those videos on the internet? I'd love to see one of them.
O_o whoa no I didn't know that at all! lol you learn something new every day. Thank you for that bit of information. That's crazy :)
As a matter of fact, I did know that. Except Wile E Coyote never swore. And the cartoons weren't edited as much as they were censored as people became more sensitive to that crap.;
o.O Seriously? I just thought they were for kids since they had those violent things like the guy shooting bugs bunny. Man I never thought it is that bad.
yup... i knew that.... if you look hard enough on the internet.. you can find some of.... funny as hell
What's so funny about that? No, cartoon characters did NOT curse or use the F word. Racial intolerance was common then so it was reflected in cartoons, the movies and the media.
Every movie was followed by a cartoon, a newsreel of important events, a short subject and previews.You got your money's worth.
I remember some of the things they used to do, from watching them when I was a kid (before the days of political correctness). There was one with a little jungle kid in it and a myna bird, and the little jungle kid was in some serious blackface. Also, when Bugs says (I think of Elmer), "What a Maroon!", the word "maroon" is actually a kind of derogatory word meaning an escaped slave or a decendant of an escaped slave. So it was almost like using the "N" word! And when one of the characters would run off a cliff and magically turn into a donkey (i.e., jacka$$ - can I say that on YA?) or a lollipop ("sucker") - well, all I can say is, you don't see stuff like that on kids' TV today!!
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True--they were indeed part of the movie-going experience back in the day, but I doubt there was much cursing--the Hays Code or Production Code would have been in effect (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code for details).
Certainly many were shortenedon TV, but also for time limits (& I hated only having 3 in a half-hour), and apparently the earlier shows had some sort of framework with new animation. Check out the DVDs.
Racial stereotypes abounded, tho that was common for the time. If you pick up any of the recent compilations (golden collections, I think they're called) on DVD, some of them have warnings that some material is offensive, and that's mostly what they're talking about. The one that bothered me the most was from "Southern Fried Rabbit" with Bugs doing an impression of a slave to sneak south of the Mason-Dixon line, but there are others--tho not all of African-Americans; I imagine that some of the Middle Eastern ones are fairly obnoxious in their own way ("Hassan chop!"). I know I have seen the edited "Southern Fried Rabbit."
What's your source? You quote it, but don't cite it.
Yes. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were originally made for theaters as a "short subject" to show before the feature films starting in 1930.
Betty Boop, Popeye The Sailor, Tom & Jerry, Mickey Mouse and a lot of the Disney cartoons, Droopy, The Little Rascals (Our Gang), Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges and others were also short subjects shown in movie theaters.
There were a few edits to the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, for violent images and a few racist jokes...but they weren't full of swearing. You can see some of the cartoons unedited on The Looney Tunes Golden Collections (volumes 1-5). 11 cartoons were banned for heavy racial content, all 11 will eventually be available on future volumes of Golden Collection.
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