The Cartoon thread

[Chris]

I was thinking about this the other day while my kids were over. Perusing through the kids channels, I noticed there are absolutely NO cartoons on anymore. Aside from the cartoon network of course, but even their cartoons are pretty ridiculous.

When I, and many of you were kids, we had the classic cartoons. I mean, I was of cartoon age in the 70s, and I was shown classic Popeye, Looney Toons, Woody Woodpecker, etc....all of that stuff was pretty much 60s, 50s, WWII era and even older...yet it was still good enough for us in the 70s.

The cartoons my kids have at their disposal are shit! I have to think the world would be a better place if our children could still dial up the ole Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Heckle and Jeckle, etc...

BTW, Woody Woodpecker was my all-time favorite. But I was a big Looney Toons guy too.

[MSBNYY]

Kids WB still puts out Saturday cartoons.

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[$heriff Tom]

I was a bit chagrined to see that while there is a DVD box set of classic Mr Magoo out there, they overdubbed some Asian servent guys voice so it is not stereotypical Ching Chong style, and I guess offensive to Asians with no sense of humor.

I dont like this "after the fact" cleaning up. So no go on Magoo, and checking the reactions from folks on Amazon.com, they are upset with it too.

[Chris]

I agree whole-heartedly Tom. It's malarky!

When I was a kid, my cousins and I had a childhood favorite animated book called "The Hole Book" written in the World War I era.

It was about a boy named Tom Potts who found a gun lying around the house, fired it off, and each subsequent page chronicled the "adventures" of the bullet as it sped along it's way.

Several pages were racially themed, making for of Irish, German, and African American victims of the bullet's carnage.

One page has "Mami" a very hefty African American woman dressed a lot like Aunt Jemima, reaching up to a shelf for a watermelon, only to become astonished that there is a hole shot clean through it. She exclaims (I've had this phrase memorized since I was a small boy) "Who plucked 'dat melon....I'd spank de chile 'dat done 'dat trick eef I could learn his name."

Anyway, I had been waiting for YEARS to get my hands on a re-print of this old book. When they finally re-pressed it a few years ago, Mami's page was noticeably absent.