Do YOU Think Animation Is Socially Improper?

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Syren
"If you squint your eyes long and hard enough, any fictional character on any animated cartoon begins to develop its own offensive, socially improper qualities. Even the dynamics inherent to seemingly innocent cartoon settings and situations can appear sinister when scrutinized by qualified armchair cynics.

Belgian cartoonist Pierre "Peyo" Culliford's Smurfs, for instance, copyright 1958. Two hundred tiny blue males harmonizing amongst themselves in a woodsy, European hamlet polka-dotted with mushroomy phallus cupcakes. The setup alone might be sufficient enough cause for concern - but the fact that there's only one female to pass around? That can't be right. Never mind the fact that Peyo also wrote and drew a short-lived comic called "Poussy".

As the result of objections by parents, overly sensitive sponsors, timid corporate policy, and "changing" cultural niceties, a substantial portion of these classic cartoons has been lost forever, and some may never again see the light of day.

Animated features with even the slightest reference to alcohol (including rum cake), adultery, breasts, chewing tobacco, cross-dressing, gambling, marijuana, pornography, profanity, "rim jobs" (i.e. dogs licking each other), vaguely sexual or flirtatious situations, recreational sex toys (i.e. Tom from Tom and Jerry sticks a vacuum cleaner up Mammy Two-Shoes' skirt, producing giggles), smoking of any kind, suicides (i.e. a flusterated Daffy Duck blows his beak around in circles with a shotgun) - and even baby ducklings emerging from their shells in demure strip tease were deemed unacceptable. What's left to laugh at? Dora the Explorer? Rotten Dot Com is confident it speaks for all of us when we say screw that edumacational bullshit."

Perlease. Cartoons causing offence? What is happening in society? I understand about the Smurf thing, hell, I even have my doubts about Noddy and his gay times in the woods with Big-Ears, but are we really losing our classics due to those few prudish parents who won't let their innocent children view what almost every child should? It's a crying shame I tell you, a crying shame. Views please, and don't tell me this should be in the GDF, I like my threads to go off topic after a few pages. And if I did put it there it'd end up back here anyway, they're all a bunch of fun-haters whistle

Continue thankyou please happy

Antoinette
yes

Nazgulinthedark
cry thats so sad...i love daffy duck and tom and jerry. and how can these parents get rid of the classics, when i see sponge bob and all these other recent nonsense cartoons make alot more obvious sexual comments and yet these over protective parents dont try to take them off the air? howww?

Syren
OMG, that is so true!! I'm always thinking that I shouldn't be allowing my 6 yr old sister to watch Spongebob, she's actually not allowed to watch Ed, Edd & Eddy now due to the way all three of them act. Admittedly, I find them funny but kids are so impressionable. I always look to see if Scooby Doo or Tom & Jerry are on, I sorta feel I can trust the golden oldies y'know?

Nazgulinthedark
AHH! I can't STAND ed,ed, and edy...however their names are spelling, they get on my nerves. and them, along with many other cartoons really shouldnt be on a children's network. i feel i can hardly trust the disney channel anymore!
yes, i agree, id much rather my sister watch scooby doo, no matter how much i hate his voice, than her watch the eds.

Spicy_Mchaggis
the best cartoon ever created is whiley coyote and roadrunner. family guy i can see as offensive..... but its funny as hell! laughing

Syren
Exactly, all of the best ones were on TV a generation ago, well, during our childhoods. I understand that my sister has more opportunity what with all of the technological stuff that she'll be used to using before I even begin, but she's missing out on the greatest TV programs ever.

WARNER BROS & MGM 4EVA!! toot

Spicy_Mchaggis
hell ya!!! big grin Happy Dance big grin

Nazgulinthedark
I love whiley coyote!!! eek! and the pick panther love

TrAnCeDuO
did you get this from my rotten .com link?

Syren
Yes, I stole parts of it which were relevant, which is why they are in italics. I am bad no expression

TrAnCeDuO
its okay i was just wondering.

Lone_Dragon
ranting blowup BAN SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mad That show is just so WRONG!!!! and GROSS!!!!!! sick

And I also love Daffy Duck!yes And Scooby Doo!!! I can't live without Scooby! eek!

TrAnCeDuO
what is your view on this?

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/sesame-street/kami/

D-Double
The fun police have sucked almost all the ha-ha out of what was made to make us laugh. The cartoons today are no where near the golden age of animation. Politically correct movements forgot what it means to be funny, goofy, or just plain silly.

Cartoons like the Warner bros, the pink panther, and Tom and Jerry expressed the human sense of humor like nothing else has before or after it. To nitpick at this slice of life is a crime. Kids are alot smarter than most give them credit for. Leave them kids alone and let them laugh. Then take the time to sit them down and explain that it's not a good thing to chase some with an axe, shotgun, or giant mallet.

They'll be like, "Well....duh!!".

Hang loose, baby. wink

mc pee pants
you have to admit that these cartoons ARE violent and perverted in their own way... wiley coyote being repeatitively blown up, pepe le peiu forcing himself to a girl -- a girl cat no less, popeye ingesting marijuana, tom and jerry plotting each other's demise... but offensive? GET OVER IT. the people of this nation are so worried on what other people might feel, it's ri-godd@mn-diculous. next thing you know, we'll be like "hey, mr terrorist guy, would you sign this waiver explaining on when i shoot you, if ever permitted by you, you can't take legal actions but will be provided generous compensations."

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