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Old cartoons are seriously messed up. We talk so often about how the media today is messing up our kids minds, and how cartoons of yesterday were so much more wholesome.
Bugs Bunny dressed up in women's clothes and often kissed other men before shooting them in the face with a shotgun. During World War II, Bugs appeared in several pro-war films, in which stereotypes of Japanese and German peoples were used that would make people cringe today. Bugs used such terms as "slant-eyes" and "monkey-boy" while handing out ice cream bars with grenades in them.
Tom was subjected all sorts of cruelty at the hands of Jerry. He was cut into pieces by a chain link fence, hit in the face with a frying pan, hit with a pie that had an iron in it, torn to shreds by a dog, and even beheaded by a guillotine. (Really.) Nearly all of Tom & Jerry's violence used household implements, making it very imitatible by children.
Yet, people refer to this idyllicly, saying why can't we have more cartoons like that, instead of the violent and offensive trash we have today.
Does this make Bugs Bunny and the gang bad? Not at all. Plenty of their cartoons were not offensive at all, and most of them were very funny. They defined their generation, and not all of that generation was good either. We must learn to love the good and hate the bad, not hate the good because of the bad.
Sorry to be so topical, I realize that's not my style.
Bugs Bunny dressed up in women's clothes and often kissed other men before shooting them in the face with a shotgun. During World War II, Bugs appeared in several pro-war films, in which stereotypes of Japanese and German peoples were used that would make people cringe today. Bugs used such terms as "slant-eyes" and "monkey-boy" while handing out ice cream bars with grenades in them.
Tom was subjected all sorts of cruelty at the hands of Jerry. He was cut into pieces by a chain link fence, hit in the face with a frying pan, hit with a pie that had an iron in it, torn to shreds by a dog, and even beheaded by a guillotine. (Really.) Nearly all of Tom & Jerry's violence used household implements, making it very imitatible by children.
Yet, people refer to this idyllicly, saying why can't we have more cartoons like that, instead of the violent and offensive trash we have today.
Does this make Bugs Bunny and the gang bad? Not at all. Plenty of their cartoons were not offensive at all, and most of them were very funny. They defined their generation, and not all of that generation was good either. We must learn to love the good and hate the bad, not hate the good because of the bad.
Sorry to be so topical, I realize that's not my style.