>  MP> Incidentally, starting in January, MeTV is going to run 3 hours of
>  MP> Saturday Morning cartoons, including Bugs, Daffy, Popeye, and Tom and
>  MP> Jerry.  I am guessing they will be the edited versions, or they will
>  MP> only show the episodes that don't require editing.  I am hoping it is
>  MP> the latter.

> What do they edit out of them?

Many of the cartoons contain "cartoon violence" where something happens to
a character, like Elmer Fudd shoots Daffy Duck.  Of course, they don't die &
there is (rarely) even any blood.  More mature audiences know better than
to point guns at people.  When I was a kid, we knew that shooting at
someone had consequences.  But that kind of stuff sometimes gets edited out
as the kids apparently are no longer taught anything.

Also, keeping in mind that the heyday of some of these old cartoons was
overlapped by WWII, any stereotypes about the Axis countries (especially
Japan) have to be removed so that no one gets their feelings hurt.


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