Re: Re: Game shows
  By: Mike Powell to DENNIS KATSONIS on Sat Dec 12 2020 09:38:00

 > >  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.
 >

It never occured to me to use guns as toys after watching Looney Tunes.  But
then again, my family used to go hunting, so I saw first hand what guns do to
living creatures.

This I think isn't to protect the kids, as kids are not that dumb.  IT's about
protecting the sensibilities of idiot adults who don't understand how the world
actually works.
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