Looney Tunes on a Saturday morning

shoeless said:
Yeah, it was shared with me yesterday as well. It's funny because he's right. Still, I love me some Looney Tunes. Some of the best cartoons ever made, IMO.
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After watching it a twice, a video popped in my algorithm about The Herculoids and Space Ghost (two of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons).

Apparently those were made before I was born and were so popular when they debuted that Herculoids was at a nearly 60% rating... meaning over half of the TVs in America were all watching that cartoon on Saturday mornings. Most of the other space adventure cartoons that followed were trying to replicate it. Birdman was made by the same people but for a different network...

... but then JFK and Vietnam were making people uneasy about violence on TV.

So despite their popularity, all of those shows were cancelled... and the show that took their place? Scooby Doo.

If you note the sound effects, the music, and the painted sky backgrounds... they were all reused to launch a non-violent show about these teenagers investigating fake ghosts. The combination of the primed audience and then the more acceptable non-violent format made Scooby Doo the longest running television cartoon franchise that's still going.
 
I remember being a kid in the eighties watching the racist Looney Tunes on the local UHF station. I had no idea what the hell was going on with all the weird looking black people. This was in the DC area so, looking back, I’m amazed that people weren’t picketing and boycotting advertisers. Then again, nobody protested Stonewall Jackson Middle School, Stonewall Jackson Highway, and Lee Jackson King day. It was a weird time.
 
Apparently, Warner Brothers stopped producing their most overtly racist and ethnic stereotypical images in cartoons between the 40's and 50's. The more casual stereotyping faded away over time. Yet, they continued to air the early stuff until 1968.

Violence in cartoons comes from slapstick in newspaper comics and silent movies. As the old saying goes, comedy is misery happening to someone else.

Forensic examinations of ancient bones show that humans killed for camping spots, sometimes eating their victims, and enslaving their women. They probably laughed about it at dinner time.

Modern humans would never laugh, nor celebrate, the deaths of others. Oh wait...

Watching Looney Tunes is a way to purge yourself of the worst human tendencies. Anyway, it's better than eating your neighbors.
 
Somehow growing back in olden times we were able to distinguish those were cartoons. The pig and bird with speech issues, they’re trying speak using a pigs snout and bird beak to speak through. Yet the cartoon did not make fun of those issues. They went about life like anyone else in cartoon land. Pointing out the issues is saying oh, with those problems they’re not good enough to be on tv.
 
jrockbridge said:
Apparently, Warner Brothers stopped producing their most overtly racist and ethnic stereotypical images in cartoons between the 40's and 50's. The more casual stereotyping faded away over time. Yet, they continued to air the early stuff until 1968.

Violence in cartoons comes from slapstick in newspaper comics and silent movies. As the old saying goes, comedy is misery happening to someone else.

Forensic examinations of ancient bones show that humans killed for camping spots, sometimes eating their victims, and enslaving their women. They probably laughed about it at dinner time.

Modern humans would never laugh, nor celebrate, the deaths of others. Oh wait...

Watching Looney Tunes is a way to purge yourself of the worst human tendencies. Anyway, it's better than eating your neighbors.
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This.
 
I LMAO every time a toon gets squashed by an anvil, falls down a high cliff or gets his beak blown off by a shotgun. I guess I'm a bad person.
 
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