[bomp] Re: But the Anvil-To-The-Head scenes can stay - Wholly Smoke!

["T" <Tedsoh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If all smoking scenes are removed from these cartoons, that measn that you 
might never again see "Wholly Smoke".
Made in 1938, it was a Porky Pig cartoon that cautioned kids against 
smoking. In it, Porky takes the nickle that his Mom gives him for the 
collection plate at church and buys a cigar. He gets nauseous and has some 
topical cartoon hallucionations, then swears off smoking.

But you can't have kids seeing cartoon characters smoking!!!

This reminds me a bit of the do-gooders that got Speedy Gonzalez taken off 
the air. After all, he was active, productive and resourceful. Terrible 
stuff.... He often had to get his 2 friends (I forget their names) out of 
the trouble that their slow, lazy, slothful ways got them into. Let's see.. 
2 lazy bums gets themselves into trouble due to their bad habits. In comes 
the hero to save them - someone who's always getting things done, never 
lazy, always accomplishing something.

Here's an article on the PC ban of Speedy - 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48872,00.html

>From the end of the above article -
"Speedy boosters shouldn't expect to see their furry hero anytime soon, at 
least in the United States, Goldberg said. But there is a place where Speedy 
can still be found zipping across TV screens - and, presumably, where the 
crude stereotypes he embodies don't touch a cultural nerve. That place: The 
Cartoon Network Latin America, where, ironically enough, Speedy Gonzales is 
"hugely popular," Goldberg said."



Anyway, to end on a musical note, let's go twitchin' in the kitchen with 
Manolo Munoz !!!!!

Manolo Munoz sings Speedy Gonzalez -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTltiPQi4Ys
Well, I'm ready for a Winston break with Fred and Barney -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5-LMkLQVQ

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