Inbetweener
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Aug 22, 2006, 9:23 AM
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UK to BAN Tome & jerry SMoking secne
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5271470.stm
Smoking scenes from T&J are to be CUT although... the very serious pain, mad injury and all other violate stuff getting NOT cut
OFCOM ( UK watchdog has lost the plot!
Why
This is becoming joke I think I going to buy the original DVD
Um does the DVD have all the original stuff on it? Included the original speech of the woman, as it was change in the mid 90s; by tunner
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Apprentice
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Aug 22, 2006, 11:10 AM
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Indeed! If everything else in entertainment was as blaise as Interactive Screen Show from Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (which it's getting to be these days) I could understand. But in a age where kids can watch swearing squirrels on YouTube, Dennis Leary on DVD, guitarist Slash chain smoking on MTV,
and lord knows what all is available on X-Box games and cel phones these days... For some British codger of a puffty fart to be 'offended' by a couple of cartoon characters that are historically older than they no doubt are is 'morally reprehensible' to me. That's like getting Steven Spielberg to put 'happy faces' on all the Nazi images in Schiendlers List, or change the expolsions and napalm scenes in war movies to have comical slide whistles and spring noises to not frighten the nervous. It infuriates me that cartoons are always at the brunt of some over sensitive person compensating for the lack of their bad parenting skills to be chastised and retooled. Yet completely ignore the fact that the most popular television shows in the past 10 years condone smoking AND drinking as the least of the plot vehicles. The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, King Of The Hill, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, Home Movies, Drawn Together - and the list goes on! All of which have not been retooled, condemned, or can only be had from some underground video store, or late night screening. But to cite a 60 year old Tom & Jerry cartoon because there was '2 instances witnessed'... Don't EVER let your kids grow up then, or they just might idolise Dale Gribble!
As the British would say... 'Utterly revolting!' 
(This post was edited by StevenWest on Aug 22, 2006, 11:12 AM)
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Supervising Animator
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Aug 22, 2006, 12:59 PM
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I agree. Most people can't seem to understand that cartoons were not invented for children. And because of that, they freak out over anything that's not PC in classic toons. I also believe kids by a certain age should be able to understand the difference between cartoons and reality. Just because it's OK in cartoons doesn't mean it's OK in real life. If the kids don't understand that, the parent should teach it.
But the censorship will continue, which I can handle as long as the originals are still available to the puplic in it's entirety.
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Aug 22, 2006, 2:41 PM
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Same with me. I feel that you shouldn't cut out any footage from cartoons or the entire thing. For ex, I wanted to see Beauty and the Beach from Pokemon (for more details, click here), but no, as I expected. Back to T&J. Personally, I don't think that kids are dumb enough to smoke cigars (at least I'm not).
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Apprentice
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Aug 26, 2006, 5:09 AM
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Oh Dear Tom and Jerry smoking in a few sences for a few seconeds. I think I will go down to the shop to buy some cigerattes. Sarcasm
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Inbetweener
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Oct 4, 2007, 6:30 AM
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That's not fair! For example in an T&J Episode "Professor Tom" A cigarette had a roll, and it doesn't got banned.
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(This post was edited by DenisAndrejev on Jan 21, 2008, 1:15 PM)
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Key Animator
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Oct 4, 2007, 10:44 PM
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Are there any LT cartoons that cut out smoking? Or (okay I'm beating the dead horse again) censor or not show 'The Three Caballeros' in the UK?
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Oct 5, 2007, 9:41 AM
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When Cartoon Network used to air "Bugs Bonnets" and "Wideo Wabbit" from 1956, they used to cut out the scenes with Bugs and Elmer smoking. I know that since 2001 they left the smoking in for some reason.
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People think I am crazy just because I didn't like "Ratatouille." Am I REALLY crazy, or do I see things differently?
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Supervising Animator
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Oct 5, 2007, 12:01 PM
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On ABC's the Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show-the scene in "Hare Do" in which Bugs is playing with the intermission sign-there is an cut scene in which the audience rushing out of the theater to take a smoking break.
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Bugs Bunny cartoons are not supposed to feature a lisping Viking rabbit hunter enthusiastically professing his operatic love for a bunny in drag.
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Inbetweener
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Nov 23, 2007, 4:37 PM
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Either Boomerang UK isn't doing a very good job of censorship, or they've dropped this idea. I saw Zoot Cat yesterday and all the smoking scenes are in there, from Tom parading his new outfit while smoking a cigar to Jerry stubbing out a cigarette in Tom's nose.
Boomerang UK has completely lost its way, though, exactly as I'd feared. From broadcasting predominantly Hanna-Barbera cartoons, it morphed into showing a real golden age of Dangermouse, Inspector Gadget, Animaniacs, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, Taz-Mania, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century, Garfield & Friends, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Tex Avery show and so much more....until...
Oh dear. 30% of the programmes aren't even cartoons any more, Foster's Home is on (never liked it), that latest abominable incarnation of Scooby Doo is on, Tom & Jerry Tales is there (limp and soulless), and Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes make up just one hour on the schedule these days- how long before censorship worries and an influx of cheap crud buries them altogether?
Am I right in thinking Boomerang in the US has become like this?
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Key Animator
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Nov 27, 2007, 10:39 PM
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Nothing remains the same.
Trust me, I go to retrojunk.com a lot and I write how much things change overtime.
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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