Classic American Cartoons

[Hobbit]

You see, this is how we, as a country USED to portray people whose goal was our destruction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZiRiIpZVF4&eurl=http://www.cracked.com/article_16959_5-classic-cartoons-they-dont-want-you-see.html

It's not a fake. It's not edited. This cartoon won the 1943 Academy Award for best animated short and launched Donald Duck's career. This is an actual, factual, classic American cartoon...but then again, so is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJt2L7riSLE&eurl=http://www.cracked.com/article_16959_5-classic-cartoons-they-dont-want-you-see.html

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGD6nYQpc6c&eurl=http://www.cracked.com/article_16959_5-classic-cartoons-they-dont-want-you-see.html

Eh, not all change is bad.

[Little-Acorn]

Firewall at work doesn't let me see Youtube videos. Don't know how many other people have this problem.

I recall a cartoon from my youth showing a Hitler-like figure who was continually shouting and screeching incoherently at a podium, and every now and then gets his butt kicked or a pie thrown in his face, etc. When it happens, he looks around and bellows, "SCHULTZ!!!" Some major cartoon character was in it, could have been Donald or Bugs or Porky etc., I don't remember which. Wasn't Popeye or the Roadrunner.

BTW, "classic" cartoons are classic only because old people like you and me, saw them as kids. Does this make them "better" than present cartoons? Is Bugs "better" than Spongebob (the two characters are actually very similar)?

When my 10-yr-old son is 50, he'll be looking back fondly on those old, classic Ed, Edd, and Eddy shows, and lamenting that his kids in turn have nothing but trash to watch.

P.S. Course, Even I have a tough time seeing anything worthwhile in a cartoon character consisting entirely of a blue semicircle with a blue square below, and a couple of round circles for a face, who doesn't even have any arms and legs to swing when he moves, has a grand total of two facial expressions in his repertoire, and goes by the inspirationally-conceived name of "Blue". And when another cartoon features the Grim Reaper himself as a silly, comedic figure whose head occasionally falls off, I do have to wonder where we're going.

P.P.S. Did the "classic" cartoons of our day, have the same amount of time spent with characters simply screaming in hysteria at the top of their lungs in reaction to something that happened in their scenes? Is this what we substitute for humor or cleverness nowadays? Even when the big bulge of water traveled down the hose and exploded in Daffy Duck's face, he at least jumped around and bounced off trees during his bouts of hysteria... and that hysteria was his unique trademark, rather than being something you can see in every cartoon and live "comedy" show in existence.

[Mr. P]

Firewall at work doesn't let me see Youtube videos. Don't know how many other people have this problem.

I recall a cartoon from my youth showing a Hitler-like figure who was continually shouting and screeching incoherently at a podium, and every now and then gets his butt kicked or a pie thrown in his face, etc. When it happens, he looks around and bellows, "SCHULTZ!!!" Some major cartoon character was in it, could have been Donald or Bugs or Porky etc., I don't remember which. Wasn't Popeye or the Roadrunner.

BTW, "classic" cartoons are classic only because old people like you and me, saw them as kids. Does this make them "better" than present cartoons? Is Bugs "better" than Spongebob (the two characters are actually very similar)?

When my 10-yr-old son is 50, he'll be looking back fondly on those old, classic Ed, Edd, and Eddy shows, and lamenting that his kids in turn have nothing but trash to watch.

P.S. Course, Even I have a tough time seeing anything worthwhile in a cartoon character consisting entirely of a blue semicircle with a blue square below, and a couple of round circles, who doesn't even have any arms and legs to swing when he moves, and goes by the inspirationally-conceived name of "Blue". And when another cartoon features the Grim Reaper himself as a silly, comedic figure whose head occasionally falls off,, I do have to wonder where we're going.

OMG things are going to get worse! ???? :eek:

[LiberalNation]

paying taxes is good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsOOfU59SM

[Mr. P]

paying taxes is good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsOOfU59SM

Must be something only a kid can laugh at.

Wait..I got a diff video..did you edit, LN?

[LiberalNation]

is it not showing as taxes to defeat the axis