Canadian kids cartoons less restrictive?

[Mew Guy]

Is it just me or do Canadian kids cartoons get away with more stuff than the American ones?

In an American anti-drugs episode, characters can't use drugs. Just things that are similar to drugs.

In a Canadian anti-drugs episode, characters can smoke or drink. There was smoking in The Raccoons and drinking in Braceface.

[Dudley]

American cartoons can get away with very little these days, thanks to the damn FFC.:mad:

[Peter Paltridge]

Canadian kid shows can't say "war." Beast Wars became "Beasties" and "Bucky O' Hare and the Toad Wars" was changed to "...and the Toad Menace."

[Batgirl Beyond]

Canada less restrictive? Ha! This is the country that banned the Power Rangers.

But I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

[Pepperidge]

They can say "war" in the cartoons, I just think YTV, specifically, was hesitant to air shows that contained "war" in the title during their daytime schedule. Though they could probably get away with it now.

But for the most part, yes, because we don't have a serious case of watchdog groups breathing down the necks of programmers, Canadian kids shows can get away with far, far more than American ones. The banning Power Rangers thing was a very isolated incident.

[livingfruitvirus]

American cartoons can get away with very little these days, thanks to the damn FFC.:mad:
They have absolutely nothing to do with it.

[Frank]

They have absolutely nothing to do with it.Then who is responsible for all the censorship in American cartoons?

[Peter Paltridge]

Lydia Karaoke, Network Censor.

[Happy]

Then who is responsible for all the censorship in American cartoons?
The networks, they are afraid of losing sponsers if they air to much bad stuff.

[Dudley]

The networks, they are afraid of losing sponsers if they air to much bad stuff.
Is that the reason we don't get cartoons that are violent as Batman Beyond on broadcast TV anymore?

[livingfruitvirus]

Maybe. Kids WB has since become the you-cant-do-anything-cool police. Even though Fox Box allows heavier fighting and violence with weapons.

It's not the FCC though. The FCC regulates broadcast equipment, and only fines stations for indecency or obscenity. And EVEN THEN, they always find every excuse to not fine television because TV has become so powerful and rich that they scare the FCC, and so the FCC takes out their frustration on the radio industry.

[TimTwoFace]

As far as I know, most TV shows and networks in Canada are far less restrictive than their American cousins. The only thing different is the ratings system.

On TV, whereas the US ratings system goes Y, Y7, PG, PG-13, R, etc...the Canadians seem to like to bump it up by a year: C, C8, PG, 14+, etc...

In the movies in the same deal. Go figure.

-Tim

[shogunthethird]

it's a combination of factors, first off America was founded by the puritans...yeah the jokers that brought you the Salem witch trials? yeah, that's them....and the general belief that kids need to be protected from anything realistic, violent or stimulating in any way, and then you've got the parents groups who refuse to take responsibility for their actions...and of course the parents contact the lawyers and politicians and the show gets edited, cancelled and the networks possibly get fined, so in an attempt to protect themselves from lawsuits and bad press, they can't show anything offensive lest they get sued or worse...and thus the rest of us get shafted thanks to a few morons with connections....yeah it sucks I know

[livingfruitvirus]

Unfortunately America is currently stricken with this touchy feely baby boomer generation of parents that stick their noses where they don't belong, give their kids lots of drugs, and say they care about their kids when really they just use them to push their own ajenda. Hopefully the up and coming Gen X parents will be different.