Banned 11 Bugs shorts?

[Killtacular]

I'm curious to know the titles of the 11 shorts that WB hasn't aired yet on CN.

Because PuffUncle(PPG comic guy) mentioned the June Bugs marathon over the Powerpuff GT forums, and he said that for this year's June Bugs, CN was only barred from airing 7 Bugs shorts.

As opposed to 11, like last year.

These are the ones he mentioned were snipped from this year's June Bugs:

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
All This And Rabbit Stew (1941)
What's Cooking Doc? (1944)
Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips (1944)
Herr Meets Hare (1945)
A Feather In His Hare (1948)
Which Is Witch? (1950)


What are the other 4? And since when did CN get the rights to air these 4 banned Bugs shorts? I'm curious. Have they aired at some point during the ACME Hour or will they be airing for the first time at June Bugs?

[lislebartman]

The missing titles:

Any Bonds Today? (aka Bugs Bunny Bond Rally)
Mississippi Hare
Frigid Hare
Bushy Hare
Horse Hare

"What's Cookin', Doc?" & "Frigid Hare" can pretty much be taken off the list since they have been broadcast on CN as of late.

[rodney]

So.....does this mean that Mississippi Hare *is* going to air?

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by rodney
So.....does this mean that Mississippi Hare *is* going to air?

I really wouldn't count on it. It has never aired on CN before. I doubt they are going to start now (especially after last year's mess). It sounds like a bit of misinformation to me (what the Powerpuff Girls comic book guy said). But "we can dream can't we??"

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

(For the record, "What's Cooking Doc?" was NOT pulled from last year's June Bugs.)


-Jon

[Pilmedium]

Mississippi Hare
Bushy Hare
Horse Hare


I would love to have those cartoons on a video, although I don't have my hopes up yet.

[chuckamuck43]

Thanx to one of our coolest suburban TTTP board members (:D thumbs UP, dude!) I have all of them.

After re-viewing them, the only one that's offensive (not to me personally, but I can understand someone else having a problem with it) is All This And Rabbit Stew.

BUT - (big but) in the name of film and animation history (and a little thing called ART) I think they ought to run them ALL. Disclaimer 'em, run 'em at 3 in the morning, but for goodness sake RUN 'EM!

[Jack]

Aside from All This and Rabbit Stew, I could only see them having a problem with Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips. All the others are harmless, and many even aired on Nickelodion and CN in the early 90s. There is no reason to to ban Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, What's Cookin' Doc?, and A Feather In His Hare from June Bugs, especially when they let Time Squad get away with having Indians in it.

Also, IMO, Herr Meets Hare could air in the regular rotation, I just don't see what is wrong with it (or most of the other WWII cartoons like Plane Daffy, Fifth Column Mouse, and Daffy The Commando). It has Nazis....so what?

Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Jack
Also, IMO, Herr Meets Hare could air in the regular rotation, I just don't see what is wrong with it (or most of the other WWII cartoons like Plane Daffy, Fifth Column Mouse, and Daffy The Commando). It has Nazis....so what?

If I remember correctly, my local WB network played ALL of those one time on some show called The Bugs Bunny Files, that played pre-1948 cartoons (nothing special, just bumpers of LT animation, the only one I can remember correctly is Sylvester dancing in a tu-tu from "Hippety Hopper" :p ).


Also, there was a scene in "Fifth Column Mouse" with the cat saying some carbled Japanese for a few seconds, with buck teeth, but that could be snipped out (TBS did that in the 1990s).



Thad K

[Matthew Hunter]

That's funny...the only place I have ever seen "5th Column Mouse" is on public domain videos...yet it doesn't specifically mention World war II, and it's actually a very good cartoon. Why it's never on TV, I am not sure.
-Matthew

[Pilmedium]

Originally posted by chuckamuck43
but for goodness sake RUN 'EM!

After the awful schedule changes Cartoon Network is making (and already made), that's the least they can do. Not that they care.


Originally posted by Matt Wilson
What's Cooking Doc? (1944)


Originally posted by Jon Cooke
(For the record, "What's Cooking Doc?" was NOT pulled from last year's June Bugs.)

Interesting that they would skip that one, all it has is a clip of a "banned cartoon." It even aired on last year's June Bugs. :(


Originally posted by Jack
It has Nazis....so what?

CN probably fears that politically correct groups will take that as an offense to Germans. :rolleyes:

[rodney]

I can understand Herr Meets Hare not airing regularly, but the occasional airing shouldn't be a problem.

I agree that there's nothing offensive in Mississippi Hare, Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and A Feather In His Hare, but we have to ask ourselves if CN even were given prints of these cartoons from WB.

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by rodney
I agree that there's nothing offensive in Mississippi Hare, Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and A Feather In His Hare, but we have to ask ourselves if CN even were given prints of these cartoons from WB.


CN has prints of all those Bugs cartoons in their library. Trust me.


-Jon

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
That's funny...the only place I have ever seen "5th Column Mouse" is on public domain videos...yet it doesn't specifically mention World war II, and it's actually a very good cartoon. Why it's never on TV, I am not sure.
-Matthew

It was also on the excellent Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons video.

[frogboxer]

I don't really understand why any of these cartoons are banned (with the exception of "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips"). All they do is stereotype different non-white ethnicities. What CN and "PC police" fail to realize is that the creators of Warner Bros. cartoons also stereotyped whites. Just look at "Herr Meets Hare," "Hillbilly Hare," and "Mississippi Hare." Yes, that's right, I said "Mississippi Hare." If Colonel Shuffle ain't a stereotype of the "Southern Gentleman," then I don't know what is. People ought to focus their "political correctness energy" on things that truly are racist and leave cartoons like these alone.

[chuckamuck43]

Originally posted by frogboxer
Yes, that's right, I said "Mississippi Hare." If Colonel Shuffle ain't a stereotype of the "Southern Gentleman," then I don't know what is.

How DARE ya'll! Choose yo' weapons, suh!

:D