Something sick about Courage ep...

[Zim_Zany9000]

Remember the last cartoon cartoon friday where they had the new Courage the cowardly Dog ep, and they went to Holly Wood,
fell into the sewer which was really that things stomach and perform or get digested....

Well I have a gripe with only one part....

The part where Courage pulls Eustace out of the stomach acid
and his lower half is all bones...

It's just sick if you ask me...

would you want you're kids or siblings seeing this..?

As surely it could traumatize the more delicate and/or sensitive
viewers..?

It kind of bothered me that CN would allow the show to get away with Y7 for that ep...

And Looney tunes has done a few outrageous things in their time that were even eventually censored but never anything this gross.. you're views? opinions?

[Tobias]

As long as there was no blood, I don't think the censors have a problem with it as long as Courage was fine in the next scene or by the end of the show.

People have different ideas about what is sick, and I'm not saying this to offend you in anyway, but a lot of kids and adults probably found it funny.

[Numbuh 4]

Bottom half bones isn't that sick, wuts sick is when Dib is inside out.........
:rolleyes: judging by your avatars you know who dib is
wait... the guy changed his... :(
but thats not the point

point is i personally don't think its sick, therefore its not! For you see i am a God!!!

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[Zim_Zany9000]

Not many things sicken or bother me, but it's just the mocking
of human catastrophe...

Alot of people have suffered in real life from tragedies such as
falling into vats of acid at producing plants and died and the loss
of limbs and I consider this to be a horrible parody of freak accidents....

if it was meant to be funny... I certianly didn't see it...

It'd wouldn't be funny if Courage got worms either, now would it...?

[HellCat]

Courage is an off the wall comedy. It's not setting out to insult anyone. Lots of cartoons have characters turning to bones when they touch acid. A Simpsons ep had Bart being a skeleton everywhere below the neck.
Courage crosses comedy with horror and does an incredible job of it. Don't get so nit-picky about something that's meant to be fun.

[pidget bill]

Originally posted by Zim_Zany9000
Remember the last cartoon cartoon friday where they had the new Courage the cowardly Dog ep, and they went to Holly Wood,
fell into the sewer which was really that things stomach and perform or get digested....

Well I have a gripe with only one part....

The part where Courage pulls Eustace out of the stomach acid
and his lower half is all bones...

It's just sick if you ask me...

would you want you're kids or siblings seeing this..?

uhh Dude bad things almost ALWAYS happens to Eustace in many CtCD episodes(getting Blown up, Shot into space,turned to stone,etc..etc..), so I think people would have gotten use to stuff like that by now.

and that's basically what Courage is all about, Creepy Gross humor. which is why I like the show. :) Just don't know what your going to expect next.

[hdofu]

Originally posted by Zim_Zany9000
Remember the last cartoon cartoon friday where they had the new Courage the cowardly Dog ep, and they went to Holly Wood,
fell into the sewer which was really that things stomach and perform or get digested....

Well I have a gripe with only one part....

The part where Courage pulls Eustace out of the stomach acid
and his lower half is all bones...

It's just sick if you ask me...

would you want you're kids or siblings seeing this..?

As surely it could traumatize the more delicate and/or sensitive
viewers..?

It kind of bothered me that CN would allow the show to get away with Y7 for that ep...

And Looney tunes has done a few outrageous things in their time that were even eventually censored but never anything this gross.. you're views? opinions?

Courage is quite tame compared to some twisted cartoons in my opinion. Take some of the stuff they managed to get away with in Rokko's Modern Life, he was having discussions with Parasites, or Ren and Stimpy, how they passed either of them off as children's cartoons is beyond me. Courage is definitely not children only programing, but by the same thinking you can find just as bad stuff in Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff girls (the one with cloning, man that horrified me that the writers would put that type of @#$% in a kids cartoon)

[Tea]

I think you're looking a little too far into this..

Tom and Jerry is more violent than Courage, for one. And I suggest you never watch the Ripping Friends (Some of that stuff surpasses Ren and Stimpy on the gross factor.). In my opinion, that isn't very disgusting. If it is too much for kids than there is "Baby Looney Tunes" and the other children shows they show early in the morning. Besides, I don't remember Courage on an early time slot.. I never found the show funny, just weird and eerie which was the point of it, right? I always thought CCF was more of an "all ages" sort of thing. Or am I wrong?

[ROBBOT]

Tom and Jerry is a violent toon, I aggree

[UltimateGirFan]

Some Looney Tunes cartoons are violent too. Like sometimes the ending where the characters shoot thereselves (yet CN got rid of those scenes).

I noticed something about CTCD though. The new ones seem to be more scarier than the old ones and Courage hardly says a word.

[UltimateGirFan]

But I really didn't like the ending of Ball of R evenge that much.

[hdofu]

Originally posted by ROBBOT
Tom and Jerry is a violent toon, I aggree

Who could forget one of the Mousecateers episodes where tom met the Gilitene at the end... Ah memories

[The Jinjo]

Courage isn't a gross show. It has used gross out humor, but every cartoon has. Most of the time, the comedy isn't sick stuff, but when it, they know how to do it well.

[UltimateGirFan]

Courage the Cowardly Dog is never gross to begin with, it uses gross out humor instead. R&S did have some gross moments, but always turned out to be funny that way. IZ also has some gross moments sometimes like in Dark Harvest for example.

[weirdojace]

I just loved the part in the Courage ep "Night of the Scarecrow" when Courage's heart fell out because he was so scared. It's pretty gross but I just LOVE that!

[UltimateGirFan]

And in Magic Tree of Nowhere where he goes on top of a mountain and screams so loud. lol

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by Zim_Zany9000
Remember the last cartoon cartoon friday where they had the new Courage the cowardly Dog ep, and they went to Holly Wood,
fell into the sewer which was really that things stomach and perform or get digested....

Well I have a gripe with only one part....

The part where Courage pulls Eustace out of the stomach acid
and his lower half is all bones...

It's just sick if you ask me...

would you want you're kids or siblings seeing this..?

As surely it could traumatize the more delicate and/or sensitive
viewers..?

It kind of bothered me that CN would allow the show to get away with Y7 for that ep...

And Looney tunes has done a few outrageous things in their time that were even eventually censored but never anything this gross.. you're views? opinions?

Oh please. The world isn't a pretty place. Nature and life is about blood, bone, viscera, pus and death. I LOVE it when courage gets gruesome. I love it when anything gets gruesome. It's cool and it's realistic. Any child who would be upset by that or any similar scene is a WUSS and just plumb deserves the trauma. It'll harden them into a real person.

What can I say? I was born on halloween. I love horror. I think all children should be exposed to a certain amount of death and "graphic" injury just so they understand how the real world works.

[CookieS]

I think one of the reasons Courage works is because it has that unsettling feeling. When I watch, I'm never happy with the way things turn out, but that's good. Some of the enemies are just freaky? Remember the zombie director?

[CourageEditor]

Spongebob is pretty gross too. Epiosdes including "the nasty patty", the onion and ketchup sandwitch,the dead food inspector, and many other situations which are a little disturbing. :p

[Scythemantis]

Yeah, and Eustace is crueler and crueler to the end and doesn't always pay for it (though it's great when he does.)

One thing I don't get is people talking about the "humor" in courage... it's really not a comedy, it's just supposed to be weird, cool and artsy. :)

[Evana]

i think like, violent in cartoons are so common these days,
i think it influences the kids, they are getting more rude and..violent them self >_> i was once watching tv with my younger brother, he saw some cartoon with some kid biting
everything, later when teh show ended, he bit me in da leg! evil.. stubid >_<

[UltimateGirFan]

Originally posted by Evana
i think like, violent in cartoons are so common these days,
i think it influences the kids, they are getting more rude and..violent them self >_> i was once watching tv with my younger brother, he saw some cartoon with some kid biting
everything, later when teh show ended, he bit me in da leg! evil.. stubid >_<



Good thing that never happens to me.

[Courage-Bagge]

I've never seen anything sick on Courage before! But one time on Cow and Chicken I saw something sick where Chicken, Flem, and Earl were running through junior high school naked on their first day.

[Zim_Zany9000]

I don't expect the world to be a pretty place...
It's just the demoralizing of shows...The Rudeness and disrespect for human tragedy and catastrophe... I've seen alot of sick things
in my life time on tv and real life, and I'm not some pansy...

I just wonder what we've become when we can glorify
something terrible in a parody of real life which is
of all things a children's show.

I do happen to like Courage for most of it's qualities as well as
Ren and Stimpy and Invader Zim....

Maybe it's just trauma from watching all those alien/scifi horror movies as a child, like a personal fear that makes one slightly cringe when reminded of it.

[Scythemantis]

As some shows become less moral, others become more sophisticated and deep. Everything grows more extreme in the media, wether positive or negative. It's always been that way.

And I can always fall back on the most reliable argument there is: it's just tv :p

[wrenchien]

nick probably allowed the grossness and innuendo in the latter episodes when they realized adults were watching it as well.. so they decided to pander to both adult and kid audiences with some of the newer ones.

still, you'd think you'd have seen it coming when spongebob, in the very first episode, chops himself up while tiny tim's song plays in the background and falls apart.

the panty raid thing in the latest one.. is definently meant for adult or teens which is spongebob's greatest audience now.. but didn't make me laugh any less he could seem so innocent yet snap :D

[UltimateGirFan]

My guess is once they got to the 3rd Season of COurage, they foucused on making it a little more scary oriented.

[ChuckRoast]

Yup, I think it's around the third season where Courage gets a little violent. Remember the time when Courage's organs were inside-out when he screamed?

You should be used to Eustace getting beat-up, getting "killed", and having unpleasent endings in a few episodes, it's sorta a chiche. Heck, he was "killed" in the pilot (if you can call it that).

[The Jinjo]

A little off the topic, but I just wanted to say that season 3 was probably the worst Courage season. It had lots of good ones, like Dome of Doom, Snowman's Revnge, CourageVS. Mecha Courage, but it just had so many misses. Not that they were bad, it's just that Courage is such a good show, it's hard to always live up to the previous week's episode. And as for being more violent in season 3, i disagree. In season 1, there was the Shadow of Courage. The shadow made it look like Muriel pulled her head off, with blood and all. And Freaky Fred? No, not violent, but it was a daring move by CN. I'm surpried this never go banned, the effect it gives off on the audience is so chilling. :eek:

[Steve Carras]

Some Looney Tunes cartoons are violent too. Like sometimes the ending where the characters shoot thereselves (yet CN got rid of those scenes).

I noticed something about CTCD though. The new ones seem to be more scarier than the old ones and Courage hardly says a word.

I;m not the biggest Chuck Jones fan of his later years but I noite that Courage seems like the classic CJ Porky Pig/Sylvester "check into a haunted house"/space cartoons (SACAREDY CAT,1947, CLAWS FOR ALARM, 1954, and JUMPING JUPITER,1955).Thiugh it must be addmited CtCD does have original aspects like Muriel..and it does have real oldtimers liker CHuck McCann et al.doign voice.s

[Atoon]

Yeah, and Eustace is crueler and crueler to the end and doesn't always pay for it (though it's great when he does.)

One thing I don't get is people talking about the "humor" in courage... it's really not a comedy, it's just supposed to be weird, cool and artsy. :)
You're right. I think that the 1st season was the most funny. I was surprised much when I laughed a lot when Courage re-wrote the script in "Everyone Wants To Direct". Because it isn't a joke, the situation is amused.

But I don't sure if Courage is more scary in the last seasons. I think that the villans are more silly.

[Matthew Hunter]

I just think that if you're offended by it, don't watch it. I think Courage is probably the best of the Cartoon Cartoons, and its offbeat, strange, and creepy humor is what makes it funny. I have not seen the cartoon you are referring to, but I'm sure it was meant to be funny, not offensive. Like the aforementioned "suicide" gags in some of the 1940's Warner cartoons, these funny, outrageous and violent gags are meant to do something funny that only animation can. It's not REAL, it's just a CARTOON! I'm not sure it's kids who don't get that, I think it's parents and censors being paranoid. Frankly, I think censoring gags like this on TV is far too common. (see the censored cartoon Page on the Unofficial Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies page!) Folks, it's people who get worked up over nothing like this that are ruining animation, both past and present. :mad:
-Matthew