Turner Broadcasting to cut smoking scenes from classic cartoons

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08-23-06 | 08:35 AM

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08-23-06 | 11:00 AM

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08-23-06 | 11:12 AM

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unreal - this is getting ridiculous Turner Broadcasting is becoming fascist.

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09-26-06 | 05:47 PM

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so this for UK TCM only right?

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09-29-06 | 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ

Don't forget that Rapist Pepe Le Pew or Yosimite Sam's love of the Confederacy.

Don't forget the suicidal pepe le pew, i know one short he threatened to shoot himself in the head since the cat didn't like him.
They've been doing this for awhile with cartoons, isn't that little mexican,( i mean spanish, i mean latino, oh what the hell ever he is) mouse, speedy something banned from the cartoon network.

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09-29-06 | 05:01 PM

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At least we have YouTube, so we can still see a racial stereo-typing Snow White cartoon or Donald Duck as a Nazi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOeN7bS_XQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Xvj...elated&search=

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09-29-06 | 05:06 PM

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I'm fine with this. Those broadcasts are meant for little kids. Do the lack of cigs make them and less funny? And it sounds like the bad guys still get to smoke - just like real life

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10-29-06 | 02:14 AM

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then if they don't think its ok for kids...they shouldn't air them at all...plenty of Powerpuff girls and the like to go around 24/7

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10-30-06 | 10:33 AM

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Now that cartoon chararters won't be smoking anymore, I'm sure no more kids will ever pick up smoking ever again. I grew up on cartoons and never smoked one cigarette but the removal of them now makes me mad enough to want to shove one in the mouth of Turner's kid or grandkid to get them hooked.

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10-30-06 | 10:13 PM

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I'm fine with this. Those broadcasts are meant for little kids. Do the lack of cigs make them and less funny? And it sounds like the bad guys still get to smoke - just like real life

Well I know a lot of older people watch and enjoy the cartoons that are ran on TCM and Boomerang. Capturing a nugget of childhood all over again.

The only reason I don't care for these types of edits is that these cartoon's are a part of our history. A reflection of the time, and you loose something, however small, when they go in and make changes like this. Who in their right mind started smoking because of Tom & Jerry anyway?

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10-30-06 | 11:42 PM

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I can tell you...

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Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

I think I just missed the cut-off point for children being turned into complete and total pussies.

when they quit playing Dodgeball in PE. That was the exact point where our kids became pussies. Dodgeball should be required at every PE class in the nation and hell, we should all have to play it at work for 30 minutes every day as well!