The CENSORSHIP of the CLASSIC TOM and JERRY Cartoons
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- The list of altered Tom and Jerry cartoons is so long that it’s practically impossible to cover them all. The Tom and Jerry cartoons are one of the most censored of all time.
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Wait...the very cartoons I grew up watching were actually too violent for my tender years? I didn't see violence; I saw silliness in their attempts to get each other. And they never succeeded in actually killing each other. Furthermore, I never imitated their antics. For me, a child of the 60s, it was just silliness.
Yup, me too. This stuff never gets old.
Hate how they censor all this stuff now as if its ok to rewrite history. Dont remember it causing me harm, and it seems that the people who censor and proclaim all this as now wrong are not giving people like myself the credit that I am intelligent enough to understand it was of its time. These are also the sort of people who have nothing better to do in their lives, and are generally unproductive people who would look to produce a 100 page manual on how to safely use a spoon…… really hate the generations of people we have now who credit us all with no common sense or intelligence…😅.
Yeah you're white so black face and mammie was funny to you! Not to me!
You mean that you didn't actually go and try to cut in half or smash or kill other kids to imitate what you saw in a cartoon? Me either, LOL!
@@zandorvorkov986 HAHAHAHAHA!!! JUST BE KIDS!
CORRECTION: Mammy Two-Shoes is NOT the maid. That is HER HOUSE and Tom is HER CAT.
In the episode "Saturday Evening Puss" (1950) Mammy Two-Shoes goes to play bridge with the girls. Tom invites some alley cats in the house for a wild party. When Jerry has had enough of this party, he picks up the phone and calls the house where Mammy is playing cards. During the conversation Mammy says "a party? At MY HOUSE?" and she takes off home to break it up.
So why americans find it offensive that black woman owns house and cat?
Or was it racism from KKK who can´t stand that such funny characters live in a house own by black person?
In the edited version, the teenage girl is at a dance party.
@@ananonymoususer4698 Racist people got it their way. They hate black house owner so they edited black character away. And even before they got kick off the black actress that voiced that character. Racists really hated original version.
I wonder when activists start request edited version of classic movies. We really are in a way to future like in movie Equilibrium.
@@Epero_SK throughout the shows early history.
Nope. As the maid, and presumably the only human character taking care of the house, it's her responsibility and her job, hence "her house".
I am a 56-year-old proud free black man who grew up watching the original unedited episodes of Tom & Jerry on Chicago's FOX 32 TV channel and I LOVED them!! I'm not an easily offended person and would love to find all the original clips on DVD.
Good for you, people are too easily offended these days .
Roosevelt Franklin!!❤❤❤
Thank you for your input, Sir.
Exactly,the woke have messed with Mammy but Tom,Jerry and Spike never could.
I belive all censors was just white and they dont really understand, what is ofensive or not.
All the censorship issues aside, I think that the classic series from the 1940s remains unmatched in animation quality, sound effects, and humor to this day. To me it's still in a league of its own. I'm not sure what code Hannah and Barbera cracked when they made that series but I sure hope somebody finds out.
One thing I have noticed with behind the scenes is they talk about their absolute control of the timing of jokes because it's a cartoon.
@@uheldigehelt I agree. There's also a lot of attention to fine detail when it comes to the physics of how things move and interact.
Cuphead found out
Don't forget about Scott Bradley's phenomenal scores. Without the iconic music, Tom & Jerry wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable
I think it's basically the formula of well-timed screen gags, combined with well-timed music, to compliment the aforementioned screen gags...
Tho; I would say that the music is probably the biggest part of making it work... As well as basically the dialog being kept to the minimum.
I'm 70, and I also grew up with original unedited Tom & Jerry, they were and still are the best. Being in the UK, I think we are a bit more relaxed about cartoon comedy and just enjoy them for what they are, a bit of fun, just like Benny Hill or the Carry On films, try to make them PC and they lose their shine. I've seen a few modern T&Js and they are not a patch on the originals.
My brother and I LOVED Benny Hill growing up. It showed late night on HBO, like 2 am or so. I Was too young to pick up on the sexuality of it. For me it was the silliness and visuals and sound effects. Was just a fun show.
I think that you can take the issue of censorship too far.
Tom and Jerry was only ever supposed to be good old light-hearted fun.
To censor stuff of that ilk is to ruin it.
@@neilburns8869 All the gags were fine, but the racial stuff was done not out of lighthearted fun, but mockingly. Racial humor can be fun in short bursts. I really enjoyed those jokes and was sad when they were edited out, but as a kid, I can tell you from experience, racial humor was for the most part about making fun of the black race, and kids will absolutely use it as a means of treating black kids like crap and think It's fun. I can't speak on other ethnicities, but I know I personally had my view based on what was given to me, and it was wrong. If you haven't seen it, one THE funniest things I've ever seen was Pat Paulson on Merv Griffin talking about racial humor, while in blackface doing it fully deadpan. My God, I watch it once in a while just for a laugh.
I'm almost 50 and saw them as a kid.
So it's its OK to show violent movies that kids can & do watch but not comic movies , I still say T& J , yogi bear , top cat some of the best shows going . Modern kids shows aren't even funny . Bring back the good old days .
I never saw Mamie as anything but the owner of both Tom and the house growing up in the shorts that featured her.
Same!
Absolutely! And I never thought her “stereotypical black lady” nature was disrespectful in any way. If anything, to me, she was a no nonsense authority figure who added to the fun of it all!
Only one who could even frighten Spike, a strong woman who happened to be black.
I also thought that
I have never understood why Mammy Two-Shoes has been censored from these films. As a child, I always assumed that she was the home-owner, but even if she was the house-keeper, so what? That's a perfectly respectable profession, and she was certainly the boss of Tom. She was also a hugely entertaining character: Always seen from below the waist- a cat's eye view- and brilliantly voiced by the great Lillian Randolph, her fear of mice and frustration with Tom was a high-point of these cartoons. To me, cutting out her scenes or, worse still, replacing her with a white character is surely a form of racial exclusion.
I liked the way she laughed.
She definitely was the home owner, it was made clear in a couple episodes. I really wonder how that is racist nowadays. A black person owning a house and a cat? Gotta love the libtards, they are racist to the max in their twisted "anti-racism" world and don't even realize it.
Me too. As a kid growing up in the UK, I only thought as Mammy Two-Shoes as the homeowner ready to give Tom a wallop at the end of the cartoon. I didn't see anything racial in it at all. Heck, I didn't even know the name was "Mammy Two-shoes".
I always assumed she was the owner and never knew her name until today. I'm curious to know how many black people are offended by her or is this just the woke crowd that doesn't like her?
@@GaryCameron780 I'd like to know that, too. It's interesting that we're all allowed to laugh at Homer Simpson. He's overweight, balding, stupid and an alcoholic.
. As a middle-aged, middle-class Caucasian man, I take no offense from that depiction. I actually find him quite heroic. Maybe that's easy for me to say because I'm not in a minority.
It would be intriguing to hear from our Brothers and Sisters from other races about their feelings concerning how they are depicted in popular entertainment.
I’m 44 and feel lucky that I got to grow up watching these cartoons. I was probably the last generation that got to see them unedited.
I'm in my early 20s now and remember a fair few of these bits. not all of them mind, but at least a few were still in syndication when I was a kid so some of these edits must be newer
Did we? I'm about your age. I loved Tom And Jerry, and Loony Toons. And I remember a bunch of characters being blown up, being beaten with bats and planks of wood. Shot in the face or backside with shotguns. Sylvester smoking a whole mouthful of cigarettes. Stuff I'm sure would not be in them if they were shown today. But I'm not sure I remember the black maid in Tom and Jerry, or the blackface scenes specifically. This video mentions a number of the edits were made in the 60s. So if I saw them in the late 70s and early 80s... I guess I saw the edited versions. Long time ago though, memory fuzzy.
I totally saw lot of the the racist scenes in the 90s as a kid on tv but I'm not American. I didn't realise there where that many racist jokes in the show (lot went over my head back then or I didn'tunderstand it was serious, like I had no idea what a mammy was), a shame honestly as it was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid. Even if I don't really like censorship I don't think it's funny and okay to joke about someone's ethnicity/race like that, imagine a little black kid watching and loving the show and then get made fun off and why couldn't they let Tom have a black owner without making her a mammy stereotype.
I remember watching them unedited as a kid. My grandmother (coincidentally somewhat racist) used to record them from the TV. I was never bothered by the violence but I do remember feeling uncomfortable about depicting black people as cannibals, even though I grew up in a place where we didn't really have black people.
I'm happy to show them to my kids. We talk about the stereotypes. There are too many people nowadays who bang on about how great things used to be and how terrible they are now. The reality is some things are better and others were worse. I'd rather my kids see the reality rather than through someone else's rose tinted glasses.
They love Tom and Jerry though.
@@acciid but they were and still are unfortunately!
When I bought the DVD sets of the old Popeye cartoons, they had a warning about how the cartoons reflect the times they were made in. They point out that the stereotypes in the cartoons were wrong then and are wrong now. The warning then says that removing or editing the cartoons would affect how they are watched.
They could have done the same thing with the Tom & Jerry cartoons.
Some of these shorts, I never knew they were edited. It's sad to that they were. And yes. I have to agree. They could have just put that warning label on it and left the shorts alone.
They did that on the Spotlight and Golden Collection sets.
Seeing such disclaimers means to me "Yes! Here comes the good stuff!" Like red labels on food showing how bad they are for you means "Yummy!" to me. ;-)
Termite episode best episode of Popeye
Nope! Glad they removed them racist shits! They weren't funny to me as a kid and they're not funny now! Fck Hanna Barbera!
Whenever Tom & Jerry was shown in shipboard cinemas in the Roysl Navy, and Fred Quimby's name came up, the entire ship's company would shout,
"GOOD OLD FRED!"
My dad was RAF and they used to shout out "Good Ol Quimby" and i still do to this day, Im 60 this month and dad is long gone.
My late father's first father-in-law apparently did the same. I'd love to know the origin of this now somewhat baffling service joke!
When I was a kid i always called him "Fred Twowinby" because I thought the Q in his name was a 2.
@@SNARC15 I have been saying "Twowinby" every time I see the name for all my adult life. I know it's Quimby but it's like I have to compulsively say it. Maybe I'm hoping to infect everyone else's minds into seeing it as that.
I really think that cartoons and shows should be released in the edited and unedited formats so that those who wish to enjoy the show without worrying about cultural implications can do so while those who want to see the videos which give insights into the time period social views can also do so.
People don’t watch cartoons for insights; they watch them because they are funny....at least, children do. Adults just project their own views onto children. Normally I would suggest they grow up but actually I just think they should shut up, especially nowadays.
Yeah because the libtarded morons who screech about racism and sexism would watch a 70 year old cartoon, lol. They are too busy getting ourated over everything and crying about it on Twitter. People who watch Tom & Jerry nowadays, are the people who grew up with it and they don't give a shit about what libtards call "racism".
Yes. there's a good case to be made for showing the originals alongside the censored versions. But what was wrong in the first place? Why is an endearing, funny character offensive?
Yes. there's a good case to be made for showing the originals alongside the censored versions. But what was wrong in the first place? Why is an endearing, funny character offensive?
Back in the 90's they used to air the original Tom & Jerry shorts unedited in the Netherlands on Cartoon Network. I saw them with all the blackface and suicide jokes. Yes, I remember the cannibal short very well.
And Blue Cat Blues was one of my favourites. I actually think it has a really strong message about people obsessing over a heart break. More children should watch that one.
It's also one of my favourites, despite its sad overtone. It is a way to make children understand how and why a person can literally ruin themselves out of love.
@Sandro Algra Barradas "Hop in pot! HOP IN POT!!!" lol
I'm 53, so I grew up with Tom & Jerry. As you show the uncensored versions, I remember most of them. I was watching these not only on tv in the 70's, but off reel to reel tape too, so I can't tell you if I saw any of the censored versions on tv or not, its been too long to parse that sort of detail after all these years.
I'm 71. Me too
I’m mid 50s and me too 😃
63 and ditto.
@@donpfoutz625 65 here and ditto
I'm WAY more a fan of Warner Brothers cartoons which were mostly absurd in a very funny way. They rarely resorted to cheap racist jokes. Based on this video, cheap racist jokes was Hanna Barbera's stock in trade. And WB didn't rely on gruesome violence as much as HB did. Not even close. Yes I grew up in the 60s.
When I was teaching in China and Korea, Tom and Jerry were one of the cartoons I was able to show on breaks that they could watch since there isn't much speaking, if at all, and the kids loved them so much. Tom and Jerry is the kind of cartoon that'll last through the generations, for the most part
They shouldn't!
I never felt any ill intentions from Tom& Jerry! Just a high quality cartoon made with love and passion! With it's clever silliness and timeless animations, it brought so much joy to young and old alike, and gave me so many laughs as a kid and precious memories!
I just think we live in such overly sensitive and weird times, where some ppl are just offended by anything, who can't even take jokes anymore!
Overly sensitive and weird is right.
It's a real shame because there was only a short window of time when the uncut cartoons COULD have been released on DVD with a "sensitivity warning" the way Disney and others did. That time is past now, the world is (sadly) a very different place, and the originals will probably remain gatekept forever.
Try torrents..
I remember watching Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. When I was in my teens, we rented a collection of their classic cartoons on VHS because it included our favorite Tom and Jerry short, Saturday Evening Puss. Our jaws dropped in disappointment when we saw Mammy Two Shoes edited out, but her original voice still heard. We thought the cartoon wasn't the same
Yeah. WTF? A black person? You can't allow that, surely. What idiots are making these decisions?
A majority of these unedited Tom and Jerry cartoons were still shown as late as the early '80s.
I remember too. Unfortunately, Ted Turner got his liberal hands on the Hanna Barbera library and began editing them for "offensive references". Case in point, when Mammy Two Shoes suddenly had a Scandinavian voice!🙄🤮
@@sirmojo4537
Some episodes they replaced her with a
Thin irish woman .
@@sirmojo4537 Selective censorship is a Conservative thing.
You must be joking, did you miss the sensitivity readers (censors) nonsense with the Road Dahl books? Effectively reimagining is also a subtle form of censorship. People who didn't create the tthe material want to recreate the material featuring elements which they think will "improve" it.
@@smythharris2635
I think the point Fraser Stewart was trying to make was that those of a liberal/left viewpoint would prefer to put the entire cartoon series down the memory hole.
Conservatives are just content with selective censorship.
The Liberal Left are just honest about their views.
Conservatives are disgusting, snivelling cowards.
No censorship should be allowed.
People should have the freedom to choose.
And not be allowed to impose their choice on others.
these cartoons were complete genius. i absolutely loved them as a kid.
They were all hilarious. I still find them funny at the age of 33. The uncensored versions are the best
To be honest I thought Mammy was his owner not a Maid.
As for the darker humour I remember it took until I was a Teenager to get the joke about the poor drowned Kittens in the afterlife.
The only thing that bothered me was when Tom got hurt and his voice would change and he would deeply intone "Don't You Believe It!".
It gave me chills as a little one.
The reference to radio program went over my head until Wikipedia became a thing.
To quote one of the episodes. Wham! BOOM! Repeat. The white mouse will not explode. Dont you believe it. LOL! 😃😀😄😁😆😅🤣😂
I never knew what a maid was - didn't have them where I grew up.
@@1950Grendel lol
I thought the same thing about Mammy
Mammy Two-Shoes is NOT the maid. That is HER HOUSE and Tom is HER CAT.
In the episode "Saturday Evening Puss" (1950) Mammy Two-Shoes goes to play bridge with the girls. Tom invites some alley cats in the house for a wild party. When Jerry has had enough of this party, he picks up the phone and calls the house where Mammy is playing cards. During the conversation Mammy says "a party? At MY HOUSE?" and she takes off home to break it up. Not the maid.
I'm 67. I grew up with ALL the originals. Not just Tom & Jerry, but Bugs Bunny and all the rest of the Looney Toons, Woody Woodpecker, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and of course, the toon with the most double entendres of all, Beany & Cecil. I've watched some of those old Beany & Cecil cartoons and I now understand why my dad always watched them with me - but didn't always laugh in the same places I did.
Edward Everette Horton's Fracture FairyTales are still good from Rocky and Bullwinkle. after "Hey Rocky, Watch me take a rabbit out of my hat" " Bullwinkle, That trick never works"
I don't recall a single time during my childhood hurting someone because of something I saw on Tom and Jerry. I knew that in real life Tom's and Jerry's antics would seriously injure or kill a person so would have never mimicked them. Kids always have been smarter than a lot of adults give them credit for.
Let me get this straight, they have an award winning movie called "The Help" in recent history, but Mammy Two Shoes is too controversial? It's hard to figure this stuff out.
I remember these. I also remember my dad telling me that I’m rotting my brain watching cartoons. And here we are still watching and talking about them! I’m sure there’s more than one Ph.D dissertation out there about Tom and Jerry, Bugs, Coyote/Roadrunner, etc...
Heck my Fiancee does a Comic Strip for a living so I live in a Cartoon and Comic Library.
If it was not for my interests I qoyld have never met him.
I love the classic cartoons. I'm sure I'd seen most of these on TV uncut and unedited. But, about ten years ago, there were some sites that had complete runs of cartoon series'. I downloaded, basically, all of them and made them into DVDs for myself. Maybe I'm different, but realistically, I never gave any thought about the negative racial connotations or the extreme violence portrayed. They were just silly and funny and great to watch. They still are. They've never influenced how I thought then, or think now.
I loved the Mammy Twoshoes character. She was an amazing house owner and one of the key characters that made the OG Tom and Jerry cartoons fun to watch.
It was especially funny watching her lose it whenever she saw Jerry and he would stick his tongue out at her.😂
Awesome! So now its o.k. for me to tell people that hanna barbara were racist bigots who made their fortune by promoting anti black sterreotypes.
they knew they're white privledge would protect them because most white liberal or conservative white people wont care any way.
I am so glad that I can teach my children that Walt Disney and Hanna Barbera were acceptable bigots.
Being 38 now, I remember seeing a lot of these cartoons and many others uncut when I was still very young. In particular I've seen both versions of Saturday Evening Puss, thinking at the time (when I saw the censored version years later) they were separate cartoons that had an identical premise. I know you could still find various cartoons on VHS in the 80's that would be too controversial now. I've even seen the banned Bugs Bunny cartoon "All This And Rabbit Stew" through a VHS I had when I was maybe 4 or 5.
I want my Tom and Jerry cartoons uncensored. Is it too much to ask?
One thing i do find funny is that they are in their fur clothes around the house but get dressed up in actual clothes for the beach.
Porky Pig walks around all day with no pants on. Yet, he'll put on bathing trunks when he goes swimming!
When i grew up in the 00s. In Sweden CN showed EVERYTHING you just listed as censored, no eraly cuts, no removed or changed dialouge (never even got dubbed to swedish) and no skipped episodes. i saw it all when i grew up. I always thaught Mammy as the owner and most references of blackface as just burnt hair and indian references have never really been seen as racist here. The violance is just silly goofy stuff that can only happen in cartoons and i REALLY miss old slapstic cartoons. As for ''blue cat bues'' that has always and will always be a wiered one, it has some fun gags but always felt off with me, even as a kid. It was always one of my favorite cartoons and i am glad that i got to enjoy it all.
I'm 61 and I turned out to be a well adjusted adult. These toons were fantasy nothing more. I never saw someone chase another with an Axe of anything else because of it. If anything the 3 of us kids lived for Saturday mornings and after school to watch and laugh and laugh we did.
The one I vividly remember was the bag of puppies thrown out of a car off a bridge. That one is a little sad, even for me as a kid.
But they all had been saved.
I always loved the episodes where Tom laughs maniacally before closing the door to kick Jerry's ass. Unfortunately for him some other animal is waiting to beat the crap out of him. You see all the commotion and hear Tom screaming for his life.
The name of the episode is "Solid Serenade ". Tom tries to romance a female cat by singing to her. I used to watch this cartoon in the early 1970s with my brother, cousins and dad. This cartoon used to have everyone rolling on the floor with laughter.
Spike the bulldog
@@tigerbread78 In this cartoon, he was known as " Killer", lol!
This can be fixed very simply. Sell two boxsets, one has the original cartoons and the second one for the sensitive delicate types of today. See which one sells out first.
Exactly!
No kid's ever thought the lady shouting "Thomas" didn't own the house.
The Mammy was actually the Master, not a servant because of a cat. Sad it had to be that way then.
I'm closing in on 70. I think I saw most of these unedited at movie theaters, usually before or between movies, but I really don't recall watching much of them on tv. I don't think kids in my era watched as many cartoons as kids in the later 60s and 70s watched. Maybe I just had good parenting, or maybe it's because I grew up delivering newspapers to black families and playing with black kids, but I don't think I ever took cartoon racism, sexism or violence seriously. I always knew it was just a cartoon.
Agree with you 100%. I didn't look at cartoons from a black vs. white viewpoint. I was young then as you in an age of where innocence existed.
Innocence still exists. You just have to keep your kids off the internet.
@@acciid Only until age 5. Then elementary schools teach the use of condoms and other PC social agenda items.
Without doubt fav episode is the relative of Jerry that needed Tom's whiskers for is guitar. That sound of breaking the string, pling!
I just realized: As a kid growing up in an European country in the 80s, I've seen almost all the uncut/unaltered stuff.
I never knew it was Tom&Jerry who messed me up for life... 😆
My favourite scene from a Tom & Jerry cartoon was where Tom and another cat were playing tennis, using Jerry as a ball. Tom runs backwards to hit a high 'ball' but ends up running through the mesh fence surrounding the tennis court. For a moment he stands there, then proceeds to break up into pieces. It's cartoon genius and guess what, I never thought for once this was too gruesome.
I don't agree with erasing history. So much is going to be erased no one will know their history so they will be bound to repeat it.
These cartoons were funny to us kids growing up..none of us knew what all the b.s. that you mentioned was about.
Black ppl knew, most were ignorant to it... but we know what black face is! Then and now!
@@its_taps It is what it is. Maybe Evolution will Fix Humanity... 🤔
I agree that the cartoons were funny, but I beg to differ with the idea that none of us kids saw the racial elements. I saw those cartoons in syndication on TV every afternoon for years (from when I was about 10 thru 14). The racial stereotypes were obvious to me then. Clearly I wasn’t calling for the them to be banned or censored, but those representations were born of racism. I’m still trying to figure out why audiences found the representation of Blacks as pickaninnies humorous.
Democrats fault.
@@byronmartin6459 Not even so. Has nothing to do with "politics", Just lots of deluded and ignorant people. Been coming for a long, long time. What rock have you been under? There's an abundance of fools in this world...
I saw them on Norwegian TV as a kid in the early to mid eighties, but I can't remember if these scenes were in them. All I remember is that my dad absolutely loved the show, and so did I.
De var usensurerte
Original is freedom, that's all we need. From an 33 years old french dude who will forever love Tom and Jerry
I pretty much grew up on Tom and Jerry. I also remember most of the uncensored versions. A few I haven't seen (the cannibals). These and Bugs Bunny (and that whole crew) were my life as a kid. I have NEVER hit anyone with a safe, or tried to run off cliffs... Great times. 🤟😎🤟😃😃😃
Ditto. Same here. Loved um. Thanks for posting this. I presume "this" will dissappear from "view" shortly, too...?
Speak for yourself. If someone points a Harry Potter wand and me and speaks some bulshit, I immediately drop an anvil on them; and nothing could feel better. I'm perfectly well adjusted.
To be fair, I did once paint a tunnel on a rock face. The hilarity.
I remember seeing most of these scenes well into 2000s on TV. No idea how it is now, haven't watched these in a long time.
Here in the UK I think one of the satellite TV channels acquired all the rights, which meant sometime in the late 80s, Tom and Jerry disappeared from TV. Unless you had satellite TV, which most people didn't.
As kids we had no idea.
We just thought Mamy was like Nanny in Muppet Babies.
Black-face always just looked like soot...
Maybe letting these things exist without highlighting the problematic parts helps us progress better by forgetting completely what these images mean, robbing them of their power...
As a kid, the only thing I remember disturbing me was when Jerry replaced Tom's nose with the cherry bomb!
The problem is if these people let people forget what this stuff meant then they'd lose something to complain and cause a bunch of problems for the rest of us about.
I remember watching the uncensored versions during the 90s and 00s on Danish and German TV.
The censorship started to crawl in around 2005-ish as far as I can recall. When watching sometimes with my family, they'd confirm things were altered or missing - so at least it wasn't me that was crazy 🙂
The Germans also have two versions - with and without a rhyming narrator, so there's that...
I'm grateful that I got to see the original cartoons before they were censored & I'm grateful I had parents that taught me right from wrong, so I didn't rely on the TV to teach me.
Exactly! TV doesn't rear children, and "wittle tender feee-feees" are WAY too sensitive!
What remember learning from cartoons like Tom & Jerry and more so from Loony Tunes of Bugs bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc, was the classic music played on some of the cartoons. I remember the Tom & Jerry cartoon where Jerry and I believe his nephew runnning water on the kitchen floor, freezing it, and putting multi color Jellow in front of a light, ice skating to famous waltzes. Then you have Bugs Bunny goes to the Opera. And Bugs Bunny playing a famous Lizt piano piece. Or was that Tom & Jerry. Sorry, I'm in my 50's so it has been a few decades since I watched these classic cartoon.
As for the blackface and violence in the cartoons, I feel that is can and should be used as both a conversation starter and a tool for learning between the child an the parent. Where the parent simply and without judgement asks their child what they though abouy the black facung and violence. Then, be silent and let their child share their thoughts, and the parent and just go from there. Still allow them to watch the cartoon if they wish to, while being ready to repond ro any additional comments or questions they may have. That way the child can learn about the reality of life today on their own terms, which while have a sharing and bonding moment with their parent(s). And, conversly, the parent and or parents also have important bonding time with their kids, while also causually becoming more aware of the children's viewing habits and interests without being helicopter parent.
On a somewhat related note my parents only drank socially and rarely, but I knew exactly where the liquor cabinet was. And because they allowed me to have a small sip of what they were drinking, I never felt I needed to rebel and raid the liquor cabinet. But then as a kid around 8 to 10 years old, alcohol like whiskey tastes pretty awful anyway, so not much interest going there.😉🤣
William Hanna did Toms famous Scream yell!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Unless my memory is wrong but I remember watching almost all these uncensored episodes on 90's Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Adult Swim.
It never occurred to me that the exploding tea pot bit was a blackface gag. I thought it was funny because he looked like a sunflower.
I grew up on T&J in the 60s. In one episode Jerry rescued puppies that been tied in a bag and thrown into a river from a bridge by someone in a speeding car. I was absolutely shocked that humans could do something like that to animals.
I remember that one! I was little and my mom told me that people did that back then!
I remember that scene so well too, it always broke my heart.
There were drowned kittens that went to cat heaven in the short Heavenly Puss that even disgusted the train director.
Tom's face being blackened by the exploding pot is not 'blackface'.
Sunflowerface?
agreed. His face gets blackened by the explosion. Its not racist. Its what you would expect. Its normal.
@@simontay4851 true
Then why were his lips red?
Blackface and Sunflowers were commonly in the old minstrel shows.
Loved it as a kid. I'm 57 and I still love it!
Your list of the numerous edits is freaking impressive!
As I said before, it's not an issue until someone makes it one. Thrse are cartoons for crying out loud.
As a child in the 60's, I saw all of these in their original format and even then thought they were brutal and racist.
My father was disappointed when they were finally edited.
It's a matter of empathy.
Something we seem to have lost as a society a long time ago.
Some people recognize that they're cartoons and not real, too.
Apparently, I was lucky enough to grow up with the unedited versions. I remember most of these scenes, with the exception of one or two.
Why wouldn't a child, or even an adult, watching the cartoons today simply assume that Mammy Two Shoes (who's never referred to as such in the cartoons themselves) is a Black woman living in a house? She's never seen answering to or taking orders from white people, and she only appears in a maid's uniform once (I think in the Thanksgiving cartoon); the rest of the time she's either in her bathrobe or in a house dress, or a coat if she's going out. In one cartoon, she heads for her bedroom at the head of the stairs, which is not where the maid's room would be.
Actually, cutting the character out of the cartoons is in its way even more insidious than keeping her in. So maybe she was the maid; so what? Would it make a difference if she were a French maid, or an Irish one (for a time they digitally "whitened" her, and had June Foray loop in the dialogue in an Irish brogue, which again is even more offensive)?
As for the blackface gags, okay, they may be unfortunate by today's standards. But then wasn't now. It's not hard to understand that people thought differently 80 years ago. But what's logic in the face of people having so much fun being offended?
Here in Europe, they also censored Tom and Jerry a lot. But more the violent stuff, not sure if they also censored the racist stuff.
I’ve seen these (at least the ones that made it to TV) from 1958 or ‘59 on TV. I remember Mammy Two Shoes with her original voice - they aired that way into the early 1960’s. Then when the picture was unchanged but the voice was dubbed, it was most often June Foray who did the new voice tracks. When Mammy was eliminated altogether, so were June’s new voice tracks.
I always thought of Mammy Two Shoes to be the home owner, not a maid.
She is the homeowner apparently at 1st it was implied she was a maid
Some of these comments don't seem to realize that most tv broadcasts were edited in some way starting in the late 50's. Not as much as later but they were still edited as reference in the video. This is not a new phenomena.
I can only imagine what gets censored by 2070.
Thoughts, feelings, memories, opinions, personality and the soul.
There'll be nothing to watch.
This was a fascinating video! Some of the Native American jokes and references are still broadcast on MeTV. It was also weird seeing the cannibal footage, as I'd never seen that one before. It's a genuine lost episode that I need to track down now.
I've seen the un edited versions, and they cracked me up.
Yeah, just like Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. As a kid, I never thought of dropping an anvil on someone.
They might have considered Mammy Two Shoes "racist," but she was a dead-ringer for Lilly, the black lady that drove to our house in the early 1960s in her big, powder-blue Cadillac, to deliver the laundry and help my Mom deal with my two under five-years old little brothers. She was a nice lady!
When I was about 5 or 6, around 2003 or so, Tom and Jerry was on Boomerang UK, and I watched it avidly. I am pretty sure the cartoons ran uncensored there. I remembered Blue Cat Blues very well actually, in fact there was a time around 2004 or 2005 that this episode seemed to air often, but I was too young (and innocent) to understand the suicide reference.
UK airings at this time also retained the original Mammy lines, and were not redubbed.
I was growing up in Hungary watching the unedited episodes. I didn't see violence or racism, but humour and sillyness.
I remember watching the original versions of these in England in the 60s and 70s. I loved them. The racist connotations went over my head (but these were the days of children's books like "Little Black Sambo"). I do recall some controversy about the level of violence, which I thought was just plain silly.
I Oppose changing the future by forgetting the past.. let things be what they were and let the audience decide what to think of it.
Such a tragedy that these timeless hilarious cartoons are censored just because of stupid hypersensitivity to racism.
Censorship is UnAmerican
I watched all these as a kid, it was a regular show on TV over here in the UK and included all the scenes that were later cut, back then it was just how things were but the do gooders with their insane political correctness had to change everything, this world has got pathetic!, i'm glad i grew up when i did, these days the slightest thing offends someone!
Never once did we think (1970s) blackface was racist in these cartoons, it was simply, they ran through coal or burnt from fire. As far as Mammy, she was admired and respected as the one in charge.
As a kid I didn't understand what the blackface gag was referencing at all. It was only later on when I grew up and saw those scenes edited out that I knew.
Good Christ.
White folks aren’t offended by black face. How SURPRISING 🤷🏾
Same! But she was hilarious that time that she saw Jerry sticking his tongue out at her and lost it, LOL.
@@juliemoore1411 And there you have it 🤷🏽♂️
I’m really happy the UNCENSORED versions are now available! Can’t say the same for a few Looney Toons episodes that have barely seen the light of day. Aka “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves.” I think that one is only on a bootleg VHS but it is posted online.
Available where?
@@jasont9294 Internet Archive
So glad to have grown up with the originals shown in the UK.
Tom & Jerry is my all-time favorite cartoon. Thank you for the video.
Van Buren left out again. 😭
They used the name Tom and Jerry in the 1930s but is unrelated to the Tom and Jerry we all know.
I'm 43. Back in 80s, I used to watch uncensored Tom and Jerry were on tv in my local town. Love it.
The thing is removing serious things like alcoholism from this shows doesn't make kids less likely to drink, as it clearly shows that it is a bad thing and not a good alternative. I never say Tom down a pint of milk looking drunk and then decided to raid my dad's whiskey cabinet.
I watched it in the 90's. Mammy two shoes was still in it. I never knew it was rscist nor did any one else my age. We just thought she was Toms owner. And we also thought she was rich. It was only in the last few year i found out about. So if no one mentioned it, I and others my age would have just thought she was Toms rich owner.
As a kid growing up in the 80s, most of the re-runs I saw did keep the blackface references, then one day just seemed to have disappeared. I didn't understand why they were offensive as a child, though I certainly do now. Even so, it's a part of history and deserves preservation, for good or bad.
I'm pleased that they are edited so kids today can see the classics and not learn derogatory stereotypes. Jim crow was actually racial fascism according to Mary Trump, so removing the negative stereotypes from common entertainment is good. The unedited versions will always be around as is "The Birth of a Nation" which Wilson showed at the WH. Social evolution is normal unless you think Darwin is Satan and Handmaids' Tail is best.
I'll never understand why tucker thinks M&Ms are sexy. He even checks out their foot ware, pumps vs sneakers. That channel is devolution in action as he admitted in the Dominion suit that their shows were all lies.
@@dthomas9230 boy you really went on a tangent huh? 🤣
@@roachfamily2434 the TDS is very strong in that one
So you had to be trained to find them offensive.
Grew up on these tropes from not only cartoons but also comic books like Tintin and Asterix ... they were always hilarious and didn't go beyond that even as I got older... Growing up in Africa (Kenya) there was no censorship so we got the full kit and caboodle 😂... all the black face, violence, racist bits, etc... loved it. There were some that doesn't make it to telly but most did.
Here in the UK , I bought Tom & Jerry volumes 1-6 on ITunes 119 shorts and can confirm these a uncut or censored
I saw many of these cartoons as a kid. When I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird in 9th grade in the mid-1980s I kept hearing the Mammy character's voice in my head whenever the book had a passage with the black maid. And for some reason the character in the cartoons has always made me think of Pearl Bailey, when it would have naturally made more sense to associate the cartoon character with Mammy from Gone With the Wind.
These were some of the funniest cartoons my brothers ever watched & enjoyed! This was in the 50's & 60's.Just waiting for the steamroller of the anvil on the head was hysterical and no we weren't affected by the violence just that you knew Jerry was going to get even with Tom!
I grew up in the 1980s, when most of these cartoons were still shown uncut on TV - even Blue Cat Blues! I do remember one edit from back in the day though. In "Quiet Please" after Tom catches all the lightbulbs, they cut Jerry sticking Tom's tail into the electrical outlet causing the bulbs to flash.
"Hey, Fred, dja like our ideas for a cat and mouse cartoon?" "Naw, I'm looking for something that's gonna make my name immortal, and I don't think the cat and mouse thing is going to cut it." ~ Fred Quimby.
I grew up on watching all the incarnations of Tom and Jerry from the uncensored to the Tom and Jerry Kids version. I remember there was one Tex Avery cartoon and that pulled that off and it was an opera one to where the singer was going through everything that this heckler put him through. What I remember was there was a scene in which he did turn blackface and in later versions, it was cut out. I see nothing wrong with parody as long as it's done in good taste and with cartoons, especially now, we'd find the jokes they do mention in other cartoons. Hell, I grew up on anime so I get it and not the least bit offended.
And the Hawaiian dance segment, which I found pretty funny, especially when the two rabbits punch the opera singer in the belly at the same time
Wow, amazing how many cartoons were censored. I have seen probably all of them, uncut. I loved Tom's scream!
Nothing like a Disclaimer to
Justify Censorship and Reconning! ⚡❤😬🥴🤮😇💛👁️
I am 61 and from the UK and remembered watching these on tv about 50 years ago just before the evening tea time. I remember the black female character and the racial stereotypes and how outdated they are now. There has been a lot of talk about censoring children’s books and those against it criticise this as being ‘woke’. These cartoons are no longer shown on mainstream UK tv and the racial stereotypes are quite appalling. They they were acceptable back in the 1940s and even needed is a big question.
Media should never be censored
They are no more appalling than Charlie Chaplin playing a tramp.
Some of the funniest cartoons I've ever seen. I grew up in the 80's watching T&J and some of the stuff I seen was absolutely hilarious! It's to bad people are so sensitive and they banned these episodes.
"Cue Ball Cat"
" The Cat Concerto,"
" The Three Mouseketeers"
" Dr Jekyll and Mr Mouse"
My favorite episode is when Jerry calls his cousin Muscles Mouse to beat up Tom.
I admit I enjoy the originals the best. They were intended for adults when made. “Mouse Cleaning” and “A mouse in the house” are two of my favorites.
I remember noticing that the cartoons were edited back in the 70's growing up. I did catch a few of the unedited shorts when they were on TBS. As much as I despise seeing the negative stereotypes as a Black man now, I wouldn't mind seeing them only for what it was back then. BTW Blue Cat Blues has been seen on MeTV a few times recently.
The Spotlight collection DVDs have many of the scenes that were censored. I haven't watched them in awhile, but on at least one of them you have to listen to Whoopi Goldberg talk about the racism and it won't allow you to skip over it.
@@zandorvorkov986 She was on the Looney Tunes Golden set with the same message. Maybe one day I'll get the set.
Only a racist will see anything wrong with these cartoons. Censorship is stupid.
Exactly!
We've missed so many amazing episodes because of this 😞😞