Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)

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dang• 2 years ago

Added above. Thanks!

lupusreal2• 2 years ago

Seems to be missing entries for the Censored Eleven.

shermantanktop3• 2 years ago

Good riddance. It’s antiquated trash.

Others may cherish this stuff as a tribute to free thinking or whatever, but I’m happy to see the lack of distribution as a sign we’ve learned some things. This isn’t Chesterton’s Fence or the Mona Lisa, this is just racist humor aimed at boomer kids.

krustyburger• 2 years ago

So they were aimed at boomer kids despite all 11 cartoons having been released before 1945? How odd.

pessimizer• 2 years ago

Not including this stuff where it belongs is gaslighting. Black people should know what their boss laughed at when he was a kid.

It's also literal whitewashing to take all of the black people out of the past, even if white people depicted us as clowns and monsters. I should be able to say "your grandfather depicted me as a clown and a monster." Better than being a problem swept out of frame.

trbleclef• 2 years ago

Just remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a Warner Bros. ball cap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA

dylan604• 2 years ago

<shudder> 1-900 numbers. So they give you a number to order something from their catalog, but not only will they get money from you for the items, it's also $1.50 per minute for the call. "I'm sorry sir, but our systems are running a little slow today" to the point your 1-900 fees are more than the items your ordering.

function_seven• 2 years ago

No, no. It's ok. The 900 number is just to order the catalog itself. Once you get that, then you place your orders the regular way.

(Or, that's what the scumbags told themselves, I'm sure)

I think the only thing that outdoes this is the Santa Claus commercial that would play the DTMF tones for the kids who didn't know how to dial a phone. I can't find an example now, but I've seen it before, and Wikipedia has a reference to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#...

biofox• 2 years ago

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leephillips• 2 years ago

This is an amazing resource (for those of us who love these cartoons). Thank you for sharing it.

forgingahead• 2 years ago

Nice find. My favourite was always "I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque".

Good explanation from Quora[0]:

The old Route 66 (often referred to as “The Mother Road”)—which opened in 1926 to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles—was the main method of heading west until the 1950s and the building of modern superhighways. (The trek of numerous Okies and other rural families made destitute by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s has been memorialized in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.”) Route 66 travels through Albuquerque—and actually intersects itself in the middle of downtown (ie., you can stand on the corner of Route 66 and Route 66)—so lots of people likely got confuddled and turned around while driving through Albuquerque…like Bugs!

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-statement-in... (Sean Griffin's answer)

staticman2• 2 years ago

I'm guessing younger people don't understand what a big deal the Looney Tunes used to be. With less channels and less cartoons in the old days, they were something kids would watch repeatedly in reruns. You didn't have a choice of several "cartoon only" channels if you wanted to watch a cartoon.

Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)

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