That’s a clever twist, as is setting up a song as “primitive savage rhythm,” before they end up performing “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” White people are the worst.īlack Elmer Fudd, right down to the speed impediment. He says, “And here we find a typical Aborigine, completely untouched by civilization,” before his subject takes out a camera and snaps a picture of us. If you pay close enough attention to “The Isle of Pingo Pongo,” you’ll realize that the joke isn’t on the jungle “savages” it’s on the white narrator who consistently doesn’t give the natives enough credit. That makes about as much sense as a dog working as a traveling salesman. “Jungle Jitters” takes place in a village in Africa where everyone is black (and cannibals, of course) - except for the queen. This Uncle Tom fellow was certainly popular in the 1930s. If Snake Eye wins, he gets to blow up Heaven, a.k.a.

If the angel wins, Snake Eye’s son, who’s on death’s door because of a ghastly paper cut suffered from one of his dad’s playing cards (did I mention he’s a poker player, too?), can pass through the Pearly Gates. That sounds like a setting in a Nic Cage project, where Cage plays Snake Eye Jawbone, who enters a winner-take-all game of craps with an angel sent from above. More religion, but this time, it’s not about Hell, but Heaven, which has been renamed Pair o’ Dices. What happens if you don’t go to church and raise the dickens? In “Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time,” you go to Hell, get tried at the Hades Court of Justice, and are then forced to watch a dance routine from Satan’s “big-lipped demons” until the end of time. Title: “Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time” (1936) There’s something inherently funny about a loose-limbed steamship. The first of the “Censored Eleven.” I wish boats and other large vehicles would start moving like humans in animation again. Title: “Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land” (1931) You can watch the whole thing here (it won’t embed). It’s an equal opportunity offender - and man, that jazz score. Well, that’s not totally true, but at least the short makes fun of everyone, from blacks to the Japanese to midgets to white people (“So White”) to “refoogies,” which I assume is a Jew joke. Once you get past the “Coal Black” thing, it’s not… that bad. Title: “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs” (1943) They have been unofficially uploaded online, though, along with four other controversial clips from other cartoons that will likely never appear on your DVR. Basically, they’re really, really racist (or RAYCESS, as it were), and to this day, they’ve never been broadcast or officially released on DVD. They were deemed too inappropriate to air on TV. But then I saw some shorts that I didn’t remember ever being on TV, with titles like “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs” and “Uncle Tom’s Bungalow.” I had come across the infamous “Censored Eleven.”īack in 1968, a heap of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were put into syndication by United Artists – with the exception of 11 shorts made between 19. gang, and going through them on YouTube was like being seven years old all over again, minus the bowl of Sprinkle Spangles cereal. So I did what I often do when I get mad at “Family Guy”: I watched Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies clips online.Ī childhood doesn’t count unless you’ve watched a ton of cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and Foghorn Leghorn and the rest of the Warner Bros. It was so lifeless, expressionless, and oddly static, as if the animators were more interested in background continuity than doing anything interesting with the background. It had nothing to do with the lazy writing, terrible jokes, or Peter being an overly cruel oaf I’ve gotten used to be irritated at all that. On Monday, when I watched the previous night’s new episode of “Family Guy,” I got upset.

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