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Ccook50 · 01-02-2009, 03:28 PM

Great to see the classic WB cartoons again. Just some caveats about them:

Many of the Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1942-48 (those screened) were the "dubbed versions"--the Leon Schlesinger films in particular were films like The Wabbit Who Came To Supper (1942) which for some reason bore the "That's all folks!" ending title from 1937 (yellow concentric circles and lower case "F" in the word "folks") and the disclaimer note at the bottom stating "Dubbed version." With WB releasing the cartoons on home video in their original forms, you'd think CN would tap into them instead of the "editions" they've run since 1995.

A few of the 1950s cartoons were run in speed-up mode. Duck Amuck was among them and that's tantamount to drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.

Noted editing out of scenes in specific cartoons. The last sequence of Show Biz Bugs (1956), where Daffy ingests numerous flammables and toxins then swallows a match and explodes as part of his act, was removed obviously to prevent from being exposed to impressionable young minds. The cartoon ends after Daffy's booby-trapped xylophone backfires on him. That's understandable. I'm not sure if The Daffy Duckaroo (1951) was shown, but in past, Nickelodeon and CN edited the final scene for some reason. Daffy says "I said I was gonna clean up this one-horse town," doffs a street-cleaner's cap and takes a clean-up barrel in tow. CN and Nick ends the cartoon there. What was cut was Porky turning to us and saying "Lucky for him this is a one-horse town!" With all the bathroom humor permeating cartoons today (and even the presumptuous bed-wetting scene in 1944's Tick Tock Tuckered), why this scene was cut is a mystery.

01-02-2009, 03:28 PM	#7
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	Great to see the classic WB cartoons again. Just some caveats about them: Many of the Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1942-48 (those screened) were the "dubbed versions"--the Leon Schlesinger films in particular were films like The Wabbit Who Came To Supper (1942) which for some reason bore the "That's all folks!" ending title from 1937 (yellow concentric circles and lower case "F" in the word "folks") and the disclaimer note at the bottom stating "Dubbed version." With WB releasing the cartoons on home video in their original forms, you'd think CN would tap into them instead of the "editions" they've run since 1995. A few of the 1950s cartoons were run in speed-up mode. Duck Amuck was among them and that's tantamount to drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa. Noted editing out of scenes in specific cartoons. The last sequence of Show Biz Bugs (1956), where Daffy ingests numerous flammables and toxins then swallows a match and explodes as part of his act, was removed obviously to prevent from being exposed to impressionable young minds. The cartoon ends after Daffy's booby-trapped xylophone backfires on him. That's understandable. I'm not sure if The Daffy Duckaroo (1951) was shown, but in past, Nickelodeon and CN edited the final scene for some reason. Daffy says "I said I was gonna clean up this one-horse town," doffs a street-cleaner's cap and takes a clean-up barrel in tow. CN and Nick ends the cartoon there. What was cut was Porky turning to us and saying "Lucky for him this is a one-horse town!" With all the bathroom humor permeating cartoons today (and even the presumptuous bed-wetting scene in 1944's Tick Tock Tuckered), why this scene was cut is a mystery. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius) Last edited by Ccook50; 01-02-2009 at 03:30 PM.