Put it out, or I'll hit you with this anvil

[steviejay]

Smoke's no joke for Tom and Jerry

Children's TV channel Boomerang is to edit scenes from Tom and Jerry cartoons where characters are shown smoking.
The move follows an investigation by media watchdog Ofcom into a viewer's complaint that the vintage animations were not appropriate for young viewers.

The watchdog recognised the "historic" cartoons were made at a time "when smoking was more generally accepted".

However, Boomerang will only edit those cartoons where smoking appears to be "condoned, acceptable or glamorised".

Two such cartoons include Texas Tom from 1950 and Tennis Chumps from 1949.

'Stylised manner'

In the former Tom is shown trying to impress a female cat by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand. In the latter, Tom's tennis opponent is seen smoking a large cigar.

"We note that in Tom and Jerry smoking usually appears in a stylised manner," said Ofcom.

However, it said that "the level of editorial justification required for the inclusion of smoking in such cartoons is necessarily high".

"Depictions of smoking may not be problematic given the context," it continued.

"But broadcasters need to make a judgement about the extent to which a particular scene may or may not genuinely influence children."

*Sigh* another classic butchered by the PC Brigade. The episode mentioned, Texas Tom, is one of my favourite episodes, along with The Cat Concerto.

After one person, ONE PERSON, complained, an entire history has been re-written, because of one bucktoothed stain of a human being.

Now, I don't smoke, I never have, never will and never been that way inclined. So I can't really say that watching Tom and Jerry has made me want to smoke, however I must admit, it has made me want to hit that person quite hard with all manner of house hold objects in a comical fashion. People like that would drive a man to smoke.

Along with this, there is reports that the Arctic Monkeys are planning on changing the front cover of their album to edit out the fact that the guy's got a cigarette in his mouth. Now aparantly you can't have a cigarette in your hand, but having a loaded gun doesn't raise an eyebrow.

Pft, the world's gone mad.

Do you agree with the report?Do you think, like I, that it's PC gone too far? Or do you instead think that all smokers be dragged out kicking and screaming by their diseased lungs and stoned? Because if people like above were in power, they probably would be.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I pronounce a Fatwa on any PC infidel involved in altering 'Texas Tom'.

 

[Leatherneck]

PC went to far years ago and it is only going futher, but more and more people are growing tired of it as the things they want, stopped, banned, cut whatever get increasingly stupid.
WE just need to hit them with a skillet before they get that cut too.

So far it Amercan version haven't been changed, but I have the old one on DVD and they are about 99% entact, a few PC changes (mainly removal of black-face) not many, frankly I think it should be illegal/banned to tamper with someone elses work and if that work has smoking, drinking or whatever in it, either deal with it or don't watch it.

Thank God there are plenty if collectors out there saving the real deal and most can be had on DVD from auction sites.

 

[Xanikk999]

Wow... This is PC gone to far. I agree with the above poster.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

After one person, ONE PERSON, complained, an entire history has been re-written, because of one bucktoothed stain of a human being.

Does this mean if at least two people do a counter-complaint that this case is infringing on human sanity, the case may be reviewed?

 

[steviejay]

Pft, I wish. no, it's gone for good. How long do you think it'll be before Tom and Jerry simply ceases to exist?? All the good and happiness it has brought simply erased for the most pathetic reason imaginable?

Tom: Aww man, Jerry's in his home again, I know, I'll light a huge cigar and smoke him out. it'll make me look sick and green but dammit! he'll be gassed out and then I can.....
PC Brigade: SATAN!!! BANNISH THOU FLAME TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL!!
Tom: ..... ok.... I suppose I can just shove in a stick of dynamite and...
PC Brigade: LUCIFER!!! DOES THOU NOT FEEL SHAME!! DEAR GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
Tom:... I suppose I could hide behind the corner of the wall like always and cut him with a knife when he comes out to get this bit of cheese sneakily placed as bait...
PC Brigade: OH LORDY LORDY HAVE MERCY ON HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE DOES!! THE CHILDREN, THE CHILDREN....
Tom:... I suppose I could play some heavy metal music to force him out of his hole...
PC Brigade: AND HAVE HIM BRAINWASHED BY THE DEVILS MUSIC!!?? EVERYONE KNOWS HEAVY METAL PLAYED BACKWARDS IS THE UNDENIABLE WORD OF SATAN!!!
Tom: What if I just call him a name?
PC Brigade: BULLYING!!!
Tom: aww to hell with it, I'm gonna go play Grand Theft Auto
PC Brigade: *has a seizure*

 

[Tycoon101]

Does this mean if at least two people do a counter-complaint that this case is infringing on human sanity, the case may be reviewed?

No, they hate people who think for themselves.

Hey, if people want to smoke, it's their choice, not some fool in a chair who says that a cat smoking a cigar will promote smoking. Hell, if they go this far, they should just ban smoking in a house with children in it, it's not like that would be any different from what they are doing now.

 

[Masquerouge]

This reminds me of that time in France when they wanted to EDIT a picture of Malraux smoking a cigarette so they could put it on a stamp... I don't recall if they succeeded or not, but it's pretty stupid to try to change the past in order to make it suitable for the present.
"no, no wars in the Middle-Ages. Not one. Everybody lived in peace, and went for long walks in the woods."
"Slavery in Rome? You've got to be kidding me! Everybody was free and happy!"

 

[Tycoon101]

Pft, I wish. no, it's gone for good. How long do you think it'll be before Tom and Jerry simply ceases to exist?? All the good and happiness it has brought simply erased for the most pathetic reason imaginable?

Tom: Aww man, Jerry's in his home again, I know, I'll light a huge cigar and smoke him out. it'll make me look sick and green but dammit! he'll be gassed out and then I can.....
PC Brigade: SATAN!!! BANNISH THOU FLAME TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL!!
Tom: ..... ok.... I suppose I can just shove in a stick of dynamite and...
PC Brigade: LUCIFER!!! DOES THOU NOT FEEL SHAME!! DEAR GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
Tom:... I suppose I could hide behind the corner of the wall like always and cut him with a knife when he comes out to get this bit of cheese sneakily placed as bait...
PC Brigade: OH LORDY LORDY HAVE MERCY ON HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE DOES!! THE CHILDREN, THE CHILDREN....
Tom:... I suppose I could play some heavy metal music to force him out of his hole...
PC Brigade: AND HAVE HIM BRAINWASHED BY THE DEVILS MUSIC!!?? EVERYONE KNOWS HEAVY METAL PLAYED BACKWARDS IS THE UNDENIABLE WORD OF SATAN!!!
Tom: What if I just call him a name?
PC Brigade: BULLYING!!!
Tom: aww to hell with it, I'm gonna go play Grand Theft Auto
PC Brigade: *has a seizure*

Not quite, they are usually people with no religeon who just wish to impose their wills. They don't actually like the children, they just want to seem like heros while demonizing someone else. Being PC is how they how to gain power, and at the rate that they are going, it seems that it won't be long before they start crawling over EVERYTHING.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

This reminds me of that time in France when they wanted to EDIT a picture of Malraux smoking a cigarette so they could put it on a stamp... I don't recall if they succeeded or not, but it's pretty stupid to try to change the past in order to make it suitable for the present.
"no, no wars in the Middle-Ages. Not one. Everybody lived in peace, and went for long walks in the woods."
"Slavery in Rome? You've got to be kidding me! Everybody was free and happy!"

Yeah, thats why now all of a sudden the Pyramids were built by happy laborers, not slaves.

 

[Truronian]

Meh, that whole show is biased anti-cat propaganda.

 

[marioh]

Meh, that whole show is biased anti-cat propaganda.

Seriously. It's made to further the evil causes of rodents by putting a cute/cuddly light on those filthy vermin.

 

[Xanikk999]

Yeah, thats why now all of a sudden the Pyramids were built by happy laborers, not slaves.

Yes! And the phaoroe paid them all great wages and they had great job benefits!

 

[North King]

Yeah, thats why now all of a sudden the Pyramids were built by happy laborers, not slaves.

Actually, given the archaeological evidence...

Seriously, in history, revisionism is not a bad thing.

In art, though, revisionism is definitely a bad thing.

 

[Masquerouge]

Seriously, in history, revisionism is not a bad thing.

That certainly is an unusual viewpoint. I thought the generally admitted though unattainable goal was to be as objective as possible when describing what happened.

 

[garric]

PC is a creation if the left-wing, some of you seem to be forgetting this.

 

[philippe]

and christians, garric
I never saw a lefty or communist complain about grand theft auto, or smoking cigars in tom and Jerry

 

[El_Machinae]

Joe Camel says:

"Editing old cartoons is just not cool!"

 

[joycem10]

There was some controversy a couple of years ago when the edited out the "mammy" character from Tom and Jerry with a less stereotyped black woman. I can understand it, I just hate seeing stuff change to accomodate the political mores of the day. Way too 1984. I watched this stuff when I was a kid and somehow I didnt join the Klan while smoking 3 packs a day.

 

[De Lorimier]

PC is a creation if the left-wing, some of you seem to be forgetting this.

Do you ever stop trolling?
PC is not left or right, it's just sensible idiots. Wether these idiots vote for the Greens or the Republicans has little to do with anything. The same people screaming that Hollywood is corrupting our youth made Joe Camel and the Malboro man stop smoking. The budweiser frogs were also too big of an image for them. They're fools.