Additional Notes

To show that I'm not copying the old Censored Cartoons Page wholesale, instead of alphabetical order, I'm listing the censored shorts by chronological order. 

Bear in mind that the Looney Tunes cartoons (the theatrical ones) ran from 1929 with "Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid" to 1969 with the Cool Cat cartoon "Injun Trouble", even though the last Warner Bros. theatrical short that was shown censored on American television was the 1968 Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales cartoon "Skyscraper Caper". There are also the post-Golden Age shorts that have been shown edited, such as "The Duxorcist", "Fright Before Christmas", "Duck Dodgers and The Return of the 24th-½ Century", "Blooper Bunny", and "Museum Scream". 

While this may seem like an impossible mission, I feel that writing it will be easy, but getting video/picture evidence of the cuts made will be difficult.

I will also go over the Censored Eleven cartoons and which ones are worth a look, point out the Banned Bugs Bunny 12 cartoons (the ones that were never edited when aired on TV, either because they used to run uncut before getting banned or were never aired on TV in the first place), and get a head start on the edits done to the Tom and Jerry shorts, as well as the ones made by other studios, such as MGM and Fleischer. Disney won't be covered, because I don't have much experience in finding edits (besides the common ones most people know, like how Fantasia no longer has any scenes of the black girl centaur, or how Aladdin had to change a line in their title song, "Arabian Nights", to remove a reference to ear-cutting).

Updates will try to be every Friday/Saturday, though this is subject to change due to outside obligations (work, family issues, and other projects).

As always, any additions, corrections, disputes, advice, praise, and criticism is welcome. Just be respectful and don't try to kiss up to or hurl abuse at me. If you are more experienced than I am when it comes to Disney edits, I welcome any information and evidence as long as it's real. I just want people, no matter what studio cartoons they like, to see what censorship has done to their childhood memories (or current memories) and to seek out the uncut version of what they love, if it can be found.

And now to start this blog right with the proper theme song...

Introduction

This blog is a look at how the classic cartoons (specifically the ones from Warner Bros., though I will try to include examples from other studios and some modern examples) were shown censored on American television, and the occasional rare cases of censorship from other countries and theatrical re-releases.

There used to be a website dedicated to the edits done to non-Disney cartoons, but it hasn't been updated in years and now lives on as an archived website. Though the days of seeing edited cartoons on television are more-or-less over due to the Internet, home media, and streaming providing uncut (or as close to uncut as possible, as some shorts have scenes missing and said to be lost to time) versions and networks finding it easier just to ban anything considered offensive (specifically works considered racist, sexist, or considered in bad taste due to a recent event or a celebrity that has become problematic in the public eye), American TV channels such as MeTV and Boomerang still air with shorts edited and, with people discovering old recordings of Warner Bros. installment shows, I can now prove or disprove the entries from the old website with links and video evidence.

This blog is for those who have fond and not-so-fond memories of seeing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts cut for all manner of inappropriate content: violence, dangerous behavior, drug abuse (mostly alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, and pill-popping), outdated racial stereotypes, crude, suggestive, and tasteless humor (a rarity, but it happened a few times); and disturbing and distressing issues played for laughs (suicide, homicide, sexual harassment, etc). It's similar to the old website, just a newer, unauthorized version of the old Censored Cartoons Page, with new entries, corrected and updated older entries, less pretentious language, and a look at how editing for any reason (censorship or to "make room for commercials") can change and/or ruin a work.