Toons
 

Some of my favs, Monty Python

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2JatiDKQM&NR=1

that's . . . quite strange

A couple of years ago, I walked into work one morning, and the chick who was doing the AR job was standing on the top of her desk, dancing around, because there was a mouse in her office.

I offer you this video, because she reminded me of it.

Someone say cartoons?

I saw this one for the first time in the student theatre, at the university my parents attended while I was in grade school (about 35 years ago). Watching it again, I see now I never realized Betty Boop was Jewish. There's probably a lot of other things going on that I'm not noticing, but oh well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg

I love to view the banned ones from simply a historical contex. It is so surprising how politically correct and sensitive we have become over some of the most mudane things.

the betty boop one was interesting. I had to look up Minnie the Moocher to find out why it was banned (drug references). Looks like Michael Jackson may have found some inspiration from Cab Calloway.

But that song, when sung by Cab is fantastic. And given the stuff we can allow in rap songs, these "banned" cartoons seem quite tame. Esp the references to race.

But you can't forget the sexual references.

sure. Minnie was a ho

And her boyfriend got her hooked on drugs.

She messed around with a cat named smokie
She loved him bad though he was cokey
He took her down to chinatown
And taught her how to kick the gong around

Now let's compare that to some of our most recent and popular rap songs, which have not been banned.

You have to take into consideration when the toons were "banned".
If they are really banned, how come I can see them on the net?
They weren't really banned, they were taken out of circulation in commercial venues/broadcasts, for not being politically correct at the time.

Only recently have legitimate copies been available for purchase. And some are still available from very limited sources. I challenge you to go into a brick and mortar book store and buy a copy of Briar Rabbit.

Song of the South (Brer Rabbit) is available all over the net. There isn't enough demand, for brick and mortar stores to carry anything but popular stuff. Most of these banned toons, however, are short and Song of the South is a full length movie, so it's not a fair comparison of marketability.