Saturday Morning Cartoon Collection warning...Saturday Morning Cartoon Collection war

[ryhoyarbie]

I'll add my two cents on this since I grew up in the greatness of 80's and early 90's cartoons.

From my understanding, parents and the FCC have been saying they don't want to have their children see "violent cartoons".

So from my understanding, is a 5 year old kid going to get an anvil and drop on someone just because the kid saw Wile E Coyote drop one on the Road Runner and miss? Nope. Didn't happen to me. I just thought the cartoons were funny and felt sorry for the coyote and his many attempts to get the road runner.

Darkwing Duck had a lot of explosions but it was a cartoon, and I didn't think nothing of it.

Animaniacs had the Warner Brother kids dropping anvils on people left and right, particularly Wakko dropping anvils on all sorts of people. But that didn't make me want to drop an anvil on anyone.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady firing laser guns at the turtles, but that didn't make me grab a gun and go shoot people.

Super Mario Bros had Mario, Luigi, and the rest hit blocks and getting stars, fire flowers, super leaves, feathers, and what not, but that didn't cause me to go up and bang my head on something hoping something magical would come out.

I also find it funny that the Scooby Doo Show has that kind of parental warning. It's a show where four people and a dog drive in a van and solve mysteries. What's so bad about it, other than Shaggy is a hippie and he and Scooby eat a lot?

 

[Drtooth]

Darkwing Duck had a lot of explosions but it was a cartoon, and I didn't think nothing of it.

Darkwing Duck was mindblowingly cartoonishly violent. Negaduck actually had a machine gun and shot up a movie theater... granted, it was at a screen. There was nothing BUT violent acts against Darkwing, who would stumble out, harrmed and dazed, but alright none the less. And NO ONE ever complained about it. And I'm thankful for it. Darkwing was an amazing cartoon, and very in the vein of the classic Looney Tunes.

Other than that, I don't see a humongous difference in cartoon violence. If anything, the new TMNT has been more violent than the original. One episode had a dark future where almost EVERYBODY died at the end. Where the old series had them fight robotic foot soldiers, there soldiers were clearly human.

So you can see why I'm bewildered about this.

I also find it funny that the Scooby Doo Show has that kind of parental warning. It's a show where four people and a dog drive in a van and solve mysteries. What's so bad about it, other than Shaggy is a hippie and he and Scooby eat a lot?

There's a DVD collection of Scooby that says that it isn't suitible for minors? Complete rubbish. Complete and utter rubbish. Kids still watch Scooby-Doo reruns. They even release the older series in those lame 3 episode kiddy disks. Warners has been using Scooby for kiddy show and DTV purposes since the 90's, and it's still successful to this day.

Other than that, I would like to point out that these DVD's, while nice, seem like a backhanded compliment from Warner Bros. The VERY studio that's been treating cartoons, Saturday Morning ones doubly so, with such disdain and incompetence for the last few years. but I won't.