Cartoons can't smoke no more

[Teheheman]

They were worried about the cartoons Tom and Jerry smoking on TV? So, it's ok to have a mouse hit a cat with a shovel, but it's not OK to smoke? Go ahead and blow a cartoon cat up but you better not light up afterwards. How stupid is that

Daniel

 

[Kiki]

Y'know, a similer 'no-smoking-in-cartoons-or-wherever-because-it's-BAD-influence' scenario happened to me donkey's years ago.
I remember in primary school i was giving my buddy a christmas card i had hand done. I drew all kinds of people on it, there was someone who was having a smoke. I gave it to her and she was so wrapped she showed to her teacher. The teached liked it and all but practically forced me to white-out the fag (!) I mean, what's up with that?! Grr.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Not that I agree with their logic, but I think the general reasoning is that cartoon violence is so unrealistic and silly that there's less chance kids will imitate it. Whereas, smoking is something you see in real life all the time.

I kind of understand, I mean, I wish smoking would start to fade from our world permanently. But I'm not crazy about censorship either. Violence and smoking on TV is not our society's biggest problem.

 

[Vic Romano]

Not only do Patty and Selma smoke cigarettes, but Krusty the Clown smoked moon rocks from a crack pipe as well as lit his cigarettes with $100 bill, a pearl necklace and a copy of Action Comics #1, and Homer smoked a stick of butter. On Family Guy, the Monkey in Chris' closet, a teenage Stewie, Lois and Peter all rolled and smoked joints and Brian did coke AND Cookie Monster baked cookie dough on a spoon like heroin. So this should be interesting to see how writers dance around this.

 

[D'Snowth]

Not only do Patty and Selma smoke cigarettes, but Krusty the Clown smoked moon rocks from a crack pipe as well as lit his cigarettes with $100 bill, a pearl necklace and a copy of Action Comics #1, and Homer smoked a stick of butter. On Family Guy, the Monkey in Chris' closet, a teenage Stewie, Lois and Peter all rolled and smoked joints and Brian did coke AND Cookie Monster baked cookie dough on a spoon like heroin. So this should be interesting to see how writers dance around this.

Adult cartoons can get away with that stuff. Not so much with children's cartoons. I mean, they are JUST NOW being allowed to get away with using the word "fart".

 

[Vic Romano]

Really!? Well then I guess it just comes around to what children's cartoons are smoking? Granted there was smoking in the old Bugs Bunny and Flintstone cartoons, but what so called children's cartoons today have smoking?

 

[Drtooth]

Personally, I feel this is a debate about parental groups trying to sheild kids from Reality. No one can "die," you can't even SHOW guns, and violence always has to be downplayed... and I think it's wonderful that a lot of shows DO show violence dispite that (The New TMNT for example is way further violent than the 80's version). But the guns and death are non-negotiable.

There's a Japanese series I love called One Piece. One character, Sanji, smokes. They digitally edit it so it's a lollypop (I'd a made it a toothpick, myself, but that's just me). Now, I can applaud them on the fact they can't show him smoking in America, since in the original version he started smoking at a young age to prove he was cool. Now that I'll agree is a bad example. I hate the fact they have to do it, but I can kinda admire the reason.

Some things are just silly when they are edited out. I still can't understand why Candy Cigs aren't sold in mass markets or convience stores (try local touristy town Mom and Pop candy stores), but they still sell realistic lookin' toy guns.

 

[salemfan]

Adult cartoons can get away with that stuff. Not so much with children's cartoons. I mean, they are JUST NOW being allowed to get away with using the word "fart".

Well, adults know if the story was set before they knew smoking was bad, but to write for kids, one has to write it to appeal to a modern American audience so the age level of the viewers can understand. Kids don't understand between the past and the present like adults do.

 

[anytimepally]

I don't mind cartoons not being able to smoke anymore.. if you can't write quality, entertaining cartoons without smoking, maybe you should find another line of work.. I've never watched a cartoon and thought to myself, 'man, this would be so much better if that guy had a cigarette!' ... but, of course, if your kids actually were to pick up smoking because they saw a cartoon doing it, you're not really doing a very good parenting job, either

 

[Drtooth]

Getting rid of smoking in cartoons is once again sanitizing kids from reality. Plain and simple. You can't even smoke in a movie anymore unless you want to be reguarded as a porno flick.

I hate smoking as much as the next guy, but these groups are becoming overbearing nazi wanna bes just like Action for Children's Television and the health nuts that don't like looking at fat people, and pretend to care about our health.

We do have a twisted society. We have the wrong morals and wrong values that say that some minor thing is wrong, but we can't be bothered to help the poor. We live in a world where the only way to end voilence, obesity, and smoking is to censor the shell out of anything some moron would think a 5 year old would watch, when the ratings say otherwise. Let's turn a blind eye to kids REALLY smoking, kids really shooting up, kids huffing random household cleaners (and having the nightly news tell us exactly how to do it), kids really talking like sailors (matt and Trey's thesis when creating South park, kids really do talk like that at a young age), and kids stuffing their faces for compensation for something else.

Hey parents, keep up the good work buying your kids toy guns, but making dang well sure One Piece has "Mallet" guns so no child will be warped. Oh, and thanks for ignoring the big warning sticker on GTA that says Mature players Only and giving it to your greedy 5 year old son who shouldn't even have a PS3.