so my kid was watching the Warner Bros. version of Horton Hatches the Egg

MrCoffee

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Thu Jan-03-08 10:35 AM
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so my kid was watching the Warner Bros. version of Horton Hatches the Egg

it was made in 1942. there's a scene where they're transporting Horton and his tree across the ocean on a ship to put him on display, and this fish swims up, sticks his head out of the water, looks at Horton, turns to the camera, says "well now i've seen everything!", pulls out a revolver and shoots himself in the head.

in a cartoon.

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Phillycat

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Thu Jan-03-08 10:36 AM
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1. Holy crap, really?

Dude, your kid is totally scarred for life.

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MrCoffee

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Thu Jan-03-08 10:38 AM
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2. i don't think it fazed her at all...MrsCoffee and i were freaking out

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Parche

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Thu Jan-03-08 01:19 PM
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3. Scared The Caffeine Out of you?

:shrug: :hi:

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Rabrrrrrr

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Thu Jan-03-08 01:21 PM
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4. One of the funniest moments in all of Warner Brothers cartoons! Sadly, prudish self-righteousbitches

in their 1970s stomping out of "garbage" on TV made sure that one got edited, so it never made it on TV any more.

The busy-bodies bitches got lots of stuff edited out of cartoons, and made sure that a good number of them never made it to the air at all.

How I hate and despise and loathe them with the entirety of my being. Along with Don Wildmon, the malicious art-hating asshole who led them.

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catmandu57

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Thu Jan-03-08 01:51 PM
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5. And the fish looked and sounded like

Peter Lorre.

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swag

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Thu Jan-03-08 02:08 PM
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6. I'm checking to see if that scene is here:

Edited on Thu Jan-03-08 03:02 PM by swag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DIZ-St2OE

on edit: Yes, there it is at 6:48

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supernova

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Thu Jan-03-08 02:37 PM
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8. Yep, I saw it too

:thumbsup:

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tigereye

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Thu Jan-03-08 02:11 PM
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7. those were different times

there is some stuff in those old cartoons that are just beyond anything that would fly now... It's wild what was seen as silly that would now seem racist and insensitive.
we've watched a lot of those old Looney Tunes and raised an eyebrow or two...

Even the newer Charlie Brown animations have all the bite taken out of them....

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redqueen

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Thu Jan-03-08 02:38 PM
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9. Didn't that sort of thing happen regularly in old cartoons?

I think I've seen suicide by gun in a few, anyway... slapstick, you know.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jan-03-08 02:41 PM
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10. I'm not surprised at all.

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