It's a fact: cartoon characters don't care for pants. Frankly, I don't trust any cartoon character that wears them. What exactly was the deal with Mickey's shorts and those big yellow buttons? Were they knobs that operated some secret radio he used to send messages to the enemy during World War II? And just look at the old Warner Brothers cartoons: the only folks who wore pants were all bad guys: Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Percy the Pants-Wearing Haberdasher -- okay, I made that last one up, but you get my point. Anyway, to honor those toons who choose not to cover their butts, Boomerang is launching "No Undies Mondays" starting on October 9th. Every Monday at 4 pm, an hour will be set aside to honor the Hanna-Barbera characters who let it all hang out. Yes, that pretty much describes every Hanna-Barbera character, but let's not overthink things, it's still a fun idea.
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9-27-2006 @ 8:19PM
Monty said...
Well with the recent "censoring" of toons by the BBC and the kneejerk reactions by the FCC, it's only a matter of time before the start keying pants on these classics characters. After all what kind of message are we sending our kids with talking animals that wear no pants.
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9-28-2006 @ 3:28AM
lp said...
Umm, what cartoons have the BBC censored?
The only one I've heard of is the Muslim Mohammed cartoons & that was understandable (if annoying)
Google doesn't help, the only thing censored in the UK being Tom & Jerry smoking removal by the Boomerang channel
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9-28-2006 @ 3:59PM
Brent McKee said...
Fairly recently the BBC censored some Tom & Jerry cartoons (the ones the Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera did while they were at MGM in the 1940s and '50s) that featured Tom (gasp horror) smoking cigarettes.
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