Cartoon Cigarettes Banned!
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Barney Rubble is going to have to get a nictotine patch. A British television station is snuffing out smoking in cartoons after ONE complaint from a watchdog organization. The group said it got a complaint from someone about two episode of Tom & Jerry where cartoons characters are lighting up. The episodes are more than 50 years old. The sole complaint was enough for the children's channel Boomerang. Stations reps say smoking scenes from two Tom & Jerry cartoons have been cut out. What's worse, the stations president says: "We have now pledged to view Boomerang's entire library of favorite cartoons and remove all other references that could be seen as glamorizing smoking in all our shows." The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo and The Flinstones are now all on the cutting room floor in London. Do people not realize that these are cartoons? Drawings? NOT REAL! File under: political correctness run amuck (yet again).Labels: good grief
posted by jc @ 12:50 PM,
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