The Speedy thread got me to thinking about the old cartoons they won't show anymore due to un-PC things. For instance, a lot of WWII era cartoons played upon the big-toothed, slant-eyed Jap as a foil or even just a quick joke. Then, there's the use of a lot of old vaudville blackface humor. I decided to start a thread where we can deposit the memories or even some YouTube videos of these now unreleasable and unbroadcastable pieces of history.

Bugs Bunny and crew want you to be patriotic.

Popeye fights the Japs.

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Thread: Racist Cartoons

Seriously, dude, that might be a bit much.

there is a hilarious Betty Boop racist cartoon on youtube.

it's funny cuz it's true

There's also a Bugs Bunny one with a black Elmer Fudd.

I always liked that cartoon where Mickey Mouse hung a nigger.

AFLAC!

[Not a cartoon, per se, but] a commercial that didn't last long on the airwaves. In the early 1960s, Pillsbury decided to compete with Kool-Aid and came out with their own line of instant drink mixes. These "pre-sweetened" mixes contained cyclamates instead of sugar ("so you don't mess up the kitchen adding sugar") and each flavor was assigned a cartoon character: Goofy Grape, Freckle Face Strawberry, Loud-Mouth Lime, and Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry. However, two of these characters met with widespread disapproval: Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry. The backlash from protesters caused Pillsbury to pull these racially-insensitive characters almost immediately; subsequently they were changed to Jolly-Olly Orange and Choo-Choo Cherry.

By the 1970s, cyclamates had been outlawed by the FDA, and Funny Face drink mixes became "sugar sweetened." By that time, Loud-Mouth Lime had been changed to Loud-Mouth Punch, and a new flavor, L

George Lopez should make that into a movie.