MeTV Toons disclaimers

[24/7 reruns]

Tonight's Yogi Bear Show had a disclaimer about offense content. The Yogi Bear cartoon had a Japanese Bear named YoYo. Nice to see the effort.

[stevea]

They are probably responding to viewer input. Which is nice, as you say.

They should do more of this. Play the cartoon, and run the "product of its time" disclaimer.

[24/7 reruns]

XUMO runs a disclaimer before each Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

BTW, the MeTV Toons list of cartoons include Rocky and Bullwinkle. Yet it's not on the schedule

[stevea]

During Warner cartoon shows, a few months ago MeTV Toons added a 1940 Tex Avery cartoon, "Ceiling Hero." This cartoon has aired on no other MeTV network.

The cartoon has a mild Chinese stereotype at around 2:30, so they run it uncensored with a Warner "product of its time" disclaimer.

Who decides this stuff? There are other cartoons with mild Oriental stereotypes the MeTV networks DO run, such as "Trip for Tat," and others they don't run, like "Pizzicato Pussycat."

"Pizzicato...", by the way, is a unique 1955 Freleng cartoon, with a cat that purports to be a piano virtuoso, when it really is a nerdy mouse playing. At 5:48 there are 2 seconds where the mouse dons a cymbal and it looks like an Oriental takeoff.

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by stevea

During Warner cartoon shows, a few months ago MeTV Toons added a 1940 Tex Avery cartoon, "Ceiling Hero." This cartoon has aired on no other MeTV network.

The cartoon has a mild Chinese stereotype at around 2:30, so they run it uncensored with a Warner "product of its time" disclaimer.

Who decides this stuff? There are other cartoons with mild Oriental stereotypes the MeTV networks DO run, such as "Trip for Tat," and others they don't run, like "Pizzicato Pussycat."

"Pizzicato...", by the way, is a unique 1955 Freleng cartoon, with a cat that purports to be a piano virtuoso, when it really is a nerdy mouse playing. At 5:48 there are 2 seconds where the mouse dons a cymbal and it looks like an Oriental takeoff.

It would be nice to know who decides when disclaimers are placed. There are so many cartoons run on MeTV and MeTV Toons that should have disclaimers. None of the cartoons with Native Americans characters have disclaimers. As well as ones with Hispanic characters. As for Asian characters it's puzzling when disclaimers are placed and when they're not. Most have only brief negative imaging of Asians when others cartoons with more involved characterizations don't have disclaimers.

Like I mentioned before the people who own the rights to Rocky and Bullwinkle and/or XUMO have the disclaimer thing right. Each half hour program of Rocky and Bullwinkle has a disclaimer saying some of the cartoons may have stereotypical characterizations that may bother some, yet it was how things were when they were created.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by 24/7 reruns

It would be nice to know who decides when disclaimers are placed. There are so many cartoons run on MeTV and MeTV Toons that should have disclaimers. None of the cartoons with Native Americans characters have disclaimers. As well as ones with Hispanic characters. As for Asian characters it's puzzling when disclaimers are placed and when they're not. Most have only brief negative imaging of Asians when others cartoons with more involved characterizations don't have disclaimers.

Like I mentioned before the people who own the rights to Rocky and Bullwinkle and/or XUMO have the disclaimer thing right. Each half hour program of Rocky and Bullwinkle has a disclaimer saying some of the cartoons may have stereotypical characterizations that may bother some, yet it was how things were when they were created.

This particular disclaimer specifically mentions Warner Brothers.

I totally agree on the disclaimer. A general disclaimer warning would cover the whole program, or they could choose to run it each half hour for longer shows.

[cd637299]

If they MUST run any disclaimer, then it’s best to plant one before each and every program—just have a print warning onscreen like: “The following program contains material that may be offensive to certain groups of people. These programs are products of the time that they were made. The Weigel networks, of which this channel you are watching belongs, are not necessarily supportive of what is shown. So there.”

(Last two words being a reference to the credits in “Airplane!”) :P

cd

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by cd637299

If they MUST run any disclaimer, then it’s best to plant one before each and every program—just have a print warning onscreen like: “The following program contains material that may be offensive to certain groups of people. These programs are products of the time that they were made. The Weigel networks, of which this channel you are watching belongs, are not necessarily supportive of what is shown. So there.”

(Last two words being a reference to the credits in “Airplane!”) :P

cd

I completely agree. Doing that could also open up the idea of showing cartoons that are not currently shown. Don't count on the Censored Eleven but there are a ton of cartoons that could benefit from this.