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A Guide To Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
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"The Last Hungry Cat" (Freleng; 1961):
ABC:
Guilt-ridden Sylvester's act of swallowing sleeping pills was missing.
Also, Granny hitting Sylvester with her broom was shortened.
CBS: The sleeping pills and broom scenes were not censored, but Sylvester
nervously chain smoking and drinking coffee was eliminated from this
cartoon.
CN: Edit same as on CBS. Sleeping pills scene edit same as ABC.
"The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" (McKimson; 1950):
ABC: Some scenes of the barnyard dog being deprived of air by his rope
were excised, and the fight between Foghorn Leghorn and the dog was
edited so that the only violence evident to the viewer was off-camera
(sounds only) as Henery Hawk is seen observing the fracas.
"Leghorn Swoggled" (McKimson; 1951):
ABC:
Foghorn goads the barnyard dog into chasing him up a ladder. At the top of
the ladder, the dog is suspended on a pole, his restraining rope swinging
back and forth, causing him to repeatedly have his buttocks colored by a
strategically placed paintbrush. ABC eliminated this in addition to some of
the footage of Henery Hawk's lasso around the neck of Foghorn and Foghorn's
comparison of losing his voice in this way to being hanged.
"Lickety-Splat!" (Jones; 1961):
ABC: Most of the scenes involving the dynamite darts were omitted from this
cartoon short, specifically those of the jackhammer that, after a dart's
blast, falls on Wile E.'s head and causes his eyes to register, "Tilt,"
Wile E's boomerang that returns to him with a dart attached to it and
due to explode, and a dart plugging Wile E's rifle, triggering a double
detonation, followed by a boulder propelled by another exploding dart on top of Wile
E..
"Life With Feathers" (Freleng; 1945):
CN, WB:
Missing was the part where the lovebird thinks of different ways to kill
himself.
"Lighter Than Hare" (Freleng; 1960):
CBS: Bugs
sneaks behind Sam and substitutes dynamite for Sam's rocket pack: "Yosemite
Sam from outer (boom!) space?!"
FOX: Reference to Amos and Andy was eliminated by a false "iris-out".
WB: Same edit as on FOX.
"Lighthouse Mouse" (McKimson; 1955):
CBS: A door
quickly slides open and closed, alternately showing Sylvester punching the
real mouse and Hippety pounding Sylvester. While shown as a cartoon clip for
years on both CBS and ABC, this scene was not permitted in the cartoon
proper.
Nickelodeon: The mouse clips a power wire into two halves, but this part
was replaced with a shot of parrot Polly squawking, "Lights out! Lights out!"
WB: The scene wherein Sylvester resorts to a major dose of vitamin pills to
improve his supposedly faulty eyesight was deleted. The electric shock
received by Sylvester as he grabs both ends of the cut wire to keep the
lighthouse lit was also dropped from this cartoon.
"Lights Fantastic" (Freleng; 1942):
CN:
On Toonheads and The Looney Tunes Show, these scene were censored: Chinese people are reading
Chinese print and speaking in Chinese very fast. Also, during the end scene with the Egyptian cigarette ad, the last frame of the billboard where it shows a cheesecake picture of a redheaded woman in a green bathing suit.
"Little Boy Boo" (McKimson; 1954):
ABC: Gone was
Egghead Jr. incorrectly demonstrating the answer to Foghorn Leghorn's
question: "Do you know what a (baseball) bat's for?"
CBS: The chemical explosion suffered by Foghorn was edited out of this
cartoon, though Foghorn was shown heavily bandaged immediately after this
event.
FOX: Same edit as on ABC.
"The Lone Stranger and Porky" (Clampett; 1939):
FOX: Missing was the scene in which the Lone Stranger talks to his Indian
companion, Pronto, in the mirror.
Nickelodeon: The villain fires his gun at the Lone Stranger, who is sitting at a
distance from him; yet, the villain succeeds only in gun-blasting all of the
ground away from around the Lone Stranger. The narrator then calls the villain
a "plug shot", prompting the villain to kill the narrator. This scene was
removed from this cartoon.
"Long-Haired Hare" (Jones; 1949):
ABC:
Bugs coming backstage and dressed as a girl "bobby-soxer", looking for
Giovanni Jones' autograph, to be signed by Jones with a lit dynamite stick
that of course explodes in Jones' hand, was completely gone.
CBS: In addition to the same one as on ABC, there were numerous other
deletions: Jones smashing Bugs' banjo over Bugs' head; Jones slamming shut
Bugs' harp on Bugs' neck; Jones tying Bugs' ears to a tree branch, pulling
Bugs' feet and snapping Bugs back and forth so that his head repeatedly
strikes the branch.
"Lumber Jerks" (Freleng; 1955):
ABC:
One of the Goofy Gophers siphoning gasoline out of the furniture delivery
truck was deleted from this cartoon because he was doing so with his mouth by
inhaling the gasoline through a rubber hose and hereby turning his face
green due to the sickening fumes.
WB: Same scene censored as on ABC.
All images (c) Warner Bros.
Thanks to Brian Cruz for image from "Life With Feathers"
Thanks to DON3k for images from "The Last Hungry Cat" and "Long-Haired Hare"
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