Monday, January 25, 2021

Saturday Morning Cartoons are coming back?

That would be nice, now that all but my youngest are beyond that age.  Though in fairness, how many of us watch those old cartoons when we can?  We bought the boys some DVD collections of Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny back in the day, but they must endure endless disclaimers of our moral superiority over those old timers who weren't enlightened enough to discuss arming teachers due to regular school shootings.  That's not how they frame the disclaimers of course, but think about it.

Nonetheless, they have to go through hoops like that and it does spoil the fun.  The DVDs even have the disclaimers - or mini-clips featuring Whoopi Goldberg - so you can't bypass them.  You must watch the righteous condemnation segment to get to the fun stuff. 

We have found a  streaming service - the only one we've purchased - that has some of the T&J and BB cartoons without any moral handwringing.  But those are only a set group of cartoons that haven't changed much in the year since we bought the service.  Fun though they are, you can only watch the same cartoons so many times before it wears thin.

So here's hoping.  My boys will probably all sit down with their youngest sibling and watch a few rounds with him when they're available to do so.  If they do, we'll be sure to bake up some Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and serve them with a glass of milk, just like I used do get back in the day.  All things considered, it wasn't a bad way to spend a Saturday morning. 

2 comments:

  1. Wait, just to be clear, DVDs of Bugs Bunny now have disclaimers presented by Whoopi Goldberg? How recently did this become a thing?

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    1. Yes, I think it's one of the Bugs Bunny compilation DVDs. We bought several over the years way back in the day, roughly through the mid to late 00s. Some Tom and Jerry as well. And Scooby Doo, though Scooby doesn't have anything attached. All of the T&Js have, and some of those have been censored. All Bugs do as well, with one having a spoken disclaimer, and one having the special talk from Whoopi (I think it was recorded on some anniversary of WB, and put on the disk set).

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