Traditional cartoons that seem to have vanished from tv

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I just had a random flashback to Popeye. No idea why. But it made me think of some of the traditional cartoons you never see anymore. Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner, Popeye. I guess there is a obscure channel somewhere on sky that shows them but they've disappeared completely off mainstream tv. They seemed to be around for years. I mean I remember my mum saying how she watched those cartoons when she was young so they lasted a good few generations, then bam they have almost totally disappeared from our screens.

Yeah now you say it Bluto was a bit of a sex pest. I've never thought of it like that. He seemed to continually be praying on Olive. He's probably be on the sex offenders register in real life.

How was Tom and Jerry racist?

Tom and Jerry racism comes from the depiction of the Caribbean 'mamma' house maid in some series.

Tom and Jerry, however, continues (sans mamma) on a number of cartoon networks.

Popeye meanwhile - smoking, violence against women, annorexia championing. A lot of downsides for a eat-your-greens messgae

Why wouldn't they have vanished though? Cartoons are of their time. I can't imagine current kids would be that impressed with Popeye etc - they would seem pretty lame and incredibly dated, surely?

I always thought the housemaid was Tom’s owner too, especially the way she always shouted at him.
I shown my teenager the old cartoons and she was pretty ‘meh’ about them.

Some of the older Warner Brothers and Loony Toons cartoons , plus I think Tom and Jerry , have disclaimers now apologising for the racist and other 'problematic' elements but are shown as were , so can be watched with enjoyment and disapproval at the same time, a perfect combination .

Just on the basis that these cartoons served quite a few generations then suddenly they were out.

I always thought the lady on tom and jerry was the housewife.

Who smokes on popeye?

DS2 loves tom and jerry and watches them all the time. Cartoon network I think

I used to love Betty boop, the old wacky races and thundercats

Popeye smokes a pipe.

I was showing my two some old chip n dales from the 60s(?) and was a bit surprised by how violent they were and how often a gun is used, I'd forgotten that. I started showing them a Donald Duck one too, until he'd painted his face black...

You can still watch many of the old cartoons on Cartoonito (I think that's the channel anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️). My DS often watches Tom and Jerry, The Flinstones, Scooby Doo etc.

I don't think you ever see the house owners in Tom and Jerry, so it'd be easy to consider the black lady to be the home owner. However, she is often accompanied by the music to the poem mamma's little baby loves shortnin' bread - the original lyrics of which you don't want to know!!

Yes you're right, popeye did constantly have that pipe in his mouth didn't he. Never seem to remember much smoke coming from it. Another one who smoked was Cyril sneer off the racoons. He always had a cigar.

And yes the flintstone are another one. Wonder what crimes they portrayed.

Slightly off tangent I had to learn how to play mamma's little baby loves shortnin' bread when I first learned to play the piano in the 70s

Tom and jerry is on all the time. Not the episodes with the mammy though.

Looney tunes are on sometimes and road runner.

When you do see lots of older cartoons they are horrible and racist and sexist though. I guess they just put on what they can find that is acceptable.

I miss Roadrunner and the Pink Panther on TV. But I have the DVDs! X

Flintstones has some 1950s attitudes to gender roles (hen-pecked husbands, women shopping trips, etc), but I don't recall anything worse than that.

I suppose Elma Fudd trying his best to kill Buggs, except when Buggs cross-dresses in sexy evening gowns, could raise some eyebrows now.

I wish Postman Pat would fuck off back to where he came from.

The Jetsons!

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