Not for animal abuse hitting each other with frying pans, throwing explosives or setting traps… But for smoking. Boomerang in the UK will be editing any of the Tom & Jerry cartoons that have any smoking scenes to prevent young children from imitating them in real life. In a quote Boomerang said that they would remove such scenes of smoking that were “condoned, acceptable or glamorised”.
Some parents were questioned about this move and many were surprised but inderstood such actions. One mother explained that she makes every effort to smoke outside out of view of her daughter but sometimes it is not possible. When her daughter watcher her mother smoke, she would often imitate smoking a cigarette herself.
What do you think of this reaction? The era of which these historical episodes were made are far removed from today’s society but if such lengths are to made to the media of animation, why not other forms of media?
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walking leaf says:
Not surprised by this. I remember Tom and Jerry were accused of being racist with that female, black woman hitting Tom with a broom. All clips featuring the person has been cut out now…
Aug 22, 2006, 3:46 amdrowned_panda says:
Tom regularly gets hit with snooker cues, stabbed with pins and I’m sure there has been more then a little gunplay. OK, the episode where Tom tries to attract a female feline by lighting up but he does get his head bashed in by Jerry shortly after. Glamorising smoking is wrong, but surely glamorising domestic violence, not to mention the beating Tom regularly took from his owner, is even worse?
Aug 22, 2006, 6:11 pm