Does CN air "His Mouse Friday"?

[yossi411]

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[Eric B]

The only things banned are the offensive scenes. A crtoon is completely banned if it has too many offensive scenes, to the point they cannot be edited out and leave a substantial portion of the story. So showing nonoffensive scenes is no problem at all. It's not the whole title that's outlawed.
There was a version of the closing of the old T&J show in syndication, that instead of credits. just had more clips of the cartoons, and at the end was the one where Jerry jumps on the handle of the skillet smashing it into Tom's face. I wlays wondered where that came from, as the cartoon was not being shown in syndication. there was nothing offensive in it, (though later on, the violence would be considered bannable!)

 

[ryandcow]

What do you mean by blackface?

 

[Tash]

What do you mean by blackface?

The way they used to portray blacks in cartoons back then (with huge lips). It's considered racist these days.

 

[Anthonynotes]

What do you mean by blackface?

Blackface refers to whites wearing black-colored makeup (shoe polish, coal dust, etc.) in order to appear (and "act") stereotypically Black. Considered (for good reason) quite racist now, but was commonplace back in the 40s (Tom and Jerry's heyday). Also, cartoons of the time always showed black characters in such an exaggerated manner (completely black colored, grotesquely drawn, and as noted above, with puffy lips). Fortunately, such depictions generally vanished from theatrical cartoons by the mid-50s (far as I can tell; last example I can think of is Bugs Bunny's "Mississippi Hare" (title?), where he briefly appears in blackface as a "slave" to fool Confederate Yosemite Sam)...

-B.

 

[MDawg]

What do you mean by blackface?

It's this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Mouse_Friday

 

[Jave]

(far as I can tell; last example I can think of is Bugs Bunny's "Mississippi Hare" (title?), where he briefly appears in blackface as a "slave" to fool Confederate Yosemite Sam)...

-B.

Actually, the cartoon you're thinking of is "Southern Fried Rabbit". "Mississippi Hare" does have a scene with black cotton-pickers singing "Dixie", but their faces are never shown so it's not as offensive as the other scene you mention.

 

[DarthGonzo]

Actually, CN did show this cartoon at least once, way back when they used to air Tom and Jerry after midnight. Usually, these late showings were just repeats of airings from earlier in the day. But on rare occasions when the daytime airings were pre-empted by other programming, CN would sneak in rarer T&J cartoons into the overnight slots. This is how "His Mouse Friday" ended up airing back in 2001 (I believe), as well as "The Lonsesome Mouse".

EDIT: I found this thread from the old Termite Terrace board, and it was 2001...
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=15739&highlight=mouse+friday