Talk:Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3/archive 1

"Intended for adults" = "Adults only" - Why?

Just WHY is this "not suitable for children" and needs a disclaimer on it saying that it's for adults? I was under the impression that Looney Tunes is a kids' cartoon series..

The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were most definitely NOT a "kids cartoon series". These cartoons were made in the 1930s, 40s and 50s BY adults FOR adult audiences to be shown in front of feature films (just like Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy films). The universal humour of course also made the kids enjoy the cartoons and when they were packaged and heavily syndicated for television starting in the 1960s this began to give the impression to a new generation that these cartoons were for kids. Many violent or suggestive gags were edited out by the network censors. By the 1980s, many gags were deemed racially insensitive in the new politically correct climate, so blackface gags and stereotypes (mostly of African Americans but sometimes of Asian Americans) were further chopped out of the cartoons. The Golden Collection series of DVDs seeks to restore these cartoons to their former uncut state to present the cartoons as they were originally meant to be seen in theaters.

Now to comment on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3: I've just finished watching all four discs and I can honestly say that there are only a small handful of things in this collection which some parents might consider "not suitable for children". They are: 1) Brief Stepin Fetchit caricatures in "Porky's Road Race" and "Porky and Teabiscuit" each lasts only a few seconds, 2) Brief but unflattering scenes of African natives in "Speaking Of The Weather", 3) A caricature of Al Jolson in blackface in "Swooner Crooner", 4) A cat shoots himself in the head at the end of "An Itch In Time", 5) if you speak Spanish there is a reference to marijuana in a song in "Gonzales' Tamales", 6) Porky tries to hang himself (but fails of course) in "Porky's Romance". I may have missed one or two references, but this small list also makes me wonder why the video introduction by Whoopi Goldberg on each disc was deemed necessary. Perhaps this means that Warner Brothers is planning to release more "risky" material in later volumes that hasn't seen the light of day in a long time (like "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips", "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs" or other shorts in the Censored Eleven). Jeff schiller 04:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

- Yeah. What that guy above, said. Honestly though. To believe that Looney Tunes was a "kids series" is incredibly ignorant. At the risk of further expanding on points that the guy above already mentioned, Looney Tunes was shown in theaters as short programs to entertain audiences of all ages. I wish that people would actually not talk or write a comment on a Wikipedia Talk page while demonstrating how completely ignorant they are of the basic fundamentals of what they are even commenting on.

But then again, the commenter was too unintelligent and didn't even have enough patience to read or do any basic research. Just stolled right up to a page on a show that he or she generally knows is animated in some form, and write some jibberingly stupid assumption which they just made up and tried to pose it as a halfway intellgint question. Which it wasn't.

So, I suppose it's not like it was even worth explaining all of this to someone so stupid. One has to have the ability of basic common sense, first. And that's clearly not demonstrated, here. This person is either less than 8 years old or younger, or an incredibly mentally deficient person.

Either way, if he or she could actually read and interpret the response into something they could understand, just judging by the lack of common sense that someone has to write something like that on a talk page and not mind making a fool out of themselves, it's pointless. In the end, it's like trying to explain advanced math to a dumb forest animal.

Define "adequately covered"

One article for an ongoing annual series of box set collections is simply not enough. The articles for the individual volumes must be kept intact. Steelbeard1 (talk) 02:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

The article has been saved. Steelbeard1 (talk) 16:31, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Infoboxes

I'm thinking of replacing the cover image with an infobox. Something like this, perhaps:

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3
Directed by	Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett, Frank Tashlin
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc (voice)
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release dates	October 25, 2005
Running time	442 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Does anyone have any strong opinions about this? Are there other infoboxes that may be better suited?

Sorry - forgot to sign the comment. TrondM (talk) 13:21, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

That looks fine to me. That same infobox format can be used for the Popeye the Sailor (Warner DVD series) sets. Steelbeard1 (talk) 13:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)