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Revisiting the PastI love Tex Avery, for me he is like a cartoon genius, as a kid, he was the next best thing to Looney Toons, I loved watching marathons of the Tex Avery Show.
For those who are not familiar with Tex Avery, well it is like Looney Toons, but often times with a bit more of an edge, and at times quite risque. He has this whole modern "adult" version of Little Red Riding Hood, in which Little Red Riding Hood, is a babe who works in a Gentleman's Club and the Big Bad Wolf, is basically a sleazy pervert. And Red Riding Hood's grandma, is this randy old woman going after the wolf, while he is chasing Riding Hood. He also does the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner type thing as well, with animal characters chasing each other around trying to do merciless violence to each other. And he does a lot of just really wacky stuff. But it all has this sort of edge to it. So I recently discovered Youtube as a lot of the old Tex Avery stuff on it, which I was quite exciting so I was spending my time, watching old cartoons on my computer. But the thing that strikes me as amusing, is that his work originally came out around the late 40's and when I was watching it was probably 90's but today his stuff would probably censored from TV. It might make it on Adult Swim but it certainly could never pass in this day and age as being marketed to children and at the time that I was watching it as a kid, it was considered perfectly acceptable. Certain people like to complain a lot about modern times and its loose morals and how sex is everywhere on TV and yet there are times when for something that I would consider to be really quite harmless, I am left thinking, wow, there was a time when that would actually be allowed to be aired on TV and watched by children. No way would that fly now, because some little group might be offended by it. 9:27 AM - 7/1/2009 - post comment
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