This Recent Cartoon Brew Post

I've heard worse. My favorite note is the one that was given to the producers of Josie and the Pussycats, when they submitted a script that involved the Pussycats getting shrunk, then hiding in a plate of spaghetti. The network nixed the scene because, they said, "children will put their cats in spaghetti."
 
How ironic that this was done by the same Jean MacCurdy who went on to produce Batman: The Animated Series, which I'm sure broke at least some of the censorship notes she made on shows like that.
 
I actually hear this is why Scrappy sucked so bad. Mark Evanier wanted him to actually be a counterpoint to Scooby and Shaggy's cowardice, but the censors thought having a character who got things done would make for a bad role model, and the rest is history.
 
Mark Evanier also wrote a whole article about BS&P a couple of years ago. Part of the problem was apparently producers like Bill Hanna would invariably capitulate to every censor demand instead of trying to talk the censors down from some of the more arcane notes.

Nowadays, producers seem to more willing to defend their shows from really arbitrary and detrimental censor notes. Even if the success rate isn't 100% (i.e. South Park and Muhammad, Family Guy's abortion episode), it's still a slight better than the 70's.
 
I thought Scrappy was a counterpoint to Scooby and Shaggy. Wasn't being a lionhearted puppy what made him annoying in the first place? :confused:
 
On the simpsons episode where homer met his brother herb, there was a scene where bart kept saying "b*****d" (edited as im not sure that word is acceptable here). According to the dvd commentary, BS&P told them to "remove 3 b*****ds" which sounds hilarious out of context. Also, Darkseid almost never made his tv debut on Superfriends in 1984 as ABC was worried the name would, believe it or not, "offend Germans".
 
More to the point, the lasers that do exist that are capable of significantly harming a person are too large and heavy to make effective hand weapons. That makes laser guns "fantasy weapons", therefore not imitatable and OK for kids.

Imitibility seems to be the biggest concern for S&Ps. Any bad thing a cartoon might do must be physically impossible for a kid to do, or even think of something similar to do, like putting a cat in spaghetti, which at worst would annoy the cat. :chowder:
 
Oh, no (unless you were being sarcastic). They're still there, and if anything are even more severe, though the specific priorities may have shifted. The program creatives are just a bit better at standing up to them, but only just.
 
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