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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by david-given on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:01AM (#12275670)
In Britain, the nihilistic Looney Tunes cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and (above all else) Roadrunner were vastly more popular than anything by Disney.

In fact, I don't think I've even seen a single Mickey Mouse cartoon...

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by k-mcgrady on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:32PM (#12276925)
Watched tonnes of Looney Tunes growing up on British TV. Never seen a Mickey cartoon and I've always been curious if there even were any besides a few when Disney first started.
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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by riprowan on Saturday August 13, 2016 @02:38AM (#12280530)
I'll take Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner v Wile. E. Coyote (supra-genius) over Disney any day of the week.
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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by Noos on Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:43PM (#12283228)
of course, because those are adult cartoons filled with adult references a cultured person would get, and more or less robbed the 1940s for comedy. It's more about how dynamic 1940s culture was compared to our own, I think.

If you go a bit later, to when they started doing new animation for Looney Tunes tv specials in the 70s and 80s, the cartoons got dumber as well.

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