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Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by hinkley on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:42PM (#38617287)
The timelessness of those old cartoons has waned considerably. GenX was already getting reruns of Disney and Looney Tunes cartoons that were aimed at Boomers. As the boomers are aging out, a lot of the slices of both domestic life and leisure time in these cartoons are something alien. Women in the kitchen? Hunting rabbits? And with a shotgun? Really?

Itchy and Scratchy are Tom and Jerry ad absurdum. The Flintstones were somewhere between Tom and Jerry and The Honeymooners. Most of this stuff does not deserve a replay.

Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by bongodongobob on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:48PM (#38617401)
Neither of those things are alien. A world exists outside of whatever metropolis you think is the center of the universe. Millions and millions of people hunt and millions and millions of women are primary caretakers or stay at home moms.
Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by chownie on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:30PM (#38620977)
I would say the world shown in those cartoons is alien to viewers of today.

There were millions of hunters and millions of stay at home mothers in the 40's during Tom & Jerry's original run, but there's many fewer millions now.

Consider: Women jumped from a third working in 1950 to just over two-thirds (of those who have children under 6, even) working as of the year 2000. We've had another two decades and change plus recessions since then, how much smaller could the demographic be?

Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by bongodongobob on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:53PM (#38621680)
I have no idea where you live but you are completely disconnected from the average reality. I'm going to guess NYC or SF because you don't seem to realize that things actually haven't changed that much. You're describing the woke utopia that the left from those places seem to pine for.

I'm as liberal as they come but am from flyover country. Everyone hunts. Women do a lot of the cooking. There are lots of stay at home moms. And everyone is ok with it, shotguns and all.

Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by chownie on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:02AM (#38625571)
> I have no idea where you live but you are completely disconnected from the average reality.

This is a really bizarre response to hard statistics, just openly denying they exist?

The "average reality" is indeed that mothers work. Stay at home mothers are in the absolute minority and have been for a couple decades.

> I'm going to guess NYC or SF because you don't seem to realize that things actually haven't changed that much. You're describing the woke utopia that the left from those places seem to pine for.

You seem to have uncritically swallowed some narrative using terms like "woke" "liberal" "metropolis" and you've assumed that it'l apply to me.

I'm from neither NYC nor SF and I'm not liberal, now what?

Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by ahi on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:35PM (#38618066)
I recently attended a 90 minute marathon of those old cartoons. At least those 90 minutes absolutely hold up. Quite a few of them had themes that sailed right over your (and my) head when we watched them as kids. e.g. What's Opera, Doc? and Rabbit of Seville
Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024? by ghaff on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:22PM (#38618759)
In general, I appreciated the Warner Brothers (vs. Hanna Barbera etc.) cartoons much more after I got a bit older than when I was a young kid.