Bugs Bunny didn't wear pants. So.................

I just found out the the CBS television network would not air Bugs Bunny cartoons, for decades. And the reason? Bugs Bunny didn't wear pants. I think that's taking it to the extreme. I began to think that what was racy when we were kids is pretty normal, today. Really, when was the last time you heard someone was "living in sin"? That English King had to give up the throne, because he wanted to marry a divorcee. And there was a time getting a divorce would have ended a political career. Today, that's no big deal. What do think about all of that? Do you believe it was overkill when we were kids?
 

I saw plenty of Bugs Bunny cartoons on TV when I was a kid. Donald Duck didn't wear pants - didn't seem to hurt his career any.
Where did you hear that CBS wouldn't show those cartoons? I can't find anything on the internet about it.
 
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I never thought about these cartoon characters wearing pants. They were a rabbit and a duck. When was the last time any of us saw either type of animal wearing pants? :)

However, I do clearly remember the scariest scene in a cartoon. It was a Donald Duck Disney show. A typical spooky storm was going on with the thunder and lightening and rain. A big door creaks open and a big scary voice says to Donald Duck "Are you Mister D. Duck?". To this day, I can't figure out what was so scary to me about it. Maybe it was that he wasn't wearing pants! o_O

Tony
 

As for CBS choosing to not air Bugs Bunny, due to Bugs, not wearing pants, ROFLMAO!

I'm super old-fashioned, so I think the old ways when we were kids and growing up were great, that is aside from certain stuffy networks who worked themselves into a lather over cartoon characters inappropriately dressed or not dressed at all.

Everything is disposable today, and that includes marriages. Get shacked-up, get a divorce, get shacked-up again, get a divorce, like it's a game or something. It's all just a little too much for me to digest. It relays to me that nothing means nothing anymore, hence why I am not big on today's day-and-age.

Touching on marriages and divorces further, the problem with such ways, is it sets-up future generations to believe that getting married and divorced (again and again) is acceptable, like it's the right thing to do, so instead of society strengthening it's strides and moving forward in a positive direction, I see society going backwards. Society and it's ways IMO isn't gaining ground, we're losing it.

As a society and as a whole, there are changes that have taken place where I believe were for the better, but for the most part I see this world having gone too far forward (the polar-opposite) compared to the way the world turned, thirty, forty, or more years ago.

Today the world has become everyone's stage, everyone's front and centre to showcase themselves in true colour. Back in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up, I knew no woman that sported a tattoo, yet today it's no longer good enough anymore for a small little tattoo tucked away in a private place, instead, the more the merrier. I think to myself, for what, and for who. If I were a man I wouldn't dream of involving myself with something that resembled that of the cartoon section of a newspaper.

I see women today with their stretchy pants so far up their you know what's, I think, were did common scruples go. What happened to the days when women carried themselves with dignity and respect.

I visited the bank recently and the teller that served me had more hanging out than she had tucked in. What's that all about? Is today's generation that starving for attention? Or is it simply an indication of the times where people have lost all sense of class?

I have very little respect for society as a whole, and even less respect in relation to the direction society is going.

Sure, quirky ways will always exist, no matter what generation or era, but given the choice to choose between today and yesteryear, I'd gladly take yesteryear in a heartbeat.
 
Fuzzybuddy:

Edward the third who abdicated the throne to be with the woman he loved has GOT TO BE the most romantic thing in history. Oh! To be loved like that! That a man loved you enough to take a leap and give up everything? WOW!

As Aunt Marg said, yes, The CARE we put into our surroundings, our attire, everything we think, do, say; all is a reflection of our level of consciousness. The way we live should be artful, and dressing with dignity and respect is a part of that, as well as the way we perform any action.

and Bugs Bunny had no pants? I KNEW there was a reason he was my favorite! Hahahaha!
 
Related to Bugs' pants, I find it not only comical but hypocritical when people complain about a young baby or child seen in public wearing only a diaper.

I've heard people say, that kid should be covered up, and I think, why? What's the big deal? Society has allowed for woman to walk down the street or into a store with next to nothing on and for all hanging out for everyone to see, but somewhere along the way it's a sin for a baby or child to be taken out of the home wearing a diaper?

Give me a break! :mad:
 
Back then, it was just cartoon characters who didn't wear pants. Now, it's at least half of the characters on soap operas and reality TV shows...is this progress?

@Aunt Marg, most people these days don't have husbands and wives...they have baby-mommas and baby-daddies...I HATE those terms, I guess I'm hopelessly old-fashioned but I cringe at the way kids are being brought up...
 
Fuzzybuddy:

Edward the third who abdicated the throne to be with the woman he loved has GOT TO BE the most romantic thing in history. Oh! To be loved like that! That a man loved you enough to take a leap and give up everything? WOW!

As Aunt Marg said, yes, The CARE we put into our surroundings, our attire, everything we think, do, say; all is a reflection of our level of consciousness. The way we live should be artful, and dressing with dignity and respect is a part of that, as well as the way we perform any action.

and Bugs Bunny had no pants? I KNEW there was a reason he was my favorite! Hahahaha!
You know the funny part to all this, Gaer? I never gave so much as a single thought to Bugs, not wearing pants. Not as a child, not as an adult.

To me, that was cartoons. Cartoon characters never wore pants and clothes, and if they did, a shirt or a hat was about all that I remember seeing on them.

Daffy Duck had no pants... Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, had no pants, and neither did the rest of them.
 
Back then, it was just cartoon characters who didn't wear pants. Now, it's at least half of the characters on soap operas and reality TV shows...is this progress?

@Aunt Marg, most people these days don't have husbands and wives...they have baby-mommas and baby-daddies...I HATE those terms, I guess I'm hopelessly old-fashioned but I cringe at the way kids are being brought up...
You said it better than I ever could, Autumn! :love:

I couldn't agree more with you! To a T!
 
You know the funny part to all this, Gaer? I never gave so much as a single thought to Bugs, not wearing pants. Not as a child, not as an adult.

To me, that was cartoons. Cartoon characters never wore pants and clothes, and if they did, a shirt or a hat was about all that I remember seeing on them.

Daffy Duck had no pants... Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, had no pants, and neither did the rest of them.
Me neither! hahaha! but they're CARTOON CHARACTERS!
 
I was never offended because Bigs bunny didn't wear pants. What still surprises me is why married couples had to sleep in twin beds. Most of them had kids so where did they do the deed ? Maybe on the couch or kitchen table. 😃
Had to? I never saw my parents in twin beds...they always slept in a double bed, as did my husband and me.
 
The thing about CBS not showing Bugs' cartoons was on TV yesterday. I was floored when I heard that. I can't remember the show. I too, tried to find out something on the internet about it, but l;ike you I couldn't find anything.
 
You know the funny part to all this, Gaer? I never gave so much as a single thought to Bugs, not wearing pants. Not as a child, not as an adult.

To me, that was cartoons. Cartoon characters never wore pants and clothes, and if they did, a shirt or a hat was about all that I remember seeing on them.

Daffy Duck had no pants... Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, had no pants, and neither did the rest of them.
Realize that:

1. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner were streakers (remember THAT fad - look out for the streak!)
2. Daffy Duck was, well, daffy!

There is a reason for everything, though we may not always know what it is. o_O

Tony
 
Oh, is my face red. I thought about it, but didn't check. Ok, make that Daffy Duck. How'd I do? 🤔
 
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