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

Baby Huey, was the only cartoon character I am aware of that was dressed politically correctly.

That is related to retro cartoon characters back in the day.

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My wife like Dancing with the Stars. That has women with scanty outfits. Spanish Telenovels routinely in sexy underwear. No big deal now but thinking back to the Ed Sullivan show where Elvis was viewed from the waste up singing. That was because Sullivan considered his movements lewd.

Times have changed probably good for Sullivan. He probably would have a heart attack now at TV programing.
 

Knight said:
My wife like Dancing with the Stars. That has women with scanty outfits. Spanish Telenovels routinely in sexy underwear. No big deal now but thinking back to the Ed Sullivan show where Elvis was viewed from the waste up singing. That was because Sullivan considered his movements lewd.

Times have changed probably good for Sullivan. He probably would have a heart attack now at TV programing.
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I doubt it. Ed was a showman. Maybe. The difference between then and now is that then there were actual laws pertaining to lewdness. CBS could have been sued by the FCC. Ed's hands were tied.
 
Our parents didn't have to sleep in twin beds; it was a requirement in the movies and on TV. I think by the 1960's they gave that dumb idea up.

Fuzzybuddy, I think someone is "having you on" about CBS and Bugs Bunny. I googled the subject, and found absolutely nothing about whether Bugs was wearing pants or not. But here's the reason they give for the show being cancelled:

May 4, 2001 -- A retrospective initially intended to feature every Bugs Bunny cartoon will fall just short of complete, as Cartoon Network executives have decided not to air a dozen of the animated shorts deemed too racially charged.

All of this reminds me of the (false) story about Victorians covering their piano legs with frilly covers, like pantaloons, in an effort at modesty. Apparently that was a totally ridiculous story made up by some guy in the Navy. However, sometimes they did cover their table legs, not out of "modesty," but in order to protect the legs from scratches, etc.
 
I take offense at animals being humanized by putting clothing on them. Our pets were naked, what were the censors thinking?? Actually, though, what I heard was that WB Loony Toons were taken off the air due to wabbits getting shot at and various live animals being shoved into an oven or slammed into a stew pot and the likes of coyotes falling off cliffs and such. You know, violence.
 
It's curious that while many cartoon animals like Bugs Bunny appear without clothes, most wear at least white gloves. This was to speed up and simplify the animation process. Their hands also have four rather than five digits...

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Aunt Marg said:
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:
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Yep. And since we're venting, I get super-annoyed by people wo think that breast feeding is some sort of erotic ritual. At one family Christmas brawl, my niece was sitting in the corner of the living room feeding her infant. She was draped in a large throw, you couldn't even see the baby, never mind the breast. Another relative said, "Oh that's disgusting. Why doesn't she go in the bathroom or something?"

A couple other of the younger nieces were dressed like streetwalkers, but no one commented on their clothing (or lack thereof). I just don't get it.
 
I never thought about cartoon characters not wearing pants. Of course I didn't see too many animated cartoons when I was a little kid. We didn't have a TV until I was in about the 4th or 5th grade.

What I did see, however, was that animals on my grandpa's farm didn't wear pants and sometimes they did things that caused me to ask questions that caused adults to sputter and change the subject.

I've never understood why adults made such a big embarrassing thing about what is, after all, a part of life for all creatures, including us.
 
Autumn said:
Yep. And since we're venting, I get super-annoyed by people wo think that breast feeding is some sort of erotic ritual. At one family Christmas brawl, my niece was sitting in the corner of the living room feeding her infant. She was draped in a large throw, you couldn't even see the baby, never mind the breast. Another relative said, "Oh that's disgusting. Why doesn't she go in the bathroom or something?"

A couple other of the younger nieces were dressed like streetwalkers, but no one commented on their clothing (or lack thereof). I just don't get it.
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Kudos to your niece for showing respect to all around her by covering up and breastfeeding discretely.

When I was a young child I remember family and friends of my moms coming over to our house to visit and them breastfeeding. They always did it discreetly by pulling a flannelette diaper over the front of themselves to cover up.
 
Cartoons showing animals behaving as animals wouldn't be interesting. After all, ducks and mice were hardly rare creatures.

Clothing helped anthropomorphize the characters into something we could relate to, i.e., human adults, then exaggerate their behavior and make fun of them in a way that didn't threaten our parents. (Did you ever notice that cartoon children usually outsmarted the adults? Why do you suppose that was?)

If cartoons reflected the world as it was, we wouldn't have watched them. We were already surrounded by powerful adults who nearly always prevailed over children, did boring things, and lived typical lives. Also by animals who didn't speak, walked around on all fours, and had paws instead of hands so they couldn't hold or manipulate objects.
 

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