"Parental discretion is advised"

Preceeds episodes of "Gunsmoke" on TVLAND cable television channel.


Sheesh.

Godforbid that the precious little snowflakes see Ricardo Montalban playing the role of a native American bad guy, without emotional support.

IFC and Sundance do that with Gilligan's Island. At least they don't edit.

I like the movie warnings about "depictions of smoking" along with the language and violence now. OMG smoking!

Disney is doing that on their original movies like Jungle Book, Snow White, Rindercella...... through their streaming service.

Makes me want to watch it, knowing it won't be infested with PC, diversity, and other modern pestilences.

{Goes seeking Blazing Saddles.....}

Sure seems like the new generations can't figure out what used to be and what is now. They need to be told. Spoon fed every thought rather than figure things out themselves.

I'm not sure, need a second opinion, but I think I grew up just fine w/o all these warnings.

I guess it is better than editing, or not showing them.

But, yeah - this movie is 75 years old. It may reflect attitudes or views that have changed. This doesn't seem to need to be said, but . . .

Wonder how many excuses they'd have to make before showing Song of the South.

Guessing these kids will never see it.

In one particular Gilligan's Island episode, there were white actors playing Pacific Islanders, and their chief was seeking a "white goddess" (Gilligan in drag) to marry. A cultural stereotype if there ever was one. But all but the most hardcore snowflakes should realize it was all in fun. For that matter, Gilligan masquerading as a woman would be modern and contemporary these days.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I like the movie warnings about "depictions of smoking" along with the language and violence now. OMG smoking!

There is an internet meme about “your grandmas being cool” Showing four cute late 70’s high school girls leaned up against a muscle car in a parking lot and they are all holding cigarettes. Lately when I’ve seen it the smokes have been edited out of the picture and their hands consequently are in really weird postures. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Yeah, a lot of us could smoke on our high school campuses. it was tye 70s.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Wonder how many excuses they'd have to make before showing Song of the South.

Guessing these kids will never see it.

One of the problems is that some of it was actually true.
This is a picture of me at about age 2
with 'Uncle Jerry' who's lap I used to
sit on while he told me about the critters
on rabbit hill.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Wonder how many excuses they'd have to make before showing Song of the South.

Guessing these kids will never see it.

Song of the South is never coming out of the Disney vault again.

^^^^
I picked up DVD and VHS copies over 20 years ago. I imagine they are worth a little bit right now.

I have an original, unedited, full length copy of Blazing Saddles. All I can say is we will take the Blacks, Mexican, Chinamen, and the Jews but we don't want no Irish.

Anybody here old enough to remember Sambo's Restaurants ?

Warner Bros. "Censored Eleven" cartoons You can still find them (three are in the public domain), just not "officially." And I'm sure everyone remembers Cartoon Network refusing to show Speedy Gonzales cartoons.

I'd rather these shows, movies and cartoons were presented in their entirety, even with the silly disclaimer, than heavily edited or not shown at all.

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Originally posted by selogic:
Anybody here old enough to remember Sambo's Restaurants ?

When I first started in the trade in 1977 we would meet at the Sambos by the project every morning for breakfast. Became a Village Inn later.

Spent a lot if time in college studying at Sambos. They were open late and the coffee was good and inexpensive. I think they were the first example of cancellation I can recall.

All of this to help protect the incent little children, yet explicate sextual images and descriptive dialog is freely available in school library's and in many cases encouraged reading for grade school aged kids.