10 Offensive Things That Once Were Entertainment-- Part 2: Dance-Till-You Drop

5..  Blackface performances in minstrel shows.

4.  Great Depression Dance-Till-You Drop

3.  Pepe Le Pew--  A real sex offender if there ever was one.

2.  TV's Flipper  1964-1967

1.  Music songs such as "Funky Cold Medina" offensive to women.

Personally, I believe many of the so-called rap songs would fall into this category with the use of the racist "N" word, swear words and description of women.

--Cooter

10 Politically Incorrect Vintage Cartoons-- Part 2

5.  "Injun Trouble"  1938, 1968--  stereotyping.

4.  "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap"  Popeye.  World War II propaganda.

3.  "Herr Meets Hare"  Bugs Bunny.  Nazis.

2.  "Winston Cigarette Commercial"

1.  "Rhapsody Rabbitt"--  Bugs Bunny.  Violence

--DaCoot

10 Politically Incorrect Vintage Cartoons-- Part 1

From the October 17, 2013, Listverse by S. Gray Grant.

10.  "Coal Black And De Sebbon Dwarfs"  One of eleven permanently banned cartoons deemed too offensive "Censored Eleven."  Racial Stereotyping.

9.  "Jungle Jitters"  "Censored Eleven."  Racial stereotyping.

8.  "Plane Dumb 1932.  Tom and Jerry   Stereotyping.

7.  "Ha! Ha! Ha!"  1934.  Betty Boop.  Glorified drug use.

6.  "Tokio Jokio"  World War II propaganda.

--Cooter

Ten Unpleasant Creatures Made Lovable By Cartoons

From the Feb. 3, 2012 Listverse.

10.  Rats--  Ratatouille
9.  Ghosts--  Caspar, the Friendly Ghost
8.  Spiders--  Charlotte's Web

7.  Skunks--  Looney Tunes' Pepe le Pew
6.  Dead Dogs--  Corpse Bride
5.  Caterpillars--  A Bug's Life, Heimlich
4.  Ants--  A Bug's Life  Dot is so darn cute.

3.  Ogres--  Shrek
2.  Cockroaches--  Wall-E
1.  Snakes--  Kung Fu Panda

--Cooter

Betty Boop: The "Boop-Oop-A-Doop" Gal

From American Profile "Ask American Profile."

A reader asked "What year did Betty Boop debut, and who was her voice?"  Betty Nielsen, Lakeport, California.

Pioneer cartoon animator Max Fleischer introduced Boop as an anthropomorphic French poodle in the 1930 cartoon short "Dizzy Dishes."  He transformed her into a person in the 1932 cartoon "Any Rags."

Margie Hines provided Betty's original voice, but it's the vocals of Mae Questel that most fans recognize as the "boop-oop-a-doop" flapper girl.  The actress supplied Boop's voice in 150 animated shorts between 1931 and 1939.

Questel, who died in 1998 at the age of 89, also was the voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons for many years.

OK, Now, High Pitched Talking.  --DaCootBoop-Oop-Ap[

Ten Adorable Cartoon Animals

From the Oct. 4, 2011, Listverse  "Another Ten Adorable Cartoon Animals.

10.  NERMEL--  a cat from "Garfield"

9.  MAXIMUS--  Horse from "Tangled"

8. MORT--  ? from "Madagascar"

7.  ABU--  monkey from "Alladin"

6.  REMY--  rat from "Ratatouille"

5.  PUSS 'N BOOTS--  cat from "Shrek"

4.  PRINCESS TIANA--  frog from "The Princess & the Frog"

3.  DORY--  fish from "Finding Nemo"

2.  ARCHIMETIS--  owl from "The Sword and the Stone"

1.  THUMPER--  Bambi

--DaCoot

It's the "Tom and Jerry Show"

From the June 1-7, 2014, American Profile Magazine. "Ask American Profile."

They were kind of the original Simpson's "Itchy and Scratchy Show" only nowhere near as violent and bloody.

Johnny Griffith from Macon, Georgia, wanted to know how old Tom and Jerry were and the name of the bulldog that chased Tom.

Tom, the cat, and Jerry, the mouse are now 74, debuting in 1940 in theaters as shorts produced by the legendary animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.  They created 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons over the next 17 years and won seven Oscars.

They began airing on TV in 1965 and in 1975 Hanna-Barbera created a new batch of cartoons.

The bulldog's name is Spike, aka Killer, aka Butch, and he has a son named Tyke.

Cartoon Network recently debuted a new Tom and Jerry Show,

Thought I Taw a Puddy Cat.  --DaCoot

Ten Adorable Animals from Cartoons

From the March 15, 2010, Listverse.

10.  Scrat--  the squirrel from the "Ice Age" movies.  (My personal favorite.  The new Wiley Coyote.)
9.  Robin Hood, the fox from "Robin Hood."
8.  Mickey Mouse, a little of him goes a long way.

7.  Spirit, the stallion in "Cimarron"  (I don't know this one.)
6.  Dumbo
5.  Donkey "Shrek"
4.  The Lions "Lion King"

3.  Bambi
2.  Toothless the Night Fury from "How to Train Your Dragon."  How do you make a dragon look sweet?
1.  Hobbes the tiger from "Calvin and Hobbes.

Get the Acorn!  Get the Acorn!  Talk About Your One-Track Minds.  --Cooter

Dead Page: Hey Rocky!! Watch Me Pull...

ALEXANDER ANDERSON, JR. (1920-Oct. 22, 2010)

I sure was a big fan of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show." 

Mr. Anderson created Rocky the Flying Squirrel qnd Bullwinkle J. Moose as well as Canadian Mounty Dudly Do-Right as well as those arch villains Boris and Natasha, agents of Pottsylvania.

According to Mr. Anderson, inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream he had where he was playing poker with a group of friends and there was a moose at the table doing "silly card things."  He also thought the name of a car dealership in Berkely, California, Bullwinkel Motors, was pretty funny. 

Before the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show," he worked on "Mighty Mouse" as an apprentice with his uncle, Phil Terry who ran Terrytoon Cartoons.

"Fan Mail Fron Some Flounder." 

"Man of a Thousand Voices"

The May 30th Answer.com daily look had a write up about Mel Blanc who was born on that date back in 1908. This man was the voice of several generations of Americans.

He was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Woody Woodpecker, Speedy Gonzalez, Tweety, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Frito Bandito, Marvin the Martian, Pepe LePew, Barny Rubble, and Mr. Spacely. He said that voicing Yosmite Sam was the hardest on his vocal cords.

He died July 10, 1989, and his grave in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, has the words, "THAT'S ALL FOLKS." This is a man I grew up with. Thanks for bringing all the fun.

Quite a Guy. --Cooter

Other items of interest happening on on May 30th:

The first Indy 500 in 1911.

The 30-foot tall Goddess of Democracy built at China's Tiananmen Square in 1989.