Vote for why you think it jumped
The networks cut the violence
Death (Mel Blanc)
Never Jumped
The Movie (Space Jam)
Switching Production Companies (Seven Arts)
Shark Bytes
A case could be made that the Bugs Bunny cartoons have made a reverse jump now that they are available on DVD, beautifully restored and unedited.
I grew up on the originals back in the seventies, when they still aired in their uncut glory. (You even occasionally saw some of the older cartoons that are considered highly politically incorrect these days...). Some people here have suggested that if kids watched the uncut cartoons, they would be tempted to try some of the potentially dangerous things that happen therein (like Daffy Duck in Show Biz Bugs, or Wile E. Coyote in practically any cartoon). If you believe this, you really don't think very highly of your children's common sense. In my youth, everyone watched this stuff, and no one ever tried to do anything that silly. By the time we were four years old, we could differentiate between the absurd world of cartoons, and reality. Anyone that can't by that age has serious troubles.
These cartoons are now 40 to 70 years old. But they're still highly entertaining to a new generation of kids (with the right parents). Long may they remain so.
I grew up on the originals back in the seventies, when they still aired in their uncut glory. (You even occasionally saw some of the older cartoons that are considered highly politically incorrect these days...). Some people here have suggested that if kids watched the uncut cartoons, they would be tempted to try some of the potentially dangerous things that happen therein (like Daffy Duck in Show Biz Bugs, or Wile E. Coyote in practically any cartoon). If you believe this, you really don't think very highly of your children's common sense. In my youth, everyone watched this stuff, and no one ever tried to do anything that silly. By the time we were four years old, we could differentiate between the absurd world of cartoons, and reality. Anyone that can't by that age has serious troubles.
These cartoons are now 40 to 70 years old. But they're still highly entertaining to a new generation of kids (with the right parents). Long may they remain so.
I always find it funny how they won't play Bugs Bunny cartoons on TV anymore because they are "too violent and not PC" then they turn around and play shows like "Family Guy", "American Dad", almost anything on "Adult Swim" which are far more violent and un-PC. Kind of hypocritical hmmm?
it is very interesting to read all these things about the old Warner Bros cartoons. I grew up watching these cartoons all the time on Saturday morning. 
I remember reading somewhere years ago (probably after Mel Blanc died) that they called him "the man of a thousand voices" -and he really WAS. it took me years to realize that he did most of those voices all by himself. I haven't watched these cartoons in years. so I didn't even know that they edited out all the violence, until I found this message board. I never saw this Space Jam movie either. but it doesn't sound like I'm missing anything. 
I remember reading somewhere years ago (probably after Mel Blanc died) that they called him "the man of a thousand voices" -and he really WAS. it took me years to realize that he did most of those voices all by himself. I haven't watched these cartoons in years. so I didn't even know that they edited out all the violence, until I found this message board. I never saw this Space Jam movie either. but it doesn't sound like I'm missing anything.
I was born and raised on the old cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Popeye, GI Joe, Tom & Jerry, etc. And I went on to study to be a nun. I'm a teacher now in a peaceful Quaker school.
I think cartoons of today SUCK!! They are just as violent but in some sanitized code that pretends to be responsible and the sexual innuendo is outrageous!!! Our kids are being way more perverted now than we ever were by the media. Now kids have anime, Youtube, MTV, BET, the internet, reality shows, unlimited cable, Britney Spears & Lindsey Lohan. I Wish my students would just watch Bugs Bunny!
th...Th..That's all folks!
I think cartoons of today SUCK!! They are just as violent but in some sanitized code that pretends to be responsible and the sexual innuendo is outrageous!!! Our kids are being way more perverted now than we ever were by the media. Now kids have anime, Youtube, MTV, BET, the internet, reality shows, unlimited cable, Britney Spears & Lindsey Lohan. I Wish my students would just watch Bugs Bunny!
th...Th..That's all folks!
By far one of the best cartoon shows of all time. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. I'm so glad I have the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons on dvd totally unedited.
the ones with cecil the tortoise were the best!! he was the only one to get over on bugs every time he was in the cartoon. will somebody please bring back the oldies !! i'm sick of the same crap on boomerang and the cartoon channel.
I grew up on these cartoons and miss them like a long, lost friend. I don't understand how anyone could be silly enough to think that cartoon violence would cause real life violence. Most new shows for kids are either bland, vanilla and P.C. and/or just mindless advertisements to sell toys, t-shirts and bookbags (I won't mention any Dora or SpongeBob names).
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