The £14 Primark pyjamas that are animating 151,000 Looney Tunes fans
PJs showing Bugs Bunny and Tweety Pie are proving a comfort blanket hit with thousands of people
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A new pyjama range at Primark seems to be creating cosy feelings of nostaliga for thousands of people who have turned them into a social media talking point.
Space Jam: A New Legacy was scrapped because of a furore over the animated French skunk s alleged contribution to rape culture , 11 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were pulled for being too offensive.
The cartoons, which were produced and released by Warner Bros, were withheld from syndication in the US in 1968 by United Artists, a US digital production company founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D W Griffith as a way of allowing actors to control their own interests.
To this day, the short animations have remained off-air, resurfacing online and at a TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010, according to reports.
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When it comes to the masters of the Golden Age of animation, Tex Avery doesn’t get mentioned as often as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Max Flesicher, or Walt Disney. But perhaps he should. Avery made what are considered the first cartoons to feature Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. The phrase “What’s up, Doc?” was his contribution it’s a saying from his native Texas. He created the character Egghead, who later evolved into Elmer Fudd. He slimmed down the initially enormous Porky Pig into something more like his lovable current appearance. And he’s arguably
the architect of the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies style the one who helped make the series more than a clone of Disney’s cartoons, mainly by picking up the pace and adding an air of anything-goes chaos. When he moved to MGM, he created Droopy as well as his risqué take on the fairy-tale Wolf, who doesn’t want to eat Red Riding Hood so much as get her in the sack.
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“This nonsense needs to stop. Do you know how many kids are being hurt because of this.”
“They take our HISTORY! They take (every) damn thing that is offensive!”
“You so called dumb-ss people are killing the American family entertainment life.”
“You fascists will not win.”
These complaints and more arrived after a conservative-leaning Facebook page resurfaced a story NJ Advance Media posted in January about Disney Plus limiting access to certain old movies on young children’s accounts. The films, including “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan” and “The Aristocats,” are still available on other accounts with a disclaimer saying they contain harmful and stereotypical depictions, like the crows in “Dumbo” and the native characters in “Peter Pan.”