# Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601 "2002-05-24T02:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/1 "2002-05-24T02:43:46Z")
They said the toons would never air again. They were jingoist. Racist. A relic of a time long past. And on Memorial Day, Cartoon Network is showing them all. Or at least some of them. Saw an advert in the TV Guide. WWII Cartoons, Memorial Day. This should be fun! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mr.Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/2 "2002-05-24T03:11:44Z")
But not Bugs Nips the Nips. I’m sure of it. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/3 "2002-05-24T04:13:18Z")
Well, they’re showing CLIPS of a lot of them. They’re only showing four of 'em all the way through. There’s a blurb on [cartoonnetwork.com](http://cartoonnetwork.com) about it. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/4 "2002-05-24T14:03:33Z")
This special was originally shown last 4th of July, and it’s a good one. The cartoons are shown in historical context, so all the now-politically incorrect caricatures are explained. Though no full anti-Jap cartoons are shown, there are a lot of clips, plus four full anti-Nazi cartoons. WATCH how the cartoon stars supported the war effort at home! SEE the Three Pigs fight Adolf Wolf in Tex Avery’s first MGM cartoon! SAVE scrap metal with Daffy Duck as he avoids a Nazi goat in glorious black and white! COVER YOUR EYES as Bugs Bunny dances Wagner-style with Joe Gobbels in the Black Forest! and LAUGH as a bunch of gremlins from the Kremlins sabotage Hitler’s personal warplane! It’s _Toonheads: The Wartime Cartoons_. May 26th at 9pm Eastern and Pacific on Cartoon Network. Don’t miss it! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/5 "2002-05-24T14:42:41Z")
Oh sweet Lord a’mighty. I am _so_ there. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/6 "2002-05-24T15:53:02Z")
Personally, I was hoping for some Private SNAFU. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/7 "2002-05-24T18:10:28Z")
Hey, they had Private SNAFU on a recent Toonheads episode - one that didn’t get run originally, I think, because it featured a new “bomb” that the gov’t felt was a little too close to a certain project they were working on at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/8 "2002-05-24T18:43:46Z")
But anyone is invited to come over to my house anytime for a private screening of the subject cartoon, as well as other works that are now deemed “Too Hot for TV.”😃 ---
**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/9 "2002-05-24T21:16:58Z")
\ Is there any place on the web where I can find politcially incorrect cartoons from the past for sale? ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/10 "2002-05-25T02:39:38Z")
There is just something so surreal about hearing Bugs say [I forget the exact situation], “There you go, slanty-eyes!” to one of the Japanese caricatures. Looking back, I’m amazed they even showed it when I was young (I’m only 30 now). ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/11 "2002-05-25T02:46:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \* > \*\*Personally, I was hoping for some Private SNAFU. \*\* Just as an aside, ALL the Private SNAFUs (and the one Private TARFU) are available on a DVD from Bosko Video. I got mine at Borders Books. VERY worth getting (even if the bastards _do_ watermark the cartoons in the corner) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/12 "2002-05-25T04:18:04Z")
You can get “All This and Rabbit Stew” through [Yahoo](http://broadcast.yahoo.com/home.html), but from Canada’s YTV I believe. Click on TV You can watch it for free and download it for $5 with a credit card. There’s a “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves” [here](http://www.toontracker.com/coalblack/coalblack.htm) but it’s really poor. I think some of these are out there on VHS tape, in fact I’m sure of it. I’ll see if I can find any links. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/13 "2002-05-25T04:20:42Z")
[This page](http://www.toonzone.net/looney/ltcuts/ltcuts11.html) talks about getting certain cartoons on VHS. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/14 "2002-05-25T13:45:39Z")
For Canadian Dopers: The Movieola digital channel is showing a real grab bag of old cartoons, including a lot that I am truly amazed to see …old Warner Brothers, and a lot from miscellaneous studios that I had simply never heard of. I’ve seen “All this and Rabbit Stew” there for example, and “Little Black Sambo.” Well worth checking out for fans of old animation. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/15 "2002-05-25T23:24:35Z")
Help! I live in Mountain Time Zone, and my TV guide makes no mention of Cartoon Network showing these cartoons, and the Cartoon Network website doesn’t say what time they’re showing them in Central and Mountain Time Zones. Are they just not showing them for us!! Are we too unsophisticated? Waah, I wanna see 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/16 "2002-05-25T23:30:54Z")
It’s called “Toonheads” and it comes on this Sunday in the hour before the first “Home Movies.” It’ll be a great night of cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/17 "2002-05-25T23:44:12Z")
I’ll try to watch it. I’m Japanese, but it won’t bother me, considering the context in which these were created. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/18 "2002-05-26T17:26:17Z")
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips and the others can usually be found on a file sharing program like Kazza or Morpheus. I recommend Morpheus of Kazza lite, the regular Kazza loads your computer up with spyware. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/19 "2002-05-26T21:47:48Z")
\*\*LolaBaby, \*\* did you mean you are a Japanese citizen living in the US, or are you an American citizen of Japanese descent? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601/20 "2002-05-27T03:44:48Z")
I got home in time to watch the last 45 minutes of it. I was surprised at how crude and unfunny the cartoons were. Was it really necessary to show five minutes of Hitler making a fool of himself talking faux German and then actually have a hand appear in front of him with a sign saying “Isn’t He Silly?” Whatever happened to letting pictures speak for themselves? There were a few instances of actual creativeness but for the most part, these propaganda pieces were so heavy-handed as to be almost unwatchable. No modern audience would sit through the equivalent, and I’m amazed that even in wartime 40s audiences would. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips/110601.md?page=2)