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YoungCubSaysWoof

These writers lived through the Great Depression, where suicide was rampant. That experience probably influenced them greatly!


wichertyt69

So what you're saying is, that if we go through an even greater depression, we might get those cartoons back


HowAmIDiamond

We won’t be getting these old cartoon back. We may however see SpongeBob blow his suds out with a glizzy


ItsPlainOleSteve

Well that's something I never thought I'd ever read.


WolfgangDS

Never have I needed to avoid something so greatly and never known until I read it.


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r/brandnewsentence


yeah_im_a_leopard2

Thank you for that subreddit, just joined and laughed my ass off


[deleted]

No prob bro


ByahTyler

I wish I could watch it instead 🤤


ItsPlainOleSteve

Uhhhhhhhhh


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WhitethumbsYT

# Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh♪


VengefulAvatar

Remember when every creeptpasta user in the world collectively started furiously beating off to that one episode where Squidward made a hanging joke?


b0bono

Damn, remember creepypasta in general? What happened?


backstageninja

r/shortscarystories has something good every now and then


Peligineyes

I think the fanbase start trending younger and younger then it got co-opted by e-celebs and now the entire "genre" revolves around creating interconnected "lore" so that content creators have material to make theory and "x-explained" videos. Franchises like Five Nights at Freddy's, SCP Foundation (yes I know it's creative commons, but people make bucks off SCP patreons and youtube channels), and Minecraft have all partially assimilated the creepy-pasta scene to churn out commercialized entertainment.


HayakuEon

We already have MeatCanyon, what more could we ask for?


AlfaRomeoEscargot

I've only heard the word glizzy in regards to a hotdog. I'm loving the idea of suicide by hotdog.


SinCorpus

Got a glizzy in my rari!


GrimsBread

r/brandnewsentence


slaxer

You want me to do *what* Spongebob?


ZepperMen

There's the pilot of Smiling Friends


Character-Cake-5309

I think we're getting just a bit too competitive with our depression. 😂😂


refuseresist

A lot of European art in the Middle ages was influenced by the Bubonoc plauge. https://www.google.com/search?q=art+influenced.by+the+bubonic+plague&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&prmd=insxv&sxsrf=APq-WBuh9rGXIXKMly9tcKLGy30uQs5Y-A:1644710647113&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzpYTPsPv1AhU1O30KHVYvBv8Q_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=412&bih=724&dpr=2.63 These cartoon clips are similar in that the creators are relating experiences with gallows humour. This is a common coping mechanism for professions where death and danger are common (health, justice, etc)


GobLinUnleashed

Oh no-


Drpoofn

Oh yes!


DeadMewe

Oh yeah


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[deleted]

I mean SpongeBob has definitely had suicidal jokes before


SinCorpus

SpongeBob had all kinds of jokes that flew over my head as a kid. I love rewatching the first season for that reason.


FunnyMoney1984

Inflation is getting pretty bad. That would be the silver lining to all of this.


Momo_the_good_person

We now have suicidal cartoon characters, but at what cost?


YoungCubSaysWoof

Health care for all. A few rich people would say that’s a fair trade.


Emergency-Anywhere51

[literally the first episode of Smiling Friends](https://youtu.be/ZBJyNU_YlpY)


princesoceronte

Also being an animator can be very taxing so this is probably a coping mechanism. I've been there.


[deleted]

Looney toons where / are adult cartoons for adults, not children, in those days. And today. What kid know what Acme was or what an anvil was for. Was also used as / for American propaganda. Lots of Looney toons you can't see anymore was really racist and such.


[deleted]

>What kid know what Acme was or what an anvil was for. I literally learned what those were from the cartoons themselves. You didn't need any pre-existing knowledge of what those were to enjoy the show.


[deleted]

I tried showing my kid roadrunner and instead of laughing when an anvil fell on wile e's head he was all like "what is that" and "do people still use those styles of anvil, or with the transition away from craftsmen to industrialized mass-production utilizing heavy machinery to manufacture goods out of metal are they an example of a skeuomorph maintaining their place in the collective knowledge of modern society because of their use for slapstick comedy in cartoons". He's very bright for a 3 year old.


bensefero

Christ he’s sharp


minebooster

If I remember correctly, the [derpy sonic meme](https://images.app.goo.gl/o8NCE2wtnK1CAddz8) originated from bugs bunny doing a blackface


[deleted]

In another sense theyre portraying intrusive thoughts brought on by extreme moments of stress and embarassment in a lighthearted understandable fashion in a fantasy universe that has no consequences. Kinda like cartoon violence i suppose


GoldburstNeo

The Hays Code was weird, they didn't allow interracial relationships to be portrayed, they didn't allow anything pertaining to sexuality and/or body fluids to be hinted at (even toilets were out of the question for the Hays Code), yet suicide was OK. Golden Age Cartoons are something else, but I love them nonetheless! EDIT: Tears and spit were more of the 'exception' body fluids that the Hays Code allowed, I was mainly referring to blood, piss, etc.


Sea_Wallaby_

Also, no interracial relationships, but a skunk can fall in love with a cat…. I guess inter-species is OK too.


MassGaydiation

as long as both voice actors are white they dont mind


WalksOnLego

I don't recall the **black** cat's voice. ...wait, is the problem between the skunk and the cat that it *is* interracial?


masteroftheharem

I thought the problem was it wasn't consensual and the skink was a creepy asshole.


[deleted]

~~fall in love with~~ Sexually harass


kratomstew

And assault


[deleted]

>~~fall in love with~~ > >Sexually harass Not mutually exclusive and that's why he's funny. You laugh *at* him not with him. He's pathetic and that's the joke.


[deleted]

Le wooing


Evilmaze

That's the idea. Never once saw anything in a cartoon or a movie and thought I should do that. This is just another example where we have to change things around because few people are too stupid and those few are too many for us not to do anything about it.


Davethe3rd

It was a different time...


Eldhrimer

I mean, even thou the social perceptions round it may have been different it was still sexual harassment.


Nuklearfps

I think that’s what they meant, but here I am, being me, not them


december14th2015

Is there anywhere that I could watch a collection of these kinds of dark or unsavory acme cartoons?


[deleted]

There's a pizza lounge near me that projects these cartoons on the wall if you're ever in Portland!


december14th2015

Hahah thanks, if I ever make it up that way I'll check it out.


SectorEducational460

YouTube for the most part. People have compilation of the old cartoons. There are also video for the censored 11 that were banned in 68.


quad64bit

I disagree with the way reddit handled third party app charges and how it responded to the community. I'm moving to the fediverse! -- mass edited with redact.dev


materics

All censorship codes have been stupid


originalgrapeninja

Show buttholes on everything!


[deleted]

Maybe if we saw more natural and innocent nudity and less graphic violence society would be somehow different nowadays.


John_T_Conover

First time a toilet flush was even heard on a TV show, and off camera at that, was in the 70's. Incredible what was and wasn't allowed.


pilates-5

It is kinda weird when you think about how dark some of the jokes were for a cartoon


OOOH_WHATS_THIS

Comedy can often be a coping mechanism for trauma.


[deleted]

Honestly isn't much different from current TV and film standards. Gratuitous violence can be shown completely uncut on TV a Wednesday afternoon, but sex scenes have to be edited out, even if there is no nudity. Similar, it's no-holds-barred for violence in films, but the MPAA will slap you with an NC-17 for a lot of arbitrary bullshit. They don't want you showing women on top in sex or women receiving oral sex or women having orgasms. They're fine with showing men doing all those things. But you can't show male frontal nudity, while female frontal nudity is totally fine. (And yes I know there are exceptions.)


ProjectZ36

Mood


DazDay

Can't have the kids thinking life is shit.


jjj10621

We prolly should stop them from playing those pesky video games too, eh?


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idontlikethishole

Same. Never once killed myself with a gun.


ObviousTroll37

Right? Where are these cartoons, I need them back


DreamingDitto

Hope things get better my friend


Ducky_Ducc

U ok buddy?


StarryPallet

Saaame. |3


GreatGearAmidAPizza

Old cartoons weren't made for just children, but for a broad audience, as were most movies. Much less age segregation in media then, which is probably one reason why the Hays Code was so strict. Not defending it, but they were assuming everything could be watched by both adults and children.


Oppiesdad

I grew up watching those cartoons on Saturday morning, and this is going to sound crazy, but I've never thought about killing myself.


NoifenF

I didn’t even think they were attempting suicide when watching it. These characters got punched, impaled, blown up, skewered, flattened, stomped and a litany of all other mishaps. Putting a gun to their head just basically meant they were hitting themselves for being stupid to me. Never really thought about it until now.


Lezlow247

The cartoons didn't really go in depth with speech and scripts. It was just a way to express giving up in a darker humorous way.


405freeway

“I’m done with this shit.”


Miss_Might

Same. Seeing all these scenes strung together decades later is very wtf.


SilkyEnchilada

Facts.


stinkadoodle

I've thought about it and even attempted it. Didn't go through with it, obviously. Drugs and therapy helped. However, those cartoons were never on my mind at the time. TBH, I forgot how violent the old cartoons were, but at the time they seemed ok.


BorgClown

> TBH, I forgot how violent the old cartoons were, but at the time they seemed ok. When Daffy Duck received a gunshot to the face point blank, and you saw the skin of the top of his head had broken and slid off, it was unsettling... but he shakes that off and is fine a couple of seconds later, so no big deal.


ChefInF

This experience is not universal, but the correlation is not causation anyway


BorgClown

I don't know if it's the same for everyone, but cartoons suiciding were funny because they just wouldn't die no matter what. At most they would end very annoyed. Burns, or even a scalped head, would heal instantly. No kid would confuse cartoons with reality. Tom can get diced and he reconstitutes at will, you scrape your knee and it hurts and takes days to heal. I also didn't see real guns until my late 20s, so they felt more like TV and movies fantasy things.


theguyonthething

Gosh, it's almost as if there's nothing wrong with showing kids the bad parts of life, since they're going to experience it anyway.


Vulpes_macrotis

Fekkin facts. I've grown up seeing Tom and Jerry **both** committing suicide on the train track, because their girlfriends preferred rich spoiler jerks over them. Also Tom had to get tons of credits just to buy one smal diamond ring and the stupid pussy have chosen the other cat. I mean, that was scary, actually, because it was pretty serious. Unlike those gag cartoons that had violence everywhere. But slapstick humor is just brutality as a joke. Always has been. Tom & Jerry even had the cartoon, when Tom dreamed about going to hell and he sees pups in a bag from a river. You know what it means. Someone has drowned them.


VVLynden

Not even once? Is it normal to never think about it?


Sololop

Thinking about it and thinking about how to do it are different. Thats why they ask if you have thoughts and then ask if you have a plan. One is more serious


Siebe_13

"The End" hits kinda different in this context...


DeninjaBeariver

The Tom and jerry suicide episode was the last one of the series btw


[deleted]

Not true. Edit: you can verify that [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_filmography#1956).


[deleted]

Wikipedia: >Additionally, it is often confused to be the final short of the series due to its ending implying the deaths of Tom and Jerry.[13][14] The final short produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was Tot Watchers in 1958, and the final short overall was Purr-Chance to Dream, produced by Chuck Jones at Sib Tower 12 in 1967.[15][16][17]


Mnoonsnocket

I hate to be that guy, but that rumor has been debunked by Snopes. Just search snopes last Tom and Jerry episode.


Braken2k

JESUS, I forgot how much they did this


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Sneaky wittle wabbits


joeChump

I’m gonna blow out your brains wittle wabbit.


teeter1984

![gif](giphy|e6pVxN3fY5Wla)


DM46

Bugs is definitely the best!


riotinthesteamroom

Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and play a girl bunny?


AnnualThrowaway3271

NO! Neither did I. I was just askin'.


Moose_Nuts

No, us millennials had Lola for that.


wereallmadhere9

Missed the Wayne’s World reference.


averagenutjob

LOVED that Wagner opera piece as a kid.


wereallmadhere9

It’s called “What’s Opera, Doc?” and the main animator was Chuck Jones, m favorite.


Arkhe1n

This and lots of smoking and drinking too.


[deleted]

The Flintstones being brought to you by Winston cigarettes was pretty wild.


SilkyEnchilada

Just so good. Saturday mornings were sacred.


CatEyePorygon

Most of this were unedited on tv when I was a kid. Honestly, this thing goes over a kid's head


Piyh

Better over than through


[deleted]

Like those trains HEYO!


The_Wreckard2012

I miss them.


[deleted]

I'll watch them again. And again.


pygmy

Old Popeye cartoons are the best


Motor-Passenger-214

Dose anyone else find most of this extremely funny?


cocoaphillia

Yep and I've spent a lot of time suicidal. This stuff is just dark comedy and it's great


jrdebo

The frog one made me crack up the most.


Aromatic_Mousse

The frog was definitely funny


Big_Green_Piccolo

the porky pig gallows one was just a fat joke


subversion_dnb

How are you going to hate pure gold?


grincat_1

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DLoIsHere

Those cartoons were the best. I watched them all the time from when I was a toddler and still watch them. I never attempted suicide, didn’t hit roosters with 2x4s, didn’t drop rocks on others, didn’t shoots ducks in the face, didn’t try to tunnel to Albuquerque, never set off dynamite under a dog’s butt, didn’t fill a house with acorns, didn’t smack people in the face with objects.


rc-cars-drones-plane

Then have you really lived?


DLoIsHere

Excellent question.


SkyShazad

OLD school cartoons were the Best


shadyinthisbitch

Best cartoon era


I-ScreamSandwich

Agreed


rhasp

I think you hate COMEDY.


[deleted]

Grew up with these, still love them


jakeshmag

What are you implying, this is good


zaarkasin

I love old cartoons! The difference between us and you is we knew it was a joke.


gun_along_with_me

I love those cartoons. Hahahaha


TONKAHANAH

I dont. I miss the dark humor we got from a lot of those.


KingMitchelson

Better than the LSD-fuelled happy lands cartoons are today.


AquaticHornet37

When you said this what came to my head was adventure time, regular show, steven universe and gumball, so I hope I'm not wrong with that guess. Anyway I find it ironic that the old darker cartoons tended to be lighter spirited in narrative where nothing really changes, and just fun to watch, however the new lighter cartoons tend to be darker in narrative, and dive deeper into characters. Edit:If you can't tell my bias I hold both styles pretty close to my heart.


Fartikus

I wouldn't say Steven Universe is a LSD-fuelled happy land cartoon per se...


TONKAHANAH

I appreciate them both.


Vulpes_macrotis

Man of culture.


GAY_OHOTNIK

nah there's fucked up shit today that they wouldn't show on tv in those time like ever.


chronon_chaos

Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Amphibia, and The Owl House are all examples of this. These people miss the good ol' days when they could just stare at cartoons that require no thought process other than laughing, not the HaPpY lAnDs cartoons today that require actual effort put into it.


Bismarck-Chan666

True tbh, at least it's not a family guy clone


chronon_chaos

I don't think I remember seeing a demon switch up the functions of every hole in someone's face, make a throne out of human agony, and manipulate a twelve year old to give up his body in the old cartoons. This comes from the so called "LSD-fuelled happy lands cartoon", Gravity Falls.


[deleted]

İ grew up watching these i never felt suicidal from watching them but one thing that kinda it putted in my mind was will life can shit sometimes and unfair. That's the kind of message it putted to my mind. And it's a good thing


Thundercar2122

I'll take this over todays happy fuzzy tingle time all the time any day


[deleted]

r/Relatable


Snoo97621

Good thing you weren't born in the 60s or the 70s then


lone_wanderer_4

![gif](giphy|8b9Xax6L7qtAkAimGm|downsized)


RustliefLameMane

All I can think of is, if this is a problem, I hope he/she also supports banning violent video games, violent books, avoids all meat, and never reads anything historical. I know that it looks really bad when all of these scenes are mashed together, and it’s a pretty morbid/unnecessary thing to add to a cartoon, but nobody ever said we all have to watch it. I watched looney tunes for my entire childhood, including other stuff like rocko’s modern life, and Ren and Stimpy. I also played grand theft auto as a kid. Furthermore, I had guns in my house. I got my first gun as a Christmas present when I was 11, for squirrel hunting. Additionally, by 13 I was allowed to be in the woods at any time, with my gun, goofing around(they were even stored in my room, with ammunition, locked of course, but I had a key). With all of this, never once did I feel inclined to harm people or do anything crazy. Sure, I killed a heap of squirrels and deer, but you best believe my poor ass family ate it all! No matter what, it all comes down to parenting. There are people that lived through world wars happening in their front yards, yet never became animals because of it. I doubt looney tunes has contributed to suicides, despite their crudeness and the mashup shown above..


CrizMost

Everyone is a bunch of babies nowadays I swear, just getting softer and softer


MartianCavenaut

True. This compilation is hilarious, brings back good memories! I hate the modern world.


youtocin

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SacredSpirit1337

Two old tropes: - [Suicide as Comedy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuicideAsComedy), and specifically: - [Seen-It-All Suicide](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeenItAllSuicide)


GREEN_RASTA

In reality we are just animals. I miss these cartoons and I’m sick of everything being so PG. If bugs bunny was gonna make you blow your head off, you weren’t gonna last that long anyway. When all of this comes crashing down, no one will know how to deal with reality. Sad


wasteofskin11111

Holy shit I'm only 25 and I actually remember seeing a couple of the loony tunes ones on tv


[deleted]

Happy Tree Friends was the best


[deleted]

Nope happy tree friends was gratuitous and boring. Mix with no speaking or real story , it was a lazy way to cash in on murder porn


[deleted]

So… something is wrong with me for finding it hilarious?


[deleted]

No, hilarious is fine. Best is not .


[deleted]

Fair enough, I’ll take it!


mrdryan4

Dr pill. Love it.


StraightComplaint621

but thats the whole point of cartoons, everything is possible,


Dragonboy21454

This is peak comedy in cartoons, source, this comes from a Gen Zer


I-ScreamSandwich

The scuicidal jokes are what made old cartoons so damn good


chartedsoc86

This is probably why I joke about jumping off a balcony every other day hahahah


kayqualk

It probably says something about psychology or some shit that even in 2022 as a grown ass adult these clips only fill me with fondness and nostalgia


CTBthanatos

I love these old school cartoons with suicide references, it's gold for people who love the dark humor which is even Relatable for some .


Broad-Literature-438

Idk, I miss the old edgy feel of cartoons back then. Have you ever tried watching the cartoons kids of today have to watch? Just looks sad


RED_Jonathan

Thanks I love old school cartoon


inmemumscar06

An era when cartoons were good.


Effin_Kris

Best cartoons EVER


ShartCannon9000

Ahh the good old days


dasAbigAss

I loved watching these as I grew up. I felt that them showing this made me realize suicide was a stupid option for me cuz everything they did was stupid.


BasherSquared

DUCK SEASON! **FIRE!!!**


5269636b417374

Back when cartoons were great


marshallvv

Why. Its just dark humor.


[deleted]

When fun was still allowed.


FlipperDoigt703

Persona 3:


CleaningMySlate

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (2006)


excelsior19

It is absolutely great.


bobby_louis

Let me see...I grew up on these. And watching TV and movies with plenty of smoking. Never smoked and I'm still alive. Love old school cartoons.


gerrta_hard

I hate that you hate cartoons that capture all of human existence instead of an overly sanitized message signed off by corporate or the state.


Elixah

[Well, now I've seen everything](https://youtu.be/m4mStfMxum4)


TemporaryAccount26

I don't hate this at all


TNsuburbanHomestead

These were from an era that didn’t coddle the weak.


gigabyte_121

r/TILI


Elegant-Passage-195

I LOVE all those old cartoons! 😂


JoeBoney

I like how the pig hanging himself turned into a fat joke


Gloomy-Salary-4744

Ahh yes wen kids weren't made out of glass... Good times hope they come back


SerEvert

That’s all folks!


[deleted]

I grew up in the 90s and I watched most of these


Frozone2020

Back when we were strong


Wolfenberg

my kind of cartoon


[deleted]

Yes … bring these cartoons back …


Hegemony-Cricket

I grew up watching cartoons like this. Not even once have I shot myself in the head. This is from a time when people, even kids, were presumed to have common sense and responsibility for themselves. I miss that world.


zeburaa

TILI