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  • 3/4 of a century later, the central moral of this classic cartoon still rings true today...

  • And to think, the title of this cartoon was originally going to be the title for the Adventure Time episode, "Susan Strong".

  • @CheatsythePimp2 Woah, really? Cuz, this is a lot like Adventure Time.

  • My pet Crazy Theory is that "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" takes place in the same post-human setting as this cartoon.

  • @wolphintv Hmmmm, never thought about that.

  • irony: having this air in the same year world war 2 starts for europe. that my dearest friends is irony

  • study war no more

  • Wow, I remember watching this!

  • I still can't believe how beautiful this is.

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  • i vaguely remember watching this as a kid.. i never knew what it was about, i always thought it was about little animals singing

  • Why were the germans using maxim machine guns?

  • @Sherpard1 its a Maxim MG08/15 ( Maschinengewehr 08), similar in design to the original

  • The enumerating of the factions seems like a prototype for the Butter Battle Book (which was banned by many schools during the Cold War. We don't want kids to think thta threatening to destroy the world over competing economic systems is arbitrary and stupid.)

  • @EpicureMammon It's more likely Dr. Seuss got the idea from the Lilliputians-Blevuscidian war in Gulliver's travels, fought over the proper way to crack an egg. Depictions of the great European wars as pointless and arbitrary are hardly a new development.

    Still, this film is creepy as hell, especially considering the historical context.

  • just like the cartoons today......

  • Uh huh. They're all peace-loving and condescending towards us now, but when they need salt to preserve their food and the people two borders over are too primitive to mine it or won't trade it...

  • And then they were all wiped out when they met some animals that had stumbled across a Koran instead.

  • @2IDSGT what is that supposed to mean

  • @2IDSGT Good to know that you know nothing about the Koran.

  • this is not an apocalyptic vision...it's how to put the war in kids mind....

  • ... Wow, the scenes depicting World War 1 are scarier than I remember. Wonderful peace of art; as an anti-war animation, it's only rivaled by Grave of the Fireflies.

  • I Wish I Was A Squirrel! ;)

  • Whoa... the mama is actually holding the knitting needles the right way! Usually when a character is shown knitting, he or she holds the needles so the knobbed ends point upwards, when really they point down.

  • @sanjouindacapo Actually, the method of knitting with the knobs up is technically okay. It was developed in the Victorian times as a more ladylike way to knit, but it's harder to do. But it is rare to see knitting done the way it's shown here.

  • How stylish it's become in some people's minds to hate on humanity troubles me as much as anything else.

  • ive been looking for this, thanks tvtropes!

  • i watched this as a kid, was one of my favorite cartoons. now i watch it and weep when i see the last two men on earth kill eachother, that part gets me everytime

  • 2:32 "As I remember them, they were like... well, they were like monsters! They wore great big iron pots on their heads, carried terrible lookin' shootin'-firin's, and walked on their hind legs--"

    What the fuck? They walk on their hind legs too!

  • is that all we got to do? no problem!

  • Peace on earth isn't fun. I would much rather partake in mindless murder and destruction. In video games, of course.

  • Peace? there is no peace with humans, no peace with men

    there is only WAR!!!

  • Funny, this was made right before WWII!

  • It was good right up until they brought up the Bible, God justifies killing enemy tribes/nations plenty of times, and he floods the damn place for shits and giggles.

    Granted nobody actually follows the entirety of the bible, and instead cherry picks what the agree with and use the bible to support it, but if everyone did follow the bible we'd be even more fucked than we are now.

  • @ClipOnSunglasses Precisely what I was thinking.

  • @ClipOnSunglasses The thing is, the animals don't appear to have a concept of religion; they're merely using the Commandments as a set of rules to live by (which, isolated from the context religion, could work as quite effective societal rules, anyway). I believe that the Bible would make more sense as a collection of myths and legends than as a religious codex.

  • This is a rather chilling cartoon.

  • So the Last Man On Earth went out taking his enemy down with him? Couldn't be a more fitting end to our species.

  • facebook.com/pages/Ujedinjena-­­Planeta-Zemlja-United-Planet-­E­arth/182463745152383

    This page was created for all people who think that the border pure nonsense!That racial,religious or any other kind of intolerance things in the future should not exist!Let us unite for the good of humanity,believe in the man's soul!Let us help each other and be better!One nation(People From The Earth),one faith,faith in people and goodness!Let us leave malice,hatred and vanity aside!

    Let's make a new world!

  • I reanmber seeing this wean i was little

  • The owl is no longer a bird of prey?

    Kat

  • Silly humans, animals never kill each other.

  • Damn vegetarians.......

  • At least we know that the animals wouldn't fight eachother!!!! That live on earth can continue!!!!!

  • Well, that was depressing. You know, because kids are way too happy anyway, so let's tell some facts about humans.

  • ( aliens )

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  • i was looking for the U2 song

    

  • Yeah, I actually remember watching a rerun of this when I was a kid. I died a little inside. D:

  • o_o I remember this when I was kid (now off to college). It was on Cartoon Network when they used to show case old cartoons. I loved the war scenes. :P

  • In that same year WW2 started. Hitler was a vegetarian.

  • the old squirrel has to explain what a "man" is, but around 3:59, he says that bombs were bursting everywhere. how would the kids know what a bomb is if they don't know what a man is unless the squirrels have their own bombs?

  • Do the Evolution

  • The squirrel sounds like Mel Blanc.

  • @sarujo It IS Mel Blanc.

  • You can totally see where this is going: After developing human technology and civilization, the animals also start human wars and eventually wipe each other out.

  • @leptoceratops Animals too hunt and kill each other. Without any technology. Doesn't matter. Thus man is only an animal with an overdriven brain and technology.

  • When I first saw this I wondered where the carnivores and other omnivores where at or doing. I seriously doubt they turned vegan.

  • @leptoceratops Reptilians. ;) Believe whatever you want.

  • I love rotoscoping; the soul reason im watching this. <3

  • I love you

  • Because of you, those who watch this video, and the gentle thoughts that all good people have, the world will be a better place for all of us.

  • @xxMrFablexx Yeah it aired on Boomerang a few times several years ago and I remember seeing it on Cartoon Network once or twice around the same time.

  • wasnt there another version of this cartoon made . . . dammit what was it called

  • @Ralokone it was called Goodwill to Men

  • here we go all those intellectual assholes debating about corporations, religions and war .......yo nimrods go take ur arguments somewhere else and let some of us enjoy the cartoon and remember our good old childhood PEACE!!!!!!

  • Was this ever aired on modern day tv? I distinctly remember that scene where the 2 last soldiers shoot each other.

  • @xxMrFablexx I do as well. And it was, a few years back as I recall.

  • @xxMrFablexx yeah, it has.

  • @xxMrFablexx Yeah, on Boomerang from Cartoon Network.

  • @xxMrFablexx Yup!! Well, on TBS they used to have a Tom and Jerry Christmas special. That's how I was introduce to this. Well done!!!

  • @cammy85 I think for us they called it the Bugs Bunny Christmas special, this came on after Popeye's Mister and Mistletoe, and a Bugs Bunny cartoon not Christmas specific but he and a dog fight over who stays in the house one winter night and who goes out in the snow. So in that sense this cartoon didn't really fit but it was always my favorite.

  • @xxMrFablexx I think so. I always remembered the scenes where the guy was walking towards the camera and the two guys shooting at each other

  • And remember, this was made before the nuclear bomb was invented. Yeah. Well, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway.

  • The problem isn't men, its the war-mongering and profiteering corporations that need conflicts to continually fuel their finances. Humans don't have an innate desire to fight, they instead want to raise families and live in peace. Why else does propaganda exist to 'demonize' an enemy? If any of you read Howard Zinn or Antony Sutton you would abandon the idea that warfare is an innate human characteristic. How many of us would want to willingly fight at Verdun, Ypres, Stalingrad, etc?

  • @JPernam1983 That is so preposterous it isnt even funny. Humans not only are extremely violent BUT in addition to that we "progressed" to become more violent. The 1900s saw more civilians killed outside of warfare than in all wars before 1900 combined. Im not talking about casualties of war. I am talking about mass murder, genocide, etc. Yeah, Im sure that is because of war profiteering, oh wait, im not even talking about warfare.

  • @blondeviking64 Who do you think drove humanity to commit such crimes against each other? Government initialized propaganda. The idea of finding scapegoats and initiating a pogrom to eliminate them is tied into warfare. The Jews were targeted because many German anti-semites believed that they had conspired to bring the Second Reich to ruin during World War I.

  • @taximan891 You are way off base here. First of all, we are talking about two different things. The native americans were certainly mistreated and moved "out of the way" but they mainly died from disease and not warfare. We are talking about a government that still officially recognized certain sicknesses as being "an apirition requiring blood letting" as late as the 1870s. There is no way they could have intentionally passed on diseases. They didnt even know diseases existed in the modern sense

  • The Jews were being mistreated in Germany on a large scale as early as the 1880s. Not only that but they were also being persecuted heavily in Spain, Russia and elsewhere. In fact the US was aware of the holocaust during the war and still would not accept any liberated refugee Jews from concentration camps. In reality the Jewish people were being persecuted consistenly for several hundred years. In WW2 it was based upon the science of eugenics, the idea you can breed better people. Not war.

  • @blondeviking64 Jews were also straight up banned from England for like 300 years.

  • Armenians were targeted by the Young Turks because they believed that sect was conspiring towards the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The Native American populations of the United States were almost comprehensively annihilated because of the US governments 'need' for expansion from coast to coast. The countless African genocides that have occurred are due in part to political instability fostered by post colonialist principles.

  • war exists because humanity exists...

  • @Sazara11

    Humanity exists because war exists.

    Without war, we might as well not be human.

  • The only way to get a world peace is by exterminating humanity.

  • i knew peta was the cause of all the world's problems

  • Kind of amazing how a simple cartoon can bring out a flurry of pseudo-intellectualism isn't it?

  • So in the long run, it is not societies, resources or ideologies that causes wars - It is individuals who exploited social hatreds, resentment and fears and give it a cohesive force, drive men to do unspeakable atrocities and conflict unknowingly in their names. If we must end war, we must reengineer society from the ground up, so that conditions that would inspire fear and hatred, and leaders that give them cohesive force, would never emerge.

  • Another: Germany in the 1930s was a boiling pot of political and social tensions - Germany's defeat in WWI, its economy ruined by the Great Depression, the distrust of the Weimar gov and democracy, fears of a Communist uprising, inherent discrimination against Jews and Non-Aryans and foreign cultures. Normally Germans won't hurt a fly, but Hitler came, and it only took him a few years to turn Germany into a hate-filled military superpower that almost took over Europe and killed millions.

  • Consider - The French Revolution was a good thing originally - The repressive French monarchy and its reactionary establishment was overthrown, and great Enlightenment ideals were being introduced. Yet, the people in their hatred turned against anyone they believe were against the Revolution. Leaders like Robespierre emerged, exploited this trend, and in Reigns of Terror thousands died, guilty or innocent. The end product was Napoleon, who would plunge Europe into 20 years of disastrous war.

  • @TheVoiceOfReason93 Incidently, the poor downtrodden citizens of France not only didn't benefit from the French Revolution, they became even poorer. They simply exchanged one ruling class for another. The first was uncaring. The second terroristic.

  • @Fabuladico

    Things could had improved, and it didn't because of the demogogues and radicals that emerged during that turbulant period, turning the new society to their twisted image. The revolution isn't something to be feared, but welcomed - its the end product people in power that we should be worried about. Just like Russia in 1917 - Russia could be turned from Tsarist tyranny to Russian democracy, had not for the Bolsheviks.

  • Most men would be appalled by concepts of war and conflict, but all men have the same human flaws that would turn them collectively into psychos who are willing to put millions of people to death out of simple fear. But they won't manifest unless there's some form of crisis awakens these savage instincts, and all it takes is one man, one power hungry, selfish, manipulative Sociopath, to step in to guide this sentiment against people they hate. And next thing you know, missiles fly everywhere.

  • Anyway, the problem is not with religions, ideology, resources, or even men - the problem of conflict, both on the battlefield and society, is Individuals.

  • Cause you know, reading the bible gives you so much intelligence.

  • @bobsmedoggy Yes I do, your essentially saying yin and yang. the opposites of everything.

    However your trying to mix and match two teachings that just don't match...they sound like they would but using the example I put down, disproves it :) so thank you for questioning me but it's you who is not looking at what I say very well.

  • @bobsmedoggy your making a fundamental flaw here, you think the reaction to an action is the polar opposite.

    That is not the case.

    Taking a single step forward only causes momentum, not a step backwards.

    But nice idea in all honesty. just not entirely thought out.

  • People were not used to that kind of killing in World War 1 but we got over it in World War 2.

  • @bobsmedoggy OMG! AGAIN! i have found you again! same dumbass paragraph another video! troll troll troll

  • Peace On Earth !!<3333

  • That's just about the most misanthropic cartoon I've seen outside of Pinky & the Brain.

  • Jesus was a socialist radical peacenik and he was great, shame most of his teachings are deliberately misunderstood by American 'Christians'

  • wow this is as even more haunting than The Animatrix first volume - the one with the flashback. Another cartoon like this to watch is "When the Wind Blows" a BBC thing

  • I saw this cartoon when I was real young. The image of the soldier in the gas mask at 2:35 always stuck with me...

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  • A very interesting view on war an- SQUIRREL! *looks at the squirrel*

  • When Jesus Christ returns to Earth, He will bring "true" peace to this world, where sin will no longer bring anymore destruction to us believers of Christ ever again.

  • @626joshua Its people like you that have setback peace more than any one on earth.

    PS. there is no god no hell you are living a lie.

  • @peptob Shut up you lying jerk! I am not living a lie and there is a God weather you believe it or not! Right now its "war and peace" on earth right now. And this "setback peace" does make an sense to me. So mind your own business. There will be a new Heaven and a new Earth someday. And those who follow Jesus and Him alone will be reward with eternal life.

  • @626joshua I think you're right, when he comes the peace comes with him, well, i think its better call to the home of that asshole and say it: come here for one fucking once!, I'm running out my patience!, sir your god is a sadistic voyeurism

  • @CAMPUSHISPANO What the heck does that mean? "Sadistic voyeurism?" I don't know when Jesus will return but all I do know is that He is coming sooner than ever. And another thing, watch your language because hate it people are using bad words like that. I don't mind the words "Shut up," "dang it," or "darn it."

  • @626joshua

    And the rest of us, even for a little mistake such as forgetting to return a book (qualifies as stealing), or not believing in God (despite doing only good things in life) are doomed to burn outside the city for eternity, as par Bible

    Now that's disturbing.

  • If there is only one thing certain about humans and human nature, then that thing is war.

    War never changes.

  • goddamn squirels have already started taking all my stuff in the roofspace - if i'm gonna die I'm damn well gonna take all my stuff with me

  • : )

  • moral of the story: peace on earth will be accomplished when humans are wiped out

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  • @iceshard24 Animals are in constant conflict. ants, for example, will be in a constant cycle of warfare throughout their entire existance.

  • Well that was depressing but important.

  • Beautiful cartoon with a very simple message!

  • I bet all carnivores disagree with peace being on earth after humans are gone.

  • And to to think that this was made before/at the start of WW2. May people help the people out of the terrible situation. GOD knows after 80+ years, he can't do much to fix this. ONLY WE CAN AID OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Bless.

  • damn, that was well-made.

    also lol @ 5:50 war destroyed everything. only those fragil church windows made it through

  • Peace.

  • Peace

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

  • the earth will burn after man is gone

  • @MrShuquelok and out of the ash they will rise.

  • This cartoon was going fine with the war is bad messge, until the bible part which I found to a bit to much

  • @ivarsig your face is too much

  • @ivarsig

    I agree.

  • In the last Korean war, the death toll was over 1,190,000-1,577,000. Do we really want people in other countries to do things like that again? There were many horrors there. Now that we have nukes, missiles, and advanced weaponary, just think of the death toll for a second? Copy and paste this around to other videos. We can't let this happen

    Plz copy and paste this. I have a good friend who lives in south korea. hes really worried about what would happen to his country. A very beautiful place

  • So only herbivore animals remained after the apocalypse?

  • War is hell. But sometimes necessary. But I think instead of condemming those that fight in them as many people do we should rather do all we can to help them either while they are fighting or after they get back. They are the ones who get the bucket of crap so why not help them us that bucket as fertilizer.

    It's a metaphor people.

  • It's never necessary. 

  • @Gmancrap What if it is to stop a genocide? There are many factors for which war is necessary. It is hell but look at iraq. Millions of people are being introduced into medicines that can save their lives or learning that just because they are from a different tribe it doesn't matter. Yes iraq has been horrible but more people focus on the far smaller bad than the exponetionally greater good that is happening and will continue to happen because of the western influence.

  • First of all where did you get "Millions of people are being introduced into (that makes no sense) medicines" from? If you could link me to that, that would be grate.

    Now, its easy to say to stop genocide. But who has ever stopped a genocide? We certainly haven't. I mean to tell you the truth I can't thing of any other good reason to fight a war besides perhaps genocide.

    Also, what is this abstract concept of a "Grater good"? Every one fighting things they are fighting for a "Grater good".

  • @Gmancrap One thing I've noticed about people who make a big deal out of missing one letter while typing which is the most common typing mistake and they know what you meant they are usually jack-asses who have a holier than thou personality. Not saying you're that though. But in a sense we did slow down the holocaust in WWII. everytime we took back a country we usually stopped on concentration camp from operating. And yes we did for the most part introduce them to medicines.

  • @Gmancrap continued.

    Because the majority of the people in Iraq has had the smallest of forms of medicine if any at all used on the entire population.

  • I remember watching these old Cartoons with my Grandpa. He's still alive thankfully but we can never seem to find them anymore when we're both bored. I always loved this one.

  • Thanks for posting this! I used to watch this all the time around christmas with my family! I love this cartoon so much! Thanks again!

  • you know what's funny? i think this is the only classic cartoon that explains why all the characters are talking animals!

  • And given the nature of most animals, the next thing we know, the cute critters in the story would start fuzzing each other over which walnuts are better, and then the whole debacle would happen all over again.

  • @pleeppleep Holy shit, that means Porky Pig is just a hyper-evolved superpig that now exists long after humanity has died out. However, he learned to speak English from books he found, albeit with a chronic stutter. Sylvester the Cat is just a feline he found sitting around.

  • This is what hippies actually believe.

  • Grandpa squirrel is a bit of Charlie Manson, ain't he?

  • What the fuck are you talking about?

  • I've been searching for this cartoon for years, ever since I was a kid I always wanted to know the name of this cartoon and see it again. : ) Thank you for posting it up.

  • The ultimate irony of this cartoon is that everyone involved in its production totally ignored its message a mere three years later and went on to produce multiple wartime cartoons.

  • @sillygramcracker damn right

  • The problem isn't religion the problem is men.

  • @MoldlyMildew Amen to that brother

  • @MoldlyMildew

    The problem is men and religion.

  • @billhicks8 Who invented religion? Squirrels? Men. :-)

  • @MoldlyMildew

    So just because a dangerous mind control system was created by men, the system itself is not worthy of criticism? This is what we call a fallacy. Should we just abolish men instead of their bad ideas? Do squirrels plan conquest and genocide? Or do they perhaps lack some of the motivations we invent?

  • @billhicks8 No bro thats not what I am saying at all. Its men that are at the seed of the corruption of religion and war. Yes animals do lack the hateful soul of the things we invent thankfully.

  • @MoldlyMildew

    Yeah but now you've ended up where you started with the exception that you've now conceded that religion can be corrupt, thus you can also see it would be far more useful to discuss the need for religion than it would the need for man. After all, everything could be as reducible: It's not Nazism -It's man, It's not nuclear engineering- It's man. But these issues are all worth criticism, and it is of greater worth and result to do so.

  • @billhicks8 Because man is corrupt and to say that man isnt corrupt is simply arrogant or ignorant.

  • @MoldlyMildew

    Did I ever say otherwise? Man can be corrupt, but also generous or even selfless. It all comes down to the choices an individual makes and the ideas they inspire. If they inspire negative concepts and try to coerce others into believing them, then those concepts should be criticised by the more pure in intent. This is more productive than simply blaming your human nature which is something worth noting but nothing more.

  • @MoldlyMildew THANK YOU! you just made my day. everywhere I go people seem unable to understand that. (sigh) once again, thank you.

  • ...and then the cute little woodland critters built an entire civilisation with no prior experience.

    We should've exterminated the rest of life before killing each other.

  • This reminds me of that music video for pearl jam's "Do the Evolution". Check it out. (warning: mature themes. Just in case you are easily disturbed)

  • People go to war because they don't read the bible enough? Do the people who made this even know anything about life?

  • @AhcriSlate Yeah, look at Sergeant York

  • @AhcriSlate Did the people who made this know anything about religion is the better question :P

  • @AhcriSlate

    This short was made before questioning religion became in vogue in the U.S. At the time you would've been thought to be quite a mean-spirited person to make a habit out of the Bible's contradictions (some parts of it promoting good will to men, and others promoting the slaughter of all heathens). To be honest, I would have to agree that to found their whole civilization on things they read in the Bible may cause a lot of trouble for these animals later.

  • @sillygramcracker it's HOW you use it that matters like every philosophy, political or social belief.

  • is this where Peaceville records got their name?