WWII Looney Toons

[cargecko007]

Oh sunofgun, too wrate!

[Pituxalina14]

I love Lord Hee Haw; he was a Hero in real life! 14/88!

[rrpauldoran]

1940s FTW!

[TunakaZ]

now looney toons just has to come back and make cartoons about the Middle East. Then theyd have insulted all of Americas enemies. lol

funny shit right here

[Elephantintheroom01]

Yea so the bad guys were just lucky those first few times. I sure hope this cartoon didnt fool anyone.

[blaen24]

Disney was an anti-semite, and of course the Americans wasn´t very happy about the "japs" after Dec 7 1941. This is cartoon history, but a shameful piece one.

[marcomovie1975]

Cool

[ZblueboltZ]

"aircraft spotter" lol pun

[randallmclaren]

look at 1:46 the swastikas,

it is a pretty crazy way to fight a war...

using cartoons i mean,

but i guess it is a lot safer

[rvhawkeye]

LOL

[Germanyankee]

How about Nanking or the Bataan death march?

[halomirando]

funny at its time still a little funny now, racism is funny, i am of japanese desent and I thought that the charachters in this cartoon were spot on with my ancestors.

[halomirando]

the japs

[ElZomboFantasma]

The Japanese fought with us in the first World War. Of their service, we gave them everything they needed to build a stronger army and what they need to strengthen their country as a whole.

The Axis give them a chance to rule the world and they stab their own allies in the back and invade their neighbors.

Are you to suggest that our people deserved to die and we should have just rolled over and let the Axis do as they pleased?

If thats the case, you'd be good to learn German and fuck off.

[immortalpoet]

A beautiful example of just how invasive propaganda was during WWII. Very interesting.

[DarkMario2]

Hmmm...even spelled Tokyo incorrectly. Even though I know it was with the times back then, It makes me wonder: "Is propaganda still prevalent in today's society?"

[krishnalite]

Of course it is. It's just in a new package that makes you feel good inside.

[gaarajasd]

what the hell are the comments talking about this cartoon rocks i even added it to my favorites and just cause you watch this doesn't mean you're racist the cartoon was made during wold war 2 pearl harbor much!!

[blunted4202x]

CHING CHONG CHING CHONG

[zhveer]

I fin this cartoon crude and unfunny.

And not because it's racist - non-PC jokes are the best ever made.

Maybe if I was 10 years younger...

[fromthesidelines]

"Tokio Jokio" (1943) was produced at a time when America was involved in fighting the Japanese during World War II. This cartoon was supposed to be a satire of a "typical" Japanese newsreel, complete with caricatures now considered offensive today, and making fun of "Our Enemy" (just as Germans and Italians- part of the "Axis"- were also ridiculed in theatrical cartoons at the time)....

[AKSquirrel]

you have to love hoe racist these old cartoons are.

I miss watching these on TV, boomerang still plays this, except i have no cable.

-Squirrel

[tv10morehead]

Stereotypes have a basis or origin and it is used to communicate something about a group, true or exaggerated. Groups of people & cultures do have common traits that identify them that can be exaggerated to the point of being offensive but the origin of the stereotype is not less true because someone is offended. Censoring the true because it is offensive is more dangerous than racism.

[Xikaze]

Ah, that's some good old fashioned family racism.

[NadimGawdat]

the same old stereotypes that Americans have delivered through his media, Americans think that the rest of the people are just idiots, when the idiots are others, ask homer simpson what's brazil like, or japan, or elsewhere..

[Zeracheil]

wake up and realize when this was made... this was made back in the 1940's! when not only American's were using these stero types during the war but so were every other country in the world. don't pin this all on us when the rest of the world at the time was doing the EXACT SAME THING!

[NadimGawdat]

i'm afraid no one else uses those clisés also AMERICA is a whole continent, no a single country! doing the same? getting on purpose into every war they can??

[Zeracheil]

since when! Germans during world war 2 were the ones that basically invented the propaganda films. Japaneses had propaganda films..so did britian and France. yes NORTH America is a continent.. but when you refer to American's...thats those that live in the USA, as i have yet to ever hear anyone from Canada and Mexico called American.

[NadimGawdat]

take it easy, i'm not just speaking about war times, i'm seriuos man, the way they perceive all other people, races, civilizations, etc, is like: they are idiots because they do not speak english, and they have weird customs, and they don't even have a mc'donalds around here... America in all other languages refers to the continent... and Americans are the inhabitants of it

[Zeracheil]

and this is where you are just showing your own ignorance. yes there are some that believe that, but not every American out there is a single minded white power idiot that believe white man is the master race. i work with a man that was born in Congo, lived in France and now lives here. he's one of the coolest guys i have met. And you can not once again classify all of us as American's as many Canadians and Mexican will take that as an insult.

[Zeracheil]

and you just contradicted yourself by saying that American's think people stupid cause they can not speak English, well um... if Canada and Mexico are part of America..why do they speak French and Mexican?

[shrubhuntertran13579]

haha, you gotta love the old school racism in old cartoons

[johnkiro]

HAHAHA regrettable incedent. That just made my night, awesome up Chimp.

And for you people calling this racist, get a life, it was in the 40's, we were at war, and i doubt any of you would be calling it racist if it were anti white or calling it bad if it were anti american

[shawnmeboy]

That's hilarious, too bas we don't do that kinda stuff nowadays, we're too stupid

[Sherman8likenate]

i agree with colten5 alot now our leaders our wimps today and get your racist shit an propaganda out yah wimps

[remmanuelp]

Gringos Racistas...

[foosballpele]

wow, I never new how directly political this show got and how racist it was.

[chevick]

It wasn't considered racist back then.

[PiOfFive]

It isn't racist.

It's free speech.

[beachbody08]

ummm...yeah...the content is still racial. I never denied their freedom say it.  Douche Bag.

[Sherman8likenate]

im not a douche bag just saying look at irans vdieos about america

[nebulareclipse]

just because they can say it doesnt mean that it is not racist

[Zeracheil]

this wasn't racist when it was made, pull your head out of the year 2000 when you have to be politically correct. back then you had to de-humanize your enemy other wise you get the wars like today. back then...those were real wars. not the political battles they are today

[kookimunsta]

i know its just propaganda but, man, i'm really insulted!

[gwenniepants]

Get over it, kookimunsta. We were at war.

[Fred5612]

Its not racist, its just that world was at war and when a country has an enemy that country tends to try to ashame or at least make the opposing country ridicoulus.

[Colton5]

i wish america would grow a pair again and star doing cartoons like this again. to bad i wasnt born back then

[bkalathi]

why does it say LOONEY TOONS for five minutes

[Trevortboss]

...

[P3WNAGE]

well...most of them do.but not Filipinos or the southern east.

[whatewer23]

wery hilarious propaganda

[zhihao1]

lol, look at the plane, its all spotted

[billytimbolton]

that was kool

[Steadno]

History is great when it is recorded like this... This is so that there's no denying the racism here.

[GreenArkenstone]

That's really sad. Was this cartoon really made for kids?

[lipsoverpoison]

Kids and adults, yes. They are bad today because of the racism, but back then they helped the war cause, and helped children not be so scared of the enemy. Even Bugs Bunny was racist back then.

[GaryBerkley]

You think this was bad. Check out the old Astro Boy cartoons from the 1940s, where olde Uncle Sam round eye eats babies and forces everyone to grow a beard. Nya... what's up doc!

[jinko17]

funny how the "land of the free" even at that time, could be so ignorant.

[dewyjuhl]

..and that is how anime came to be

[FirstClassHeel]

No, anime was probably made in retaliation to this. I like it, even if it is un-PC and the gags are corny. You don't see stuff like this in modern entertainment.