Angel puss (1944)

[jcoffee180]

Loony Tunes>Merry Melodies 

[Romusk86]

As an African American I do believe cartoons like these shouldn't be kept from the public. They're essential to teaching children and adults alike not to let history repeat itself. Otherwise we expect more crap like Transformers 2.

[onldhes]

If this is rascist, then Fat Albert is the anti-christ

[Socalsway]

cats a dick.

[mikemcgee]

Thanks for putting this cartoon on be sure to contact your rep and tell him no the internet blacklist law and the anti neutrality intenret law.that hey are going to be voting on tuesday 11/04/11

[jabronie1000]

I think I'm going to start carrying dice around everywhere.

[mwinahaha]

that cat sure is an asshole



[iwillrocknroll4eva]

Hilarious!!!

[TheNodferatu]

haha the klans men were supposed to be ghosts too

[KrazyKartoonKid]

This cartoon is not public domain. The only public domain Censored 11 cartoons are Hittin' The Trail For Hallelujah Land, Jungle Jitters and All This And Rabbit Stew.

[PassiveSmoking]

The racism is pretty much standard fare for the time. Sad, but that's just how things were back then. What really pisses me off about this cartoon was the kid was about to do the right thing and not drown the cat until the cat started yanking his chain. Nice job breaking it, hero!

[Keopro]

The dice jokes piss me off. Apart from that, this one's probably the least offensive of the Censored 11.

[Tachikawa92]

alot of work just to play a joke on the guy

[theflyingmonkey145]

wow "THIS IS KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK" xD

[CinnabonChan]

When you think about it, its not really any worse then any of the other unpleasant sterotypes you see on tv of just about every ethnicity/sexual orientation...

[amb96a]

its not rasicst its just stereotypical . when the cat says just drown the cat or your goin to have to give the money back. there showing tht the boy (being a black person)would rather drown the cat then give up 4 bits and do what he think is right.

[Churchcantor]

That bastard gets what he deserves for trying to drown a cat,

[CinnabonChan]

@Churchcantor Yeah, he feels bad about drowning a cat... so he shoots it in the face? Just desserts for that little shit!

[Pecquer]

I don't find it offensive :-

[Gorgonzola7474]

I dunno whats wrong with a cartoon from the old days to feature a black person. Most cartoons nowadays feature black people, though with the new animation styles that have been invented they draw them less racist. I don't see the problem with the way they're drawn. They're drawn in more of a cartoon way that makes it funny. Black people have just as much of a right to be in a cartoon as white people.

[Demetri124]

@Gorgonzola7474 It's not just the mere existence of black people in the cartoons, it's the way the were portrayed. This is a kid with a deformed head and enormous, face-consuming lips, and he speaks in stereotypical dialect. I mean, if he was just a kid that just so happened to be black, thats fine, but here they throw it in your face and give over the top characteristics and stereotypes, which makes it highly offensive. 

[Gorgonzola7474]

@Demetri124 Have you ever watched Code Lyoko? I don't think the black person having a huge head is racist, a lot of cartoon characters have had huge heads, but i can agree on the face-consuming lips.

[TheTolonio]

@Demetri124 Just like in cartoons that have Asian characters in them, they have small, long width eyes... Everyone's racist man get over it. This is why "Looney Toons" toons, mostly draw animals instead of human beings.

[Lashid4u]

@Wolfboy93 Oh yes, I AM gonna generalize! ...If something consists for over 4 centuries, I think it's too big to try to individualize (THAT is why we generalize - when shit is too outta control to individualize - Americans are FAT, point blank! FUCK the "political correctness")...But ya know, I'm gonna play along witcha ...I AM a racist? NOW WHAT? (at least I can admit to that shit, unlike y'all punk-asses, trying to justify every damn thing you do)...

[bbphnix]

and this time we ain't kidding.......

good one

[hahaimpatrick]

To be fair, this is about as offensive to black people as Yosemite Sam is to hillbillies.

[walrusguyjr]

@hahaimpatrick exactly! It's not like white people don't drown cats!

[GoblinXXX]

@hahaimpatrick You mean to ginger outlaws.

[orwellson]

@hahaimpatrick You're absolutely right... because all hillbillies can be as offended by being addressed as "Yosemite," just as all African-Americans are offended by being addressed as "Sambo." Puh-lease!

[bacovia2004]

@hahaimpatrick lol

[thisismysea]

@hahaimpatrick Yosemite Sam was never the sole type of depiction of white people in media, nor was he imposed by a group in power to oppress and demean a group who had none. Not comparable at all.

[nintendo4ever123]

@hahaimpatrick My friend from Illinois personally loves Sam xD

[gjohnsoningary]

@pokemontrainercz I would suggest that you really study humor sir. This shit is not funny! 1944 was one harowing time for Black folks. Then you get upset when we respond to overt racism by beating your asses. how about you volunteer to a beat down or to be lynched. Since you have such keen comic timing, I'm sure you'll find it hilarious!

[jdm9700]

White Supremacy is just a disguise for Caucasian Inferiority Complex. No one who actually felt superior to someone else would spend 400+ years vigorously and scandalously trying to prove their superiority over another. Segregation and societal racial barriers are clear proof of the true way they feel about competing with us on an equal footing. From Jack Johnson to Barack Obama, Blacks have demolished the fallacy of White Supremacy. So let them have their cartoons; it's all they have left.

[GundamLeviathan]

@jdm9700 LOL, nice try troll.

[nutttt1]

THIS BULLSHIT IS DIGUSTING. I SEE WHY IT HAS BEEN CESORED. BUT THE REALITY OF IT IS THAT IN STEAD OF DESTROYING IT FOR GOOD ITS OUT HERE FOR ALL TO SEE SMMFH

[GundamLeviathan]

@nutttt1 Learn to spell, faggot.

[gjohnsoningary]

@pokemontrainercz So getting lynched is funny eh? Maybe you should purchase a rope for yourself.

[GundamLeviathan]

@gjohnsoningary Lynchings are very funny. Especially when done to an African fellow.

[gjohnsoningary]

@GundamLeviathan You coward! I'm praying that really awful happens to you like a tornado sweeping your ass up like what just happened in Joplin Missouri

[GundamLeviathan]

@gjohnsoningary LOL, I'm sure that'll totally happen, Magilla Gorilla . . .

[gjohnsoningary]

@GundamLeviathan Oh it will. Trust me on that BEAST!!!

[GundamLeviathan]

@gjohnsoningary LOL, u mad? Silly, gorilla . . .

[gjohnsoningary]

@GundamLeviathan Yes, a tornado will come to you!!! AHHHH, I can see it now. You're screaming for help as it scoops you up into its grip!!

[KuntyKike]

Poor Sambo!

[CygnusTheIronDream]

You Fags that think this is racist go watch south park mmmkay

[Lashid4u]

@CygnusTheIronDream WTF does that hafta do w/ this still being racist? If you enjoy this shit, then, just admit to it ...but stop trying to justify this, saying it's not racist - you know better. Whites are always doing this shit, today ...I miss the days when they just came out and admitted to being racist*sigh* That's why racism is, actually, WORSE today ..and that's why blacks, today, don't care 2 shits about their history, nor do they have the pride they once had - so fooled by whites, today

[Demetri124]

@Lashid4u While I agree with your point to some extent, as an African American I disagree with how you generalized the whole race saying that black people dont care about their history. I do very much, and it's not right to say something about an entire race like its one person. That's actually, to some extent, the very core and beginning of stereotyping in general. Not to offend you or anything, I agree with your point still

[DaLilMex]

I don't know why people are complaining about it being racist. As it has been said before It was part of the society of the 1940's.

Just like today you see in movies and tv talking about illegal Immigration (mostly Mexicans) and making obvious racial slurs and symbols but people laugh. Probably a couple of decades people will be isn't that racists?

suck it up if you don't like don't watch it , if you do just remember it might be offensive but it is part of the 1940's society.

[Demetri124]

@DaLilMex No one makes racist remarks about immigration, and if they do they get called out on it. I dont watch much of the mainstream news for BS like that, but I'm pretty sure it's not that bad. I find this offensive to an extent, and if I saw something racist toward Mexicans, black people or any other race, I would find that offensive too, no matter what the time period

[fenriz218]

I don't see what's racist about it ... :( ... I find it much more racist nowadays, how they put those poor blacks in MTV videos, make them wear fake jewellery, studdering and convulsing!

[Kylekorversgirl88]

I'm just wondering did no one think this was remotely offensive as it went through the stages of bein animated. The script, storyboard, animation, pre screening? No one before it was released was like "Wow this is fucked up! Maybe we shouldn't?" It trips me out sometimes. Makes me very grateful I was born when I was.

[kasumi421]

@Kylekorversgirl88 1944. It's a product of its time. It was common to show blackface, racism, and stereotypes in a positive light during those times. What they didn't know that times were going to greatly change in the next two decades. I'm a black person, and I understand that. It's not right, but I guess I can't hate it either.

[Kylekorversgirl88]

@kasumi421 I know that's why it trips me out. It's hard to believe coming from when I was born that not one person thought there was anything wrong about it.

[Kylekorversgirl88]

Wow I'm glad I was born when I was.

[DevonC90]

I think the racial stereotype that got me was shaking dice to hypnotize the kid.

[tsntana]

So ummmmmmm...  How many other Looney Tunes had the Porky/Daffy heads that didn't have Porky and/or Daffy in the cartoons themselves?

[NinJutsuDude1997]

@tsntana Tokio Jokio.

[tsntana]

@NinJutsuDude1997 Another banned cartoon. I assume those are the only ones?

[NinJutsuDude1997]

@tsntana I'll find some more.

[Zarkyun]

If this were real life there would be dead bodies all over the ground from all this hate going around. If youtube were a place it surely would be covered in bodies.

[Lxv]

wow... just fucking wow

[TeamRocket2010]

Ain't that the same dude from "All This and Rabbit Stew"?

[InvaderPet]

@TeamRocket2010 Kind of, except in that cartoon his mannerisms were based off Stepin Fetchit. Here, the character is just a standard (but still insensitive) black stereotype of the time.

[BRRGames]

I should have hired a black to voice that guy in order to make this less racist

[faustolg]

I know why this cartoon was banned (Sarcasm implied):

"Because shows at the very beginning compassion and regret, and those things are anti-American... America doesn't regret or feel compassion, those things are Communist"

Stupid censorship, I've seen more offensive things on today's cartoons.

P.S. Thanks for the cartoon

[k1200jim]

I had copy of this back in the early 70's (16mm) and had film parties in my back yard w/marx brothers movies! Little Kings beer in my old coke pop machine and still made money @ .25! each. Like all old flim prints they start to "go red" w/age. Also had goldilocks and the three jive'n bears too.

[ToneyStong]

nah this vidio is racist as hell yaeh free speach and all that but cime on man

[MrKickyourbutt]

What was the deal with the dice?

[Harborx]

@MrKickyourbutt *sigh yet another stereotype. Basically saying that blacks cannot resist gambling and love to play street craps or shoot dice on tha corner.

[YungReg88]

Shortenin' Bread. The number one hit single of 1933.

[PSPDoCkK]

i remember watching this as i kid, back then and even now i still don't see how its racist, probably a couple of stereotypes but it was the 20th century, the century of ignorance

[slade535]

it would be a lot cooler if at the end porky said "t-t-t-t-thats all nigga!"

[PSPDoCkK]

@slade535 lolxD

[thepeachprince]

its almost as if, modern western society is more racist by rendering the use of skin color, taboo.

[TheTeacherOnFire]

I'm currently working on restoring the infamous 11 cartoons :) I'm already done with the 1944 Bugs nips the Nips thanks to generous donors from the old soviet union... guess the old enemy is always better into keeping propaganda than the american producers lol. Thanks for sharing this :)

[manhoot]

I'm telling Barry! :)

[Konnerdad]

Coal Black is much better

[PRPrince1985]

If nothing else, I learned you can lure black people into any situation with the roll of a dice. Amazing how people don't see its racism.

[LightHatake]

That was funny.I don't really see the racism in it either.

[Spentren]

3:35 "THIS IS BE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK"

[knowallcity]

So in these cartoons-the voice is Mel Blanc?

[skylur44]

@knowallcity yes

[LDawg902]

This is very different from Elmer Fudd's portrayal because this was the only portrayal of blacks during this time peroid, there was no other representation at the time, all blacks men and children were portrayed as slow, child-like, naiive, spooks...but its still good to see these things for the historical aspects of how we were stereotyped at the time. Its just a sign of the times...as they say, to deny these cartoons is to ignore that these portrayals never existed.

[skylur44]

@LDawg902 Well said.

[terran9455]

This cartoon seems to be about the evils of cat drowning. Most WB Cartoons featured defenseless animals getting their comeupance on the people (or bigger animals) trying to do them in. So, what's so racist about it?

[daakuivory]

Doesn't offend or bother me, it was another place, another time. A lot of blacks were poor and couldn't talk properly.. But, there were white people like that too.

[AppleLatte]

wow...our lips are soo not that big (though that cannot be said for all) and only the uneducated speak that way. but, that was not nearly as offensive as the world war II toons. if you are asian or asian american (specifically japanese) and you are very sensitive about your culture/race, dont even look 'em up...

[jesusfuckinchrist1]

@AppleLatte did you know most white peoples heads are'nt as big as elmer fudds?

its a caricature :D

[sinbadthekat]

@jesusfuckinchrist1 .....You mean, " aren't " as big as Elmer Fudds. I am sorry that you not only have failed your parents but apparently the public school system as well. Enjoy Hell!

[jesusfuckinchrist1]

@sinbadthekat oh i'm sorry i forgot i have to know your language perfect -.-

ok say something in perfect swiss-german. if you can't i guess you automaticly fail you're parents too (and the public school system).

[ExclusiveCheese]

Long live...long livity.

RELEASE THESE CARTOONS ON DVD.

[freddybear89]

this is by far one of the most racist cartoons i've ever seen. WB would never release these cartoons out of fear or lawsuits and terrible PR. It's terrible that the censored 11 were some of the only depictions of Blacks at the time in America.

[bassclefRage]

@freddybear89 See all the censored 11 are black! Thats not only censorship thats racism

[frasierfreak92]

I can see how it conforms to Racist stereotypes, but that's no reason for WB not to release it on DVD! If you're going to get offended, don't watch it. Simple as that. Thanks to everyone who put up the Censored 11. We can get some of them in the UK on budget releases but not many.

[professortheremin]

One can see that Chuck Jones was doing some big experimenting on this film. The backgrounds are stunning, excelerated animation, the understated "Boo" was to be later used by Tex Avery in "Slap Happy Lion". How dare anybody tell us that we can't have every film Chuck Jones ever made. Thanx to all whom have posted the censored 11, the Seely 6, and other 'toons (especially the Columbia cartoons) to reveal all of any director's full body of animated work.

[akwaqs]

Racially offensive stereotypes aside, "Angel Puss" is one of the less entertaining cartoons with its one-joke premise and slow pacing. It seems as if the best material was reserved for Porky, Daffy, Bugs and Tweety.

[DoctorHver]

HA; HA; HA what a brilliant cartoon.

[dnm72863]

Originally released June 3, 1944 and one of the "Censored Eleven."

It is the first "Warner Bros." cartoon with a "Direction" credit rather than a "Supervision" credit as producer Leon Schlesinger was in the process of selling the cartoon studio to Warner Bros. at the time.

[KM91]

The dice thing implies that black people have an uncontrollable urge to gamble for those asking the question.

[Weezing101]

"Sambo" sounds like Bugs bunny.

i dont understand the dice thing, but oh well. I can see ow this may offend some people but its not "that" bad. I liked the "And this time, brother, us ain't kiddin'."

[sald42]

YEEEEAAAHHH! I once saw this on TV in 1994. They cut out the "sambo" and "boy" lines, but it was there. These are the cartoons we built our classic animation on.

[pilsenschop]

yeah it's racist, but it's part of cartoon history so there's no reason to be offended.

[Links1776]

How much is four bits?

[needleman9014]

Four bits is equal to fifty cents.

[superdan1875]

it's not that bad really

people who are offended by this kind of thing are really stupid.

i've seen countless cartoons in which my people are portrayed as yellow teethed, tea drinkers and it doesn't bother me.

it adds to the humour

[rch1jr]

OMG! The part that really shocked me was when the cat was shaking the dice to attract the little boy

[erracht]

There is a later Pink Panther cartoon with the Inspector that ends exactly the same.

[Fiasco9128]

Some of the Censored Eleven cartoons are debatable to an extent, but this is awful. Can't debate the racism in this.

[BrunoHopp]

What I thought exactly.

[drexalexander]

That was horrible.

[RyuichixCMZ]

This is just horrible! If only somebody knew how to succeed in flagging videos (meaning reporting them as inappropriate). :(

[superdan1875]

@RyuichixCMZ

stop being so stupid, this isn't on here to glorify racism. It's here to allow us to watch something which has been censored since 1941

[kalloused]

it's been censored since 1968, not 1941

[Luigi84289]

@superdan1875 actually 68 but yeah that's still a long ass time. Personally I think people need to just get over it. Who cares if they are racist why should that keep me from being able to buy them? If TV networks don't want to air them don't. I wouldn't buy them but why put them away in a corner like they're equivalent to communism? I can go get a hooker right now but I can't watch/get a 50 year old cartoon?

[superdan1875]

@Luigi84289

good point

[looneytunes9000]

@superdan1875  you mean the 1960's 1941 was 3 years before this cartoon was made in 1944.

[busessuck1]

@superdan1875 ...more like in the 60s

[spoogerification]

@superdan1875 right to free speech if porn is protected than so should this fuck censorship

[walrusguyjr]

@superdan1875 actually that would be 1968.

[hartleymartin]

Heh heh... Boo...

[quadracerlt250]

Thats why I am watching it, FUCK CENSORSHIP

[looneytunes9000]

@quadracerlt250 I agree with you Fuck censorship,soccer moms,and the parents television council

[MilitaryBrat81]

@looneytunes9000 LONG LIVE FREE SPEECH!

[looneytunes9000]

@MilitaryBrat81 Agreed

[lancorian]

@MilitaryBrat81 Racism is not free speech

[MilitaryBrat81]

@lancorian AND CENSORSHIP IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! You wanna start something?!

[lancorian]

@MilitaryBrat81 Then I guess allowing some islamists promoting Jihad and shouting "Kill all unbelievers" would be constitutional.

[MilitaryBrat81]

@lancorian just about as much as KKK members waving their Nazi flags and burning crosses, or how about those filthy anti-abortionists that carry out those abortion clinic bombings and shootings. And don't even get me started on those fuck-tard Tea Party cock-munches. Just because Obama's black doesn't give any right to anybody to start shit. I bet all of my savings that if Obama was white, there wouldn't be a quarter of this shit going on. Am I getting through to you, George W. Bush?

[Zeruju]

@lancorian Racism is free speech. It may even be truthful.

And I'm ashamed that you are from Germany just like me. Politically correct, leftist bitch.

[lancorian]

@Zeruju I have the same feeling about you. Racists try to justify their position by words like "free speech" and "politically incorrect" (as does this anti-muslim jewish website). And I am certainly not a leftist.

[Zeruju]

@lancorian "I have the same feeling about you."

-> That's just fine. Your feelings come within free speech, too. :-)

[stokescanyon]

this is a mother fucking racist cartoon from the censored eleven